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is happening at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, in the Pikes Peak Ballroom. The ball will have food and entertainment. All are invited. Bear Pantry serves food and other necessities to approximately 300 students.

UC. For 47 years, UNC has sponsored World Language Day. The event is attended by more than 1,000 students and teachers from across Colorado and Wyoming.

starting at 7 a.m. on April 15. The event will be held in the UC. 9Health Fair offers free and affordable health screenings to all who attend.

UNC Hawaii Club hosted the 26th annual Lu’au complete with a delicious dinner and traditional dancing on Saturdayevening in the University Center Ballrooms.

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4/11:

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4/14: Complete schedule withdrawal deadline All day

4/15: 9Health Fair University Center 7 a.m.-12 p.m.

By Andrea North news@uncmirror.com

The Weld County Regional Communications Center looks almost identical to the other Weld County government buildings on O Street. The brick building is located beside the Weld County Jail and a small pond where Canadian Geese stand in the afternoon sun. Like cubicles in an office, rows of dispatch stations are lined throughout the large gray room as communications specialists sit or stand in front of multiple computer screens. The specialists rarely get a quiet moment while working: five different radio alarms, dispatch conversations, instant message notifications and the occasional intercom call fill the room with sound.

Communications specialists at the WCRCC train for eight months to respond to emergency situations throughout 4,000 square miles in Colorado. The WCRCC is the second largest emergency communications center in the state. Dispatchers communicate with 18 police agencies, 14 fire departments and two emergency medical services.

Communications specialist Allison Theunison began training with the WCRCC in April 2016. Four months later, she started field training for four different stations: Ambulance, Fire, Greeley 1 and Clearance. Since she started working as a dispatcher in January, Theunison says the training she received from the WCRCC has set her up for success.

“I’ve never once felt like I didn’t know what I was doing,” Theunison said.

On one side of the desk rests a placard with the word “Fire,” the station Theunison controls for the day. A placard with her name is lodged on the opposite side of the desk. While one of her coworkers is using the restroom, Theunison covers the Ambulance station.

A square that says 911 on the top right screen blinks red. A high-pitched alarm rings.

Theunison’s eyes shift to the seven computer screens in front of her.

Information about the call, which is answered by a different dispatcher, is sent to Theunison’s Computer Aided Dispatch system. The CAD takes up three of her computer monitors.

The call is a sick and injured case. Somewhere in Greeley, a man under the influence suffers from self-inflicted wounds on his head. If a dispatch call involves someone who is mentally unstable, police officers have to be the first ones on the scene to ensure there is no danger.

“The other emergency responders can’t do their jobs if they get injured,” Theunison said Theunison requests that police officers ensure there is no danger before she lets the paramedics and firefighters into the area.

But there is a slight miscommunication. The man’s wounds were self-inflicted but accidental. While Theunison was reading the information about the situation, she understood the self-inflicted injury to mean the man may be suicidal, and therefore mentally unstable. With so much information to relay in a short period of time, Theunison says sometimes specific information gets lost in translation.

Emergency calls such as fire calls have to be dispatched to the appropriate departments in less than one minute. Theunison responds to a fire dispatch and sends the needed departments toward the emergency in less than 20 seconds.

Rachel O’Donnell, a communications specialist on the Clearance station, says she enjoys the fast-paced excitement that comes with being a dispatcher.

On the Clearance station, O’Donnell monitors information about people related to cases. She checks for warrants, felonies, the status of emergency responders and other information that could be crucial to solving a case and ensuring the responders’ safeties.

Her hands move between two of the three computer mice while her eyes flick from screen to screen. She relays a license plate to the police officer using a unique phonetic language that she learned in training. O’Donnell needs to use a national database to see if a woman’s license is still valid.

Communications specialists have to be learn how to skim a lot of information for key points, like names, locations and officer safety issues.

O’Donnell says one of her most impactful calls was her first CPR call. On the other end of the line, a woman had come home and found her father at the foot of the stairs. He was not breathing.

“I was the last person to support his family member through that death,” O’Donnell said.

O’Donnell’s eyes continue to dart from monitor to monitor to relay the necessary information while she recalls the CPR dispatch. Her expression remains concentrated and collected.

Although O’Donnell knew the outcome of her first CPR response, communications specialists do not always know the fate of those who need them. O’Donnell says that accepting the unknown outcome is part of their training.

“You have to be okay with it because that’s the way life is sometimes,” O’Donnell said. “I’m helping this person and that’s what really matters.”

O’Donnell rarely lets the job get to her, but when she is stressed, she likes to take a quiet drive on a small road. Theunison relieves stress by reading stories from "Chicken Soup for the Soul." Jennifer Donnelly-Hunter, who trained O’Donnell and Theunison, says the best way for her to cope with awry dispatches is by leaving the stress in that gray room.

“You can’t bring your work home with you,” Donnelly-Hunter said.

But not all calls bear such heavy weight on the communications specialists.

O’Donnell said they have received multiple calls from people who have had their personal belongings set ablaze by their significant others during an argument.

“It’s technically not illegal as long as the fire is confined,” O’Donnell said.

Another communications specialist from across the room reminds O’Donnell of the Bird Arsonist. O’Donnell laughs and remembers the story of a man who set his brother’s pet bird on fire.

“We take every call seriously, but the aftermath of some calls are fun to laugh at,” O’Donnell said.

The evening has been slow, especially for a Saturday. The WCRCC’s parking lot remains full throughout the night as the employees listen for someone in need.

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Senate talks money

By Monique Becker news@uncmirror.com

At the student senate meeting Wednesday night Tammy Ortiz, election commissioner and parliamentarian, updated everyone on the process of voting.

Tables were open for voting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 4-6 in the University Center for students to vote. By the time of the student senate meeting, which was at the end of the second day of voting, Ortiz said that a number of students had voted at the tables.

“As some of you may have noticed, there is only one ballot issue on the ballot,” she said.

Ortiz said that the students who presented the gender inclusive bathroom issue to student senate had requested for its removal from the ballot Monday.

“Administration is already moving forward with the idea of gender inclusive restroom spaces in academic buildings and they didn’t want it to be hindered if students voted against the issue,”

Ortiz said.

The meeting also handled voting for organizations that presented for Student Programming Allocation funds. All groups that presented to student senate will be funded.

Eight groups that presented to student senate will split $45,170 for their events. While this was the majority of the money from the SPA budget, there is money left over.

Anthony Scaduto, director of finance and chair of SPA, said a late application for SPA had been placed and he had not had enough time to review the request adequately. Should this event not be funded Scaduto does not know what will happen with the remaining funds in the budget.

“I don’t know what will happen with the funds left,” Scaduto said. “I will let everyone know at the next meeting.”

Discussion of the Academic Affairs Committee and Graduate Student Association bylaws was tabled until the next student senate meeting.

The next and last Student Senate meeting for the 2016-17 academic year will be at 5:30 p.m. on April 19 in the conference room on the second floor of the University Center.

Hoping for change the recreation center’s gyms until 6 a.m.

By Paige Murray news@uncmirror.com

UNC’s Relay for Life had a huge turn out Friday night, when they met at the recreation center.

Every year, students come together to support friends, family and anyone else who has fallen victim to of various cancers.

The gym was filled with decorations of different characters, movies and TV show references, including a makeshift Arkham Asylum, hoops for a Quidditch game and Disney and Harry Potter-themed posters.

Groups from all parts of the university came together to support one another.

There were teams from Greek life, Honors and Leadership programs, clubs and many more.

The night began with the opening ceremony, where the staff welcomed everyone and congratulated several cancer survivors on beating cancer.

Around 10 p.m., a UNC alumni spoke about his experience of recently losing his grandmother to cancer. As he shared about his memories and the joys of his grandmother, he talked about how cancer is the villain and everyone at relay for life are the heroes.

The speech led into the Luminaria Ceremony where the staff showed a slideshow in memory of people that had either survived, or passed away from cancer.

Each person was given a purple glow stick so that when they saw a name of a loved one, they would break it and hold it in the air for others to see. The crowd remained silent for the duration of the video, to honor those that people have lost. Phil Collins’ “You’ll Be in My Heart” played in the background.

Once finished, the crowd was dismissed in sections to walk a lap and place their glow stick in either a designated bag for someone they had lost, or in one of several boxes for those who did not know anyone. Bags had been set up in the middle of the gym floor as well, spelling out the word ‘HOPE.’ The time was hard for some. A few students silently sat next to bags dedicated to

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people they knew, comforting one another and remembering their loved ones.

“Relay for Life is a really incredible event,” junior Shayna Dix said, attending the event with the Honorable Leaders team. “This was my first year attending it at UNC and there was just so much support for everyone there, and it really felt like a community coming together.”

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After the midnight pizza, the staff began games that lasted half an hour each.

As the night went on, some left to go home while others stayed and took small naps in tents or on blankets they had brought with them.

A couple of students even brought hammocks to hang from the bleachers and rest in between laps.

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most money for the event with $2,556; coming in a close second was Alpha Omicron Pi - Epsilon Gamma with $2,130.

UNC hosts Relay for Life every year, and anyone interested in the next event can start gathering a team and fundraising now.

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UNC’s Hawaiian-style dinner party

By Erika Siebring arts@uncmirror.com

4/13: International Film Series: “Lamb” Lindou Auditorium, 7 -9 p.m.

4/14: Earth Week: Keynote Address and Concert by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Garden Theatre, 7 - 9 p.m.

4/14: Tai Chi Candeleria Rm 1375, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

4/15: Spring Opera Performance: “Le nozze di Figaro” Monfort Concert Hall, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

UNC’s own Hawaii Club hosted a unique dinner party for UNC students and community members on Saturday, including them in their 26th annual Lu’au titled “My Beloved Homeland.” The traditional Hawaiian celebration featured various aspects of the Hawaiian culture, including trivia and hula performances.

Looking up from the tables, decorated with flowers and edamame appetizer bowls, guests were greeted by the night’s emcee, Taylor Uyetake. As Uyetake and a few other students recited the Lord’s Prayer, once in Hawaiian and again in English, the mass of floral dresses, hairpieces, and Tommy-Bahama shirts muttered along.

The VIP tables in the center of the ballroom were dismissed for food first, before everyone else could get their hands on the buffet.

Guests were treated to a line of cultural delicacies, starting with pineapple slices dusted with burgundy Li Hing powder , a combination of sweet, sour and salty taste, and moving to kalua pork, roasted in an underground oven called an “imu,” and tofu vegetable stir fry. Ending the train were butter mochi, a Japanese rice cake made with coconut and butter, and haupia, another coconut milk-based dessert.

The festivities of the evening began shortly afterwards, with several raffle drawings and a party game called “Gimme, Gimme.” Uyetake called out several items, such as “Gimmie, Gimmie a Hawaiian license,” and if an individual had a certain item, he or she had to run to the stage with it before anyone else. A few rounds of the game were followed by the lu’au’s first hula performance, a dance to the song

“Waikoloa” by Darrell Lupenui; this dance described the beauty of the Waikoloa city, which is on the island of Hawai’i. Moving their arms and hips in fluid, precise motions, several young women of UNC’s Halau Hula ‘O Ha’aheo Club danced with wreath-like crowns, white strapless tops and red ankle-length skirts.

A few more rounds of Gimme, Gimme brought to the stage a dollar coin, Klennex, toothpick and receipt for over $20 before the audience saw the second dance of the night’s nine total performances. This one was called “He U’i-Akoni,” and told the story of a man deeply in love with a woman, while the woman continually plays tricks on the man to see how well he handles being with her.

Other performances by the Halau Hula ‘O Ha’aheo Club included a Maori Chant about struggle and perseverance, in which the young women walked to the stage as one member called part of the chant and the rest answered, and two solos by Abby Doldolea, one of which utilizing vigourous hip motions to a fast, deep drum beat.

Two other dancers, Khodey Ishikawa and Asti Arcangel, performed a duet, and it was appropriate and encouraged for guests to throw cash donations onto the stage.

Uyetake invited everyone to try translating certain Hawaiian Pidgin phrases by having volunteers guess what they meant in English, and offered rewards to anyone who could. Amongst trivia questions and more raffle drawings a few individuals from the crowd got to be more engaged in the party than others; Uyetake took volunteers to not only try their hand at poi balls, two separate tethered weights sung in different patterns, but also at moving their hips the way Doldolea could.

To top off the lu’au, all the hula dancers danced to the song “Heaven Sent Love,” all in English, allowing guests to better understand the meaning of certain gestures, including ‘dreamed of,’ ‘blessed’ and ‘angel.’

UNC hosts National Public Health

By Joshua Alexander arts@uncmirror.com

In recognition and observance of National Public Health Week, UNC partnered with the Colorado School of Public Health last week.

Every year during the first week of April, the American Public Health Association tries to unify communities across the nation, recognize the contributions of public health and highlight health issues that are relevant to our nation.

CSPH is also the first and only accredited public health institution within the state and the Rocky Mountain Region. According to CSPH’s website, it was formed in 2008 by the University of Colorado, UNC, and CSU. It goes on to say that CSPH provides training, research and community service to address various public health issues.

For the past twenty years, APHA has been the primary organizer for NPHW, developing a nationwide campaign in educating the public, policymakers, and practitioners about health related issues.

Dayna DeHerra, the president of the CSPH chapter at UNC further explained the purpose of the week-long event, as well as last Wednesday’s “Yoga on the Lawn.”

“Yoga on the Lawn is a way for us to celebrate National Public Health Week and reveal what public health does for our campus and community,” DeHerra said.

Grace Turner, a student of CSPH and Student Connections Coordinator at UNC, also shared her thoughts regarding the yoga and National Public Health Week.

“Our goal is letting others know that we’re here and show what we do as a program and individuals at UNC,” Turner said. “Yoga on the Lawn is designed to show

how interested we’re in the overall health and well-being of the campus and community.”

Both DeHerra and Turner also expressed the importance of maintaining a healthy and fit lifestyle, advocating for a strong public health conscience and foundation.

“With National Public Health Week and Yoga on the Lawn, we hope to encourage individuals to live a healthy, active, and fit lifestyle by taking strides in doing things such as eating well, exercising, drinking plenty of water, and getting necessary rest,” DeHerra said.

Being mindful of public health also goes beyond individuals making choices regarding their diet and exercise routines. Individuals can also support policies protecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, and preventing or adapting natural or manmade disasters from occurring around one’s community. Avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and drugs is also another way to stay healthy.

“Health can imply many different things,” DeHerra said. “So we want to acknowledge all aspects of it, including physical, emotional, social, mental, and intellectual health.”

Turner also explained how Yoga on the Lawn could help an individual be more mindful of their health.

“For me, staying healthy means managing time wisely and obtaining every opportunity to care for yourself,” Turner said. “It is about finding those little ten-minute time frames, like yoga, for example, to look after your health and well-being.”

UNC offers numerous club sports and other recreational activities, such as yoga, for anyone interested in getting fit or changing their habits. Questions regarding NPHW or any of their events can be directed to Dayna DeHerra at dehe5744@ bears.unco.edu or Grace Turner at grace.turner@bears.unco.edu.

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Write for market hosts writing party

By Nathan Martinez arts@uncmirror.com

UNC is full of creativity, especially with regards to writing, and can give students a great opportunity to develop their own writing skills.

One club in particular, Write for Market, allows students to see the perspectives of other students lives through their writing.

Write for Market is a group of writers who gather every Thursday evening in Ross Hall to discuss their pieces and give advice to each other on how to make their writing better.

The club’s meetings either consist of workshops in which students can give concrete feedback, or group discussions on how ot improve certain general aspects about their writing.

Once a semester, Write for Market holds a Creative Writing party with pizza and beverages provided, in hopes of snagging other writers around campus and increasing their name recognition.

UNC senior Lashanah Tillar, the president of Write for Market, advertised this gathering as a welcoming place with something for every type of writer.

“Come in, sit down, write whatever you want, and eat pizza,” Tillar said.

With it almost being the end of the semester, exams are starting to weigh down on students’ shoulders and endless nights at the library are becoming more frequent. Writing can be used as an outlet to relieve students’ stress.

In Write for Market, there’s a wide range in writing styles, with poetry, novels, and nonfiction writing taking form in student’s notebooks.

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UNC senior Gianna Stover wrote something unique herself. Stover wrote letters to her penpals around the world, practicing a form of writing not many practice today.

Tillar explained her own writing process, going into how she first begins with the general concept of the story, then focuses on character development.

Tillar believes a character shouldn’t feel empty, and uses a story to help create a character’s persona. To do this, Tillar uses a character sheet in which she lists fun facts and various qualities or quirks each individual character has.

Write for Market meets at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Ross 1155, otherwise known as the Fishbowl, and can be contacted through email at writetomarketunc@gmail. com.

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By Domenic Grey sports@uncmirror.com

Nine runs in the final four innings wasn’t enough to complete one comeback, as UNC Baseball lost Friday afternoon 12-14 to Seattle University at Jackson Field.

In what felt like a replay of Friday’s game the Bears were able to complete the comeback on Saturday by beating Seattle 11-10, scoring 10 runs in the 6th and 7th innings.

“We have the offense to come back and win games with 11 runs scored. This team knows they can be really good once we get the pitching nailed down,” said head coach Carl Iwasaki.

UNCs junior ace Aaron Hamilton took the hill on Friday, hoping to shut the Redhawks down and put the Bears in a position to end the four game losing streak.

Seattle got on the board first. Freshman infielder Chase Wells took a 2-0 pitch and smashed it to right center field that just missed being a home run by a few inches. The Redhawks didn’t wait long to cash it in.

Senior infielder Griffin Andreychuk blooped a single to right, field giving SU the 1-0 going into the bottom of the third.

After UNC went down in order, Seattle was in position to get a least another run on the board after a walk and stolen base. Freshman infielder Austin Lively who is the Redhawks hottest hitter going into the game was up to bat, looking to deliver. After taking two balls, Lively took a fastball and smoked it down the right field line for a RBI double, giving Seattle the 2-0 lead going into the bottom of the fourth.

As in many of UNC’s games, the bats couldn’t find the zone in the early innings. The Beas had only one hit in the first four inning, but in the bottom of the fifth they started to get the bats going.

A home run and a fielder’s choice in the top of the fifth gave Seattle a 4-0 lead. After back-to-back singles from freshman Matt Burkart and junior Payton Tapia, UNC went the small ball approach and used the bunt with no outs to put both runners in scoring position.

Sophomore Tyler Yamaguchi hit a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring UNC’s first run. The Bears weren’t done though. Senior Nick Tanner hit a rope down the left field lin, scoring Tapia. That was then followed by a single up the middle by junior Evan Johnson. The momentum was turning in the Bears favor, going into the sixth only being down 4-3.

The joy was short lived for the Bears. After giving up four runs in the fifth, UNC’s ace was done for the day.

Senior Jacob Howard took the bump hoping to stop the bleeding, but he couldn’t stop the Redhawks, bats either. In just 30 pitches, Howard gave up four runs while only facing five batters. The ball was then handed to freshman Billy Moreland, who on his third pitch gave up a home run to left field. Five total runs in the inning pushed Seattle’s lead to 5, 9-3.

With two outs and Junior Brett Minnick on first after walking, Tapia took the 1-2 pitch over the left field wall.

It was Tapias second homerun of the season and cut the Seattle lead to 4, going into the final three innings.

Both team’s bats were on fire in the 7th, SU scored four more runs off five hits, while UNC scored three runs of four hits and running Seattle starter Jake Prizina off the mound. Still down five runs with only six outs to work with, UNC’s dugout was still full of life and excitement as if they were up 14-8 instead of being down.

The Bears surrendered another home run in the eighth, pushing the deficit to six. The rally caps were on and it paid off for the Bears. UNC scored four runs off four hits in the bottom of the eighth, cutting the

lead down to two going into the last frame.

The Rally was almost complete. Leadoff hitter Tapia grounded out to third base which was followed by a double by junior Alex Kiel. With two outs to work with and a runner already in scoring position, the Bears had a chance to cut the lead to just one, but the Redhawks shut the door on their chances, forcing the final two batters into a line out and a fly out to end the game.

On Saturday, the Bears fell behind again early letting the Redhawks build a 6-1 lead over the first five innings.

The momentum swung heavily in UNC’s favor in the sixth inning as the Bears fired off four runs.

It all started with junior Brett Minnick who homered to left center scorig two.

Tapia and Burkart eventually scored on a single up the middle from Yamaguchi.

In the top of the seventh the Redhawks managed to kill some of the momentum scoring one runner before leaving a man on second.

Down 5-7, the Bears hitters kept their rally caps on by putting seven its on th board in the inning, including a double from Burkart that scored one and put Minnick back on third base and tied the game at 7-7.

Four more runs in the inning put the Bears up 11-7 and that was enough as the defense held up to take game two 11-10.

“My heart rate is fine according to my heart doctor, so I am able to survive these games. I told the guys before the game we are who we are,” Iwasaki said. “We are a gritty, hard playing team that will not quit. We still have to work on putting up zeros after we score runs in an inning.”

The Bears finished up the series Sunday afternoon and takes on the Air Force Academy at 2pm on Tuesday as they continue their five game homestand.

Softball gets series win over Weber

By Brittany Riley sports@uncmirror.com

The Bears’ softball team earned its first Big Sky Conference series win over the weekend against Weber State in Greeley.

Friday afternoon’s double header brought both joy and despair for Northern Colorado.

In game one, a Lauren Paige RBI single gave the Bears a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The Bears held the lead through five innings.

The top of the sixth put Weber State on top 2-1 after a fielder’s choice RBI and an RBI single. The Wildcats added another run the lead in the seventh after an RBI

double.

Northern Colorado wasn’t going to go down easy though. Jordan Wiatrak knocked a two-run homer out of the park to tie the game at three in the bottom of the seventh and send the game into extra innings.

Extra innings didn’t last long because Kelli Kleis hit an RBI double to centerfield to give the Bears the 4-3 victory.

After taking game one into extra innings, Weber State came out strong in game two and took UNC down 8-0 in just five innings.

Game three was back in the Bears favor. Paige knocked a three-run homer out of the park in the bottom of the first to give UNC the 3-0 lead. An Emily Holtz RBI single extended the Bears lead to 4-0.

Weber State wasn’t going to go quietly and a tworun home run put the Wildcats on the board 4-2 in the fourth inning. Unfortunately for Weber State, the UNC defense wasn’t going to let Weber State get away with any more runs.

A Rachel Johnson home run and an RBI double by Erica Dick sealed the Bears 6-2 victory in game three and the series win over Weber State.

With the wins, Northern Colorado’s record advances to 16-24 overall and 4-5 in the Big Sky. Next up, the Bears head to Fort Collins for a game against the Colorado State Rams Tuesday at 4 p.m. Then the Bears hit the road again for a Big Sky matchup against Montana beginning April 14th.

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MLB baseball returns

By Brittany Riley sports@uncmirror.com

The smell of the freshly cut grass, the taste of a ballpark frank, the roar of the crowd as the ball soars over the back wall.

Baseball is back.

Last Sunday the 2017 Major League Baseball season got underway with three opening day games featuring America’s team, a record-setting pitcher and the defending World Series champions.

First up was America’s team the New York Yankees down in Florida to take on the Tampa Bay Rays. Masahiro Tanaka and the Yankees got stung by the Rays who drove in seven runs in the first three innings.

Logan Morrison and Evan Longoria combined for five hits, two home runs and six RBI’s in the Rays 7-3 win Sunday afternoon.

The second game to get the 2017 season going was an exciting one featuring a

record-setting pitcher and a walk-off win when the San Francisco Giants headed to Phoenix for a battle with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner pitched a perfect game through five and a third innings against the Diamondbacks.

He also knocked two home runs out of the park becoming the first pitcher to ever accomplish that feat on opening day.

Bumgarner’s stellar performance wasn’t enough to lift the Giants over the Diamondbacks who won 6-5 following Chris Owing’s RBI walk-off single.

The final game on opening day pit two rivals against each other, the St. Louis Cardinals and the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs.

Trying to repeat the grand results of the 2016 season, the Chicago Cubs used the same lineup in game one of 2017 that they used in the final game of the 2016 World Series. However, the lineup excluded David Ross, who retired after the championship, and Dexter Fowler, who signed with the Cardinals in the off-season.

Chicago went down early, but tied the game after a ninth inning rally. St. Louis Cardinal Randal Grichuk came to the Cardinals rescue with a walk-off single to give the Cardinals the 4-3 victory.

Three games took place Sunday to get the new season going, but the Colorado Rockies didn’t open their season until Monday afternoon in Milwaukee.

Nolan Arenado had a diving doubleplay to seal the Rockies 7-5 opening day victory. The Rockies played three more games in Milwaukee finishing the opening series with a record of 3-1.

The Rockies home opener took place Friday when the team started a threegame series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Denver native Kyle Freeland made his major-league pitching debut as the starter in Friday’s game and he earned the 2-1 win over the Dodgers.

Next up for the Rockies is a three-game home series against the San Diego Padres starting Monday April 10th before the Rockies head to San Francisco Thursday.

COLORADO ROCKIES SCHEDULE April 7, FINAL 2-1 W April 8, FINAL 4-2 W April 9, 1:10 p.m.

April 10, 6:40 p.m.

April 11, 6:40 p.m.

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