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Job and Career Fair A job and career fair will be held on May 7 at the S2 courtyard from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The fair is free and open to the community. For more information, contact [email protected]. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 VOLUME 72, ISSUE 18 SINGLE COPY FREE - ADDITIONAL COPIES 50 CENTS www.elaccampusnews.com News Briefs New scholarships The Accounting Club and Southern California Gas Company are offering scholarships and internships. A guest speaker will be at F7-117 tomorrow from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Correction In last issue, the story “Campus News wins at state convention” the photo caption identified Stephanie Garibay as Stephanie Guevara. BY MARCUS CAMACHO Staff Writer BY IVAN CAZARES Staff Writer Milestone reveals authors’ fears Elans learn dangers of distracted driving California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and iHeart Media teach students the dangers of distractions while driving for Distracted Driving Awareness Month at East Los Angeles College on April 20. Every April, OTS, the California Highway Patrol and more than 200 law enforcement agencies across California participate in the month-long event that aims at preventing driving deaths caused by distractions. OTS is going to different campuses in California to share facts about the dangers of being distracted while driving. The event had a timed basketball-shooting contest where participants were forced to shoot basketballs and reply to texts that were sent from an electronic device at the same time. “Students in their 20s are one of the largest demographics for fatalities due to distracted driving, so we are out here hoping to educate in a fun way, in an interactive way, with the basketball hoops while they have to text while they shoot,” OTS Representative Jennie Leatherman said. The game is meant to show students how hard it is to focus on making shots and trying to text at the same time. “The reason being is that something like shooting baskets, in the bigger picture like driving, is something that requires concentration. We’re just trying to A group of Elans shared their fears and aspirations through short stories and poetry to celebrate the newest issue of Milestone in the S2 Recital Hall on April 16. Milestone is a literary magazine that has been published at East Los Angeles College for the past 70 years. “That’s over 60 years of giving students an outlet,” English professor Dustin Lehren said. Lehren served as an adviser in this year’s issue. This was the first year that the selection process was handed over to a committee of students. Students from English 32 promoted the magazine and encouraged others to submit their work. “Allowing students to submit work online and the use of social media to promote Milestone paid off,” Lehren said. English 32 students also took on tasks such as copy editing. However, the layout was handed over to the school’s graphic artist. Milestone publishes art, photography, poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. “The fear of failure stood out in this year’s issue,” Lehren said. “Milestone gave me the tools and opportunity to express myself,” Matthew Mejia said. Mejia, who recently transferred to Cal State Los Angeles, had some of his work published in a collection of poems titled “Reflections and Illuminations.” The book features poems written by more than 50 poets from four different countries. Mejia said that he has always had a hard time speaking in front of others, and that he remembers the day that he first was able to overcome his fear. “On November 26, 2013, I was giving a presentation for Milestone and it was the first time I heard myself yelling,” Mejia said. “Although it might sound cliche, dreams really do come true. They might not all come true, but some do,” President of the Speech Club Israel Beltran said. He also said that one must put in the effort to make his or her dreams come true. “Milestone is an outlet for those who want to be taken seriously. We want to start a deeper conversation,” Lehren said. The group that presented answered questions from the audience. Students and members of the East Los Angeles community can submit work at https://milestone. submittable.com. The deadline for submitting work for next issue has been extended to April 23. show them something as simple as shooting baskets cannot be done while text messaging,” Leatherman said. Students struggled to shoot the ball and text at the same time. Most of the time they would stop shooting and would text. When students would stop shooting to text, the representatives would say things like “you wouldn’t stop driving to text,” or things that would make them keep shooting. The point of the contest was to show students that you could not give your full attention to driving if they are busy trying to do other things. A survey by California Traffic Safety reported that 61 percent of California drivers said they were hit or nearly hit by a driver who was talking on a cell phone in 2014. Distraction.gov reported 10 percent of drivers under the age of 20 that were involved in fatal crashes, were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. Drivers under the age of 20 hold the largest portion of accidents due to distractions. After students were done with the Shoot the Hoops and Text Competition, they would go to a prize wheel that offered chap- sticks, backpacks, hand sanitizers, $5 Starbucks cards and $100 American Express cards. The students were also asked to enter for a chance to win a VIP trip for two to the Wango Tango concert in Los Angeles. For more information visit the website at ots.ca.gov TALK TALK the T he speech and debate team won the national championship title in its division at the Phi Rho Pi National Speaking Tournament for community colleges in Cleveland, Ohio last week. The tournament was a six- day event that started April 7 and ended on April 12. “It was an amazing experience. We not only were able to have the gratification of winning the award but we were able to make history and hold a new record for other schools and other teams to beat,” East Los Angeles College Speech Team Member Liliana Dung said. The team faced 28 teams from its division and 20 teams from the next division above to win 14 high-level awards. “I was elated. I’ve been doing this activity for 21 years and in all my 21 years, I’ve never either coached or been on a team where every student on the team broke (won an award) at a national championship tournament,’ Co- Director and full-time professor Ryan Smith said. “It’s almost unheard of. It’s what people in the speech community refer to as a school break or team break, meaning that every one on the team broke one event.” The team’s score were made up by the students individual performances at all of their speaking events. The team had enough points to not only win in its division but it had enough to beat the upper division. Colleges from multiple of states, nearly 600 students, participated in the national tournament. The team’s budget allowed for eight out of 30 students on the team to go to the competition. Other teams had around 30 students each. “Our team is competitive based so to know that there are more schools and more people to compete with amplifies our competition vote and makes us go directly into having to win and achieve,” Dung said. The National Student Fellowship Award was given to speech team president Israel Beltran. The award is special because he was selected by the students and coaches from the entire southern California region. The award was a two-part award that goes to the competitor who showed great sportsmanship and for contributing the most points to the team. Along with that award, Beltran won gold in poetry, and in program oral interpretation. Beltran and team vice president Gordon Ip got bronze in dramatic duo interpretation. Thomas Martinez and Justyne Gutierrez placed silver in dramatic duo. Chloe Romero placed gold in dramatic interpretation, silver in poetry and bronze with partner Dung in dramatic duo. Esteban Terrazas placed silver in poetry. Terrazas placed bronze in dramatic interpretation and in dramatic duo with partner Steven Fuel. The team placed gold in individual events–Hindman Division and overall–Hindman Division. The team was thankful to the Associated Student Union at ELAC for their financial support. ASU helped fund part the trip to nationals that went to the plane tickets, hotel and food. The other part of funding was provided by sources known only to the directors. The team spent countless hours of instruction, training and mentoring from the coaches and the directors to improve their skills and win awards. The team’s awards will be presented to the college’s administration in the next couple of days. Speech and debate team win big at nationals BY MARCUS CAMACHO Staff Writer Israel Beltran Gold Award - Poetry Gold Award - Program Oral Interpretation •Bronze Award - Dramatic Duo Interpretation (with partner Gordon Ip) Gordon Ip Gold Award - Program Oral Interpretation Thomas Martinez and Justyne Gutierrez Silver Award - Dramatic Duo Chloe Romero Gold Award - Dramatic Interpretation Silver Award - Poetry Bronze Award - Dramatic Duo (with partner Liliana Dung) Esteban Terrazas Silver Award - Poetry Bronze Award - Dramatic Interpretation Bronze Award - Dramatic Duo (with partner Steven Fuel) Overall Team Gold Award - Individual Events - Hindman Division Gold Award - Overall - Hindman Division AWARD-WINNERS participated in the Phi Rho Pi National Speaking Tournament. 600 students The speech and debate team defeated 28 teams from its division and 20 teams in the next division above For more information on Milestone see page 2

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Page 1: Spring 2015, Issue 18

Job and Career Fair A job and career fair will be held on May 7 at

the S2 courtyard from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The fair is free and open to the community. For more information, contact [email protected].

Wednesday, april 22, 2015Volume 72, issue 18 single copy free - additional copies 50 cents

www.elaccampusnews.com

News Briefs

New scholarships The Accounting Club and Southern California

Gas Company are offering scholarships and internships. A guest speaker will be at F7-117 tomorrow from 12:15-1:15 p.m.

Correction In last issue, the story “Campus News wins

at state convention” the photo caption identified Stephanie Garibay as Stephanie Guevara.

BY MARCUS CAMACHOStaff Writer

BY IVAN CAZARESStaff Writer

Milestone reveals authors’ fears

Elans learn dangers of distracted driving

California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and iHeart Media teach students the dangers of distractions while driving for Distracted Driving Awareness Month at East Los Angeles College on April 20.

Every April, OTS, the California Highway Patrol and more than 200 law enforcement agencies across California participate in the month-long event that aims at preventing driving deaths caused by distractions.

OTS is going to different campuses in California to share facts about the dangers of being distracted while driving.

The event had a timed basketball-shooting contest where participants were forced to shoot basketballs and reply to texts that were sent from an electronic device at the same time.

“Students in their 20s are one of the largest demographics for fatalities due to distracted driving, so we are out here hoping to educate in a fun way, in an interactive way, with the basketball hoops while they have to text while they shoot,” OTS Representative Jennie Leatherman said.

The game is meant to show students how hard it is to focus on making shots and trying to text at the same time.

“The reason being is that something like shooting baskets, in the bigger picture like driving, is something that requires concentration. We’re just trying to

A group of Elans shared their fears and aspirations through short stories and poetry to celebrate the newest issue of Milestone in the S2 Recital Hall on April 16.

Milestone is a literary magazine that has been published at East Los Angeles College for the past 70 years.

“That’s over 60 years of giving students an outlet,” English professor Dustin Lehren said. Lehren served as an adviser in this year’s issue.

This was the first year that the selection process was handed over to a committee of students. Students from English 32 promoted the magazine and encouraged others to submit their work.

“Allowing students to submit work online and the use of social media to promote Milestone paid off,” Lehren said.

English 32 students also took on tasks such as copy editing. However, the layout was handed over to the school’s graphic artist.

Milestone publishes art, photography, poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.

“The fear of failure stood out in this year’s issue,” Lehren said.

“Milestone gave me the tools and opportunity to express myself,” Matthew Mejia said.

Mejia, who recently transferred

to Cal State Los Angeles, had some of his work published in a collection of poems titled “Reflections and Illuminations.”

The book features poems written by more than 50 poets from four different countries.

Mejia said that he has always had a hard time speaking in front of others, and that he remembers the day that he first was able to overcome his fear.

“On November 26, 2013, I was giving a presentation for Milestone and it was the first time I heard myself yelling,” Mejia said.

“Although it might sound cliche, dreams really do come true. They might not all come true, but some do,” President of the Speech Club Israel Beltran said.

He also said that one must put in the effort to make his or her dreams come true.

“Milestone is an outlet for those who want to be taken seriously. We want to start a deeper conversation,” Lehren said.

The group that presented answered questions from the audience.

Students and members of the East Los Angeles community can submit work at https://milestone.submittable.com.

The deadline for submitting work for next issue has been extended to April 23.

show them something as simple as shooting baskets cannot be done while text messaging,” Leatherman said.

Students struggled to shoot the ball and text at the same time. Most of the time they would stop shooting and would text.

When students would stop shooting to text, the representatives would say things like “you wouldn’t stop driving to text,” or things that would make them keep shooting.

The point of the contest was to show students that you could not give your full attention to driving if they are busy trying to do other things.

A survey by California Traffic Safety reported that 61 percent of California drivers said they were hit or nearly hit by a driver who was talking on a cell phone in 2014.

Distraction.gov reported 10 percent of drivers under the age of 20 that were involved in fatal crashes, were reported as distracted at the time of the crash.

Drivers under the age of 20 hold the largest portion of accidents due to distractions.

After students were done with the Shoot the Hoops and Text Competition, they would go to a prize wheel that offered chap-sticks, backpacks, hand sanitizers, $5 Starbucks cards and $100 American Express cards.

The students were also asked to enter for a chance to win a VIP trip for two to the Wango Tango concert in Los Angeles.

For more information visit the website at ots.ca.gov

TALK TALKthe

The speech and debate team won the national championship title in its division at the Phi Rho Pi National Speaking Tournament for community colleges in Cleveland, Ohio last week.

The tournament was a six-day event that started April 7

and ended on April 12. “It was an amazing experience. We not only were

able to have the gratification of winning the award but we were able to make history and hold a new record for other schools and other teams to beat,” East Los Angeles College Speech Team Member Liliana Dung said.

The team faced 28 teams from its division and 20 teams from the next division above to win 14 high-level awards.

“I was elated. I’ve been doing this activity for 21 years and in all my 21 years, I’ve never either coached or been on a team where every student on the team broke (won an award) at a national championship tournament,’ Co-Director and full-time professor Ryan Smith said.

“It’s almost unheard of. It’s what people in the speech community refer to as a school break or team break, meaning that every one on the team broke one event.”

The team’s score were made up by the students individual performances at all of their speaking events.

The team had enough points to not only win in its division but it had enough to beat the upper division.

Colleges from multiple of states, nearly 600 students, participated in the national tournament.

The team’s budget allowed for eight out of 30 students on the team to go to the competition. Other teams had around 30 students each.

“Our team is competitive based so to know that there are more schools and more people to compete with amplifies our competition vote and makes us go directly into having to win and achieve,” Dung said.

The National Student Fellowship Award was given to speech team president Israel Beltran. The award is special because he was selected by the students and coaches from the entire southern California region.

The award was a two-part award that goes to the competitor who showed great sportsmanship and for contributing the most points to the team.

Along with that award, Beltran won gold in poetry, and in program oral interpretation. Beltran and team vice president Gordon Ip got bronze in dramatic duo interpretation.

Thomas Martinez and Justyne Gutierrez placed silver in dramatic duo.

Chloe Romero placed gold in dramatic interpretation, silver in poetry and bronze with partner Dung in dramatic duo.

Esteban Terrazas placed silver in poetry. Terrazas placed bronze in dramatic interpretation and

in dramatic duo with partner Steven Fuel.The team placed gold in individual events–Hindman

Division and overall–Hindman Division.The team was thankful to the Associated Student Union

at ELAC for their financial support.ASU helped fund part the trip to nationals that went to

the plane tickets, hotel and food. The other part of funding was provided by sources known only to the directors.

The team spent countless hours of instruction, training and mentoring from the coaches and the directors to improve their skills and win awards.

The team’s awards will be presented to the college’s administration in the next couple of days.

Speech and debate team win big at nationals

BY MARCUS CAMACHOStaff Writer

Israel Beltran•Gold Award - Poetry•Gold Award - Program Oral Interpretation•Bronze Award - Dramatic Duo Interpretation (with partner Gordon Ip)

Gordon Ip•Gold Award - Program Oral Interpretation

Thomas Martinez and Justyne Gutierrez•Silver Award - Dramatic Duo

Chloe Romero•Gold Award - Dramatic Interpretation•Silver Award - Poetry•Bronze Award - Dramatic Duo (with partner Liliana Dung)

Esteban Terrazas•Silver Award - Poetry•Bronze Award - Dramatic Interpretation•Bronze Award - Dramatic Duo (with partner Steven Fuel)

Overall Team• Gold Award - Individual Events - Hindman Division• Gold Award - Overall - Hindman Division

AWARD-WINNERS

participated in the Phi Rho Pi National Speaking Tournament.

600students

The speech and debate team defeated

28teams from its division

and

20teams in the next division above

For more information on Milestone see page 2

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‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ brings laughter to audience

New Milestone edition captivates

Artist holds book signing to promote years of work

Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia presented his ideas of recreation and community in his book “Mis Papeles,” to guests after an art-tour.

The tour and book signing took place in the Vincent Price Art Museum on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

“Mis Papeles,” is a compilation that displays four categories of Hurtado’s artwork.

The highlights range from 2007 to 2014 and are ongoing in some cases.

Much of Hurtado’s art-style revolves around the use of painted papers that are arranged in various patterns.

Some range from the size of a standard sheet to a full canvas.

People were allowed to pick up copies of the book and glance at the pages to see the artwork.

After that, they could buy a book and have it signed by Hurtado “I first saw Lorenzo’s artwork a few years ago at the CB1 Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. I’ve followed him through his second and third show at that gallery, and I love the man’s work. As a fellow artist, I try to support the artists that I love in any way I can,” fan Roger

Morrison said. Morrison was among the first to

purchase a book and get Hurtado’s signature.

Hurtado explained that he wanted to start a book in the first place because he wished to make his work more easily accessible to people in the art community.

“A lot of practical things tended to slow things down in production. I’ve been working on it for 18 years,” Hurtado said.

Funding for the book was an obstacle for Hurtado, though he was able to overcome the issue with a lot of support.

His old school Otis College of Art and Design also provided him with a grant.

“Mis Papeles” opens with “Papel Tejido,” a series of hand-painted papers created by Hurtado that resemble abstract work and quilt-like designs. The woven papers and shapes highlight his creativity.

“Paper itself is very versatile,” Hurtado said. “I find it much easier to work with than just paint. You can do so much more with paper.”

“By Deborah Calderwood” features several paintings based on drawings Calderwood drew when she was eleven years old.

Hurtado actually took her old scribbles and recreated them with

his modern tools. The resulting paint ings are both cute and cartoonish in nature.

Out of all the works featured, Hurtado’s favorite section is “Segundas.”

From pictures of deer, butterflies and landscapes, Hurtado based these paintings off of artwork he had seen in secondhand thrift stores.

Though they are his favorite, these paintings were also the most difficult for him to do.

“I spent a lot of time doing them over and over in order to get the exact style down just right,” Hurtado said.

The book is presented in both English and Spanish to make it more accessible for readers.

Hurtado spoke to several visitors at his table after the tour was over. His wife Deborah Calderwood was present alongside him.

Only 175 copies of “Mis Papeles” have been printed out for a limited release.

There are currently no plans to sell them in stores, but Hurtado plans on bringing them out again at another show if possible.

“I hope to inspire younger artists with my work,” Hurtado said.

To learn more about Hurtado and his artwork, visit hurtadosegovia.com.

SIGNED—Artist Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia signs his gallery catalogue for attendees of the limited-addition artist book signing at the Vincent Price Art Museum on Saturday.

CN/JESUS FIGUEROA

BY JOSHUA INGLADAStaff Writer

BY JULIANNE OBREGONStaff Writer

For the first time in Milestone history, students were able to manage the content in its yearly publication.

The magazine is filled with artwork and literary work from students at East Los Angeles College as well as residents of East LA.

The literary work in this magazine ranges from a story about adding classes on the first day of college to submissions for a six-word story contest the staff of Milestone had on March 26, 2014.

Writers Joshua Castro and Raul Meza successfully captured college student life in their work.

In “A+d+d+i+n+g,” Castro wrote about a students first day at college and what she went through to add a class on the first day.

It was easy to picture this character interacting with the five other students that were looking to add the same class as her in Castro’s story.

Each character had a different personality which created an interesting and believable story.

In “#collegestudentproblems” Meza perfectly depicts what a students Twitter feed could look like by writing lines like “So, like, I added to the conversation. That’s my ten points for the day, right? #Slay” and “American Horror Story: Finals.”

Meza brought humor to his

work as well as a truthfulness that everyone can relate to, such as bus schedule problems and dealing with textbook prices.

The audience, whether they are college students or not, can relate to both stories through the characters the authors have created.

Milestone: Real Stories of East LA is filled with photography from cover-to-cover by Franco Aguilar.

The photo on the front cover of the magazine is part of Aguilar’s photo essay “Hacienda: What Lies There.”

The lone subject in the center of ruins creates a sense of darkness that gives readers a sense of the content beneath the cover.

The detail in Aguilar’s “Out of the Smoke, No. 3” photograph is incredible from the detail in the hands of the subject to the texture of the skull remains the subject is holding.

In the painting, “Deep Thought, Oil on Canvas” by Jesus Barrales, the subject looks haunted with her hand on her forehead and her gaze looking down.

The angle of the subject in the painting, goes perfectly with the story titled “Wade In Her Water,” by Richard Lopez.

Though the cover of the magazine may appear intimidating, most of the work inside represents fear and loss, something that every person has gone through.

The Milestone magazine is available for purchase at the ELAC Bookstore.

THEORIES—Pablo Picasso, played by David C. Hernandez, left, and Albert Einstein, played by Karlo Ishibashi, come to the realization that they both examine beauty in the world in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on Thursday at the P2 Upstairs Theater.

CN/JESUS FIGUEROA

(Cover Art)

East Los Angeles College’s Theatre Arts Department leaves the audience in laughter as it presents “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” by Steve Martin on April 17.

The comedic puns, outrageous references, critical thinking and love triangles from beginning to end keeps the audience guessing on how things will unfold.

Set in 1904, a group of great minds somehow find themselves discussing what the idea and meaning of beauty truly is.

Pablo Picasso, played by David C. Hernandez, and Albert Einstein, played by Karlo Ishibasi, hysterically demonstrate how viewpoints from even great minds can find themselves at odds.

Comedic styles of Hernandez begins with him as a famous figure that is known fairly well through the country of France. However, just as popular he is for his art, he is widely known for his charm as being a ladie’s man.

Suzanne, played by Gabriela Maldonado, is one woman that Picasso finds himself infatuated with.

Maldonado doesn’t disappoint. Her performance is full of happiness, open-mindedness and beauty.

Ishibashi on the other hand uses his intellect to demonstrate that beauty can be seen in his opinion formulas and numbers. His devotion to his work and devotion to others respecting his work greatly identifies his character as a fan favorite.

The play is directed by Tom Atha and Laura Rhi. The bar setting of this play creates small talk that

eventually evolves into viewpoints of incredible thinking. The combination of a regular individual like Freddy to a celebrity like Picasso, brings together a sense of equality.

As the play comes to a close the bar becomes an open field of an exciting and endless opportunities for everyone.

Tickets for ASU students have the price discounted to $8, the cost increases for general audience at $10 and at the door it will cost $12. The play continues this weekend Friday April 24 to Sunday April 26.

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Baseball eliminated from playoff contention

Badminton’s conference woes continue

KEEPING BALANCE—ELAC sophomore pitcher Sergio Lopez throws in the beginning of a six-inning game April 18.

CN/JUSTIN QUEBRAL

BY JOSHUA INGLADAStaff Writer

BY CARLOS ALVAREZStaff Writer

BY DARLENE GALVAN AND BRYCE RONQUILLOStaff Writer

With this loss, 4-1 against Los Angeles Harbor College on April 18, Huskies are eliminated from playoff contention.

"We have been consistently bad all season long. This loss was no different," ELAC Head Coach James Hines said.

With the loss, the Huskies overall record falls to 12-21, 6-12 in the South Coast Conference. Harbor's record moves to 17-16, 7-11 in SCC play.

For the first time since the 2010 season, ELAC will finish with a losing conference and overall record. ELAC finishes its season with a three-game series against El Camino College starting on the road on April 21.

The lone bright spot for ELAC was sophomore starting pitcher Sergio Lopez, who kept Harbor batters off-balance with his fastball and curveball combination. Lopez pitched six solid innings allowing one run (unearned) and four hits.

"I was just attacking the zone with all my pitches. I was trying to give us a chance to win," Lopez said.

In the top of the sixth inning, Harbor took advantage of freshman third baseman Shun Tsunoda's throwing error to take a 1-0 lead.

In the top of the ninth inning, Harbor added another run to take a 4-1 lead.

"He's (Lopez) pitching great and we can't make a routine play. Every game we have made an error. think

The Husky badminton team recorded its second South Coast Conference loss to Pasadena City College in the on Friday (21-0).

PCC badminton showed no signs of weakness and kept up its mounting offense to the Huskies' shaky defense.

They smashed several shots while the Huskies fumbled occasionally.

Not a single match point was earned by ELAC’s badminton team.

According to Huskies coach Qui Mgui, it was a total shutdown in the end.

"We practice every day," PCC head coach Jennifer Ho said.

"We have a big team and that really helps things."

The badminton team’s physical fitness and amount of practice was the deciding factors of the game.

"Our running speed needs a lot of work. Our endurance also needs to be worked on," Mgui stated.

The team needs to practice its shots and reflexes to improve for future opponents.

Both of the players gathered in teams of six for 21 games of women's doubles and singles.

Mgui explained that the reason that ELAC's team was smaller in comparison to PCC’s team.

Huskies had chosen to only pick a minimum group of players because they wanted to bring their best players to compete for the day.

"We're playing the number- one team right now and we're number two. It's going be tough, but hopefully we'll be able to score more points this time," Mgui said.

Despite their high hopes, things didn't go well for the Huskies this time either.

In women's doubles, sophomore Loi Kuan Ho (Phyllis) and freshman Li Ting Wu fared poorly.

They played doubles against PCC freshman Rebecca Tzou and freshman Zin Win Maw.

Wu and Ho were offset by the connection between Tzou and Maw’s teamwork.

Resulting in losses in both of the matches they played agianst them, (21-5, 21-3).

Husky sophomore Mei Mei and freshman Jia Min Li (Stephanie) picked things up in their match against PCC freshman Diana Resendez and sophomore Karina Bustillos.

They couldn't earn the win, but played a competitve match losing, (21-13, 21-17).

In women’s singles, Wu scored 20 points to sophomore Ying Wen Lin's 22 in their first match, but was unable to gain the point for her team.

Mei’s match with Bustillos began poorly, recording a loss, (21-2).

While Mei wasn’t able to pull off a win, she still managed to play a fair game (21-12).

The Huskies compete in a favored matchup against the third ranked team in SCC play, EL Camino College today at 3 p.m.

Husky sophmores Wenning Shen and Yingfei Zhang as well as the relay team qualified for the 2015 CCCAA Swim & Dive State Championships on April 30-May 2.

Shen will swim in the 100 and 200-Yard backstroke and Zhang will compete in the 100 and 200-Yard breastroke.

The freestyle relay team consists of Shen, Zhang, freshman Beisi Li and sophmore Ameyali Martinez will compete in the 400 Yard Free relay.

“I’m proud of our performance so far,” said East Los Angeles College swim and dive Head coach Erik Matheson. “This is the best season ELAC has ever had.”

The Huskies earned their state championship spot through team success in the 2015 South Coast Conference Championship over the weekend.

ELAC’s swim team predicted they would make it to the top three at the start SCC Championship on April 16. “I think we will have a lot of success. Most (on the team) are ready. They are emotionally and physically ready,” Matheson said.

Overall the team placed 5th in the competition.In this meet, ELAC faced top schools such as El Camino College

and Mt. San Antonio college.They were the schools to beat.The relay team placed forth in the 400 Yard Free relay. Shen won first place the in the 200 Yard Back race finals with a

time of 2:10.60 time on Saturday, April 18.Yingfei Zhang won first place during the women’s 200 Yard breast

stroke, where she swam to get a time of 2:23.55. Yvonne Young swam to 10th place and Wendy Centeno earned

14th place. With a time of 58.28, ELAC freshman Ameyali Martinez got 10th

place during the women’s 100 Yard Free style race. Brandy Macias got 13th place with the time of 1:02.05.ELAC sophomore Beisi Li got 6th place with a time of 2:41.93,

and 12th place went to Alexandra Reyes with a 3:17.90 time. Pasadena Community College won the Women’s 200 Yard Fly

race with Tiffany Wong’s time at 2:18.42. On ELAC’s swim team, Carmen Portillo got 11th place with the

time of 3:15.21, and Sarina Almengor got a time of 3:34.02, landing her on 15th place.

Kayleigh Davison had the winning time of 18:21.00 for the women’s 1650 Yard Free race style.

Carmen Portillo, Wendy Centeno and Alexandra Reyes on the ELAC swim team got 13th, 14th and 15th place respectively.

First place went to El Camino women swim team. “For 10 years, ELAC didn’t have a swim team. The women’s

team started back again on 2012,” said Li on ELAC’s swim team since 2012.

ELAC didn’t have a swim team because “it was right around the time when budget cuts were being made (back then),” Huskies Head Coach Erik Matheson said.

it's a school record. It's frustrating when we can't back him up," Hines said.

Harbor's offense was led by sophomore third baseman Nico Padovan. Padovan had four hits in five at-bats with a run batted in.

Harbor sophomore starting pitcher Javier Alvarez matched Lopez pitch-by-pitch holding ELAC scoreless in six and two-thirds innings.

"Alvarez pitched good, but all season long our batters haven't had much of a plan when they're up to bat," Hines said.

According to Hines, this season he has a group of guys that don't understand accountability, commitment. Hines went on to add that it has been hard putting together a consistent lineup all season.

"The sad thing is that when we make the lineup, it's like pulling names out of a hat," Hines said.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Tsunoda led off with a double. He would go on to score the lone run for the Huskies. Tsunoda was two-for-three at the plate with a double.

"I was just trying to have good at-bats. I was trying to make up for my throwing error early in the game," Tsunoda said.

In the top of the ninth inning, Harbor added another run to take 4-1 lead. ELAC went down in order in the bottom half of the inning.

"Even though the season is lost we are still trying to win. It has been a tough season. We still have three games left to try and win," Lopez said.

Swimmers make state

CN/DARLENE GALVAN

PREPARATION—Yinfei Zhang takes a few moments warming up before winning first place during the women’s 200-yard breaststroke.

“We’re playing the number-one team right now and we’re number two. It’s going be tough, but hopefully

we’ll be able to score more points this time.”

QUI MGUIBadminton Head Coach

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