March 11, 2013

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UC Davis alumnus brings passion for bikes to Cambodia

Aggies experience heartbreaking loss to LBSU on ESPN2 77-76 game played to sold-out Pavillion

Soksabike Tours, Bike Barn team up to enhance international experience

By KIM CARR

Aggie Sports Writer

On Thursday night, the men’s basketball team made their debut on ESPN2 in front of a sold-out Pavillion crowd of students and fans.

Last March, UC Davis pulled a 3-13 Big West Conference record and failed to win a game on the road. Head coach Jim Les knew his team needed a complete overhaul to turn it around this year and somehow, some way, he managed to accomplish that.

This season has been shocking and humbling to watch. Junior Ryan Sypkens returned to the roster after sitting out last season with a serious knee injury.

He has managed to tally 104 three-pointers this season.

Sophomore J.T. Adenrele spent the offseason accruing muscle mass and vicious accuracy from the freethrow line. Seniors Paolo Mancasola and Ryan Howley have reveled in the new roster. Mancasola governs one of the Big West’s best offenses and Howley harvests rebounds from all sides of the court.

As 5,760 Aggies fans piled into the Pavilion on Thursday, a vast majority of them had never seen this team play. However, the Aggie Pack and Aggie faithful were thrilled to introduce a certain sophomore. The nation met Corey Hawkins alongside thousands of UC Davis students and it was an explosive introduction.

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Sophomore J.T. Adenrele dunks the ball against Long Beach. UC Davis lost 76-77.

The energy in the Pavilion on Saturday against Long Beach State might have worked against the Aggies in the first few minutes of the game. The team was skittish and it showed. UC Davis missed a few shots out of the gate, allowing Long Beach to jump to an early 10-point lead. As the nation started to wonder how bad the blowout was going to be, the Aggies turned it on.

Much to the crowd’s delight, UC Davis cut the deficit and the first half turned into an electric back-and-forth battle. By halftime, it was a onepoint 49er advantage.

After halftime, the Aggies simply found their stride.

Sypkens drilled a two, earned the foul and turned it into a different kind of three-point score than he is used to.

Howley came in and dunked on the next possession.

Adenrele blocked the following LBSU possession and Hawkins managed to add to his monstrous point total by scoring a lob he threw into the air as he was falling to his back. In case fans missed it, he did it again soon after for good measure. Meanwhile, junior Tyler Les brought his usual fearlessness to the court and made some stellar three-pointers of his own.

As the game dwindled down, UC Davis was gearing up to pull off one of the biggest upsets ESPN could have expected to air this season.

With two and a half minutes left, the 49ers held a slight advantage over the Aggies, but the Pavilion went silent as Hawkins fell to the ground and failed to get back up.

His leg prevented him from finishing the game and

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Arkansas man, woman convicted of Davis carjacking On Thursday, 34-year-old James Hammons of Rodgers, Ark. and 39-year-old Sara Erbe of Fayetteville, Ark. were convicted of multiple counts stemming from an Oct. 8, 2012 carjacking in Davis, according to a Yolo County press release.

Hammons pled no contest to six crimes — carjacking, evading a police officer, vehicle theft, receipt of stolen property, possession of marijuana for sale and possession of personal information of 10 or more people. He agreed to serve 12 years and four months in state prison.

Erbe pled no contest to three crimes, including vehicle theft, possession of marijuana for sale and possession of personal information of 10 or more people. She will serve two years and eight months in county prison.

On Oct. 8, Davis police officer Trevor Edens spotted a suspiciously-painted car at the Motel 6 on Chiles Road. Edens checked the license plate and determined the car was stolen. Hammons left his motel room and fled when Edens attempted to speak to him.

Hammons escaped to a nearby Taco Bell drive-thru and tried to get in a car with a family, but the father was able to stop him.

Hammons then went to the front of the drivethru line and told a woman in a car that he

had a gun. The woman cooperated with Hammons, who took off in her car.

Edens pursued Hammons in a high-speed car chase. Hammons drove through the Yolo Bypass Wildlife area, crashing through the metal gate and driving into a marsh. He then left the car and ran into a cornfield.

The Yolo County press release stated the California Highway Patrol provided a helicopter, in which they were able to locate Hammons through thermal imaging. The Davis Police K9 eventually caught Hammons, who was found with a driver’s license and other personal information belonging to a 19-year-old man from Oklahoma.

At the Motel 6, Davis Police noticed Erbe leave Hammons’ motel room. The police discovered personal identification information stolen from 60 people across the United States. Officers also discovered stolen license plates, stolen property, methamphetamine, over two pounds of marijuana and other narcotics paraphernalia.

Hammons and Erbe have outstanding arrest warrants in Arkansas as well. They will both be sentenced on April 11 at the Yolo County Superior Court.

— Claire Tan

City considering fire department staffing changes At Tuesday evening’s city council meeting, the Davis City Council voted to postpone the decision to staff fire engines with fewer firefighters until it decides the budget for the next fiscal year.

Currently, each fire station — Downtown Station 31, West Davis Station 32 and South Davis Station 33 — has at least four staff members. The city council proposed to reduce the number of staff members to three

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per fire engine, in order to add two firefighters to a rescue unit at Station 31 on Fifth Street. This proposal would save $360,000 annually.

The council voted that a decision must be made by June 30 and a formal check-in will occur on May 14. The budget for the next fiscal year will be introduced on April 9.

— Claire Tan

Forecast Whip out your summer clothing, because it’s going to be unusually warm this week. Now is the time to take advantage of the warm and sunny weather; finals week is approaching!

Justin Tang, atmospheric science major Aggie Forecasting Team

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UC Davis alumnus Aaron Salit worked with the ASUCD Bike Barn to garner donations for Soksabike, a company working to boost tourism in Battambang, Cambodia.

By HANNAH KRAMER Aggie Features Writer

When going abroad, participants travel to distant countries and are introduced to new sights, foods, experiences and people. But there is more to traveling the world than personal gain and memories; there is the opportunity to make a difference in rural communities — places where one extra pair of hands and one additional set of skills have a weighty impact. Few understand this sentiment better than UC Davis graduate Aaron Salit, co-manager of Soksabike Tours, a Cambodian cycling shop and tour service with the intent of providing jobs to college-age locals as well as fostering cultural understanding with international visitors.

Salit worked at the Bike Barn throughout his undergraduate years, and upon earning his degree in food science and technology, decided to travel the world.

While in India trying to figure out where to go next, he searched online for his next destination. After one Skype conversation with a future co-worker, Salit found himself heading to Battambang, Cambodia to volunteer with the Kinyei organization.

Kinyei is a social enterprise that focuses on providing work experience to local university-age students of rural Cambodia.

Battambang is a rural city, home to 250,000 and surrounded by farmland.

The town receives a very small amount of tourism for the local sights, and until recently, there wasn’t a way for travelers to get to know the people and the culture of Cambodia. That all began to change with Kinyei. In addition to opening the 1½ St. Café, which serves as both a local coffee house and a center for community programs, Kinyei started Soksabike, a bike shop that offers tours of Battambang and the surrounding areas.

“We wanted to make sure that we were teaching ecotourism,” Salit said.

“We want [tourists] to understand what tourism in this part of the world should be focused on — on the people, on the community. We wanted to show that [aspect of responsible tourism] through a bike tour, through having really personable guides who love what they do and want to share their history, their way of life, their families.”

Each tour is led by a local student, and the day begins with Cambodiangrown coffee and breakfast at the 1½ St. Café. Participants hop on bikes and take a roughly 25-kilometer (roughly 15 miles) ride, making stops at many homes, farms and businesses, where tourists are encouraged to get to know the locals personally and learn about their culture. An alligator farm, a traditional Krama textile, a plantation, an inside look at prahok (fish paste) production, rice-paper making, and fruit drying and preparation are all stops on the all-day tour.

But the tours aren’t all about seeing the sights and tasting the local flavors, as the focus lies on imparting a newfound respect and connection to the Cambodian culture and way of life.

“Soksabike is about person-to-person connections, rather than just showing a tourist another country. The

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guides love talking to people, to practice English, to share their histories and stories,” Salit said.

Forty years ago, the country went through a mass genocide in which the Khmer Rouge regime systematically killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians.

“There is a new, resilient generation trying to pick itself up, and they are focused on making sure people understand their culture and who they are as a people. To talk to the new generation, see how they feel, how their culture is changing, and how it’s preserved ... It’s the most amazing cultural exchange that I’ve ever had,” Salit said.

When Salit began volunteering, the shop was operated with a small fleet of mostly older bikes, limiting both the amount of people who could take the tour as well as the quality of the ride.

Once Salit entered the program, he headed a major overhaul. He envisioned working with and training the locals to repair, upkeep and run their own fleet.

“They never had volunteers who were bike-oriented. Nobody knew bikes as a mechanic like I did. We have a Cambodian mechanic who knows how to work on shop bikes, like, the oldest cruisers you see going around Davis — the really old bikes. So when I first jumped in … we raised some money and bought seven mountain bikes,” Salit said.

Getting new bikes, however, proved to be only the beginning of Salit’s plan to reinvigorate the bike shop. As any good Davis biking resident understands, the proper upkeep and repair of bikes are crucial to their longevity.

Salit twice travelled 10 hours on a bus to Bangkok to purchase crucial bike parts and wrenches, but soon found that obtaining any specialized equipment needed for keeping the bikes in tip-top condition was going to be much harder to do.

“It’s impossible to get anything shipped out to their location, as a lot of freight brokers and well-known companies don’t want to deal with areas that aren’t perfectly geographically defined, for liability reasons,” said Bike Barn Unit Director and fourth-year political science and economics double major Basile Senesi.

Fourth-year linguistics major and Bike Barn employee Kathryn Burris commented on the frustration of not having adequate tools to fix a bike.

Burris traveled abroad to Portugal, where she worked at a bed-andbreakfast that rented out a handful of European-style bikes.

“I can definitely see that not having the right tools to work on specific types of bikes makes it tough — so many of the parts are specialized. I know what Aaron was going through,” Burris said.

With lack of local availability and an inability to purchase needed tools directly from companies, Salit reached out to his friends at the ASUCD Bike Barn.

The Bike Barn began to save gently used equipment, lubricants and tools that were ordinarily given to the do-it-yourself location at the Bike Garage, and instead donated these tools to Soksabike.

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MONDAY Biomedical Engineering Departmental Seminar 2 p.m.

1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility Join us for a talk by faculty candidate for the Mechanistic Modeling Faculty position, Dr. Sharon Aviran from UC Berkeley. Her talk will be on “Modeling and Highthroughput Analysis of RNA Structure Mapping Experiments.”

TUESDAY Comparative Aspects of Obesity in Cats Noon to 1 p.m.

110 Gladys Valley Join Dr. Margarethe Hoenig, professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for a presentation on the comparative aspects of obesity in our feline friends.

WEDNESDAY Beyond the Bush Pump: Microworlds of Humanitarian Design Noon to 1:30 p.m.

1246 Social Sciences and Humanities Join us for a talk by Peter Redfield, associate professor of anthropology and STS scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

THURSDAY FLASH: A New Choreography

8 to 10 p.m.

Wright Main Theater Come see a new work devised and choreographed by Granada artist-inresidence Qudus Onikeku, whose Yoruba culture-based work often fuses hiphop, capoeira and Nigerian dance with acrobatics and explores themes of identity and exile.

FRIDAY ‘Richard III’ 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wyatt Pavilion Theater Come down for this free performance of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, presented by ShakespeareOn-a-Shoestring. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

SATURDAY ‘Richard III’ 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wyatt Pavilion Theater Come down for this free performance of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, presented by ShakespeareOn-a-Shoestring. For more information, go to theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

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cannot be compared to the feeling of bringing home a Big West Championship banner to hang on the ceiling.

“You know, tonight was disappointing. It hurts and it should. I told them that.

But tonight isn’t the end game. The tournament is the end game and that’s where we want to be,” Les said.

The Aggies are headed to Anaheim as the sixth seed. They suffered another disappointing loss on Saturday night when UC Irvine was able to charge back from an abysmal first quarter to squeak out a win.

Unfortunately for UC Davis, they held a first-half lead of 47-28, but failed to close it out as they were outscored 60-38 in the second half. The final tally stood at a shocking 8885 for a disappointed UC Davis team.

Despite being 0-2 this week, they proved that they can go toe-to-toe with the Big West’s best teams, and if they continue to work hard, they will see the ball fall their way.

Losing Saturday night’s game marred Senior Night for Mancasola and Howley, but both are business-like players. There is no doubt that they will bounce back from this and lead the team to greater heights in Southern California.

“Howley plays his butt off every single game. It’s been a joy to play with him and this whole group. I will always cherish these memories,” Mancasola said.

Ultimately, the Aggies have to center themselves and carry their poise to Anaheim.

“We’re going to prepare as best we can. We have to keep at it if we want to see the right kind of results,” Les said.

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“Corey isn’t just the best player on our team,” Sypkens said. “He’s the craziest player I have ever balled with.”

Mancasola regrouped his crew and inbounded the ball to Sypkens for an immediate three. With the game standing at 77-76 LBSU, the Aggies were able to force an LBSU miss and shot-clock violation after the 49ers were able to grab their own rebound. With the Aggies in possession of the ball as the minutes closed, victory seemed to be in their own hands.

“The goal was to get it to Sypkens,” head coach Jim Les said. “If that failed, Paolo needed to penetrate and make a play.”

LBSU anticipated the Sypkens three-point buzzer beater, and their defense was able to shut that option down. Mancasola recognized that and charged the basket. Somehow, he managed to see a wide-open Howley through a mess of players. Howley caught the ball and shot a wide-open three that knocked the rim and bounced out.

Just like that, the possibility of a Cinderella victory was over.

“Honestly, I’d give Howley another 10 looks like that,” Les said. “And I made sure I told him that.”

It was quiet in the Pavilion for a few seconds and then the Aggie Pack and the Band-uh! kicked into the UC Davis Alma Mater. It was an odd mixture of pride, amazement and disappointment in the building. Everybody wanted a win, but fans were just amazed by the level of play the Aggies brought to the game.

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SENATE BRIEFS ASUCD Senate meetings are scheduled to begin Thursdays at 6:10 p.m. Times listed are according to the clock at the March 7 meeting location, the Memorial Union's Mee Room. The ASUCD president is not required to attend senate meetings.

Meeting called to order at 6:10 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at 7:10 p.m. to support the school at the nationally televised basketball game.

Meeting called back to order at 9:39 p.m.

Rebecca Sterling, ASUCD president, absent Yena Bae, ASUCD vice president, present Liam Burke, ASUCD senator, pro tempore, present Armando Figueroa, ASUCD senator, absent

Maxwell Kappes, ASUCD senator, present Pamela Nonga, ASUCD senator, present Felicia Ong, ASUCD senator, present Alyson Sagala, ASUCD senator, present Amrit Sahota, ASUCD senator, absent Miles Thomas, ASUCD senator, present Tal Topf, ASUCD senator, present Reuben Torres, ASUCD senator, present Ryan Wonders, ASUCD senator, present Yee Xiong, ASUCD senator, present

Presentation Representatives of the ASUCD Court discussed a question presented to them by the Senate several weeks ago; namely, a question asking for specification on its original question of whether ASUCD unit directors can take a political stance during an election. The Court found the question as asked to be essentially the same as the original question, therefore seeing no need

BIKE Cont. from front page “We saw that Aaron was making huge strides in giving back to the community and developing the local economy. It was an opportunity to help one of our former employees and to help a community better than cash assistance,” Senesi said.

Burris said that the Bike Barn’s choice to become involved wasn’t a difficult one.

“We have so much at our disposal, and at the end of the day, we are making a significant impact on Aaron’s program. He’s a great example of someone who is doing work that is actually making a difference,” Burris said.

The tools and equipment made an immediate difference to Soksabike, one that Salit sees with long-term implications.

“The great thing is, they weren’t parts, they were all tools, so all of

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unanimously.

Consideration of old legislation

Senate Bill 48, to implement the LongRange Plan for Lobby Corps, was tabled.

Much information had been added to the bill since it was reviewed by the Internal Affairs Commission (IAC), the External Affairs Commission (EAC) and the Environmental Policy and Planning Commission (EPPC). The bill was tabled and it was decided that the new bill would be reviewed by the commissions before it went back to the Senate table.

Senate Bill 62, authored by Burke, coauthored by Kappes, increases the number of violation points in an ASUCD election associated with not turning in expenditure forms. Several people at the table expressed concern that the bill would lead to people committing fraud and not turning in their expenditure forms; as a result, the text of the bill was amended to say that failure to turn in post-election expenditure forms would be an automatic disqualification from the election. The bill passed unanimously.

Senate Bill 64, authored by Sergio Cano, co-authored by Wonders, to renew the Student Health and Wellness Committee (SHAWC) for another year passed

[them] can be used again and again.

They even sent us a truing stand, so we can straighten the wheels, which I don’t think there is anything like it in Cambodia. It’s really rad,” Salit said.

Both sides of the exchange expressed interest in working together in the future. As for Soksabike, with the arrival of their new equipment, Salit can continue to train the local staff to repair and work on the bikes.

Each staff member who is trained moves Kinyei a little closer to its end goal — to get to a point where the 1½ St. Café and Soksabike sustains themselves fiscally and are handed over to the Cambodian staff entirely.

When reflecting on Soksabike and Kinyei’s impact in Battambang, Salit said that some of the cultural growth can be attributed to his and his fellow volunteers’ work.

“Tourism is a big boost; we’ve had great reviews for the bike tours online. The 1½ St. Café is the major hangout for people, and it’s the place for workshops. We have seen a

Meeting adjourned at 11:30 p.m.

Open positions within ASUCD can be found at vacancy.ucdavis.edu.

ROHIT RAVIKUMAR compiled this Senate brief. He can be reached at campus@ theaggie.org.

lot of tourism in there, people coming out to support the little city,” Salit said.

For those who share the Bike Barn’s interest in wanting to help, there is more to the equation than monetary donations.

“We always want volunteers at the 1½ St. Café and Soskabike. And if you are traveling through Battambang, we host open workshops where you can teach a class on anything from greeting card-making to philosophy and can always find a place for you to help,” Salit said.

According to Salit, aspiring travelers, interested volunteers, bike aficionados, those interested in becoming café managers, and marketing or advertising students who are interested in volunteering remotely are all welcome to join in and share their skills by contacting Salit at aaron@soksabike.com.

HANNAH KRAMER can be reached at features@ theaggie.org.

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4 MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013

THE CALIFORNIA AGGIE

UC Davis baseball difficulties on the field continue Aggies drop first two games against Bakersfield The Aggies continue to struggle as they faced off against Cal State Bakersfield over the weekend. They lost the first two games to the Roadrunners and have lost three straight games.

UC Davis currently has a record of 6-9 and has dropped eight of its last 10 games after starting the season 4-1.

Three pitchers relieved him to complete the game as the Aggie batters could only muster up five hits against the pitching staff.

Coach Matt Vaughn believes that right now is a good time in the season to make a surge to get over the .500 mark.

"We need to have a good effort on Friday and continue to get better playing the game. We are hovering around .500 and have to find a way to put together consistent efforts," he said.

down the left field line. He later capped off his day by hitting a three-run homer in the fifth inning to finish with four RBI. Senior Jeff McKenzie threw an impressive complete game and his ERA now sits at 1.93. On 119 pitches, he allowed three walks and struck out four.

Junior Nick Lynch had two hits and so did junior Steven Patterson. The Aggies finished with eight hits on the day, but struggled to get hits in key scoring situations.

Tuesday — UC Davis 0, Sacramento State 14 Sacramento State jumped out early as it scored nine runs in the first three innings in Dobbins Stadium. The Hornets improved to 7-5 with the win.

Junior Alex Sachs started the game for the Aggies and pitched into the third until he was relieved. He struggled against the bats of the Hornets, giving up nine hits and seven runs.

In the ninth inning, the Hornets added five more runs, capped off by freshman Nathan Lukes' two-run home run.

The starter for Sacramento State, junior Hunter Greenwood, allowed just one hit in five innings of work and struck out one.

Friday — UC Davis 0, CSU Bakersfield 11 The runs came in bunches for the Roadrunners on Friday, too many for the Aggies to handle. They scored five runs in the third and fifth innings to accumulate most of their runs.

Junior Harry Stanwyck started the game for the Aggies and pitched four innings and allowed five runs, three earned, on six hits.

Freshman reliever Spencer Henderson pitched an inning and allowed five runs, a walk and struck out one.

Bakersfield State accumulated 15 hits and senior Dylan Christensen had five of them.

In the third inning, he hit an RBI-double

Saturday — UC Davis 5, CSU Bakersfield 12 The Roadrunners started the scoring in the first inning, but the Aggies answered right back with two runs of their own.

In the bottom half of the first, Patterson singled in a run and senior Paul Politi scored on an error, giving UC Davis a 2-1 advantage.

However, in the third inning, the Roadrunners scored five runs and took control of the game. Junior Cael Brockmeyer had four hits on the day, which included a two-run home run to left field in the third.

Christensen added a sacrifice fly and the Roadrunners added two more RBI singles to cap off the inning.

By LUKE BAE

Aggie Sports Writer

Sophomore Tino Lipson drove in a run on an RBI single in the fourth. Senior Mike Mazzara drove in two runs in the seventh inning on a double.

Sophomore Spencer Koopmans pitched two innings to start the game for the Aggies and allowed three runs. Sophomore Robert Parucha and freshman Zach Williams pitched in relief and both allowed four runs.

Brockmeyer homered again in the seventh to leadoff the inning, as the Roadrunners added two more runs in the frame on three hits.

Senior Scott Brattvet started the game for CSU Bakersfield and pitched well. He pitched six and one-third innings and allowed five runs on nine hits. He walked four batters and did not strike out anyone.

The Aggies’ offense, which has struggled as of late, generated 10 hits, with Politi and Patterson each having two.

UC Davis will finish playing on Sunday against Cal State Bakersfield before returning to action against Nevada at home on Tuesday.

LUKE BAE can be reached at sports@theaggie.org.

UC Davis women’s basketball stumbles down the stretch Aggies lose a tough battle on Senior Night The Aggies wrapped up their season at home on Senior Night. Unfortunately, the women’s basketball team couldn’t send seniors Blair Shinoda and Cortney French off with a win in their final home game of their career.

The Aggies managed to finish the season 12-17 overall and 7-11 in conference, good enough for the seventh seed in the playoffs. They head down to the Bren Events Center in Irvine, Calif. this week for the first round of playoffs.

The crowd at the Pavilion was filled with friends, family and fans alike who wished to cheer on Shinoda and French to victory. However, this did not happen, as Pacific managed to close out a tightly contested 59-54 game.

The first-place Tigers eventually managed to gain control with about six minutes left in the game. The Aggies played hard, but simply could not find the offensive spark to win the game. UC Davis — normally fairly reliable from beyond the arc — struggled to make anything, shooting a tough 4-19 from three-point land.

Pacific started out sluggish and sloppy, unable to capitalize on some good looks at the basket early on. This allowed UC Davis to jump to a 16-8 lead with 12:14 to go in the first half. However, from there the Tigers unleashed a full-court press which hounded the Aggies all night. Pacific's pressure forced many turnovers and took a lot of time off the clock all game long.

That being said, the Aggies managed to enter into halftime tied at 32-32. The main reason that UC Davis kept close to Pacific was the superb play of freshman guard Molly Greubel. Greubel had a career night in her first meeting with the Tigers back in early January. This game was no different, as she scored seven of her 16 points in the first half. Greubel also displayed awareness and good hands as she racked up four first-half rebounds.

"She's a competitor and Pacific is the number-one team in our conference," said head coach Jennifer Gross. "She is tenacious, and she does not back down

from anyone."

Despite Greubel's gritty game, UC Davis could not keep up with the Tigers, in large part due to the Aggies' shooting struggles. French, the Aggies' three-point sniper, could not get a bucket to drop, as she was 0-5 from beyond the arc. Sophomore Sydnee Fipps also struggled from beyond the arc, going 1-4.

While the Aggies' shooting was off, they still did the little things to keep the game close, especially the seniors. Shinoda's leadership was evident in the small surge UC Davis had in the second half. Her amazing court vision and passing skills led to some easy layups for the Aggies.

French's hustle and determination was evident in the way she rebounded and dove for loose balls.

"What she did tonight is what she did her whole career," Gross said. "She is absolutely the glue that holds this team together."

As for French, the Aggies’ three-point specialist, Gross had only positive things to say.

"With Cortney, we said it before the game. If you could pick out every characteristic that goes with Aggie pride, that is who she is," Gross said. "It is always about helping other people and what she can do for her teammates."

However in the end, the Aggies' shooting slump was just too much for them to overcome. The Tigers eventually widened their lead to six points, from a jumper by senior Brianna Johnson, with only 6:14 left in the game. From there UC Davis just could not find the offensive spark to bring them back into the game.

The Aggies worked hard, and the seniors showcased their work ethic and determination in front of the home crowd for the last time in their careers. It unfortunately ended in a loss, but the Aggies do not have time to dwell on it. They head to Irvine to play Cal State Northridge in the first round of conference playoffs on Tuesday.

— Kenneth Ling