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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | September 17, 2018 Â| Volume 109 | Issue 23
game day takeaways: ollison, scarton and offense
SINGINâ ON A SUNDAY
Trent Leonard Sports Editor
After a morale-crushing 45-point blowout loss to Penn State last weekend, Pittâs football team got back on track with a 24-19 win against Georgia Tech Saturday. It was a rebound game for the Panthersâ season and revenge for their 3517 loss to the Yellow Jackets in 2017 â and Saturday gave Pitt its first win in a crucial ACC play. A conference victory is certainly a step in the right direction for the Panthers (2-1 overall, 1-0 ACC), but there were times where the team still The Diamante Trio and Lilly Abreu perform salsa and tango songs by Argentinian and Brazilian artists at Heinz looked more flawed than improved. Accounting Memorial Chapel Sunday afternoon. Maria Heines | staff photographer for all the highs and lows, here are some of the foremost takeaways from Pittâs third game. Ollison has the keys to the backfield After the Panthersâ week one win over Aland Stellaâs storefront on Fifth Avenue. Pitt plans University-owned grocery store. Christian Snyder bany, it remained unclear who was the lead runto incorporate the bakery into the upcoming Zuri Kent-Smith, a senior Africana Studies Editor-in-Chief ning back in Pittâs backfield. Senior Darrin Hall and philosophy major who served as executive grocery store on Forbes Avenue, which is set to For the grand re-opening of the 12-year-old finished as the teamâs leading rusher in 2017 but vice president on last yearâs Student Government open by Nov. 1 â two months later than origicard and gift store Maggie and Stellaâs on campus received only four carries in the opener, while Board, said he organized Fridayâs noontime pro- nally planned. fellow senior Qadree Ollison rushed seven times Friday, Pitt hired a DJ and parked its new SodexoOakland had a grocery store up until April test because University administrators ignored for 73 yards. Surprisingly, sophomore AJ Davis owned food truck in the quad while administrastudentsâ voices â something he thinks is a pat- 2017 â IGA, an international franchise, had a tors gathered around. ended up leading the Panthers with 13 carries. branch by the name of âThe Market on Forbesâ tern. Past that â in the middle of the quad â a Head coach Pat Narduzzi revealed that the âWeâre protesting a lack of student engage- on Forbes Avenue. The owner, Ron Levick, said distribution of carries against Albany was more group of students gathered holding signs reading ment and input,â he said. âWe lost our bakery for his store had to close due to competition with of a facade in Pittâs second game versus Penn âTransparency Pleaseâ and âLiving conditions other larger grocery stores. a Hallmark store.â State â Ollison carried the Panther offense, and Learning conditions.â These protestors atâMy store was only 5,000 square feet. You Kent-Smith was referring to Oakland Bakery, amassing 21 carries for 119 yards and a touch- tended the reopening to protest what they saw as which until last year was in the current Maggie See Protest on page 2 See Takeaways on page 6 Pitt prioritizing a gift shop over the forthcoming
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