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ASSC elections begin: March 23!
! 4 y a M May 11 ASSC pushes back the election date, yet again... straight into finals week Qhianna Sanchez Staff writer qsanchez@solanotempest.net
Voting in student government elections starts March 23. No, wait, voting starts May 4. Hold on, voting actually begins May 11. The Associated Students of Solano College election calendar has been pushed back four times this semester due to problems with the process, according to Joleena Lewis, student service senator and election committee chair. “It’s been pushed back because Dr. Slade keeps bringing things to my attention that have to be done a certain way after we’ve already passed the deadline to do them,” Lewis said. “So then we have to back up again and push the elections back in order to abide by the election code,” Lewis said. Originally, election week was scheduled for March 23-26, then was pushed back to May 4-7 when the chair of the election committee was changed due to election code requirements. A third change from May 4-7 to May 11-14 was due to problems interpreting the election code. “We are running out of time. We’re voting the week finals start but there’s no other way we could possibly do it and still stay within the privy of the election code. We’re trying to maintain everything legally,” Lewis said. “It’s frustrating, it’s exhausting, and it’s emotionally taxing especially this year be-
cause this is the first year in several years that we actually have a competition when it comes to the elections. We actually have people running against each other in every division except for legislative advocate,” Lewis said. Rischa Slade, ASSC advisor, said, “One of the responsibilities of the ASSC is to ensure that a valid election process occurs in the spring semester. And although there were some issues and some things that pushed it back, it’s finally going to happen.” “I’m pleased for the student body that they are going to get a chance to listen to the people who are willing to put themselves out there and donate their time and energy to serving them. They’ll get a chance to ask some questions, they’ll get a chance to read over their election materials, and they’ll get a chance to make their voices heard. I’m thrilled. It’s finally happening. I’m very happy,” Slade said. Chris Maynard, criminal justice major, said he probably would not vote in the upcoming election. “I don’t vote much. I’m not into politics like that. I just kind of stay out of it,” Maynard said. Melissa Smith, communications major, said she was thinking about voting, but felt there was not much information on the election or the candidates. “I wish that I knew more. I guess I don’t really know how to get that information. There hasn’t been a lot of publicity about it,” Smith said.
“We are running out of time.”
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- Joleena Lewis, election committee chair
Election Calendar as of 5/4 March 30 – May 8 Campaign period
May 6
First mandatory candidates’ assembly 11 am at the clock tower
May 7
Second mandatory candidates’ assembly 11 am at the clock tower
May 11 – May 14 Election week
May 15
Ballot count, 6 pm in the fish bowl
May 19
Ratification of election results by the ASSC senate
May 20 Presentation of results to SCCD governing board
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis
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opinion campus conversation
reporter/photos: Joy Harris
Do you have any tattoos?
“Yeah. I have the names of my mother and my father, and I also have tattoos dedicated to my brother and sister.” Demile Ingram
“No, but I would probably consider getting one” James Dowling
SCC offering Civil Rights travel course this summer SCC is offering a Civil Rights Travel Course this summer. The course will provide an overview of the U.S. civil rights movement, and travel to places significant to the movement in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The tour includes visits to Martin Luther King’s birth home, Atlanta University
Center, Rosa Parks Museum, The National Voting Rights Museum, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and the Tuskegee Airman Museum. The tour is June 19-June 28. For information, contact: Karen McCord at (707) 864-7000 extension 4428 or karen. mccord@solano.edu
“Yeah, but you won’t be able to see them because they’re fluorescent!” Andrew Rogers
“No, and I probably wouldn’t either.” Josh Buensalida
campus calendar May 6 Priority registration for K-12 students
May 12 Financial literacy workshop: Budgeting basics, 3-4:15 p.m., Vallejo Center rm. 125
May 7 Open registration begins Horticulture club spring plant sale, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., bldg. 100 Drop in Financial Aid Awareness event, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Vacaville Center
May 8 Horticulture club spring plant sale, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., bldg. 100
May 9 Horticulture club spring plant sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., bldg. 100
May 10 Mother’s Day
May 13 Dead day: No classes! May 14-20 Evening/Day class finals May 16-17 Saturday/Sunday class finals May 20 Spring term ends; summer begins! May 21 Graduation ceremony
Plant sale this weekend The horticulture department is holding a three day plant sale May 7-9 in the 1000 building. The sale offers a variety of indoor and outdoor plants. Proceeds from the sale will fund the scholarships, materials and equipment needs for SCC horticulture students. The sale hours are Thur. May 7, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m, Fri May 9, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sat. May 10, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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When I was 18, I went out and got my very first tattoo. Nothing big…just my name across my right shoulder blade. What I thought was just “cool” started me on a journey of tattoos and piercings, designs and body jewelry that has ended with seventeen tattoos and counting, and a total of nine holes pierced throughout my body. What I find beautiful, some find repulsive. They say it’s not “ladylike” or not something “someone like me” should be doing. My Mom, who has a couple of tattoos herself, has often told me that she thinks I have enough of them. I say you can never really have too many. There is a certain beauty and mystery involved in body modification. One that has been around for centuries. In simple terms, “body modification” means to deliberately alter one’s physical appearance, though people usually assume this applies only to tattooing and piercing and, oftentimes, branding and scarification. In every group of humans in history, there have been people who modified their bodies. The reasons behind their choices varied. In many cultures around the world, social status, group affiliations, and wealth are advertised with jewelry and adornments; in
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The Art of the Body:
Is there beauty in body modification? “My body is a journal and my tattoos are my story.”
- Johnny Depp
others, deeper meanings are beget treated very negatively. hind the punctures, scars, and A 1999 study by researchtattoos they wear. ers from Emory University and Those who don’t have a desire Howard University published to modify their bodies in some in the Journal of Public Health way tend to shun or disparage Policy indicated that 15 percent those of us who choose to see to 20 percent of the U.S. teen the beauty in the art. People get and young adult population tattoos for many reasons: for had tattoos, and that a typical attention, self-expression, artispiercing establishment would tic freedom, rebellion, a visual Kemberlee Jones perform about 3,000 piercings Opinion Editor display of a personal narrative, per year. I have noticed slowly kjones@ reminders of spiritual/cultural over the years that there are solanotempest.net traditions, sexual motivation, more people tattoos and piercaddiction, and self-identity ings than there are who don’t. with a group. Reef Karim, Founder/Direc- I’ve often wondered about just who the first tor, The Control Center In Beverly Hills, person was that decided to start this art that UCLA Assistant Clinical Professor; Media has grown in popular over thousands of Personality, says that according to some re- years. search studies, 15-38 percent of Americans The term “tattoo” itself came from the orighave some type of long-term body art. What inal Polynesian tool, which poked different was once considered strange behavior and a colored dyes into the skin, which happens psychiatric problem has now become almost to be the base for all tattoos. Centuries the norm. It has been my experience that a back, the tap of a bamboo striker against majority of people wouldn’t even blink an whale teeth gave way to the name tattoo. eye if they saw a man sporting extremely vis- The oldest documented tattoo belongs to ible body art. But, to see a woman with the Otzi the Iceman, who died in 3300 B.C. His same amount, if not more, body art tend to body was found in 1991. After Otzi, the next
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evidence of tattoos is found on mummies in Egypt, mainly on ones that are female. After the Egyptians, the history of tattooing goes to the Roman Empire where tattoos were outlawed by Emperor Constantine, who said that tattooing ones body is considered unholy. Also during this period, tattoos were often associated with criminals. It was only in the 18th century that tattoos started to become popular, usually among British sailors. From there, the trend caught on and we see the birth of our modern-day tattoo industry. But throughout history, tattoos have not only been associated with expression but also with identity. No matter what your choice of modification is, I find that there is a beauty in expressing yourself. To set yourself out from what is considered “the norm”. From the first tattoo I got when I was 18 up to the most recent, a lotus flower surrounded by butterflies, I’m going to have a long relationship with my tattoo artist. Tattoos allow me to express myself in a way that sometimes, words can’t even begin to describe. I just let my art do the talking.
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Realize your passion
Solano’s arts division created their way through the semester. Here’s some of the spoils of their labor. Flashing lights, people moving, shapes forming and reforming… these are some of the things that inspire photography student Anthony Hudson, who is currently enrolled in Portfolio Development with professor Ron Zak. “I get a feeling when I’m inspired,” Hudson said. “It’s hard to explain, but when I feel it, I remember what triggers it… it’s almost a very supernatural-like feeling.” Hudson primarily photographs people. “I get my energy from being around people, so photographing them feels very natural to me,” Hudson said. Hudson’s portraiture has been featured in the 1800A building numerous times during his four years as a photography student at SCC. One of the more recent pieces featured was part of a series of fashion photos, one of which is pictured below. His current portfolio project involves painting abstractly on portraits, add-
ing color and texture to the already interesting photography. “Every person is different in his or her own way. We have different personalities, attitudes, and experiences and I enjoy bringing that to life through great imagery,” Hudson said. “After I took my first class that changed. I immediately knew this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.” Keana Hambrick-Hawkins is finishing up her second year as a photography student at Solano, but her interest in photography stems from a life-long love of the art. “I have a true passion for taking pictures of people,” said Hambrick-Hawkins, who is currently enrolled in Intro to Pro and Portfolio Development. “I love to take a person and mold them into how I envision them in my mind.” Hambrick-Hawkins specializes in fantastical images of humans, and combines makeup and
props with her photography to create a new world. The softness of her photos mix with the strong makeup or idea to create something before unseen. “I believe the true magic happens in a photo at the moment when the person I’m shooting fully embraces whatever character, emotion, or fear that I present to them. Those are the moments that make an image go from just a picture to a work of art.” Hambrick-Hawkins trusts in herself for her inspiration, claiming that no single person has inspired her. “It’s more so the idea of being able to dive into the world of fantasy and let my imagination run wild,” said HambrickHawkins. “That’s where my ideas for my photos are born.” Written by Daphne Kuta, daphnekuta@solanotempest.net
Above: One of Hambrick-Hawkins’ photos of a tribal king, clad in paint and jewels. Right: Hudson photographed this image, one of a final project based on fashion photography.
Solano College is giving newcomers to the art world an opportunity to get involved in ceramics. “I’ve never done art before so when I found out that Solano had a really good art program, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity,” said Tom Fournier a Solano ceramics student. Fournier explained that most of his art is inspired by a dark place in his past. “Every artist has to reach in to some place that they have a lot of feeling and emotion from, so that’s why most of my art pieces turn out to be dark.” Fournier’s love of the imperfections of his works shows through in his attitude towards the art. “I had to really understand the true meaning of being an artist and celebrate the imperfections as well as the perfections,” Fournier said. “There comes a point in art
you have to step away from the art and let it be what it is.” Another ceramics artist is Christine Golez, who was led to sculpture through her degree. Golez started in Marc Lancet’s 3D sculpture class, where she learned the principles of the discipline and cultivated her creative identity. Golez is currently working on a piece inspired by a female police officer. It shows a video loop through the eyes of the bust, so the viewer can see what officers see on a regular basis. Golez also celebrates the imperfections in her art. “I’m not your normal artist; I don’t try to make it perfect,” Golez said. “I do it to have fun, and once it’s done, it’s done. I don’t try it make it better.” Written by Mo’Nique Booker, sbooker@solanotempest.net
Left: Christine Golez poses with the beginnings of a sculpture, a bust of a female officer. She plans to show footage of the daily routine of such a person, so viewers can see her daily life. Mo’Nique Booker / Tempest
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epic chaos Graphic Design program allows students creative license while giving them job skills and professional experience The 1300 building is the hub of Solano’s Arts Program. One such program is graphic design. The graphic design program is taught by Rachel Smith, who views the program as a way to get her students communicating through words and pictures “We’re trying to give students design skills and skills they can use in the professional world because this is a career type program. We get students the skills that they would need. That means working with other people, collaborating, learning the software and it means understanding how to work under a deadline,” Smith said. Recently, the program has given students the opportunity to display their work publicly. Melissa McCommon is a current student at SCC who worked on an interactive feature on first aid. McCommon created a large poster and assembled mini first aid kits for students to grab as they pass through. McCommon said, “I was surprised by the how fast the kits were taken, and by the amount of people who actually learned something from the posters!” “The information I’ve retained from these classes will make an appearance in future works. Graphic design is a huge part of marketing for my books, so I’ll be using my retained knowledge for when I release my newest book, hopefully by the end of this year,” McCommon said. Her comic series, entitled “Epic Chaos,” can be found at http://epicchaos.smackjeeves.com.
Left: One of McCommon’s first-aid kits that were distributed in the hallway as part of her project. Below: The diagrams McCommon created are still on display in the hallway of the 1300 building. Photos by Dagmar Kuta / Tempest
The graphic design program lets students work on ideas they are passionate about. McCommon’s first aid project was inspired by her quick response to another student’s minor accident during a class session. Shalena Whitehurst got the opportunity to create a poster linked to PSAs made by students in a speech class. “The program has definitely helped me grow as an artist,” Whitehurst said. “Looking back at my artwork from when I started taking my first art class at Solano to what it has grown into now is crazy.” Whitehurst is currently enrolled in Graphic Design 1. “The graphics program here is really awesome,” said Jared Boston, a former student of Smith’s. “I’ve learned so much at Solano and apply the knowledge I’ve gained on a daily basis.” Boston is currently a teaching assistant for the graphics department and an intern at Luminous Media and Marketing. His illustrations have been featured in the Suisun Valley Review for the past two years.
Smith takes pride in the work her students do. She has a lot of their work featured on her website: www.rachelofthesmiths.com/ teaching, on Tumblr at solanocollegearts. tumblr.com and www.modernclipper.tumblr. com and on the Solano College Arts Facebook page. Written by Makafui Ahorney, mahorney@solanotempest.net
Worth their weight in gold Elisena Bescio works with paper, paint to create golden images Who gets to class an hour early? Elisena Vescio, a Solano Community College art major. “Art is a great way to express things that are important to you,” Vescio said. Vescio, 19, is currently taking two art classes at SCC, printmaking and illustration. In the fall, she is transferring to Arts University Bournemouth in Poole, England to study animation production. She chose to attend school in England because “the program is more specialized, so you’re studying just your chosen major. It’s just a focus on animation instead of combining that with general education,” Vescio said. Vescio’s printmaking class is taught by Jeanne Lorenz, printmaking instructor at SCC. Lorenz said, “I have never met a harder working student who comes regularly to class an hour early, gets down to work and really is very thoughtful in the process. Last semester, she spearheaded this collaborative piece that is now permanently installed in our dean’s office.” Vescio’s work in the print shop this semester includes a solar plate. “She [Lorenz] gave us this film called rubylith and we were to cut out a design from it. The plate is made by exposing the plate with the rubylith on top to light. It will create the relief that it has so we can rub ink over the top and print it,” Vescio said.
One of her recently printed art pieces is a gold print of lilies of the valley. “My grandmother’s favorite flower was lily of the valley,” Vescio said. “I decided to do two flowers to represent both my grandmother and my mother because they were very, very close. I looked at some images of the artist Mary Cassatt because she painted mothers and daughters together. I used her work as an influence for the composition.” “There’s something for everyone in printmaking,” said Vescio, “because there’s so many techniques.” Vescio enjoys art because “it’s a form of communication. You can reach people that you otherwise would never meet and maybe in turn you can inspire and ignite something in them,” said Vescio. “It helps keep me grounded. The act of doing it is so pleasing,” Vescio said. Vescio is also taking an illustration class with Rachel Smith, graphic design instructor. Smith said of Vescio, “I think Elisena has a really unique style and it will serve her well if she wants to go into the professional world of animation.” The work which inspired her towards animation was “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki. “After I saw that I wanted to be an animator more than anything else, and it hasn’t gone away!” Vescio said. Written by Qhianna Sanchez, qsanchez@solanotempest.net
Above Left: Vescio created this piece to present to her mom on Mother’s Day. One lily represents her grandmother, whose favorite color was gold, and the other represents her own mother. Left: Vescio works in the Graphics Lab, where students use computers to digitally create images to print.
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Genius and former dropout lands physics internship at Davis Qhianna Sanchez Staff writer qsanchez@solanotempest.net
Imagine a secret message system that could detect the presence of eavesdropping and automatically abort the message. With quantum mechanics, this is actually possible. Nick Sherman, age 23 and a current Solano Community College student with a 3.94 GPA, is heading this summer to U.C. Davis for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in the physics department. Sherman will be working closely with Rajiv Singh, physics professor, on entanglement in quantum spin systems. Entanglement is connecting or entangling electrons in such a way that their measurements correspond to each other. “If I know something about one electron and it’s entangled to another electron, I automatically know something about that other electron,” Sherman said. There are many uses for entanglement, including quantum cryptography and quantum computing. However, Sherman said of his Davis research experience, “I’m just working on studying how entangled certain systems are in the field of quantum information.” “What’s awesome about it is how, experimentally, it’s never been shown to be wrong, yet it gives such weird, strange results,” Sherman said. “Quantum mechanics has never been shown to be wrong. Even things like Newton’s laws of motions have limitations, where in quantum mechanics this hasn’t happened yet, which says that this is a pretty good model,” Sherman said. Sherman chose to major in physics because he enjoys math, which is his other major. “I always loved math. I just never really thought that it had any application until I heard about physics and realized that’s really just math. It’s all math. Math is definitely meaningful and useful,” Sherman said. He became interested in working with Singh on entanglement because of the math. “The math involved in order to do it was something that I was really interested in. When you’re calculating any quantity,
whether it’s entanglement or thermodynamic quantities or something, it’s all kind of the same framework and that frame work is what I wanted to learn,” Sherman said. He acknowledges that there are many different areas of study in physics and it’s still too early to tell where he will head with physics. “Every time I learn something new in physics, I really like that and want to keep doing that, but then I get to the next class or do the next thing and I’m like ‘oh I want to do this’,” Sherman said. Sherman, who had dropped out of high school, was working a good paying job as a car salesman before deciding to attend college. “I knew after my first semester that I belonged in college and I just loved doing this,” Sherman said. Two of his favorite teachers at Solano are Melanie Lutz, physics instructor, and Darryl Allen, math instructor. Lutz has “done more for me than anybody else has in my entire life. She’s been a great mentor, taught me how to think like a scientist, pushed me to see how capable I really am,” Sherman said. Allen “knows a lot of the math behind the things that I study. It’s nice to be able to have someone to talk to and bounce ideas around with. He’s pushed me to learn things that are beyond the scope of the material that I learned just at Solano,” Sherman said. Lutz said of Sherman, “Nick is the type of student that comes along once in a teacher’s career. He’s a genius. He reminds me of a young Richard Feynman, who was the Nobel Prize winner from Cal Tech. I believe very much that that could be Nick in the future. He has that potential. He’s got an incredible mind.” Although accepted to Berkeley, Sherman is considering transferring to Davis this fall 2015 to continue his relationship with the physics department. “I have such a good one-on-one mentorship with Singh,” Sherman said. “I’m really just in love with quantum mechanics,” Sherman said. “I just really enjoy what I do and do lots of it.”
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Nicholas Sherman poses with his Excellence in Achievement award presented to him by SCC and his professor Melanie Lutz. Sherman was awarded for “Best Overall Student” at the event.
SCC authors, poets and visual artists published in 32nd Suisun Valley Review
Luningning de Jesus Staff writer ldejesus@solanotempest.net
Contributions from a number of Solano Community College students, past and present, were selected for publication in the 2015 edition of the Suisun Valley Review (SVR), Solano’s literary magazine, established in 1981 by Quinton Duval. Elizabeth Campbell, English major and 2015 Quinton Duval awardee, will see her prize-winning poem, Winters’ Coming, published along with another poem, Hunting Season. Dylan Youngers, majoring in mathematics and linguistics, received Honorable Mention for “between drinking and drowning is a fine, fine line,” which will see print in the Quinton Duval Award
section. Anita Nygren, another English major, has been a student editor for the Suisun Valley Review for two years. This year, her poem, Gaslight, was anonymously chosen for publication. “Being published was one goal I wanted to meet before I graduated,” said Nygren. “Words can’t describe the joy I feel knowing that I have achieved my goal.” Desiree Allyn will be acknowledged along with other visual art contributors at the Suisun Valley Review Release Reading at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at the Solano Community College library. Campbell, Gray, Hood, Ibarra, Nygren and Quiros will be reading their published pieces during the event.
SCC poets whose pieces appear in the 32nd Suisun Valley Review include: • Joshua Gray (eros.exe) • Cody Eisen (Felicity) • Brandon Hood (In Peaceful Air) • Armando Quiros (Sakura Blossoms, Phonetically Drunk) SCC authors whose short fiction appear in the current SVR include: • Rory Ibarra (Resonate) • Webb Johnson (Emma’s Gift) • Ashley Mitchell (Kindling) • Christopher Summers (A Constant Temple) SCC artists whose works of art see print in this year’s SVR include: • Desiree Allyn (Landscape) • Jared Boston (Hand in Hand) • Cody Eisen (Gaseous) • Satomi Richardson (A Cat)
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Falcons baseball ends their season 19-5 The Solano Community College Falcons baseball team lost to Ohlone College in their best of three regional round series last weekend. The Falcons played at home Friday May 1, losing to Ohlone 5-3, and Saturday May 3, dropping their second game to Ohlone 3-2. Solano baseball ends the season 19-5 in the Bay Valley Conference, and 24-14 overall. The state championships will be hosted by Fresno City College May 23-25.
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Solano infielder Josh Lenney, who scored Solano’s first run in the first inning, hits a single again in the third inning May 1 at Solano College. Ben Gogna/Photo
Left: An Ohlone runner gets caught in a rundown as Garlind Webster tags in the chase.
Above: Solano’s center-fielder Joey Dodson dives in at the top of the third inning catching the fly ball for the second out, stopping the runners from advancing and holding Solano’s lead 1-0.
Swim season wrap up
Mo’Nique Booker Sports Editor sbooker@solanotempest.net
SCC swim coach Scott Parrish is pleased with his season. “The season went very well,”Parrish said. The people that stood out to Parrish include Gabriella Arca. “She’s a freshman and she swam extremely well,” Parrish said. “She
put in a lot of hard work and she’s a very talented swimmer.” Arca was awarded “Swimmer of the Year” for the women’s team. As for the men’s team, a standout was Ricky Morse. “He did all the best times in his life,” Parrish said. Morse was also awarded “Swimmer of the Year.” Another stand out was Daphne Kuta. “She did a great job in the
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backstroke. She got third place which is the highest placing in that swim meet so she was also a big stand out,” Parrish said. What Parrish says he expects for next season is to have some good freshman recruits coming in that are good swimmers from the local area and “hopefully we build on that.”
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SCC softball loses regional playoffs
Solano infielder Aleyna Benipayo scores a run for the team during their home game May 3 at Solano College. Joy Harris/Tempest
Strong season ends for Falcons Mo’Nique Booker Sports Editor sbooker@solanotempest.net
Solano pitcher Denali Smith winds up a pitch in the fourth inning of their home game May 3 at Solano College. Joy Harris/Tempest
The Solano Community College softball team lost their bid to advance to state regionals over the weekend, dropping two games to West Valley College in the 2015 CCCAA Regional Round One Playoffs. The Falcons, playing on their home field, lost 9-7 Saturday, May 2, and lost again 9-8 Sunday May 3. Overall the season went great for SCC softball coach Terri Pearson-Bloom. They won their 10th consecutive Bay Valley Championship this year and went undefeated in conference with a record 20-0 this season. Pearson-Bloom said she couldn’t pick a standout player. “You can’t pick one, this is a team sport. There are some players that had a statistically amazing season or great performances but one injury, one illness and we’ve lost games because we are only as good as the total.” For next season Pearson-Bloom says she expects another championship. “And hopefully another run in the state championship and great returning athletes and good recruiting and hopefully continue the success of the program next year.”
Solano softball coach Terri Pearson-Bloom celebrates after the team recovers from a blooper and successfully concludes an inning with a double play. Joy Harris/Tempest
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