1. Page 8 Thursday, October 9, 2014 The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado COMMUNITY TRINIDAD STATE
By Mike Salbato
Correspondent
The Chronicle-News
Following a busy fall season the Trojan
golf team will take a deserved break and
look forward to Spring 2015 when play will
resume and they can continue their quest to
return to the top of the Region IX standings.
So far, things are looking good for the
very experienced squad that features all
sophomores. They won every region tour-nament
in the fall and placed well in Ruid-oso,
New Mexico last week in a tournament
that featured many of the best teams in the
nation.
The Trojans wrapped up region play by
hosting the Trinidad Invitational the final
Thursday-Friday of September. TSJC went
17-under-par as a team for the two-day event
claiming the title over a much-improved
field. Justin Carlock took his third tour-nament
crown of the season edging out
teammates Carlos Sisneros and Jake Ice by
shooting a score of 133 (68-65).
“I am pretty sure that this was the first
time that we have gone under par for both
days as a team,” commented Coach Rich
Holden. “All of the practice rounds we
played throughout the season really paid
off. The course was in great shape and it
was the largest field that we have had with
48 golfers.”
Last weekend the Trojans headed to the
Midland Fall Classic in Ruidoso where they
played three rounds against some of the top
teams from the western half of the coun-try
including Odessa, Western Texas and
Dodge City. The team shot very well for the
first 36 holes going +8 as a team and heading
into the final 18 in fourth place. They strug-gled
a bit the final day falling ten strokes
and finishing sixth overall. Individually
Carlock finished one under, which was
good enough for 17th. Ice was at +1, which
put him in 23rd.
“Having served on the Golf World Na-tional
Junior College Division I ranking
committee for the past three years, I was
well aware that the 12 teams in attendance
to this tournament were all teams that have
proven themselves among the best teams
in the Western United States,” said Holden.
“To have our guys shoot eight over par as
a team through 36 holes and finish the day
in fourth place, was a milestone for our pro-gram
against that level of competition. As I
watched our guys compete in a group with
the other three leading teams, I am proud to
say we handled ourselves extremely well in
that high-pressure situation. Even though
we slipped to a tie for sixth overall we looked
like we belonged in that last group, and we
were able to beat several programs that we
have never been able to beat at Nationals.”
The Trojans are halfway to their goal of
reclaiming the Region IX title and heading
to Newton, Kansas in May for the National
Tournament. They will need to continue
their strong play through five more region
tournaments, starting back in Trinidad on
March 26, 2015.
Mike Salbato / The Chronicle-News
The Trojan Golf Team – (from left to right) Carlos Sisneros, Jake Ice, Justin Frederick, Frazer
Pomfret, Justin Carlock, Coach Rich Holden and Donovan Masias.
Trojan golf looks strong heading into break
SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL
Small earthquake felt, heard in area
By Steve Block
The Chronicle-News
A Trinidad woman reported hearing
a loud boom and hearing the windows
rattle at her workplace Wednesday morn-ing.
Michelle Goodall, a Trinidad photog-rapher
said she heard the boom at about
10 a.m.
“I heard this big boom, and I could hear
the windows rattle,” Goodall said. “It was
really pretty scary.”
Goodall said other people had posted
on her Facebook page about feeling the
earthquake, including people living in the
Hoehne and Allendale areas near Trini-dad.
There were no reports of an earthquake
Wednesday on the website of the U.S. Geo-logical
Service, but there was a report on
the website of 2.8 magnitude earthquake
on Tuesday, October 7, about 30 miles west
of Trinidad. The area had an earthquake
swarm in the summer of 2011, and has had
some slight tremors since then.
Local shelter
issues virus alert
Special to The Chronicle-News
Noah’s Ark Animal Welfare Asso-ciation
is temporarily restricting cat
intakes and adoptions after
several cats coming to the
shelter tested positive
for the feline panleu-kopenia
virus (FPV).
As a result, quaran-tine
protocol is in
place.
Due to space
c o n s t r a i n t s
while caring
for the cats
currently at
the shelter
during this
quarantine,
the shelter
is temporar-ily
not ac-cepting
feral
stray cats
or owner-surrendered
cats without
proof of cur-rent
vacci-nations.
Cats
and kittens
will only be
allowed to go
to their new
adopters after 2
vaccines.
It is not uncom-mon
for shelters to see waves of FPV
when the disease is prevalent in the
community. Although FPV can be a
fatal illness in cats and is very con-tagious,
the vaccine for FPV is effec-tive.
In order to keep your cats safe
from FPV and other contagious dis-eases,
it is important, as always, to
keep them current on their vaccina-tions.
The disease is only found in
cats and cannot be passed to dogs or
other pets. Symptoms include lethar-gy,
vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, and
hypersalivation.
To combat the spread of disease,
Noah’s Ark staff is carefully evaluat-ing
the vaccination and medical his-tory
of every cat being cared for. Staff
is also following strict quarantine
and sanitation protocol in an effort
to further prevent the spread of the
disease.
Members of the public who need to
surrender a cat may call 719-680-
2385 for alternative options
or to be put on a waiting
list. We encourage fami-lies
who have adopted
cats from Noah’s Ark
in the past month to
take their new pet
to a veterinarian
for any sched-uled
booster
shots that it
may need.
For more
information,
please con-tact
one of
the local vet-erinarians
(Dr Falduto
– 719-846-
3212 or Dr
Aaroe – 719-
846-3211) or
Noah’s Ark.
—
Founded in
1998, Noah’s
Ark Animal
Welfare Asso-ciation
is the
only nonprofit
animal shelter in
Las Animas County, Colorado.
Serving nearly 2,000 animals a
year, Noah’s Ark provides adoption
options, subsidized spays/neuters,
low-cost vaccine and microchip clin-ics,
humane education and other im-portant
services.
Noah’s Ark is a local, independent
nonprofit that relies on donations
from individuals and foundations to
fund its many humane programs. For
more information, visit www.noah-sarktrinidad.
org.
FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA
EXTRAORDINARY ARTWORK
Special to The Chronicle-News
Selected works by Colorado artists will
be on display at the Colorado State Capitol
complex, including the Lieutenant Gover-nor’s
Office, the basement rotunda and the
Joint Budget Committee room, from Oct.
2014-March 2015.
The exhibition officially opened on Oc-tober
2 with the dedication of the newly
refaced Capitol Dome. A public ceremony
and ribbon cutting was held at the Capitol
that included tours of the dome’s observa-tion
deck.
Trinidad artist Marilyn Leuszler had
two paintings chosen to be displayed in the
new exhibit. It is the second time Lueuszler
has shown her exciting, impressive work at
the State Capitol.