1993_10 The Daily Collegian October 1993

              Monday, Oct 4,1993
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FSU, from page 6
players, something she doesn't or¬
dinarily do.
'1 was upset at our lack of con¬
centration," Vivas said. "Some of
the things (the Aztecs) were doing
we kept letting them do. We have
to get better at making the adjust¬
ments sooner."
Tuley continued to hit the ball
extremely well for the Bulldogs.
She hit .354 for the match.
Many of tier kills were came by
hitting around the block. One kill
came on a ball that didn't even get
out ofthe front court
"Because I'm smaller, (the
coaches) want me to tool the block;
I like it," Tuley said. "It feels good
to be in first {dace."
Tuley also had a team-leading
21 digs.
Sophomore Brenda Gregersen
had 69 assists and continues to set
a torrid pace. Gregersen has 775
assists with 14 matches to play.
The Bulldogs hit JOS and had 81
kills with senior outside hitter
Nicole Chen leading the attack. She
had 27 kills with only one error and
hit an earth-schattering .634.
The Aztecs fell to 2-1 in tlie
WAC, 11-4 overall and fell out of
firstplace.   -'
It was the third consecutive loss
SDSU head coach Myles Gabel
was visibly upset with ho w his team
played.
"We wanted to win so we'd be-
in the driver's seat," Gabel said.
"Fresno Stele's a good team, but
we made them took like the best
things ever on earth."
Gabel also said that the way the
Bulldogs play reminds him how
Vivas used to play.
"She's got (Fresno State) play¬
ing real smart," Gabel said. "She's
got Nicole and Trish playing the
way she used to."
The week layoff must have hurt
the Aztecs; they hadn'tplayed since
defeating New Mexico Sept 24.
"We had too much? time off and
must have forgot how to play vol¬
leyball,'' Gabel said. ^Vft have to
go to Colorado State and Wyoming
and try to regroup anil they 're not
very favorable places to go and try
to regroup."
SeniormiddleblockerStephanie
Riley led the Aztecs with 23 kills
and hit .419 for the match, but some¬
one who was familiar with Riley
could tell she wasn't right
"She's play ing hurt," Gabel said.
"If she was healthy, it'd be scary
what she could do."
Both FSU cross country
teams finish in 11th place
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Fresno State head cross country
coach Red Estes knew the Stanford
Invitational would be theBulldogs'
toughest tournament of the year.
After all, the field for the invita¬
tional division of the women's
5.000-meter race included three
teams ranked in the top 30 of Divi¬
sion I and four teams in the top 10
of Division H.
The men's 8,000 meters fea¬
tured four teams in the top 40 of
Division I.and one team ranked
thud in Division DL
"It was the toughest field that
we have faced this year," Estes
said." "A lot of our young people got
a true baptismal to true Division I
running."
Estes had said prior to the meet
that finishing in the top ten for both
of his men's and women's teams
would be an "excellent goal."
However, neither team was able
to do it
In the 8,000-meter race, the
men's team finished 1 !th out of the
13 teams in the run, finishing with
239 points. BYU won the men's
race with a jaw-dropping 35-point
total
Once again the men were led by
senior Dan Zoldak, who finished
17th, out of the almost 100 runners,
with a time of 25:10. Ten seconds
behind him was freshman Ricardo
Brewer, who crossed the finish line
in27th. J
"We bad some really good per¬
formances and some not so good,"
Estes said.  .
The women's 256 points also
put them in 11th place, although
their even t i ncluded 14 teams. BYU
also won the women's race with a
72-poin t output
Junior Ann Bums did what she
lias been doing all season, finishing
first among the Bulldog women
and. 30th overall with a time of
18:15
Danielle Nelson, a freshman,
was only two seconds behind Burris
in 33rd place.
'1 thought getting in the top 10
was feasible," Estes said about the
"women's race. "Just about every
female on our team ran about as
best as she could so you can't fault
that at all. So top 10 would have
been reasonable, eleven is close.
Not too bad."
Estes said that B YU's success
in the race is just an indication of
how difficult it will be when the
WAC Championhips role around
in November.
"They are very tough and they
are not the only team in our confer¬
ence that's tough," Estes said..
"So we really have an uphill
picture when we lace the confer¬
ence. Realistically, if we could fin¬
ish in the top half of our conference
it would be a very good perfor¬
mance."
On the bright side, Estes s*ys
that his group of young nmnera is
getting better every time they toe
the starting line.
There's no doubt we're im¬
proving with every meet," Estes
said.
"We've faced tougher and
tougher competition every meet
Each one has been one more step
up in level of competition and an¬
other step up in improvement"
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Cheli, from page 6
Diego State, both Willinger and
Cheli started three games, in the
-decisive fifth game, the two played
together, because senior Nicole
Chen had to be removed due to a
muscle cramp.
- "Amy did a great job starting
tbe fifth game in Nicole's spot",
coach Lindy Vivas said. "We got
off to a 5-1 lead with her in there
and I think that really gave the team
momentum."
Cheli was highly recruited in
volleyball, basketball, and track in
her senior year at Los Altos.
Among the programs that seeked
Cheli's talents were Pacific, Cal
State Northridge, Washington
State, San Jose State, St Mary's,
USD and St Mary's. To Vivas's
delight Cheli chose FSU.
"It was close enough to home
so that my whole family could be a
part of my athletic career," Cheli
said. y
The outgoi ng personality that
made Cheli so popular in high
school is sure to make her a success
in cojltfge.
"The great thing about Amy
is that she's always ready to play,"
said Vivas.        • *
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