1989_02 The Daily Collegian February 1989

              Sports
California State University, Fresno
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1983
A year ago golf Dumarnems with
stop signs or sign posts representing
ihe holes and one-oa-one ovcr-ihc-line
baseball banks upon the streets of
Stillwater, Oklahoma, kept Dan
Niebuhr and Wade Zimmerman active
when they were not freestyling for the
Oklahoma State wrestling team.
Things are a utile different now. The
city they live in, the street signs they
use for their concrete golf tournaments,
and, most notably, the colors of their
uniforms.
Although now Niebuhr and
Zimmerman are Fresno Stale Bulldogs,
since their transfer from Cowboy
country, the pair's cornpetiveness for
anything and everything remains as
enthusiastic as their Siillwater days.
Maybe more.
Together, the back-to-back wrestling
combination at 158 and 167 pounds,
respectively, have racked up 41 wins.
Niebuhr, a senior out of Madison,
Wisconsin, sports a 22-4-2 slate, while
Zimmerman has racked up a 19-5-3
mark.
Zimmerman will take a nine-match
winning streak into tonight's dual
match with Pac-10 Conference rival
CS BakersfiekJ, scheduled for 7:30
pjn. in the FSU North Gym. '
The sirnmerin' Zimmerman kept his
winning streak alive Tuesday night in
the Bulldogs' 25-14 triumph over
Stanford in Palo Alto.
Zimmerman defeated Stanford's Marx
Topham with a 21-6, technical fall
victory. He is 13-2-3 as a dual wrestler
with four whniryi falls. One of his
two dual meet defeats came from No. 2
ranked Dan St. John of Arizona Stale,
a 7-3 setback Nov. 25. The other dual
toss was a 9-6 decision to Baron
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has not lost a dual match. He has
scored 63 team points for the Dogs in
IS dual matches for a 3.5 team points
per match average.
He was the Mountain
Intercollegiate Wrestling Association
Tournament champion back on Jan.
29.
Although he is doing pretty good
statistically, Zimmerman, who will
turn 22 in April, says he does not
look at all his stats with the exception
of one "stat".
"The only star I think about is
when an opponent has taken me to
my back," Zimmerman ssid "1 think
getting turned is what I mainly focus
on."
Getting turned on bis back is a rare
happening for Zimmerman. In 26
matches for Fresno Slate das season.
he  has  yet  to  be  pinned.  He has
(a 15-point lead ends the match).
"Wade is a kind of pyscho out on
the mat," describes eighth year Bulldog
boss Dennis DeLiddo. FSLTs
winningest wrestling coach. "If he
takes contrr! of the match he is very
hard to beat,"
A high school All-American,
Zimmerman has a lot to brag about.
However, his mom's description of her
son paints a picture of a Low-keyed,
non-boasting son of fellow.
"He's very quiet about what he
does," said Sharon Zimmerman.
"Around someone he doesn't know he
can go hours without talking to you.
"Wade is a very intense character. He
wants lo win. After a roach which he
has lost, he relives each period and
every point over and over again. He is
After Tartan "P two second paace
ended his prep days at Chaparral High
with a stab: title his senior year. His high
school record of 110-10-2 opened the eyes
of OUahorna State.
The Oklahoma State people asked me
if I thought Wade could make it as an
NCAA Division I wresder," recalled
Zimmerman's high school coach, Larry
Bamson. "I felt Wade still had a lot to
learn but that one day he could make it as
an NCAA AU-American.
"He's always been the aggressor," added
Bamson. "Wade was always trying to
dominate his opponent. He never tried to
shy away. He was really motivated to be
the best"
In a reserve role for Oklahoma State his
freshman year, Zimmerman recorded a 4-3
mark. He displayed his days of only with
a respectable 17-8 slate hit sophomore
Wrestling at home,
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Tonight one Bulldog learn winds
down its scheduk while the other
(re)stans as the wrestling lean faces
rival CS Bakersficid for the grappien
last homesund and the baseball team
travels lo Stanford-
Fresno State's grappiers took to
improve their homestand mark of 5-6
with a win lonighL
Tonight 7:30 p.m. slated meeting
is the second to the last Pac-10
Conference match before the mat
Dogs travel to Temps, Arizona, for
the Pac-10 Conference TournamenL
The Bulldogs defeated the Stanford
Cardinal squad last week in Palo Alto
which gave wrestling coach Dennis
DeLiddo his 109th victory and the
winningest wrestling coach berth.
(natioaalry) Rick Baiky. The
150-rxwnder has a 29-3 lecord for this
The Bulldogs are wavering between
Phil McLean and John Sordi as a
possible match up against Bailey.
McLean, a junior, has a 17-11-1
record while the freshman Sordi b
struggling this season having not won
a match yet, 0-5.
FSU heavyweight Dan Telen,
sophomore, ended an eight-match
losing skid with a 5-4 decision over
Stanford's Trent Smith.
Baseball
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25 team irxktding four of the top
five ranked teams: No. 1 Oklahoma
Stale, No, 2 Arizona Stale, No. 3
Oklahoma, and No. 5 Arizona.
The Bulldogs faring up the bottom
of the top 20 with a 20th ranking.
Women's hoops
Among the Big West players, the
Fresno State women's basketball team
has several individuals who are listed
bs individual leaders among several
statistical items.	
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per fiats. Saa Dtegot Crystal  Lee
rieadsuas category with 5.6.
Center Simone Srubeck is also
featured ja> a second spot with a 3.7
Nock average. Cal  State Fulknon's
Geoa Miller tops the lis with 3.9.
In 3-pointen, Geri Gainey is third
averaging 397 percent from the trey
mark. FuJlenon's Jill Matyrch heads the
field with 442.
Men's hoops
For the men. Bulldogs noted in the
Big West individual leaders include
Jervis Cole, Andre Sims and Derrick
Barden.
Cole is third in scoring with an 1S.5
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