1997_10 The Daily Collegian October 1997

              THE DAILY
Q COLLEGIAN
O      Tuesday, October 21,1997
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J 7. Air Force
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Bulldogs win first diving invitational
By Luis Hernandez
The Daily Collegian
The Fresno State diving team
hosted its first ever diving meet on
Saturday afternoon. And if this is a
sign of things to come, the diving
team seems to be set for a long
while.
"It was great," said Fresno State
diving coach Josh Curtiss. "We
dominated all events. They all did
a super job."
The Fresno State diving team
finished first, with 109 points, in a
three team invitational at the Clovis
West Swim Complex at Clovis
West high school. Cal-State
Bakersfilcd finished second with 42
points and San Jose State ended in
third place with 29 points.
One Bulldog standout at the
meet was Erica Fleming.
She 'grabbed first place in the
one meter and platform competi¬
tion.
In addition to her first place fin¬
ishes, Fleming almost got a score
high enough to qualify for the zone
meet. She was 30 points away frtim
qualifying in the one meter spring¬
board and six points in platform.
"She was really close." Curtiss
said.
Another impressive perfor¬
mance was turned in by Krissic
Cathey. She finished third in both
the one meter and three meters
springboards and second in the plat¬
form.
"She was doing a new dive for
the first time in competition."
Curtiss said. "I was impressed."
The Bulldogs they will compete
next against Pepperdine on Nov. 1.
"They have decent competition
down there,"-Curtiss said. "We're
looking forward to compete against
them. It is going to be a pretty chal¬
lenging meet."
Justin Conder - Tfte Daily Collegian
The air up there. Erica Fleming takes one of her dives Saturday
at the Clovis West Swim Complex.
'Dogs grab second in season's first swim meet
By Luis Hernandez
The Daily Collegian
The objectives the Fresno State
swimming team had for the-
season's first meet at Stockton were
to look at the incoming freshman
class, and to have its upper
classmen swimmers swim smart.
The outcome: mission accom¬
plished. 4,
"I was impressed by the fresh¬
man class." Fresno'State swimming
coach Daniella Irle said. "And I am
not easily impressed."
For their part, the experienced
swimmers contributed the bulk of
the points received by the Bulldogs.
"They stepped up and contrib¬
uted right away," Irle said of her se¬
niors and juniors.
The Fresno State Bulldogs
grabbed second place in a three
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200   meters
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Gravatt
grabbed first
on  the  200
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meter breast
race and sec¬
ond  on   the
got 85 for third place.
Senior Deanna Voudouris might
have put it best. "I felt we accom¬
plished what we needed to accom¬
plish," she said.
On the experienced swimmers
side, Nicole Brushcy. Holly Gravatt
and Voudouris had a good meet.
Brushcy finished first in the
1,650 meters free style, second in
100 breast race
Voudouris scored in five differ¬
ent events.
"We're going to need that kind
of production from our upper
classman all year," Irle said.
On the freshman side. Natalie
Shapiro was "Impressive, said Irle.
The freshman finished third in two
different events.
"That's big time production."
Irle said.
Irle said that she was also happy
with the kind of atmosphere the
team was able lo create.
"I wasn't sure about the atmo¬
sphere the team was going to cre¬
ate since they arc many freshmen
coming in." Irle said. "But wc did
great."
Irle decided to go to Stockton
and take part in the meet after they
hadn't been there in the past two
years. Irle said that the weather,
which is usually rainy and cold,
made il difficult to do well in the
meet.
But this year she decided Kfg**	
"The wealher was great." she said.
"It was a nice, way to open the sea¬
son." Irle said.
Nebraska should have easy opponents in schedule
By Bill Campbell
The Dallas Morning News
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News
.Services
While most of the Big 12 sea- *
son to this point has been a show¬
case of the league's shortcomings,
there is at least one bright ray of
sunshine.
Nebraska's Cornhuskers re¬
turned to their throne atop both
rnajor college football polls Sunday,
unseating Penn State after the
Nittany Lions' 17-16 decision over
Minnesota left voters in the
coaches' and media polls unim¬
pressed.
It's Nebraska's first No. I rank¬
ing since losing to Arizona State in
ihe .... - 1 ap-ne of lr
ing successive national champion¬
ships.
And it comes at a rime the
Cornhuskers arc starting to play like
the teams that dominated the rest
of the country in 1994 and '95.
"It!s nice to be No. I, but it's
usually a mixed blessing, because
ntost of the people up there are a
target," Cornhusker coach Tom
Osborne said. "We've been there
before. There's still so much foot¬
ball to be played."
The Cornhuskers are 6-0 after
Saturday's 29-0 victory over Texas
Tech, and the shutout indicates that
a defense once considered to be the
weak link of this team is improv¬
ing. Nebraska his eight first-year
starters on defense..
"We said last spring with all the
new people wc had on defense that
we'd start out slow," senior end
Grant 'Vjstrom said. "But once
those ung guys started getting
experience, wc knew that we would
pick it up."
jaturday, Texas Tech ran
only seven plays in Nebraska terri¬
tory and managed only 127 yards
on offense.
"If you have some weaknesses,
teams are going to try to exploit
them," Wistrom said. "Right now.
we're not showing very many
weaknesses."
The rest of the Nebraska sched¬
ule doesn't contain many potential
problems, either. There is not a
single Top 25 opponent left, and a
repeat of last season's loss in the
Big 12 championship game would
require a monumental upset.
And barring such unlikely cir¬
cumstances, Cornhuskers fans can
expect to ring in the New Year in
Miami at the Orange Bowl, where
the top two Bowl Alliance teams
will meet. Florida State, North
Carolina or Florida are likely op¬
ponents.
The Cornhuskers don't have to
lose a game, though, to lose in the
polls, as Penn State seems to prove
on a semi-annual basis. And being
No. 1 heading into bowl season is
Please see EASY page 7.
Penn State gets bumped off top spot
By Ray Parrillo
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News
Services
The worst fears of Penn State
fullback Aaron Harris, not to men-
»««i his coaches and teammates,
were realized Sunday.
Harris, a sophomore from
Downingtown High who was in¬
jured in Saturday's victory over
Minnesota, will miss the remain¬
der of the season with a torn ante¬
rior cruciate ligament and dam¬
age^ cartilage in his right knee.
A date for surgery had not been
set. Harris will require at least nine
months of rehabilitation before he
can return
.larris' *aluetfo the offense
can't be overestimated. As deep as
the Nittany Lions are at most po¬
sitions, that's not the case at full¬
back.
Harris is a tailback disguised as
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