1988_11 The Daily Collegian November 1988

              The Dally Collegian
Monday; November 14.1968
Page 7
FSU beats UCSB, loses to Mustangs
BY JENNIFER KONZE
Sports Writer
Fresno State's women's volleyball team
ended a four-game losing streak and setter
Traci Sliester coasted to a career record
defensive save (dig) mark in Saturday's 3-
2 victory over UC Santa Barbara after
losing a 1-3 decision lo Cal Poly-SLO.
Sliester takes tbe Na 1 spot from
former Bulldog Denise Fowler (911,1983-
86) and continues to**Wd to her total of
924. -
"Records and stuff arc nice. They're nice
when you leave," Sliester said. "But, the
most important thing is to win as a team.
That's what is so awesome about tonight.
We won."
The victory over UCSB was ihe
epitome of teamwork.
Four of six Bulldog hitters went into
double-digit kills as did six of eight
diggers.
Led by middle blocker Lynette Wilke
with 18 kills, other Bulldog hitlers
recorded double-digit attack figures
including outside hitter Jenni McArtor
(17) and middle blocker Lesli Lopes (14).
Almost back up to 100 percent is
outside hitter Melanie Estes who had
injured he ankle four weeks ago during a
home match against Cal Poly-SLO.
Estes recorded 12 kills, three service
aces and was second in digs with 19.
"For a while I was gelling real
frustrated with myself the first couple of
matches I was back," said Estes.
"Watching them [the team] and how well
they were playing without me made want
to get back in faster. So. I kept my
confidence up and did my best. My ankle
was willing, finally.'' -.
She said her ankle is still a little weak
and she is not at full jump.
"As long as I use my head Ihe jump's
not going to affect me too bad," she said.
Teamwork prevailed once again with
five of eight Bulldogs recording double-
digit digs.
McArtor led the dig effort with 21
followed by Estes (19) and Sliester (IS).
Outside hitters Melissa Simms-Ferrari
and Michele Simms rounded out the team
effort with 13 and 11 digs, respectively.
.Blocking honors were owned by Lopes
who recorded five solo blocks for a
personal best
Currently, the lop three Bulldog solo
and assisted blockers are Wilke (6-1).
Lopes (6-0) and Sliester (5-8).
On the other side of Ihe net the UCSB
Gauchos lacked teamwork and failed to
capitalize on Fresno Slate's mistakes.
"I think that we had our chances to
win. We just didn't lake advantage ol
them," said Kathy Gregory, UCSB
women's coach
Cal Poly-SLO def. FSU 3-1
The Bulldogs were defeated by the Cal
Poly-SLO Mustangs and their own
icnaiiveness in Friday's match
"Our' team just starts getting lenative,"
said Overstreet. "When it gets down to it
instead of firing right at ihem every single
time we give them things we shouldn't
give them."
Fresno Slate lacked an effective attack
and Cal Poly kept digging up the "Dogs'
attack attempts.
Down 1-13. the Bulldogs started to
creep up the point scale but only got as
far as four before being downed 4-15.
"You've go lo have really outstanding
performances from your left side hitlers,
really outstanding performances to ever
win." said Overstreet. "Even if your
middle blockers are doing a good job
your outside hitters have got to do it too.
"It seems like when we have good
performaces in ihe middle our outside is
bad, and good outside performances our
middle is bad." she said
Fresno Slate's Simms-Ferrari was in
excellent form with 12 kills, two attack
errors out of 32 total attacks for a hitting
percentage of J13.
Fresno State is now 14-15 overall Ihis
season and 4-12 in the Big West
DOGS
SOCCER
Continued from page 6
the  NCAA  semifinals  before losing
to the University of Akron 1-0.
Fresno Stale has made a habit of
reaching the playoffs: the Bulldogs are
one of five teams to have advanced to
postseason play in each of the last five
years. Evansville is one of the others,
along wiih UCLA, SMU and Virginia.
The game looked like it would be a
shootout early as both teams' goals in
regulation lime were scored in ihe first
nine minutes. The Rebels had ihe lead
first as Kenny Ryerson scored from eight
yards away, deflecting a shot by Keith
pest Dougherty.
But ihe Bulldogs got the goal back 21
seconds later as Paul McCully scored on a
12-yard shot directly in front of the goal
after taking a pass from Tim Martin.
From there, it appeared that UNLV
gained the upper hand, bottling the
Bulldogs back in their end with fierce
offensive pressure. Fresno Stale was able
lo breal: iiic pressure several times for
good opportunities, but just couldn't
seem to make the final pass or shot for a
goal.
Martin attributed this lack of success to
playoff jitters.
"At limes we looked OK but we were
impatient," Martin said. "We have a lot
of young players in their first playoff
game. Well play better next week.
"We know what Vegas can do and we
didn't worry about them ihis week, we
worried about ourselves. And we got a
good result, a sweet result," Martin said.
Even if ihe offense sputtered at times,
ihe defense was as solid as a coach could
ask for. The Rebels manufactured
numerous chances for themselves, but the
Bulldogs were impenetrable when ihe ball
went into their goalie's box. S
"The defense played very well, despite-
ihe fact lhai they got [defender Eric]
Wilson out in-the first period," Elgorriaga
said. "He's our speedster in the backficld
dial can keep up with UNLVs forward
line."
Wilson went down with twisted knee
after a collision and sat out the res: of the
game.
Contirfued from page 6
range wiih time running out in the first
half when the Rebels made a major
mistake. 0
Telford was forced oul of ihe pocket and
yramMed. for Ihe sideline with two
seconds remaining. He made it out of
bounds at the Rebel 42 to stop the clock,
bui was hit late by UNLVs Gerald
Robinson.
A flag was thrown and the ball was
moved to the 27-yard line. This was
suddenly optimum field goal range for
FSU kicker Steve Loop, who booted it
through fr.vn 44 yards to give the "Dogs a
17-7 halftime lead
It looked as if the 'Dogs were set to
pour it on in ihe second half. They moved
efficiently down the field deep into Vegas
territory, but Telford then ihrew a bad
pass ihat was intercepted by Rebel line¬
backer Jody Reinoehl.
Vegas look advantage of this gift and
marched down the field io cut the margin
to 17-14 on Murphy's second scoring run,
this one from three yards. This had to
cause FSU faithful to breathe a bit harder.
However, the 'Dogs dug down harrier as
ihcy have most of the season and
responded with a drive that restored a
comfortable cushion. They returned to the
groinjd- and marched 74 yards in nine
plays, capped by a 12-yard dash by reserve
fullback Adrian Cooks.
The score made it 24-14 with 5:07 left
in ihe third quarter, ihe way il would stay
through ihe end of the quarter.
FSU'S defense continued to keep the
Rebels at bay while ihe offense killed ihe
clock by chewing up yardage on the
ground.
The evening's scoring was capped with
another ground-oriented drive when Myron
Jones went over the lop again for another
one-yard score. That ended a 78 yard drive
and made it 31-14 with 10:18 remaining
in the game.
Vegas put together another drive on its
next possession, but it ended when the
Rebels' Charles Price was intercepted by
'De;* safely Tony Hams and the leag*ic
title'was suddenly in FSU's grasp.
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