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Volume 37, Issue 17
January 15, 2015
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Senior guard Mitch McCarron takes flight for a lay up against a Regis defender Dec. 6 at the Auraria Event Center. The Roadrunners are 12-3 after 15 games and have 13 remaining regular season games. Photo by Cos Lindstrom • clindst1@msudenver.edu
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Great Lakes Airline partners with aviation department to recruit MSU Denver graduates By Kate Rigot krigot@msudenver.edu MSU Denver’s Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science has initiated an agreement with regional carrier Great Lakes Airlines to actively recruit and prioritize the hiring of recent graduates of the department. While the program doesn’t guarantee placement for the recruits, it does ensure interviews for seniors who meet certain requirements. Airline officials plan to interview students and alumni twice a year on the Auraria campus. The airline, which is headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and has its hub in Denver, employs more than 100 pilots. The airline’s CEO, Chuck Howell, said in a Jan. 7 press release that Great Lakes has long appreciated the quality training of the MSU Denver graduates it hires. “Partnerships like this will help us create a direct pipeline of well-trained and capable first officer candidates, who in most cases learned to fly in the area and already call the region their home,” Howell said. Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science associate chair Kevin Kuhlmann said that working at a small regional airline within a few years of graduating is a common stepping stone career
move for university-trained pilots. “Some people will want to stay (at a regional carrier) as a career. But most people will want to use it as an experience-building step and move up to the majors (larger carriers like United, Delta, and American). I would say the majority want to do it that way,” he said. In 2013, certification requirements for commercial airline pilots mandated they log 1,500 hours of flight time — up from the previous requirement of 250. This has resulted in a shortage of pilots who meet the new requirements, especially coming out of school, and new graduates can expect they’ll need to spend a few years as a flight instructor before racking up enough hours to qualify for their air transport pilot certification. What’s special about the partnership with Great Lakes is that some incoming hires will able to avoid the higher hours required for air transport pilots under a different section of the Federal Aviation Regulations, called Part 135. “What they’ve done to make this happen is that they’ve changed some of the configurations of their planes to have only nine seats, so they operate under Part 135 — and Part 135 can hire a pilot with lower hours,” Kuhlmann said. New pilots flying these planes can then rack up hours and be certified to get their ATP license. Great Lakes is not the only
airline that has this arrangement, but it is the only such airline that MSU Denver has a priority hiring agreement with. “What this helps with,” Kuhlmann said, “is you won’t have to flight instruct as long.” The pilot job resource website Will Fly For Food lists the estimated starting wage for Great Lakes first officers flying turboprop planes as $16.24 per hour, which would equal less than $34,000 per year. A July 2014 BussinessWeek article places this estimate much lower, at less than $15,000 per year. However, Kuhlmann said he believed the starting salary for a first officer at Great Lakes to be a bit higher, closer to $18,000, believing the list in the article had been based on older information. He emphasized that working at small, lower-paying carriers for a few years or so at first before getting into higher paying jobs at larger carriers was standard practice for new aviation graduates, and that the higher salaries pilots can expect later in their careers are thought to balance out the first few years. “Everybody who doesn’t go the military route probably has a five to seven year period where they are probably making pretty skimpy money,” Kuhlmann said. “But you aren’t looking at your first four years, but your last four years when you’re making $250,000 –
MSU Denver aviation student Emily Salley sits in a training cockpit in 2014. MSU Denver’s department of aviation and aerospace science offers a bachelor’s degree in aviation and aerospace science, another bachelor’s in aviation and aerospace management, and several related minors and certificates. File photo by Michael Ortiz • mortiz26@msudenver.edu
your last four years, you can make $1,000,000. That’s what you need to look at.” Kuhlmann did acknowledge that this uneven arc in pay could be problematic for new graduates trying to pay off student loans during the first few years, but said that new pilots usually find a way, and that the most important thing was to keep sight of the overall earning potential for pilots over the course of their careers. “You can’t judge it by the first five years. You got to look past that.” Furthermore, small regional carriers typically don’t even turn a profit without the government sub-
sidies they receive, and thus don’t have the revenue to offer higher starting salaries like the larger carriers do, according to Kuhlmann. Aviation and aerospace science department chair Jeffrey Forrest stated in the Jan. 7 press release that as Great Lakes “grows and their needs continue to change, we will be well-positioned to support them.” MSU Denver students interested in interviewing with Great Lakes can call 307-432-7075 or email glajobs@flygreatlakes.com.
Denver Water funds One World One Water Center By Matthew Lilley lilley@msudenver.edu MSU Denver’s One World One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship announced last month that it is continuing its collaboration with Denver Water, which is providing $20,000 to the center. The funding from Denver Water, which contributed a similar amount last year, will help the center in its stated mission of educating Coloradans on water issues. Starting in the fall of 2015, the center will offer a water studies
certificate, similar to the interdisciplinary water studies minor already available to all MSU Denver students regardless of their majors. The center’s director, Tom Cech, said he was excited about the new certificate, which will require 15 credit hours of study. The pre-existing minor has an 18 credit hour requirement and provides students with skills necessary to become more knowledgeable of Colorado’s limited water resources, Cech said. The funding will also help underwrite workshops, field trips, speaking events and movie screenings for MSU Denver students.
Additionally, the funds will support the Denver Metro Water Festival to be held at Auraria May 19. The purpose of the event, Cech said, is “to get students interested in wanting to learn more about water.” The festival will bring 1,200 sixth-grade students from Denver Public Schools to campus to learn about all the ways water influences and impacts everything. Cech said that while there is a growing awareness of water issues in Colorado, much of that awareness flows in large part from the state’s severe drought that took place in 2002. “Prior to that, people
didn’t really pay attention to the water issue,” he said. “Now the state has a plan.” With 1.5 million people expected to move to the Front Range by 2030, finding enough water for new residents is going to have to involve some creative solutions, according to Cech. With ongoing public opposition to piping more Western Slope water into the Front Range and resistance to building more reservoirs, Cech said Colorado would have to divert water from agricultural production in order to be able to allocate enough water for residential use by its future
population. There is still work to be done in raising awareness, Cech said, pointing out that severe rains in California last month didn’t necessarily end that state’s record-setting drought. Likewise, a few wet years on Colorado’s Front Range do not eliminate the challenges for meeting water demand for a fastgrowing metro area in a semi-arid climate. “The weather out here — it can change on a dime,” Cech said.
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You could “indict a ham sandwich”
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Commentary I’m not a lawyer. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the majority of the Metropolitan’s readers are also not lawyers. And while there are a few exceptions, I know most of my Facebook followers aren’t lawyers. And yet, there are many people who seem to be so sure of their understanding about how a grand jury works, that they’re willing to take any decision made at face value — as proof of innocence or guilt. That’s not actually how a grand jury works. In a grand jury hearing, the prosecution (usually only the prosecution) presents evidence in a relaxed setting to the grand jury, who decide whether to issue an indictment — whether there is enough evidence to charge some-
one with a crime. Since, traditionally, the defense doesn’t get a say, it’s pretty easy to get a grand jury to indict someone in most cases. In fact, it’s so easy in most cases that a former New York state chief judge, Sol Wachtler, famously remarked that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” On a federal level (different than the state level, like in Ferguson, Missouri, where most cases are brought before judges for an indictment rather then grand juries), in 2010 (the last year for which we have statistics), grand juries returned just 11 out of 162,000 violent crime cases without an indictment, according to the FBI’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. There is one exception, and we saw it frequently in 2014: when a police officer is charged with a crime, a grand jury only rarely returns an indictment. We saw this in action when a grand jury failed to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, even on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. We saw it in New York, when a grand jury failed to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of unarmed Eric Garner (an indictment was, however, handed out for the man who videotaped Garner’s death,
with about as much difficulty as it would take to indict a ham sandwich). According to research by Philip Stinson , an assistant professor of criminal justice at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, only 41 officers in the United States were charged with murder or manslaughter between 2005 and 2011. Total numbers of officer-related shootings are unclear, as the FBI’s report of 2,718 “justified homicides” by officers over the same period is considered a low estimate, as police organizations aren’t required to submit their records to this report. So why the discrepancy? If it’s so easy to indict for violent crime, why are so few officers indicted? There’s a few theories. The first is that we’ve trained the public to trust police officers. That trust can be necessary for those officers to do their jobs, but it may be given too blindly: as the military intelligence community put it when I was in the Air Force, “trust, but verify.” Since, in officer-involved shootings, the events are often the word of a police officer carrying a public trust versus a victim, who are often busy being dead and unable to defend themselves, grand juries may not give as much credence to evidence against police officers than they do to ordinary citizens.
Another possibility is that prosecutors, on whom much of the burden of securing an indictment in a grand jury falls, are naturally reluctant to push for the prosecution of the officers they have to work with, every day, to enforce the law. This isn’t necessarily something that happens consciously, but prosecutorial bias could easily be a factor, especially if combined with juror bias. Finally, a misunderstanding in the general public of the lower standards of evidence needed to secure indictment, rather than the “beyond reasonable doubt” required for a conviction, could result in confusion on a jury — and certainly does in the court of public opinion. Is there a way to fix this? Possibly, require a special prosecutor for all grand jury investigations or indictment hearings involving a police officer, to relieve prosecutors of the inherent conflict of interest in attempting to indict their coworkers. Another would be to do away with grand juries altogether, as a majority of the world has done, and bring charges against officers to a full trial, where guilt or innocence can be determined “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Until we fix the problems with indictment in this country, justice won’t be done. Innocence, or guilt, is not determined in a grand jury.
Shot down like a dog: Crime and race in America
By Melanie J. Rice Commentary I clutched my phone, shaking with frustration, while I watched life slip away from a dog that had been hit on my street. I was on the phone with Animal Control and they were asking for my stats, instead of sending someone to help him. It wasn’t my first call about dogs running loose in my neigh-
borhood that day. Animal Control blamed Denver’s 311 system. Denver 311 blamed Animal Control. I and another kind soul who had stopped to help seemed to be the only ones who cared. It was too late for him. I gritted my teeth and headed back inside, thinking, “Well, this is messedup.” If they came out hours ago when I had first called, he wouldn’t be dead. It wasn’t my first experience with Denver’s 311 and Animal Control systems. They both provide alibis for the other, and no one does what needs to be done. I wondered if Denver was unique in having a system that just doesn’t work — where those who are supposed to benefit most end up suffering as a result of its incompetence. I realized that what I had experienced with this system of failures
was nothing compared to what many Americans go through when trying to navigate through life. For example, I’ve never seen life from the perspective of a young black man. As I looked at the now lifeless dog lying in the street, the words “shot down like a dog” flashed through my mind and triggered a memory. A Denver minister spoke those words just months before, regarding Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. And, just like this pup, his body lay on the street for hours before it was removed. The American justice system had failed him, just like it fails countless other young men of color. A trip down the block for milk can quickly turn into a trip to jail. Recently, Dr. Winston GradyWillis, chair of Africana Studies
at MSU Denver, reminded me that black parents need to have conversations with their children about how to act if they are stopped by police. These are conversations not often heard in white homes, because statistics show that young white kids fare better than their black or Latino peers in confrontations with police. Shara Tonn, of Stanford News Service, reported in 2014 that African-Americans represent 12 percent of the U.S. population, but 40 percent of the U.S. prison inmates. It’s time to stop ignoring systemic racial injustice and have an honest conversation about race in America. We can’t undo the wrongs already done, but, we can ensure that those who come after us will not have to work to remedy what we left undone. It starts with acknowledging that we have a problem.
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Goldman Sachs lands Roadrunner
MSU Denver alumnus Jared Zinanti was hired by Goldman Sachs, a multinational investment banking and management firm, as an operations analyst. Photo by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu
By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu In a crop dusted with Ivy Leaguers, Jared Zinanti took flight on Roadrunner wings, which landed him with arguably the most prominent banking firm on planet Earth. Zinanti, a MSU Denver alumnus who double-majored in finance and accounting and graduated summa cum laude this past December, was hired by Goldman Sachs as an operations analyst. “Goldman Sachs hires mostly Ivy League (graduates) so when I go out to Salt Lake, I’ll be working next to people from Harvard, Yale,” Zinanti said. “I’ll be the lone Metro student.” Zinanti’s future is bright and the road of his past is littered with sacrifices. In recent years, Zinanti chose to refrain from distractions such as video games and social events. “I had a goal in mind when I started. Once I declared as a finance major, I knew I wanted to get into a really nice firm,” he said. “With that goal in mind, I was able to stay self-disciplined. When I’d see friends online posting pictures (from social events), part of me was jealous but I knew I was on
my own path and I found solace in that.” He hasn’t taken this journey alone, however. By his side for the past five and a half years has been Elizabeth Fischer, his high school sweetheart and a fellow Roadrunner. Fischer is the student organization accountant for the Office of Student Activities and the president of the Eta Pi Chapter, Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority at MSU Denver. “We met through one of my friends. Her brother played lacrosse in high school (and) Jared played lacrosse so we met through that,” Fischer said. “We clicked and have been together ever since. It’s been cool to go through every single big life event together. I feel like we’re such a support (to one another).” Zinanti’s humbleness, the quality Fischer sees most in him, is a reflection of his hero. His grandfather, Stephen, a 97-year-old former coal miner who fought in World War II, is Zinanti’s role model. “That generation — they were all really humble. They went and did their duty and came back and weren’t looking for any glory,” Zinanti said. “I’ve never been one to brag. I try my best, work hard and let that speak for me.”
Richard Branson and Bill Gates also influence Zinanti because, like him, they’re compassionate toward the human race. “A lot of times business is associated with greed and profit. Both (Branson and Gates) care about their employees and making the world a better place,” Zinanti said.
“Business should enrich everyone it’s involved with. I try to carry that forward and have that mentality as I advance in my career, and hopefully I can do the same.” The beauty of Zinanti is that he is already leaving his mark in the world through Sun Valley Youth Center, located in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Denver. Zinanti volunteers weekly at the center and serves as a strong male role model for the youth. “We pick them up from school and then play on the playground to get some energy out. We play ‘sharks and minnows.’ That’s their favorite,” Zinanti said with a smile. “We make sure they get fed and then we do homework so they’re advancing and getting better. I love that youth center. They do a lot of good for the kids.” Zinanti has built relationships everywhere he’s gone. From Chatfield High School where he met Fischer, to the children he interacts with at the youth center. While these have continued to enrich his life, it was his experience at MSU Denver that directly benefitted him for the working world in which he’s about to enter. His résumé speaks for itself. Through the interview process prior to landing with Goldman Sachs, however, Zinanti was the one talking. He continually answered a linear question among
many of his potential employers, “So, what’s Metropolitan State? We haven’t heard of that school.” “It was a challenge, to tell them more about our school,” Zinanti said. “Whereas if you come from Stanford, they know.” Zinanti introduced MSU Denver to them for what it is — a strong teaching school with small class sizes that nourish the learning experience. “All my professors knew me by name. A couple I have really close relationships with,” he said. “Professor (Timothy) Mayes, he taught me so much. I contribute most of my success to him because they ask tough, technical questions in interviews. The rigor of his class prepared me. That (experience) really helped lead to my position at Goldman. I’m not just another number (at MSU Denver) like I would be at a larger university.” Zinanti’s world of finance has merged with his new company that engages in global investment banking. His education amplified his character. Together they add up to a priceless success story that took root and flourished at MSU Denver. “A lot of education is what you put into it,” Zinanti said. “Sometimes the name on the degree helps a bit to open the first couple doors, but if you work hard and you network, you can really go anywhere.”
Jared Zinanti and his girlfriend Elizabeth Fischer, who is the student organization accountant for the Office of Student Activities at MSU Denver, pose together Jan. 9 at the Tivoli Commons. Photo by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu
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ROSE QUARTZ “Axis of Love” By Tobias M. Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu Ending on a sold out New Year’s Eve show at the Larimer Lounge, it’s pretty safe to say that 2014 was a hell of a year for Denver-based band Rose Quartz. The band shared stages, tour busses and studio space with the likes of Future Islands, Cut Copy, St. Lucia, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Holy Fuck and many, many others. They were also picked up by energy drink conglomerate Red Bull as a featured artist as part of their
SNAKE RATTLE RATTLE SNAKE “Totem” By Tobias M. Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu Snake Rattle Rattle Snake — a delectable and eclectic Denverbased band, has released their sophomore follow-up album dubbed, “Totem.” The album was released last November, and comes to us after a few years of diligent prep work. “Totem” is a riveting and
“A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” By Hañalina Lucero-Colin hluceroc@msudenver.edu Womanizers beware; there’s a new girl in town and she’s thirsty for blood. “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is the directorial debut of writer Ana Lily Amirpour. The story of an ageless, youthful, skateboard-writing vampire who protects the women of her community from misogynist’s
“Taken 3” By Steve Musal smusal@msudenver.edu I wasn’t terribly taken with “Taken 3,” the latest installment in Luc Besson’s action franchise, but there were some good moments to the film. It wasn’t a bad film, it just wasn’t a particularly good one. “Taken 3” opens with Brian (Liam Neeson) continuing to balance his life as a man with a very
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nationally touring Sound Select series, and have now released their first official EP, “Axis of Love.” Founded by Ethan Converse and Alex Anderson, the duo morphed into a four piece with the addition of the seminally consistent, and incredibly proficient drumming from Matt Tanner (déCollage), and the six-string genius of Clay Cornelius (also of déCollage and Wild High) to round out the band. In a mere three tracks and 13 minutes, we get an intimate look at what the band calls “sultry synth.” Rose Quartz have embedded their rose-colored heart deep into this EP, pulling out some of the perkiest and genuine disco meets
vividly emotional record that showcases the band’s sophisticated songwriting and intelligent muscianship. With a strong set of vocal arrangements from lead singer Hayley Helmericks — the band was able to capture the zeitgeist sound of the late ‘70s, all the while adding an urban gothic feel to each and every track. The album is also a lo-fi slice of awe-inspiring music that features this dark, Stanley Kubrickesque feeling throughout. The opening track “Evil Eye” is an emotional four minutes that features a pulsating bassline from Jon Evans that reverberates over Helmericks’ echoing men, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is part vampire movie, part western and all awesome. Though shot in Los Angeles, the movie is set in Iran. Amirpour, along with the majority of her cast, claim both American and Iranian heritage, making the film an interesting blend of Iranian and American customs and ideology. The Girl, the one who walks home alone at night, wears a traditional chador, rides a skateboard and loves western electronic music. Arash, The Girl’s would-be suitor, lives a life torn between his obligation to particular set of skills with trying to be a good father to his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) and reconcile with his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen). When Brian is framed for Lenore’s murder, he tries to track down the real killers while being chased by dogged detective Frank Dotzler (Forest Whitaker). I won’t spoil how it ends, but the frame-up depends on answering the question “haven’t people learned not to mess with Brian’s family by now?”
synth-pop meets house grooves that one could ask for. There’s a sense of intelligent analog instrumentation found throughout, while possessing a certain ‘80s electro-pop-wave feeling that plays on a much darker level. Opening with subtle intro on “Leaving Now,” the band properly lays the groundwork for what’s to come throughout the duration of “Axis of Love.” Converse is a born lyricist, with charisma and soul behind each and every verse. His vocals echo like a pine-barren wasteland turned Narnia-esque wonderland. Anderson’s grooves are layered and pack a fruitful resonating punch. “Medicine,” the EP’s second
track, is a funky, yet mysterious track that features a heavy and prominent synth line so original and epic that it reverberates over each and every groove laid down by Anderson. It’s reminiscent of early new wave dance-rock that came out of the late ‘80s. Ending with “Something to Believe,” the band donates a classically produced indietronica masterpiece with a heavy bassline and catchy, yet danceable riffs. It’s an album that will no doubt get your feet moving, and asks the question: What’s next from the band?
vocals. Guitarist Doug Spencer’s magnificent six-string skills match up perfectly over Hayley’s brother Wilson on keys, as he mutters out some synthy, postpunk sounds reminiscent of what Ian Curtis and Joy Division had wished they sounded like. The song lays the foundation for the rest of the albums as “Totem” comes to us in a more developed, mature and refined way than their previous album, 2011’s “Sineater.” The band slows things down a bit and shifts its gears with track three, “Versus.” It’s a down tempo electro representation that hosts an echoing set of progres-
sive vocals, as the band slowly builds one by one. Track seven, “Wild Dogs” landscapes an eerie and animated guitar riff from Benson, while Evans provides a dynamic set of grooves that proves “Totem” to be no joke — but, it’s not like that was ever a question. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake took their time putting “Totem” together, and the end result was well worth the wait. And after it’s all said and done, this is easily the band’s best work up to this point, which leaves us patiently wanting more.
care for his deadbeat father and finding a place for himself in the world. Though the young men and women of the film choose not to be in a room alone with one another out of decency, they find themselves partying long into the night in skimpy outfits in abandoned warehouses. The story is stripped to its barest bones to expose the true hole sitting deep in the chests of both Arash and The Girl; an insatiable loneliness that pounds harder than any heart or thirst for blood ever could. The Persian dialogue is far and few between,
leaving space for the characters to wander through their warped worlds’ alone before finally finding something in the darkness. “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” marries horror and western beautifully in a black and white melodrama that is as mesmerizing as it is entertaining. Amirpour’s use of high contrast in place of color creates an aesthetic reminiscent of horror classics such as “Nosferatu,” while her modern multi-cultural soundtrack acts as the perfect conduit by which this ethereal horror film floats on.
with “Yes. Yes they have.” Neeson continues to be relatable and badass, Grace’s acting has only improved over the course of these films, and Whitaker brings gravitas to whatever he does — I’d love to read a book about Frank Dotzler, honestly. But “Taken 3” wastes Janssen as yet another dead woman motivating the male protagonist. It also takes place in the U.S., so the massive collateral damage that could be excused in the first two
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films as other countries not wanting to cause an international incident seems inexcusable here. And as much as the action continues nonstop, it feels stale. The biggest problem, of course, is that I saw this film 22 years ago when it was called “The Fugitive.” So if you want a nonstop action film without a whole lot of thought, and you liked the first two films, you could do worse than “Taken 3.” Just don’t expect too much from it.
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Roadrunners basketball midseason report By Scott Corbridge kcorbrid@msudenver.edu Nearing the midway point of the season, both men’s and women’s basketball has had a fair share of exciting games—from thrilling victories to crushing losses. This is how both teams fare at this point in the season:
Men’s Basketball (12-3)
Key wins: 82-52 vs. Regis University 73-68 vs. Rogers State (Okla.) 61-59 vs. Colorado Christian The Runners are coming off a season where they were knocked out in the final four of last year’s tournament, and are only two years removed from an appearance in the national championship. The Runner’s biggest personnel departure could be last year’s Division II player of the year, Brandon Jefferson. The three losses this season have come from top-10 ranked teams: an 80-75 loss to No. 6 ranked Florida Southern, a 6966 loss to then No. 2 nationally ranked UC-Colorado Springs—the first-ever loss for the Runners against the Mountain Lions—and their most recent loss that came on a last-second buzzer beater in overtime against the then No. 9 Colorado School of Mines, 59-57.
A telling stat for this team is a 2-3 record away from the Auraria Event Center. Metro continues its dominance at home, where they posted a perfect 22-0 record last season, and are still perfect with a 9-0 record. Senior forward Nicholas Kay is leading all scorers this season with 20 points per game, with senior guard Mitch McCarron right behind him at 19.9 ppg. McCarron leads in assists per game at 4.3 and rebounds per game at just under five. The Metro Roadrunners still have the talent and drive to push into the postseason, however, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference has been more difficult to navigate this season as the Runners post a current 7-2 conference record. The remainder of their schedule contains two top-10 matchups against UCCS and Mines. The rest of the field in the second half of the season contains a four-game road trip to Colorado Mesa, Western State, Chadron State and Black Hills State.
Women’s Basketball (9-4)
Key wins: 67-60 vs. SW Minnesota State 73-62 vs. Regis University 79-56 vs. Colorado Mines
The Lady Runners are giving every team their best shot this season with head coach Tanya Haave at the helm. While this team is young—only one senior—they’ve kept their record above .500 at 9-4 through the first 13 games this season. Metro opened the season against Division I Colorado State University and the Rams came away with a 90-62 win. Coach Haave said that experience will only help this team get better. The Roadrunners have a 4-1 mark on their own court, with a 3-3 mark away. Senior forward Deni Jacobs leads all scorers this season at 15.2 points per game and all rebounders with a 5.4 average. Freshmen guard Georgia Ohrdorf and forward Emily Hartegan are quickly finding their rhythm in their first year with Metro, scoring 11.4 and 10.3 points per game respectively. The Lady Runners have outscored opponents 409-363 in the first half and average just over 65 points per game. The remainder of their schedule includes conference play, with six home games and only one game against a ranked opponent when they play UCCS in the regular season finale. The Runners continue play Jan. 16 and 17 when both the men and women take on Adams State and Fort Lewis at the Auraria Event Center.
Metro redshirt freshman center Bounama Keita lifts off to block a layup from South Dakota School of Mines junior guard Mark Mazzucco Nov. 21 at the Auraria Event Center. Keita had three blocks on the night. Since that game against the Hardrockers, the Roadrunners have gone 9-3, with losses to Florida Southern, UCCS and Colorado School of Mines. Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu
Roadrunners play two close; beat CCU, lose to Mines By Scott Corbridge kcorbrid@msudenver.edu The No. 10 Roadrunners escaped the claws of the Colorado Christian Cougars, 61-59, Jan. 9 in Lakewood. The first half saw both teams unable to find an edge with the score evened up at 25. Neither squad was able to take full control, with both shooting under 50 percent. The Runners weren’t able to hit a shot from behind the arc, going 0-for-3 from the 3-point line. Free throws almost sunk Metro, going 5-for-12 from the charity stripe in the first half. Colorado Christian went a
perfect 6-for-6 in the first 20 minutes. The senior tandem of guard Mitch McCarron and forward Nicholas Kay gave the Runners a needed spark to get the win, combining for 48 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks. Kay (25 points) and McCarron (23 points) accounted for a third of Metro’s points, as the bench was unable to give them the backup needed to pull away from the Cougars for the rest of the game. Although the Runners lost the turnover battle 9-8, they won the all important battle of the boards 39-30, while continuing to attack the paint, with Kay getting 36 points in the paint and 16 second chance points—com-
pared to just 16 points for the Cougars. While the Runners maintained their composure, the Cougars hung with them until the end. Metro’s largest lead in the game was four, while at one point, the Cougars were up by seven in the first. The Runners were back in action Jan. 10 against the Colorado School of Mines Orediggers. The Orediggers hit a buzzer beater in overtime to shock the Roadrunners 59-57. The then No. 9 ranked Mines team started the game with a 9-1 run. The Runners trailed until overtime. Mines continued to take the lead back and McCarron hit a shot to tie the
game at 51 with just under 90 seconds left. Kay also hit two key free-throws to send the game into overtime. The Runners had their first lead of the game after two foul line shots by Kay, but ultimately, it was costly turnovers and missed free throws that sunk Metro. The key stats of the game were the 16 percent from behind the arc for the Runners, going just 1-for-6, and 72 percent on free throws for the game. Junior forward DeShawn Phenix gave Metro some extra help off the bench, adding 11 points and four rebounds.
The rebounding advantage went to the Runners, 32-29, and it was an even game in turnovers, as both teams commited 12. McCarron led all scorers with 27 (10-for-17) and Kay added 13 (3-for-10). McCarron also grabbed eight rebounds and came away with one steal. Points in the paint was a key factor in allowing the Roadrunners to stay with Orediggers, outscoring Mines 34-22. For the second consecutive game, the Runners struggled off the bench. The Roadrunners battle the Adams State Grizzlies (8-4) Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Auraria Event Center.
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