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THE The end of UNC’s Schulze speaker series for this semester is coming.

It concludes with award winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca.

Baca is the winner of the American Book Award and the International Poetry Award.

Two of UNC’s faculty members have been honored as ‘women of distinction.’ Sharon Clinebell and Audrey Snyder are among the 12 recipients of BizWest Media’s 2017 Northern Colorado Women of Distinction.

The UNC Board of Trustees has authorized Kay Norton to sell off the university-held property known as “Old Man Mountain,” which is adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park.

The Graduate Student Association and the Campus Recreation Center teamed up to host the Strong Bear Powerlifting Competition. Photo by Woody Myers

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scored by the total amount of weight lifted, among all three events, and divided by the athlete’s total body weight. This was in order to determine the most accurate amount of pounds lifted per pound of athlete body weight, getting the fairest result.

This event however did more than just provide students an opportunity for fun and competitive recreation. According to Jade Dworkin, coordinator of the fitness and wellness program at UNC, the Strong Bear competition also served a purpose, mostly as a chance for the program to showcase their new Olympic lifting platforms and encourage safe and proper fitness techniques.

“We really wanted to diversify our recreational center with this new lifting equipment and make it more inclusive for all those wishing to train in our gym,"

Last Thursday, March 9, together with the sponsorship of Wing Shack, UNC’s Campus Recreation Program and Graduate Student Association successfully presented a “Strong Bear Powerlifting Competition,” hosted in the Campus Recreation Center. Student volunteers, trainers, staff members and representatives from both Graduate Students Association and Campus Recreation Center all jointly participated in organizing this first time event.

Students from diverse backgrounds, majors, and areas of interests partook in this competition, open free of cost to all CRC members. Coming together, all athletes stepped up onto the new lifting platforms, testing their maximum strength in events such as deadlift, squats and bench presses. Each contestant received three chances to best their previous attempt.

The score was ultimately determined based on the weight, sex and individual strength of each competitor.

Coming in first place overall for male category was senior chemistry major Ben Whaley. Despite deadlifting a remarkable 505 pounds, with a total of 1095 pounds lifted altogether, Whaley seemed almost utterly surprised with his victory.

“I didn’t expect to win,” Whaley said. “I honestly thought others would beat me.” Whaley, is eager to continue furthering his education by entering Photo courtesy of Woody Myers the graduate program shortly. He had trained in powerlifting for nearly four years prior to Dworkin said, Dworkin, who oversaw and organized this comthis event and is currently instructing lessons at the petition alongside GSA, stressed also the importance climbing wall and equipment center at UNC. Coming in at second place was Andrew Hess, lifting of educating proper weightlifting techniques. “Our a total of 920 pounds, and in third place, Josh LeBlanc goal,” continued Dworkin, “is to not only showcase at 995 pounds. Kaelen Gay also lifted the heaviest squat and present our new equipment but to also teach and at 475 pounds and the heaviest deadlift, weighing 535 model safe, effective and properly controlled lifting pounds. The heaviest bench press of the night was by techniques through this event.”

Outside of hosting the competition, Dworkin manHayden Cortez, who lifted a total of 325 pounds.

For female contestants, in first came Amanda Yanes ages a group of fitness instructors, personal trainers, Garcia, with a total of 510 pounds lifted altogether; massage therapists and student program assistants. second place was Tori Brown at 470 pounds; and in She also instructs both personal and group training in third place, Alicia Sepulveda with 430 pounds. Garcia exercise and nutrition.

GSA Director David Shimokawa also had much to also had the strongest deadlift, at 205 pounds, and the heaviest bench-press, at 105 pounds. The heaviest squat say regarding the meaning of this competition, stressing similar notions as Dworkin. While helping the lifted that night was also by Brown at 220 pounds.

All contestants, both male and female alike, were recreational program present their new equipment,

Shimokawa, whose main responsibility as GSA Director is distributing grant money for research and academic conferences to students, also desires to exemplify healthy diet and exercise through this event.

“Some of our competitors played sports when they were undergraduates or in high school,” Shimokawa said. "we’re hoping that events like this allow UNC students to set goals for their personal fitness while providing them with the recognition that they used to receive on the athletic field.”

Most importantly however, GSA and Shimokawa’s intent and desire was to help build a stronger, more unified academic community through Thursday’s competition.

“A number of the volunteer judges and spotters at this event, are UNC graduate students. I think it’s great that our graduate students are using their knowledge to build better relationships with the undergraduate population outside of the classroom.” Shimokawa said.

Shimokawa, throughout the event, remained a positive and encouraging moderator, announcing each contestant by name, weight attempted and event chosen.

“Since many of our graduate students are going to become professors in higher education, the Graduate Student Association is always looking for new ways to create mentorship opportunities for them,” he said.

Thursday’s competition attempted to do just that.

The Campus Recreational Center offers everyone, including students, faculty, and non-members alike a reasonably priced and high quality professional service uniquely available to UNC. Their nationally certified staff offers numerous recreational activities for anyone to partake in, including weightlifting, cardio, kickboxing, Zumba, Rise and Shine yoga, yin and yang meditation, hip-hop jazz fusion and much more.

Personal training is also free for the first initial thirty minutes for consultation.

For the next two months, free Olympic lifting clinics will also be available to students who are interested in learning how to improve their lifting skills for one hour by a certified personal trainer. If interested in signing up for these events, it is recommended to do quickly, due to the limited number of spots. The dates for these are as follows: March 24 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.; April 4 from 7 to 8 p.m., and April 21 from 4 to 5 p.m.

For more information concerning these events or about the weightlifting competition in general, please contact Jade Dworkin at jade.dworkin@unco.edu or David Shimokawa, david.shimokawa@unco.edu.

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International Women’s Day and strike

By Joshua Alexander news@uncmirror.com

The days leading up to the end of the last school week before break marked an exciting and invigorating time for women locally and worldwide. On March 8, 2017, denoted International Women’s Day and “A Day without Women” strike, movements dedicated in standing against social inequalities and discrimination in all forms for women everywhere. From individuals like Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks and Elizabeth Warren, to the individuals’ participating in the events of last week, women ubiquitously are experiencing an unprecedented acceleration of growth, progress and achievement within their female identified communities.

On International Women’s Day, women and advocates from UNC and across the state took part in this strike to take a stand universally against inequality, misogyny, discrimination and intolerance. This strike particularly called for women to take the day off from work or class to avoid contributing to businesses enabling a patriarchal, male-dominated environment. Individuals and advocates were also encouraged to wear red in solidarity for those on strike and recognition and women’s recognition.

Women left work, closed schools, wrote to their governments and participated in this strike to show support for International Women’s Day. According to a recent article published by the Guardian, for example, a number of schools closed in states such as North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, requesting to take the day off in observance of this day.

Crowds rallied and came together on the front steps of Congress at Washington D.C., and in state legislatures including in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Berkeley and Milwaukee as well.

This event was not just limited within the United States. The Guardian mentions how in Dakar, Senegal, women gathered together under a banner declaring, “Solidarity is Our Weapon.”

Dozens of nurseries and child-care centers were forced to close after 1,000 of their workers left due to complaints of low, unfair wages. The Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development also stated that more than 500 women in Thailand, the Philippines and India participated in a global solidarity strike for their rights and dignity.

Even in Russia, seven activists stood outside the Kremlin whose banner spoke of the subjugation their community faced: “Men have been in power for 200 years, down with them!” They were quickly arrested and thrown into jail.

International Women’s Day emerged mainly during the early 1900s, a time of great turbulence but also expansion in the industrial world, also promoting at the same time education and increased awareness concerning the issues surrounding gender discrimination and inequalities. Along with this industrial boom produced an alarming growth in population and radical ideologies.

“It [IWD] comes out of a lengthy history of women’s economic activism both within the U.S. labor movement and outside of it,” speaks doctor Christine Talbot, an assistant professor of the gender studies program at UNC. “Women have been active in the labor movement, and have participated in labor strikes since the 1830s, campaigning at times for better working conditions for women and at times for better working conditions for all workers,” Talbot said.

The United Nations officially then began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, 1975. The first National Women’s Day, following a declaration by the Socialist Party in America, was observed nationwide in the U.S. from February 28, 1909 to the end of February 1913. In 1970, women called for a “Women’s Strike for Equality,” essentially a forerunner to “A Day Without Women.”

No single person, organization, or institution is solely responsible for hosting these events such as IWD and “A Day without Women.” Many organizations throughout the world however declared an annual theme for IWD, supporting a specific agenda or cause advocating for gender equality and parity. As social and political activist, feminist, and journalist Gloria Steinem has described, “the story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”

The main goal of IWD and “A Day without Women” are twofold: one is to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women everywhere worldwide, driving positive and beneficial change for everyone.

“International Women’s Day is both a cause for celebration, and a call for feminist activism.

It’s a day to celebrate the accomplishments of all kinds of women on global and local scales,” Talbot said.

Dr. Ather Zia, assistant professor of anthropology, also voiced similar ideas.

“A Day without Women is a reiteration of the reminder to the world about how important a woman has become to the world of professional work and how important she has always been to the personal world,” Zia said.

Another intent for IWD and “A Day without Women” is to signify a call for action that could accelerate gender parity. In other words, the purpose of these events is to encourage individuals and organizations respectively to take bold actions regarding the helping of progress-

ing the gender agenda, whether that is challeng- attempt to build support for equity, justice and ing bias, inequality and violence or promoting recognition of basic human rights for all, rewomen’s achievements, advancement or educa- gardless of one’s race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, sexual identity, gender exprestion worldwide.

As a call for this feminist activism, Talbot ex- sion, economic status, age or disability.

“The WRC’S mission is to honor gender as plains that “A Day without Women” is intended, “to call attention to these continued inequalities a central identity,” continued Lucero-Nguyen, and motive people of all genders to continue “and to engage critical women and gender isto struggle against them.” Talbot also articu- sues, while challenging systems of inequity and lated how “A Day without Women” also aims to advocating for change at UNC.” “Our goal for the International Women’s demonstrate “the economic and social value of Strike and ‘A Day without Women,’” concludes women in both paid and unpaid labor.”

Zia spoke for this activism as well. “The Inter- Lucero–Nguyen, “was to provide information to national Women’s Day is a reminder of a world our campus community of the national event so which has changed,” said Zia, “…the day re- that they could be informed in their decision to minds us that we have to make the world outside participate or not to participate.”

The message of these events also extends fit women’s needs and the rigors of their social across the boundaries of the United States and roles as mothers, and significant others.”

Yvette Lucero-Nguyen, Director of the Wom- western countries. Events like IWD and “A Day en’s Resource Center and Stryker Institute for without Women” are meant to not just impact Leadership Development, was also able to share the domestic influence of American politics; her thoughts. Lucero-Nguyen, along with the these events attempt to transcend their mission help of student and faculty volunteers, helped into a more transnational, global and universal to organize certain, strategic events before and manifestation, set out to engineer gender libafter IWD and “ A Day without Women,” such eration and women’s rights in capacities such as as hosting a Consciousness Raising Strike on education, reproduction, suffrage, political freeMarch 7, in hopes to unify and prepare the cam- dom and much more. pus community for the upcoming day.

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3/20: Open Mic Night UC First Floor Atrium, 9 p.m.

3/21: Jazz Combo Concert Joe Molina Gallery, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

3/22: Trans, NonBinary & Gender NonConforming Clothing Swap UC Colunbime A, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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Colorado media experts visit UNC

By Dalton Lanich arts@uncmirror.com

Taking the time to stop by UNC, the Colorado Office of Film, Television, and Media held a Q&A discussion panel at the UC a few weeks ago to talk to students about the film industry in Colorado. The panel consisted of seven professionals ranging from people who broke into the industry with a degree in film, to people who have won awards for their work.

Donald Zuckerman, the Colorado Film Commissioner and panel mediator, discussed why they travel around the state holding panels for future filmmakers.

“It’s commonplace, when you’re a student, that you might want to get into the business, but with no idea about how to get into it,” Zuckerman said. “If you do it, you have to start somewhere.”

After brief introductions for each of the panelists,

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Director Jordan Peele’s debut film “Get Out” has caused controversy as the first horror film about racism.

Peele’s film follows a young interracial couple, played by Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams, as they visit her parent’s estate. When Kaluuya’s character, Chris Washington, arrives he meets the family and their close friends who ask him several covertly racist questions. He eventually realises that something strange is occurring based on how the other black people are acting; he soon attempts to escape only to be captured, and he is forced to fight his way off of the premises.

The film made $33.4 million during it’s opening weekend and finished first in the box office, beating out films like “The Lego Batman Movie” and “Fifty Shades Darker.” The film currently has a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it one of the top 10 highest-rated horror movies on the site.

Despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews, the film has been viewed by certain critics as perpetuating a prejudiced “anti-white” message. For UNC students, the film forced them to think about everyday racial tension which had previously gone unnoticed or ignored, including sophomore Madisen Parker.

“When I first heard about it I was like ‘Wow’, but

they opened up the floor for questions from the audience. Mitch Dickman, an award winning producer and director for projects such as “Rolling Papers” and “Hanna Ranch,” explained one of the most important things to keep in mind while working on a film.

“As fun as it is to be on a shoot, it’s very intense, very quick,” Dickman said. “Try a little bit of everything. Try not to get distracted by the shiny object of being on set.”

Haylar Garcia, a screenwriter, director and founder of the Rumble Pack Commercial Creative Group, explained what a meeting with producers can mean for a writer.

“You’re probably not going to get into a meeting where they ask ‘What else do you have?’” Garcia said.

“If you’re there, they like what you submitted.”

Garcia later went on to explain how some jobs in the world of filmmaking are changing with the times. Using the example of screenwriting, he explained that some writers aren’t making scripts

anymore. Instead, they’re creating intellectual property to pitch to a studio before they write anything.

“Screenwriting is evolving. Some people aren’t writing anything, they’re creating ideas.”

Towards the end of the panel, Zuckerman explained what the best and worst part about working in the world of film can be.

“The best thing is when you’re at a major film festival and people who aren’t your friends and family are seeing it for the first time and enjoying it,” Zuckerman said, adding comedically, “The worst thing is spending three weeks in Mexico with Courtney Love.”

With films such as “The Hateful Eight,” “Furious 7,” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” all being filmed in Colorado, the state proves itself as a versatile filming location. More information about the Colorado Office of Film, Television, and Media can be found on their website at coloradofilm.org.

there was also some parts that made me uncomfortable,” Parker said.

Films like “Gone with the Wind” can romanticise racism and desensitize audiences to the impact it had on communities in the past and still has in the modern era. “Get Out” deviates from the traditional narratives films have used to communicate issues of racism to the public. The methods Jordan Peele uses to display casual racism in the film are subtle and dark, which makes the fear more real and accessible for the audience.

UNC sophomore McKenzie Pettit explained her views on the film.

“Usually with horror movies it’s kind of ridiculous ghosts and shit,” Pettit said. “Using racism as the center of a horror movie, especially with everything that’s going on, it’s like ‘Shit, that’s a real problem.’”

In the film, all the characters played by white actors are either actively or passively complicit in the racist plans of the main antagonists. As a result, some critics left reviews on Rotten Tomatoes detailing how the film promotes an “anti-white” message.

Rotten Tomatoes critic Keith %20 is one of these people, calling the film racist.

“I don’t care if this actually an entertaining movie or not, I find it atrocious that anyone can support such outright racism,” Keith %20 said. “It’s blatantly pushing a racist stereotype agenda against white people.”

Other UNC students who watched the film felt it was an accurate representation of the African-

American experience and that it portrayed racism in a realistic manner. This film follows a recent trend of telling alternative narratives; films like “Hidden Figures,” “Moonlight,” and “The Birth of a Nation” have each told stories which have previously been absent from popular cinema.

UNC sophomore Isaiah Brown found the film to be positive.

“I don’t think it’s anti-white at all,” Brown said.

“I just feel like you gotta be woke to understand the movie. They constantly portray black people as thugs so it’s like a new perspective through the lens of race.”

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Rosenberry conference a success

By Jordan Baca

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The annual Rosenberry Writers’ Conference kicked off on Feb. 27 with fiction writer Brad Watson, and followed up with nonfiction writer Felicia Rose Chavez and poet Juan Morales the next two nights. In its 16th year, the Rosenberry is one of the longest-running events at UNC. The conference is geared toward bringing award-winning writers to the Greeley community and creating a platform for discussion about writing as well as topics that the writing addresses– such as disabilities in Brad Watson’s most recent novel “Miss Jane.”

Watson comes from Mississippi and has experienced many different ways of life – from being a garbage man to writing for newspapers while getting an MFA in creative writing. Since launching into writing and academia, he has taught at several universities and been shortlisted for the 2002 National Book Award in fiction for his work “The Heaven of Mercury.” The stories he shared with the audience at the conference were from his newest novel, “Miss Jane,” and a short story written somewhere in the process of writing this novel, “There is Happiness.”

In “Miss Jane,” Watson tackles the challenge of writing about the life of a woman born in 1915 who lives with a birth defect which causes incontinence while society holds the expectation that she should still do what every woman does: Get married and have children. With beautiful prose and respect to the historical period, the novel denotes the ways in which Jane is able to enjoy life in spite of her disability, along with the various challenges that come her way.

“There is Happiness” is a short story detailing a housewife’s descent into madness, leading her to attempt to kill herself and her family in a car crash, but ultimately going on a killing spree that resolves in her secluded life

as a waitress in a small New Mexican town.

“I wrote it when I was struggling with Jane a little bit, and I wanted to write something very different,” Watson said.

Senior English major Rachel Hammer, who was attending the Rosenberry for the first time, said that she enjoyed that the reading showed the difference between the conciseness of a short story in comparison to a novel. “[The conference] gives beautiful variety of styles and voices, and gives confidence that my voice can someday be ‘a’ voice because there isn’t only one way to write,” she said.

The second night of the conference was all about the future of creative writing, with nonfiction writer Felicia Rose Chavez.

Chavez is a professor at Colorado College teaching digital storytelling. She is also a multimedia artist, with a background in work for National Public Radio, where she has published documentaries and audio essays, some of which she shared with the audience on Tuesday night.

Punctuated with artful and inspired language, she explained her ideals behind her style of teaching for a new generation of students. In her classes, she teaches using examples of media that her students are interested in — from rap to Netflix, there is always something artistically valuable in these different, modern, and sometimes “low-brow” works. The projects she assigns range from graphic essays to silent films to websites.

“My writing students should engage with multidimensional mediums, not only because it’s fun, but because it’s essential to their lifelong literacy,” Chavez said. “Technology is here to stay.

That scares a lot of people, and I totally get it.”

“In creative writing there is a cliché, ‘write what you know,’ and while that’s solid advice, I advocate that students write what they like – the weirder, the better,” she said. “Let everyone else imitate and obey, molding their art to satisfy the workshop, or the professor, or the fancy-pants literary

magazine. I want my students to make the work that they crave.”

The final event of the Rosenberry Writers’ Conference was focused on the poetry of Juan Morales, associate professor of English at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He has published several books of poetry, and explained the sometimes long and strenuous publishing journey, as his most recent book, “The Siren World” took many submissions and rejections before getting picked up. He read poems from this book and others, many about his parents. His Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father

served as the subject for “The Siren World,” and gave the poems rich images and cultural dialogue in relation to their origins as well as lives now in Colorado.

“The glue that kind of unifies these two sections became my insecurities about learning Spanish as an adult because my parents did not teach me,” Morales said.

“But, like many things, it pulls you in and entices you to become a lifelong learner.”

Morales’s final poem especially addressed the cultural stresses, even between others of the same culture — how his mother denied that they have native blood,

which upset him because he knew it wasn’t true, though he later realized that it was a habit of protection for her growing up in Ecuador. There was also the aspect of how condescending some Hispanic people have been to him for having to learn Spanish in adulthood. His final statement in the poem was this: “I think about my confusion burying me on a line/drawn in the sand, knowing it will all be erased/by a rising tide, and then I turn again/to write future and past pressed together as the skin/ we wish we could crawl out of, but have to accept it as a gift.”

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At Home 3/24: Baseball vs Sacramento State Jackson Field 2 p.m.

An end to a historic season Northern Colorado’s wrestlers fell on the second day of the NCAA tourney

3/25: Baseball vs Sacramento State Jackson Field 12 p.m.

On the Road 3/20: Women’s Golf at Sacramento State Sacramento, California All Day

3/24: Softball vs Southern Utah University Cedar City, Utah 1:00 p.m.

3/25: Women’s Tennis at Sacramento State Sacramento, California 11 a.m.

Timmy Box (141), Keilan Torres (165) and Dylan Gabel (184) all advanved the second day of the NCAA tournament, the most ever advanced in UNC’s history. Photo courtesy of UNCBears.com.

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Northern Colorado’s historic season came to a close, as all three Bears fell in the consolation round of 16 friday afternoon.

For the first time in program history, Northern Colorado advanced three wrestlers to the second day of the NCAA Championships.

Timmy Box (141 lbs), Keilan Torres (165 lbs) and Dylan Gabel (184 lbs) all dropped their bouts, which put an end to one of the best years of wrestling Northern Colorado has seen in a long time.

Each wrestler that bested the Bears advanced to the round of 12, which means they are one win away from earning All-American honors.

For Timmy Box, Friday’s match was the last time

he will ever wear a Northern Colorado singlet.

Box started off strong against Jimmy Gulibon (Penn State), as both wrestlers exchanged takedowns and escapes in the first period. The big shift in the match momentum came when Gulibon took down Box and racked up four nearfall points with a leg turk, which provided Gulibon with a 9-3 lead going into the second period.

After another takedown by Box that showed a glimpse of hope, Gulibon ended up winning via major decision 14-5.

Torres faced a familiar foe in No. 16 Nick Wanzek (Minnesota), who Torres had lost to in overtime earlier this season.

With a takedown in the first ten seconds of the match, it appeared as if Torres would dominate the match. Wanzek managed to escape, which led to a crazy scramble between the two wrestlers. Wanzek

ended up on top and eventually turned Torres, and carried a 7-2 lead into the second period.

It was all Wanzek from that point on, and Torres lost via major decision 12-3.

Gabel was the final Bear to wrestle this afternoon, and faced No. 10 Michael Macchiavello (NC State).

Gabel came out aggressive and looking to score, but Macchiavello proved to be too much for Gabel, as he came away with an 11-3 major decision win.

Rico Montoya (133 lbs) wrestled on the first day but was eliminated by No. 14 seed Mitch McKee (Minnesota). Montoya came out aggressive and nearly took down McKee in a fireman’s carry, but was ultimately thwarted by the Golden Gopher.

The Bears finish their season 2-10 (1-6 Big 12) but will retain three of their four NCAA qualifiers in Torres, Gabel and Montoya.

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Spring Break in Cali

Baseball goes 2-4 over Spring Break University of Nebraska

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UNC Softball goes 5-3 during their trip to the west coast Staff Report

forcing two quick outs to send the contest to an extra eighth inning.

As Kaley Garcia was placed on second, Jordyn Northern Colorado’s trip the California came Wiatrak quickly moved her over to third and to a close Saturday as the Bears split the week- managed to reach safely all in the same motion. end losing to Cal State Northridge, 6-5, in eight Adeline Coldiron saw an opportunity that she innings before the Blue and Gold bounced right just couldn’t pass up. The senior catcher laced a single to right center, made it all the way to back with a victory over Bryant, 4-1.

The 1-1 split gave the Bears a 5-3 record over second off the right fielder’s miscue and plated the weekend and put Northern Colorado 12-19 Garcia and Wiatrak in the process.

Emily Holtz added to the cause, dialing up an overall.

“I was proud of our bounce back in the second RBI single. Though Holtz would be caught trygame after a tough loss,” said head coach Shana ing to stretch a single into a double, UNC levied Easley. “We grew a lot as a team during these their largest lead of the game, 5-2.

Two straight singles from CSUN brought in spring break games and will continue learning and improving as we move into conference play their placed runner, climbed within two, and prompted Shana Easley to call upon Lauren this week.”

Jayme Reddacliff, who hadn’t given up an Paige to finish the game off. For the second time earned run all week long, continued her solid in as many innings, the Matadors managed to play, opening with four consecutive outs against fight back, but not only did CSUN managed to Cal State. On a single in the bottom half of the tie the game, on a fielder’s choice, they plated second, the first CSUN base runner made her their fourth run of the inning, stealing a win way to second on a throwing error from Ade- from underneath the Bears’ fingertips, 6-5.

Looking to bounce back quickly after a tough line Coldiron. A batter later, she would make her way home off a double. Though the Matadors loss, Northern Colorado starting pitcher, Valerie took the early 1-0 lead, the error labeled the run Vidal neatly blanked the bulldogs in the top half of the first inning. Rachel Johnson then dialed as unearned, keeping Reddacliff ’s streak going.

In both in the third and fourth innings, up a double to bring in Erica Dick, jumping out Northern Colorado advanced a duo of runners to a 1-0 start.

From the beginning of the third to the end of on the base pads. However, in consecutive innings, the Bears left a duo stranded, allowing the sixth, Kleis and the Northern Colorado defense gave up only one hit.

CSUN to keep their lead, 1-0.

Offensively, the Bears weren’t satisfied with The Bears offense got cooking in the fifth inning when Cheyenne Talmadge drew up her just a one run lead. Once again Lauren Paige first base hit of the game. After a grounder provided the spark, this time in the fifth inning, moved her over to second, Kenzie Kudrna’s utilizing a single of her own to drive in Cheysingle brought her home, and to add insult to enne Talmadge to extend the UNC lead by aninjury for the Matadors, Kudrna advanced to other run.

Not to be outdone, in the sixth inning, Talsecond on an error, leaving the Bears in scoring position. Once Rachel Johnson reached on a madge had the opportunity to drive in an insurwalk, Jordyn Wiatrak wasted no time driving in ance RBI of her own with Kaley Garcia standing on second. A single on a 2-0 pitch brought in Kudrna with an RBI single.

In the circle, Jayme Reddaclif was doing Garcia, allowing the Bears some breathing room Jayme Reddacliff things. Knowing her stellar with a 4-1 lead.

Talmadge finished the day 4-for-7 with a defense was behind her every step of the way, Reddacliff did only what she needed to, keep the double, two runs, an RBI, five total bases and a stolen base. ball in the ballpark. weekat another three-run lead in the final Twice, in the fifth and sixth innings, CSUN per Staring looked to threaten to re-tie the game. However, inning of a ballgame, head coach Shana Easley a double play in the fifth on a heads up play from wanted to make sure they finished this one out UNC’s outstanding catcher, Adeline Coldiron, right. After a lead-off single, Chandler Elsner and three straight solid defensive plays in the came in to close out the Bulldogs. A feat which sixth kept the Matadors at bay, keeping the 2-1 she accomplished with a fly out and two groundouts to secure UNC’s 12th victory of the season, lead for the Blue and Gold.

Tragedy struck in the bottom of the seventh 4-1.

Northern Colorado now begins Big Sky Coninning. A one-out triple brought in the tying run for CSUN and placed the winning run just ference play. They’ll open with Southern Utah in sixty feet away with only one out in the inning. Cedar City next Friday, March 24. UNC’s first Reddacliff and her defense weren’t about to let home conference contests comes against Weber the Matadors spoil their good weekend, though, State on April 7.

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