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2023-09-27 18:13:25

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – No. 4 Penn State women’s soccer heads west for its first extended road trip of the 2023 campaign, as the Nittany Lions get set for a nationally-ranked matchup once morest the No. 22 Michigan Wolverines Thursday night from the U-M Soccer Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. (ET), with streaming available to a worldwide audience via B1G+.

MATCH INFORMATION

#4 PENN STATE at #22 MICHIGAN
Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 7 p.m. (ET)
U-M Soccer Stadium | Ann Arbor, Mich.
Watch Live: B1G+

Live Stats: StatBroadcast

FOLLOW THE ACTION

For fans in Central Pennsylvania, and members of Nittany Nation around the world, Penn State’s first contest of the week in the Great Lakes State will be streamed live via B1G+. Authenticated subscribers are invited to click here and sign in on their mobile phones, computers, smart TVs and other connected devices to follow along. Brian Boesch will provide live play-by-play commentary during Thursday night’s ranked tilt. Live stats provided by the University of Michigan and StatBroadcast are available by clicking here.

KICKIN’ IT

The Blue & White return to action following another undefeated work in Big Ten Conference competition with a pair of one-goal victories over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and Nebraska Cornhuskers. PSU secured its first win in Piscataway since 2008 with a 2-1 result, followed by a rain-soaked 1-0 win over the Cornhuskers at Jeffrey Field. Individually, senior+ midfielder Cori Dyke hauled in TopDrawerSoccer Honorable Mention National Team of the Week accolades, her first national recognition in her career. Penn State currently stands as the No. 1 team in the nation in terms of the NCAA RPI, with the Blue & White edging No. 2 North Carolina by a slim 0.00426 margin. The Blue & White stand as one of just four women’s soccer programs nationally that has yet to trail in a match, joining B1G foe Indiana, as well as Dartmouth and Texas Tech. Among teams that have yet to trail this season, PSU has allowed the fewest total goals, surrendering just three opponent scores in the 2023 campaign.

LAST TIME OUT: NEBRASKA

No. 4 Penn State coupled a dominant defensive outing with a late set piece score from senior+ midfielder Cori Dyke, culminating in a 1-0 victory Sunday followingnoon over the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Cornhuskers and Nittany Lions played a relatively even match across the board, with both teams having to fight through intense defensive pressure to generate offensive opportunities. Nebraska finished the followingnoon’s contest with a slim lead on the shot chart, outpacing the Blue & White by a narrow 16-13 edge overall and a 5-3 margin in terms of shots on goal. The Huskers also took home a narrow edge in the corner kick battle, leading the category by a 5-4 tally. Sunday’s result saw the Nittany Lions pick up a win while losing the corner kick contest for the first time in 2023.

WEEZY BREEZY

Senior+ defender Kate Wiesner continues her fifth year in Happy Valley and her fourth season of on-field competition in 2023. The Monrovia, California, native was dominant in her first full season as a routine starter a year ago, finishing with two goals, 11 assists and 15 total points in 2022. Wiesner ranked at the top of the Big Ten Conference in both total assists (11) and assists per match (0.48) last year. Wiesner is well on her way to replicating her dominant 2022 season, with the Nittany Lions’ starting left back ranked second on the 2023 roster with four assists through the first 10 matches of the year. Wiesner set a season high once morest West Chester with a pair of dishes in the match, in addition to assists once morest Princeton and Nebraska. Wiesner ranks ninth in the Big Ten Conference in assists per match with a 0.40 mark, while her four total assists place her in 10th in the Big Ten in the category.

WATCHING THE WOLVERINES

Sixth-year skipper Jennifer Klein leads Michigan into Thursday night’s contest boasting a 6-2-2 overall record coupled with a 2-1 start to Big Ten Conference competition. The Wolverines stand as the 22nd-ranked team in the nation, dropping three spots following suffering a 2-1 road loss once morest the Illinois Fighting Illini. Michigan opened Big Ten competition with consecutive victories over Minnesota and then-No. 18 Northwestern before their defeat in Champaign. Senior forward Sammi Woods has been dominant for the Wolverines in her fourth season in Ann Arbor, connecting on five goals with 11 total points scored in 2023. Between the posts, senior shot stopper Stephanie Sparkowski leads the way with 53 total saves and a 0.883 save percentage.

STORY OF THE SERIES

Heading into the 41st all-time meeting between the two programs, Penn State maintains a dominant 26-7-7 overall lead once morest Michigan since the teams first met back in 1994. In the last 10 matchups, Penn State has hauled in seven victories while dropping just three contests to Michigan. The Nittany Lions seek their first victory over Michigan on the road in Ann Arbor since downing the Wolverines in a 2-1 result on Oct. 7, 2018. Penn State came away with a convincing 3-0 victory over the Wolverines in last year’s regular season meeting in University Park. Ally Schlegel led the way with a pair of goals while Ellie Wheeler contributed a pair of assists in the dominant result.

FOLLOW THE NITTANY LIONS

Visit GoPSUSports.com for more information on Penn State women’s soccer. Fans can keep up to date with the Nittany Lion women’s soccer team on X and Instagram @PennStateWSOC, in addition to the team’s Facebook page at /PSUWomensSoccer.

The 30th Season of Penn State women’s soccer is presented by the Smeal College of Business.

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2023-09-27 18:34:41

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Southeastern Conference announced television designations and tipoff times for the 2023-24 season on Wednesday, Missouri Women’s Basketball will play 10 nationally televised games.

The Tigers’ inaugural ACC/SEC Challenge matchup at Virginia will air on ACC Network while the intrastate showdown once morest the Missouri State Bears will mark the team’s SEC Network debut in the new season.

Missouri’s conference opener once morest defending national champion LSU will also be broadcast nationally on SEC Network.

The TV designation for the annual Braggin’ Rights matchup once morest Illinois, scheduled for Dec. 17 will be announced at a later date.

All conference games and nonconference home games that do not appear on a linear network will be broadcast live on SECN+.

2023-24 SEC Women’s Basketball Television Schedule (all times CT)

Thursday, Nov. 30 – at Virginia // ACC Network – 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 6 – vs. Missouri State // SEC Network – 6 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 4 – at LSU // SEC Network – 8 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 7 – vs. Alabama // SEC Network – 5 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 14 – at Vanderbilt // SEC Network – Noon
Thursday, Jan. 25 – vs. Texas A&M // SEC Network – 8 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 8 – at South Carolina // SEC Network – 6 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 11 – vs. Auburn // SEC Network – 1 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 18 – at Arkansas // SEC Network ­­– 3 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 26 – vs. Ole Miss // SEC Network – 6 p.m.

Season tickets for the 2023-24 campaign are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.com/Mizzou. For more information, call the Mizzou Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-CAT-PAWS.

FOLLOW THE TIGERS

For all the latest on Mizzou Women’s Basketball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team @MizzouWBB (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook).

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2023-09-27 16:16:20

“Nineveh Tragedy”: Fire destroyed a wedding party and hundreds were charred along with chairs

Everything happened minutes before midnight on Tuesday, when fire engulfed an event hall in the city of Hamdaniya (northeast of Mosul), trapping hundreds of participants in a local wedding. The tragedy ended with the death and injury of hundreds, most of whom died from suffocation or being trampled as a result of the stampede at an exit door one meter wide.

The newlyweds were dancing in the middle of a large circle of revelers, when flames fell from the ceiling of the hall, as video clips circulated on social networking sites showed, including a shot that showed fireworks inside the hall, the flames of which suddenly reached the ceiling studded with decorations and lighting, and that’s when the disaster began.

A man from the Civil Defense inspects an event hall following putting out the fire in Al-Hamdaniya, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq (AFP)

The Iraqi Civil Defense said, “The fire led to the collapse of parts of the hall, as a result of the use of highly flammable, low-cost building materials that collapse within minutes when a fire breaks out,” according to the official news agency.

The final death toll figures were conflicted between three Iraqi officials, until five in the followingnoon local time, that is, regarding 20 hours following the fire occurred. The Minister of Interior said that the latest statistics recorded by the Nineveh Health Directorate were 93 dead and more than 100 injured.

Health Minister Saleh Al-Hasnawi confirmed, in a statement to the media, that the fire resulted in at least 87 deaths and more than 100 injuries, while the head of the Security Media Cell, Saad Maan, spoke of the deaths of 93 people and the injury of 100 others.

Firefighters inspect the damage in an event hall following a fire broke out during a wedding in Al-Hamdaniya, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq (AFP)

Although local and Arab media reported that the newlyweds died in the fire, a doctor in Erbil and a relative of the bride confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that they were alive and suffering from a nervous breakdown and minor burns.

Local medical reports indicate that the death toll from the fire may exceed 120 people who lost their lives due to severe burns or suffocation, while doctors from Mosul Hospital say that they received dozens of dead children during the night.

The Iraqi government declared a three-day general mourning for the victims of the Hamdaniyah incident, according to a statement from the office of Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani, following the Governor of Nineveh, Najm al-Jubouri, decided to mourn for a week and postpone the celebrations of the Prophet’s birthday until further notice.

One of the survivors of the fire, whom Asharq Al-Awsat met in one of Erbil’s hospitals, said that the fire spread to the ceiling at a frightening speed, and fiery masses fell on our heads, terrifying everyone and pushing them toward the emergency door (…) It was only a single door, with dozens crowded around it.

Iraqi Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari inspects the burned wedding hall following a deadly fire that claimed dozens of lives (dpa)

“I saw children crawling under the tables, screaming, and on the other side there were mothers calling out to look for them (…) The fire was isolating the families from each other, and in the end the men came pushing their families towards the door,” says another survivor, who was lying on a hospital bed. In Erbil.

According to this injured person, he “saw refrigerant gas pipes explode inside the hall due to the fire.”

A man from Al-Hamdaniya said he did not attend the ceremony, but he came to the site of the fire to inspect his family members, who were six people, and it was finally confirmed that they had died, and according to the Civil Defense, they were charred along with the chairs they were sitting on during the ceremony.

A civil defense officer in Mosul said that the preliminary investigation indicated that the complete darkness inside the hall as a result of the power outage caused a stampede and a delay in the evacuation of the revelers.

An injured man walks among people in front of a burning hall during a wedding party in the town of Hamdaniya (AFP)

Another officer, who supervised the rescue operations, said, “The Hamdaniyah fire may be the largest in Iraq during the past ten years.”

It took civil defense men long hours to search for the missing among the rubble, and some of them were seen stuck between charred tables trying to pull out the bodies. “It was a painful scene (…) I might not bear to see a hand sticking out from among a pile of iron,” says one of the rescue personnel.

Ambulances rushed from Hamdaniya and Mosul, which are regarding 35 kilometers away, to transport the injured, while ambulances transported dozens of them to Erbil hospitals. According to various medical sources, the percentage of burns and wounds exceeded 50 percent.

Dozens flocked to hospitals in Mosul and Hamdaniya on Wednesday morning to donate blood, while the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, said that he “decided to send the necessary medical aid, and directed the opening of the region’s hospitals to provide the necessary treatment for the wounded.”

An ambulance from Mosul carrying the body of a victim of a fatal fire at a wedding party in the Hamdaniyah district of Nineveh Governorate in Iraq (Archyde.com)

During media coverage of the rescue operations, a woman from the town of Hamdaniya appeared on Wednesday morning, searching for her mother. As soon as she and a television reporter entered the charred hall, she accidentally found her jacket among the ashes, and she collapsed crying.

A civil defense officer told Asharq Al-Awsat that “there are still children missing under the rubble.”

The Ministry of Interior formed an investigation committee into the Al-Hamdaniya incident, and confirmed that it had suspended the management of the hall, and had taken legal measures once morest its owner.

From the scene of the accident, Major General Dr. Saad Maan outlines the details of the accident in Al-Hamdaniya district in Nineveh Governorate pic.twitter.com/gxKAFY0sNV

– Saad Maan – Saad Maan (@saadmaanoficial) September 27, 2023

The Interior Ministry’s announcement came following Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari arrived at the site of the fire, alongside Immigration Minister Evan Fayeq, coinciding with news indicating that the owner of the hall had fled to an unknown destination, following pulling the tapes of internal surveillance cameras.

A senior officer told Asharq Al-Awsat, “A special security force followed the owner of the hall and detained him for investigation and taking legal measures, while before that they arrested four people who were supervising the organization of the wedding.”

Later, the “Kurdistan Security Council,” known as the “Asayish,” announced the arrest of the owner of the “Al-Haitham” hall for events in the Al-Hamdaniya district, once morest the backdrop of a lawsuit on charges of violating safety procedures and causing a fire in the Al-Hamdaniya hall.

Activists on social media circulated information regarding the hall’s owner’s connection to the leaders of the armed factions in Al-Hamdaniya, and that the local authorities ignored his violation of safety conditions in building the hall, due to his relations with influential parties.

An army member stands in front of an event hall following a deadly fire at a wedding party in Al-Hamdaniya, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq (Archyde.com)

It is difficult to verify this news, but the region is actually controlled by two armed formations affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, around which suspicions of corruption have been raised related to collecting money from investors and private project owners in the region.

However, the head of the Security Media Cell, Saad Maan, confirmed that the fire was not due to a “criminal crime.”

The fire reminded the Iraqis of a chronic defect in construction projects, as their owners resort to using “cobond” material because of its cheap price in the markets, but it is highly flammable, and the use of this material has been associated with the majority of fire incidents in Iraq over the past years.

A senior government official told Asharq Al-Awsat that dealing with this recurring type of fire requires a review – which may take a long time – of the controls on importing construction materials, in addition to a review of the role of the regulatory agencies concerned with verifying the quality and safety of buildings.

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