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New medical facility to create jobsWith the building of
the new Kaiser Per-manente building in
Foothill Ranch, there are more openings available for nurses, like students graduating from the nursing program at Saddle-back College.
The one-story medical build-ing was approved by city plan-ning commissioners with a 4-0 vote on Nov. 10.
The building will be 36,022 square-feet and contain 24 doc-tor’s offices.
It will also hold a pharmacy and offer out-patient services.
“The increase in new nurses has made getting jobs immedi-ately upon graduation very dif-ficult,” said Diane Pestolesi, a
nursing instructor.“Students are finding that al-
though new facilities are open-ing they are not usually look-ing to hire new graduate RNs to staff them,” she said.
The rise in the number of nursing students has made posi-tions harder to covet.
According to Pestolesi, there has been a 64 percent increase in the number of new graduate nurses produced in the last two years.
This is the result of growth in the existing community colleg-es nursing programs.
Also contributing to this growth, is four new entry to practice programs that have been started in Orange County in the past five years.
MELANIE ROBERTS
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NURSING PROGRAM: Nursing students from the nursing program at Saddleback College will soon seek new job openings from the newly approved medical building in Foothill Ranch. SEE NURSING PAGE 2
Permit system flawed but not at fault
Parking is a growing issue at Saddleback College and many students have
the added hassle of dealing with temperamental daily permit dis-pensers around campus.
Students have been complain-ing about permit costs, citation costs, and parking in general for as long as colleges have charged for parking on their campuses.
Lately at Saddleback, howev-er, the problem has been more with the permit dispensers rath-er than the cost of the permit.
Nick Bohen, 20, undecided, has had particularly bad luck with the daily permit dispens-ers.
“They just have problems. Mainly the one outside of the [Science and Math] building,” Bohen said. “If it’s sunny out I can’t read the screen, it eats my money, and they don’t even take change anymore.”
The parking officials under-stand that there are many con-cerns from students, and don’t want to charge students extra,
but do have to enforce permit usage.
“Our intention is not to hinder the student,” said Andrew Cra-ven, director of parking at Sad-dleback. “These are machines unfortunately, not people, but
they are smart machines.”Most of the problems related
to the dispensers involve pa-per money. With the amount of wear and tear that a dollar bill goes through, sometimes the machine can’t read it, Craven
said.“Cards are real quick. Some-
times it’s faster than putting in the two dollars,” he said.
The machines accepted coins in the past, but the coin payment method had to be removed due
to vandalism.“We don’t take coin in the ma-
chine anymore,” Craven said.“We were getting foreign
coin, paperclips, mayonnaise,
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PARKING: Janelle Kelly, 20, intercultural studies, buys a parking sticker before her class starts. Many have complained about the parking permit services not functioning, not being able to see the monitor on sunny days, and it only takes dollar bills.
What’s next for ailing instructor?
Family, friends, and col-leagues of Saddleback College instructor Amy
Ahearn have breathed a sigh of relief now that she has been found safe in South Los Angeles after missing for two months.
But her future is uncertain.“I truly believe it was a mira-
cle we found Amy and she was safe,” said Amy’s sister, Margie Ahearn.
Some time ago, those who know her say, she began to dis-play symptoms typical of Hun-tington’s Disease, a degenera-tive condition that breaks down nerve cells in the brain, and runs in her family.
According to the Mayo Clin-ic, this could lead to a decrease in cognitive ability, as well as emotional and mental distur-bances.
KYLIE CORBETT
Lecture discusses afterlifeMind, Matter and Im-
mortality were dis-cussed in a lecture
last Wednesday by instructor Andrew Dzida, who was invit-ed to speak by the Psychology Club and Psi Beta.
Dzida is an associate instruc-tor in the philosophy depart-ment, who received his Ph. D in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.
The main point of the lecture according to Dzida is the ques-tion: Am I a material thing, or an immaterial thing? Is their a soul that comes with us, or are we gone when our bodies a dust.
Dzida started the discussion, talking about the physiology of the brain and how it interprets the environment.
Dzida focused on describing
the olfactory epithelium in the nose to show how humans can smell and how it can affect the consciousness.
“How do we smell gasoline at a gas station? How do we smell flowers? And how do we identi-fy babies poo in a diaper,” Dzi-da said. “How do we sense the outside stimuli and how does it affect our consciousness?”
Dzida went on to explain that the consciousness can’t be ex-plained in how it works with the physiology of the brain.
How mind in one school of thought is not one thing or sub-stance. But according to Dzida, it is a property of matter.
“There is a problem how-ever, how does matter gener-ate mind?” Dzida said. Matter can’t be created or destroyed, only changed from one state to another.
Another thought that Dzida elaborated on is the idea that the mind and consciousness are in fact immaterial things.
This would make more sense Dzida said because of the fact that all objects that have matter must also have mass and take up space.
There is another problem to this school of thought as well, the body itself is made of mat-ter because it takes up space and has mass.
“However how can one ‘im-material’ thing such as the mind interact with another ‘material’ thing such as the body,” he said.
The theory is that if humans have immaterial minds and con-sciousnesses, than that means there must be a soul.
DAVID GUTMAN
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Amy Ahearn was missing for two months and was found recently in L.A.
Dispensers cause grief, although most problems are avoidable
The parking officials encour-age students to buy permits for whole semesters or a academic year. Not having to worry about getting a permit every day means less hassle for parking.
“The parking permits are $30 for the entire semester, which is probably cheaper anyway,” Cra-ven said.
The average on-campus class has 31 class sessions, and $2 per day in a 31 day class is $62. Why pay double if it comes with the extra hassle of buying a daily permit?
“It isn’t some plot against the students. We want them to pay the machines if they don’t have a permit, because that’s how we get our revenue,” Craven said. “We get one hundred percent of
parking permit sales.”After all, more money for the
parking services means more funding for more parking spac-es and improvements to current parking lots.
“Just because the meter is broken does not mean you will not get a citation,” Craven said. “Go to another meter or come to the campus police and get a daily permit.”
“We actually saw more van-dalism on broken meters than on working ones. Unfortunate-ly, from the dishonesty of a few we had to make this regulation,” Craven said, in reference to pay-ing for parking even if the meter is broken.
As for citations, the parking services dislike giving them out as much as students dislike re-ceiving them, according to Cra-ven.
“Everyone has the right to come and contest a ticket. That’s California law,” Craven
said. “Every citation is taken case-by-case, and every review is read.”
“We get a small amount [of money] for citations, but most of the money goes to the state,” he said. “The citations are just to gain compliance [from stu-dents].”
After all, the parking service gets money from permits, and would rather students buy per-mits instead of having to pay citations. More money for the parking services means more funding for more parking spac-es and improvements to current parking lots.y
Maintenance wise, Saddle-back’s meters are maintained by an outside company every three months, Craven said. Saddle-back officials check the me-ters at least three or four times a week to make sure they are functioning.
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Family private investigator, Kathie Allen, said that Amy Ahearn has not been diagnosed with the disease.
According to Jody Goldstein, center coordinator of Hunting-ton’s Disease Center of Excel-lence, University of California, San Diego, it’s unclear whether she would be able to return to her teaching position given the symptoms that were reported she may have displayed when found.
“It’s tricky,” Goldstein said. “It’s possible to treat the symp-toms unfortunately, this isn’t always the case because some-times people wait too long to seek treatment.”
Goldstein said the most com-mon symptom when a person
first shows signs of the disease is that they appear to have been drinking with slurred speech and a staggered gait.
“It is possible for her to re-turn to a normal lifestyle and her teaching career if she finds a physician who specializes in the disease,” she said. “The doctors team will evaluate and prescribe medication to treat the symptoms.”
Amy Ahearn did not show up to her job on the first day of fall semester, said Kevin O’Connor, dean of liberal arts. As a result, O’Connor met all of her classes the first week.
“It was when students from the first class of the first day of fall semester came to the divi-sion office saying ‘Our profes-sor wasn’t present,’ and then I went to all the other classes that week,” he said. “By the end of the first week, the whole substi-tute faculty met all the classes
commencing the second week, and that’s how it’s been handled for the remaining of the semes-ter.”
Eventually, Ahearn ended up on Ana Ruvalcaba’s front yard in Norwalk on Sept 18., where she was first sighted.
Ruvalcaba invited Ahearn into her home after watching her sit on the curb for hours.
“My first thought was that she needs help,” Ruvalcaba said. “The look that Amy had when I first saw her was the look of a person in need of help, but couldn’t say it.”
Ruvalcaba had no idea she was a missing person until Ahearn’s story aired on ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC.
“From then on, every time I would get in my car and drive,” Ruvalcaba said, “I would look for Amy. I followed her story and kept in contact with Margie
and Kathie.”Ruvalcaba described Ahearn
as being disoriented and dishelved.
“I [felt] it was very necessary because I was the last to see her, and most important because Amy looked [completely] dif-ferent now than how she looked on the missing bulletins,” she said.
Margie Ahearn later thanked Ruvalcaba’s family for its ongo-ing support.
“You and your family gave my family hope that we would find Amy,” Margie Ahearn said she told them. “I knew if she had people like you looking af-ter her that maybe she would be okay.
“I can not express how over-come with emotion I am when I think of my sister resting in your warm, loving home, hav-ing cake, coffee, and talking with all of you into the night. I
will always keep that image of all of you together in my heart.”
Ahearn’s family lives out of state, so it was particularly dif-ficult for Margie Ahearn, who is also starting to exhibit signs of Huntington’s, to deal with the situation on a day-to-day basis.
“This has been a huge chal-lenge trying to locate Amy from Illinois,” she said, “Sometimes in life you face things that feel beyond your capacity to handle. For me, prayer is so important.
“I tried to do everything I could from Illinois by phone and on the computer due to my disabilities with Huntington’s.”
Amy Ahearn was hired as a full-time faculty member around the year of 2000, said O’Connor.
O’Connor expressed his relief of great concern about her dis-appearance, recognizing Amy Ahearn as a “wonderful faculty member, bright, [and] talented.”
“It sounds very tragic if what I read in these articles is true...It’s very heartbreaking,” O’Connor said.
Although Ahearn’s name still remains on the schedule for upcoming spring classes, O’Connor has a feeling she won’t be returning.
“There certainly will be an as-surance, including if professor Ahearn is not teaching the set of classes that her name is as-signed to in the online schedule, that someone will be there for the classes,” he said.
Finding relief in the sup-port of Amy Ahearn’s family, O’Connor believes that she has strong support from her family.
“The good news is, is that it sounds like she has a very lov-ing, concerned family,” he said. “If there’s a bright spot in any of this, that would be it.”
New facilities like this help, but there are still a variety of jobs out there for students graduating from the nursing program, said Tamera Rice, as-sistant dean of health sciences and human services.
“We’ve been pretty fortunate. Students are finding jobs within three to six months of gradu-ating,” Rice said. “However, dropping off your resume is not enough. Students need to be persistent. A lot of networking is involved”
Rice said that the program takes in approximately 60 stu-dents per semester. Before en-
tering, nursing students take a pre-exam to test their skills. Once admitted, it takes about two years to complete the pro-gram.
Linda Gleason, nursing in-structor said it is important to prioritize when in the nursing program.
“Students need to know to be prepared when entering the program. It’s important to bal-ance things in life. It is a very challenging program,” Gleason said. “In my experience, stu-dents struggle in not wanting to give up things.”
Shannon Davis, 28, nursing said, “My experience in the Saddleback nursing program has been absolutely amazing. The nursing program has also been one of the most challeng-ing things I have ever done in
my life. In my clinical rotations it was very clear to me that the Saddleback nursing program is highly reputable within the community.”
Davis said, “Many facilities are looking to hire only people with a bachelors of science in nursing, so this could be a chal-lenge with nurses who just have their associates degree in nurs-ing. All I know is the job market is highly competitive.”
The nursing program at Sad-dleback was started in 1971, and students who enter it have a pass rate of between 94 and 99 percent.
A candlelight pinning cer-emony, in the McKinney The-atre, will honor this semester’s 52 graduates on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.
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“Why I care about the mind and body is that I want to know what happens when I die and my body is no more,” Dezida said. “Do I cease to exist?”
After the discussion, many students asked questions about the theory, some brought up the idea of reincarnation and how if it is true, then the consciousness can survive albeit with no memories.
“I have noticed that when people get older and older they want to believe in something after their death,” said Shelby Avila, 19, undecided. “But for younger people like us they are more open to different concepts because they don’t necessarily have that fear of dying.”
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Be grateful for change on Thanksgiving
The Social {LIVE} Series, presented by Saddleback Col-lege, brought out local artist-on-the-rise Jonathan Blake Salazar to its campus last week.
Salazar gave out CDs and soothed students with a one-hour acoustic set that includ-ed his original compositions, which can only be described as a marriage of rock and blues.
He also provided his audience with covers of several songs in-cluding, “The Joker” and “Stand By Me.”
Students took notice of the artist and cleaned out his booth of all CDs.
Hayley Dobson, 23, psychol-ogy, found Salazar’s perfor-mance to be peaceful and mel-low.
“He sends a really good vibe, like I’m in a good mood right now because I’m listening to him,” Dobson said.
Salazar combined the “good vibes” of the day with several guitar solos that showed off his musical gifts.
The musician discovered his talent for playing the guitar in the sixth grade, and has not stopped playing it ever since.
His love for music is a trait that has been with Salazar for as long as he can remember.
“I’ve always just been ob-sessed with music,” the Fuller-ton native said.
A former quarterback of his high school football team, Salazar described himself as a “sports guy” who loved music.
He said that it always came as a surprise to people when they found out that he could play the guitar.
Although Salazar has always had a knack for writing and an ear for music, he decided to pursue a music career only after taking lessons with Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Rob Mullins.
Salazar caught Mullins’ atten-tion when he played one of his original song at a lesson.
Mullins liked what he heard and decided to manage Salazar shortly after.
He then recorded his first al-bum in 2006 with the help of
Mullins.Within the span of one year,
Salazar found a manager, re-corded an album, and began performing live.
A music career was not origi-nally an option that Salazar had thought deeply about until he experienced the rush of per-forming.
“It all happened so fast,” Sala-zar said. “I played my first live show right before my album was finished, without any previ-ous experience, and I loved it.”
Along with playing shows
and pursuing his career in mu-sic, Salazar also offers guitar lessons in Huntington Beach.
The next step for the seasoned musician is to record his second full-length album, which he said he has been eager to do.
Salazar said that he has found his true calling in music, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
For more information on Salazar and his music, visit facebook.com/jonathanblake-salazar.
CASSIE ROSSEL
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PERFORMANCE: Jonathan Blake Salazar entertains solo with vocals and acoustic guitar at the quad on Tuesday Nov. 15.
During an average Thanks-giving dinner, most people would consider a turkey to be the main event during dinner, with all the other foods enhanc-ing the taste of the bird.
There are many ways to pre-pare it, whether brined, baked, stuffed or fried, it is always the same type of outcome.
As traditions go, turkey is a prime example of old-fashioned holiday delicacies that go way back to colonial America.
But this is not colonial Amer-ica, we now live in a day and age that constantly changes, including the way we prepare food during the holidays.
This Thanksgiving, people all over America will be celebrat-ing so why not celebrate in a unique way?
For those who are just plain
tired of turkey every year and need a break, one can never go wrong with chicken. Try roast-ing a chicken and spice things up a bit with a unique ingredi-ent, like chutney or a spice nev-er used before.
If there was ever a holiday entree that piqued the interest of people all around, it would be any entree wrapped in bacon. Take beef tenderloin and wrap it in bacon and a great substitute to tradition is created. Vegetar-ians and vegans, I apologize, this one is not for you.
However, for all those who will be cooking for vegans and vegetarians, there are several different options.
To take a turn off the tradi-tional Thanksgiving path, why not make burgers? And to make it vegan friendly, you can make veggie patty burgers. It’s an American food and it’s animal-product free.
Also, there is “Tofurkey” a tofu substitute containing tur-key. “Tufurkey” may techni-cally still be turkey, but it may get some smiles from the veg-etarians around the Thanksgiv-ing table.
Cooking for a table crowded with people can be difficult, es-pecially if the menu is elaborate and requires all day to prepare.
From family to friends, Thanksgiving experiences have always been a haphazard event but the one constant is the knowledge that every year peo-ple can acknowledge the holi-days, stay in touch with family and express gratefulness for the great things in their lives.
And that’s what Thanksgiv-ing is all about: family, friends and great food. Be grateful for what you have, but remember, it’s always okay to learn how to appreciate something new.
NICOLE BULLARD
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CAMPUS COMMENTWHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO ATTEND SADDLEBACK COLLEGE?
ALYSSA HUNTER AND TAYLOR CARNEY
Chandler Lindner, 18 history
Preston Brown, 19, kinesiology
Andrew McDonough, 19 kinesiology
“Because I didn’t know what I wanted to do and it saves
money.”
“I didn’t take SATs or any-thing so I had to come here.”
Cady Dice, 20 human services
Indigo Scott, 20 child development
Nick Smith, 24business economics
“It was chosen for me, primarily for cost.”
“It was local and trying to save money for a four-year
school.”
“Closest to my house, more local.”
The theater students at Saddleback College are put-ting on the semester play, “A Christmas Carol,” starting this December in the McKin-ney Theatre.
The play, originally by Charles Dickens, is the clas-sic holiday tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from a grumpy old man to generous, loving soul after a night of discovery brought on by the visit of four spirits.
The play will be showing on Dec. 2 and 3 and then Dec. 6 through Dec. 10.
The Dec. 3, 4, 10 and 11 will start at 3 p.m. and the other days will begin at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $12 for general admission, $11 for students/seniors and $6 for Saddle-back College students with an ASB card and children 12 & under.
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A lot to learn at Family Nightbooth:OC Rock Radio sets up booth at Family Night to encourage students to choose Saddleback.
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Family night does not always mean gathering around a table to play scrabble, but to come to saddleback College on nov. 14 to learn what the campus offers and why it should be students first choice.
“There is no finer college, whether you want to attain a degree or transfer. saddleback should be the first choice,” said President tod Burnett.
“ i can’t say enough good things about our college.”
“High school kids get the chance to come to saddleback and check out all the programs and clubs we have,” said Zack inski, 19, technical theatre, who was sitting at the entertainment theatre technology booth.
The cafeteria was filled with a variety of booths like, mathe-matics & science, matriculation, automotive, transfer, culinary arts, human resources. even the college radio was broadcasting the event from inside.
Outreach director leslie
Humphrey said, “this function is put on by faculty, staff and students. it is geared toward seniors and their families, how-ever freshmen and juniors will come as well.”
“in the beginning of the event there was a lot of kids check-ing out our booth (entertain-ment theatre), but now they are downstairs in workshops,” said Kat Bausch, 20, technical theatre.
students were able to choose three out of four workshops to attend that included either trans-fer and honors, campus life, fi-nancial aid and career technical education.
“i went to all the workshops besides campus life, and found them very interesting,” said Cynthia Cardenas,17, Mira Monte High school senior.
while high school students were wandering around the hallways of ssC, saddleback’s Patrick Webster, 20, film and stephanie Gorman, 19, english were there to guide them.
“there are no more lost stu-dents than usual,” Webster said.
“i think they expected a lot more kids to attend this eve-ning,” Webster said as he looked towards all the empty seats in the cafeteria.
“i think it is really important for high school students to come because they get to see that col-lege is not that bad,” Gorman said.
“i thought college was go-ing to be awful, but it turns out Saddleback is awesome.”
The night finished off with speeches from Burnett, Hum-phrey, and asG president Jo-seph Hassine. they explained why saddleback should be a first choice school.
san Clemente High school senior, andrew Hughes, 17, said “i learned a lot of information. i knew nothing about college un-til I came here.”
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til death do us part: Sister Fennell talks about the importance of marriage with audience. [email protected]
Sister will have ‘nun’ of itwho would pay good money
to be scolded by a nun? the an-swer is a good many, and these folks almost filled the McKin-ney theatre on saturday, nov. 19.
“Late Night Catechism” is a one-woman series of comedic lectures based upon the seven sacraments of the Catholic faith.
the show focused primarily on marriage and the last rights, or the “Anointing of the Sick” and titled “till death do us Part.”
Upon entering the theater, one couldn’t but notice that the audience was almost wholly comprised of people of at least fifty.
the show began as sister de-nise Marie Christina Fennell en-tered from the back of the the-ater in full habit and oversized rosary, and immediately forced a man in the front row to give him her gum in a procured nap-kin.
she made it very clear that she was italian, and that she would always be addressed as sister.
Her comedy was very audi-ence driven, a mostly enjoyable back and forth that prompted the nun to think on her enshrouded feet.
One particularly hilarious event occurred as an elderly audience member applied chap stick while watching the show, only to be forced to remove the gloss and ridiculed after being reminded that Christ must have had chapped lips on the cross after hours in the desert sun.
the show wasn’t entire-ly one-sided however, as an anonymous audience member compared the “Miracle of tran-substantiation” to cannibalism, much to the chagrin of our dear sister.
she was further blindsided when a cute little elderly wom-an asked if Galileo Galilee ware the founder of Galileo winery.
later in the act, an impromp-tu prop failure interrupted her
timeline of marriage lecture and forced the sister to conscript the aid of a “Soldier of Christ” from the audience to hold up her poster while she lectured.
this particular warrior began sweating almost immediately, and the strain of holding his arm up understandably began to show as he was forced to hold the upraised position for many minutes as she droned on.
For someone married to God, she sure knew a lot about being married to other people.
with our current audience, it was very ironic that she was giving marriage advice to peo-ple who’d been hitched for a minimum of twenty years.
this show makes the catho-lic sacraments about as funny as they can be while still being vaguely educational.
while there were many funny bits, the entrance fee of $30 may be a little steep. if i want to be scolded and lightly verbally abused, i’ll just go to work.
riley Tanner
SPORTS
Cerritos College defeated ir-vine Valley College 69-63 last thursday in an overtime thriller. the score was close throughout the entire game.
The first half was back and forth. a lot of slick passes and smooth jumpers were made by both teams. at the half the score was 27-22 with iVC leading.
Chris taylor was leading the lasers with 9 points and antho-ny Holliday led Cerritos with 12 points.
the second half had the same result. taylor and austin loeb were diving all over the floor for loose balls.
Holliday continued to stay on fire connecting on two of three 3-point shots.
there were a lot of turnovers. iVC committed 12 turnovers in the second half, and Cerritos had seven.
the last two minutes of the second half caused the crowd to stand up and cheer. there were a lot of game changing plays.
loeb had the only dunk in the game with 1:58 left in the second half. iVC regained the lead (51-49) with that slam. it brought all laser fans to their feet.
Cerritos had fell behind 57-51 with 35.6 seconds left. they had to play the foul game. Holiday scored and got fouled, making the free throw. the score was 57-54 with 22.7 seconds left.
iVC committed a turnover and Cerritos had a chance to tie it up. Holiday was the guy to do it. He hit a 3-point shot with 0.3 seconds left on the clock. the score was 57-57, and it was time for overtime.
Cerritos took an early lead in overtime and wouldn’t let up. their defense caused turnovers and forced some blocks. iVC was stunned.
Cerritos had defeated iVC in
overtime. The final score was 69-63. with that win, Cerritos would play in the championship game of the iVC tourney.
iVC shot 43.6 percent from the field, 33.3 percent from three-point land, and 83.3 per-cent from the free-throw line. Cerritos shot 41.7 percent from the field, 38.1 percent from three, and 77.8 percent from the free-throw line.
Chris taylor led iVC with 15 points, five assists, and six re-bounds.
Kaleb Hatcher had 13 points. iVC had 20 turnovers.
Anthony Holiday finished with 26 points for Cerritos. wil-lie edwards had 11 points, and he also had three three-point field goals in overtime.
darius williams had 14 points and four blocks.
iVC defeated Cuyamaca 71-40 last saturday in the Consola-tion final game.
chris canTwell
saddleback College lost to riverside City College 31-14 in the Golden state Bowl last sat-urday.
This was the Gauchos final game of the season.
the game showcased several
turnovers by the Gauchos.Ben Gomez threw three inter-
ceptions, and the tigers defense forced four fumbles.
the Gauchos made a come-back, tying the game 14-14, af-ter a 80-yard touchdown pass to rodney woodland.
Riverside would score a field goal before halftime.
the score at halftime was 17-14.
the second half was all riv-erside.
the Gauchos didn’t score in the second half and the tigers would score two more touch-downs.
The final score was 31-14.
Gomez played his worst game of the season.
He finished 18-35 with 256 yards (a season low).
He also had one touchdown, three interceptions, and was sacked nine times.
rodney woodland played one of his best games for the Gau-chos.
He had 213 yards in the game.He had seven receptions for 138 yards, four rushes for 35 yards, and two kickoffs for 40 yards.
riverside is 11-0. saddleback finished the season with a re-cord of 8-3.
chris canTwell
Undefeated Tigers defeat Gauchos in Golden West Bowl.
