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The “Community Dia-logue on Race and So-cial Injustice” on Friday brought together stu-dents and staff to interact about some of the issues that have been affecting our society.

Speech and communi-cations Professor Larissa Favela and other facilita-tors tried to encourage openness and different perspectives on issues such as the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine

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in Paris and controversial grand jury verdicts in the death of two black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo.

T h e e v e n t i n c l u d e d Powe r p o i n t p re s e n t a -tions about racism, preju-dice and social injustice.

Large writing pads with hashtag phrases such a s # Mu s l i m L i v e s M a t -ter, #BlackLivesMatter, #ThinBlueLine were hung around the room. Every-one who attended the event was given a felt-tipped pen and asked to write how the phrase

made them feel.The facilitators then

gathered everyone in cir-cles to discuss what they felt about the phrases and comments they saw. They were told to pro-mote honest, passionate and respectful responses, rather than debilitative emotional ones.

One student said she once had been the victim of a racial slur.

“Although it was a joke, it bothered me, making m e b e c o m e p h y s i c a l ,

MARTHA NUNEZStaff Writer

If we had to describe Ohlone in a word, “stairs” would be the one.

The walk to any build-ing on the upper campus leaves students out of breath and almost crawl-ing, but college officials have come up with a so-lution to help students survive the dreadful stairs

a n d c o n s t r u c t i o n d e-tours: the return of the Ohlone Pony.

The new Pony shuttle picks up and drops off riders from a number of stops around campus to make it easier to get to class and avoid the often-changing detours due to construction.

Student Mary Kate Di-zon said she found the Pony useful.

“After walking up the hill so many times and you’re down here again, you need something to take you up again: the Pony is here,” she said.

Starting at parking lot G, the pony makes its way through lots H and E, and then up the hill, stop-ping on the north side of the portables. It then

Festival to premiere playsMONITOR STAFF

Beginning next week, the Ohlone College Play-wr ights Fest ival wi l l showcase world pre-mieres of 10-minute plays written by profes-sional and emerging playwrights around the country.

Ohlone’s Student Rep-ertory Theatre Co., made up of student directors, producers, actors and designers, is producing the festival. The selec-tion of comedic and dramatic plays explores topics oriented toward young adults, includ-ing love, hate, dating, murder, relationships, family, racism and fame.

“For years, one of the biggest concerns in pro-fessional theater is that, as our audience ages, we are not attracting younger people to the-ater,” said Michael Na-varra, the producer of the festival and Ohlone College faculty member. “We started this festival, soliciting original work from playwr ights a l l over the country, to pro-

mote and cultivate new plays that will engage and speak directly to a younger audience.”

The playwrights’ pub-lished work has been seen Off Broadway and at other venues including the Metropolitan Play-house, Soho Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertor y Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, San Jose Re p, Pl a y g ro u n d , L a MaMa ETC, Playwrights Fo u n d a t i o n a n d t h e American Globe Theatre.

The festival’s first bill will be on March 12 and 13, and the second on May 7 and 8.

The plays for the first bill are: “Brendan’s Damn Good Day” by Jeffrey Lo; “Brothers of Emery” by Jake Arky; “Poetic Li-cense” by Karen Macklin; “Peabrain” by Jacob Marx Rice; “Stupid Dividers” by Jacob Marx Rice; “A Joke” by Cleavon Smith; “Changing Colors” by Mercedes Segesvar y ; “Tumble Dry Low” by Syche Phillips; “Hook-ing Up” by John France-

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Professor honored

Anthropology Profes-sor Jo Rodgers has been selected as the March Faculty Person of the Month.

Rodgers began teach-ing anthropology at Ohlone in 1984. She pur-sued an MBA in inter-national business while working full time and teaching at night.

After completing her business degree, she taught anthropology and business for several years, and also earned a doctorate in educational leadership.

Rodgers was a member of the Ohlone Pioneers, a group of early online in-structors, and has been a member of the Distance Education Committee since its inception. She is the faculty adviser of the Ohlone Multicultural An-thropology Club.

DeVry to hold career fair

Dozens of employers will be recruiting March 12 during a career fair at DeVry University’s Fre-mont Campus.

The career fair is open to the public from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at DeVry’s Stu-dent Commons, 6600 Dumbarton Circle.

Employers will include both private companies and government agen-cies, including All Star Swimming School, the California Department of Corrections and Re-habilitation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Fremont Marriott hotel, Hewlett Packard, Siemens and Verizon Wireless.

To register or for more information, contact Ca-reer Services at 510-574-1230 or cservices@devry.edu.

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Seminar to discuss breast cancer

Biology Professor Shy-am Sundar will present a seminar Friday titled “Battling Breast Cancer with Broccoli: Estrogen Signaling modulation by Indole-3-Carbinol.”

The seminar, spon-sored by ASOC and the Division of Math/Sci-ence/Engineering, will be from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 3101 on the Fre-mont campus.

A sign-in sheet will be available for students re-ceiving extra credit.

MONITOR STAFF

Ohlone students will be among the participants in the fifth annual “21” Soc-cer Bash on Saturday at James Logan High School in Union City.

The event, which helps raise money to pay for night games, uniforms and buses to away games, is held every year in honor of the late Logan soccer play-er Julian Gutierrez, whose uniform number was 21.

It consists of two exhi-bition games – the Logan Frosh team against the Logan Junior Varsity team, and the Logan Varsity team against Julian’s family and friends, some of whom are Ohlone students.

There also will be food and a raffle for several gift baskets and a new Go Pro camera.

The Soccer Bash will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Satur-day at Logan’s soccer field, 1800 H St.

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MITCHELL WALTHEREditor-in-Chief

Students have until March 17 to petition to run for student govern-ment executive officer positions.

The Associated Stu-dents of Ohlone Col-lege executive positions available are president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and legislative representative.

To apply to run for of-fice, pick up a petition packet in front of the Campus Activities Win-dow in Building 7 on the second floor.

The packet must be filed by 3 p.m. March 17. For more information, contact Student Activi-ties Coordinator Renee Gonzales at rgonzales@ohlone.edu or call her at

510-659-7311.The election will take

place April 14 and 15.In the same election,

students will chose their representat ive to the Board of Trustees. Ap-plications are available in Room 7210. For more information, call Shelby Foster at 510-659-7369.

The ASOC acts as a liaison between Ohlone students and admin-i s t rat o r s. Th e y b r i ng student opinions and concerns to the attention of the college’s Board of Trustees, and also lead m u l t i p l e f u n d r a i s e r s and outreach programs throughout the year.

ASOC meetings, which are open to the public, are held from 10 a.m. to noon Fridays in Room 7101 on the Fremont campus.

Student governmentelectionsalthough that wasn’t any

good either, but it’s how I felt at the time,” she said.

Speech and commu-nication Professor Nick Chivers then presented a game where people shared parts of their lives and identities with one anoth-er to reunite and connect people – through the use of a rainbow-colored ball of yarn.

Everybody stood in a large circle and Chivers asked a series of ques-tions: Who has experi-enced discrimination on the basis of race, gender or other factors? Who likes tacos? Those who raised their hands grabbed the

yarn, which criss-crossed the circle and tangled, a symbol of how everyone’s identities are unique and complex, but inevitably linked.

The activity also repre-sented the idea that every-one was responsible for treating one another with respect, because if some-one let go of the strings everyone was affected.

“I know this is a little kumbaya,” Chivers said. “I know we’re just passing around a ball of rainbow yarn, but if you buy in for a second and let your imagination truly visual-ize the message we are trying to create here, it can be incredibly power-ful.”

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The Ohlone Psychology Club will present a private screening April 3 of the award-winning documentary film “An Honest Liar – the Amaz-ing Randi Story.”

The 90-minute film, about magician James Randi, in-cludes interviews with celebri-ties such as Bill Nye “The Sci-ence Guy,” Alice Cooper, Adam Savage of “Mythbusters,” and Penn and Teller, who discuss how Randi has influenced their lives and careers.

Filmmaker Tyler Measom will introduce the film and answer questions after the screening, which is part of the Psychology Club’s Speaker Series.

To view a six-min-ute trailer, go to https://w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m /watch?v=MVMl36t2cLc.

To buy tickets, go to www.ohlone.edu/instr/psychol-ogy/speakerseries.

Festival brings world premieres to Ohloneschini; and “Campfire” by Richard Lau.

The plays for the second bill are:

“Night Terror” by Rachel Bublitz; “Tyger, Tyger” by Robin Lynn Rodriguez; “The Random Function of a Smile” by Cleavon Smith; “Umoja” by Cleavon Smith; “The Phantom of Youth” by Joni Ravenna; “A Twin Tale” by Tanya Grove; “Send Message” by Syche Phillips; “Why Therapy is Necessary” by George Freek; “Better Safe Than Sorry” by George Freek; and “Plan B” by Paul McCormick.

All performances are at 8 p.m. at the Smith Center on the Fremont campus. Tickets are $10 and may be

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Beer.I like beer. If you’re like

me, you probably like beer too. If you’re also like me, you probably go to Ohlone and can’t drink beer on campus.

This is stupid. I’m an adult college student. On a sunny spring semester day, I would love to crack open a book, crack open a beer, and enjoy my afternoon. But Ohlone tells me I can’t.

Al l r ight , i t ’s not Ohlone’s fault. The state of California apparently has a law that prohbits the drinking of alcohol on community college campuses.

This is still stupid. The California State Univer-sity, Humboldt, has a bar on campus, for heaven’s sake. So does the Univer-sity of California, Los An-geles! Same government, but community colleges have been singled out for some reason.

This is not about alco-hol, though it stems from my desire to have a beer right now. This is about equality and the ridicu-lousness of asinine rules.

Sports games would garner higher atten-dance if fans could buy drinks during the game. The cafeteria would become a more popular nightspot for students if there were a bar man-aged by students.

No one is going to stumble into class drop-down drunk. And if someone is that wasted, then discipline them like an adult and hold them responsible for their ac-tions.

I’ve seen students take shots to make it through boring English classes. No amount of rules is go-ing to stop people from abusing alcohol, and it only keeps responsible students from enjoying a drink responsibly.

Our Ohlone Pony driv-er isn’t going to get pulled over a DUI, and I have a feeling some of our teachers could really use a drink.

It’s just so hilarious to me that the community college system, an edu-cational institution that caters to older returning students, doesn’t allow possession of a com-pletely legal commodity.

God, I need a beer.

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Even though every lot has a designated pick-up zone, riders can wave down the Pony and the driver will stop to pick them up. Although the shuttle can fit 15 passen-gers total, as the day goes on the Pony may not have enough energy to pick up and drop off a full load to the highest destination.

The Pony runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and then charges over night for eight hours to make sure that it can get passengers to their destinations.

As the semester un-folds, the pony is be-coming more and more popular and students are taking full advantage of it.

“When I started out it

was only about 21 rid-ers, but I’ve had 72 riders today,” said driver Rick Mendonca with 30 min-utes left until the end of his shift.

If you’re trying to avoid the busy time or if you

want to make sure to get on the Pony before it fills up, Mendonca has some useful tips.

“Lot E is a busy lot, and I’ve noticed that any-where between probably 8:30 to a little after 10,

that’s the busiest and the rest of the day it’s even,” he said. Between these times, “who knows, I may pick up 30.”

For many years, stu-dents have complained about the draining hikes up the stairs. Now, with the Pony, their prayers h a v e b e e n a n s w e re d . “Sometimes students get on and just ride up and down a couple of times just for fun,” Mendonca said.

After walking up the hill so many times and you’re down here again, you need something to take you up again: the Pony is here.- Mary Kate Dizon

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MITCHELL WALTHEREditor-in-chief

The Western seems like a dead genre at times. The age of Clint Eastwood grit and John Wayne heroics has come and gone. In the halls of the Cinequest film festival in San Jose, though, “Slow West” shows the west is still wild.

Starring Michael Fass-bender, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Rory McCann, and directed by John Maclean, “Slow West” is the adventure tale of a Scottish boy seeking his love, Rose. The movie is like a Scottish ballad of lost love, with the western plains serving as the backdrop of this Odysseus-like classic.

Chance encounters go awry for most, leaving our heroes stranded, near-drowned and with more blood on their hands than anyone should have to have.

Fassbender plays a perfect gruff cowboy. After gunning down men in Army fatigues, Silas (Fassbender), in his Southern drawl, is quick to re-mind the wide-eyed Scottish hero Jay (Smit-McPhee) that “wearing a dress don’t make her a lady.”

With just the right amount of Western archetypal fun, and just enough tongue-in-cheek

humor, “Slow West” ends as a fun adventure for most.

When there is violence, though, some may be star-tled by the jarring vicious-ness of the film. Gunshots are not turned away from, and blood and gore selectively cover the screen.

Our characters aren’t im-pervious, and the film is better for it. Arrows through hands, bullets in legs, and heart-breaking revelations plague our title cast.

“Slow West” is slightly above the regular crop of Cinequest films. Because of its slightly

star-studded cast and a more than notable budget, you’ll probably find this movie on DVD or in theaters before too long.

Keep an eye out for it, because this film is more than worth a trip west, and the wild is calling.

MITCHELL WALTHEREditor in Chief

The potential of finding a masterpiece is what has drawn people to Cinequest for the past 25 years.

The 2014 Georgian film “Corn Island” is one of those masterpieces.

Di re c t e d by Gi o rg i Ovashvili and starring Ilyas Salman, this beauti-fully shot drama gives us a poignant look into a slice

of life few are privileged to see.

On the Inguri river, the spring drought leaves is-lands of fertile soil littered in its waters.

The river sits on the border of Georgia and Ab-khazia, so citizens row out to claim their lands for the harvest season.

The movie follows a weathered grandfather and his naive granddaughter as they build their home, plant

the fields, and reap what they sow.

While this movie brings lots of atmosphere, beauti-ful scenery, and some of the most powerful expressions I’ve seen in film, it doesn’t offer much dialogue. There is a total of maybe four conser-vations each lasting a total of five minutes each.

The best part is that “Corn Island” didn’t need any of those conversations. The looks the characters give one

another and the way they interact tell the story we want to hear.

The island is meant to be their place of peace, but the world invades their paradise. The gunfire at night and motorboats of soldiers in the day act as constant reminders of the present danger.

The movie is about the relationships we see on screen, though – the tale of one growing old and one growing up.

As the corn stalks rise, the themes of age are made clear, and we are given the gift of one of the most somber coming-of-age tales put to screen.

“Corn Island” may be playing at the Cinequest independent film festival, but it has already got-ten much of the credit it deserves. It has won 18 awards since its 2014 re-lease, including Best Cin-ematography and Grand Prize at the Baltic Film Festival.

Masterpiece is not a word to throw around. But from the moment the grandfather’s boat touches land to the last somber pitter-patter of rain, “Corn Island” is exactly that: a masterpiece.

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“Great! I think it would encourage people more to go to community college”

ENRIQUE GOVEAEnvironmental Engineering

“I feel like to put more money into this it has to be taken out of something (else)”

LILY PLATEROArt

“I don’t really have a lot of background information on it”

SEAN DAVIEChemistry

“It’s a step in the right direction”

MARCUS PALMERBiology

“I like the idea that we’re trying to put more money into the education system ... but I also know that money is not going to come from our current budget”

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DANIEL ODENSta! writer

If you interviewed a cross-section of American adults who were blessed with the privilege to attend college, I’d have to draw the assump-tion that the majority of them would say it was the best chap-ter in their lives.

The parties, alcohol and good times, the hook ups, the break ups, trips to the clinic the morning after a question-able evening, the brief A’s with professors you love, and the prolonged visits semester after semester with the ones you hate.

Up and downs summed up, it was still the best time of your ever-so-fragile and meaning-less life. As an observer from the future taking an overview of the past, we tend to forget the real reason we attended college in the first place.

Can you remember? Oh yeah, It was to get a good job and make good money. Maybe meet the love of your life … three or four times, and for those of you who didn’t make that trip to the clinic for the coveted Plan B pill, maybe you started the family of your dreams along the way too.

That being said, you’ve still forgotten the whole point of school. The point is to get a degree, no matter the path you choose to take in order to get it. And how do you get a degree again? By passing a series of tests, duh.

Your professors lecture you with a multitude of things you need to study, your labs are in essence study in practice, your homework is study from home, your class projects are typically group study, and even when you date someone new for a prolonged period of time they call it, “going steady.” Study, study, steady, study.

And the climax of all of this studying is two words college students despise: midterms and finals. AHHH! Real Mon-sters! How many times have midterms crept up on you un-

expectedly? One moment you’re taking a shot with friends, discussing what you’re going to do with your three-day weekend, and the next you’re stocking up on coffee, calling your “con-nect” for some “learning materials” and indulging in a 72-hour binge of book stock and caffeinated sub-stances.

Sleep? What’s that stuff, some kind of new controlled substance that I’m too busy studying to abuse? Who needs it? Gandhi went 21 days without food on mul-tiple occasions, and he was a spiritual guru! So, no sleep or food is the recipe to success? Wrong. No food and no sleep + stress = death.

Studies show that people who have stressful lives with lack of sleep live shorter than people who are more care-free and happy-go-lucky. And if you don’t eat, you will die. It’s a fact. Trust me, I looked it up.

Now, your three-day weekend is coming to a close and the day of the test has finally arrived. Two and a half hours in the same room and the same seat with one 15-minute break. You’re on a roll. All the answers are fresh in your mind because the ink is still wet in your memory.

You relax a little because you know you’re going to ace it and you begin to let your brain wander. Did you pay the electricity bill? That guy next to you is cute; I wonder if he has a girlfriend. Where do you and your bestie want to go for drinks after the course …

All of a sudden the teacher yells, “Pencils down!” and you wake up frantically from a blissful dream to realize that you slept through the rest of the test! You beg and plead with your professor to let you retake it, but he or she says no, you should’ve gotten more sleep. Your head held low, you exit the

classroom cursing the day that Mr. Blank ever failed you and begin to hatch a plan to eviscerate him from the higher education com-munity.

So, what’s the moral of the story? I’m sure to those of you who are currently in this situation, the moral is, “Down with all tests and teachings!” In your frustration, you make loose plans to drop out and join some militant group out of country that has the use for a physics major that almost but didn’t quite get his degree. At least that way you’d get to see the world.

As pleasant as that may sound right now, that was far from the point. The moral is, relax, take a deep breath, take care of yourself, and take life one step at a time.

A lot of youngsters use a phrase: YOLO (you only live once). Now, being someone who is still relatively young, I can agree with that notion to a certain degree. I also have a counter notion. YOYO (you’re only young once).

Youth is a time of life that we typically take for granted until it’s too late. Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to be “grown.” Then on the day of my 18th birthday I got arrested for some minor infraction of the Penal Code and suddenly didn’t wish to be an adult anymore.

As sad as it seems, that is far from the only reason that I like to say you’re only young once. In my youth, I lived by the saying “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it,” so I tried everything: Sex, drugs and alcohol, school as well as being a rock ’n’ roll star.

I went to college for the first time at the tender age of 16. I dropped out shortly thereafter to be a rap star and toured California. I per-formed shows in front of new groups of beautiful women every night, and stuck almost any substance into almost every orifice on my body.

It took me years to finally see the back-dated effects of all the abuse I’ve done to my body. My hair is now falling

out, my bones are old, I have permanent bags under my eyes, and, for lack of a better term, my musket doesn’t load as quickly as it used to.

And all for what? A few fleeting moments of bliss and the accomplishments of your hard work accompanied by more moments of stress and lack of relaxation than you know what to do with. No bueno.

I digress, but the moral of the story still stands and ap-plies to the college life more now then ever. When it’s all said and done you won’t re-member if the answer is ABC or all of the above, and you won’t remember the name of the professor who failed you two semesters in a row.

You remember the good times and the friends, the parties that led to the nights that you can’t remember and the mornings after waking up to someone you regret. Life is a test and there are no wrong answers. Each path

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Standings

Upcoming home baseball, softball games

SOFTBALL

March 5, 3 p.m vs. De Anza College, Softball Field, Fre-mont campus.

March 7, noon vs. City Col-lege of San Francisco, Soft-ball Field, Fremont cam-pus.

March 10, 3 p.m. vs. San Jose City College, Softball Field, Fremont campus.

March 12, 3 p.m vs. Gavilan College, Softball Field, Fre-mont campus.

March 14 and 15, times TBA, Ohlone March Mad-ness Tournament, Central Park Softball Complex, Fremont.

March 19, 3 p.m vs. West Valley College, Softball Field, Fremont campus.

BASEBALL

March 5, 2 p.m vs. Hart-nell College, Renegade Field, Fremont campus.

March 7, noon vs. Skyline College, Renegade Field, Fremont campus.

March 10, 2:30 p.m vs. City College of San Francisco, Renegade Field, Fremont campus.

March 12, 2:30 p.m vs. Ca-ñada College, Renegade Field, Fremont campus.

March 21, noon vs. Mon-terey Peninsula College, Renegade Field, Fremont campus.

March 24, 2:30 p.m. vs. Cabrillo College, Rene-gade Field, Fremont cam-pus.

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Succeed or fail, there is no try. Once you make it to your destination, you will realize that it was those tests that life throws in your path that allow you to live the life you live today. Without those dreaded tests you’d still be working at some unnamed fast-food chain, and driving some bucket that’s way past its date of expiration.

Life is what you make it. If you decide to see stress in every situation, stress will always be in your path. Take these times to see these stressors as obstacles in the way of greater success. Overcome them and see endless possibilities for new amazing opportunities and challenges. So the next time you’re worried about failing another test, take a deep breath and remember that there is always next semester. In the words of Bobby McFer-rin, “Don’t worry, be happy.”

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Dropping the gloves

From altercations in the NBA to scuffles in college basketball, a 14-second Ronda Rousey beat down and a peewee hockey line-brawl in Russia, fighting has been all over sports news for the past week.

With all the fighting lately, it gives me a chance – more of an excuse – to explain one of the most misunderstood and controversial topics in sports: hockey fights.

Fighting is a five-minute major penalty and players can fight a maximum of three times a game – which is extremely rare. If they do, the fighters receive a match penalty and are ejected from the game – along with a possible suspension for future games.

Fights are mutual agree-ments between two play-ers and referees intervene when they tire out or fall to the ice, or when a player is unable to defend himself.

Sometimes a player will “instigate” a fight with an opponent, who is then forced to fight. This usually happens after a huge hit or a dirty play. The player in-stigating the fight receives an extra two-minute minor penalty on top of their five-minute major.

Fighting in hockey is an integral part of the game – not just two guys beating their faces for the hell of it.

There are actual reasons why players fight. They mostly fight to defend their teammates or get their team going. Let’s say that a player’s team is losing or is playing sluggish; a player will try to find a willing part-ner to fight to motivate his teammates.

It’s a unique way that hockey players govern and police one another – which is especially important in a physical sport. It keeps play-ers accountable and lets them know that there can be repercussions for their actions. Each team usually has one enforcer – a player who is always willing to fight to defend his team-mates and intimidate op-ponents.

There’s a little more to it, but those are the basics and all I can fit in this col-umn.

If you want to learn more, I reccomend read-ing Brandon Prust’s piece on theplayerstribune.com about his experience as an enforcer.

Ohlone hires new water polo coachALBERT REBOSURASports editor

Ohlone has hired Alyssa Hess as the new women’s water polo head coach.

She played four years of Division II water polo at Azusa Pacific University, recently graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Physi-cal Education. She led the team in scoring in 2011.

Prior to her time at APU, she was a four-time All-MVAL player for Newark Memorial High School.

According to a statement by Ohlone, Hess has a his-tory with the school from her youth: In 2001, she was a part of the Ohlone Ren-egades Water Polo Club coached by Joseph Marti-nez and Gene Kendall IV.

She is currently at Cal State East Bay, working on her master’s degree in kinesiolo-

gy as well as wrapping up her collegiate water polo career.

Hess takes over the Wa-ter Polo program that was canceled during the 2014 season. In 2013, the Lady Renegades went 0-10 under former coach Edgar Kend-all.

“The Ohlone Renegades Water Polo Club is where I found my passion for the sport,” Hess said in a state-ment. “I am extremely ex-cited to be part of a program where I learned and grew as a player and student of the game. This is a place I call home.”

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The Lady Renegades will host division foes De Anza College at 3 p.m. today at the Softball Field.

They are coming off a 6-3 vic-tory against Porterville College and are looking to string together back-to-back wins – something they haven’t done since the first two games of the season.

Freshman infielder Haley Keahi has been shouldering the offense all season, leading the team in RBIs with 20 to go along with her .304 batting av-erage and three home runs.

Keahi is currently on a three-game hit streak.

Catcher Heather Rygg has been setting the table for Ke-ahi and the offense. She leads the team with her 13 stolen

bases, 55 at-bats, 17 hits and 18 runs.

Starting pitcher Jasaiah Gholston is projected to start against De Anza. She has made a team-leading 10 starts and has a 4-4 record. In her 76 innings pitched, Gholston has a 4.05 ERA with 41 strikeouts.

She’ll look to get back on track today after allowing six runs and walking four batters in her last start.

One month into the sea-son, Coach Donna Runyon’s softball squad is 8-9 with a 2-1 conference record.

De Anza has a dismal 2-17 record and is currently on an eight-game losing streak.

Offensively, De Anza isn’t much of a threat – they’re bat-ting .166 as a team.

During their losing streak, they have only scored 11 runs, and they have surrendered 100 runs in that span.

This easy matchup can elevate Ohlone into a tie for second in the Coast North di-vision.

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The Renegades couldn’t re-cover after blowing a 4-3 lead in the ninth inning Tuesday, losing in 12 innings to Mis-sion College.

After allowing a single and a walk, pitcher Josh Calmerin was replaced by Josh Nobriga with no outs in the ninth.

With runners on first and third, Nobriga threw a wild pitch and the baserunner scored easily, tying the game 4-4.

Both teams were held hit-less in extra innings until Mis-sion College started a rally in the 12th inning.

After a double and a sacri-fice fly, Mission College took the lead 6-4.

The Renegades made things interesting in the bot-tom of the 12th after back-to-back singles from the top of their batting order: center fielder Brock Pradere and shortstop Pablo Artero.

Pinch-hitter Max Diaz and third baseman Brandon Sewell both struck out, leav-ing it all to first baseman Joey Torres to keep the rally alive. He grounded out to second and Mission College com-pleted the comeback.

Pitcher Elias Bedolla had a rough game, but had a no-de-cision in his fourth start of the season. He allowed three runs, eight hits and three walks.

Despite the rough outing, Bedolla still has stellar num-bers this season. He’s 3-0 on 27.2 innings pitched with a 2.60 ERA and 22 strikeouts.

Getting on base wasn’t a problem for the Renegades in the tough loss. The team had 10 hits and was disciplined at the plate with six walks.

Ohlone just couldn’t drive in the runners on base, stranding 10 in total. The ex-tra runs would’ve padded the lead and put less pressure on pitchers to hold the one-run lead.

Pradere had a solid game, getting on base all four plate appearances with a steal – he leads the Renegades with 12 steals. Sewell led the team with two RBIs.

With another division loss, Ohlone falls to last place in

the Coast Pacific division. With the standings heav-ily weighted toward division games, Ohlone’s 11-4 record doesn’t mean much. Their 0-3 division record is something

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to improve going forward.The Renegades will try

to get back to their winning ways against Hartnell College at 2 p.m. today at Renegade Field.