1988_05 The Daily Collegian May 1988

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Collegian Sports
California State University, Fresno
Monday, May 9,1988
FSU clinches tie for softball title
Parrent, Dever
shut out UCSB
By Steve Fountain
Sports Writer
Sunday was a day of minimums for the
No. 3 Fresno State sofLball team.
FSJJ used the minimum numbers of
runs — two, allowed the minimum
amount of runs — none, and pitched to
just five over the minimum numbers of
batters — 21, sweeping a doubleheader
versus Lhe Pacific Coast Athletic Associ¬
ation's last place team — the Gauchos of
I JC Santa Barbara.
The sweep assured FSU (30-5) of at
least a tie for first place in the PCAA
with No. 13 Cal Poly Pomona (28-8).
FSU can win the PCAA title outright
with a win today at Bulldog Diamond
versus San Jose State.
Sunday's games at Bulldog Diamond
showcased excellent pitching perform¬
ances by FSU pitchers Melanie Parrent
and Cane Dever who both threw two-hit
shutouts.
Parrent faceo just 25 batters in the first
game, striking out nine. The win boos¬
ted her record to 24-0. As strong as Par-
rent's perfcrmance was, Devers effort in
the second game was almost perfect.
Dever struck out 11 of the 22 baOTs
she faced, including six in a row to start
the game.
"It was a pitcher's dream." said Dever. I
fell really on today and I knew if I just
went out there and hit my locations that
there was no way they were going to
touch me."
Gaucho left fielder Tracy Dishno had
both of UCSBs hits against Dever, a
bioop single to right in the this u inning
and a blooper to left in the sixth.
"They got two lucky hits — two nub-
bers — other than that I really controlled
them and I felt fantastic," said Dever. who
ran her record to 24-5.
The strong pitching of Parrent and
Dever overshadowed the efforts of UCSB
who played far belter than their 6-50 rec¬
ord iridicaied-
Both Parrent and Dever had long waits
before they had leads to protect. In Par-
rem's case, she had to wail uniil the bot¬
tom of the seventh.
After holding the Bulldogs to four hits
Akcmi MiywDMtDoit, Collegian
BuHdog shortstop Martha Noffsinger pots the tag or UC Santa Barbara's Montque DeChafcw, who was trying
to steal second base. Fresno State swept Sunday's doubleheader, winning both game* by a score of 1-0.
she stroked a singled to right-center that       The wins improved the Bulldogs' over
scored  Morrison  from  third  with  the
wmning run. Polanco was on a good
streak Sunday, totting three-for-five.
"I did well against these pitchers the
last time we played them," said Polanco.
"so I had the coiifidence this game."
In the second game, the Bulldogs kept
through six innings, Gaucho starter An¬
drea Serrano (1-24) gave up three hits in
the seventh, including the game-winning
RBI single by Jill Polanco, ^
Laura Macedo started the inning with
her second single of the game. Shelly
Morrison then entered to game to pinch
run for Macedo. Dever, who plays third
base when Parrent pitches, singled to left,   their pitching waiting five innings before
advancing Morrison to second. scoring.
Geri Ciandro successfully laid down a
sacrifice bunt, advancing both riinners.
Ciandro, starting just her 17th game of
the season, had two sacrifice bunts in the
game.
Then Jill Polanco, tatting .183 on the
year with nearly half of her hits occurring
over the span of four doubleheaders, came
to the plate.
Despite her feast or famine aoroach to
hitting, Polanco boasts a .320 PCAA
average with runners in scoring position.
Il was feast for Polanco Sunday . as
As in the first game, Polanco provided
a key hit With two outs in the fifth and
Shelly Stokes on first, Polanco singled to
right, moving Stokes to second.
Martha Noffsinger then singled lo left
loading the bases. RaeAnn Pifferini then
bunted back to pitcher RoneUe Reed.
Reed, who could have thrown to first
to end the inning, opted to throw home;
and Stokes, who was ninning on the
play, beat the throw and scored what
proved to be the winning run.
all record to 48-14.
Sunday was Senior Day at ftilidog Dia¬
mond. FSUs winniest pitcher, Melanie
Parrent; FSU Softball's only first team
AII-American selection Gena Strang;
three-year starting cather Laura Macedo;
four-year outfielder Karin Richier, and
pinch njjiner/outfielder Geri Ciandro, who
made the team as a walk-on, were all
honored with special mtioductions prior
to the game.
FSU will play San Jose State today at
3 p.m. at Bulldog Diamond. The single
game is the make-up of the rained out
second game of the April 19 double-
header between the two schools.
The Bulldogs' regular season will end
with a victory against San Jose. If the
Bulldogs lose Monday, they will be
forced to make up a dcubleheader against
San Diego State that was rained out on
April 24.
Bulldogs get back on track in Vegas
By Jon Matsune
Sports Writer
Suffering their third consecutive base¬
ball defeat and their firsi Pacific Coast
Athletic Association loss of the season,
the No. 1-ranked Fresno State Bulldogs
were lambasted by Nevada-Las Vegas 12-
8 in the opener of a three-game set in Las
Vegas Friday.
Fresno, though, did not let the story
end there. The "Dogs rallied from a 4-0
dcricii to triumph 9-4 Saturday, then
broke open a relatively close game Sun¬
day with a five-run eighth inning and
cruised to an 11-6 win.
The series marited the end of FSUs re¬
gular season schedule, but Bulldog Coach
Bob Bennett is seeking to add games to
lhe slat, ones that might take place as
early as this weekend.
NCAA rules permit games to be tacked
on after the regular season as long as both
teams st- NCAA Regional qualifiers.
The "Dogs, 51-9 overall and 17-1 in the
PCAA, cranked out 18 hits in taking the
"rubber match* of the series.
FSU took a 1-0 lead on Steve Von-
dran's home run in the third inning, but
lhe Rebels knotted the score in the bot-
lom of the frame on a Larry Simms
Single and David Baxter double.
In lhe fourth, the 'Dogs pushed four
runs across taking a 5-1 lead. Mike Bur¬
ton reached second base on an error by
Baxter in center field, then scored on
Steve Hosey's single to right-
Hosey stole second, and Bryan Mar-
soobian drove the Ttog right fielder home
with a single to center. After moving io
second on Vondran's ground out. Marsoo-
bian scored on Jeff Mous single to
center.
Moll advanced on Tom Goodwin's
grounder, and scored on a single by Tom
Goodwin,
The No. 20-ranked Rebels closed Lhe
gap to 5-3 in the sixth, getting a double
from Scou Childress, an njn-scoring sin¬
gle from Jim Barbeau and an RBI double
from Layne Lambert.
Singles by Burton, Marsoobian and
Vondran in the seventh increased the FSU
lead to 6-3. uVn in the eighth, the T)ogs
broke the game open with five runs.
Goodwin was the catalyst, notching a
single, stealing second and scoring on a
;ingle by Pearse. An error on a fielder's
choice grounder by Lance Shebelut put
nmners on first and second; and Brandon
Mitchell singled, plating Pearse.
Burton followed with a double to right,
picking up Shebelut, and Hosey singled
to righi-center, scoring Burton and m-
flating the Bulldog advantage to 11-3.
UNLV struck back with a run in the
eighth and two more in the ninth, but
FSU starting pitcher Erik Schullstrom.
who had seven strikeouts on the day,
managed to close the door and improve to
12-2.
The Rebels' Mark Lewis (10-6) suffered
the toss as his team fell to 37-10 and 14-
On Saturday, the "Dogs cranked out 19
hits off four UNLV pitchers in ending a
three-game skid. Goodwin, who had a
double and a single, became the first
player in Bulldog history to record 100
hits in a season.
Shebelut went 4-for-6 notching three
11BI and his 29th homer of. the season.
Mitchell supplied the winning hit — a
three-run HR in the fourth that broke a 4-
4 be.
John Salles went the distance, struck
out seven and raised his record to a perfect
14-0.
Friday's contest saw the Rebels score
ihree times in the first, and then race out
to a whopping 12-0 advantage with a riine-
nin third.
Behind two homers apiece from Mou
and Vondran and one from Shebelut, the
Bulldogs managed to close to 12-8.
BULLDOG NOTES — With two
hit* in Sunday1* fame, Goodwin im-
Eroved hi- 1968 total to 104. Pearw
»d his 19-ga.me h itting «tr*a k brok¬
en Friday, but bounced back with *
4-for-6 p«rformamnc-s Saturday-