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mouth frontline consisting of 6-foot-6
Simone Srubek, 6-foot-5 Laurie Hein¬
richs and 5-foot-11 Yvette Roberts, the
team's leading scorer and rebounder
last season.
Much of FSUs hopes rest on the
shoulders of a relatively inexperienced
backcourt. Starting point guard Mary
Gainey will be making her major
college debut. Her running mate, senior
Leesa Agent saw action in 25 games
last season, but had just one starting
assignment.
Said Spencer: "Our main concerns
going into the first game of the season
are the same things we were concerned
about when we first started practice,
which happen to be whethetor not we
are quick enough to get the ball down
the floor the way we should and how
we will be able to operate with our two
tall post people — Laurie Heinrichs and
Simeone Srubek."
Tn Friday's other contest, Montana
State (16-12 last season) takes on host
Santa Clara (14-11). The Bobcats will
likely be paced by senior forward
Lynne Andrew (15.4 points per game),
junior guard Liz Holz (10.7 points per
game) and freshman forward Sandy
Neiss (17.p points and 8.0 reboundaoer
game at North Dakota's Surrey High
School).
The Broncos will put forth an
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Dorinda Lindstrom (17:7 points per
game), Cindy Meckenstock (12.1 points
per game) and Debbie Dyson (14.1
points, 4.8 assists per game).
Lindstrom, a 6-foot-l center, scored
39 points versus Fresno State in last
year's season opener. The Bulldogs
won that contest 90-69.
The winners of Friday matches meet
Jn the tourney championship at 8:00
p.m. Saturday while the losers vie for
the consolation title at 6:00 p.m.
Fresno State's first home game will
take place next Tuesday night in the
North Gum versus Stanford. The
Cardinal is ranked 20th in the nation by
Street and Smith.
SUN MET
Continued from page 6
start Mike Mitchell and Jervis Cole at
forward, Rene Ebeltjes at center, Leo
Walker at point guard and Kevin Steven¬
son at off-guard.
The Bulldogs, though, will be without
guard Keith Billingslea, who quit the
team Tuesday for personal reasons.
Billingslea was a member of the All-
PCAA Freshman Team last year.
In last season's Sun Met, the Bulldogs
began with a 62-56 double-overtime win
over Cornell, but were whipped 72-57
McNeese State in the finals.
FSUs last Sun Met title came at the
beginning of the 1985-86 season as the
Dogs defeated Eastern Washington and
Louisiana Tech.
Why write sports?
ON THE PROWL
BY JIM PROULX
People have asked me why I report
sports. When they do, I either tell them
that it's none of their damned business
r-. or that there are three distinct
reasons for working here.
One reason should be obvious: I'm a
starving college student and I need the
money. Desperately. As a matter of
fact, Tm not above taking cash from
adoring fans.
The second reason iB that I was
raised in an extremely fanatical sports
family. My brothers and I dictall those
great kid things: we played Little
League, Pop Warner, Police Athletic
League basketball, street touch football
to be reincarnated more as than a big-
league pitcher.  •
My third reason for writing sports is
that it's a way for me to court an
unrequited love. For all my love of
sports, actually playing them somehow
escapee me.
I was always included in the package
deal at the end: "I'll take him if you'll
take Jim." For a long time it really hurt
m«f to think that I was not "a little
sparkplug", or "a kid who can smell out
or "a world-class outside
Many times I was farced to
at yet another game had its
hrjghtfield.
But then~T^\started paying more
attention to the sports pages. I used to
read the stats page thoroughly, then
flip over-to the funnies. All of a sudden,
I discovered that a great tradition in
American sports was accessible to me.
If I couldn't be srtHery little sparkplug, I
could decide who was.
My heroes became guys like Red
Smith,  Chick Hearn (even though I
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Sports Illustrated more often than Mad/ And I found my way in. Now I can
magazine. *«■**"
■v My parents played a role in it too. My
dad was a Little League manager for
about 10 years; my mom was always
the team mother type.
And my dad loved to take us to
games. I've seen hockey, football,
boxing, basketball, soccer, and more
Oakland As baseball than I can
remember. I remember going to early
Mass every Sunday so we could get
home in time to see the Raiders kick off.
I love the feel of being at a sports
event, the , people in their stupid
costumes carrying annoying signs; the
vendors screaming "Cold Beer Hee-
yah!"; irate fans yelHng "Down in front,
ya #$%&!". And there's nothing I'd like
bring the thrill of the moment, the feel
of the game, even the crack of the bat to
someone who wasn't even there.
One thing that I'd really like to do is
become a baseball play-by-play man.
Last year, I'd always drag my
roommate to FSU games with me so I
could keep a running commentary go¬
ing and not look like I was talking to
myself.
I even have an attainable sports
fantasy: I dream of being at the seventh
game of the World Series, and running
down to the clubhouse to interview the
MVP. Everybody is going crazy around
us as I hold the mike to him to get his
comments. And then somebody sprays
us both with champagne.
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