1987_11 The Daily Collegian November 1987

              Collegian Sports
California Stale University, Fresno
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Wednesday, November 11,1987
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Wrestlers kick off '87-88 campaign
Early injuries
limit squad's
effectiveness
The Fresno State wrestlers, currently
suffering from injuries, will unofficially
open competition tonight with the Red-
Blue intrasquad match at 7:30 in the
North Gym.
FSU, which had a 12-9 dual record last
season and finished fourth in the Pac-10,
will return to action this year with five
starters sitting out with injuries and one
starteT coming back from an injury.
The good news for the 'Dogs is that
senior Allen Richburg is returning from
a shoulder separation that forced him to
redshirt all of last season.
Richburg, who wrestles in the 158-
pound class, has a 90-50-5 record in four
seasons as a Bulldog. He needs 25 wins
this year to break the FSU career record
of 114 victories set by Mike Gallego in
1968.
"If his shoulder holds up, hell be just
fine," said FSU Coach Dennis DeLiddo
of Richburg. "In fact, he thinks the
shoulder which was operated on is now
better than his good shoulder."
The Bulldogs could use some healthy
people coming back Tike Richburg. The
five wrestlers who have been lost at least
temporarily to injuries are all returning
starters.
They are Vince Walker in the 167-
pound class, Darren Stevens at 118
pounds, Durbin Lloren at 150, Alonzo
Harrison at 142 and Fred Hunziker at
134 — all of whom will miss tonight's
intrasquad match. *
Coach DeLiddo is understandably con¬
cerned over the situation. "We still don't
know exactly who our squad will be
when we open the season," he said.
The 'Dogs will officially open their
regular season this Friday when they
travel to San Luis Obispo to take on Cal
Poly-SLO.
One way for DeLiddo and the team to
find out who will be in the lineup is
tonight's match where the wrestlers in
their respective weights will .square off.
This could decide the starters for Friday
night in San Luis Obispo.
There   might   be   some   challenge
Bulldog wrestler Alonzo Harrison qualified for the NCAA Championships In the 134-pound class last season. This year,
though, Harrison will compete at 142 pounds.
matches out there," said DeLiddo about
determining his top wrestlers. "We have
already been having them before prac¬
tice."
Besides Richburg, there will be three
previous lettermen in action tonight.
They will be led by Hunziker and liar-
compiled a 12-9 record and also qual¬
ified for the.NCAA Championships.
Hunziker should be in the lineup for
Friday's opener. Harrison, though, is
questionable.
With the return of Vince Walker from
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places ' with a very formidable squad.  If Vmce
Hunziker, a sophomore, is dropping   j? Th??Jthy' hel1 U a lot bettcr'" 8aid
down to 134 pounds after recording an   L)eLlddo-
11-9-1 mark last season at 142 pounds. Walker was 16-13 last season and
Last season Hunziker was the first wor» two matches in the NCAA Cham-
Bulldog freshman ever to qualify for the   pionships.
NCAA Championships. Both Walker and Lloren may bp able
Harrison,  on  the  other hand,  has   to return by FSUs first home match on
bulked up to 142 pounds for this season.   November 24, a double-dual against UC
As an 134-pounder last year, the senior   Oavis and San Francisco State. Stevens,
though,  probably  won't  be  ready  to
return until January.
DeLiddo believes that if the 'Dogs can
ON THE
PROWL
BY JIM PROULX
For those of you who will be at¬
tending your first.soccer game when
you go to watch Fresno State in the
NCAA tournament this weekend, I
offer you this American Guide to the
Game of Soccer.
Soccer is played on a football field
with sort of a basketball court chalked
on it. Eleven players on each side run
around in shorts and polo shirts kicking
at a volleyball.
And nobody, but nobody, is allowed
to use his hands. Except the goalie. You
can tell who the goalie is easily, because
while the rest of his team wears — say
blue stripes — he will be fashionably
clad in bright yellow.
The point of soccer is to knock the
volleyball intq a big net at one end of
the field more times than the other
guys. This is called scoring a goal.
You can tell when a team's scored a
goal because they all grab one guy and
take him to the ground in what I
assume is a gesture of affection.
Scoring goals isn't all that easy,
though, because the goalie stands in
front of the net and uses himself
(including his hands) to block the ball
from rolling in.
The goalie must be the laziest guy on
the team because he just stands
around most of the time while the
other players run back and forth in the
middle of the field kicking the ball
around.
Occasionally, somebody knocks it to
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survive the injuries up to January, they
will be in a position to be challengers.
"Right now, we've got to go with what
we've got and hope to be healthy by
December or January," he said, "If we
can stay healthy, well be in good shape.
I just hope we can have enough people
to field a decent squad against San Luis
Obispo."
The 'Dogs' most prominent new¬
comer this year has to be 255-pqund
heavyweight Paul Mirmingos, a trans¬
fer ' from Palomar Junior College.
Mirmingos was the California JC state
runner-up as a heavyweight last season.
He is definitely a very welcome ad¬
dition to a 'Dogs squad that suffered in
the heavyweight division last season, &
giving up a pin, a technical fall or a
forfeit in nine of their 21 matches last
year.
Golfers finish 11th in SF
By Jon Matsune
Sports Editor
Fresno State's No. 7 golf team finished
11th out ofl6 teams in the University of
San Francisco Invitational at the Olym¬
pic Club Tuesday.
The Buildups, who were in 10th place
with a 626 after Monday's second
round, recorded a third-round score of
314 and ended up with a tourney total of
913. 4
Leading FSJJ was freshman Jimmy
Artiach, whb was one of three 'Dogs
making their collegiate debuts.
Artiach, formerly of the Spanish
National Team, fired a final round 77
(after a 77 and 76 in the first two
rounds), compiled a 230 for the tourna¬
ment, and finished 13th in the individual
standings.
Sophomore Ron Ewing (80-79-77-
236) placed second on the Bulldog score-
card And was followed by freshmen
Geoffrey Griffin (83-75-79-237), Mark
Waller (82-77-81-240) and Todd Spain
(80-79-83-242)
Of this group, only Ewing and Griffin
entered the competition with collegiate
experience.
FSU Coach Mike Watney was dis¬
appointed with the team's performance
as whole, but was pleased with the play
of Artiach. ^_^^
"It was a poor tournament for us,"Jj^
said, 'But there was a bright spot. Jimmy
Artiach firmly established himself as a
member of the team. It was his* first
tournament, and he was the No. 1 player
on the team by a wide margin.
"If anything good can come out of a
bad tournament, it's the fact that we
fouund we have a good player to join
our lineup."
No. 13 UCLA ran away with the tour¬
nament title by tallying a score of 882.
The Bruins' closest competition came
from Weber State, which finished 21
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