The Advocate, Issue 29 - May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

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Volume 51 Issue 29

Best in Show PAGE 5

Journey to the Tourney PAGE 8

Union negotiations unclear PAGE 3

“We live in a narrative now where we’ve been culturally conditioned...” - PAGE 3

2 PAGE Editorial

OPINION

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Staton should hit the road, sans Charger of course

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et me introduce you to Multnomah County’s least-popular law enforcement officer at the moment: Sheriff Dan Staton.

Life wasn’t that bad for Dan until early May – he had been Sheriff of Multnomah County for seven years and drove a $33,623 Dodge Charger, courtesy of the taxpayers.

But things have turned south lately, with Staton facing multiple inquiries into potential misconduct, which are lengthy. Local 88 union President Jason Heilbrun summed the situation up pretty well when he told The Oregonian newspaper, “It is common knowledge across the county that Sheriff Staton has practiced vindictiveness, disrespect and retaliation against anyone who disagrees with him.”

Staton was initially investigated by the Oregon Department of Justice for bribing and threatening another officer concerning a promotion list, but was not found guilty of any criminal wrongdoing. Since then, multiple organizations including The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 88, the previous sheriff, and The Oregonian have taken action to call for his resignation.

This is hardly the first time our county Sheriff’s office has been pistol-whipped into submission by its constituents (pun-intended). The previous Sheriff, Bob Skipper, retired in disgrace after failing to get his law enforcement certification.

Before him, Bernie Giusto resigned amidst accusations of being a “laugh-

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ing stock.” Similar stories exist all the way back to the 1980s.

Multnomah County is the largest county in Oregon, yet it seems there’s a disconnect between us and one of the largest jobs on the law enforcement force. Staton still refuses to step down, and his reasoning is similar to that of his predecessors: the Sheriff is an independently elected public official, the Sheriff’s office would cry, and the people put us

here – why should we step down, because bureaucracy wants to remove us?

To which the Advocate would reply, use some damn common sense.

Exploiting the taxpayers for a flashy car to putz around town in is a media firestorm that would cost anyone else their job. Not Staton, though. While toting a list of alleged infractions including bribery, blackmail, coercing a union vote (on top of being known as a Stalinesque figure among his co-workers) he’s still hanging in there, and playing the public official card whenever he gets the opportunity.

And while constituents should respect anyone who fulfills a civic duty such as this, the state doesn’t

recognize any perks near Staton’s interpretation, which seems to be closer aligned with the divine right of kings: From Oregon statute – “(14) ‘Public official’ means any person who, when an alleged violation of this chapter occurs, is serving the State of Oregon or any of its political subdivisions or any other public body as defined in ORS 174.109 of the state as an officer, employee, agent or otherwise, and irrespective of whether the person is compensated for such services.”

Staton “served’ the state of Oregon, and there have been alleged violations. Any other implications as to what being an independently elected public official are simply speculation. He should resign.

The things you learn from cruel, sarcastic parents Ivy Davis

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It was Christmas 2013, not the actual day, but the season. As in any normal day I was hanging out in my kitchen with my mom, a place my family tends to gather. Due to the season my mom was gnarling down on a candy cane she’d stolen from the tree. My dad now enters the picture and looks at my mom.

“You want to lick my pink candy cane,” are the first words I’ve heard my dad say all day.

I have grown up with a pair of the most disgusting, in-love, gross, inappropriate, sarcastic, PDA-ing parents. The kind of things I hear

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on a daily basis, the kind of things I see – they are things no child should have to hear and see their parents do. These are also things I’m thankful for.

In seventh grade I was at a friend’s house and her parents broke into a huge argument. We sat in the living room while the two adult screamed profanities at each other.

In that moment I realized how lucky I was to have parents who enjoyed each other’s company: Parents who fondled each other in public, who constantly teased and poked fun at me, parents who loved laughing (at their children).

My parents taught me many things by being the way they are.

Sharing every embarrassing thing that happens to you brings people closer together. Imagine having a conversation with your mom about how you queefed in yoga and everyone thought it was a fart but you weren’t about to say it wasn’t. I

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tion in their own future?

Saying completely inappropriate things about sex in front of your children is gross, but they really won’t understand it until they’re older, and at that point it just gets fun.

“Hey Michelle, will you help me find my glasses,” is one of my dad’s favorite lines, considering his glasses are 100 percent of the time on his head.

Now that I’m older, I’ve heard too many of these lines and give a response similar to the look you would get from Wednesday Adams.

Another favorite of his is saying goodbye to me in the form of “No glove no love, if he ain’t got a rubber treat him like a brother, and don’t be silly protect your willy.” Really the only time he uses this form of goodbye is when I leave the house with a boy. At a younger age I would turn radish red and practically sprint to the car for a quick getaway. Now, this goodbye sends laughs through

the air. No date expects this kind of parental goodbye and the guys’ reactions are far greater than my own.

Bringing friends home alleviates me from the brunt of my parents’ humor. Rather than having jokes laughed at my expense, I get to sit back and laugh at my friends as my dad berates them for, say, having pink hair and a nose ring.

At the end of the day, I can count on silly conversation in the kitchen making fun of someone or another. I can count on butt gropes and inappropriate horizontal-mambo comments. I know there will be laughs and giggles and my parents will leave having one more story in their memorized embarrassing-moments-of-Ivy file.

My family is close, we laugh at each other and we love each other and I wouldn’t give them up for the world... but, maybe, for a few billion dollars or super powers of my choosing.

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bet you wouldn’t dream of that kind of conversation with a parent – fortunately, I don’t have to dream about that conversation because it’s already happened. In the end, my mom and I had a great laugh and started sharing all the best fart stories we’ve built up over the years.

Groping your significant other in the kitchen makes food taste better. Why? Because now there is love and passion in the cooking. At first, when I was 10, I would tell my dad he was gross every time he grabbed my mom’s butt while she cooked; now it warms my heart.

If I can ever be married for twenty-plus years and still want to come home to my husband and grope him in the kitchen while he slaves over my meal, I just know that’s love. So many parents never show each other affection in front of their kids. How do your kids know you actually like each other? And how will those kids show their significant other’s affec-

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NEWS

May 20, 2016

Mt. Hood union works to insure fair wages (part 1 of 2) Greg Leonov the advocate

Mt. Hood’s various unions have been working to make sure employees receive fair wages, and that they are reflective of costs of living.

Currently, only one employee union is negotiating contract terms: The group of classified, or nonteaching, staff workers on campus.

Corey Huston, Mt. Hood’s science lab coordinator and classified association president, said that when representatives of the group negotiate with the MHCC administration, the “conversation has always been that we support equity, that we support a fair wage for fair work.”

The classified association has been negotiating a contract to replace one that expires on June 30.

Talks have been ongoing since January, and, according to Huston, the contract is close to being settled. “For the first couple of months of negotiations, we moved through (contract) articles fairly quickly; most of those articles were non-financial, so a lot of it was

housekeeping, clarifying language,” he said.

When the negotiations reached financial matters, some difficulties arose. “When we were prepared to have that conversation, there were certainly some miscommunications, and I think that’s probably on both sides,” said Huston.

Talks have focused on cost of living adjustments (COLAs) and health coverage.

“We sacrificed in our last contract – a significant amount of potential earnings – and came to an agreement that allowed us to have a good healthcare package,” said Huston.

A standardized performance evaluation is also being negotiated.

Currently, an evaluation consists of cutting and pasting an employee’s job description, and filling a box saying the employee needs improvement in, meets, or exceeds the description, said Huston.

“The college, since it (the evaluation process) was implemented, hasn’t seen anything come from it - there’s no metrics on it being useful, and it is an onerous

process,” he said.

Once the contract is settled, and all parties have agreed on terms, it should take effect July 1 – assuming all goes well. Classified contracts have typically lasted three years, but the length of the next contract is still yet to be decided.

The full-time faculty association has agreed to extend its current contract for one additional year, making it run through August 2018, instead of next year, said the group’s president, mathematics instructor Tambi Boyle. Under their contract, full-time instructors at Mt. Hood should receive a one percent COLA increase each year.

For the 2017-18 school year, negotiators agreed to a 0-3 percent COLA increase, meaning that if the average COLA for the Portland/ Oregon area is higher than 3 percent, full-time faculty will not receive more than 3 percent. If the area’s COLA actually dips, full-time faculty pay would not decrease.

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Gender, Sexuality & Faith panel illuminates attendees Greg Leonov the advocate

Living life as a faithful Christian and fighting for LGBTQ rights, all while struggling to find out the truth about oneself through gender recognition: That was the focus of a panel discussion held at noon Wednesday in the Student Union.

Mt. Hood’s Associated Student Government (ASG) Director of Diversity, Kelsy Smith, humanities instructor Andy Gurevich, and Melinda Bullen, MHCC Diversity Resource Center coordinator, organized the session to explore gender, sexuality, and faith.

“It’s about the implications of gender in the context of faith, the realities of gender and sexual identity when it comes to spirituality,” said Smith.

The panel consisted of LGBTQ rights advocate and activist Kera Ramsey, a former Mt. Hood student, Gnostic Christian, and transgender woman. Ramsey is a priestess of

the Church of Biblical Freedom.

Samantha Brown, who is now retired from politics, is a former lobbyist for the LGBTQ community, was present at the Stonewall riots in the 1960s,

“It’s about the implications of gender in the context of faith...”

-Kelsy Smith

ASMHCC Director of Diversity

considers herself a Christian, and is also a transgender woman.

Smith gave introductions and moderated the discussion. She said that faith and spirituality are almost an afterthought in public education.

“We leave it to our world religions classes to give a brief intro that spans the entire world in just a few weeks,” she said.

According to Smith, the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning,

intersex, asexual) culture is both positively and negatively presented in the media. “This includes nonbinary, transgender, fluid, as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, asexual, aromantic people, and they’ve been around longer than we’ve had names for them,” she said.

Gurevich started the discussion with a slideshow and some historical examples of gender fluidity and transgender deities.

“We live in a narrative now where we’ve been culturally conditioned to believe that in the spiritual context, the gender binary is all that is open to us, and all that is enforced, and anything that questions that is a threat to the system,” Gurevich said.

He described the role of gender in spirituality as an exploration of a universal human longing.

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in General Excellence Gloria Saepharn the advocate

The Advocate staff traveled to Eugene last Friday and returned with seven awards at the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s 2016 Collegiate Day seminar/ celebration.

Among them was the top prize: First Place for General Excellence among all Oregon community college publications, based on cover-to-cover judging of three complete issues between October 2015 and this March.

It’s the second time in the last four years the Advocate has been so honored.

The all-day event began with a tour of University of Oregon’s recently renovated Allen Hall, home to the school’s journalism and communication programs.

Besides UO faculty presentations on public documents and sports journalism was a special presentation by editors and staff of Umpqua Community College’s student publication, The Mainstream.

Reporters and others at the Mainstream spoke of the trauma caused during the Oct. 1 mass

shooting there, and the publication’s and their own reaction and efforts to heal, and help others with healing.

Led by 2015-16 Editor in Chief Adam Elwell, the Advocate earned the following awards: General Excellence: First Place Best Series: Second Place MHCC bond coverage Best Editorial: Third Place Adam Elwell Best Sports Photo: First Place Beka Haugen Best Graphic: First Place - Ayla Buckner Best Cartooning: Second Place Heather Golan Best Spot News Photo: Second Place - Ben Baxter Among the other publications attending the event: Portland State University (Vanguard), University of Oregon (Oregon Daily Emerald), Oregon State University (The Daily Barometer), University of Portland (The Beacon), Lane Community College (The Torch), LinnBenton Community College (The Commuter), Umpqua Community College (The Mainstream) and Clackamas Community College (The Clackamas Print).

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Voters say NO

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Bond shot down: sixth measure attempt fails

MHCC General Obligation Bond Measure Results

No

Multnomah County:

30,602 53%

Yes

Multnomah:

27,486 47%

Clackamas County:

Clackamas:

Hood River County:

Hood River:

7,459 67% 248 57%

3,668 33% 187 43%

(37,289)

(30,120)

55%

45%

Updated vote count as of 4 p.m. May 19.

Graphic by Gloria Saepharn

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After months of campaigning and fundraising by supporters, the $125 million general obligation bond to support Mt. Hood Community College was rejected by voters in Oregon’s May 17 election.

Initial vote counts released by the Multnomah and Clackamas county

elections offices (the Mt. Hood district straddles both counties) showed the bond measure losing, about 57 percent to 43 percent.

Following updated ballot counts through Thursday, that margin hasn’t changed much.

MHCC officials and boosters gathered Tuesday night at the Riverside Restaurant in Troutdale to celebrate their bond efforts and

Photo by Nick Pelster

TOP: MHCC general obligation bond supporters, including President Debbie Derr (third from left) looking at the projected results on a screen as they’re updated live on Tuesday night at the Riverview Restaurant. BOTTOM: Lynn Snodgrass, head of Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce, viewing the election results on her phone as Derr looks over her shoulder.

to follow updates of voting results.

Disappointment quickly replaced anticipation as a shared sentiment among those attending.

“I haven’t been this nervous since I applied for the job at Mt. Hood,” said school President Debbie Derr before results were displayed on a projector. High hopes were held as the results were being updated.

Then came the first news, and initial reaction.

“They start counting the votes that come in first. We had a lot of votes coming in late, like today, late,” said Derr, still holding out hope.

Efforts toward securing a bond for the college haven’t been made since 2006, and the last bond that passed was 42 years ago, in 1974.

“School bonds often start down, conservative voters and folks who tend to say ‘no’ to funding are early voters typically,” said Paige Richardson, a consultant hired to assist with campaigning.

“We knew this was gonna be challenging because the polling had us below at 50 percent, and it’s not that voters don’t love the college, it’s just there’s a lot of income insecurity in the district that Mt. Hood serves.”

“I haven’t been this nervous since I applied for the job at Mt. Hood.”

-Debbie Derr MHCC President A winning vote would have given MHCC money to build a new Workforce and Applied Technology Center on the campus, build a brand-new Maywood Park campus, upgrade seismic and safety features and pay off an estimated $27 million in current debt.

Mt. Hood District board chairwoman Susie Jones expressed brief optimism at the early results,

also wishing for a turnaround.

“It’s disappointing, but it’s early… so I’m still very hopeful,” Jones said.

If not... “Well, it certainly wasn’t lack of effort. Everybody stepped up, from the staff, from the community, from the board; all players stepped up to work together as a team to make this (campaign) happen.”

More than $200,000 was raised and spent on the bond campaign in the last six months, which included phone banking, door-to-door canvasing, social media contacts and even some advertising on the Pandora music streaming outlet.

Yet, that wasn’t quite enough.

Asked why she thought the bond measure might have failed, Jones said yet more outreach by bond supporters was needed.

“My gut instinct is that it’s all about personal contact. We needed to touch more of the voters personally through a phone conversation or a direct conversation,” said Jones.

Photo by Kristina Strickland

What does the future hold for the MHCC bond?

Greg Leonov the advocate

MHCC District voters decided to not support a $125 million general obligation (GO) bond for Mt. Hood that, had it passed, would have helped make major campus upgrades and pay off outstanding debts.

While mostly disappointed with primary election results on Tuesday night, some college officials expressed ideas for possible future efforts.

Those may have to wait awhile – or, maybe not.

“We’re going to have to regroup,” said MHCC President Debbie Derr. “I would hope that the (MHCC) board would make the decision to go out (to voters) again, but I can’t imagine that would happen before minimum of a year, maybe two years.”

Paige Richardson, a political consultant hired to help with bond efforts, said she would work with

Mt. Hood again if they decided to hire her. “It’s so great because everybody supports each other,” said Richardson. “You really have a strong community, and it was a pleasure to be a part of it.”

Richardson said she believes an effort for another bond measure should be made in 2017. This year’s campaign raised Mt. Hood’s visibility and some good will, and too long a delay could prove negative.

“I would generally say, you’ve

now re-established communication with voters, so you want to hold on to that, you want to keep that going, and so you don’t want to wait too long,” she said.

Still, pausing long enough to raise money to pay for communication is important said Richardson. “There is no way to win without paid communication, and school bonds have changed a lot, certainly since the recession, and since the last time Mt. Hood won a bond.”

Starting last December, Mt. Hood supporters raised about $211,000 to fund the bond measure campaign, Oregon election finance records show. A successful new bond attempt would need similar or even greater contributions.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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Student creativity shines in Arts Gallery Matana McIntire the advocate

The Visual Arts Gallery has been covered heavily by the Advocate this year, each story an array of new local art. This final exhibit, however, may be the most local yet: an exhibit of our own Mt. Hood studentproduced art.

The exhibit opened in the Visual Arts Gallery May 9 and will stay open for viewing through June 2.

Like many of the exhibits before, the work presented in the Visual Arts Gallery varies in form, from mixed-media to sculpture to illustration, painting, printmaking (referred to as ‘woodcut’ in the gallery) and more.

For me, most notable is a medium called a woodcut. Learned under a printmaking art class, a woodcut is a type of print made from a slab of carved wood. Through the grooves and divots in the wood, it creates a piece that utilizes white and negative space. An example of a woodcut displayed in the gallery right now is a piece by student Victoria Jefferson, called “Untitled.” It features a profile of young woman with textures framing her and imprinted within

her shadow to give an idea of what culture she comes from.

As for the awards, students are ranked in categories.

First place is called Best of Show, an award that went to Shyla Streeter from the Art 256 ceramics class.

Her collection titled “Blue Lotus Vessels” is a three-part ceramic vase series, each with a lotus design imprinted into the side of the vase.

After Best of Show, there is a second place award given to student Elle Coles from the Art 281 painting class. Her piece, “Alluvium Hermetic,” is a large painting work with vivid colors and a geometric flow that gives the design an interesting look.

After first and second, there are two faculty recognitions. One is for Molly Anderson on her 3D clay creation titled “Mother,” a vivid portrayal of who we can only assume is her own mother; the other, for April Kim for her 2D painting, titled “The beginning of the End.” As for the rest of the work in the Visual Arts Gallery, there are many green Honorable Mention

Photos by Nick Pelster

LEFT: One of three pieces in Shyla Streeter’s winning collection, “Blue Lotus Vessels.” RIGHT: “Woman in Terra Cotta” by Katherine Linquist, Art 291 - Sculpture I.

ribbons throughout the show. These include “Raven,” a woodcut by the artist Caveman; “Nocturnal Balance”

by Amanda Caldwell; “Teapots” by

Michael Taylor; “Two Towers” by Daniel McNamara; “We’ll Be Down by the River” by Jessica Fantroy; and “Camera Man” by Megan Mill.

Gallery hosts abstract art for interpretation Ivy Davis

the advocate Barry Johnson works with large canvases, deep acrylics, and tape.

Currently the artist lives in Portland, having lived in New York for 13 years. Johnson has his work shown in public and private galleries, including federal government buildings, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and the city building of Portland.

He is showing his collection in the Fireplace Gallery through June 10.

One of the first pieces seen upon entry of the Student Union is “Yellow Conversations,” a 60-by48-inch work of art. The name takes shape on the canvas as small bits and pieces of black, blue, and red paint find their way around the vastness of yellow color.

Lines cut across every piece of Johnson’s collection. Working with paint myself, I could tell these lines and areas of color were created by layers of paint and tape meticulously placed by the artist.

At first I felt lost in this piece, with no real focus point. Looking closer at the different pieces I found

Photos by Nick Pelster

LEFT: “Blue Note” acrylic on canvas, by Barry Johnson. RIGHT: “Coney Island” acrylic on canvas, by Barry Johnson. Both are available for viewing in the Fireplace Gallery, located in the Student Union, along with the rest of his collection.

disciplined chaos, geometry, and abstract visuals. With paintings such as Johnson’s works, everyone sees something different. “Yellow Conversations” told me a story of friends smiling and chatting for hours on end. Some people might think that sounds crazy, but that’s the beauty of art. The painting may remind one of the ever-so-iconic, yellow smiley face and the dominant lines may point to similar imagery like that of a clock face.

A second painting, also on a 60-by-48-inch canvas, reminded me of the PDX airport. “Blue Note” is predominantly a blue-turquoise color with black around the edges of the canvas. Sticking to the theme

of the collection, lines run across the painting in cobalt blue, orange, yellow, and red acrylics. Though, it’s not the beloved 1987 PDX carpet that this photo reminded me of; it’s the new carpet. Both “Blue Note” and the new PDX carpet include a blue-turquoise dominant color, with curves lines overlapping in contrasting colors. It can even be seen in his piece little red squares, similar to the red dots in PDX airport’s new carpet.

“Coney Island” is a third piece in Johnson’s collection. The central color of the painting is a sky blue.

Again, the artwork incorporates layers of paint shown by tape that has been stripped away from the

canvas. The first layer seems to be a mix of a lighter blue and red, the second layer a yellow and red, and a third layer in black, before being topped with the sky-blue acrylic paint. The painting could be compared to the actual Coney Island scene – a viewer might actually start to see something familiar, whether it be a bright balloon or roller coaster-like line.

If you are a fan of abstract pieces I would recommend you go and visit the Fireplace Gallery. Johnson’s collection will be in the Student Union through June 10. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 8am to 5 p.m. on Friday.

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Grab your Costco membership card and start stockpiling like a Mormon family before Y2K. The ascension of Zaltaq is nigh!

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Lick the world. Remember: never staple with your left hand on the right corner.

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I know, ’cause I can predict the future from giant balls of gas burning billions of miles away.

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SPORTS

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Villafana inspires me for more reasons than footy skills

Emily Wintringham the advocate

My favorite player for the Timbers has always been 26-yearold Jorge Villafana, commonly called “El Sueno” – more on that later.

There are many reasons why he is one of my favorites and it’s not to say that he is the best player. So many people I feel idolize Messi, or Ronaldo, but why? To me, all of them play spectacular, so a character that I look up to has to have more reasons than just stardom for me to

look up to them as a role model.

I was happy to be informed that Villafana was honored yesterday with a bio published on the MLS website, mlssoccer.com. It helped ease the pain of the news last year in December, that Portland had sold him to Santos Laguna of Liga MX (Mexican league). This is disappointing for a plethora of reasons, but mostly because Villafana, according to MLS, has had his greatest career success playing for the Timbers in 2015.

I do have a hard time with Portland cutting one of our most valuable players from last year. I’d much rather be one step closer to a second star above the axe (for winning the MLS Cup) than $1 million for players that are great (Villafina’s sales price) but are not growing exponentially like I believe Villafana is. That’s just how the

game is played, and run.

But I also see that there’s more to the his game than just what goes on during the match, or the money aspects.

I tend to like Villafana’s play the most because of how choppy he is.

He looks almost unprepared for anything that happens on the field, but to me it looks he’s putting in 100 percent effort for whatever comes his way.

I have always tended to play the same way: I never know what to expect when it happens. When I see that the attacker has my baby, I’m at ’em. Give me my baby back, or else! Villafana has that same passion. He may always look to be caught off-guard, but he never lets up when presented a challenge. He told ESPN once that he noticed how different that La Liga plays than the MLS. Naturally, the MLS is

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more direct and physical, while La Liga is more tactical. Decisions are made with precision in the Latino league. I do believe he adapted well to the MLS style, which is why I’m curious as to how successful he will be transferring to Santos Laguna.

In my opinion, that’s what makes Villafana a beautiful player.

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Saints slide into NWAC tourney Donohue’s dream to win NWAC title comes closer to reality with No. 1 seed.

Jon Fuccillo the advocate

Ever since 2006 when head coach Bryan Donohue took over the Saints program, he has envisioned winning an NWAC title, especially since he didn’t win one himself as an awardwinning Saints outfielder patrolling Oslund Field.

Now, with a four-game road sweep of the Southwestern Oregon Lakers last weekend, Mt. Hood has claimed the Southern Region title for the tenth time in the past 12 years, and inched closer to its ultimate goal this year of bringing a championship banner to the Yoshida Event Center.

The Saints will enter the NWAC tournament in Longview, Wash., at Lower Columbia’s historic David Story Field as the No. 1 seed from the South, and will play the winner of the Western Region’s No. 2 seed - either Pierce, Columbia Basin or Edmonds community colleges, in the first round.

(The Advocate wrote last week the tournament field was 16 teams; actually the four regional winners earn automatic bids while four more teams play in a cross-regional playoff, to determine a tournament field of eight.)

Mt. Hood’s first game is slated for Thursday, May 26 at 4:35 p.m.

“We had a huge job to do and we handled that” in Coos Bay last weekend, said the skipper, who was also just announced as the NWAC Coach of the Year. “It’s hard enough to win a league title. We have had so

many good teams in the past. This was probably the most challenging league championship that I have won as a player or coach.

“We had so many ups and downs but we’re playing clean ball right now and I like where we are at heading into the tourney,” he said.

Sophomore designed hitter and University of Utah transfer Bowen Ogata is excited for the opportunity to play in the NWAC tourney, especially alongside close friend and Saints sophomore infielder, University of Washington transfer JT Williams. Both players are from Boise, Idaho, and grew up playing baseball together.

“It feels great to be (South) champs. We had some shaky games this year, but we’re playing great lately,” said Ogata. “It’s awesome to share this moment with (Williams) and the rest of my team.”

The Saints are eying Mt. Hood baseball’s first NWAC championship title since 2000.

They fell in tourney title game against the host, Lower Columbia, one year ago.

Donohue has been a part of three NWAC championship series and has always come up just short, once as a player in 2005 and twice as a coach, in 2012 and 2015. He feels as though this team can “get over the hump,” however.

“This team is, and was, built better than last year’s team in the tourney,” he said. “We have more depth, especially on the bump. Last year we basically had four starting pitchers and one relief pitcher.

Pair of Saints named NWAC pitchers of the week Sophomore Nate Hunter

Sophomore Kayla Byers

Hunter tossed a nine-inning complete game against Southwestern Oregon on Saturday. He scattered four hits and struck out eight in the 7-0 victory.

Byers pitched in four Mt. Hood wins last week going 2-0 with one save.

She turned in a 1.15 ERA in 18.1 innings, while striking out 21.

Saints softball enters the championship weekend today as the overall No. 3 seed with first pitch at 10 a.m. against Wenatchee Valley. Catch the action at Delta Park in north Portland.

Photo by Steve Butler

The Mt. Hood Saints baseball team won its tenth Southern Region title in the last twelve years. The Saints will head to the NWAC championships in Longview, Wash. and will square off with the second seed from the Western Region on May 26.

The game is slated for 4:35 p.m. Sophomore ace Seth Rayburn (6-2, 2.38 ERA) will start the first game. “For me to handle my business on the bump, I need to stay really focused on setting the tone early,” he said.

That’s not the case anymore. And we’re hitting the ball real well right now.”

He added, “It’s sometimes hard to really put a championship mentality on every single game you play, but I have seen this team flip a switch when we absolutely had to.”

Donohue is hoping to be a part of the dogpile at the finish, at last.

“It’s a pretty awesome thing to be a part of if we handle our business,” said the coach. “You think about it all of the time. Ever since Day One that has been our goal, to win a title.”

Donohue confirmed sophomore

ace Seth Rayburn (6-2, 2.38 ERA) will take to the mound in game one Thursday. Rayburn is coming off his best start of the season last Friday against the Lakers, pitching a complete nine-inning game, allowing only one unearned run and striking out a season-best 11 batters.

“Seth will be good,” said Donohue. “It’s kind of funny – because he lost both starts last year in the tournament. So, he’s going to play with an extra chip on his shoulder. Every time he goes out there, our team has a bunch of confidence in him. Even if we get off

to slow starts, he finds a way to win at some point.”

Rayburn said he likes his chances, especially with the way the team has been clicking both on and off the field.

“I’m looking forward to getting the opportunity to pitch in this tournament again,” said Rayburn.

“Last year has to be used as a lesson learned in order to get the job done this year. For me to handle my business on the bump, I need to stay really focused on setting the tone early.”