By Erin Holloway
The Volunteer State Community College Pioneers lost three game series, 1-2, against the second team in conference, Walters State Community College, and sweeps Cumberland University JV, 2-0.
The Pioneers traveled to Morristown, Tennessee to face Walters State Community College March 22 and 23.
“Game one was really close, tied 0-0 going into the fourth. In the fifth, they got a hit, the next guy gets a walk, and the next guy hits a grand slam,” said head coach Ryan Hunt.
By Jim Hayes
After dropping two spots to fourth place in the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association softball standings, the Volunteer State Community College Lady Pioneers will travel to Jackson State Community College for a four-game series this weekend.
The Pioneers dropped three of four games at Walters State Community College March 22 and 23, by scores of 10-9 and 10-1 on Saturday before losing the first game 3-1 and taking the second 6-4 on Sunday.
“It comes down to whether or not we get the hits when we need them,” said Johnny Lynn, Vol State head coach.
Most Vol State students weren’t around in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, and people said that socialism was dead. But just 28 years later, socialism has become a popular concept again, with a reported 57% Americans having a favorable impression of socialism and only 47% favoring capitalism. But according to a New York Post editorial, “Democratic socialists don’t seem to embrace the classic definition of socialism, that being government control of the means of production – which has traditionally meant nationalizing whole industries.”
By Gloria Cortes
The Volunteer State Community College Speech and Debate team won the Novice National Parliamentary Debate Tournament, and its members placed in the top three for other individual events, that took place from March 8-10 at Bowling Green State University.
The Debate team was comprised of Elijah Avery, sophomore, and Danielle Salvato, freshman.
In Individual Events, Avery “won second place in Debate, second place in Impromptu Sales, third place in Impromptu Speaking, and third place in Pentathlon,” according to a press release from Dr. Karen Johnson, Director of Forensics and advisor of the Speech and Debate team.
By Jim Hayes
Volunteer State Community College will be invaded by fantastic beasts at 6 p.m., Friday, when the Campus Activities Board (CAB) presents Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in the Wood Campus Center’s Mary Cole Nichols Dining Room B.
Admission to the event is free, and according to a flyer, the CAB will provide free food and drink until it runs out. The CAB is also encouraging attendees to wear Hogwarts house colors to the event.
Fantastic Beasts is a sequel to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which is both a prequel and sequel to author J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of novels and movies.