1992_11 The Daily Collegian November 1992

              November 11,1992
The Daily Collegian
Sports-7
Swimmers
face SLO,
, Masker
By Dave Donnelly
Sports Editor
Home, sweet home.
The Fresno State swim team
will compete in Fresno for the first
time this season this afternoon at
3:30 pJn. in the FSU Pool The
Bulldogs started the season with
the first four meets on the road.
Tlie Bulldog women (2-1) will
face Cal Poly San Lois Obispo
while the men (0-2) face the*
University of Alaska-Anchorage.
It will be a brief homestand for
theBulldogs.
The Bulldog men hop back on
a bos Friday and head for Palo
Alto where they will face the
NCAA defending national
champion Stanford Cardinal at 2
p.m. Bom teams will travel to San
Jose State Saturday to face the
University of California at
Berkeley (Cal). The women will
face Cal and San Jose State at
noon in a tri -school meet
Tbe match-up against Cal has
extra meaning for both squads.
Former FSU swim Coach Teri
McKeever is now head coach of
the Golden Bears.
"We!re look m g forward to
being home," FSU head Coach
Daniel la Irle said.
According to Irle, because of
this weekend's schedule the
Bulldogs won't swim their best
events.
"We're going to try to swim
some of our off events," Irle said.
iCWe need to stay versatile. We
need to be fresh on Friday."
The women, led by freshmen
Carrie Bennett, Amanda
Nickolof f, Debra Weber and senior
Liz LaBonte, have gotten off the
blocks fast
Irle isn't expecting much from
SLO and is honest about it
"We're going to win," Me said.
Irle added that the men will be
facing a better team than the
women.
"The Alaska men are a lot
stronger than the SLO people,"
Irle said. "As a result we' 11 go with
a stronger lineup."
Irk isn * t kidding when she says
Alaska is strong. They return four
NCAA Division II .All-.Amer.cans:
sophomores Rob Morris and Nuno
Castro, junior Jason Everard and
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Get coen: FSU water polo player Kyle Hilo^brand tries to pass tn^
this season. This weekend will be the last for the team. It will be disband aner trie season is completed. TTw
Colson, fans get look at cagers
By Dave Donnelly
Sports Editor
_ The Fresno State 1992-93
men's basketball team will be
unveiled tonight in the annual red-
white scrimmage at the North
Gym. Tip off is at 7 p.m.
The intrasquad game will
represent an opportunity for head
Coach Gary Colson to see how
much his team has progressed si nee
Nov. 1, the first day the coaches
could look at their teams.
Colson, however, said he likes
what he has seen so far in practice.
'Considering we have only had
seven practices, it's been going
pretty good," he said.
But Colson also added that the
Bulldogs need more time in one
aspect.
"They don't need
more time on the
fundamentals,
they need more
time to get to know
one another,"
Colson said.
In other words,
they need more
time to build a
chemistry with 10
new players on the FSU roster.
The game will mark the first in
a Bulldog uniform for Seth
Marshall, Brian Santiago,
Marquese Brown, .Alex Fisher,
Chris Koford, Travis Stel and
Patrick Teagues.
Considering we've
only had seven
practices, it's going
preitt good.
Gaay Couon
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Marshall and Santiago are j and Nanney suffered injuries early
junior college transfers. Fisher was ;, in last .season and were granted
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': Players returning who played
last season include Da von
Satterwhite (6.7 points per game),
DcAndre Austin (3.3) and Lee
Mayberry(5.8reboundspergame).
Marshall will anchor the, red,
while Fisher, the only freshman
on this year's team, will be on the
white team.
But, according to Colson, he
are   walk-
ons    from
nearby
colleges.
Brown went
to   Contra
Costa
College
while Teagues
went to Skyline College in San
Francisco.'*
It will mark the return of Ted
Bull, Brandon Bakke and Kevin
Nanney from red-shirt seasons in
1991-92 season.andJohnny Hines,
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might be operating with a deck
that is a little too loaded.
4tWe have too many; I may have
to think about red-shirting some
Zoldak proves to be a good choice
By Mark Bryant
StaffWriter
Bursting on to the cross country
scene this yea? for Fresno State
has been junior transfer Dan
Zoldak—and that is the great
understatement of 1992. Zoldak
has gained respect from just about
everybody—his opponents,
teammates, and coaches-—because
he has the drive in him mat woti't
let him let down. According to
head Coach Red Estes in
midseason, "He has done quality
running every time."
Now, with the season winding
down and the WAC/NCAA
Region 7 Championships coming
up, Estes still maintains:
"Outstanding. He was a good
choice for our program. Dan is
really a solid runner, and never has
a bad performance."
.Five-foot-nine, 130 pounds of
bouncy, kinetic speed, Zoldak is
on the go from the opening gun
until he hits the tape. Some Bulldog
observers would rank him on the
team second only to Jamey Harris,
the senior who won the Big West
last year and could win the WAC
this year.
The two—Harris and Zoldak—
are the one-two punch and dynamic
duo that gives the Bulldogs the
edge in close races.-But it's clear
that Zoldak is coming into hisown.
When Harris leaves, it's likely that.
Zoldak will step 'into Harris',
shoes—and they might be too
small.
"Dan made a] very easy
transition from junior college to
Division I NCAA running," Estes
said. "A lot [of runners} don't
project the mental tools and ability
to project themselves immediately.
It usually takes a year or so to
make the jump and be able to
compete. Dan's an exception. He
stepped into Division I shoes and
never missed a beat"
Zoldak said, 'Division  I
pumped me up. .And being on a
team   that's   going   for   a
championship makes it all the more
worthwhile, ^—-*
'The team needs me to be
consistent I usually am."
He has shown that consistency
in every Bulldog race this season.
In this season's initial meet the
FSU Invitational, ne placed second
on the Bulldogs to Jamey Harris in
25:28.6 and third coliegiately.
That was an impressive start
for his first Division I meet From
then on, his strong running came
to be known as the "Zoldak
Please see ZOLDAK, page 8