Volume 24, Issue 30 - May 30, 2002

Armando’s Mexican Trip Journal begins pg. 3

Snake Dogs as art pg. 8-9

Baseball, tennis rack up honors pg. 11, 13

Volume 24

Issue 30

May 30, 2002

http://metonline.mscd.edu

Armando’s Mexican Trip Journal begins pg. 3

Snake Dogs as art pg. 8-9

Baseball, tennis rack up honors pg. 11, 13

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May 30, 2002

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Heading South of the border Metropolitan-staffer to take part in 26-year-old, studyin-Mexico program

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Armando Manzanares The Metropolitan Metro has seen many things come and go since its establishment in 1965: professors, programs, even departments. One program that has proven a Metro mainstay is the Language and Culture Institute. This summer marks the Institute's 26th year of operation and evolution.

The Institute originated in winter 1976. The Department of Chicano Studies and Modern Languages allied to introduce a new form of learning to students: a language and culture experience rolled into one. The first program offered by the Institute involved studying abroad in Mexico. The original Mexico program was only offered in the summer and was for a total of six weeks. It was reorganized in 1979 and split the six-week curriculum to three weeks of study at Metro and three weeks of study abroad in Mexico.

1984 saw the integration of a two-week winter tour of the Yucatán Peninsula with concentration given to Mayan culture. The program evolved further in the spring of 1993 when Metro, in conjunction with the American Institute for Foreign Studies, inaugurated the Guadalajara semester. The initial effort was a 12-week program offered only in spring. The summer offering then was only five-and-a-half weeks and was part of the summer program already instituted in Mexico.

Guadalajara, where Armando will be studying this summer at the University of Guadalajara.

map coutesy - http://www.mexicosi.com Currently, Metro runs the program with the University of Guadalajara and offers it every semester.

The guiding force behind the induction and evolution of the program is David Conde. Conde is the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and professor of Modern Languages. He, along with professor Josafat Curti of the Modern Languages department, coordinates the Guadalajara semester with the help of University staff.

This semester brings a new aspect to the program: International Business in Mexico. This new addition to

the normal study abroad program in Guadalajara adds another collaborator to the table, professor Larry Lopez of the Management department.

Lopez is excited to be a part of "this impressive and beautiful program that has established roots not only here at Metro but in the Denver community."

The program is the result of years of hard work and determination from the program's coordinators. Now the Management department will be adding its efforts,

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Armando’s Journal: Eager for first trip abroad

courtesy - www.cepe.udg.mx This is one of many churches in Guadalajara, the “City of Roses.” The city was founded in 1542.

On The Cover: St. Francis Center flew its flag high on Memorial Day.

Shannon Davidson – The Metropolitan

I myself am currently enrolled and the United States by the U.S. ready to take part in this summer's government during that time period.

Nonetheless, my journey will be Guadalajara Semester.

I will be taking part in the exactly that: a journey into my culture International Business paradigm. I'm and language merged with my ideology eager to get going being this is actually and construct as a U.S. citizen, as my my first ever trip abroad and my first father before me and his father before ever undertaking in studying Spanish. him and his father before him and his I am Latin American of Mexican father before him. A professor recently decent, so this program is a particularly related to me a proverb of Confucius: precarious one. There are many social "When the student is ready, the teacher stigmas that I already confront being of will come."

Armando my ethnic make-up in the United States I will be recording this journey as a Manzanares and now I'll confront in Mexico. journal from Mexico. The Metropolitan will run it through each summer issue Know our language was stripped, and upon my return in the fall. I beaten and seized from us during the Twentieth century. Our culture was banned from welcome you to join me on my journey as I report to you popular society, and assimilation was forced upon my from Guadalajara, providing updates on the program, the city and my experiences. I look forward to sharing ethnicity to that of Anglo America.

Those of you unfamiliar with the history and my experience with you. struggle of my people I urge you to take one of the many If you'd like more information about this program or Chicano Studies courses offered here at Metro. the other programs the MSCD Language and Culture Those of you who understand are aware of the antics Institute offers, visit their web site: and processes that were decreed on Latin Americans in http://www.mscd.edu/~mdl/lci.htm.

‘My journey will be exactly that: a journey into my culture and language...’

4 THE METROPOLITAN MAY 30, 2002

GLBTSS office to move down a floor Walter Gant The Metropolitan The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual Student Services office is moving to a new location sometime during the summer.

The move was supported by all the members of the Student Advisory Committee to the Auaria Board. Karen Benson, the director of the program, was encouraged by all the support she received for the move.

“It felt good to have widespread support for this move,” Benson said.

The office will be moving from Tivoli 311 to Tivoli 213. The new office

will be located between the Metro New Student Orientation office and We get to more of a feel. the Clicks copy shop.

The move gives the GLBT -Karen Benson, director Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual Student Services office maximum space to do lots of things, Benson said.

The office space will also be used to betoffice. A lot of students didn’t know that “We get to create more of a triit was a tri-institutional office. This ter utilize the speakers that come on institutional feel,” she said. change will allow the students from behalf of the program.

With the office located in the Metro CU-Denver and CCD to take advantage Other events planned for the GLBT Student Life office, some Community office include discussion groups of the office’s services without feeling College of Denver and University of unwelcome. throughout the summer. There will be Colorado at Denver students may have three during the month of June. The This change will also allow the felt unwelcome. growth of discussion groups, study first is Gender Girdle in our Public The move will also make the office groups, the library, and other resources Schools. It takes place on June 5. more visible. that the office carries.

For more information about this or Accessibility and the growth of new There are also plans to have more other things happening in the GLBT programs are expected with the move. information available for departments office, visit the office in Tivoli 311 soon, The move also allows more space to implement into their curriculum. or 213 in the future. for students to come in and relax in the

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Metro alumni make Project: Bubble Puppy Short science fiction film made on zero budget, donated time Christine Morgan The Metropolitan When you think of a “labor of love,” making a short movie probably isn’t the first image that comes to mind. But a small conglomerate of Denver artists has done just that.

Project: Bubble Puppy is an approximately 30-minute long science fiction “dramedy,” a combination of drama and comedy.

Writer Sean Guerro formed the foundation of the project when he created the “Welpe Luft-Blassen,” German for Bubble Puppy, a magnificent metal apparatus consisting of old helicopter parts and various metal pieces salvaged from a local scrapyard. The movie features the sculpture.

The cast and crew of Project: Bubble Puppy, including three Metro alumni, donate the time, energy and materials necessary for such a creation.

“Everyone is very good at what they do,” says Guerro.

The crew includes Metro alumni Dave Flomberg, text and music editor; Kyle Loving, co-writer and actor; and Philip Lucero, director of photography and movie editor. The rest of the crew consists of Thomas Ackerman, director of photography; Dawn Addington, script supervisor and hair and make-

up stylist; and Guerro, writer, producer and actor.

Guerro explains that graduates of film school follow trends.

“They get big grants and use fancy cameras and film,” he says.

“Independent films have a 99.9% chance to fail. We’re working on an art project.

It’s a labor of love.”

It must be love, because the movie is being produced with a zero budget, which makes its creation Shannon Davidson – The Metropolitan difficult. Scheduling is one of the biggest challenges because The Bubble Puppy, shown here, was created by Sean Guerro and will be used in the movie Project: Bubble everyone supplying Puppy. The movie is a dramedy about the time machine Bubble Puppy's transportation back to Germany. the resources has to Guerro, along with several Metro alumni, are in the production process of this short movie. work around his or her regular paying the discovery of a contraption inventcreation, Guerro says. All the while, profession. ed by Count S. Von Teleki, a leading the viewer gets a sense that “someGuerro says that the movie is World War II German propulsion thing’s not quite right,” and, he says, autobiographical in a sense. engineer. The Count disappeared over “the viewer gets taken.”

“The movie and sculpture came 40 years ago, so his grandson is conGuerro’s inspiration came from together at about the same time,” he tacted about the machine. To save visiting a castle near Bordeaux, says. “It all just worked.” money on transportation costs, Lyle France, that was converted into a Project: Bubble Puppy is based on and Larry Larue are hired to get the World War II museum. He’s done

‘The movie and sculpture came together at about the same time. It all just worked.’

- Sean Guerro, writer and producer of Project: Bubble Puppy

Lawn greetings

invention from New Mexico to Los Angeles, from which it will be brought back to its fatherland. Lyle and Larry’s antics are detailed in the movie.

Lyle and Larry discover that the Bubble Puppy is a time machine, and it takes them back to the day of its

Chris Lawson – The Metropolitan

Two students arrive on campus from Speer Boulevard May 28. They are walking past a lawn sculpture displaying the initals of Auraria's three schools.

homework for this movie script.

“I read a lot on technology,” he says. He feels it helps keep the movie in context.

The movie is based in World War II and modern-day settings with a 1950s sci-fi theme. Guerro went for the inventive from all angles when creating Project: Bubble Puppy.

“Usually when people think of a space ship, they think of Star Wars. I wanted a more Buck Rogers feel, when theme created mystery, instead of modern day science fiction,” he says.

To achieve its World War II nostalgia, the movie is shot on 8mm film.

“The black-and-white gives a 1940s feel,” Guerro says.

Guerro wrote Project: Bubble Puppy with a nontraditional twist amidst a modern Star Wars sciencefiction era. The movie’s story line, production and promotion are all innovative.

“The problem with a lot of filmmakers is that they go to film school and become clones or copy-cats,” he says.

The picture’s production, post-production and endorsement will be covered in the months to come along with interviews with the cast, crew and audience.

There is a website to introduce Project: Bubble Puppy and its cast and crew. Check it out at www.projectbubblepuppy.com .

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MEXICO from 3 shadowing the Language and Culture Institute and Modern Languages department in what they have been doing for the past 26 years.

Taught by a professor of the University of Guadalajara, this new program will be structured in two five-week modules.

The first five weeks will comprise a Doing Business in Mexico course, which is two hours long and taught in English, and the normal Spanish language intensive course, which will be shortened from the regular four hour time to two hours like the business course.

Students will spend a total of four

hours per day in the classroom regardless of what study paradigm is chosen.

The second five weeks will again consist of two hours of language intensive in the classroom; however, students will now assume an internship with a Mexican corporation for an average of four hours a day, five days a week, Monday through Friday.

The internship will be combined with weekend excursions to neighboring historical and cultural sites such as Guanajuato, Zacetecas, Michoacan and Puerto Vallarta.

"Keep in mind this is the first go around for the business program, and we'll be going down with a clean slate", said Lopez.

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OPINION

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9/11: not Bush’s fault David Hindman Opinion Editor With the 2004 election already in Democrats’ sights, it seems they will take any political shot they can at the Bush Administration, no matter how cheap.

The latest consists of implications President Bush knew about the possibility of a terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C. a full month in advance, yet, did nothing.

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt rolled out the old, What did he know; how much did he know; and when did he know? spiel, reminiscent of the Nixon era.

However, we are not talking about corruption. At most, we are talking about errors in judgment and the flow of information -- errors made not by Bush and his cabinet, but by intelligence services (or spy agencies).

As Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote in a piece that appeared recently in The Washington Post, “The president is not expected to work as an intelligence case officer. It is not his job to drag from different agencies various bits of information, murky clues and suspicions that, considered together, begin to reveal the dimensions of a clear and present danger.”

So what did the President know before 9/11? According to an article in the May 27 Time, the Presidential Daily

Brief from the CIA contained information that, “al-Qaeda might be tempted to hijack airliners” and use hostages as bargaining chips for the release of prisoners.

We all know Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network totally redefined the word “hijacking” last September.

However, a full month before that redefinition, Bush would have been thinking in terms of an old-fashioned hijacking.

The kind where a plane sits on the tarmac at an airport while officials negotiate the release of hostages.

That kind of hijacking, while serious, does not sound like the kind of threat that calls for a state of national emergency and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to beef up airport security and national borders.

Bush had already become concerned about al-Qaeda’s capabilities to mount an attack from within the United States. However, the information he needed was floating around in the bowels of the FBI, according to Time.

Bush didn’t stand a chance of preventing 9/11 because of multiple communication failures, most of which can be blamed on the FBI, an agency that is infamous in government circles for either refusing, or failing, to share information.

Bush should have been told that an FBI agent developed a memo warning of the possibility of al-Qaeda operatives in U.S. flight schools. He also should have been told by the CIA that al-Qaeda had made plans as early as 1994, during the Clinton administration, to turn airplanes into flying bombs.

The FBI’s information-sharing problems date back as far as 1942.

According to Mark Riebling’s book

Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, competition between the intelligence agencies is foundational.

Because of its law enforcement and prosecutorial mentality, the FBI was soon found insufficient to gather intelligence and use counterintelligence (the thwarting of foreign spies through the use of information and deception).

The FBI wanted to make arrests before trying to gain information by observing foreign spies. This left the United States at a disadvantage.

The solution was deemed to be the formation of a new agency. The Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, was formed in order to alleviate these problems. The attitude of FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, however, was that OSS stood for “Oh So Stupid.”

The competition between agencies began and, in an ever-widening circle of complication, official functions and personality differences, the competitiveness became systematized.

The problem to overcome has little to do with Bush’s shortcomings.

What we need is a major overhaul of the policies and thinking of agencies that have been dysfunctional for 60 years.

The FBI and CIA must learn to cooperate with each other.

Communication between the agencies must become efficient and seamless.

The only way Bush can be blamed for intelligence failures is if he, like previous Presidents, fails to push for reforms within the intelligence community before he leaves office.

In that regard, maybe 9/11 was a wake-up call for the intelligence community.

Summer Rules: get the most out of yours

Walter Gant Staff Columnist The summertime time is here and everybody is trying to beat the heat. As we all know, a lot goes on in the summertime.

The key is to have as much fun and get into as little trouble as possible. I am here to tell you how to get the most out of summer.

Rule number one... stay as cool as possible. Never let anybody see you sweat.

That means that the women are wearing next to nothing. Halter tops, tennis skirts, all that fun stuff.

If you are a man, then it is all about wife-beaters, t-shirts and jerseys. If you are a big man, keep a towel or a headband present at all times. If you have a towel make sure it is something cool like Polo or Nike.

Keep a fan on all the time. Air conditioners, swamp coolers, the nearest swim-

ming pool and beer also do the trick. The key is to do whatever keeps you cool. If these first weeks are any indication, it will be a long, hot summer.

Rule number two... always know your surroundings. It is summertime and the knuckleheads come out at an alarming pace. Recognize that this is the season when anything can and will happen.

Understand that sometimes the nearest exit is where you need to be.

Know what neighborhoods you are in and how to leave. If you are around some girl who is with a man, know where he is at.

Girls, do the same thing. Either way you need to be aware of everything around you, period.

Rule number three... is a simple one. Respect the idea of ladies night at any club. No matter if you hate techno.

Conserve your money for other events.

Take a crew of women, hit up all their cheap drinks and have a ball with the evening. Dance, meet new women and keep repeating the cycle.

The real truth is, every night is a ladies’ night somewhere.

Rule number four... respect the summertime music. The music sets the

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tone for the evening. That one song that is playing when you meet that one person will always be memorable.

Not only that, but the majority of the actual fun music comes out during this time of the year. The music is never as gloomy or depressing. It’s all upbeat, making every day that much more enjoyable.

Rule number five a... enjoy every barbeque you can get your hands on. It is the season for cookouts. Every weekend somebody is having one so make sure you get a piece. It is another one of those great things that only happens in summertime.

Rule number five b... make sure you get some watermelon. You aren’t at a good barbeque if a watermelon is not somewhere in the vicinity.

Rule number six... enjoy drinking but don’t get out of hand. There are three major holidays during the summer and police recognize this.

If you have had too much to drink, don’t drive. You already know that you put too many people at risk when you do that.

You don’t want a DUI or a vehicular homicide on your resume. Also, if the girl you like is too drunk, catch her another time.

You don’t want a date rape on your resume either. Men and women, take care of your friends.

The best rule is to really enjoy this time of year. There is a lot going on. Just be a part of it. Go to the movies, the bar, the club, Elitches, the zoo, the park, and the pool. Do it all and do it safely.

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reporters john r. crane, walter gant, christine morgan, armando manzanares

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Printmaker Metro visiting professor talks to strangers about ‘snake dogs,’ makes prints

story and photos by Joe Linhoff Special to The Metropolitan

The man in the black coat stopped for a drink of water and talked about good whiskey on an Arkansas afternoon.

John David Boyd, six years old, poured a drink of well-water for the man in black and heard about ‘snake dogs’ and fighting cocks.

The man’s brown terrier, trained to hunt copperhead and water moccasin snakes, was anxious to move on. Boyd’s house had an outhouse in the back and a big cactus out front.

The man walked on down the road carrying his .22-rifle and following his dog. Boyd never saw the dog kill a snake, but this and other memories of growing up in a four-room Arkansas house, without running water, became the foundation of his Intaglio-art images today.

“Snake dogs are not socially relevant now, but in those days they had a noble purpose,” Boyd said, turning the hand-crank

Above: John Boyd inks a copy of Snake Dog. Right: The plate used to make Snake Dog.

on Metro’s Intaglio-printing press. Boyd, Print Making Department head professor from Wichita State University, was at Metro for the visiting-artist program March 4-8.

If art is a journal of self, then Boyd uses myths as the language of his youth. Art is a process, a correspondence with memories and an affirmation of our past. Likened to a visual journal, why can not art be a foreshadowing of our future?

“To draw on life’s experiences is to be alive,” said E. C. Cunningham, Metro professor of art, coordinator of print making. In Snake Dog, Boyd speaks a universal language intending a tangible reflection of Arkansas’ hill-country society.

As part of his creative process, Boyd, an internationally known print maker, may daydream for hours.

“The creative process begins when daydreaming pours things into my head,” he said. Daydreaming helped Boyd solve the use of space, color and image ideas in Snake Dog. The checkered design resolves spatial issues for Boyd. The checkered design that flattens space, but then adds dimension in another place. The wooden-stenciled dog image contains intersecting marks for hair and dimension. The text, Snake Dog, conveys immediacy and the painterly foreground is reminiscent of watercolor paintings.

The idea is the single most important reason for art. Art can make social statements, have no meaning, or be drawn from experiences. Boyd believes artists have to take chances with their work, to lay it on the line. The intent is the difference between fine art and illustration. Boyd, with 30 years of experience, makes fine art.

Metro’s print-making students volunteered to help produce a color-Intaglio-edition of 35 prints. Intaglio art is made on zinc plates coated with different strengths of acid-resistant grounds.

Artists, using hand tools, then engrave designs on the zinc plates so nitric acid can erode exposed designs and produce an etched image in the unprotected areas. The prepared plate is inked and the image is transferred to paper with the use of an Intaglio printing press.

In the Arts building, you may stop and see a collection of old shoes in black ink, curvaceous-Picasso nudes, winged tempura trains almost any subject drawn or sculpted for an art assignment. That is just what happened to Boyd.

He became an artist by accident. The shortcut from student parking to his college classes led through the art department and the student art on display immediately caught his attention. Boyd began studying drawing, painting and sculpture in college, but it was printmaking that captured him. And 30 years later, his Intaglio prints speak his truths.

“I never do a piece that is irrelevant,” he said

Top Left: Snake Dog: the print itself Left: Printing 35 Snake Dog editions on an Intaglio press at Metro are students Naomi Mandeville, Jami Molina, Professor John David Boyd and student Elaine Scheffler.

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incoming

by Shannon Davidson

Top Left: Students begin their summer semester asking for help in the Tivoli Student Union information desk.

Top Right: A group of students wait in line to receive valid student idenification cards to start off the summer semester in the Tivoli Student Union Tuesday afternoon.

Left: Metro Senior Studies Student Stephanie Krein looks for necessary books she will need for her molecular biology class in the Auraria Campus Bookstore Tuesday afternoon.

SPORTS

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Cherishing first RMAC title Eric Eames The Metropolitan It’s rare to find Metro baseball head coach Vince Porreco taking a breather these days.

Ever since the season ended with the team’s first ever Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship on May 11, Porreco’s schedule has been filled with meetings — with all 28 players, parents of players and athletic administrators — and lunch on the run, while trying to keep a leg up on new recruits.

Porreco has been through the same tired-out routine for years now.

But this year wasn’t the normal swing-and-miss at the RMAC title. When the Roadrunners constructed an impressive winning streak and captured the conference crown, it left an invaluable impression on the 10-year head coach.

“I will always learn from my assistants, from my players, from my colleagues, and I really believe when you stop learning the game of baseball you need to get out of it,” Porreco said. “The biggest thing learned (this year) is that leadership and confidence will help you get through the tough times, from the coaching staff to the players.”

With contagious hitting — Metro batters hit a combined .395, averaged 10 runs a game with a .607 slugging percentage — and continued solid pitching — 5.39 ERA and 106 strikeouts — Metro won 16 of its last 19 regular season games to creep into the RMAC playoffs as the No. 4 seed.

Early in the season, when the Roadrunners were suffering through a 6-18 dry spell, playoffs seemed far off.

“When you go through slumps it becomes a mental game,” Porreco said. “You start looking from a individual stand point you start pressing. You start putting too much pressure on yourself to perform. You start looking each other. The big thing that is going to get people to pull out of it is the leadership. And the leadership toward the end of the year — with all the players — really picked up. Leadership gets you out of those slumps.”

Prior to the win streak, Metro had the worst record in the conference at 15-18 (3-9 RMAC). A week later they were 19-18 (6-9) and tied with Regis at the No.4 spot. With 19 games left Porreco felt there was only one sure way to get in the RMAC Championship Tournament.

“Coach talked to us after one of the games and told us that we needed to go 19-0 to be where we wanted to be,” sophomore outfielder Brian Edwards said. “We realized that we needed to win almost all of our remaining

file photo/Adam Houseman – The Metropolitan Above: Metro starting pitcher Steve Fox was named the Rocky Mountain Atheletic Conference tournament MVP after a sterling complete game 13-1 win against Fort Hays State on May 11 for baseball’s first ever RMAC championship.

Below: Fox slides in safely to third base during a earlier regular season game.

games to make it to the RMAC tournament and once we got there we had the confidence that we could beat every team there.”

With senior pitcher Steve Fox on top of his game and batters collecting hits like Anna Kournikova websites, the Roadrunners besieged host and No. 13 nationally ranked Southern Colorado 7-5 in the first round of the double elimination tournament.

Metro then toppled perennially RMAC power Fort Hays State in two games.

On May 10, Metro beat Fort Hays 7-5 with senior first baseman Nate Lavrenz providing the winning runs in the tenth inning on a three-run homer.

The following day, Fort Hays one-upped Metro with a 9-5 win in a game that ended at about 2:30 p.m. A halfhour later Metro and Fort Hays squared off for the championship. Fort Hays, ranked No. 23 nationally, won back-to-back RMAC titles in 1997 and 1998. Fox

couldn’t have cared less.

With a first-rate pitching performance that earned him tournament MVP, Fox pitched a complete game, eight-hitter as the Roadrunners overwhelmed the Tigers 13-1.

“Coming back (after one day’s rest) in the championship game and throwing the way he did was unbelievable and unheard of,” Porreco said of Fox. Metro’s first five batters combined to hit .555 and scored 11 runs in the title game. Senior David Dudley drove in three runs with his fourth homer of the year.

“For our seniors and our club to get a taste of winning the RMAC title, the first since we’ve joined the league, was just indescribable,” Porreco said.

He’s waited 10 long years for this moment, but Porreco won’t pat himself on the back; he is conceding this one to the players.

“This is their accomplishment,” Porreco added.

Metro Baseball Honors West Regional First Team Senior catcher Donnie Gwinner Sophomore outfielder Brian Edwards

RMAC All-Tournament Team (tournament stats) MVP: Senior pitcher Steve Fox............................ 14 2/3 innings, 0.61 ERA, 7 strikeouts Senior cathcer Donnie Gwinner........................... .388 average, 5 RBIs, 2 doubles Senior third baseman David Dudley................... .400 average, 4 RBIs, 3-run homer Junior outfielder John Burney............................ .333 average, 5 RBIs Senior pitcher Jason Richardson......................... 6 innings, 1.50 ERA Junior reliever Dan Morasci................................ 3 1/3 innings, 8 strikeouts

First Team RMAC All-Conference (season stats) Senior catcher Donnie Gwinner......................... .395 average, 26 doubles, 61RBIs, 10 homeruns Senior reliever Eric Cummings.......................... 7-2 record, 2.54 ERA, 10 saves Sophomore outfielder Brian Edwards............... .459 average, 58 RBIs, 39 steals, .722 slugging.

RMAC Honorable Mention (season stats) Senior pitcher Steve Fox..................................... 8-5 record, 4.35 ERA, 45 strikeouts Senior first-baseman Nate Lavrenz.................. .362 average, 55 RBIs, .989 fielding Freshman JC Reigenborn.................................. .322 average, 104 assists

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Tennis teams rise to next level Eric Eames The Metropolitan During the Roadrunners’ end-of-thesemester athletic awards banquet, coaches and players of other sports were in awe of the Metro men’s and women’s tennis teams.

When the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference awards were announced, every member of both tennis teams walked across the dais. What was more uplifting was the ovation they received from their peers “One of the greatest compliments that has been given to me all year was at the award banquet,” tennis head coach Eduardo Provencio said. Both teams swept every first-team award in the RMAC, minus the No. 5 men’s singles spot. “I had coaches come up to me and say, ‘Holy crap! I didn’t realize how good your team was.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, you know, we are pretty good.’ ” In the shadows of the Division II powerhouses that are Metro’s volleyball and men’s basketball programs, the Roadrunners tennis teams have aroused interest, raised expectations and blossomed to nearly full flower.

On May 3-4, both teams ground stroked and volleyed their way to the men and women North Central Regional tennis titles at the Auraria Tennis Courts. With 5-2 victories, the men beat Southern Colorado in the semifinals and Northern Colorado in the finals. Meanwhile the women manhandled their opponents with 5-0 wins against Mesa State in the semis and against Rockhurst (Mo.) in the title game.

The regional championships paved a way for both men and women to enter into the national tournament held in Kansas City, Mo., May 9-12. While walking among the top 16 teams in the nations, the Roadrunners found themselves the underdog, instead of the top dog.

“I don’t think they realize the caliber of some of the teams out there,” Provencio said. “I always told them that we are the best of the worst in this North Central region. The Florida region is unbelievable and the California region is real good, so once we get into the final sixteen we are no

longer by any means the team to beat. It’s going to be an unusual situation for them.”

Playing in the least competitive region hurt the Roadrunners at the big dance as both teams fell hard to national powers in the first round. The men failed to win a match against No. 8 Valdosta State (Ga.) in a 5-0 loss, while the women’s season ended with a 5-1 loss to No. 6 West Florida.

Although the defeats were sour, the national exposure provided invaluable experience for next season. The one win by the Metro women against West Florida was huge. Metro’s top doubles team of Jasmon Crabb and Hande Gorur defeated the No. 15 nationally ranked doubles team of Eva Papastratides and Diana Olave 8-6.

The Metro women finished the season with a 22-5 team record, in which they also captured the RMAC crown, were ranked No.1 in the North Central region and No.38 nationally. While they were bit upset about the low national standing, they couldn’t have done any more to convince the ranking committee. In 15 matches they held their opponents to one point or less.

“The domination is a pleasant surprise,” senior Lisa Pascual said. “I never thought that we were going to do this well, but everyone was just so fired up to win….

The talent of the team has contributed to our success, but even more is our personal relationships. We really enjoy each other’s company, so you really want to win for each other more than anything.”

Added Provencio, “We knew what the girls were capable of doing, but not in the magnitude in which they did it.”

In the regional tournament it seemed not even the chain-link fence surrounding the tennis courts could contain the Metro women’s talent. Early in the season, they inched out a 5-4 victory over Rockhurst during a spring break roundtrip. Then they were without No. 2 singles player Rebecca Meares, who sat out because of a self-reported academic NCAA violation.

With Meares back in the fold, Metro had little trouble against the Hawks this time around. Meares’ 6-2, 6-0 victory over Stephanie Werthmuller sealed the 5-0 team victory.

The men didn’t have it so good in the regional tournament or in the season for

file photo/Adam Houseman – The Metropolitan

¡Perfección!

No one was able to douse Carlos Delgado this year. The junior from Ecuador, who shouts “¡Vamos!” (Let’s go!) after every winning point, became the first singles player in Metro tennis history to go undefeated in singles play.

Delgado was just as shocked as anybody about his 16-0 record. He transferred from West Texas A&M last season, where he was a bit roughed up in the No. 2 and No. 3 singles spots, finishing with a 9-7 record.

This year, Delgado went 9-0 at his primary No.2 singles spot, but also won a match at No.1 singles, four at No.3 singles and two and No.4 singles.

Nevertheless, individual perfection was not his goal. “Our main goal to go to nationals,” Delgado said. “I don’t care if I’m undefeated, if the team wins that is better. Even if you look at my record at 16-0, the team matters.” that matter. They finished with a 17-8 record that accompanied a RMAC title and a No. 39 nationally ranking.

In the regional championship match against Northern Colorado, Metro droped two out of the three doubles matches, leaving the Bears three match wins shy of the title. Metro faced the same on-the-brink situation once this season against the Bears and ended up losing the match.

“They beat us earlier in the season and they definitely came out thinking it was going to be a walk-over,” senior Matt Kulbe said.

As it turned out, Metro cake-walked to victory, getting straight-set wins from its No. 1, 3, 4 and 5 singles players. Senior Bruce Dicker led the way at No.3 singles.

After what Provencio called “the worst match I’ve every seen him have” against Southern Colorado, Dicker had a stellar performance against the Bears. He beat Brian Bishop quickly 6-1, 6-0 as the Roadrunners rolled to a 5-2 comeback win.

“It was his last match and he knew it,” Kulbe said. “He wanted to come out on top and he did. He killed the guy. Blew him off the court.”

Metr o baseball has plent y in st ore Edwards and top recruiting class getting set for another title run, bigger year in 2003 Eric Eames The Metropolitan After a recent meeting with Athletic Director Joan McDermott, Metro baseball head coach Vince Porreco was rummaging through a notebook at his desk. Separated into neat piles were returned Roadrunner jerseys, some with grass streaks that never came clean, others with dirt stains.

Meanwhile, at Auraria Athletic Center, sophomore Brian Edwards was lifting weights, already preparing for next season, which doesn’t start until February 2003.

Despite being the seventh-best hitter (.459) and twelfth-best base stealer (39) in Division II and being named to the 2002 West Regional first team, Edwards’ appetite for wrecking havoc on opposing pitchers is

not quenched. And his career .432 average is good, but not great. Just listen.

“I was satisfied with what I did (last year hitting .388), but I thought I could do a lot better,” Edwards said. “And I even think I could have done better than I did this year personally. I’ve always had high expectations of myself. And it’s just basically a matter of how the cards fold out.

“You can’t really help what the pitchers are throwing you and how they are going to pitch, but it’s just basically worked out for me.”

Senior catcher Donnie Gwinner also garnered first team West Regional honors by posting a .395 season batting average and ranking fifth nationally with 0.47 doubles (26) per game.

Edwards, Gwinner and senior reliever Eric Cummings earned first team Rocky

Brian Edwards

Mountain A t h l e t i c Conference honors.

After a dull season in which his ERA staggered to 7.71, Cummings became the catalyst for the Roadrunners the ninth inning

this year when approached.

With a closer’s mentality, Cummings’s 2.54 ERA and 10 saves (tied for sixth nationally) in 49 and two-thirds innings helped Metro win 19 of its final 23 games and the RMAC championship.

“When we had the lead late in the ball game, we knew he was going to come in and get the job done,” Porreco said.

Yet, it seems to be a mere paradox that the hottest team in the West Region didn’t

get invited to the regional tournament.

Instead two teams, Mesa State and Southern Colorado, that didn’t reach the RMAC championship game got to go.

“Everyone is disappointed,” Edwards said, “but everyone understood that we kind of did it to ourselves by not performing the way that we should earlier in the season as we did toward the end….We understand we have to work that much harder to get to the regional.”

With 11 seniors leaving the program, the Roadrunners are in for a large overhaul.

But with contributing underclassman returning and one of the best recruiting classes coming in, Metro should have plenty of firepower to repeat as RMAC champs.

“It’s exciting in two respects that No.1 the returners have a taste of winning a RMAC championship,” Porreco said. “And 2, is the talent and the recruiting we are doing now is better than it’s ever been, so it is an exciting anticipation of what we are going to do and accomplish next year.”

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