WSU BASEBALL GAME
TIME CHANGE, info from WSU Sports Info and other source
Due to rain in
the Los Angeles area weather forecast tonight, today’s Washington State
Baseball Pac-12 Conference opener at No. 14 UCLA has been moved up to a 3 p.m.
start. (UCLA won that game, 6-5. Going into bottom of the third, WSU led 3-0.
But, in bottom of the third UCLA died it up at 3. In the bottom of the sixth,
UCLA went ahead 6-3. WSU scored twice in top of 9th for fin score. Saturday’s
game is scheduled for 2 p.m. and Sunday’s finale is set for 1 p.m.
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COUG TRACK &
FIELD:
Brock Eager
Opens Outdoor Season with Hammer Win at USC
From WSU Sports
Info
LOS ANGELES --
Washington State's Brock Eager opened the Cougars track and field outdoor
season by winning the men's hammer Friday afternoon at the USC Trojan
Invitational. The hammer and discus events were held in Long Beach.
Eager, a
redshirt junior from Renton, Wash., threw the hammer a distance of 218-feet 2
inches (66.50m) to capture first place among the 13 competitors. Eager is the
reigning Pac-12 hammer champion and earned All-America second team honors at
the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Amani Brown
(redshirt junior, Des Moines, Wash.) placed third in the men's hammer with his
PR throw of 202-4 (61.67m) while Wyatt Meyring (redshirt senior, Edmonds,
Wash.) finished sixth with a throw of 175-10 (53.60m).
In the women's
hammer, Aoife Martin (redshirt sophomore, Seattle) threw a distance of 175-9
(53.57m) for fourth place.
The lone WSU
discus thrower was Tyler Jackson (redshirt senior, Richland, Wash.) who threw
147-2 (44.86m) for 11th.
The Trojan
Invite concludes Saturday with events beginning at 10 a.m. at Locker Stadium on
the USC campus. Several Cougars will also be competing at the Whitworth
University Buc Scoring Meet in Spokane.
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WSU funding seen
as boost to ag industry
Legislature
allocated almost $114 million for WSU projects around the state, including in
Pullman
By Justyna Tomtas, Lewiston Trib
Funding awarded
to Washington State University through the Legislature "represents a major
commitment to Washington agriculture," according to Chris Mulick, director
of state relations for WSU.
The Washington
Legislature wrapped up March 8 with the approval of a supplemental budget that
provided additional money to be used statewide.
Several projects
at WSU were included in the supplemental budget, although the funding decisions
were already cemented in the original capital budget approved earlier this
year.
WSU received
$113.91 million, with the bulk of it designated for construction on its Pullman
campus.
The Global
Animal Health Facility and a new Plant Sciences building received $23 million
and $52 million, respectively. Both projects are entirely funded through state
money, Mulick said. The designs for both were approved by the Washington State
Board of Regents in November.
Mulick, who is
based in Olympia, said construction will begin later this year, though a
detailed timeline is not yet available.
"These are
projects that can take somewhere in the order of two years to build," he
said.
The Global
Animal Health Facility - an addition to the Allen Center - will house the Washington
Animal Disease Diagnostics Lab, which serves the state by monitoring diseases
like avian flu, mad cow disease and food-borne illnesses. The current
diagnostics lab housed on the Pullman campus opened in the 1970s. With an
exponential increase in caseloads and staff size, Mulick said the university is
in desperate need of a new facility.
Funding for the
project will be phased. The $23 million will fund the first phase, which will
allow WSU to construct the shell of the building.
About $36.4
million will be requested at future sessions. The second phase will include the
construction of a necropsy lab for animals.
The Plant
Sciences Building will house many of the activities presently located at
Johnson Hall, a half-century-old building ill-equipped for modern research.
The facility
will allow WSU to advance its basic research of plant agriculture, Mulick said.
The
infrastructure investments will help propel WSU and its role as the
"research and development arm of the state's agriculture industry."
"We can't
do that without adequate facilities," Mulick said. "It represents a
significant commitment to the state's agriculture industry."
WSU also
received $1 million for renovations to existing STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics) labs, as well as $22.29 million for minor work
preservation projects and $10.11 million for preventive facility maintenance
and building system repairs.
At other WSU
campuses, $3 million was awarded for an academic building at the Tri-Cities
campus, and $500,000 was given for pre-design work of the life sciences
building on WSU's Vancouver campus.
"We have
some really solid growth that we are seeing throughout our system, so getting a
start and moving forward on getting some new academic facilities in Vancouver
and Tri-Cities was really important to help accommodate future growth,"
Mulick said.
There's also an
opportunity for WSU to snag additional money through the Joint Center for
Deployment and Research in Earth Abundant Materials, which received $2 million.
Universities in the state will have the opportunity to submit requests for
proposals. In the past, WSU has received funding for equipment.
"There are
no guarantees, but that seems like a possible outcome again," Mulick said.
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