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Gfeller reflects on career as final two regular season duals loom Rowdy Baribeau said. “That was another Staff Reporter reason why I wanted
to come back, because they needed me, and they told me that. I felt Kaden Gfeller’s like I owed it to them loyalty reeled him back because they’ve helped to OSU. me out a lot. They’ve Gfeller’s wresbeen really important tling career tested him. pieces in my life, these It was his coaches coaches.” who helped him get Gfeller’s career through it. It was also was an up-and-down his coaches who called one. He suffered a and said they needed regular season-ending him. He was graduated, injury in 2020-21 and working and taking finished eighth in the care of his child, just Big 12 tournament. under a year old. When He’s never placed in he had moved on with the NCAA Championhis life, he came back. ships. He is, however, Gfeller said he owed it a two-time individual to the men who helped Big 12 champion at 149 get him through the pounds. After six years darkest times of his with the Cowboys wrescareer. tling across 141, 149, “You’re gonna and now 157, Gfeller fall down, they alsaid he wouldn’t change ways picked me back a thing. up when I had a loss or was going through See Gfeller on page 4 something,” Gfeller
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OSU prepares for round two against the remaining Big 12 OSU is still in the race for first in the Big 12 before postseason begins, and the last five games it will play teams it has faced before.
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The Cowgirls head into the last stretch of the season hungry and motivated for a rematch against the Big 12. The Cowgirls are 18-7 on the season with five games left before the
Big 12 tournament. The Cowgirls are No. 3 in the Big 12 with a conference record of 8-5 right behind No. 1 Texas (11-3) and No. 2 Oklahoma (10-3). The Cowgirls’ last five games will come against conference rivals that they have already played this season. The five remaining teams for the Cowgirls
are Texas Tech, Iowa in the standings, coach State, Kansas, West Vir- Jacie Hoyt and the Cowginia and Oklahoma. The girls are preparing for Cowgirls have a 2-3 reround two. cord against their remain“I think our team is ing opponents with losses very motivated and very to Iowa State, Kansas and hungry because those Oklahoma earlier in the teams are teams that we season. felt like we should have With a chance to or could have won,” Hoyt jump ahead in the stand- said. ings or a chance to fall to See Big 12 on page 2 teams right below them
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Michigan Senate will be ‘taking action soon’ on gun legislation after MSU shooting, majority leader says Beth LeBlanc The Detroit News Feb. 14—Lansing — Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks said the Michigan Senate will be “taking action soon” on gun control measures that include, at a minimum, safe storage laws, tougher universal background checks and red flag laws. Brinks, a Grand Rapids Democrat whose daughter is a Michigan State University student, said she watched news of Monday night’s deadly shooting unfold with “dread and horror” in a campus community “where they should feel safe.” “But today, I’m more than just a mom,” Brinks said in a press conference Tuesday. “And I know we have a responsibility. “... We will be introducing common-sense legislation and we are prepared to get the job done,” Brinks said of the Senate’s new Democratic majority. Brinks comments came hours after a suspected gunman killed three
students and wounded five others on the campus of Michigan State University and about 15 months after four students were killed in a shooting at Oxford High School. The shootings at Michigan State occurred Monday night, forcing students to shelter in place and bringing dozens of police vehicles and ambulances to the East Lansing campus. The suspect, Anthony McRae, was eventually located off campus and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said MSU police Interim Deputy Chief Chris Rozman. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, an MSU alumna, on Tuesday urged action to curb gun violence, concluding her remarks to press by saying, “We must act and we will.” Whitmer called the issue of gun violence a “uniquely American problem.” “We’re all broken by an all-toofamiliar feeling,” Whitmer said in a Tuesday morning press conference. “Another place that is supposed to be about community and togetherness shattered by bullets and bloodshed.” House Speaker Joe Tate, a Detroit Democrat and former MSU football
team captain, said the people who elected lawmakers “have no patience for inaction.” “We can continue to debate the reasons for gun violence in America, or we can act,” Tate said Tuesday in a statement. “We cannot continue to do the same thing over and over again and hope for a different outcome. ... I have no understanding left for those in a position to effect change who are unwilling to act.” As of Tuesday afternoon, the House and Senate were expected to meet Wednesday for session after canceling Tuesday sessions. The Capitol is about four miles from Berkey Hall, where the suspected gunman initially opened fire. McRae, according to court records, was given a plea deal in 2019 that allowed him to plead down from carrying a concealed pistol without a concealed carry permit — a 5-year felony — to possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle — a 2-year high court misdemeanor. He served 18 months of probation that he completed in May 2021. Ingham County Prosecutor John
Dewane argued the sentencing guidelines for either charge likely would have led to a sentencing recommendation that fell short of jail or prison. But McRae’s plea deal prompted some to call for better enforcement of existing firearm laws before pushing for additional regulation. Great Lakes Gun Rights criticized the immediate push for additional gun regulation and urged Michigan residents to demand their lawmakers “oppose all gun control efforts.” “Handgun registration laws and ‘gun-free’ zones didn’t stop this evil madman, and they won’t stop another one in the future,” said Brenden Boudreau, executive director for Great Lakes Gun Rights. “More gun control in Michigan will leave law-abiding citizens helpless when they need to defend themselves and others.” Whitmer, a Democrat, has previously called for universal background check requirements for people who want to buy firearms, a safe storage standard for guns in the home and “extreme risk” See Michigan on page 6