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fc CalmVornia State University. Fresno Wednesday, October 12,1988 S Thor Swift/ Daily Collegian Senior outside hitter Melanie Estes Is one of the Fresno State volleyball team's, moat experienced players and is ranked sixth on FSU's all-time career kills list. Estes keeps team positively calm BY JENNIFER KONZE Sports Writer A calming, positive force on the court, Melanie Estes, senior outside hitler lor (be Fresno State women's volleyball team, is a goal-oriented woman who values a team win over a personal best Estes, 21, is usually the person to try to relax and calm the team when a mistake or a bad call has been made. "I found that the role I play best, and everyone on the team has a role, is the calming role" said Estes. "You have Traci out there who is the quarterback who runs the plays and makes sure that everything runs smoothly as far as the game aspect We have Lynette who is the floor captain who takes care if there is a problem with the referees or a - mental attitude. At first I wasn't willing problem with the calls. Then me who to accept it and then after a while it gets tries to keep us together. ingrained into your head. You can't avoid "Not that I think we won't be kept. i u To -me, it has helped me out the most together without me but it's a role that^^mevetything," she said, helps me stay in the game as well." Estes said that her attitude has helped Assisting Eslcs in her calming affect her out die most because she applied it is her positive attitude. It is one quality that she has learned here at Fresno State and win keep when she leaves. "Im definitely going, to take the positiveness that I've learned here," she said. "I came in and I had a more or less negative attitude about every thing. Every¬ thing I saw I always saw the negative first . "Now, after being with Ms. O (Overstreet), the first thing she teaches you when you come here is a positive to school as well as volleyball. "If I did not have a positive attitude I would not make it through any. of this because it is so mentally draining with my major and volleyball," said Estes who is majoring in civil engineering and aspires' to own her own firm. "Some¬ times I get really negative thinking Til never make it through school and then I just think that I've made, it this far." She has made it this far and then some with a sort of immortality in the Fresno State record books in career records. As of this last game, she is currently sixth in career kills with 625, 64 kills bchirki fellow teammate Jenni McArtor and 62 kills from taking ova Denise Fowler (83-86) who' currently holds the fifth-place position with 687 kills. She is also seventh in career service aces with 85, closely trailed by fellow teammate Traci Sliester who has 72. In career defensive saves (digs) she is currently in fourth with 797, leading Sliester by 16 digs. With all these numbers that make some coaches drool, Estes would rather take a team win and play horrible :n that win then take a. team loss with her having a personal best Please see ESTES, page 10 Maybe they did it without steroids Lee Passmore There is a very likely possibility *" a during this year's World Series that Dod¬ ger pitcher Jay Howell, thrown out of a playoff game for using pine tar to doctor his pitches, will face Oakland slugger Jose Canseco, who has been accused by a Washington Post columnist of using steroids to enhance his game. This is a matchup made in newsstand tabloid heaven. "Hey Bob, did you see Howell with that vat of Vaseline in the bullpen?" "No, Joe, but I tell you what. I saw Canseco talking to some cuspicious- looking guy in the parking lot before the game. Gave him a jar lull ol something, God only knows what" Great copy for us writers is made out of such speculation. This only serves to fuel the fire that fans love to stoke during the heat of battle. It would come as no surprise if in Canseco's first at bat in Dodger Stadium (or Shea Stadium) he is greeted by chants of "steroids....steroids" like he was in Fenway Park. Inhabitants of the Oakland Coliseum might give Howell just as bad a time and throw nail files and used chewing gum in his direction when he trots out of the bullpen. This would be fitting for Howell, who was the subject of much booing among Coliseum faithful when he pitched for Oakland in 1986 and "87. All of this is fun and good, but a question still remains—are Canseco and Howell both unregeneratc cheaters? While that in and of itself is an impenant issue, it's hardly^the whole ball game so to speak. Sure, a possibility of guilt can be assumed, but it's only a possibility. The. evidence is slightly stronger against Howell, who did have pine tar on his cap whether it was used for legal or not so legal purposes. But what about Jose Canseco? Tom Boswcll labelled him a steroid user on a laic night television news show and claimed that several American League players referred to steroids as a "Jose Canseco milkshake" (what does that make them for Ben Johnson, a full meal?). Have any of these "American League Please sec CANSECO, page 10 '•
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Title | 1988_10 The Daily Collegian October 1988 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1988 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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Title | October 12, 1988, Page 9 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1988 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | fc CalmVornia State University. Fresno Wednesday, October 12,1988 S Thor Swift/ Daily Collegian Senior outside hitter Melanie Estes Is one of the Fresno State volleyball team's, moat experienced players and is ranked sixth on FSU's all-time career kills list. Estes keeps team positively calm BY JENNIFER KONZE Sports Writer A calming, positive force on the court, Melanie Estes, senior outside hitler lor (be Fresno State women's volleyball team, is a goal-oriented woman who values a team win over a personal best Estes, 21, is usually the person to try to relax and calm the team when a mistake or a bad call has been made. "I found that the role I play best, and everyone on the team has a role, is the calming role" said Estes. "You have Traci out there who is the quarterback who runs the plays and makes sure that everything runs smoothly as far as the game aspect We have Lynette who is the floor captain who takes care if there is a problem with the referees or a - mental attitude. At first I wasn't willing problem with the calls. Then me who to accept it and then after a while it gets tries to keep us together. ingrained into your head. You can't avoid "Not that I think we won't be kept. i u To -me, it has helped me out the most together without me but it's a role that^^mevetything," she said, helps me stay in the game as well." Estes said that her attitude has helped Assisting Eslcs in her calming affect her out die most because she applied it is her positive attitude. It is one quality that she has learned here at Fresno State and win keep when she leaves. "Im definitely going, to take the positiveness that I've learned here," she said. "I came in and I had a more or less negative attitude about every thing. Every¬ thing I saw I always saw the negative first . "Now, after being with Ms. O (Overstreet), the first thing she teaches you when you come here is a positive to school as well as volleyball. "If I did not have a positive attitude I would not make it through any. of this because it is so mentally draining with my major and volleyball," said Estes who is majoring in civil engineering and aspires' to own her own firm. "Some¬ times I get really negative thinking Til never make it through school and then I just think that I've made, it this far." She has made it this far and then some with a sort of immortality in the Fresno State record books in career records. As of this last game, she is currently sixth in career kills with 625, 64 kills bchirki fellow teammate Jenni McArtor and 62 kills from taking ova Denise Fowler (83-86) who' currently holds the fifth-place position with 687 kills. She is also seventh in career service aces with 85, closely trailed by fellow teammate Traci Sliester who has 72. In career defensive saves (digs) she is currently in fourth with 797, leading Sliester by 16 digs. With all these numbers that make some coaches drool, Estes would rather take a team win and play horrible :n that win then take a. team loss with her having a personal best Please see ESTES, page 10 Maybe they did it without steroids Lee Passmore There is a very likely possibility *" a during this year's World Series that Dod¬ ger pitcher Jay Howell, thrown out of a playoff game for using pine tar to doctor his pitches, will face Oakland slugger Jose Canseco, who has been accused by a Washington Post columnist of using steroids to enhance his game. This is a matchup made in newsstand tabloid heaven. "Hey Bob, did you see Howell with that vat of Vaseline in the bullpen?" "No, Joe, but I tell you what. I saw Canseco talking to some cuspicious- looking guy in the parking lot before the game. Gave him a jar lull ol something, God only knows what" Great copy for us writers is made out of such speculation. This only serves to fuel the fire that fans love to stoke during the heat of battle. It would come as no surprise if in Canseco's first at bat in Dodger Stadium (or Shea Stadium) he is greeted by chants of "steroids....steroids" like he was in Fenway Park. Inhabitants of the Oakland Coliseum might give Howell just as bad a time and throw nail files and used chewing gum in his direction when he trots out of the bullpen. This would be fitting for Howell, who was the subject of much booing among Coliseum faithful when he pitched for Oakland in 1986 and "87. All of this is fun and good, but a question still remains—are Canseco and Howell both unregeneratc cheaters? While that in and of itself is an impenant issue, it's hardly^the whole ball game so to speak. Sure, a possibility of guilt can be assumed, but it's only a possibility. The. evidence is slightly stronger against Howell, who did have pine tar on his cap whether it was used for legal or not so legal purposes. But what about Jose Canseco? Tom Boswcll labelled him a steroid user on a laic night television news show and claimed that several American League players referred to steroids as a "Jose Canseco milkshake" (what does that make them for Ben Johnson, a full meal?). Have any of these "American League Please sec CANSECO, page 10 '• |