COMMENTARY Page 8 The Renegade Rip I www.therip.com Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Staff Editorial

An American visionary leaves behind global legacy The death of Steve Jobs has not just

been the passing of a famous entTepre­nem, but in many ways it has been a hit to the American Dream.

to uying out new ideas, many of those ideas eventually becoming the standard for how those thil1gs were done for ev­eryone.

his own personal wealth. posed to create wealth for eve1yone, bur instead he created real products and di­rectly employed people for a fair wage while bringing something new and use­ful to society that we can hold it in our hands.

We need people who can take on Job ·s role of head cheerleader for entire industties. He was a charismatic speaker with a gift for elegant turns of phrase and he invigorated people with a bound­less optimism.

'fo the pioneers of Silicon Valley, he is the model of success. To computer guys. he's an engineer who knew the science. but dominated the business world. The man's life murnrs the mythology

stmounding the promise of America. He started a small company wit11 a few friends and turned it into one of the most successful in its industry, creating out of nothing a new way to make money and bring prosperity to those around him.

At any moment of our Jjves, most people in the United States are mere feet from a product that includes at least one idea that he promoted or created.

He was also the proof of concept for the idea that a child of the counter-cul­ture could come back from the wilder­ness with sometlling useful for society.

Heck. even art students know his name simply because he's the guy re­sponsible for the products that make aU of their favorite projects possible.

Most impo1tantly, to the average American. he was one of the few real job-creators and we lost him right when we needed some new jobs.

To Americans. thar is the dream. We need innovators who are not mired in the alliances and feuds of existing eco­nomic relarionships.

Finding someone who can fill that niche is not going 10 be an easy task even though there are a few with the ac­tual resume to jusrify such optimism.

Then he was fired from his own com­pany, only to be brought back years later to herald a new pe1iod of innovation and profi t.

He was a free-thinking visionary and a consummate gambler when it came

His experimentation with LSD and love for eastern philosophy seemed to have no effect on his ability to exist in the wildly conservative world of big business or prevent him from buildmg

I-le wasn "t a 1ich guy that moved arow1d slips of paper with ot11er rich guys and then through some "invisible­band.'' trickle-down magic was sup-

We don' t need people so enu·enched in old ways of making money that they need to be bailed out by the government because no one else u·usts them enough to float tl1em a loan because there is doubt these old leviathans can still profit with their out-dated busu1ess models.

We need another white wizard to help us overcome the funk we seem to be in where protestors on both sides of the political spemwn are demandil1g that someone bring back the promise of the American Dream and just the hope of a better future.

Is the red planet really worth the journey? By Keith Kaczmarek

Reporter a new frontier to explore. We need new lands to tty out new social experilnents free of thousands of years of history and prejuruce and new resow·ces

Gening to Mars is not going to be easy, and in to exploit, and we can't strut too early considering the cwTent economic climate it that Mars might not be ready for large-scale might not even seem like a good I I human habitation for hundreds of years. idea. but that's only half the sto1y. p Ro Of course. we have problems. No one

Going to Mars is going to in- is pretenrung that this is going to magi-volve more than just stuffing a --------- cally transform ow· society for the better, few patriots into a glorified tin can but given the u·ack record science has for that costs billions. It is going to involve discovering improving ow· lives and makmg them safer, better, hundreds of new technologies that will affect our and more productive. I'd prefer that my tax dollars lives in unexpected and wonderful ways. go to a broad base of scientific research instead of

The space program has already borne fruit in too being used to blow up foreigners in petty disputes many areas to cow1t. Velcro, Teflon. and indusuial- over local resources and intractable politics. grade ceramics are just some of the more ''space- We should take to the stars not just to uphold our age'' inventions. but the technologies created by the proud tradition of finding new frontiers to conquer, space program have applications in ai·eas as ruverse but because space is full of prosperity and profit if as make-up to cancer treatments. we are just willing to make the initial investment.

This means that the space program itself is one of the mythical "engines of grnwth" for our economy that pundits like to wax poetically about. Counter­intuitively, t11e very act of pushing the boundaries of human exploration has also been quite good for the pocketbooks of the American people, creating new products and indusu·ies that employ Ameri­cans.

Not only that, but the pure science needed for prolonged spaceflight seems to be the exact same science we need so desperately right now. Getting to Mars and back is going to require new ways to produce cheap and clean fuels. new ways to manu­factw·e, new understanding of complex ecosystem and climate problems. new solutions for sustain­able resource collection, and new materials that will make possible inventions that ctmently only exist in the imagination.

While some people like to give credit for the cunent wealth and prosperity of the fiJSt world to democracy or to capitalism, in truth we owe it all to science. Science has not only kept the economy humming with new products. but it has created new economies of scale that make previously expensive products cheap enough for even the poorest to af­ford. Investing in the project to get to Mars is go­ing to create science faster, simply accelerating the in1provement of our lives.

But the in1mediate concerns aside, a ttip to Mars also deals with a long-time issue: we need more room. The human population has already risen to a level that could be unsustainable. and we need

By Tyler McGinty Opinions Editor

Leave Mars alone! Why is humanity obsessed with look-

example. Hell, I'd settle for just a clean energy somce. We really shouldn't even 1J1ink about colonies

on other planets until we have these kinds of en­ergy sources. The amount of energy

ing onward and upward while ignoring the problems at their own feet? There is absolutely no need to even think about coloniz:ing Mars when Eaith has so much to fix already.

I needed to sustain a colony on Mars would have to be incredibly high. What would be the point of travew1g

-------- to a new planet, setting up shop and CON

Things like pollution. wai·. poverty and corrup­tion. These aren't t11e things I'd like to see spread to another planet. We can bai·ely take care of one planet. To suggest we could handle two ilnplies that we, as a species. have a monsu·ous ego.

The sheer an1ow11 of research ai1d development time, and the money to fund that, that would be spent in order to make Mars livable could be spent on far better things. Renewable energy sotu-ces. for

All right ladies and gentlemen,

we have arrived at our

then polluting it all over agail1? Fm1he1more, who is going to pay for such an

outlandish venture? I doubt any government in the world would fund

it even if they could. China might have enough money to do it if we

paid back all of om debt. Even if they could, no one government. can lay claim to any part of Mars. It would violate space law (which is a real thing) set fortb by me Out.er Space Treaty of 1967. Since all of outer space is the "common heritage of man­kind ," it can't. be owned by any government.

With governments out of the picture due to legal­ity and budget issues, that would just leave private companies to foot the bill, and space travel isn' t cheap. Just tl1e fuel to get ro Mars costs more tl1an most people would see in their lives. It takes over $10,000 worth of fuel to get one pound of payload into a low Eaith orbit.

That's just to get off Eai·th. Can you imagine the cost to actually get to Mai·s? I don't even want to tl1ink about it.

These exorbitant costs would leave space tt,wel accessible only to the rich ai1d the super-rich. I'd rather not see Mars rw·ned into tl1e priciest condo­mmium complex cate1ing to movie stars, oil ty­coons and other various billionaires.

The costs already mount up to ridiculous amounts without. even considering maku1g the planet livable in anyway.

In addition to fuel, we'd have to find ways to make a renewable atmosphere, obtain a water source and create an agricultural system.

If we took the outrageous amount of (hypotheti­cal) money spent on colonizing Mars and spent it on technological advances and social welfare programs, you might not be looking at the stars so much anymore. You might find you're happy here.

Until we've got our first planet under conu·ol, we should absolutely not expand to another one. How about we leave Maitian submbia where it belongs:

CHRY5'TAL FORTI /THE R1P in cheap sci-fi books.

Haggard's 'Tennessee' eaves you yearning for more By Jon Nelson

Reporter

After being raised around his music and seeing him half a dozen times in concert, I thought I knew everything mere was to know about Merle Hag­gard.

However, with his new record, "Working in Ten­nessee," the "Okie from Muskogee" proves t11at despite his age. he still has a few surprises up his sleeve.

The 6tle track from the album is "Pure Haggai·d.'' in the best way possible.

The lyTics seem 10 be about a down-on-his-luck country singer. but they could also be the superstar taking a jab at the country music establishment.

The music is the mix of country and twangy Bluegrass that Haggard has perfected in the last few decades.

''Down on the Houseboat' ' is a standout track be­cause it's so unusual.

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ALBUM REVIEW

It has a '80s pop-country, Jimmy Buffett feel that seems like such a shatl) conn·ast to what I've come to expect from the man.

The song "Sometimes I ****t:{ Dream'' is the kind of beauti­fully gut-wrenching piece that

could have only been written by an old soul that's been to hell and back a few 6mes.

Witl1 lyrics like "Seldom I laugh and seldom I ever cty," and "Forever a lonely man, but some­times I dream." it 's hard not to be t1-anspo1ted into his to1ment.

Along with new material, the legend also record­ed a few counuy standai·ds on the album.

I-laggard has covered "Cocaine Blues" (which happens to be one of my favorite songs of all time) for years but he puts a new spin on it for ''Working in Tennessee." The song is indesc1ibably strange upon first listen.

It was only after a few spins that I was able to realize it sow1ded almost happy.

A happy song about a man who kills his wife in a cocail1e-induced frenzy?

The highlight of the album comes with the last song. "Jackson," also a cover. is a duet Haggard recorded with his daughter Theresa.

I got chills listening to the song because Theresa sounds so much like June Carter Cash.

It made me think of her and Johnny singing it and I almost got tears in my eyes.

Thematically, "Working in Tennessee" is similar to much of what Haggai·d has done in the past.

However, the album doesn't feel stale. The listener is taken through a journey of stt·ug­

gle, love, despau· and joy as seen through the eyes of t11e working class man.

My only complaint about I-laggard's lat.est offer­ing is the length.

At just over 30 minutes. it leaves me wondering, "what else he's got banging ai·ound in his head?"

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Letter to the Editor

BC Cheer is tougher than you think Editor:

I am responding to Zak S. Cowan's comments on Sept. 21 that began with, "our cheer team is unbearable ." I realize that in the Oct. 5 edition of the Rip you admitted your error and called yourself a moron, which takes some courage. I still , how­ever, would like to set the record straight on a few things.

First of all, I wondered how many football games you've ac­tually attended. I also wondered if you traveled with the teams to the out of town football games. And just how many sporting events do you attend on a regular basis?

If you look in your archives, you will find an article from back in March that covered the Bakersfield College cheer team tryouts. The team was not cho­sen on "sparkle" as you call it, whatever that is. The members are selected on college-level tal­ent alone and only after a week of clinic learning college-level material.

A lot of the team's cheers are tradition, that's true. Have you looked in the stands lately? Our crowd is not made up of BC stu­dents.

Our crowd is made up of loyal Renegade fans, the majority of whom are over the age of 50 or higher. They are the rooters who support the cheer team and the Renegades and au.end football games at home and away. They are the ones wearing red and white and cheering in the stands.

The cheer team is also held to a certain level of conservatism by the town we live in, the col­lege we attend, and the fan base, which again, is over 50 years of age. If they get too far away from tradition or too 1isque, we imme­diately hear about it regardless of the fact that neither the school nor the fans support us finan­cially.

Just so you know, the cheer team funds itself 100 percent.. They pay to go to camp, which enables them to bring new side­line cheers and dance routines to the games eve1y year.

We can 't afford a professional choreographer and we do not have the time, money, or sup­polt to compete. We are too busy cheering for almost every sport that BC has to offer.

You made mention of USC and Division-I. The USC cheer team wears the same uniform year after year and has for some thirty years now.

They also do the same routines year after year. If they changed it up too much, eve1yone would balk.

Many of the BC cheer team have gone on to cheer at four­year schools, including Division­I schools. They have even gone on to USC. So they are not lack­ing talent by any means.

If you have better ideas, I cer­tainly welcome them. Perhaps you could be the team 's next coach.

But by all means, b1ing some ideas for financial assistance since each team member spends anywhere from $900 to $1,100 every year just to be o ut on that field or court cheering for the Renegades and receiving un­called-for comments from peo­ple like you.

This year I do think they will get a little more financial support because as the president of the BC Alumni Association, I usual­ly donate money to the Rip, But since you ripped the BC cheer team, and myself, I think I'll skip the Rip this year and give your share to the cheer team instead.

We don't really need "Alumni" like you at the games anyway. You pro bably only support the Renegades when they're win­ning.

Becki Whitson BC Cheer Coach

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'Rage' is certain to satisfy your id By Gregory D. Cook

Photo editor

It's just another evening on near-future Eaith. In pod-like bun­kers called Arks, all over the planet, the world's best and brightest are being tucked into their cryo-beds and buried in the hope that they will one day emerge and rebuild civilizatfon. In the sky, a rather large chunk menacing-looking of space-rock is smashing into the moon on its dramatic way to wipe out life as we know it. Sweet dreams.

And so begin your adventures in "Rage," the newest offering from legendary first-person shooter developer id Software, and for the most pa.it , the 1ide is well wo1th the price of the ticket.

While id didn't actually invent the geme, as many believe, they can cenainly claim credit for guiding it thro ugh its awkward ad­olescent phase with such groundbreaking ti tles as "Wolfenstein 3D," "Doom" and the "Quake" series. "Rage's" well-polished game play and breathtaking visuals make it wo1thy of a place on that list as well.

GAME REVIEW

The first thing a player will notice about "Rage" is the fact that it looks damn good. The outside world is filled with crumbling rnins of cities, and mountain ranges ren­dered in more vibrant color than most post-apocalyptic worlds in gaines of late, * * **A telling you that ve1y little about this game

J..-{ is going to be muted or drab. The id Tech 5 engine does a fantastic job

of bringing the world of"Rage" to the screen. Character animations are fluid and realistk, and the gore factor

is definitely well represented. Shoot a mutant right in front of you with a double-barreled shotgun, and you can expect to get some of it on you.

The aitificial intelligence of the enemies the player faces in "Rage" is also pulled off pretty well, although there isn' t much vaiiety in the types of opponents the player faces. Enemies gener­ally come in two flavors; those that sit back and shoot at you, and those that prefer to take a more hands-on approach to their work and come at you with clubs, claws, knives or lit to rches. Both have dynamic behaviors; the ranged opponents will try to fi nd cover when they notice the player, and move if they see a beaer place, while the melee specialists rush you while dodging, rolling and jumping off walls like something o ut o f a John Woo movie.

There is a fair bit of personality to each enemy that makes up for the general lack of overall vai·iety of encounter. Opponents will taunt you with insults and threats and when sufficiently wounded some will t:Iy to cai1y on the fight, while others will attempt to limp or crawl away.

But to label "Rage" a first-person shooter is only telling half the sto1y. A lai·ge pait of the game takes place behind the wheel of your vehicle. Your vehicle is how you get to the vario us mis­sion areas of the game, and for some reason, the post-apocalyptic world seems to be obsessed with the sport of anned auto racing .

Every settlement in the wasteland sponsors a series of races and vehicle combat events that offer the player the opportunity to up-

SCREENSHITT BY GREGORY D. COOK /THE RIP

Dan Hagar, voiced by John Goodman, is your beginning guide to the post-apocalyptic world of " Rage." grade pa.it s and weapons on their cai·s. This and other mini-games serve to give the player a lot to do other than just filling bandits and mutants full of lead.

The game is not without its shai·e of drawbacks though chiefly in the multiplayer realm. There ai·e only two multiplayer modes to speak of; a two-player co-op mode that lets you explore some of the back stories of the characters with a friend , and a vehicle race mode that pits four players in a no-holds -baJTed rally to collect points for driving over check.'J)Oints while attempting to blow up the other three racers. It. is fun to begin with, but it gets old pretty fast.

The fact that there is no large-scale player-versus-player game play seems odd coming from the makers of the Quake se1ies, espe­cially from the same company that brought us the Quake se1ies.

The sto1y also seems move a bit too quickly, not that the gaine is too sho1t. There ai·e a good 20 or more hom-s of game even when played at a mshed pace, but the main chai-acte1-s never get devel­oped quite as much as they could be before the player is whisked off to the next settlement to continue the main story.

Although the races and abundance of side missions g ive the im­pression of an open world, the game is actually quite linear.

And fina11y, the game's ending is somewhat underwhelming. After spending most of the game learning to deal with enemies that, for the most part, put up a pretty good fight, you are handed a weapon that allows you to just walk to the end of the game as if you were taking a Sunday stt·oll in the pai'k. The challenge just isn' t there like it was in the rest of the game.

But despite these sho1tcomings, "Rage" is still an ente1taining romp through the first-person and racing genres, wo1thy of the id Softwai·e name.

Occupy has right message By Nate Perez

Reporter

Ame1ica: Where a handful of robber bai·ons helped destt·oy the economy ai1d got paid for it. Where the wealthiest of all Ame1icans ai·e not properly taxed. Where you can live a lifestyle you can't afford. Now we have people occupying Wall Street.

The Occupy Wa11 Stt·eet protests now have union support. and are acknowledged worldwide. They have gained major momentum since they 01iginall y stait ed almost a month ago.

Peaceful protests ai·e occuning in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Cincinnati, B1itain, and so forth.

The protesters are made up of different political backgrounds : Anarchists, hippies, Ron Paul sup­porters, etc .

Basically, these occupy move­ments may reek of patchouli. That being said, we should all support these protesters.

Wall Street criminals to be pros­ecuted, and so on.

One thing I really like about these protesters is that they're angiy and they're actually doing something about it.

Most people just complain about the cmTent state affairs, but they're not willing to sacrifice in order to make change.

One thing I don't like about the protesters is the way they represent themselves. The whole 99% thing is a bit ridiculous to me.

We get it, you got some crazy art degree and now you can ' t be the famous aitist you 've always wanted to be.

All jokes aside, all the pictm·es of people holding signs on their webcams ai·e really embairnssing.

I feel for them, but I can' t help but cringe when I see them.

Despite what I don't like about the Occupy Wall Street movement, I do like the message.

GREGORY D. COOK I THE RIP

A local Occupy group protests in Oct. 13.

Some of the protesters list of demands ai·e: for congress to pass HR 1489, they want corporations to stop buying elections, they want the rich and the corporat.ions to pay their fair share of taxes, they want

They're angry and they know what they're fighting for. If you don' t think the wealthiest of all Ame1icans should pay more in tax­es something is wrong with you. The tycoons were supposed to cre­ate jobs ai1d influence our economy in a good way, but instead they're hurting us.

Dialogue carries new Clooney film By Nate Perez

Reporter

"The Ides of March" doesn't feature any fight scenes, or have any corny, over-the-top dilemma.

What it does feature is great d i a -logue, a fan tas­tic plot, and sur­pri s in g e n te r ­tainment. g i ve n

MOVIE REVIEW

***** that it is a political drama.

"The Ides of March" features an all-star cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Phillip Sey­mour Hoffmai1, Maiisa Tomei,

Paul Giainatti, and Evan Ra­chel Wood.

Gosling plays Stephen Mey­ers, a campaign press secretary that appeai·s to be more than just an employee of prominent politician, Gov. Mike Mon-is (played by George Clooney). Meyers seems to really believe Mon-is can win because he is different from the other politi­ciai1s.

He's honest, he sincerely be­lieves in his cause, and he's not another pawn.

Morris is a progressive poli­tician involved in an intense Democratic primary against a more conservative Democrat. The race is very close and any littJe mistake or mishap could cause either opponent to lose

gi·ound. With the race getting closer

and closer, Meyers begins to feel the pressure.

When a campaign scandal breaks loose within the Monis campaign, Meyers has to figure out how to control the situation that is unfolding.

You should watch this movie if you ai·e over 30 or if you're a fan of any of the above actors.

You should definitely not watch this movie if you're ex­pecting some so1t of fight scene or if you hate good movies.

Gosling does a phenomenal job in this movie as he did in "Drive" and "Blue Valentine." Gosling's been in other films worth mentioning, such as "Lai·s and the Real Girl" and

"The Notebook." The list of movies really

shows his diversity and ability as an actor.

Clooney not only staiTed in the "The Ides of March," he also directed it.

This is not the first. time Clooney has directed a movie. He's directed "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Leatherheads," and a few othe1-s, but "The Ides of Mai·ch" appeai·s to be one of his best.

If you want to see over-the­t.op fight scenes with awfu l dia­logue and a mediocre plot, go watch "Real Steel."

If you want to see good act­ing, quality dialogue, and an overall good movie, watch "The Ides of Mai·ch."

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Column

Recalling the Green Album and Mikey Pop, Girls, Etc. I The Rip's Opinions Editor shares his thoughts on pop culture and media

Celeb1ity deaths ai·e rumored to come in threes, and it may be just be­cause we stop paying att.ention af­ter the third one, and this month was no ex­ception.

Wi t hin the same Tyler McGinty week Steve Jobs, Al Davis and Mikey Welsh all passed away. Poor Mikey may not have been as important as the othe1-s, but as a member of Wee­zer, he deserves something.

Welsh was my second favorite Weezer bassist (and if you 're fa­vo1ite is anyone but Matt Shaip, you 're wrong) not necessaiily because of ai1y special talent, but because he isn ' t Scott Sh1iner, and to me he's symbolic of a change for the band.

Welsh joined Weezer after the depaltUre of Sharp for the third album,

"Weezer" (the gi·een one, not the red one or the blue one) and their sound had changed incred­ibly. Weezer had gotten more populai·, it seems everyone heai·d "Hash Pipe" or "Island in the Sun."

What was most shocking to me was how mean Welsh looked on the cover.

It's a stark contrast to how se­rene Sharp looks on the cover of

"Weezer" (the blue one, not the red one or the gi·een one.) He looks so upset, maybe because he thought that's what rock stai·s should look like. I remember when I heai·d that he suffered from a mental breakdown. I wasn' t surprised at all. He looked like a g uy ready to pop.

Welsh ended up quitting music after his breakdown and focused on ail after he got out of the hos­pital. If it weren't for the fact that a dmg overdose is his suspected cause of death, I would have thought it did a lot for him.

More recent pictures of Welsh make him seem fai· more calm than the cover of "Weezer." Sure, there are a co uple of pictures where he looks pretty intense, but it looks far more appropriate as an a11ist specializing in outsid­er ait than it ever did as a bassist forWeezer.

Welsh also sent a mysterious tweet predicting his death on Sept. 26, saying he had a dream that he died in Chicago the next weekend. Afterwai·d COITected to two weeks later, and that he should get his affairs in order. The timing is far too accurate to not be potential suicide, so Welsh probably wasn' t in his right mind.

I know it's foolish to attribute this to Welsh, especially since Weezer 's creative output is held firmly in the hands of Rivers Cuomo, but after Welsh left the band, it seems like Weezer went a bit downhill.

A part of me knows that "Mal­adroit" is a better album techni­cally, but "Weezer" (again, the gi·een one) holds a pan of my heail because it was the first Weezer album I owned.

I real! y wish I had found Welsh 's rut before his death. It's sadly a case of finding out too late. Outsider rut usually doesn't impact the rut world all that much, but it would have been cool to follow Welsh's career.

Mikey Welsh may not be missed by many people, but I'll miss him. He was there when Weezer went in a radically new directio n and devoted his life to rut. For Weezer fans, he is an immortal pait of their history, regai·dless of how you feel about Weezer before, after or during his sho1t tenm·e as bassist.

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Another win for volleyball

Meis ha McMurray Reporler

Bakersfield College volleyball host­ed College of the Canyons on Oct. 12 and won with scores of 25-18, 15-25, 14-25, 27-25, 15-9.

BC is currently No. 12 in the South­ern California Regional Poll and No. 20 in the latest women's Volleyball State Poll with an overall record 9-5 and 2-1 in the Western State Confer­ence.

BC freshman Charisma Hernandez had 16kills.

"Toward the end of game four and game five, there's no doubt Charisma was in there. The fire got hot and she carried us. Very happy for her," said Volleyball Head Coach Carl Ferreira.

Returning sophomore Sarah Borch­er added 12 kills and 17 digs which brings her overall kill record to 106, and Erica Rico had 42 assists and 10 digs, which brings her assists record to 324.

gym. I saw things in Erica in the end that I have never seen before. She had very demanding leadership a<; the set­ter, which l thought that was outstand­ing," said Fe11:eira.

Sophomore libero Rachel Christian had 24 digs and 18 perfect passes. Af­ter the game against COC, her overall digs record is 198.

"One of her greatest strengths is serving, and one thing I enjoyed is how she responded defensively," said Feneira.

"E1ica and Rachel perfmmed at lev­els I have never seen them play in be­fore, and I am very proud of them."

Brittany Smith made the final kill for BC, allowing them to win over COC. Smith's overall kill record is 110.

"The tiring I'm most happy with of this team is how what we do is so impo1tant to them. Having the mental side of the game allows their physical mentality to perform."

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

BRANDON BARRAZA I 1HE RIP

Charisma Hernandez kills a volley. "Second-year player, one of the

most very improved players in the

BC will travel to Glendale on Oct. 19, then host Santa Monica on Oct. 21.

BRANDON BARRAZA I 1HE RIP

Mikinzi Demarco of Bakersfield College comes down after hitting a kill past College of the Canyons' Jennie Long at BC on Oct. 12.

Renegade soccer shuts out Glendale College 3-0 Bakersfield College soccer

sit,;; at a record of 6-3-3 overall and 2-2-2 in conference play af­ter defeating Glendale on Oct.11 and LA Valley College on Oct.14 at BC.

SPORTS ROUNDUP

With no goals made in the first half against

------ Glendale, BC fresh1mm Sablina Spink made the first goal for BC to start the second half, with freshman Caitlyn Wilger assisting, putting them in the lead 1-0.

BC returning sophomores Mitzi IbatTa and Sarena Under­wood made the final two goals for BC allowing them to take home the win with the final score of 3-0.

Stopping Glendale from mak­ing any goals was BC goalie Lauren Ash, who put up a great defense. Ash stopped every single goal attempt came from Glendale.

Underwood, who had great ball control, managed to run with the ball from one side of the field to the other without losing the ball and allowed her to make her first goal attempt against Glendale.

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Ceci Amador (7) goes up for a header in a game agianst Citrius College on Oct. 14.

Three days later, BC took on LA Valley College and beat them with a score of 6-0.

BC will travel to Fresno on Oct. 18, and then host Canyons and Santa Monica on Oct. 21 a11d Oct. 25.

Wrestling BC's v.,restling teain compet­

ed in a toumainent at Modesto where it got big performances out of Lance Castenada and Mark Collier.

The tournament was on Oct. 8 and the BC team placed 14th

out of 20 teams with Fresno City getting first, Rio Hondo second and Sacrainento City third.

Two BC individuals wrestlers placed in the overall standings. Castenada, who wrestles in the 174 weight class, placed second, and Mark Collier, who's in the 124 weight class, placed eighth. Mike Flores of Chabot College took first overall.

"I really liked how we im­proved on our feet. We're mov­ing better, getting rid of high school habits a11d we're making some growth as a team," said wrestling coach Bill Kalivas.

He also added that he is happy that they are applying techniques that they practice, but he wants

them just to be competitors and not let bad calls get to them.

" I thought Castenada did a good job listening to the coaches and sticking to the strategies. I did think he made a couple mis­takes in the final match that cost him.

"We 're helping him elimi­nate those mistakes so he can put himself in good position to win."

Kalivas also said that Mark Collier, Jonathan Gomez and Ja­cob Pendleton wrestled well and continued to show progress.

" Jonathan and Jacob are fresh­ma11 a11d they 're are starting to use what they learn in practice and I think that's going to help

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The next tournament will be the Meat Head Movers Tourna­ment at San Luis Obispo on Oct. 22.

Cross country The BC men traveled to Mount

Antonio College on Oct.14 for the Mt. SAC Invitational and finished ninth as a team.

The first runner for BC was Richard Langdeaux, who fin­ished with a11 overall time of 22:43.

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BC's Amber Beckham leaps high to deflect the ball away from Angela Castellanos of Citrus College on Oct. 4.

"Overall, it was not a bad per­formance," said men's coach Dave Fiickel, noting that the team's top runner, Robby Baker,

had an off day. The Renegades will next com­

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