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Fourth Annual Science Softball Showdown

Monday, July 19, 2010

On Friday, July 16, 35 CBU student researchers and faculty from biology and chemistry took part in a competitive softball competition with chemistry edging out biology with a 17-16 victory in an exciting match which was organized by the students.

Throughout the game, the chemists’ Bad News Test Tubes accumulated a commanding lead of 16-9, however a strong rally by the biologists’ Killer T-Cells equalized the score in the top of the seventh inning.

The biology-chemistry softball game is now an established summer event in its fourth year. Past winners in 2007 and 2008 were the Killer T-Cells and the Bad News Test Tubes have the bragging rights since 2009 until the next event in 2011. The softball trophy is on display in the student ChemCentre on second floor of the Arseneau-Britten Science Building at CBU.

More than 40 CBU undergraduate students conduct research projects in biology and chemistry during the summer. They also take the sporty rivalry between biology and chemistry very serious and prepared well for this softball showdown event by practicing for the game and by designing T-shirts.