1996_05 Insight May 1996

              MAY 8,1996
Sports
Steee-rike Three!
Little league
umps weather •
cheers and jeers
■ Fans in the stands,
players make umps
earn their keep
by Kelly Hansen
Staff Writer
lish control ofthe game."
A third strike resulted in a Bravo
plaver slamming his bat into the dii
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ed a kid ii
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Dressed in ihe standard, pale blue
laik shorts, lhc umpire relieved the miniature broom from his
ack pocket and Ivnl down lo dust
As he prepped the diamond lor a
)odgeis-Braves showdown, umpire
edh
watch
Thc Dodgem flooded the field as
Boyle planted himself behind home
plate lor the Iirsi pitch. To Boyle's
right, the lead-off hitter stood barclj
tall, swinging his bat through
the
nApnl
S. Boy
*t between 11-and 12-year-olds,
lie sind ihere is nothing more Irus-
aling than coaches acting like thev
a be all
On Ihe field to ihe east ol ihe Dodgers' game. Brian Rackley. 23. was
calling a game between the Pirate-
and ihe Phillies.
Rackley has 10 years experience
milking lhc close calls lhal send parents and coaches into a frenzy.
"It's very interesting.'' Rackley
said. "There are always one or iwi
parents lhat treat this as a little more
than it is and think their kids are pla) -
ing in ihe World Series "
Everyone had something to say
about the umpires al these games
Umps' power
"The good thing about this ump is
that he never calls anything on my
son." said Terry Aluisi of Ircsno.
"You know, they're just learning
Thev 're doing the best thai Ihey can."
However. Aluisi doesn't like all the
power umpires have "nowaday s."
"It used to be good old American
tradition to come to the games and
razz the umpire." Aluisi said. "Now
thev just throw you out of the game
and won't start ihe game back up iin-
Rackley said ejecting people from
games should not be a common occurrence but some beginning umpires
get power happy and toss out anyone
Nine-year veteran Eddie Boyle officiates a Clovis West Babe Ruth baseball game at Liberty Elementary in Clovis.
iov wiih glasses who laced a lull speclful to the kids."
:ount. The bases were loaded. The He also recognized the fact that
uessure was on the Pirate player. parents can gel a little oui of control,
He hil ii line drive toward left field and he commended the umpires han-
hai passed ihe third baseman and dling of the situations.
Irove in three runs lor ihe Pirates. "When parenis say ihings. which
Rackley ran toward third base to get ihev do. ihev [the umpires] profes-
•loser to'lhc play and called the boy sionall) ignore them. Thev don'l re-
•afe al llnrd. act when Ihev very well could have."
A cheer erupted from lhc Pirate O'Neill said'
ans. Jason Sadoian's mother. Anna,
watched her son's game from a lawn
chair positioned strategically behind
"I like it. I can
the game and g<
done at the same time." Jendian salt
She said that, for the most part, un
pirmg the games keeps B
is bee.
icih
and walch     kids leant by example.
lomework "The kids'arc pretty good," Rackley
said    Bul if thc parents or coaches get
nled up. sometimes the kids do too "
Boyle said he likes this level because of its moderation
"As vou get higher up. the coaches
..nd t.itis eel more aggressive.*' Bovle
Parents involved
The two umpires agreed lhal the
greatest joy is watching the kids and
helping them grow, passing on what
was taught to them when thev were
. die
ho
celiMi
- Bin
IVhen v
j first s
,ou don't
leaned against their parents' shoulders
and slepi the game awav
Judge Lawrence O'Neill sat m the     said  "Although, lhc par.
lop row ofthe bleachers, watching his     know each other that well
Sadoian said lhat the umpires ar
generally fair and that the parent
have been mellow this season.
"It's far better than last vear." she
l   Ihei
lhc thud inning. Boyle called
,es thrown into the miniature
e /ones ..i ihese baiters with the
oriiv ol a big league umpire.
i.ui have lo he loud." Boyle said.
lo Iv on lop of things and cstab-
to take much." Rackl.
i end up ejecting a lot
Will.,
Villi.:
In the second inning of Ruckle,
game, he knell closely behind a sin
Phillies" bench with a cast on his
ut    righi leg. but O'Neill rooted for the
Phillies just ihe same.
"I am an umpire of life." O'Neill
said, "so | w.iich lhc umpires closely.
Thev do ii good job. and they're re-
iruc colors vv ill come oui vv ith time."
Behind ihe home plale fence at the
Dodgers" game sal Boy le's girlfriend.
Diane Jendian. with her homework in
A calm fell over the crowd in th
final innings as the sun bcean to set
Rackley called his game after fou
innings because of ihe rule lhal
game must be called when a team i
winning by more than 10 runs, w,
According to the umpires, ihe     playing,
beaut) of these games lay in the fact        A coach from the Dodgers-Braves
lhat ihev tvpicallv come lo a nice,     game congratulated Boyle on a well-
mild close when Ihey re over .ailed game.
K.icklev said Um while some par-        "You know when a coach comes up
ents take the games a bit too far. lor     and s.,ys something like that, you
1    kn.-w he enjoyed the game And that's
really why we're all out here." Bovle
Good kids The great American pastime is a
The kids ai this level are pretty     passion for these two umpires,
mild-mannered, said Rackley. He said       "I enjoy it so much." Boyle s.ud.
the altitudes of the parent
coaches are importani bec.ui
the most part, it'sjust "mo
watching their baby plav."
neihing I'm gonna do for the
Table
from
Scholarships, from
page 6
ps,
i page <
scholarship sports only
choliirhips to its play-
ine players without fi-
i Aug. 8, l"%. Divi-
schools will only be
le one training table
io student athletes
idemic year when the
lonal dining facilities
Penni Key. "Whereas a head-count
scholarship is a full scholarship."
In a sport with a head-count program, once any amount of money is
given to an athlete, whether it be SI
or S5.IXX). their scholarship is considered a lull-ride.
""We budget for 35 non-resident
scholarships." said Teena Shields, administrative assistant lo the athletic director. "There is a difference between
how many we budget and how many
we give."
A full scholarship is S 14.000 to
S15.(KK) a year for an oul-of-siate student, which includes all foreign alh-
leies on a lull-ride scholarship.Of that.
S7.400 of the scholarship money is
for tuition.
"There
chola.shipsl  are  n.
a whole lot." Key sail
t a lot of foreign stutteni
for a reason. Il'scxpensive "
According lo Shields, a 12-un
minimum enrollment is required, a
though niosi foreign athletes lake I
units per semester.
Money matters
• and that's the diffi
i siudei
' Kej
Slue
"If a C'iilifo
rship. il
deniisonalullschol
$6,700 a year. We hav
scholarships to foreign student
what we'll do is apply iheir scl
ship towards fees."
There are exceptions to ihe scholarship operation.
It coaches ihmk lhal student athletes are desen mg. thev mav pick up
iheir scholarships through an improvement fund.
"Each spon has an improvement
fund, which is used for anything lhal
is not budgeted." Shields said. "It's a
specific amount of money. It is not
unlimited."
Sinnh said he didn't have 10 dip into
his improvement fund. Only si\ of his
12 players are on some sort of schol-
Sinitli said recruiting foreign athletes
is costly. Ii is ux> expensive to fly a foreign student into the United Stales.
"We have no choice, we get the
opinions of the people we trust."
Smith said. "We gel rankings and ihen
Foreign athletes help teams
"Thev are lhc backbone oi the
team." 'said Mike Marini. .. Fresno
State Mens tennis player. "Thev are
our lop players. Without them, we
wouldn't he a top team in the nation."
Fresno Suite's Men's tenuis team
had never been ranked in the top 20
until the last three vears
Currently, ihe team is ranked No 5
in the country.
Thc first three spots on the team.
respectively, belong to foreign players Fredrik Bergh and Fredrik Giers.
both Ii
n Sweden, and Bias
n Muie.i
Me:
a:d:hei
ately
eapproxim
150 Swedish tennis players playu
lor colleges w the United States.
"South Alabama is No. 10 in tl
country, and thev are made up exel
sivelv of Swedes and South Amei
cans." Smith said. -
"UCLA is number one in the cou
trv and thev have three foreigners
their top six players Ole Miss (Ir
versity of Mississippi] is No 3 in tl
country and they have five foreign*
in their lop six." he said.
To say foreign recruiting is
it is an understatement. Smith said.
""Our results have spoken for ihem-
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