Rap group Three 6 Mafia has cancelled its performance at Future Alumni of Memphis’ sec-ond annual Blue and Gray Ball, originally scheduled for tonight, causing the entire event to be postponed until further notice.

In light of the late notice, FAM is offering a free pizza buffet coupon for Garibaldi’s Pizza on Walker to every student who reg-istered for a ticket to the event, which is open only to FAM mem-bers. According to its University website, FAM has 10,590 mem-bers, and annual membership costs $20.

Holly Rowsey, special proj-ects coordinator for the Alumni Association, said the agreement between Three 6 Mafia and FAM contained a clause allowing the group to cancel under certain cir-cumstances. The artists canceled Tuesday.

“We knew this was a possibil-ity,” Rowsey said. “In our agree-ment, it stated that if Three 6 had a film or television opportunity then they were allowed to take it.”

Rowsey said FAM decided to postpone the ball altogether rather than trying to finding a replacement artist by tonight.

“We decided we’d rather wait for the show that we wanted to have instead of settling for some-thing else,” Rowsey said.

Three 6 Mafia’s co-manager, Raymond Conners, said he didn’t know exactly why the Academy Award-winning group, com-prised of rappers DJ Paul and Juicy J, canceled either.

“I’m not exactly sure why they canceled,” he said. “I know one of them is really sick, but I don’t know much else because we nor-

mally just talk through emails.” Conners said making up the

date was really important to his clients.

“We are working really hard to get another show set up. Being from Memphis, The University is really important to us and them,” he said.

Junior psychology major and FAM member Regina Werkhoven said she was upset Three 6 Mafia canceled but doubted anyone would revoke membership with the organization in response.

“I’m bummed about it, but celebrities and artists back out all the time,” Werkhoven said. “I know it’s not FAM’s fault — if anything, it’s probably the other way around. All the other FAM events have been cool. Plus, the benefits and discounts (members receive) are great.”

Werkhoven said she thinks free pizza is adequate consolation as long as Three 6 Mafia plays a future FAM event.

“If it doesn’t happen at all, I think a lot of people will be upset,” Werkhoven said.

Sophomore foreign languages major David White, however, said he would prefer the rappers’ performance be canceled for good and thinks they promote “violence, drug abuse (and) glo-rification of petty street gangs.”

“I hope that The University of Memphis doesn’t try to support something like this again, and I hope that this should serve as a wake-up call about the type of culture that Memphis in general is currently engendering, even at the university level,” he said.

Rowsey said no makeup date is scheduled yet, and students must go to the Alumni Center at 635 Normal Street before April 6 to claim their pizza coupons.

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University of Memphis stu-dents have taken time out of their schedules this month to paint racial slurs and derogatory words on bricks — so they can destroy them later.

The final mass brick-painting session for the Writing on the Wall project was held Wednesday in

the Michael D. Rose Theatre.Student Activities Council

hosted the project, featured every other spring as part of the annual “Why Do You Hate Me Week” at The U of M. This year’s weeklong event runs April 4-8.

Students are encouraged to speak out against prejudice and racism by painting hurtful words on bricks, to be constructed into a wall of hate for public viewing.

Students will knock the wall down at the end of the week.

“I hope this project serves as a catalyst for conversation and facilitate discussion,” said Sydney McGhee, president of SAC and junior sociology major.

The brick McGhee painted reads ‘What are you?’ She said she chose the phrase because people often use it when trying to label one another.

“I don’t think that’s ok,” she said. “I am a human, and I don’t feel comfortable with someone trying to put a label on me.”

The wall represents the sym-bolic walls in everyone’s lives, McGhee said.

“I believe very much so in this project because we all experience hurt,” she said. “It shows us that words aren’t just words.”

McGhee said she hopes that this project acts as a mirror for society, allowing people to reflect and talk about the racism and prejudice that occur today.

Rafi Chowdhury, undecided freshman, said he painted a brick to send a message.

“I have been called a lot of offensive things in the past, and I wanted to get my word out there so I can make people aware that it is offensive,” he said.

Chowdhury is originally from Bangladesh and moved to the United States when he was 11 years old. He said he was called a “Chinese monkey” when he was

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The murders of three 8-year-old children and the controversy surrounding their alleged killers’ cases will be spotlighted tonight at 7 in the UC Theatre.

“The Media’s Role in the West Memphis 3 Case” is free to the public.

The award-winning author of “Devil’s Knot,” a book about the West Memphis 3, Mara Leveritt, is the event’s featured speaker. Lorri Davis, wife of accused killer Damien Echols, and members of the media, legal experts and a U of M student, will serve on a panel to talk about the media’s role in the case and the court’s failure to produce documents that should have been available to the public.

Leveritt said she has reported on the convicts, wide-ly known as the “West Memphis 3,” since 1993, when the children were found dead near their homes in West Memphis, and teenagers Echols, Jessie Misskelly and Jason Baldwin were charged with their murders.

Echols received the death sentence, and Misskelly and Baldwin received life in prison.

“I compare what happened in West Memphis to the Salem witch trials, and this is already an important part of the history of this region,” Leveritt said. “Three teenagers have been in prison for most of the lifetime of the students at this University.”

Ashley Wislock, journalism graduate student at The U of M and member of tonight’s panel, has been compiling her master’s project about the West Memphis 3 for the last year. Wislock said she is “really excited” about meeting the other panelists and people she has only read about in books.

“I really think that students at U of M should be excited, too, because this case has been on CNN — there (have) already been two documentaries,” she said. “It’s a huge case, and the fact that we’re having this at The U of M is amazing.”

Leveritt said the West Memphis 3 debacle, which has been ongoing for nearly two decades, has been and will be a part of our culture for decades to come.

BY CHRIS DANIELSNews Reporter

Panel to discuss media’s role in ‘93 murder case, conviction

Sophomore English major Ryan Richardson begins painting his contribution to the Writing on the Wall project.

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in the seventh grade and decided to put that slur on his brick.

“I am neither Chinese nor a monkey,” he said. “Sometimes (being called Chinese) offends me, but I have gotten over it because it is done so commonly.”

He added that just because a derogatory word is said fre-quently does not make it accept-

able. Chowdhury also admitted he needs to eliminate some words from his vocabulary.

“I have called people (who called me a Chinese monkey) ‘bastards,’ ‘bitch,’ ‘fat,’ ‘ugly’ and ‘failed abortions,’” he said.

Rachel Goodwin, ideas and issues committee chair for SAC and sophomore political science major, said that she thinks this project is therapeutic.

“This is a chance for you to get out your pent-up emotions from

an experience that has hurt you,” Goodwin said.

Goodwin plans on painting a brick but has not decided on a word or phrase yet.

“I have been thinking about what to put on my brick,” she said. “I want it to be something that has actually affected me instead of something that is typical to who I am and what I look like.”

Goodwin, whose parents are white and black, was adopted by a white family. She said that people

tell her all the time that she is not black or that she thinks she is bet-ter than others because she speaks proper English.

“My mother is a professor, so (poor English) is not accepted in my house,” she said. “I don’t get angry about people commenting on my race because I am who I am ... that’s my family background, and there is nothing I can do about that.”

Goodwin said that she has not had to experience hurtful words

from strangers on campus, but a lot of other students have.

“Through discussions that our committees have, I have heard so many examples of hurt,” she said. “I have not experienced it, but that does not mean it is not an issue.”

Goodwin added that the wall has symbolic meaning.

“We use our words as barriers,” she said. “This wall is a physi-cal representation of the walls we build between each other. I hope it can be a catalyst for change.”

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Local female artists will dis-cuss the difficulties of being working mothers and artists dur-ing “Who Does She Think She Is?: An Evening in Celebration of Women Artists” on Saturday at The University of Memphis.

Hosted jointly by The U of M’s Women’s and Gender Studies program and Indie Memphis, the event, free and open to the pub-lic, will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. in the University Center Theatre.

Valentine Leonard, adjunct professor of women’s studies, said the event is named after the Pamela Tanner Boll documentary “Who Does She Think She Is?” A showing of the film will kick off the celebration, which will also include a panel discussion, dance performance, music performance and poetry reading.

Leonard said she wants the documentary, which follows the daily lives of five female artists and mothers, to serve as a basis for the night’s discussion.

She said she made sure to line up local talent for the discussion panel and activities.

“It will raise awareness about women in the arts and also the talent in our community,” she said. “I asked myself if I wanted to try to invite some big name or

something, but then I decided I knew all these people who are really talented. I want people to recognize the talent that is right here.”

Leonard said she also wants to raise awareness about sexism in the art world.

“In the film, they give numbers

— 70 to 80 percent of students in art school are women, and only 6 to 12 percent of art in museums (is created) by women,” she said. “That’s a huge discrepancy of women who do art and are not recognized.” The West Memphis 3

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Tamara Lance, sophomore health administration major and chairman of the P.A.U.S.E. Women’s Conference said the organization chose “blueprint” for this year’s conference theme to discuss the foundation of a virtuous woman.

“She is connected with herself and knows how to handle her business, whether it be profes-sionally, personally or socially,” she said.

Free and open to the public, the conference begins Friday at 7 p.m. in the Michael D. Rose Theatre and will feature Terry McMillan, author of “Waiting to Exhale” and “How Stella Got Her Groove Back.“

The conference will continue Saturday on the third floor of the University Center from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with motivational speaker Marilyn Robinson, co-pastor of St. Andrews A.M.E. Church and senior vice president of St. Francis Hospital, as well as workshops and a free luncheon.

McMillan will speak about the power of sisterhood, and workshops will focus on helping women connect with their mind, body and spirit.

Students can register for the event online at memphis.edu/multiculturalaffairs/pausewc.htm or on either day of the conference in the University Center.

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Beginning next week, University of Memphis stu-dents will have the opportu-nity to see three Italian films that have never been released in Memphis.

The Italian Film Festival, sponsored by the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, spans March 29, March 31 and April 5 in the University Center Theatre. Each night will feature a 7 p.m. screening of one film.

“Basilicata Coast to Coast” will be shown on the first night, followed by “Happy Family” on the second and “18 Years Later” on the third.

Cosetta Gaudenzi, associate Italian professor, said that the film festival is part of a rov-ing festival held in cities like Minneapolis, St. Louis, Denver and Detroit.

“This is the first time that The U of M is hosting an Italian film festival,” she said. “In the past, we have hosted a French film festival on campus, which has proven to be very successful.”

The featured films are con-temporary works that have had great success in Italy.

Gaudenzi said she hopes that people who attend the festival will “develop an appreciation of the beautiful images of Italy” and learn about “the new Italian family.”

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Distinguished Service AwardRecognizes a project or ongoing effort of a student group that has demonstrated

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Excellence in Service AwardRecognizes an individual student who has demonstrated commitment to

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Organization of The YearRecognizes a Registered Student Organization for its contributions

to the campus and its membership.

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a state of non-existence and flourished into a thriving organization.

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high-quality, out-of-the-classroom experiences for the campus community.

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World

Japan ushers in a sorrowful spring

This year in Japan, the rites of spring have transformed them-selves into the rituals of sorrow.

Monday’s national holiday marked the vernal equinox, the start of a season enshrined in the nation’s classical art and litera-ture as a time of fragile, fleeting beauty. But at this spring’s onset, Japanese find themselves gazing upon an unfathomable landscape of death and destruction wrought by earthquake and tsunami.

The vernal equinox, like its autumn counterpart, is tradition-ally associated with reunions of kinfolk and visits to graves of ancestors. Both of these con-ventions, though, carry terrible resonance at a time of shattered families and nameless bodies pil-ing up in makeshift morgues, a

particular horror in a society with meticulously observed funerary customs.

“I came here to rest my mind for a moment,” said Taro Oku-zawa, pausing at a tiny Shinto shrine perched, incongruously, on the rooftop of a busy depart-

ment store in Tokyo’s Ginza district. “I try to grasp what has happened to us, and I cannot.”

Springtime normally ushers in a procession of Japanese matsuri, or festivals, many with roots in the eternal rhythms of agrarian life, the turning of seasons or the ways of the natural world.

This year, for many, nature’s ter-rors hardly bear contemplating: shaking earth, waves like dark mountains, radiation’s invisible menace.

Although cherished as cul-tural touchstones even in a hy-per-modern, gizmo-laden land, traditional matsuri are likely to

be scarce this spring. Their loss, only one among so many, is nonetheless mourned.

In the old shrine-dotted Tokyo neighborhood of Asakusa, orga-nizers had prepared for months for a celebration known as the Golden Dragon Dance, an exu-berant whirl of lanterns, chants and drumming. But it would have fallen on March 18, only a week after the earthquake; it was swift-ly called off. So was an even big-ger festival in the neighborhood, a three-day extravaganza known as the Sanja Matsuri, which nor-mally takes place in May.

“The earthquake we just had is a once-in-a-thousand-year event, and we decided we need-ed to forgo our festival,” said Kouji Yano, a Shinto priest at Asakusa’s main shrine. “We just wouldn’t be in the mood.”

There are two schools of thought, though, as to wheth-er pushing ahead with public events is an unseemly act at a time of immense national trag-edy, or an emblem of the collec-tive will to persevere in the face of upheaval, an often-expressed theme in Japan’s traditional arts, such as Kabuki dance-drama.

The massive magnitude-9 earthquake jolted elaborately cos-tumed actors and audience mem-bers alike at the daily spring-sea-son Kabuki matinee on March 11 at Tokyo’s Shimbashi Enbujo The-ater. But after a one-day hiatus, the show went on, albeit playing to thinner-than-usual audiences. Japan’s principal Kabuki play-house, the venerable Kabuki-za, was closed last year — prescient-ly, it seems — due to fears about earthquake safety.

Perhaps Japan’s most indel-ible springtime ritual is cherry-blossom viewing, and that too is likely to be curtailed. The deli-cate pink flowers, regarded here as a poetically melancholy sym-bol of life’s evanescence, have not yet bloomed in Tokyo, or in the country’s ravaged northeast.

Normally, at this time of year, the public avidly tracks the saku-ra zensen, or cherry-blossom front, as it moves steadily north-ward with warming tempera-tures. Those updates are issued by Japan’s Meteorological Agen-cy, which is preoccupied these days with measuring near-con-stant aftershocks and forecast-ing the direction of potentially radiation-bearing winds.

Near Tokyo’s rain-soaked Ueno Park on Monday, Shin Ta-kashi recalled a riotous party there a year earlier with co-work-ers, drinking sake on a big blue tarpaulin spread out beneath the drifting blooms. They sang songs into the night, he said, and gazed at the bright spring moon above.

“This year?” he said, shak-ing his head. “I don’t think so. It wouldn’t feel right.”

BY LAURA KINGLos Angeles Times “The earth-

quake we just had is a once-in-a-thousand-year

event, and we decided to forgo

our festival.”

— Kouji YanoShinto priest

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Sports in Brief

Members of the University of Memphis men’s soccer team will lace up their cleats for charity as they take on Irish team Colaiste Ide tonight.

All proceeds from the sec-ond annual “Kicks for a Cause” match will go straight to LeBonheur C h i l d r e n ’ s Hospital. The match will kick off tonight at 7 at Mike Rose Soccer Complex in Collierville, and admission is $2.

Last year ’s game drew a school - record crowd of 1,584 and raised $2,918 for the hospital.

“(We’re) really pleased to be able to work alongside LeBonheur,” coach Richie Grant said. “We’re very excited to raise some money for such a worthy cause.”

The Tigers go into the match coming off a 5-11-1 season last fall. They return most of their major contributors from the 2010 team, including sopho-

more forward J.J. Greer, who was named C-USA Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 8 after moving to defender for the final week of the season. Junior forward Parker Duncan also returns as the Tigers’ active

leader in goals (13), assists (7) and points (33).

“Our focus in training has been good, and it’s a good time for us to get another game in,” Grant said.

Several for-mer Tigers played at Colaiste Ide before coming to The U of M. Brian Farrell, Thomas Hyland and Michael Coburn, a first team All-C o n f e r e n c e

USA defender, all played for the Irish team before coming to Memphis. Outgoing senior defender Ryan O’Connor was also a member of the squad.

In addition to the charity match, four local club teams will play at halftime, and the 2010 U of M women’s soccer team will be recognized before the match for winning its fourth consecu-tive C-USA title last season.

BY SCOTT HALLSports Reporter

Soccer suits up for charity

“We’re really pleased to be able to work alongside Le

Bonheur. We’re very excited

to raise some money for

such a worthy cause.”

— Richie GrantCoach

Steen earns C-USA honor

University of Memphis junior golfer Marissa Steen was named Conference USA Women’s Golfer of the Week on Wednesday after post-ing rounds of 71 and 73 to finish at an even-par 144 at the Lady Eagle Invitational in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Tuesday.

Her performance helped the Lady Tigers win their third title of the season, tying the 1996-’97 team for most wins in a single season.

Steen also took the indi-vidual title for the third time this year, beating out fellow Tigers Ashley Kees (73-74) and Kathleen Glavin (73-75), who placed second and third, respectively.

“It always feels great to win and lead your team to a title,” Steen said. “I was two-under-par at the turn, so I was a little disappointed with the one-over 73, but I’m happy that I was able to close out and stay men-tally strong.”

This is the third time Steen has earned the Golfer of the Week honor this season and the fourth time in her career.

“I think it’s very excit-ing,” women’s golf coach Beth Harrelson said of Steen’s hon-ors. “She’s played wonderfully all season, and she’s been a leader on the team in every aspect. I could not ask for more of her. She is by far the most consistent golfer we’ve had in a long time. She’s played incred-ibly well this year.”

Steen said she’s focused on the road ahead for the Lady Tigers.

“I want to keep improv-ing, both individually and as a team,” she said. “Our goal is to make NCAA Regionals, so if we have a strong showing at Ole Miss next week and at con-ference, I think we can do that.”

The Lady Tigers will compete in the 2011 Rebel Intercollegiate Tournament hosted by Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss., from April 1 to 3.

BY SCOTT HALLSports Reporter

World

Libyan opposition coordinating with Western-backed air assault

Leaders of the opposition national council in rebel-controlled eastern Libya say they are making regular, secure contacts with allied military representatives in Europe to help commanders identify tar-gets for the U.S.-led air assault.

The contacts, conducted through the council’s civilian rep-resentatives in France and else-where in Europe, are made by secure satellite telephone connec-tions, according to spokesmen for the rebel leadership in Benghazi.

“There is communication between the Provisional National Council and U.N. assembled forces, and we work on letting them know what areas need to be bombarded,” spokesman Ahmed Khalifa said in an interview Wednesday.

The contacts, which began over the weekend, are evidence of

cooperation between the Libyan opposition and the international military alliance that is waging air and missile strikes on Moammar Gadhafi’s command and control centers as well as other military targets.

They also highlight the diplo-matic delicacy of the mission and the awkwardness of a military operation designed by multiple governments with sometimes conflicting goals. The Obama administration and the Pentagon say the resolution does not autho-rize airstrikes specifically for rebel forces.

The White House declined to comment on whether allied commanders had established regular contact with the rebels to help identify military targets. A Pentagon spokesman, Marine Col. Dave Lapan, said there is “no for-mal or informal contact” between the rebels and American forces.

But Navy Rear Adm. Gerard Hueber, chief of staff of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn, said that

though there was no official col-laboration, information was being passed from the coalition to the rebels. “We have told ... the oppo-sition forces how to maneuver, and we have also told Moammar Gadhafi’s forces what they were expected to do in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolu-tion,” he told reporters.

In addition, current and former American officials say that CIA operatives and equipment were sent into rebel-held areas to moni-tor their activity even before the air bombardment began. It’s not clear whether those operatives are still in Libya, and if so, what is their current role.

Many, if not most, of the coalition governments want to help the rebels grind down Gadhafi’s forces. But since the United Nations authorized only a limited mission intended to prevent Gadhafi from killing civilians, officials are unable to acknowledge that they intend to help the rebels.

Detainees sit against a wall inside a former regime internal security complex in Benghazi, Libya. The revolutionary government of Eastern Libya put more than 50 alleged African and Libyan prisoners-of-war on display for journalists March 23, claiming that they were captured by rebel forces in the fighting that has raged over the last month.

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Postseason Superlatives

... and the award goes to: The Daily Helmsman presents its first annual

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Most likely to... Best Of 2011:Lose his car keys

Joe Jackson. The freshman guard averaged 3.2 turnovers per game.

Play ‘no-look skeeball’Will Barton. The 6ʼ 6” fresh-man from Baltimore built a reputation for his fl ashy style this season.

Listen to Birdman religiously

Charles Carmouche. The New Orleans native transferred to UM after two seasons at UNO. Wodie.

Best TweeterWill Barton (@Thrilliam5) gets double honors: Any time you an-nounce you r̓e staying in school via Twitter, you should be rewarded.

Best FreshmanTarik Black edges Antonio Barton for developing into the most consistent player for the Tigers all season.

Best SeniorWill Coleman. No one else came close. No one.

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The scoreboard at Autozone Park gave out after four innings Wednesday.

So did The University of Memphis.

U of M freshman pitcher Sam Moll had a no-hitter through four innings. But he also gave up six walks, the majority of which came in the fourth inning when the No. 12 Arkansas Razorbacks broke the game open with five runs.

Moll was pulled in the third for Ryan Holland, and the Razorbacks capitalized in a 7-3 win over the Tigers in front of a record 5,127 crowd at Autozone Park on Wednesday.

Moll (0-1) gave up two earned runs in 3.2 innings, and the Tigers allowed more walks than hits.

“If we don‘t walk those guys in the fourth, we win the game,” catcher Phillip Chapman said. “We definitely should’ve won (in the first game on Tuesday), so this gives us a lot of positives going into the weekend.”

The Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the first inning after Chapman scored on a sacrifice fly by third baseman Jacob Wilson, but The U of M botched several opportunities to extend the lead.

The Tigers (11-8) left at least two runners in scoring position in three different innings.

Chapman was 2-of-5 with a run.

While Moll had seven strike-outs, his six walks proved to be costly.

“I did lose a little bit of control,” Moll said. “A couple of (batters) kept battling, and I finally just walked them. When you’re play-ing a good team, you can’t do that.”

An error by the Tigers in the fourth initiated a five-run barrage that was capped by a 2-RBI dou-ble by Arkansas’ infielder Matt Reynolds.

The Tigers responded with a three-up, three-down batting effort in the bottom of the inning.

“That‘s when you want to (score) one,” coach Daron Schoenrock said. “We call it an answer-back inning. You always want to hang a zero after you score and you always want to answer back when they do. We got a little aggressive in that inning, and we let the momentum creep up into their dugout.”

It was a game of missed oppor-tunities for the Tigers.

The Tigers loaded the bases in the sixth, but Razorbacks relief pitcher Colby Suggs struck out outfielder Robby Graham to end the inning.

“We had some opportunities, obviously,” Schoenrock said. “We got a little passive at the plate. You’ve got to get a little hun-grier. You can’t let fastballs hit the mitt, and that’s kind of what happened.”

Razorbacks outfielder Kerry Atkins was 1-of-3 with an RBI and scored two runs himself. Reynolds finished 1-of-4 with two RBIs.

Wednesday’s game was the Tigers’ second and final game with the Razorbacks in a quick home-and-home series.

Tuesday at Dickey-Stephens

Park in North Little Rock, Ark., the Tigers held a 1-0 advantage through four innings, but the

Razorbacks ral-lied to win the game, 7-2.

The Tigers open Conference USA play this

weekend against East Carolina.“To win games like this, you‘re

going to have to take advan-tage of those opportunities,” Chapman said. “We weren’t able to do that tonight, but we saw a lot of positives in this game. We’re going to come out fighting this wweekend. We’ll see what happens.”

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U of M catcher Phillip Chapman slides home in a 7-3 loss to Arkansas on Wednesday at Autozone Park. Chapman was 2-of-5 with two runs in the second straight loss for the Tigers.

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Hogs defeatTigers 7-3 in matchup at AutoZone

“If we don’t walk those guys in the fourth, we win the game.”

— Philip ChapmanSenior catcher