1997_10 The Daily Collegian October 1997

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Monday, October 13,1997
Sports
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COMER
Volleyball wins fifth
straight match
Adricnne Sankey racked up
12 kills and Diana Nalbandian
added 11 kills to lead the Fresno
State women's volleyball team to
their fourth consecutive WAC
victory as they easily defeated
Rice. 15-4. 16-14. 15-5.
With the victory the Bulldogs
improved thier record to 4-2 in
the WAC and 14-6 overall, while
the Owls fell to 1-4 in WAC and
4-14 overall.
Fresno State held the hapless
Owls to a .016 hitting percent¬
age while they racked up an im¬
pressive .273 hitting percentage,
including destroying Rice in the
third game with a remarkable^
.500 hitting percentage.
Diann Aufedermaur poured in
38 assists for Fresno State and
Shanus Bennett added nine kil s
and 17 digs. Nalbandian also had
a game-high 18 digs while
Anamie Buckelew led the team
with four blocks. Rice was led
by Karolina Zelinka who led the
Owls with 10 kills.
—John Sanders
Men's soccer falls to
Tulsa
The Fresno State men's soc¬
cer team suffered its first confer¬
ence loss at the hands of the Tulsa
Golden Hurricane 2-1 on Friday.
Forwards Donivan Bradshaw
and Adam Morris had a goal a
piece to lead Tulsa past the Bui -
dogs. In addition.Gary Walters
was credited with two assists.
For the Bulldogs. Matt Wil -
iams scored at the 74th minute
of play.
The game turned verv,phys -
cal. In total, referee Robert Baca
called 40 fouls. In addition, there
were six yellow cards issued,
three to each team.
Fresno State's starting goa -
keeper Jeff Fluharty had four
goalie saves but was charged
with the loss anyway. For his
part, Tulsa's starting keeper Rob
Beres had three saves tor the vic¬
tory.
Bradshaw opened the score at
the 29th minute of action for
Tulsa. Morris doubled Tulsa's
lead with header at the 61st
minute of play.
Fresno State cut the lead at the
74th minute when Matt Williams
scored- on a header. Ryan
Boyajian and Jason Patterson
were credited with an assist.
—Staff report
Hawaii extends Aloha Stadium spell
By David Childers
■ The Daily Collegian
They say that weird things hap¬
pen to teams when they travel to
Aloha Stadium to take on the Ha¬
waii Rainbows. So far this season
just plain bad things have happened
to the Fresno State Bulldogs when
they have gone on the road.
The Bulldogs (2-4, 1-1) have
been completely dominated at
Oklahoma State, let a game slip
away from them at Oregon, and
somewhere in between was
Saturday's 28-16 loss to Hawaii (3-
2,1-2).
"We have no excuses," said
Head Coach Pat Hill. "We just got
beat. We got out coached and out
played."
A sluggish Fresno State offense
found no way to counter the Rain¬
bow defense which was stacking
the line of scrimmage in an attempt
to keep Michael Pittman and com¬
pany from dominating the game.
Hill simply called it a "great
scheme "
The Bulldogs only had 40 yards
passing in the first half and the rush¬
ing attack never got on track. Still,
thanks to a blocked punt by tight
end Scott Thompson that was re¬
turned for a touchdown by fresh¬
man Larry Deck, the Bulldogs re¬
ceived the second-half kickoff trail¬
ing just 14-10.
Starting at their own 26-yard
line, the Bulldogs drove 73 yards
down io the 1-yard line of the Rain¬
bows. They were actually less than
a yard away from regaining the
lead, until quarterback Bill Volek
was stuffed on a sneak attempt on
fourth down.
''We drove to the goal line, and
couldn't punch it in," said Hill.
Backed up against their own
goal line, the Rainbows promptly
drove 99 yards on 16 plays and
capped the drive with a Charles
Tharp touchdown run to take a
commanding 21-10 lead.
Tharp, making just his second
start of his career, had two touch¬
down runs and 143 yards rushing.
And quarterback Dusty Skinner,
who had produced exactly zero
points in his only two starts of his
career, played steadily and the
Rainbows controlled most of the
game.
"Our guys clearly played hard
tonight," said Hawaii coach Fred
Von Appen. "We've been trying to
strike a balance for the last month.
And we definitely put on our best
performance tonight."
Any hopes of a comeback were
crushed shortly after the Bulldogs
regained possession after falling
behind 21-10.
Michael Pittman was contained as Hawaii beat the 'Dogs 28-16.
Runners grab first place at Fresno Pacific meet
By Luis Hernandez
The Daily Collegian
The Fresno State men's cross
country team totaled 28 points to
win the Fresno Pacific Invitational
at Woodward Park Saturday after¬
noon. Senior Juan Pinales grabbed
second place to pace the Bulldogs
to victory. For the women's team,
Kelly Jacobson finished third over¬
all, leading them to a second place
finish with 59 points.
This was the first Fresno Slate
team victory this year.
"We're happy about it," Pinales
said. "Our plan was to stick to¬
gether for the first four miles and it
worked."
Pinales finished the five-mile
course with a time of 26:24, five
seconds faster than the last time he
ran the course.
The Bulldogs' next four runners
came in fifth, sixth, seventh and
Juan Pinales
came in at 26:45 for a fifth place
firiish, Greg Tademy stopped the
clock at 26:47; Tim Padilla came
in at 26:51 and Chris Coleman at
27:04.
Granado, Tademy and Coleman
improved their personal record at
the Woodward Park course.
"Every lime you PR is always
satisfying," Pinales said, referring
to improving his previous personal
best time.
For her part, Jacobson finished
Kelly Jacobson
ters course.
"In the last
mile I felt
OK," she
said. "I just
pick up [the
pacel"
Jacobson added that Fresno
State cross country coach Red Estes
wanted the team to stay together for
the race.
"Everybody stepped up and kept
in contact," she said.
Point Loma Traneca Hicks won
the women's race with a 18:34 lime.
Coming in second for the Bull¬
dogs; Salome Murray ran the course
in 19:13.
Sarah Dawson and Christina
Sanchez came in third and fourth
for the Bulldogs. Dawson finished
with a 19:42 time and Sanchez
stopped the clock at 19:49.
Rounding off the top five for the
Bulldogs, Keren Padilla ran a 20:11
good enough for 20th place over¬
all.
In cross country the finishing
order is added to determine the low¬
est score. Westmont College got 28
points to earn first place. Fresno
State got 59.
Woodward Park will be the site
for the WAC Championship meet
on Nov. I.
"It gives us an advantage."
Jacobson said, referring to running
the course before the championship
meet. "Experience always helps."
"I think it gives a lot of confi¬
dence that we can run together as a
team," Pinales said.
'Dogs spear down Spartans in WAC opener
The Fresno State
women's soccer team
scored twice late in the sec¬
ond half to get past the San
Jose Spartans, 3-1, Friday
night to open the Western
Athletic Conference play at
Bulldog Stadium Friday
night.
With the victory, the
Bulldogs improved to 8-5
overall.
Erin Barry opened the
score for the Bulldogs at the
13th minute of play. Cheryl
Gano was credited with the
assist.
San Jose State tied up the
score at the 61st minute of
play when Colby Morgan's
shot was deflected off a
Fresno State defender and
went into the net.
The Bulldogs came back
to score quickly and put the
game away. Christina Bell
gave Fresno State a 2-1 lead
with an unassisted goal at
the 67th minute of play.
Forward Jill Pearson
scored at the 75th minute of
play to ice the game for the
Bulldogs.
Fresno State goalkeeper
Jennifer Johnstone got four
saves for the victory.
San Jose State goal¬
keeper Adriana Brown got
three saves.
Up next, the Bulldogs
will take on the Cal-State
Northridge today.
The Bulldogs continue
their conference schedule
when they take on the BYU
Cougars at Provo. Utah, on
Thursday. Oct. 16.
Nicole Sideburn kicks the ball for the 'Dogs.
Ryan Weber - The Daily Collegian