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ALBERT REBOSURASports editor

Jenn Shue had just gradu-ated high school, and was struggling with health issues and a host of new pressures. She was moody, often cried and was prone to panic at-

VANESSA LUISContributing writer

I was in a dark place and it gradually got darker.

I gained 50 pounds, I lost most of my friends, my binge eating was up, and my school performance was down. I lost all motivation, I slept too much, and I was angry all the time. I felt confused, helpless

and out of control.I didn’t understand why I

was no longer interested in doing anything. I had this urge to quit my job. I dropped most of my classes. I would close myself in my room, draw the curtains and avoid everyone.

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tacks. It all became too much for her.

“The sad truth is if it hadn’t been for Sally (Brat-ton, Ohlone’s Student Health Center director) and her team I wouldn’t be here to-

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Rahul Patel elected student rep to college’s Board of TrusteesMITCHELL WALTHEREditor-in-chief

Rahul Patel has been elect-ed as the student member of the Board of Trustees.

Students also elected four of their peers to Associated Students of Ohlone College executive officer positions during the April 14 and 15 voting.

“As ASOC senator, I as-sisted students with a variety of issues and dilemmas – I loved it,” Patel said in his candidate statement. “I want to work with all of you and make a difference here.”

Four candidates – Dan-iel Ayers, Irma Casteneda, Ameila Angdjaja and Luis Lujan – vied with Patel to be the student board member. Another four candidates ran unopposed for four ASOC officer positions.

Bubba Manzo was elected president and Kimberly Quinto vice president. Jack Smith snagged the secretary spot, while Harmeet Kaur was elected to be legislative representative. The newly elected officials will be sworn in next month.

No student ran for trea-surer. Though a student ran

as a write-in candidate, the student didn’t receive the 50 votes needed to qualify. A treasurer will be appointed Friday by the ASOC board.

The ASOC acts as a liaison between Ohlone students and administrators. They bring student opinions and concerns to the attention of the college’s Board of Trust-ees, and also lead fundrais-ers and outreach programs throughout the year.

The student member to the Board of Trustees will sit on the board during

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A SPECIAL REPORT

!"# $ % " & NEWS'(&$)*+,-*+./02NEWS BITESForensics team wins at nationals

The Ohlone Forensics Team returned from The Phi Rho Pi National Tour-nament in Cleveland with two silver medals and two bronzes.

Sarah Goulart earned a silver in prose; Kivraj Singh won a silver in pro-gram oral interpretation and a bronze in poetry; and an undefeated Man-veer Singh won a bronze in IPDA Debate.

The Forensics program will hold a showcase at Ohlone sometime in May. Details will be avail-able soon.

OFK seeks site monitors

Ohlone for Kids and Teens is seeking stu-dents to work as site monitors for its summer program.

The program offers a blend of academic and special-interest classes to students entering grades 4 through 11.

Site monitors help in-structors, deliver sup-plies, collect attendance, supervise students be-tween periods and dur-ing lunchtimes, and perform a host of other tasks. A high school di-ploma is required, and experience working in K-12 programs is pre-ferred.

The program runs in three sessions: from June 22 through July 2; from July 6 through 16; and from July 20 through 30.

Applicants should email their resumes to ofk@ohlone.edu or ofk-jobs@yahoo.com. For more information, go to www.ohloneforkids.com.

– Compiled by Monitor staff

Panel to discuss sociology

A panel of former Ohlone sociology and social work students will meet April 30 to discuss their degrees and ca-reers.

Alumni will talk about obtaining degrees in so-ciology and social work at four-year universities, what they wish they’d known before they trans-ferred, and what they have done with their de-grees.

The event will be at 6:30 p.m. in FP-16 in the portables on the Fre-mont campus.

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MITCHELL WALTHEREditor-in-chief

Ohlone’s Smith Center will be home this weekend to Janel Tomblin-Brown’s pre-sentation of “Soul House,” the 17th Annual Spring Dance Production.

The dance tells the story of spirits that inhabit a famous performance venue. Perfor-mances will be at 8 tonight, Friday and Saturday in the Smith Center. Tickets cost $12, or $10 for students, seniors and staff.

Audience members are in-vited to donate used shoes to Soles4Souls, a nonprofit that distributes shoes and clothes to people in need. Bins will be located in the Smith Center lobby and scene shop.

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Students and faculty walked for suicide prevention at the Newark campus on April 15 in honor of those suffering from and loved ones lost to mental illness.

STEP Up Ohlone organized the fifth annual Out of the Dark-ness Walk in an effort to raise awareness and prevent suicide. Students, staff and faculty wore colored beads signifying their support and walked three laps around the Newark campus.

The walk is one of the many steps Ohlone is taking to help reduce the stigma attached to mental illness. This stigma hin-ders the ability for people to heal, said Kevin Franklin of the Ohlone Student Veterans Club.

“People are afraid to get the help they need,” he said.Registration was held at 11 a.m. and the walk began at noon.

Participants could donate to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and so far the event has raised $1,771 out

of the $3,000 goal. To donate, go to http://stepupohlone.org.Ohlone College began the Out of the Darkness walk after

campus safety officer Stewart Dawson killed himself in 2010. Dawson’s mother, Cathy, and sister, Christiana, have been present at the walk every year.

“The walk in itself – it’s difficult and yet at the same time it gives us a lot of hope,” Cathy Dawson said.

STEP Up Ohlone is the college’s campaign to promote stu-dent mental health, prevent suicide, and reduce stigma and discrimination about mental illness.

“The sorrow is mixed with joy that you see in things like this – the walk and the promise of a better tomorrow,” Cathy Dawson said.

Aldriene Ladlad of the Associated Students of Ohlone Col-lege said he has family members who have attempted suicide, and he hopes the event is an eye-opener.

“I love Ohlone College,” Ladlad said. “The college has always been family-oriented.”

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Seeking help is hard – but essential

is that I was happy some-times. I would have a good day or a good couple of hours where I would smile, laugh and enjoy myself; yet the happiness was always fleet-ing. My smiles didn’t last for long, and when I was alone again with my thoughts I was miserable.

After six months of this, and putting my loved ones through hell, my mother sug-gested I speak with someone.

One week later I was on the couch in a dimly lit room. A therapist sat across from me. She was reading the questionnaire I had filled out and every once in a while she would nod, or look up at me.

That day, after hours of questions and answers, I was diagnosed with mod-erate-to-severe depression, anxiety and a binge-eating disorder.

My therapist suggested I see a psychiatrist for a second opinion and an anti-depres-sant prescription.

I was ashamed – I thought I was supposed to be ashamed. I couldn’t fully grasp this in-formation and it threw me into a depressive episode; I cried, I slept, I binged – a constant destructive circle.

Finally, I gathered myself and saw the psychiatrist. I got my second opinion: I was confirmed a person with depression, anxiety and binge-eating.

My psychiatrist prescribed Prozac and I began to take the pills in secret – afraid of what my mother and family might think.

After a month, I started feeling better than I ever have. I was looking at things more positively, my eating and sleeping were under control, and I was enjoy-ing the company of people

more. I suddenly wanted to do things and I had my motivation back.

My family noticed the changes and I decided to open up about the diagnoses and the medication. They were cautious but support-ive; anything that would help me be happy.

I applied full-time for the spring semester at Ohlone, prepared for a trip to Italy, celebrated the holidays with my loved ones and didn’t feel a need to get away from everything and everyone.

I branched out and em-braced myself during my trip abroad. I came out of my shell because I was not afraid, I was no longer withdrawing within myself, but rather I was embracing life with open arms.

It is six months later now and I am at the best point in my life; I’m involved at

school, I’m focused, I’m hap-py and I’m enjoying things.

I required help to over-come this challenge. It took all the strength I had to take that step and decide I needed help.

I’m not ashamed of this, nor should anyone be. If you had a broken leg, no one would tell you to get over it. Mental health is no different; mental health is biological and uncontrollable.

If you have addictions and other men-tal illness in your family, you may be at a biologi-cal predis-position for mental ill-

ness yourself.Seeking help is hard,

whether it is for yourself, a friend, a loved one or a colleague, but if you arm yourself with knowledge and empathy for mental illness, you may save a life. It could be yours.

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day, I would have given up,” Shue said.

Shue is one of a grow-ing number of students at Ohlone and colleges around the country who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depres-sion and other mental ill-nesses.

A third of college students nationwide had difficulty functioning due to depres-sion, and almost half of the students experienced over-whelming anxiety, according to the 2013 National College Health Assessment – a survey that examined more than 125,000 students from about 150 colleges and universities.

At Ohlone, 61 percent of students had “some” or “a lot” of trouble with depres-sion in the previous week, and 70 percent had trouble with anxiety, accord-ing to STEP Up Ohlone.

According to a 2011 O h l o n e C o l l e g e National A s s e s s -m e n t d a t a survey, 3 p e r c e n t of Ohlone students at-tempted sui-cide in the past 12 months. With 10,270 students admitted in Fall 2014, however, that 3 per-cent would indicate about 308 students had attempted suicide.

Categories of mental ill-

ness include anxiety disor-ders, behavioral disorders, eating disorders, substance-use disorders, mood disor-ders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders and suicidal behavior.

“Mental health encom-passes our emo-t i o n a l w e l l -being,” said Ro s e m a r y O’Neill, a life coach and men-tal health counsel-or at the O h l o n e S t u d e n t H e a l t h Center.

“If we are depressed or if we are anxious, if we had a traumatic event in our life and are suffering from

some post-traumatic stress disorder

symptoms. … It’s about the

state of our emotional well-be-ing.”

A n x i -ety disor-ders are a m o n g

the most c o m m o n .

Obsessive-c o m p u l s i v e

disorder, panic dis-order, phobias and post-

traumatic stress disorder are all types of anxiety disorders.

Behavioral disorders tend to happen with children who have shown a pattern of dis-ruptive behavior at home,

school and other settings for at least six months. At-tention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a common type of behavioral disorder.

Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, binge eat-ing and bulimia.

Substance-abuse disorder is when

illegal drugs cause a per-

son to ex-perience a mental h e a l t h problem, or when p e o p l e

use alco-hol, drugs

or substanc-es to self-med-

icate. This disor-der usually involves

people who suffer with de-pression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and personal-ity disorders.

Mood disorders, also com-mon, include depression, bipolar disorder, seasonal affective disorder and self-harm.

Personality disorders in-clude antisocial personality and borderline personality disorder.

Schizophrenia is a psy-chotic disorder, and people experience hallucinations and delusions. Suicidal be-havior is another common form of mental illness.

“Of students that I see, I see all of those symptoms,” O’Neill said. “Students come to me if they’re depressed, and they’re depressed for a million different reasons. Breakup of a relationship is very significant; it causes a lot of pain and hurt. Fam-ily complications or family communication problems. The death of a family mem-ber, perhaps, or a loved one. Sometimes economic crisis in the family impacts students’ mental health. Students come to me for a variety of reasons.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States for all ages, and 38,000 Ameri-cans die every year because of it.

Monitor photo editor Lau-ra Gonsalves lost her nephew Julian Gutierrez to suicide in 2011.

Gutierrez, who died a week before his 15th birthday,

came from a large, close-knit family in Union City.

“We were shocked and in disbelief,” Gonsalves said about how she and her 200 family members felt follow-ing the death. “After that year, we still haven’t taken a family photo since.”

“For him to commit sui-cide – it just didn’t make sense. No one has ever com-mitted suicide in our huge, extended family.”

One of the tougher ob-stacles for Gonsalves and her family was trying to discover why he did what he did. “To this day, we don’t know why,” she added.

Gonsalves was at Ohlone

at the time of the death and decided to drop most of her classes.

“My heart wasn’t in school any-more,” she said. “I was depressed and had sensitive reminders (about Julian).”

Grieving, counseling and talk-ing to others helped Gonsalves cope with the depression. She also sought help with O’Neill at the health center, but to this day she hasn’t completely gotten over the death and said she never will.

“You just learn to deal with it – cope with it better,” she said. “It doesn’t occupy most of my time anymore.”

For many college students, the college grind is overwhelming and sometimes leads to mental health problems.

“I’m a student, I carry two jobs, I’m a tutor and I’m preparing to transfer in the fall,” Shue said. “Saying I have a lot on my plate is the understatement of the year.”

“Right after graduation I was picked up by a school to play sports and I was over the moon,” Shue said. “After moving out of my home with my family and into the apartment with the roommate from hell, things went downhill. … I had a hard time juggling my studies, practices and trying to take care of myself like the adult I thought I was.”

On top of her school struggles, Shue also had minor symptoms of IBS which intensified, and she became moody, often cried and was prone to panic attacks.

“The final straw was when I had to move back home,” she said. “I lost my license so I wouldn’t drive and I wouldn’t leave the house unless for school or family functions, because I was terrified.”

“I stopped even caring about my appearance. I figured if I wasn’t going anywhere, why get ready for the day. It was just a horrible time for me and I had no way of understanding what was happening or how to deal with it.”

Still, Shue sought help at the Ohlone Student Health Center and was able to piece her life back together.

“I have learned to open up to others. I’m not ashamed of my IBS, anxiety or depres-sion, I have really learned to accept myself and under-stand that I can get through anything now,” she said.

Ohlone student Khalil Iqbal, who has been coun-seled by O’Neill, said raising awareness about mental health is key. He had a friend who delayed therapy for more than a year because she was afraid of how it would be perceived.

“Unfortunately, there is a negative stigma surround-ing mental health,” he said. “People use words like ‘crazy’ when talking about those

who seek help for mental health issues.”

O’Neill concurred, saying people think there’s some-thing wrong with getting sad or depressed.

“We like to think we shouldn’t talk about our problems outside of the fam-ily,” she said.

Society focuses on health from a “superficial physical perspective,” Iqbal said.

“If you take care of the body and neglect other parts of health then you are not taking a holistic approach to self-care,” he said. “A holistic approach is much-needed when dealing with the stressors

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of everyday life.”The more families and

children are educated about mental health, the more it will help people become comfortable communicat-ing with others when they have mental health prob-lems, O’Neill said.

“There’s more aware-ness now,” she said. “When I reach out to someone, they’re going to reach out to someone and my goal and my hope is that it becomes more and more OK to get help.”

Staff writers Martha Nunez and Maria Garcia-Hernan-dez contributed to this report.

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MITCHELL WALTHEREditor-in-chief

The Internet can be a beautiful and terrifying place. In recent years, count-less advances have offered us sites and applications of which we never dreamed, and new crimes and social issues of which we never conceived.

Sexting, cyber-bullying and social deprivation have become dirty words in the parenting and education world. How do we protect our kids from issues only they can see on their tiny little screens?

Nonprof i t movement Above the Fray has been trying to solve this problem since 2013.

Above the Fray seeks “to educate parents and teach-ers about what life is re-ally like online for younger people, and to give adults the tools they need to begin meaningful dialogues at home and at school,” CEO Thomas Dodson said in a speech at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ State Convention on April 10.

This is a nice sentiment, and Dodson’s heart is defi-nitely in the right place. The problems begin, though, when he begins his presenta-tions meant for parents.

He maintains that parents can and should read their kids’ texts, and know their login information for sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I maintain this will turn parents into Big Brother before they can say, “But I’m doing this for your own good, honey.”

He also says parents should

be present and involved in their children’s online world. This is not bad ad-vice, but it is far too broad to be useful. Children will run to another platform the minute they fear they are being watched.

Dodson’s presentation was copyrighted last year, and Reddit and Twitch didn’t even appear in his list of social media plat-forms. Kids have felt pres-sured, and they have run.

These three specific lessons of Above the Fray’s would cripple par-ents. The organization is telling parents to get involved and learn about the Internet at the same time. The sad truth is parenting from a place of ignorance robs adults of their authority over their child.

The first step is not about guidelines, bound-aries or rules. It needs to be about having a casual conversation before as-suming control and look-ing over a child’s online shoulder.

Above the Fray had conversation – bad con-versation. Its mission statement cites focus groups that it ran last year. These groups con-sisted of 24 anonymous teens talking to Dodson and his team about their online lives over a period of four weeks.

During his JACC pre-sentation, Dodson said the groups were split into age sections of 11-to-14 and 15-to-18. That is, 24 students spread over a decade of a young per-son’s life.

The study showed that 47 percent felt parents did not have the right to see what was on their phones. The study did not specify which half of the decade of children felt this way. This is crucial because you cannot parent an

11-year-old the same as you can a 17-year-old. This should be painfully obvi-ous to Above the Fray and Dodson.

The 11- to 14-year-olds have just finished getting a basic handle on language, and are just truly discover-ing empathy. Why are we trusting them with smart phones, tablets or laptops? In an interview, comedian Louis C.K. said he wasn’t going to buy his kids cell phones, because children need to “build an ability to be yourself and not be do-ing something. That’s what phones have taken away.”

Then there are the 15- to 18-year-olds. These are rebellious, unorthodox people taking their steps toward adulthood. They are forging the new ground before them, and need to be allowed to stake their claim.

Trust is earned, and hopefully a teenager can at least earn a chance at privacy. Their account information and private

texts are theirs alone. Sorry, Dodson: There is no “obli-gation” for parents to see what their kids are doing online.

The solution to all this is not security, it’s genuine interest. For all his involve-ment with the subject, Dodson showed wariness and disinterest in online endeavors.

When commenting on the rise of “fandoms,” Dod-son told parents, “You’ll probably hate it,” but get involved anyway. Feigned interest will only ensure that your child never tells you what they are passion-ate about.

Interest should be the key for parents. You’d be interested if your kid scored a touchdown, so be inter-ested if they garner more than 11 likes on Instagram. You’d be interested in that “A” they got in computer science, so be interested when their tweet gets re-tweeted by Leonardo Di Caprio.

Parents need to learn to be involved in their own social media. Don Prewitt, known on Instagram as @Don62, is a parent of six. He is also an Instagram celebrity, known for his #ViewfromBelow series. His kids are also on Instagram, and they enjoy seeing one another’s photos. There is a shared respect and there-fore, Don Prewitt is able to talk with his children about what they are up to on the Internet, because they feel he is invested in it, just like they are.

There is a balance to in-volvement. Be interested and ask questions, but don’t hound.

Above the Fray has a good heart. So do the parents and teachers who are trying to find a way to meet their children with understand-ing. But the key to online parenting is an open mind and a willingness to see the Internet as something new, not just another play-ground.

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Monitor brings home JACC state awardsMITCHELL WALTHEREditor-in-chief

Most of the Monitor staff attended the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ State Convention two weeks ago.

JACC puts on a statewide convention each year as an opportunity for community college journalists to learn, compete and network to-gether.

More than 400 students from around the state joined us at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento to engage in some healthy competition. The Monitor, for its part, took home several awards.

Editor-in-chief Mitch-ell Walther grabbed fourth place for his weekly col-umn “On the Road,” as well as a student leader-ship award.

Fo r m e r e d i t o r - i n -chief Louis LaVenture snatched third place for sports game story, and former photographer Hung Nguyen got third place for sports feature photo.

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Monitor Editor-in-chief Mitchell Walther wrote the following story for the Jour-nalism Association of Com-munity Colleges’ on-site opinion-writing contest. Students watched the same speech and then had an hour to write their stories.

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Softball’s Haley Keahi and baseball’s Elias Bedolla are my players of the week.

The Lady Renegades won their only game this past week 16-9 against De Anza – you’d think they were playing football with that score.

Keahi went four for five with three RBIs on two sin-gles, a triple and a home run. She also had a steal.

She’s having a phenomenal

season, leading the team in hits, home runs, RBIs and doubles.

Baseball pitcher Elias Bedolla helped the Ren-egades break their recent two-game losing streak, win-ning 6-2 Tuesday against De Anza.

He pitched seven innings, allowing one earned run and striking out three.

In 12 starts this season he has pitched 69.1 innings, compiling a 6-2 record, 2.99 ERA and 45 strikeouts.

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Leave Tebow alone

There isn’t a more talked about football player in the NFL than Tim Tebow.

Tebow signed a one-year contract with the Philadel-phia Eagles on Sunday and social media blew up.

Twitter had mixed re-actions – mostly calling Tebow a joke and saying he is a terrible football player.

My Twitter was full of Tebow love. At first, I jok-ingly was a Tebow super fan from his days at Florida to annoy my friends, but as I paid closer attention to who he is as a person I be-came an actual fan.

Everyone points out his terrible throwing tech-nique, but his technique isn’t the real reason why he can’t stay in the league – it’s the media’s fault.

His media over-expo-sure scares off teams that would take more chances on him.

Tebow’s throwing tech-nique is bad, but is he really not talented enough to be a servicable backup QB?

Blaine Gabbert, Jimmy Clausen, Chad Henne? I can list more unrecogniz-able backups but I think you get my point.

Tebow is better than all of them.

Everyone steers clear of him because wherever he goes, the media follows.

That’s crap – or what Monitor Editor-in-chief Mitchell Walther wrote in his last column: bullshit.

He hasn’t done anything outside the football field to gather this much unneces-sary media attention.

His popularity is unique. The media tends to be at-tracted to controversial figures like Jameis Winston and Johnny Manziel, but-Tebow isn’t anything like them – except they’re all Heisman winners.

Tebow is different. He’s not going to rehab, he isn’t stealing crab legs, he isn’t a criminal, he doesn’t have five kids with five different women.

In a sport with players such as Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice and Aaron Her-nandez – albeit the lat-ter two now are out of the league – Tebow is a bona fide role model.

The media needs to leave Britney – I mean Tebow – alone. I’m talking to you, Skip Bayless: shut up.

Tebow’s a good enough backup, and a better role model than everyone not named J.J. Watt in the NFL.

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Ohlone got a much-need-ed outing Tuesday from start-er Elias Bedolla to snap a two-game losing streak and put the Renegades in the driver’s seat to clinch the North Coast Conference today.

“Elias Bedolla pitched well, he threw seven innings and gave us a great effort, and a great outing like he always does,” Head Coach Mark Curran said after the 6-2 win against De Anza. “He did a great job locating his pitches and getting first-pitch strikes.”

Bedolla bounced back af-ter losing his previous start against Monterey on April 6. He allowed two early runs but settled down and had a solid outing in a losing effort – Monterey’s Dylan Thorp had the Renegade batters’ num-ber that day.

Out of Bedolla’s 12 starts this season he has allowed two runs or fewer eight times. With the win over De Anza he has a 6-2 record with a 2.99 ERA.

Ohlone did what they did best: play small ball.

“Offensively, the guys did a good job grinding out at-bats and competing,” Curran said.

He was pleased with the team’s sacrifice flies, bunts and steals – which translated to runs scored in four differ-ent innings.

“We always stress be-ing able to execute,” Curran said. “It’s part of playing good baseball. At this level you don’t have players hitting the three-run home run consis-tently, so you have to do those small things to put pressure on the defense, and our guys do a good job at that.”

The Renegades had six suc-cessful steals on nine attempts. Brock Pradere had a team-high three steals – but left the game in the fifth inning after getting dinged up on his third steal.

“We like to put pressure on the defense,” Curran said. “We’re fortunate enough to have a few guys with some speed. We really coach them up on how to be good base runners.”

Josh Calmerin had another good outing, earning his third save of the season. Despite earning the save, Calmerin still serves as Curran’s “Swiss Army Knife” out of the bull-pen – pitching long relief one game and then closing the next.

He has made 19 appear-ances this season, pitching 46 innings with a team-low 1.37 ERA.

“He’s just a gritty com-petitor,” Curran said about

Calmerin. He doesn’t have overpowering stuff – most guys at this level do not. What separates him is that he has the ability to consis-tently throw strikes early in the count.”

“He’s also able to locate his pitches really well. He’s a re-ally tough kid; there isn’t re-ally a situation that’s too big for him. He just gets on the mound and pounds the heck out of the zone. He’s a tough competitor and a great kid.”

Ohlone plays their regular-

season finale at 2 p.m. today against Cañada College. Ca-ñada is 17-16 and is coming off a loss against Monterey on Tuesday.

The Renegades have had Cañada’s number this season, winning their previous two matchups 6-4 and 2-0.

A win would clinch the

Coast Pacific division and home-field advantage for Ohlone – which is tied for first with Gavilan. The Renegades would fall to second place with a loss and a Gavilan win, but if both win, Ohlone owns the tiebreaker.

CCCAA will announce playoff seeds on Sunday.

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