1995_02 The Daily Collegian February 1995

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8—JheDaily Collegian     Thursday, February 16/1995
Womens basketball rebounds with victory
ByMattCroce        - 2x
StaffWriter
joe Rosato Jr/The Daily Collegian
FSU center Susan Conlan takes it to the hoop in, the Bulldog's 80-55 victory over eSU Northridge.
Men continue hot streak over
A funny thing happened after, the Fresno State
'omen's basketball game ended Wednesday night
They celebrated.
The TJogs ended their three game losing skid with
an 80-55 thumping of winless Cal State Northridge at
Selland Arena
FSU, which had been freezing cold over the last few
games, came out of the locker room razor sharp.
Stacy Oddo hit a three-point bomb to put the TJogs
up 3-0. The shots kept falling as forward Kari Jorgensen
then nailed two quick treys to stretch the lead to 11-2.
T^e TJogs looked like they were going to put the 0-
20 Matadors out of their misery early, racing but to a
12-point just four minutes into the game.
.   Instead, FSU played-down to their competition's
level'     -Ai)
\ The TJogs lost the intensity and focus they pos¬
sessed early on. They looked lackadaisical and slug¬
gish as they let CSUN back into the game, 26-18 with
six minutes to go in the first half.
TJc1§5 point guard Michele Anderson drove the
lane and scooped in a lay-up with 2:23 left as the TJogs
pulled away to a 32-22halftimelead. .
Jorgensen and Tanisha Huddleston led FSU's bal¬
anced scoring for the first half with eight points each
Susan Conlan followed with seven points, including a
perfect three of three from the free throw line.
Center Cony Carter was held scoreless on zero for
six shooting, but she was a force on the glass with five
rebounds.
The Matadors were plagued in the first half with 15
turnovers. Their scoring attack was led by starting
forward Shannon Crpuse and reserve Maureen Ba¬
tiste. They had six points apiece. Batiste added seven
boards. ; '+   .    l .
The sparse crowd of 412 had to be wondering
which TJogs team would show up for the second half.
Wotdd it be the sharp TJogs that started the game hot?
Or, would it-be the TJogs that played much of the first
half in outer space?
N   Thankfully, the focused TJogs team showed up to
play the second half and it wasn't much of a contest.
The TJogs scrambled recklessly for loose balls.
They fought tenaciously on the boards. In other
words, they did all of the things winning teams do.
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By Chad Holcomb ,
StaffWriter
The Bulldogs^stepped onto
Selland Arena's floor last night
with the intention to make this
break-from-conference game a
boost for the rest of the season.
Fresno State took the game
from the opening tip and found
themselves in a serious rhythm, a
rhyfhm that would have them
dueling with threeschool records.
Sophomore guard Dominick
Yourig sef the pace of the game
from the point Young took ad¬
vantage -of the Cal State
Northridge zone defense early ir/"
the game to accumulate eight as¬
sists in the first half aS well as
eight more in the second to tie the
school record for assists in a game
with 16. The unselfish passing of
Young to his teammates was just
the beginning oi the total team
effort from the Bulldogs in their
W*£em\%
"1 think Anthony
[Pelle] is closing
the season hard -x
for us... that'cvall
I could ask..
—Gary Colson
89-56 win over die visiting Mata¬
dors of the American West Con¬
ference bringing their record to
300 at 11-11. •■;'■'
\ The obvious height advantage
of the Bulldogs pulled the Mata¬
dors into a zone defense early in
the game which opened up the
outside shooting for the big out¬
side shooters. The Bulldogs lit up
the crowd as well as the
scoreboard last night with their
shots from behind the 3-point
stripe. The Bulldogs left the Mata¬
dors in awe, taking 34 shots from
beyond, hittingllofl7inthe first
half.
"They wanted us to beat them
over the top, but we went to our
other weapons, the outside game
and our three point shot," said
Young about the Matador de¬
fense1.
"When you make the extra
pass, you are going to have a little
better look at the basket, and that
was the key," said head coach
Colson on the outside shooting.
"This is a team that you can't take
lightly, buM did lie the team's
mental attitude tonight"
The previous record of 13, was
met, shattered, and then put away
even more as junior guard Bran¬
don Bakke found his rhythm hit¬
ting from the baseline with seven
arid a half minutes to plav. Two
minutes later, Bakke stepped be¬
hind the line and hit another to set
the record at 14. Bakke wasn't
done with his feat, hittinghis fifth
on the night just seconds later.
Davon Satterwhite added four of.
his own, as well as Mart Stock
. with three.     \>%_-
"It all depends on where and
when you get the ball. I am a
rhythm shooter and Dominick did
a great job spotting and getting
me the ball," said Bakke on his
shooting.
With the outside game the
Bulldogs were involved with, the
• real battle was in the. paint with
the big men, for the rebounds.
Senior Anthony Pelle won die
play, in the paint grabbing 11 re¬
bounds on the night, and making
sure mat the Matadors didn't get
any second chances.
"I think Anthony is closing the
season hard for us. He ran the
floor and dominated the 10 foot
area in the paint and he re¬
bounded, thafs all I could ask,"
said Colson on Pelle's perfor¬
mance.
The game-did not come easy
from the beginning. .The two
teams started tough hitting key
shotsVith three lead changes and
a5-5tieearlybeforetheFSU sharp
shooters took their cue, and
started hitting from the outside.
What separated the Bulldogs and
the Matadors for goooSwith over-
12 minutes to go in the first half
was their'hot shooting. Young
and Stamps hit three's to'help
expand the two point lead and
never look back.
The Bulldogs shot 68 percent.
from ti>e field in the first half as
FSU tied a school record for the
most points in a half with 51. The
Dogs had the game captured with
a 51-27 lead at the break.
Leading the way in scoring for
the Bulldogs was Darnell
McCulloch and Satterwhite with
17 points apiece, and Bakke add¬
ing 15 with five^blnine from be¬
hind the stripe.
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