The Advocate, Issue 18 - February 22, 2019

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If there is one thing our country (unfortunately) does from time to time, it’s to push regime change.

To put it simply, if foreign relations with a country goes south, so does the person in charge of said country.

Historical examples have dated back all the way to the early 20th century; in some sense the two major world wars are the grandest examples of this, not just politically but also geographically. The most infamous examples, of late, were Iraq in the mid-2000s and the Arab Spring in the early 2010s. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of foreign policy knows that those events were detrimental to the region and, eventually, American foreign policy in general. So, you’d think that a new administration, which has criticized regime change efforts in the past, would learn from previous failures.

Venezuela is a country run by socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.

The nation’s main front of profit is its oil reserves, but worst of all, its citizens are impoverished, starving, or both. This could be due to a couple factors: U.S. sanctions against the country that the current

administration levied, or it maybe because it’s run by a dictator who’s a radical socialist, like the news media says.

In the midst of center-left policy ideas being mistaken for “radical socialism” here in America, news outlets such as Fox News and the conservative pundits on MSNBC are convinced that these policies are an embodiment of Venezuela-style socialism.

This has led to our president, an avid Fox News viewer, to move forward with a regime change plan in Venezuela...via Twitter. I find it a little strange that we make a socialist

be a socialist country” in his recent State of the Union speech.

In the context of the attempted regime change in Syria over the past decade, I think it’s safe to say that additional foreign intervention is a problem we can’t afford, especially if we’re not willing to accept the consequences of such (refugees, extremist groups, sanctions, etc.).

So, while right-wing media eggs on the president’s plan for a regime change in Venezuela, everyone should think to themselves, “Hmmm, maybe we shouldn’t go through with it, for the dozenth time,” or something similar. Not

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country the intentional boogeyman, while the definition of socialism and their respective policies become a hot topic in our media.

Almost every day is a discussion about AOC (newly elected U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York) and her democratic socialist views, especially on Fox News where it’s a topic every hour. It’s no coincidence the president made a declaration that “America will never

only does it look bad for America and reassert the notion that we are the “world police,” it’s also embarrassing if we fumbled on the issues that would come up afterward, like mass migration and power vacuums.

This is an issue so fresh from the last couple decades, there’s no way in our right minds we should be doomed to repeat it.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

IS CLIMATE CHANGE REALLY ‘A THING’?

Jennifer Salazar the advocate What is climate change, and why should you care about it?

We’ve all seen the stories on how bad the weather has been lately in places like Detroit, Minneapolis and Chicago. People are literally freezing to death; according to The Weather Channel, at least 17 people died from the recent “polar vortex” blast of cold air in the Midwest states.

What is the cause? As hard as some may find it to believe, one true cause of the dangerously low temperatures can be said to be climate change – defined as a major change in weather patterns that lasts for an extended period of time.

Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and the director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, explained to NPR that as the planet gets warmer, our air holds more water vapor, meaning there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere causing rain and even snow, depending on temperatures.

So, while temperatures are increasing, the levels of rain and snow can increase, too. This is where a lot of people might get confused because many think climate change

is only when temperatures are increasing.

Climate change is playing a huge role in every corner of the world.

While places in the American Midwest are getting colder, wildfires are bursting in Australia, and the Arctic is slowly melting.

According to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee, the Arctic Ocean is warming at a rapid rate. High temperatures are causing the ocean’s ice (polar cap) to melt, and scientists predict that at the rate temperatures are increasing, the Arctic could be icefree by the summer of 2050.

All of these changes have caused extreme record-breaking events. Hayhoe says that in 2017, over 10,000 cold-temperature records were broken inside the United States and over 30,000 hottemperature records were set. The World Meteorological Organization says that the 20 warmest years in recorded human history have been in the past 22 years, with 2015-2018 making up the top four years.

If temperatures continue to increase every year, the world is on the road to see ocean temperatures and sea levels rise, as a result. These changes can cause difficulty in growing food and threaten lives when streets and cities begin to flood.

As the planet gets warmer, our chances for a better and safer life decrease. Climate plays a big role in how everyone of us lives our daily life. Climate change IS a thing, it’s happening, and we need to do something about it.

What can we do to help?

Everyone can make a difference without having to spend much money or time. In 1993,

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Portland was the first U.S. city to create a local action plan for cutting carbon emissions (essentially, air pollution). Its Climate Action Plan (CAP) is a strategy to put Portland on a path to achieve a 40 percent

reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, and an 80 percent reduction by 2050, compared to 1990 emission levels.

The Portland Climate Action Plan also provides a list of how a

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person can help the environment.

One of the major recommendations is to switch to ENERGY STAR products – home appliances and products (dishwashers, freezers, televisions) that use significantly less electricity than older models.

The energystar.gov website provides a more detailed way on how and where to find these products.

Consider “green” power equipment for your home, as well.

A lot of people are trying to stay warm during winter, of course, which means countless thousands of home heaters are being used at the same time. Portland’s CAP reminds residents to heat and cool smartly: Make sure that air filters on home furnaces are being changed and that the equipment is maintained annually.

Also: reduce, reuse, recycle. If you don’t know what this is, please leave Portland. The easiest way to help with recycling is to pay attention to the labels on waste containers.

Use water efficiently. You can buy toilets that use less water, and not let water run needlessly when doing dishes, shaving, brushing your teeth, and watering plants.

Spread the word: It’s 2019, we can easily share anything nowadays.

Why not share something that is truly important? It only takes a couple of seconds to press the “share” button. If you don’t want to share on social media, tell a friend, and tell that friend to tell another one. Without sounding cheesy, the future is truly in our hands and we have the means to help the environment and maybe even put a stop to climate change.

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Angeles Ramirez is a second-year graphic design student in the Integrated Media program at MHCC. Initially she wanted to be a fashion designer, but realized that might not be the path for her. She had an interest in trying out nursing, but that also was not the ideal choice for Angeles. Currently, she is working with patients at Providence Hospital.

Her passions lie with illustration, drawing, sketching, and marketing, so she has been pursuing her degree in Graphic Design.

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FORMER MHCC STUDENT, TEACHER BECOMES PROGRAM HEAD

DENTAL HYGIENE DIRECTOR ROOTED AT MT. HOOD Cassie Wilson the advocate

Most kids don’t have big dreams of working on other people’s teeth for a living, but a desire to stand out from the crowd led Jennifer Aubry, new dental hygiene program director for Mt. Hood, down the path to dentistry from a young age.

In January, Aubry started in her new position at MHCC. She graduated from the program herself in 2003, and has been a part-time teacher in the program since 2007.

Her interest in the dental profession started at a young age. In fifth grade, everyone had to decide what they wanted to be when they grew up, she explained. Her classmates wanted to be teachers and doctors. While she originally wanted to be a teacher, when she saw that many of her classmates chose that field, she announced she wanted to be something different a dentist. From then on, that was

her goal.

Aubry graduated from Oregon State University in 2000 with her bachelor’s degree in Health Promotion Education. Her first three years were spent in predentistry, but then she started to think about her future.

“I wasn’t sure about the business part of dentistry and a full time career. I started thinking about growing up and being a mom and those types of things and I thought maybe dentistry wasn’t for me,” she said.

Near her graduation, her adviser suggested she go to dental hygiene school because it fit her interests and she had completed all the prerequisites for it. It’s just something she had never thought of until then, she said. After finishing at OSU, she applied for MHCC’s dental hygiene program.

She didn’t get in on her first try, but was accepted the next year.

During her time in the program, her Mt. Hood instructor, Kari Steinbock, inspired her to want to teach dental hygiene.

Aubry said, “I could see eight (patients) a day, multiple days a week (as a hygienist).”

But if she could teach, say, 18 students every year, how to treat eight patients every workday, “think of how many patients I am treating then,” she said.

In 2007, Aubry learned that an MHCC instructor was going on sabbatical and

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was asked to fill in. She loved it, and said the college must have loved her as well because she was asked to fill in for another instructor the following term.

“It just kind of snowballed from there. Over the years I’ve taught more, and now I teach in the classroom too,” she explained.

For the majority of her time working at Mt. Hood, Aubry had been content with being a parttime instructor as she raised her four children at home, now ranging from age 6 to 14. As they got older, she was ready for a fulltime position, so when Raye Ann Yapp decided to retire as program director and teach part-time, Aubry went for the leadership role.

“I’m coming into a good program. It’s been very successful,” said Aubry. She hopes to continue the trend and make sure students are always learning the newest techniques with the newest technology, she said.

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Aubry’s favorite part of working at MHCC is how the dental hygiene program is close-knit.

She’s gotten to work alongside her former instructors or take over their classes, and now she’s getting to work alongside Krista Moore, a new instructor who was one of her own students.

Students and teachers got a great chance to bond recently when the Student American Dental Hygienists Association club, recently revived by Ilya Babiy, dental hygiene instructor, hosted a trivia night on Feb. 12.

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“It was really fun. It ended up being a good turnout,” said Aubry.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her children, she said. She enjoys traveling and is currently planning a trip to France for 2020 to visit her husband’s family, because he’s from there.

Other hobbies include reading, learning, quilting, knitting, and crocheting.

Applications have already closed for admission to the Mt. Hood dental health program for the 2019-20 school year. But there will be an info session during Spring Term for MHCC students or other prospective students who want to learn more about the 202021 program cycle.

Find more info at: mhcc.edu/ DentalHygiene.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

MODERNIZING MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM New instructor to help develop distance-learning Chloe Collins the advocate

Just over a month ago, MHCC gained a new instructor in the Mental Health and Social Services program.

Drew Assini hails from the bustling suburb of East Brunswick, New Jersey, just outside New York City. Although his hometown is in central Jersey, he has lived all over his home state. In 2011, he earned his master’s degree in mental health counseling at Rowan University in northern New Jersey. His focus in college was on substance use disorder and addiction.

Assini then moved to southern New Jersey, where taught at different universities and community colleges. He first came across the job opportunity at MHCC while browsing online. He had visited the Pacific Northwest and felt like it would be a great place to live, and so he followed through.

Since starting at Mt. Hood,

Assini has begun work updating the Mental Health and Social Services program. With online classes becoming more popular and easier for students who don’t live close to campus, the leaders of the program would like to make it more available for students online, offering more of the classes in distance-learning format.

Assini teaches classes on group counseling, interviewing, and abnormal psychology. Between teaching and modernizing the MHCC program, he finds himself pretty busy on the job. However, he hopes in the future he will be able to make an impact on the wider community, by way of hosting some public programs or seminars on the topics he teaches.

Still new to the area, Assini has been doing some exploring in his free time. He is interested in exploring the Mt. Hood National Forest area more thoroughly, as many newcomers here are. He also plays guitar and enjoys all kinds of

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The Music Man

“The Music Man” production by Mt. Hood’s Theatre program will play in the College Theatre at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday and March 1-2, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24, and March 3.

Black History Month – Final Events

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Andrew Assini, instructor in the Mental Health Program.

music, from Indian tabla (drum) playing to the Grateful Dead.

If you are interested in a career in addiction counseling, youth mentoring, or community correction work, or just advocating for such efforts, an in-depth overview of the program will be held on March 20.

The session will run from noon to 1 p.m. on in Room 2761.

As Black History Month comes to a close, don’t miss your chance to visit the Diversity Resource Center in the Student Union to take part in the final “Kymotion with Kymon” (Monday) and “The New Jim Crow” book discussion (Tuesday) events. Both start at 11 a.m.

Mouths of Others – Diana Kirk

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, author Diana Kirk will speak in the Visual Arts Theatre from noon to 1 p.m.

Culture Day

On Wednesday from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the Student Union, come experience Culture Day, an event hosted by the Japanese Club and exchange students from Ryukoku University in Japan.

Basketball vs Clackamas

MHCC basketball teams will take on the Clackamas Community College Cougars in the Yoshida Event Center on Wednesday. Women tip off at 5:30 p.m., men tip off at 7:30 p.m. MHCC students with an ID get in free; adults $5, students $4, and children and seniors, $3.

WATER LINE BREAK Photo by Zarah Escutia / the Advocate

Megan Phelps the advocate

The Applied Technology building remains without running water this week, after an underground water line broke on Feb. 16 near Building 14.

Public Safety officer Jason Bickell found the initial signs of a leak at around 5:27 p.m. Water from the main walkway between Applied Technology (Building 18) and the main Academic Center was flowing down the steps and along lower walkways.

This led to the entire water system on campus being shut down.

MHCC Facilities staff were able to stop the flow by approximately midnight on Saturday, with Lead

Operating Engineer Jim Bowness able to cut off water only to the affected area by shutting off a valve nearby.

According to Bowness, who has worked at the college for 20 years, it’s likely the break occurred where the main water line and the cooling line intersect. The cooling line is the chilled water carried from the Academic Center to Applied Technology, for cooling rooms and offices there.

The situation is still being analyzed. The college does not know the exact cause, location or extent of the break.

Mt. Hood will have leak detectors brought in Friday morning (Feb. 22) to locate the break. The college will also be looking to solicit bids

to hire a contractor to dig up the area to replace the pipe, sanitize it (because drinking water is sourced from the pipe), and fill in the area.

Luckily there was no damage to the Applied Technology building.

Public Safety Manager Wayne Feagle said the exterior door frame to the building was just high enough for the leaking water not to enter.

The situation could have been much worse: Had the water gotten inside, there could have been electrical damage.

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Hazardous waste collection

Metro will stage a household hazardous waste collection event at MHCC 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 2. For more information, call 503-235-3000 or visit oregonmetro. gov/tools-living/garbage-and-recycling/neighborhoodcollection-events.

Free Tax Preparation

Have you filed your taxes yet? The AARP Foundation will be offering free tax preparation to MHCC students and community members on Saturdays through March 16, and again on April 6 and 13. Help will be offered 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Maywood Park campus in Room 223 each Saturday, with walk-ins welcome. Other tax-assistance sites are available in the Gresham area, but are likely by appointment only. More information can be found at: cashoregon.org/free-tax-sites/frequently-asked-questions.

MHCC softball vs Shoreline CC

The Saints softball team will play twice against the Shoreline Community College Dolphins on Sunday, March 3, on their home softball field in Gresham. Games will start at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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OPINION | ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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THE FUTURE OF INTERNET VIDEO IS TROUBLING

Kurt Larson the advocate Ever since YouTube’s “Adpocalypse” back in early 2017, the state of internet video as we know it has changed.

It was always going to happen, but much like the death of the Old West, we can truly see the decline of the lawless, untamed nature of internet 2.0 as we approach this new period of industrialization – or rather, the ubiquity of the internet and online video in the lives of every modern person.

As the old media has tried to transition to the new, many kinks have to be worked out along the way and now with advertisers scared to monetize any video deemed too crass or too political or otherwise not advertiser-friendly, much of the YouTube’s staple content has become non-monetizable.

YouTube has attempted to ameliorate this problem with its content ID system, which not only

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deems whether a video is advertiserfriendly or not, but also decides if it violates copyright in any way.

Obviously there are a lot of issues that can occur when you ask an algorithm to try and identify copyright violations and advertiserfriendly content while there’s 300 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute.

But, unfortunately, there is simply no way for YouTube to manually review every video that gets uploaded, which means that quite often videos are wrongly deemed to not be ad-friendly, and while they are monetized, companies can simply choose to not serve ads on that video.

What is worse, however, are the many videos that are accidentally deemed to be violating copyright in some way. That instantly means any ad revenue made will go to whoever is deemed the copyright holder of the infringing content, and potentially slap the uploader with a copyright strike on their channel.

With enough copyright strikes, a YouTube channel could be suspended or even terminated completely, depending on the circumstances.

While YouTube has made improvements to its system, and generally the algorithm works to stop spam uploads, unsafe content, and people from uploading whole movies to the site, there is still

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much progress to be made.

Not even the biggest creators on YouTube are immune to the issues the current content ID system has created.

Popular YouTuber Shane Dawson recently uploaded a video that was hit with a copyright strike, effectively de-monetizing it for its first 12 hours on the site till the issue could be resolved – meaning that while the video racked up over 7 millions views on its first day alone, thousands of dollars in ad revenue were lost at the creator’s, and YouTube’s, expense.

Fortunately for Dawson, YouTube tends to prioritize its favorite creators and the copyright strike was removed after about half a day via a manual review of the video.

Hundreds of thousands of other creators who aren’t getting 10 million views a video, though, aren’t so lucky. It can often take days

or even weeks for a smaller creator’s video to be manually reviewed and the copyright claim to be disputed.

Even then, it’s not a guarantee that the outcome will be satisfactory.

By introducing all these holes to jump through and obstacles to avoid, YouTube has put itself in a position to lose everything that once made it great. YouTube has transformed from a place where you could go to experience true, raw creativity and the ideas of the everyman, to what is slowly becoming the digital version of regular TV programming.

By forcing creators into a corner and making them bend to the will of the advertisers, and YouTube’s evervague and changing guidelines, the type of content and the types of creators who can successfully exist on the platform has changed drastically and grown far more limited.

It’s only a matter of time

before the “America’s Funniest Home Videos” era of YouTube is completely dead and every video will be hosted by a moderately attractive young person who either vlogs or plays Fortnight, or does a top-ten countdown.

With all these shakeups, creators have been forced to seek alternate ways of funding their videos, most often by simply hooking up with various companies to personally pitch sponsored ads directly to viewers throughout the course of their videos.

So even if a video is not monetized on YouTube, many viewers on the site will still experience what is basically an unskippable ad in the middle of their video, drawing even more comparisons of the modernized site to cable TV. With any luck, an equilibrium will eventually be reached and creators and viewers alike will be able to make and view the content they want without needing to remain beholden to thin-skinned advertisers.

But it seems that ideal future is still just a tiny light at the end of a very long tunnel and we’ll most likely have to suffer a few more Logan Paul-esque controversies, and the loss of a few more big advertisers, before any meaningful progress will be made for the good of the site’s creative contributors.

SPORTS | NEWS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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LEBRON: THE KING OF EAST, DRAMA QUEEN OF THE WEST Julia Empleo the advocate

We’re past halfway through this 2018-19 NBA season, with a couple months of meaningful games left for teams still trying to get to the playoffs.

This season has been unpredictable so far, after LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers and began playing with a young team. The Lakers are currently three games out of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Will the 15-time All Star take his team to the playoffs after five years of L.A. missing out since they lost in the

first round in 2013 against the San Antonio Spurs?

For James, it would be his first playoff miss since the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2004-05 season.

He has never missed an Eastern Conference playoff since, and has played 239 playoff games, earning three NBA championships in those 13 seasons.

The King finally got a taste of the tough Western Conference teams this season. Knowing he’s not able to carry a team by himself in the West, he will need to find key pieces to add next season to be a legit contender in this competitive conference.

Speaking of key players, among

the big names that are up for free agency before next season is Kevin Durant. A lot of fans, players, coaches and NBA GMs are curious what the 10-team All Star’s next move is.

After leaving Oklahoma City and signing with the Golden State Warriors and winning two championships with his current team, Durant has had a lot of criticism regarding his role as far as being a leader and leading a team on his own. He definitely has the skills and talent to carry and lead another team to the championship, if he leaves the Warriors. He just needs more core pieces to complete the puzzle and the New York Knicks

could give him the opportunity if he signs with them this summer.

For now, Durant will not address any free agency rumors until this season – very understandable given the fact his team is just two games ahead in the Western Conference standings right now.

Before the Feb. 7 trade deadline this season, Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans made it publicly clear that he wants to be traded. The Lakers jumped into the conversation right away, willing to trade any/all of their key players, except LeBron, for the six-time All Star, which backfired for the Lakers since the Pelicans declined the offer.

LeBron did take advantage

during the All Star weekend to draft Davis to his team’s roster, along with his former Cavalier teammate Kyrie Irving, who’s also going be a free agent this summer.

The current season is far from over yet, however. While players are trying to prove their worth, some teams are competing just to make it to the eight playoff spot, while others are looking to win as many games as they can to get a better matchup in the first round.

This season has already been unpredictable enough that we could see new teams compete for the championship – not just the Warriors and Cleveland again!

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For now, students and staff in the Applied Technology building are using porta potties and handwashing stations outside to meet health and safety needs. Two portable eyewash stations are set up in IT18 and IT5.

Cory Sippel, MHCC manager of environmental health and safety, said of the affected classroom/work areas, “They are still maintaining their fire/safety provisions with the fire extinguishers, pull stations, fire alarms, smoke detectors, and none of those were affected.” The area also has fire sprinklers in place, which are now pressurized. Bowness said the sprinkler system for Applied Technology is separate from the water line that was shut off.

Coincidentally, on Thursday at 9:06 a.m. students and staff had to evacuate the building after a roll-up

door motor overheated, setting off a fire alarm. Students and staff were allowed to re-enter at 9:26 a.m once the building was determined safe.

After the morning alarm, Sipple confirmed the sprinkler system in the building was fully pressurized.

As far as water quality across the MHCC campus, Facilities workers will be monitoring water periodically. Any brown coloration would be due to sediment from the iron pipes in place. There will likely be no repeat issues, since the main reason why that occurred was due to the initial campuswide shutdown.

The change in pressure made the sediment move, so it needed to be flushed out and stabilized.

The Advocate will continue to report on this incident as it develops.

Photo by Megan Phelps / the Advocate

The area where the water line broke outside of Building 14, currently covered with mats and marked off with caution tape.

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SPORTS

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Photos by Fletcher Wold / the Advocate

LEFT: Freshman guard Taylor Howard shows off his athleticism during a dominant performance. RIGHT: The Saints’ Madison Allen makes it look easy as she hits the tough layup.

MT. HOOD BASKETBALL SWEEPS PORTLAND CC PANTHERS Lady Saints keep up their dominance while men stay persistent Jonathan Zacarias

championship tournament is still a dunk as they stretched their undecided.

So the Saints didn’t hold lead to 11 in the first half. the advocate Mt. Hood maintained the back Wednesday as their onslaught lead in the second half, until against PCC ended at 98-49.

Mt. Hood was led by freshman 9:56 was left on the clock as guard Hunter Boske racking up 25 the Panthers took their first points off the bench, 15 of them lead since the first minutes of coming from behind the arc. Oth- the game, 68-65. The battle beer notable performances were from came more interesting as the sophomores Madison Allen and lead went back and forth for Rachel Watson. ‘Maddy’ was per- the remainder of the game, fect from the 3-point line, going with the Saints finishing on 4-for-4, also adding five assists and top, winning 86-83.

The team was led by finishing with 16 points. Watson dominated at center, ending with sophomores Kyler Haynes six points, eight rebounds and five and Kahlon Whitley with 19 The Mt. Hood men’s and wom- blocks. points, five rebounds and two en’s basketball teams took care of It was a comfortable win that blocks, and 17 points with six business Wednesday night, as they demonstrates Mt. Hood has players assists, respectively. Freshboth beat the Panthers of Portland that can shoot behind the arc, de- man guard Taylor Howard Community College, in Portland. fend under the rim, and be relied also had a great night coming The Lady Saints took full advan- upon for consistent bench minutes. off the bench with 19 points, tage of a weak Portland side that has Most importantly, it builds great three rebounds and going struggled all season long. The Pan- momentum for Saturday’s home 3-for-3 from the 3-point line. thers put up 49 points total, while game against No. 1-ranked Lane.

The men will match up the Saints had already scored 48 The Titans beat the Saints, 77- against Lane at home at 4 points by halftime.

60, on Jan. 19 and head Coach Jer- p.m. Saturday.

With the postseason approach- emy Vandenboer told the Advocate At 3-11 in South Region ing quickly there is little margin for in a later interview that “the girls play, the Saints are out of the error as the top three spots in the were fired up and wanted to play playoff hunt, but hope to finSouth Region of the NWAC are still them again back at home”. ish the season strong against up for grabs. The Titans of Lane Saturday’s game in the Yoshida Lane and then their final Community College currently hold Event Center is set for 2 p.m. Keep game Wednesday, against the No. 1 spot with a conference in mind, the Saints haven’t lost a Clackamas at home. record of 12-1, while the Umpqua single home game this season, goRiverhawks are second at 11-2, fol- ing 6-0 so far. lowed by the Saints with a record of On the men’s side on Wednes11-3, after Wednesday’s games. day, the Saints took the lead after 5 With three regular season minutes of play and kept it through contests remaining (just two for the first half. Sophomore post Vlad the Saints), all three teams have Katin gave a beautiful alley-oop pass LEFT: Sophomore forward Atalina Pritchard scores. RIGHT: Kyler clinched playoff slots, but their seed to freshman wing Carter Arrasmith Haynes rises up for three of his (placement) in the 16-team NWAC to hush the PCC home crowd with 19 points.

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