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Community and students bring struggles to light Sarah Santoyo
News Editor
“I do still have my moments when life seems to be getting a bit more than I can handle, but now I just don’t handle it. Things tend to work themselves out. Depression is hopelessness and it’s really sad to me how many people really haven’t heard, don’t know how much hope there is, how many good things there are in the world. And I was one of those people. If you’ve lost a loved one, all I can say is try to be forgiving. It’s really not a nice place to be.” Mark Wooldridge, then 20, gave this speech at a suicide prevention walk twoand-a-half weeks before he took his life on Oct. 26, 2011. His mother, Nancy Wooldridge, spoke about his battles with mental illness and coping with the aftermath in an intimate discussion at Saddleback College for Psychology Week, hosted by the Psi Beta and Psychology club, on Apr. 15. Wearing Mark’s button-up shirt and a silver heart necklace filled with some of his ashes, Nancy shared the story of Mark’s illness and the ultimate consequence of ‘death by suicide.’ “I do not use the term ‘commit suicide’ because those of us involved with suicide prevention think it’s a little silly. Would you commit cancer or commit diabetes?” Nancy said. Regardless of the severity of his illness, she never imagined Mark’s suicidal thoughts would take his life. “Imagine Man of the Year at Trabuco Hills High School, Eagle Scout... all these great things going on in his life, great relationship with his brother, with me...I never in a million years would’ve thought he would actually go through with suicide,” she said. Mark’s mental struggles were apparent as early as anxiety over potty training. “He had depression back to elementary school and I can remember that first moment and I know it’s when bipolar was setting in,” she said. “I was afraid to leave him alone because he was, in the terms of suicide prevention, ‘more than sad.’” In addition to depression, Mark’s bi-
polar disorder made it harder to cope with daily life. “Bipolar disorder is more prone to suicide than depression,” Iman Moujtahed, 22-year-old director of events cabinet, said. “The rollercoaster of emotions creates more suicidal tendencies.” After graduating high school in ‘09, Mark went to Northern Arizona University. The struggles of life and college drove him to seek an outlet, marijuana. Nancy attributes the drug to the decline of her son’s mental health. “Marijuana is a mind-altering drug,” she said. “To a depressed brain, a sick brain, it prohibits the brain from creating and retaining serotonin.” When he came home from college, Nancy prohibited smoking in the house. “I took away his marijuana on a Thursday night, and on Sunday night, he told me he didn’t want to live here anymore,” she said. “And by ‘here’, he said ‘I don’t mean this house.’” The next day, Mark took his first attempt at suicide. His brother, Scott Wooldridge, left to see his girlfriend, but returned for condoms. He walked in and interrupted Mark’s attempt. “Safe sex saves lives,” Mark said humorously, retelling the incident during his aforementioned speech. The police took him in as a 5150, involuntary psychiatric hold, where he was given care from the public health system. “We learned about the public health care system and I know they’re doing the best they can, but it sucks beyond any possible sucking,” Nancy said. The doctor assigned to him was out of the country, so Mark had multiple counselors and was dealing with withdrawals from marijuana, manifesting in anger. Nancy enrolled him in a double-diagnosis program in an effort to save him. When he returned from treatment, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope for Mark’s recovery. “His brother left for the Navy, and it gave me a year with my son,” Nancy said. “We watched TV together and we laughed and we talked and I got to make coffee for him in the mornings and breakfast on Sundays. We found out that we not just loved each other, but we liked each other.” See LIGHT, page 3
Career Center guides engineers toward success Steve sohanaki
Staff Writer
The Career Center at Saddleback College hosted a workshop for aspiring engineers on Wednesday, April 16, featuring Saddleback Math Professor Frank Gonzalez. “The sooner you know what kind of engineering you want to do, the better, because you can start taking the specific courses you need,” Gonzalez said. “The four main branches of engineering are civil, electrical, chemical and mechanical.” Gonzalez explained the subdisci-
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plines of those four branches. “Chemical engineering is in very high demand,” he said. “Many chemical engineers have jobs lined up even before they graduate and get paid very well.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the annual mean wage in 2013 was $103,340. “The demand for environmental engineers is also rising,” Gonzalez said. “Joining OC Bridge 2 Engineering at Saddleback is a great way to start working towards an engineering degree.” It is a program that receives federal grants to help students become engi-
neers. Gonzalez gave students ways to better their computer programming skills. “[They] are important no matter what type of engineer you want to be,” Gonzalez said. He mentioned Saddleback’s close ties with the computer science department at University of California Irvine. “The head of our computer science department is from UCI,” Gonzalez said. To provide an outlet for engineering students, Saddleback began a robotics club this semester. Robotics involves constructing, designing and operating
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robots, and is directly related to engineering and computer science. However, mathematics is a profitable alternative career. “Math majors always rank in the top 5 most satisfying careers,” Gonzalez said. “Many of them get jobs as actuaries and make great salaries.” Actuaries calculate the financial impacts of taking risks. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for actuaries in 2012 was $93,680. “The number one employer of mathematicians is the NSA,” Gonzalez said. “The agency that spies on Americans and everyone else.”
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Everyone in the room burst into laughter. MVHS senior Nicholas Francke said he wants to pursue a degree in computer science. “Programming really appeals to me and that’s what I want to do in the future,” Francke said. Seena Taravati, another MVHS senior, said he wants to obtain a computer engineering degree and help change the world. “I like the creativity side of computer engineering,” Taravati said. “It’s also a great chance to help progress humanity.”
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The relevance of activism on college campuses Quinn Mahony
Opinion editor
The protester, the activist, the counterculture icon, the naysayer, a few of the multitude of identities these soapbox prophets go by. We know them well. From the hippie movement of the 1960s to the current international protesters. On a lesser scale, as
opposed to these massive geopolitical movements, we have the “quad protester,” found on most college campuses fighting for there respective causes. Here we come to the point of argument, are these activists conducive to the general education of the student body? If the campus is an ebb and flow of ideas and avant garde discussion, then yes, a definite, resounding yes. Where would academia be if not for those brave few who cried out against the normality of the time? The basis of activism is to educate the ignorant masses on a specific topic in the hopes for wide-
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spread displeasure eventually leading to change. Given there will be opposing arguments, some valid, some not, depending on your views. With the utmost importance, I remind you that these too, are no more than opinion. Whether you are with movement or against the change, listen, take it all in. For without full knowledge of a topic how can any logical college student say they are one way or the other? Granted, a bad taste is left in your mouth after an argument with a stubborn protester. We have all experienced the sheer tenacity, for better or for worse, of some of these protesters. They have invaded personal conversations and interrupted our precious studying to regale us with their opinions. But these sub-sects of the activists also have their role in the education of the student body. They are the members who are the most invested and have the strongest opinions. Again, sounding like a broken record, learn from them. Take all they have to say with a grain a of salt , sifting through the bombardment of information and eloquent rhetoric to find a stand that you have constructed. There will always be an opposing viewpoint, thats a given. The basis of an argument is in fact the counter
The de-evolution of the radio star Adam Kolvites
sports editor
Artists like Beyonce and Miley Cyrus, or is it Hannah Montana, are just a few of the 21st century artists who portray a bad-girl image. These artists used to be the heroines that many youthful listeners often heard more of a public appropriate musical focus. Whereas radio is concerned, music is supportive of this image with lyrics that technically don’t have to be censored but are still painting a broad image of sexual innuendoes. A line from Beyonce’s new hit single “Drunk in Love” is, “We woke up in the kitchen asking how the hell did this shit happen oh baby,” outwardly saying their love is based on a drunk one night stand. Listeners of all ages sing along with this song based on the classic scenario where after a night of promiscuity, you wake up the morning not even knowing who you just woke up next to. When Beyonce was not strictly a solo act, she was part of Destiny’s Child, a female group made up of Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle
Williams. A group who’s song “Say My Name” was about having respect for a girlfriend and making sure there isn’t a side chick. “Independent Women” is a song interpreted about single women who are successful by themselves without the need of a man. When Beyonce was a new solo act, she wasn’t singing about drunken sex or anything of the sort, remember “Irreplaceable” and “Single Ladies?” Two hits about how important trust and security are in a relationship. Now Hannah Montana err... Miley Cyrus, the former Disney child star is now an unofficial “twerk” endorser who’s once young tween fan base is now evolving into “twerkers.” “Twerking” is an internet sensation where women and men shake their butts in a fashion that is inappropriate to the publics eyes. Miley Cyrus is a singer/song writer who once performed songs like “The Climb” which was written about the determination it takes to take on adversity and overcome those struggles to succeed in life. Now she’s singing songs about youthful drug consuming
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binges like “We Can’t Stop” or “Bangerz.” Not only are these two promoters of bad moralities, but there are many other songs on the radio that promote bad behavior mentalities. For example The Chainsmokers released a song “#SELFIES,” all about “selfies” and the club lifestyle, has a line where a woman vocalist says, “Oh my god/Jake just texted me/Should I go home with him?/I guess I took a good selfie.” This song about selfies, getting drunk and going home to sleep with somebody is openly played on the radio while old rock-n-roll songs are being censored for mild curse words. Now lets be real, parental advisory is not always possible, especially if the songs that are promoting bad behavior are played on the radio for the world to hear. Therefore, these artists should consider themselves role models who persuade their youthful listeners for better or for worse.
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Comments: “Is activism conducive to education?”
Amy Graham, 19, undecided “I think that activism and education should be more connected because the more educated you become, the more you want to go around and say your opinion. That causes you to be an activist and go out and do what you do when you know about the issues you are protesting.”
Kyle Carter, 29, human services “I believe that activism is conducive to education because it creates unity between students geared toward one cause.”
Kayla Washington, 19, liberal studies “I think that it is beneficial to education because you are getting your points across and that is an importamt part of education that is sometimes left out. You’re just reading textbooks and things like that, so I think it is a different side of education.”
So this is student democracy? Student indifference leans ASG elections to a loose definition of “democracy” stefan stenroos
Managing editor
Just a few weeks ago we had our annual Associated Student Government elections. Everybody ran, campaigned and fought hard for the highly contested positions. Debates were had, and students were vigorously involved in the election process; once election day did come around, the final decision came down to the very last votes. That story makes for a good thriller novel, or some notion of how an actual student democracy would work. That’s not the reality here at Saddleback. The truth, which is painfully obvious, is that one person runs for each office. Maybe two, if
it’s a popular position. Nonetheless, it’s nothing I would really call a “democracy.” I’d rather call it a joke, or just the school going through the motions, so we can feel like we have some sense of involvement in what happens on campus. Now you might be saying to yourself, “But this is just a community college? Why are you getting so angry about some silly elections at a community college?” That’s a very good point actually. This is just a silly election at a community college, but when I see high school elections having more competition and being more representative of a true democracy, I ask why we even have these things in the first place? Especially if they’re just a sham like ours. Thankfully, this is a problem that can be easily solved. If we are unhappy with the way our student government is elected and run, all we have to do is run for the positions ourselves. We have the opportunity to vote for who decides what
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to a belief. Ironically enough, there will be that naysayers to even this argument, they are a fact. Do not run from these opposing activists, they have a point, evidence and a purpose which is as valid as any other whether there is agreement or a lack there of. We students are not sponges of information, we are not obligated to agree with everything we are told in and out of lecture. We are here to learn how to interpret the information presented to us, synthesizing the collection of provided material and formulating an educated view of the topic. This hypothetical information can come from the soapbox as well as the classroom. Use these activists as a resource for information, putting all romantic notions aside, that is what they are there for. Take it all in, formulate an opinion and join the cultural conversation. It is simple argumentation. Without full knowledge of both sides, the argument will fall flat and have no credibility. So students of Saddleback, step out of your comfort zone and have an open dialogue with the “quad protesters” and get the education we are here to get.
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goes on at Saddleback, but only if there is real competition, and only if more than a small minority of people vote. Democracy, even a student democracy, is always at its best when as many people as possible participate in the system. Even if you believe that your vote is inconsequential, it is better to cast it than to let the small minority that votes decide what your student government is going to be. I personally believe that democracy is one of the strongest and fairest systems of government in the world, but if we don’t participate in the system the way we should, and if we keep letting people run unopposed, then what good is our “democracy” in the first place? I’ll leave that question for you to answer.
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Earth Week starts with annual tree planting Kimberly johnston
Life Editor
Saddleback College refreshes its roots at the Environmental Awareness Club’s second Annual Tree Planting event Monday, April 21. About 15 students and two EAC advisers gathered to plant a water birch tree in the in the Technology and Applied Sciences Native Garden. “The water birch (Betula occidentalis) will be replacing our black willow, which is dying,” said Environmental Studies Assistant Professor John Richards. “It’s a California native plant that will grow quickly up to 15 or 20 feet
with moderate sunlight.” EAC teamed up with the Associated Student Government to organize their first event for Earth Week which is held from April 21 to 24. “The whole week is full of different activities in order to bring awareness,” said Environmental Studies Department Chair Dr. Morgan E. Barrows. “This is my favorite Earth Week event, though.” The California Native Garden behind TAS is also a Nationally Certified Wildlife Habitat. “We don’t use chemical pesticides, no synthetic fertilizers,” Barrows said. “As you
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NEW SOIL: Kyle Hedden, 19, environmental studies assists Co-Adviser for Environmental Awareness Club John Richards in the second annual tree planting event on April 21, 2014 for Earth Week. can see, we compost and we propagate. It’s a whole little factory over here.” Laith Atiweh, 21-year-old environmental engineering major, assisted in digging up a hole for the new tree.
Behind the fantasy in IVC Arts danny pestolesi
staff Writer
As he walks through Irvine Valley College’s Scenic Production Workshop, he beams with a face worn by smile lines and laugh marks. Scenic Designer and Scenic Technical Director Hugh Michael Collins has been involved with over 400 hundred productions throughout his career working backstage and 60 as a performer he said. Through his long career Collins has learned a great deal. He finds working in the IVC theater workshop allows him to pass his knowledge on to students who share his passion. “The shop pretty much encompasses everything from not just carpentry, but painting, sculpting, welding, all aspects of construction and art. We do a little bit of everything here,” Collins said. He is a man who carries himself through the Irvine Valley Theater Production Workshop with the demeanor of an artisan, he holds great skill in his craft and his passion is seen in each piece of his work. When discussing his history in the arts and in the district, he has a look of serenity about himself. “I have worked in the district for the past 23 years, 17 at Saddleback and the past six at IVC,” Collins said. Collins was the man in charge of constructing the set for Lend Me A
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ARTIST: Hugh Michael Collins stands infront a sign that he created in the IVC Scenic Production Workshop. Tenor, which recently finished its run at IVC. He is also building the set for the upcoming One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at IVC. “This is a dream job for me. I get to go to work and,’ say hey we are going to build a castle today or we are going to build a pirate ship.’ I get to do this for a living and I love it,” Collins said. The construction crew has historically had a sense of humor and more than a few inside jokes put into the sets they design. The most common joke is that in every set Collins said that his team has hidden the same jackalope mounted
head. It has been in every set they have made for more years than most of his students have been alive he said. “If you look closely, you can see it in every set we make. From the back of a bar to in a bush, it is there”, Collins said. Collins has had most of his students go on to work for professional set design and creation companies. He does not directly attribute this to his own doing, but he is glad to see his former students continuing a craft he has a profound endearment for. dpestolesi.lariat@gmail.com
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8:00 p.m. IVC and UCI guitar concert in the A-311 rehearsal studio.
3:00 p.m. 11th annual Jazz Picnic at the Live Oaks Terrace.
He said that his part in the event is not just for extra credit. “I heard about it from one of my professors and thought it’d be a cool way to just give back to the campus,” Atiweh
said. The event was seen a successful start to Earth Week. “We had a great turnout,” said President of the Environmental Awareness Club Drew Yearwood. “This event is one
LIGHT (continued from page 1) Mark worked at Camp James for the summer, but didn’t register for school, so he needed a job. “Things started to go downhill because he didn’t have things in place,” she said. “He struggled with those details... He said to me on Oct. 24, ‘I’m feeling it again, Mom.’ I remember the moment and I said, ‘I know. I can tell.’” She fondly remembers talking on the couch for hours about life, death, suicide and how it would affect others. One thing he mentioned was he wished he had more than two friends. The next week, more than 700 people attended his memorial service. “His mind was very distorted,” Nancy said. They also discussed getting him help, which he agreed to. The next day, she called him regarding the details. “’Mom, we’ll just talk about it tonight.’ Those were his last words to me,” she said. The night of his death, Nancy didn’t expect it. Mark made plans with a friend, so she went out with some coworkers and had dinner with her boyfriend, but she still felt uneasy. “At least he’s told me that if he ever does it, he would do it somewhere I wouldn’t find him,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do and then I drove home and found my son dead.” Even with the trauma of finding her son, Nancy wouldn’t have wanted anyone else to do it. “I wouldn’t even change finding him,” she said. “It started with me. It ended with me. I’m his mom.” After Mark’s suicide, Nancy continued to volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and worked to get her life back on track. “I decided early on that I didn’t want to die with my son,” she said. “I think that’s a really important belief because it sets your compass in life.” AFSP hosts a walk called “Out of the Darkness” to raise funds and awareness. “We need to bring [suicide] out of the darkness, we need to make it ok to talk about it...
Thoughts of suicide are equal to a cancerous, malignant tumor,” Nancy said. “If left untreated, the chances of it killing you are pretty good.” Nancy urges those experiencing signs of mental illness to speak to a professional as soon as abnormal thoughts arise. “You wouldn’t talk to your best friend and expect a malignant tumor to be cured, you would go get the right help for it,” she said. Although as an acquaintance, friend or loved one, it’s essential to ask the hard questions. “If you think someone is struggling, it’s ok to say, ‘Have you thought about hurting yourself? Are you suicidal?’ Because if you’re not suicidal, being asked that isn’t going to make you suicidal,” Nancy said. According to her, it’s important to identify the illness early and find the right doctor and form of treatment between counseling, medication and non-traditional treatments. “I use essential oils now... I was learning about them at someone’s house, and they talked about how some of them can help anxiety, depression, bipolar, and I just started to cry because I thought I wish I would’ve known this just a year, year-and-a-half ago,” Nancy said. However, she feels the public health system, specifically mental health, could use some improvements in making help more accessible. “When I tried to get counseling to get me through that one year anniversary [of his suicide], I joke that by the time I was finished on the phone trying to get the right approval, I could’ve been crazy,” Nancy said. “I should be able to walk into any mental health provider as easily as I can walk into any physician’s office.” She also recommends that general physicians be aware of mental health to take preventative measures. “I think general doctors could do a better job at talking to someone at the annual visit, or whenever they see them, about what’s going on in their
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life and taking up about five or ten minutes, maybe doing a questionnaire,” she said. When Nancy filled out a questionnaire for Mark, he hit all of the symptoms for his disorders, such as intelligent, highly artistic and family history. To lessen anxiety for students going to college and out on their own, Nancy feels the school system could assist. “I’d like to see the schools more involved... Schools have a really hard time teaching outside the box. They’re so focused on test scores that they’re not teaching life skills,” she said. Regardless of what could’ve been done to save Mark, Nancy is at peace with her son’s actions. “I’m glad Mark’s not in his pain, but he did so much good here in helping other people,” Nancy said. “I don’t condemn him, I don’t wrong him, but I just wish he would’ve given real help a chance.” Nancy has been speaking about Mark’s life since Spring 2012 and appreciates the candid attitude Saddleback has toward mental health. “What you students and what your teachers are doing [for Psychology Week] is huge,” she said. “I wish Mark could’ve gone to Saddleback and been exposed to these kinds of talks. It could’ve possibly inspired him to get help and know there’s hope.” Even though Mark’s own words couldn’t save him, his story continues to inspire others. “Things will get better, I can promise that much, even if they have to get worst first, like they did for me... The other thing I can promise is that things will never be the same. So whatever struggles you’ve been through, high school, elementary school in my case, they’re not going to be the struggles of today and they’re not going to be the struggles of tomorrow.” To get assistance for mental health issues or crises, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
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Gauchos get trampled by Chargers, lose 5-2 Saddleback falls into tie for first in OEC with their loss to Cypress Matt Corkill Photo Editor
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Freshman outfileder Brett Barker is punched out on strikes during Saddleback’s home loss against Cypress College, 5-2.
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Irvine Valley College’s men’s tennis team has recently reached milestones in their program with head tennis coach Ross Duncan being selected as one of the four representative of the United States in the Italia tennis cup. Ross Duncan has been selected for the third time in a row to be an American representative in
the Italia cup. The Italia Cup is the International Tennis Federation’s men’s and women’s 35-40 age group premier team championship event according to the ITF’s website. Duncan has played, coached, and is currently an agent on the professional level. He also was the Interim Head Coach at University of California Santa Barbara and Associate Head Coach at University of Oregon according to the Norton Sports Management website, of which he is the Director of Tennis. Duncan has also coached the IVC mens tennis team to their first conference win and regional championships. They have advanced to the state championship that begins Wednesday April 23 in Ojai Calif.. Duncan will be in Boca Riton Flor. competing on an international level. “Tennis is my life, tennis is my passion,” Duncan said. “ I was born in South Africa and played
Saddleback was unable to overcome a shaky second inning against the Cypress Chargers in their 5-2 loss, Thursday at Doug Fritz field in Mission Viejo. Though the Gauchos took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI ground out by sophomore third baseman Louie Payetta, the Chargers responded with four runs on five hits in the top of the second after sophomore Brandon Oliver reached on an error to start the rally making it, 4-1. “Our energy was pretty low today,” freshman catcher Casey Worden said following the loss. “As long as we clean up our defense and get some timely hits hopefully tomorrow will be better.” Sophomore ace starter Anthony Shew (6-2) went for eight innings allowing three
tennis since I was five. I came to the U.S. to play college tennis at Pepperdine University in ’96.” “The game has change through my life time and being selected to be apart of the Italia Cup means a lot to me,” Duncan said. The United States Team only has four representatives go each year and Duncan has been participating in singles for the past three years. The Italia cup will be held in Boca Riton, Florida April 21 through the 26. The cup will have competitors from around the globe participating to determine the top team in the world. “It is going to be physically tough with how much play there is, especially with how the demands in the sport are getting tougher and tougher. Athletes have to be faster stronger and all around better athletes mentally and physically,” Duncan said.
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earned runs on eight hits, a walk and a hit batsmen. The Gaucho bats however, were unable to give enough run support with seven strike outs of their own leaving five runners left on base leading to their second straight Orange Empire Conference loss putting them back into a tie for first. “Its tough, we didn’t execute, we didn’t make a couple plays and we didn’t do some things that we’ve been doing and if we don’t do that you lose” head coach Sommer McCartney said. “We’ve got to play better tomorrow, we’ll find out how resilient this team is now that we’ve lost a couple of tough ones and we’ll see if we can come back tomorrow with a good mindset and get after somebody.” Saddleback (19-11, 11-7) is still clinging on to a tie for first place in the OEC standings with OCC (23-9, 11-7) and Santa Ana (20-11, 11-7). The Gauchos will complete their season series against Cypress (19-12, 10-8) at Cypress on Friday with first pitch at 2 p.m. mcorkill.lariat@gmail.com
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