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L--..:111--il >erj a.ck October 2001 Sports Page 8 ACC VOLLEYBALL IS ON TRACK! ERIN McDONALD Staff Writer improved their record from last year with two wins over Oakland and two wins over The second season Delta. They have over half of for the Lady Lumberjack the season still to come. Volleyball team is off to a This year they are good start. Changes were concentrating on being a made by second year head defensive team. Their only coach, Dana LaBar and first retumingplayerfromlastyear year assistant coach, Bill is captain and setter Sarah Matzke. For this season Stafford. Sarah says that this Coach LaBar had more time years' team should be better to recruit and put together his than last. They have longer team. Last year he was practices, work well as a rushed to put a team together team, and know how one because he was hired as the another play. Also helping head coach just prior to the outthisyearisnewcomerErin start of the 2000 season. Graham, who is returning to Coach LaBar said that the Alpena, after playing last teamthisyearisprogressing · season at Kellogg well. They have already CommunityCollege. Graham says the team grows more forceful with each practice and each game. They never go down without a fight. Alicia Kleiber, Elana Meharg, Mandy Vekaryasz, and Jennifer Noffze from Rogers City, and Melissa Meddaugh, Kim Hepburn, Jessica Harbson, and Erin Riopelle from Alpena round out the rest of the team. Coach LaBar hopes to end this season in the top half of the division. This would find them a place in the state playoffs. This team seems to have a lot of heart and commitment to the game. The 2001-2002 Lady Lumberjacks ·We Wish You Luck! 2001 Volleyball Schedule !Fri. Oct. 5 Fri. Oct. 5 Fri. Oct. 5 Sat. Oct. 6 Sat. Oct.6 Sat. Oct. 6 ACC vs. Henry Ford CC 4 p.m. Henry Ford CC vs. St. Clair CC 5:30 p.m ACC vs. St. Clair CC 7:00 p.m. Henry Ford CC vs. St Clair CC 11:00 a.m. St. Clair CC vs. ACC 12:30 p.m. Henry Ford CC vs. ACC 2:00 p.m. Sat. Oct. 13 at Wayne County CC 1:00 & 3:00 p.m. !Wed. Oct. 17 at Sault College 6:00 p.m. BIG PROBLEMS AHEAD FOR BASE·BALL? The Scatnble Was On For ACC PHILWENZEL Staff Writer Only seven years af- ter a player's strike cancelled the World Series, Major league Baseball fans are again preparing for the worst. The current collective bargaining agreement be- tween the players and own- ers expires after the World Series this fall. By all ac- counts, both sides remain miles apart on a new agree- ment solved by April it could pre- vent the 2002 season from starting on time ( or even can- cel it completely). Each side has one basic goal heading_into nego- tiations. For the owners, it is to slow salary growth. For the players, it is to preserve their systems of free agency and salary arbitration. The owners are con- tinuously frustrated by sky- rocketing player salaries. In 1967 the average player's salary was $19,000. This This spells doom for year it has jumped to $2.2 our national pastime, which million, helped largely by the already has seen eight work Texas Rangers' 10-year, stoppages since 1972. Fans $252 million dollar contract were able to overlook the with Alex Rodriguez, thelarg- first seven, but the player's est in sports history. strike of 1994 frustrated The players, mean- enough fans to make the while, are looking to preserve sport's future questionable. their individual rights to move Many fans began to resent the freely from team to team and game, a resentment that con- play for whomever puts up tinued for several years. the most money. Another But this resentment of· thing bothering the players is baseball has recently sub- a proposal from commis- sided and the sport has re- sioner Bud $elig called con- gained much of its popular- traction. ity. Attendance is on the rise. Selig's contraction New ballparks are being built plan has two ways to work. This summer's All-Star Thefirstwaywouldinvolve Game was the most-watched 2 small-market franchises in game in several years. And neighboring areas b_eing com- the Detroit Free Press re- bined to form one larger, cently published a survey in richer franchise. For ex- which Americans were asked ample, the Florida Marlins which sport was their favor- and Tampa Bay Devil Rays ite. Baseball finished a strong could be combined into one second (behind football). Florida team. All this promise may The other way for turn to problems soon, how- contraction to work would ever. The expiring agreement involve Major League Base- may lead to one of two things: ball buying out and then shut- a player's strike or an ting down a couple of the owner's lockout. Either one · game's weakest franchises. would be equally as damag- The teams highest on that list ing, becauseifitwerenotre- include Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Minnesota. The players oppose both ideas because for each major league team that is eliminated there are 25 less roster spots for them to play on. True fans continue to hope that these problems can beresolved. Theydon'twant another work stoppage to kill their favorite sport again. But many others are facing real- ity. Photo off ESPN.com A work stoppage seems to be very likely, but as NBC sportscaster Bob Costas wrote at the conclu- sion of his 2000 book Fair Ball, "This being baseball, hope springs eternal." JESSE HARVEY Staff Writer On September 15th at the .Alpena City Golf Course, organizations, local golfers, and some staff members participated in Scramble for Scholarships. Scramble for Scholarships is a golf event that occurs every fall to help raise money for ACC scholarships. "The money," states Karen Eller, Administrative Assistant here at ACC, "is not raised strictly by the golfers, but by all the hole sponsors. The hole sponsors pay us and w~ make the big signs, and put them (their name) on each hole. They pay us to have their name on that hole." A scramble (if you are unfamiliar with golf terminology) is a team of four players. They. each tee off then the golfers decide which is the best shot, and each puts Home of Totally FREE*Checking! * * * No minimum balance requirements No monthly servise charges No per check fee Proud to Support Alpena Community College! 2708 South US-23 * Alpena, Ml 49707 (989)356-2051 * Customer pays for checks from that spot. Whoever has the best score is the score that is recorded. This year was quite a turn out. It was the first time in the six years of running that the Scramble had so many participants. There were 29 foursomes, a total of 116 golfers. · According to Ms. Eller, "When we started out six years ago we were hoping to have 25 (teams), and we've had that every year, but now this year we had to tum away people because the course cannot handle anymore people. That is all the carts they had." The Scramble for Scholarships at first was a brainstorming session, to help raise money for scholarships. Cathie Rogg, Executive Director of ACC Foundation and Director of Development, stated "We were looking at trying to do something in the community that we could raise funds with, and we were looking Photos by Jesse Harvey for ah activity that would interest a good amount of people. And so at one point we noticed a lot of other colleges were doing golf." With the support of the community, staff members, and the Foundation Board, the Scramble for Scholarships took off. "The money for the scholarships covers two areas and essentially all programs. Because we _provide money for non- traditional student (students that had a lapse of education after high school) scholarships, which, at the time, six years ago, was something new that we were not able to do. Most of our scholarships were for traditional students (straight out of high school) and we did not have a whole lot of scholarship support for students coming back after being out of high school for several years, maybe raising families and such." Said Cathie Rogg, "We wanted to be able to address that need for the non-traditional scholarships from the Scramble, and that is for students that are essentially coming back to ACC for any program, so it covers everything." This year there were over 50 hole sponsors that each donated $50 to $125 for having their name on a hole, and 1 corporate sponsor (Alpena Power Company) that donated $2,000 for the Scramble. Last year the Scramble raised $99,000 from a corporate sponsor, hole sponsors and charitable donations.