Colorado
What Trent Bray said after Oregon State beat Colorado State
CORVALLIS — After Oregon State beat Colorado State 39-31 in double overtime Saturday to move to 4-1 on the season, Beavers coach Trent Bray talked about the game’s wild finish and what OSU can take away from it.
Here’s a transcript of Bray’s postgame interview session with reporters, edited for brevity and clarity.
Bray: That showed me a lot. Yeah, watch the film. There’ll be lots to clean up and lots we got to do better, but the way they came on and responded is big time.
Q: To start the game with two turnovers and then for it to go to double overtime, how do you feel about the resiliency of your team through that?
Bray: Yeah, I feel great about it. And Gevani (McCoy), same thing. He shows up in those moments. When we need him to make the throws and lead the offense, he does it. That’s probably his best quality.
Q: Trent, you’ve had four games now where the fourth quarter really the game was pretty much in hand. Was this fun tonight? I’m just curious how you felt about how the way this thing went?
Bray: Right after the fourth-down stop, it was a lot of fun. But no. I mean, you’re in the moment, you aren’t recognizing it, but it’s great win, because it is our first real challenge in the fourth quarter to have to go win the game. To watch them do that was great.
Q: Defensively, in the fourth quarter you guys gave up a lot, but then in overtime, what do you think got into your defense a little bit there? Because they did pretty much shut down Colorado State there at the end.
Bray: They did. I think it’s just, we’re just in that same kind of, there’s going to be ups and downs right now with our youth and inexperience. They’re gaining a lot of it, but I think that’s probably the biggest thing. We got to get to a level where we can sustain throughout the whole game. That’s the biggest improvement we need to make on defense.
Q: Trent, that final drive to set up the Everett field goal. Looking back on it now, how big? A) Josh gray jumping on that fumble, and then B) Everett hits a big kick like that. In that moment when your guys were trailing, was there any doubt, or was there complete confidence and mindset in this team they’d go down the field and get in field-goal range?
Bray: There was no doubt for those guys. They believed, they knew they were going to do it, they went down and did it. And then, like I said on, I think Monday, I have every faith in Everett’s ability to make those kicks. And we gave him good protection, which helps the kicker a ton, and he was able to knock it through. Clutch kick.
Q: Trent, so much happened there at the end. Obviously the overtimes, the final two minutes. Just off the top of your head, your mind’s eye. What are the plays that stand out in your mind?
Bray: We had three third and longs in the touchdown drive in the fourth quarter. We get off the field there, the game’s over. That stands out in my mind. We got to get off the field in third and extra long, third and long. We can’t let teams stay in there.
Q: Is that just part of being a head coach that you only see kind of where there’s room for improvement?
Bray: Oh, absolutely, that’s just who I am anyway, yeah.
Q: You’ve been talking about it already, but just the resiliency of this team. What did they show to you tonight, and what did they sort of say about the team overall?
Bray: Yeah, I think it says a lot about their ability, again, to handle these tough moments, handle adversity. When things aren’t going great for us, they respond and with toughness and grit. And it’s a great quality to have. And so there’s going to be games, I mean every year you can point out a couple games in those tight, one- or two-point games that swing a season. And I think so. That’s why I think this win was so big to be able to pull it out.
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Q: The throw to the tight end has not been big the first four games. Was that a big part of the plan today? Or did it just sort of evolve to get it to Jermaine (Terry)? Because I think he had six or seven catches tonight.
Bray: Yeah, it evolved. And then I think, Purdue was going to be tough, because of all the man-to-man coverage they played, the defense that they played. We got a little bit more zone tonight than what we’d seen from the last couple of teams, so I think that helped the tight ends get free a little bit more. So it was an effort to involve them in the passing game, but it also was part of just what we got. They were open to that.
Q: Jam leaves the game early. How big was Gevani’s play to be able to run the ball effectively the way he did? I mean, he had three touchdowns.
Bray: Yeah. I mean, he’s really — and Coach (Ryan) Gunderson’s doing a great job of using his legs to help us move the ball to score. And then, you know, it is unfortunate what happened to Jam, but that backfield, Hankerson coming in and running extremely well. And then we got to get solid going more now, they’ll have more opportunities. So that’s the good part about it, is the depth in that room.
Q: You hadn’t thrown the ball much all night, except in the fourth quarter, when you absolutely had to, showed some ability to throw the ball. Can you build off that and continue to throw the ball, maybe more than we’ve seen so far this season?
Bray: Yeah, I think so. Again, throwing the ball and not throwing the ball, you look at how the game’s going, and we’re, I mean, what was it? Eight minutes down to score the touchdown that put us up 11? So when you can do that to a team. Again, I think Gundy does a great job of calling the game that’s happening and not trying to force things. Oh, I need to have throws, or I need to have runs. He stays within what’s working. I think he does a great job.
Q: You talked about the depth in the backfield. Any update on Jam (Griffin)?
Bray: To be determined.
Q: What stands out to you about that defensive sequence in double overtime and what do you think that can do for this defense?
Bray: Yeah, I think that that should be huge for our confidence, the ability to close the game out and pull up when we need to. I think that should be a big-time confidence for them. Because there’s a lot of ability on that side of the ball. We just got to get it more consistent for the whole game, but, but I like the way they play and they step up when it counts.
Q: It’s the second time in as many games where you’re seeing kind of Gevani be able to put the team on his back in a critical situation. Is he just a gamer? Is that just how he’s wired in those situations?
Bray: Yeah, I think he is. You look at what we were able to do to close out both halves — the first half, and then the second half and really all season we’ve scored or put ourselves in positions to score in every single game, and left no time for the other team. Yeah, he’s just a clutch player.
— Nick Daschel covers the Oregon State Beavers. Reach him at 360-607-4824 or @nickdaschel. Listen to the Beaver Banter podcast or subscribe to the Beavers Roundup newsletter.
Colorado
‘We couldn’t do this in another place’: Horror film looks to make Southern Colorado the next Hollywood
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – It’s commonly understood that many of the best blockbusters are made in Southern California but a group of local filmmakers wants to prove Southern Colorado can be a destination for both aspiring and established auteurs.
Shooting began in Fountain this spring on ‘Devil In The Trunk’, a new horror film set in Colorado’s eastern plains.
“Devil In The Trunk is about a small-town woman who encounters a mysterious traveler driving this car right here who claims to have the actual devil trapped in the trunk of her car,” executive producer Leon Kelly said. “As you can imagine, when the devil comes to your small town, terrible and dangerous things can happen.”
Director, writer, and producer Evan Alderson said they wanted to make the film as Colorado as possible.
“We ended up finding a local Colorado writer, and we ended up collaborating to come up with this idea that could act as a love letter to Colorado,” he said.
While Colorado may be most famous for its soaring mountain peaks, Kelly said the plains were a much more fitting setting.
“It’s both beautiful and dangerous at the same time,” he said. “One of the underlying themes is the desolation and the loneliness and how vulnerable some folks can be in small towns and out in rural areas.”
Kelly said not only is the film meant to showcase Colorado’s natural beauty, but also to showcase the talent of the people who live there.
“It’s a proof of concept, to show that we have not only the talented people but the infrastructure that can support really high-quality, independent films,” he said. “We know we’ve got great filmmakers here, we know we have really talented craftspeople here, but they don’t necessarily have the opportunities to work on something like this on this scale that’s a narrative film.”
With the Sundance Film Festival set to make its debut in Boulder in 2027, Kelly said people are asking new questions about what Colorado can do for those looking to tell stories on the big screen.
“Can Colorado become a hub? Can that be a place, a destination where others come? Can that be a place where our own filmmakers can come into their own?” he said.
Alderson said once the film is finished they will put it out on the film festival circuit, and even look for distribution.
“That will look like a theatrical release, potentially, in an ideal world, or it will be straight to streaming services like Amazon, Hulu, that type of stuff,” he said.
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The now 19-year-old victim, who Brent Metz is accused of shooting in the face, took the stand in Metz’s trial Thursday. Metz, a former town of Mountain View councilman, was in the second day of his trial hearings.
The teenager, who has recovered well physically from the shooting back in September of 2024, told the story of what led up to the shooting, then said he blacked out for a period after he was shot.
The young man, Jack (CBS Colorado is not sharing the victim’s last name) said he and his younger friend went to ask for permission to take pictures at a scenic home near Conifer. At first, they parked outside the gated driveway and tried to figure out how to contact someone there. They then hopped a low fence and went up to the house.
Jack said he had difficulty locating a front door on the home, but the large property also had a garage and barn. They heard music coming from the barn, which is a common practice for people with animals to leave music playing to calm animals while away.
“We decided to knock on the barn door and then after a couple a minutes we decided to go back down the driveway,” Jack said in court.
The two friends went back over the fence and moved the car to a spot not blocking the driveway along the right-of-way at the road. Minutes later, Brent Metz drove up in his black GMC pickup truck, blocking their car in. Metz got out. Jack testified that he raised his hands at some point, a claim the defense questioned in cross examination. He related that he was getting out to try to greet the person getting out of the truck.
“I just (got) the door open I kind of turned to open my door and then turned to get out, and I saw someone get out, and then it was black,” Jack said.
The victim soon awoke bleeding and injured. “I looked down and I thought I was going to die. So I said that a couple times,” Jack testified.
“My mouth was on fire and it felt like my upper lip was gone, and I could taste little fragments,” Jack told the court. Jack’s friend and Metz tried to help him out of the car.
“The one who shot me was trying to help me get out of the car.”
Soon after, Metz left his side.
“He helped me sit down, and then he walked away,” Jack said.
“I started to realize I needed to stay as calm as I could, and when I got out of the car, I sat down, but I was very anxious,” Jack recalled.
Later, the victim had to have surgery in order to have the bullet fragments removed from his face. One of the fragments was more than an inch in size. He had trouble breathing through his right nostril due to the injuries to his nose. His eye was blackened for a long time, and a tooth was shattered.
Jack did not remember Metz saying much.
The testimony followed hours of testimony from a gun testing expert who looked at the weapon at the request of the prosecution. Derek Watkins is an engineer who said he has seen many claims of weapons not working properly.
“My experience is that, if you manufacture a firearm, at some point in time, it’s going, you’re going to run across the claim that it behaves in a defective manner,” Watkins said.
Metz’s defense is centered on a claim that the Sig Sauer P320 he had fired on its own without Metz pulling the trigger.
“There was nothing about the gun through the testing or through the examination of the components indicating it would function any other way than it was designed and left the factory,” Watkins said.
The defense had little luck getting Watkins to agree the gun could fire on its own, but did try to point out to the jury in questions that Watkins has previously testified in civil litigation about the gun’s integrity on behalf of the manufacturer.
The case continues Friday when it could wrap up. Metz faces four charges, the most serious of which is second-degree assault, but also two menacing charges and one of illegal discharge of a firearm.
On the cusp of the United States’ 250th anniversary and Colorado’s 150th, the Centennial State and its Catholic witnesses show modern Catholics a path forward.
Colorado celebrates its own 150th anniversary this year, as the rest of the country marks 250 years since the founding of the United States. The two milestones bear an interesting connection. In the very year of independence, one of the most important explorations of Colorado was undertaken by two Franciscan friars: Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante.
Faith Crosses the Rockies
While the importance of the Domínguez-Escalante Expedition should not be overestimated — it didn’t lead to any settlements and mostly focused on Utah — it nonetheless symbolizes the coming of the Christian faith into Colorado. Their expedition traces the path the Church followed into the Rockies, initially coming up from the south, to be met later from the East by miners. Leaving Santa Fe in the very month independence was declared, the two friars and their companions crossed into the modern-day boundaries of Colorado at the beginning of August 1776. They were not the first Spaniards to enter the territory of the Ute and Arapahoe tribes north of Nueva Mexico — Juan de Oñate was in 1598, and they also relied on the previous expeditions of Rivera — but the friars opened up more regular access to it as they laid the foundation for the Santa Fe Trail that would lead from New Mexico to Southern California.
The friars found in Colorado beautiful mountain vistas, remarking that it was cold even in the summer, as well as dangerous canyons and abandoned settlements in the Mesa Verde area. Their journal remarks: “We traveled a league and turned west through very pleasant narrow valleys with woods, very abundant with pastures, with different blooms and flowers.” (The Domínguez-Escalante Journal, translated by Fray Angelico Chavez, University of Utah Press, 15). Focusing on possible mission sites more than a continental passage, they insisted to all their companions that they should not “have any purpose other than the one we had, which was God’s glory and the good of souls” (40). Their desires would take 110 years to come to fruition with the founding of the first Catholic mission to Native Americans in Colorado, St. Ignatius, on the Southern Ute Reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, in 1886.
From Frontier Territory to Catholic Settlement
Catholic life was slow to arrive in Colorado compared to other parts of the nation, especially given the early settlement of New Mexico not far to the south. The Spanish were never able to create permanent settlements in Colorado, with one failed attempt near Pueblo in 1787. This is where 1776 regains its significance, even for the Church’s development in the region. It was only after the United States annexed the Southwest following the Mexican-American War in 1848 that Catholic settlement began. From the south, settlers arrived from Taos to establish San Luis on April 9, 1851. Not long after, in 1858, the Pikes Peak Goldrush brought a flood of miners from the East. From this mix of New Mexican settlers, Native missions and Catholic miners, the Catholic Church of Colorado finally emerged.
In 1860, Father Joseph Projectus Machebeuf arrived from Santa Fe and, in the eight years before he became Denver’s first bishop, the energetic priest established eighteen churches. I first encountered him through Willa Cather’s fictional portrayal of him as the character Vaillant in her novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop (and she relied heavily on Machebeuf’s letters for the book). Though primarily set in New Mexico, Cather brings the history of the Church in the Southwest to life through the vibrant, often tense meetings of Natives, Mexicans, newly arrived Americans and the French clergy seeking to unite them into a cohesive whole. It was Bishop Machebeuf who presided over the Church when Colorado became a state in 1876.
A Little-Known Bishop With An Important Lesson
His successor, Bishop Nicholas Matz, likewise came to Colorado as a missionary from France and experienced firsthand the difficulties miners faced in mountain towns, especially as a pastor in Georgetown. Seth Fabian brings this lesser-known figure to life in his new book, The Pilgrim Bishop: The Spiritual Biography of Nichols C. Matz (TAN Books, 2026).
Even after living in Colorado for nearly twelve years and working for the Archdiocese of Denver for six, I didn’t know much about this misunderstood and even controversial bishop, who often lacked support from his clergy. Even in a newly established state, still riding high from its mining operations, Bishop Matz interpreted the events around him with a lens formed by the violent revolutions of the Old World, fearing and overestimating the “potential reach of radical socialists or anarchists” (11).
Bishop Matz’s difficulty in addressing the social question in his diocese points to an ongoing difficulty for both Colorado and the entire nation in this celebratory year marking their founding. Dr. Fabian raises a fundamental question we must consider: “the question of how individual Catholics live their daily lives in a pluralist society” (386).
We have a strong legacy of Catholic settlement across the continent, of our ancestors seeking to consecrate this land to God. In fact, in just a few weeks, on June 11, the U.S. bishops will do so again when they consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Yet we face pressing challenges that call us to wade into difficult social questions, especially those related to technology and artificial intelligence, as Pope Leo XIV is expected to do in his first encyclical, to be released on May 25.
Despite the real challenges, if we advance, as Domínguez and Escalante did, seeking “God’s glory and the good of souls” above all else, we can continue our great Catholic legacy and open a path for future generations to follow.
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