Spring 2014, Issue 17, Vol. 46 (April 30)

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DanceforCancer sign-up for the event.

Irvine Valley College students Paula Baniqued, 22, and Pooja Patel, 22—both Saddleback College students are putinterns at Be The Match—came to Sadting on their dancing shoes for the May dleback campus to raise awareness for the 2 event Dance Against Cancer, a 10-hour foundation. dance-a-thon starting at 9 a.m. in the Stu“This is our first event here. Be The dent Services Center quad.

Match is a bone marrow registry in the Dance Against Cancer is an Associated National Marrow Donation Program. We Student Government sponsored event and work to widen the registry and match pais free to enter. Students can tients with donors,” Baniqued said. “First create teams of any size we look to the family and and choose to fundraise This has never if that doesn’t work out for Be The Match, a been done we look for ethnicity.” bone marrow registry, Patel explained typand St. Baldrick’s Foundation, before on our ical marrow donors are a charity focusing on cancer re- campus but 18-44 years-old due to search for children. other campuses younger marrow being “This has never been done have done it more successful in transbefore on our campus but other and been wildly plants. Donors fall off campuses have done it and been the registry at 61-yearssuccessful.

Other wildly successful. Other school’s old so the registry is conhave raised in the millions,” Se- school’s have stantly aging. nior Administrative Assistant raised in the “There is only someErin Long of Student Develop- millions.” thing like a million peoment said. ple on the bone marrow More than $10,000 has been - Erin Long, Senior registry so it’s hard to raised so far and Student DevelAdministrative opment is hopeful that the amount Assistant of Student find a match,” Long said.

There will be a D.J. will climb. Teams of dancers Development and contestants have the fundraise independently and may opportunity to win prizraise money however they see fit. es for best costume, best Long suggests utilizing the camdancer and highest fundraising amount. pus community and students’ own personal community and network. Donations are GD Bro (Globally Delicious) food truck made through the charities’ websites under will be there serving hamburgers.

For more information visit: each team’s I.D. number. http://www.saddleback.edu/studentdeA poster for Dance Against Cancer in velopment/dance-against-cancer the Gaucho lounge tells students how to KRISTEN WILCOX

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May 2 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

in the SSC quad - Register with a team online or in ASG office

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

funds research for childhood cancer ($13,929 has been raised so far)

Be the Match funds bone marrow transplantation Requirements: - make a team - choose a charity - always have a team member on the dance floor

Students volunteer in campus clean-up LAM TRAN

STAFF WRITER

More than 50 Saddleback College students gathered in the Student Services Center Quad for Earth Week’s Campus Clean Up event Thursday, April 24. Divided into teams, the students were provided trash bags and gloves as they set out around campus to pick up trash.

“We are finding more trash than we expected and most of them are cigarette butts, even though we have ashtrays close by,” said Anissa Medina, 20-yearold vice president of the Environmental Awareness Club. “I feel like students are not so careful about keeping our campus clean, so we want to educate students to protect the environment.”

The event was held by the Environmental Awareness Club to educate students about the importance of protecting the environment and to have student volunteers to clean up the campus.

“An overview of the campus looks clean but once you start looking closer, you will start to see all the trash everywhere,” said Dr. Morgan Barrows, department chair of environmental studies and marine science technology.

“Cleaning up the land will effectively reduce the water pollution

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Anissa Medina, 20-year-old vice president of the Environmental Awareness Club, cleans during the club’s Campus Clean-Up event on April 24. and at the end of it we get to clean up our campus.”

Kat Davis, a 46-year-old environmental studies student, found cigarette butts almost everywhere.

Davis said that Saddleback College should be a smoking-free campus.

After an hour of cleaning, all the teams came back with big bags of trash.

Each student volunteer got a water bottle as a gift from the club.

“I have students from my classes volunteer to help with

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cleaning up the campus,” said John Richards, an environmental studies instructor. “We had a great number of participants this year and it’s probably a good sign that students are caring more about the environment.”

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A muti-method approach to measuring subjective wellbeing QUINN MAHONY

OPINION EDITOR

Sean Wojik presented his lecture “A Multi-Method Approach to Measuring Subjective Well-Being” in the Business and General Studies Building, Room 144 on Thursday, April 24.

Wojik’s lecture was geared toward the study of happiness done by finding the gross national happiness, or GNH. Results are skewed by what he calls “self-enhancement.” Wojik defines self-enhancement as the phenomenon in which people will perceive themselves in an unrealistic light.

“I’m urging for reform on how the GHP is calculated to reduce the reliance on self-report survey’s because of the self-enhancement of the survey takers,” Wojik said.

The lecture opened with Wojik emphasizing the role happiness has in American culture while paying special attention to the Declaration of Independence’s three inalienable rights.

Wojik offers his own seven studies on measuring happiness. Through these studies, Wojik hopes to prove the prevalence of self-enhancement in self-report studies where the survey allows people to measure their own happiness.

The first study was done through yourmorals.com, a website that Wojik helped put together. It was a standard self-report survey of 1,200 people.

The question he posed was, “Does self-enhancement report happiness at an unreal level?”

With the survey showing that a majority of survey takers reported that they are happier than average, Wojik’s answer was, “yes.”

The second survey took 128 participants and split them up into two groups; one was provided with a report from Yale University stating the positives of being happy and the second was presented with an opposing Yale study stating the negatives of being too happy.

The first group reported that they had an above average happiness while the second group reported that they were not as happy, showing that the self-enhancers given the positive report didn’t change their answers while the second did when presented with the negatives of happiness.

“Self-enhancement isn’t making people happy, they are only reporting that they are,” Wojik said.

In the third study, Wojik examined the happiness gaps between different groups including old versus young, single versus married and liberals versus conservatives. The survey included 46,058 people.

Wojik’s next question, specifically aimed at the difference in happiness between liberals and conservative, “Are these happiness gaps the result of self-enhancement or are they genuinely happier?”

To answer his own question Wojik uses his next four studies to look at the use of happy words and the frequency of smiles between the two political parties.

Using a method that is not a self-report Wojik is eliminating the factor of self-enhancement to see if the happiness gaps are an accurate portrayal of the two groups.

Wojik used a tool that measures the frequency of positive words spoken on the floor of C ongress and on Twitter. A total of 18 million words led to the conclusion that liberals where more likely to use positive words in contrast to republicans.

The next non-self-report was looking at the frequency of genuine smiles between the two parties using public pictures of congressmen and women and politically affiliated LinkedIn profiles.

The result was that liberals on average smiled genuinely more often than conservatives.

The conclusion that Wojik came to was that self-enhancement does in fact distort report surveys.

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A Gateway to Education Quinn Mahony

Opinion Editor

In an age of online classes, libraries and grading sites, there comes a stigma to a divergence from the classical pen and paper classroom dynamic.

Sites like Blackboard, JSTOR and turnitin have revolutionized the way instructors interact with their classes, a revolution that we of the Lariat think is going in the right direction.

The possibilities to find an imminent wealth of knowledge through technological means far out-weighs the perceived shallowness our society puts into technological conveniences. Let me make it clear hearethat we are not talking about the social sewage that is people pulling out their iPhones or other smartphones whenever there’s a lull in conversation.

The grouping of these two categories of the technological spectrum is utter lunacy. One is the bane of aspiring socialites, and the other a lucrative educational tool.

To be specific, and you can be sure we will go in to detail of the three aforementioned tools, we have the academic data bases.

From JSTOR to EBSQO ,these vast libraries have shown a grand number of students, teachers and the like, new topics to discuss and new knowledge to be gained.

Rarely is there a class with even the slightest shred of argumentative or informative assignments that these databases can not be useful. If there is

controversy and it can be argued by the written word, a student can find them here.

Databases and other archives cut down on the need of spending precious time searching the library for that perfect journal to use in the next research paper, though some enjoy this hunt and to them I say good form and keep up the good fight. But while the traditionalist researcher toils away in page after page of every book with some obscure key word on the cover, the search bar is so, so inviting.

With a click all those pages are now at the researcher’s fingertips waiting to be cited, quoted and paraphrased.

Then we have Turnitin.com, the mortal enemy of every plagiarist this side of the Mississippi. Teachers are given the power to at a glance judge the validity of an assignment.

Plagiarism is one of the gravest crimes an academic can commit, and Turnitin.com can be viewed as the gate keeper of academia, at least in a classroom setting.

Turnitin also has the wonderful feature that allows instructors to grade and add noted to papers through the website so that the students can gain access to the corrections without having to be present. This opens the door to the fact that rough drafts can receive concise expert feed back from the instructors themselves.

Granted, red ink sales have gone down since the introduction of this feature, with the lack of physical grading being done on a large scale. Students

will no longer be receiving the red ink stained rough drafts that they have come to know and love, but do not fret dear reader, the instructor can in fact change the color of each correction to whatever one whets your color pallet.

To end this with Blackboard.com only seems fitting to any discussion involving the evolution of technology on school campuses.

Blackboard is a portal that instructors use to submit grades, upload homework and make pertinent announcements about upcoming lectures.

This has led to a completely new way that students interact with their grades. Students are able to track their grades throughout the semester and adjust their study habits accordingly for maximum education Technology can only help the continued success of campuses by the convenience and new age teaching techniques it is providing instructors across the globe.

So embrace it, take it all in every last one and zero that these technological aides has to offer. I encourage every naysayer to come to one of these sites to scoff because I am almost dead certain the will to learn will remain. qmahony@gmail.com

Stigmatism behind hip-hop music is only a fallacy Lam Tran

Staff Writer

Rap and hip-hop actually does not have a bad influence on society as so many people believe. Rap is not bad itself, it’s the society that is bad and they are reflected in rap music.

Rap is used as an education tool by drawing attention to problems of poverty and racism.

Rap is criticized for the violence in its lyrics but it gives us the realistic look about the

Rock music is losing the battle at Coachella Kimberly Johnston

Life Editor

In a place where Paul McCartney, Chemical Brothers and Jay-Z all intermingled

negative aspects of American culture, problems which most of us are ignoring and not trying to fix.

Rap gives a public forum to urban America. Through rap music, they tell stories about their hard life, growing up in poverty, and doing anything to support their family.

Nowadays, sex and drugs are not only found in rap music. Other genres of music such as rock, metal, country and pop also have inappropriate

lyrics and little artistic merit as well. We cannot say the whole genre is bad just because we hear something inappropriate from that certain genre.

Rap also has a lot of good songs with meaningful lyrics.

A lot of rappers write songs about their family, their loved ones or to send out a good message to public. Eminem wrote a touching song “When I’m Gone” dedicated to his daughter years ago, or when Macklemore stood up to sup-

port gay marriage in the song “Same Love.”

It also depends on the listeners and how they perceive what they are listening.

I think its a fallacy when people believe that children are turning to drugs and dropping out of school because of rap’s influence. It all depends on the parents to raise their children attentively.

As a rapper myself, I don’t think that I’m getting a bad influence from rap.

I started listening and writing rap since I was in middle school but I’ve never done drugs or commited a crime in my life.

I’m going to college and have a GPA of 4.0. I treat women respectfully and have a good attitude.

I enjoy the music, the rhymes and flow and the creative metaphors in the lyrics.

People are looking at the bad side of rap without admitting the good side of hip-hop.

All they know about rap is cussing and violence, so they are more ignorant to the more meaningful side of the genre.

At the end of the day, rap is just music, like the other genres.

Everything has its good side and bad side. It really depends on the listener, rather than the medium, to decide what their life will be like.

the same stage, Coachella Festival is known to touch various fans across the musical spectrum. Bro’s, flower girls, elitists and stoners are a few of the countless subcultures that represented at the Empire Polo Club. It’s a sociologist’s dream-scenario.

Some key aspects that distinct 2014’s Coachella from the rest- and it’s not the exclusive pool parties and overpriced beer- were the ubiquitous divides between the “rave” and “rock” scene. Ostensibly long-anticipated reunions by Outkast and the Replacements were under attended by underwhelmed audiences. Renowned rock acts (Queens of the Stone Age, Muse) experienced lukewarm reception in contrast

to beyond-capacity crowds (Skrillex, Martin Garrix).

And Calvin Harris allegedly drew the second-largest crowd in Coachella history.

The ongoing rivalry between rock and electronic dance music (EDM) exacerbated when Arcade Fire’s Win Butler gave a “shout-out to all the bands still playing actual instruments” at the festival. Deadmau5 fired back at Butler’s jab with a series of tweets, according to Rolling Stone. It certainly wasn’t the first of outspoken rants from the DJ, who’s defended EDM in the past.

As a west coast festival veteran (Coachella, Outside Lands, Electric Daisy Carnival), I think the negative

bias recently associated with EDM stems from what’s essentially the “big room” craze, referring to the current sound of “big” dance music. And what does that sound like? A combination of every sub genre possible to try and appeal to as many people possible. It’s the same tired kick drums, cheesy vocals and the inevitable “big drop,” i.e., the overused song structure that cultivates the monotonic nature of the beast, or beat, I guess.

So, how did this happen?

The availability and access of dance music is unlimited. Festivals like Coachella are live-streamed to any region of the world. A hashtag will give you a first hand experience into a live set. Artists use

platforms like SoundCloud and MixCloud to share their music, making it basically free.

EDM’s influence in pop music became obvious in 2011.

Britney Spears released “Hold It Against Me,” debuting her first single that featured a dubstep breakdown. Beyonce sampled Major Lazer’s “Pon De Floor” in her hit single, “Run the World (Girls)” the same year and Flo Rida’s “Good Feeling” sampled Avicii’s “Levels”.

DJ’s like David Guetta and Afrojack set a production trend of dance music with mainstream artists (e.g., Akon, Nicki Minaj, Ne-Yo), making it more acceptable in America, whereas before the “rave” scene was stigmatized with drugs

by the media. This is when EDM stopped influencing pop music because EDM had become pop music. Which is why it’s become predictable, generic and repetitive.

In all fairness, dance music (in broad definition) is highly repetitive. People hate it because they think its boring, or they find it irritating. But writing off an entire genre is silly, because it differs in quality, just like everything else. Most of it is monotonous and banal, but then again, so is most classical, opera, jazz and so on. You have to search a little to find the good stuff. The good stuff is out there, and when it’s good, it’s transcendently great.

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Former student shaves her head for awareness Students will be “shavees” for pediatric cancer research fundraiser Kaylee Johnston Editor-in-chief

From shaving to saving, Saddleback College students across campus are meeting for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation shave event on May 2.

Although not an easy task to hold the title of shavee, especially in a generation where hair embodies beauty for most girls, co-coordinator and past member of Student Development, Abigail Freeman, is taking the risk.

“For me, shaving my head isn’t a huge sacrifice. People are willing to pay, so why not do it? Why not match my friend Max (DiPadova)?”

The 23-year-old child development major at Cal State University, Fullerton, decided to hold the shave event with the help of 19-year-old Dakota Branson at Saddleback after having worked in the Student Development Center with Audra DiPadova, director of student life.

“It’s been a collaboration with fantastic friends both in and out of the Student Development Office,” Freeman said. “We knew we wanted to have it at Saddleback because we know the campus.”

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Saddleback alumna Abigail Freeman, a 23-year-old child development major at Cal. State Fullerton, poses with Max, the son of Saddleback Director of Student Life Audra Dipadova.

After getting to know DiPadova, Freeman babysat her kids and became more involved with understanding the

St. Baldrick’s Foundation which funds research and methods of healthcare for pediat-

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Students to host fashion show

Students confront reality of poverty

Lindsey Goetsch

A&E Editor

Saddleback is welcoming students to the fabulous “City of Sin” fashion show on Thursday, beginning with a reception at 5:30 p.m. with food, drinks and more.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 7 p.m. in the McKinney The-

Saddleback volunteers will help renovate Uganda hospital

atre. Vegas style and colorswill be featured through pieces designed and created by over 25 Saddleback student designers.

“City of Sin” inspired the student’s Vegas designs for their four fashion categories: corsets, evening, fantasy and ready to wear.

“We are collaborating with

several college divisions to put on this year’s fashion show,” Professor Diane McGroarty said.

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Sarah Dhanaphatana contributing writer

Every hour, more than 38 children and adults die in Uganda due to water-related diseases.

For most rural villages in Uganda, the idea of having readily attainable and clean drinking water is inconceivable. According to the World Bank, Uganda, with a population of 33 million people is one of the poorest nation’s in the world, with an average of 37.7 percent of individuals in rural communities living under $1.25 a day.

Five Saddleback College students will take a 10,000 mile journey across the world to visit the Kumi District in Uganda.

From June 26 to July 13, these students will fight against the harsh reality of Uganda’s lack of resources by restoring the Atutur Hospital, specifically to build a water well, provide new technological resources and sustainable material goods.

For ASG Honors Council President Lydia Natoolo, a Ugandan native, the reality of poverty in Africa and its toll on children and adults is a constant crisis that she seeks to solve.

Fourteen years ago, Natoolo lived the reality of having one meal a day.

She drank unclean water from ponds to avoid walking past three villages (to obtain clean water) from a well. Natoolo left her hometown in Kampala, Uganda to begin her journey in the United States as a philanthropic, global citizen who strove to make change.

ric cancer.

Although she hasn’t worked at a St. Baldrick’s Foundation event be-

fore, her drive to support the cause continues to grow, especially having cared for Audra’s son, Max, who ha been dealing with a brain glioma.

“Max told me last week that he’s going to shave a booger into the back of my head. It was hilarious. He’s so excited,” Freeman said.

Freeman doesn’t worry about gettting rid of her hair. She saw the beauty behind the act and praises Audra for also having shaved her head.

Although Freeman is concerned people may not attend because of the commitment, she feels optimistic after raising awareness for pediatric cancer in past events.

“All the fantastic students and faculty participated in the Pluck-a-Duck event last year, so we stayed hopeful that people would also want to participate in this,” she said.

With an hopeful view and an open heart, Freeman is hoping to draw a big crowd and establish the issues she thinks aren’t acknowledged enough.

“Pediatric cancer is a big issue,” she said. “Every 3 minutes, a child is diagnosed with cancer. People are touched by it in some way, and this is an excellent opportunity to take a stand in the face of such a huge gap in funding for research. By having the event at Saddleback, I think it benefits the student body by encouraging cause-driven efforts and charity work on campus.”

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UGANDA: Lack of hospital beds forces an ill woman to sit on the floor of Atutur Hospital in Uganda .

Natoolo has made a significant difference in the global community by voicing her passion for Uganda to elected officials such as Senator John Kerry, setting the framework for plausible change in the impoverished nations of Africa.

“We just want to dream for those who cannot dream, because they cannot dream beyond their current reality,” Natoolo said.

After a medical trip to Africa in June 2013, Natoolo was contacted to reach out to the hospital administrator at Atutur Hospital in the Kumi District of Uganda.

Nataloo learned that the Atutur Hospital is overpopulated and deficient.

Patients who enter the hospital must fetch their own water and food and often are given no option other than to sleep on the floor due to the insufficient amount of beds.

Natoolo reached out to her peers and members of Associated Student Government because she strongly believes that everyone can contribute to helping the Saddleback team with Uganda’s current crises.

Sophomore Dylan Brooks, the Officer for the Budget Committee with ASG said, “I’m passionate about helping out for Uganda simply because I’m passionate about helping out. It’s always been fun to be involved in student organizations in school, but I decided to take on anoth-

er challenge to really see if I can make a difference in the world,” said sophomore Dylan Brooks, the ASG’s officer for the budget committee. “The great thing about working with so many talented individuals is that we have an amazing plan and that we are going to make a huge difference in the Kumi District in Uganda.”

For the past few months, Dylan and his four classmates have been planning the trip to Uganda in various ways by fundraising, planning and spreading awareness.

Under the name “MaxLove Uganda” (a tribute to the “MaxLove Project”), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping suffering children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases, the trip to Uganda will mirror a similar message to provide aid and resources to suffering children and adults in the Atutur Hospital.

Although most students attending the trip to Uganda are involved in ASG at Saddleback, this trip is run and headed by their own jurisdiction and funds are allocated by donations.

The Ugandan Team is open to any student or individual interested in helping out with the project. Contact Lydia Natoolo at lydia.natoolo@gmail.com for more information.

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IVC women’s sand volleyball team are state champions IVC wins four team tournament in state championship with no losses on the day ADAM KOLVITES

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Irvine Valley College women’s sand volleyball team won the state championship on April 25, at Irvine Valley College.

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Saddleback closes season with walk-off shutout victory over Riverside in extras Saddleback Guachos gain momentum going into the Southern California regional playoffs with win MATT CORKILL

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The Saddleback College Gauchos were able to persevere through a pitchers duel in their extra inning walk-off victory against the Riverside City College Tigers, 1-0, on Thursday at Doug Fritz field in Mission Viejo.

Saddleback sophomore shortstop Casey Ben-

nett came through in the bottom of the eleventh with a single that took a huge hop off of the infield grass over the Tiger’s diving first baseman into right field that gave freshman Alex King, who started the inning off with a single of his own to right before being advanced on a freshman Casey Worden sacrifice, the opportunity to come around and score the game winner when the Tiger’s catcher Michael Deceglie couldn’t make the play at the plate. This is the first ever walk off for Bennett and he couldn’t pick a better time to come up clutch with this being the final regular season home game for the Gaucho sophomores and the Southern California regional playoffs starting next week.

“It’s feels pretty good, it’s my first walk off in my life and that guy was out there dealing so it feels good to come through for the team,” Casey Bennett said following the victory. “We battled, the pitchers haven’t given up a run in twenty innings, we’ll take that any day, defense played well and we kept grinding to finally get a hit when we needed it.”

In the final four of the women’s sand volleyball state championship, April 25, it was the Irvine Valley College Lasers who won the championship without losing a match on the day.

Head Coach Tom Pestolesi said, “The kids were awesome, I mean they didn’t lose a match and they played overall I mean there was maybe only a match or two where a couple teams didn’t play too well.”

Undefeated against Grossmont College, Orange Coast College, and Fullerton College, IVC won all 15 matches

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Sophomore starter Tyler Brashears returned to form in his fifth start of the season as he battled for eight innings with seven strikeouts while only allowing three hits and a walk before being relieved by sophomore Colman Huntley (5-2) for the last three innings in route to victory. The Riverside Tigers starter Tyler Row (4-3) threw a gem of his own going the entire length while only allowing four hits and the deciding run in the bottom of the eleventh inning on Bennett’s game winning walk-off single.

For 20 straight innings the Gaucho pitching staff shut out the Riverside lineup allowing a total of eight hits to sweep the regular season series against the Tigers, 3-0, and close the season on a strong note.

“The beginning of the year was a struggle, things just weren’t right and I’ve been working my way back and tonight I just put it all together for a good start,” pitcher Tyler Brashears said.

“It was a great overall effort, we’ve faced some really tough pitching the last two games and we just battled and stayed in the game to find a way

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against the three teams while runner up Fullerton won eight and lost seven.

Sophmore captain Becky Moodie said, “I think we did pretty well today, I think we were really focused coming into this knowing it was a big deal and that we needed to be mentally prepared.”

Third place OCC went 1-4 against FJC, 0-5 against IVC, and 3-2 against GCC. While Grossmont showed in fourth place with the same records against Fullerton and IVC as OCC, yet lost to OCC in the final game of the day for a 2-3 record in the championship.

“I think we did a really good job of just coming out each game and starting fresh even if we won the first game coming out to the second game and just playing hard all the time trying to talk, be positive and just go out and win,” said freshman Marisa Doran.

to win.”

With the win the Gauchos (22-14, 13-8) secured third place in the OEC standings a game behind both OCC (27-9, 14-7) and Santa Ana (25-11, 14-7), but more importantly gained momentum going into the Southern California regional playoffs that start next week at a location and time to be determined.

Saddleback has now made the playoffs in 14 out of the past 20 seasons while being 65-48 overall and 32-30 in OEC play under head coach Sommer McCartney since his arrival before the 2012 season.

“It was great to win, a night game and last home game, it was great that we pulled it out there,” head coach Sommer McCartney said. “ I think playing our last two games and winning those tight games like that we’re looking forward to the playoffs for sure. It was a great night, even if we had lost that game we played hard, we competed and so did they.” mcorkill.lariat@gmail.com

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Special tuition rates apply for California Community College transfer students.

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