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Tuesday, March H, 1995 The Daily CoHegian--r7 Wall steps In, not down, for 'Dogs strike By Kelly Jones Staff writer When Amber Wall sees an op¬ portunity, she doesn't hesitate to jump at it Example No. 1: Har¬ boring the wish to play catcher as a 14-year-old outfielder, Wall filled in when the regular catcher was unavailable She never left that position and is now starting for the Fresno State softball team (234). Example No. 2: Wall's ball- playing career actually started on a baseball field where she played for nine years! Realizing that stay¬ ing with baseball may not be in her best interests, she switched to Softball and now starts for one of the best college teams in the na¬ tion. w Example No. 3: Pursued by San Jose State, Wall chose Fresno because she "saw a chance" for herself and felt that her "best op¬ portunity" to play would be in Fresno. "I think even if I had offers from other schools I would have chosen Fresno," Wall said. "This program had the best reputation. Coach [Margie] Wrightis the best I wouldn't play for any other school." This season Wall has picked of f one runner, committed no er¬ rors and started in 23 of 27 games for Fresno. She is batting .279 with 14 RBI's on the year. She has a slugging percentage of 382. "She's a hard worker and, she has a lot of talent," Wright said. "She's everything we need." Bulldog teammate Brandy Hall and her father can be-credited with inspiring Wall to trade base¬ ball for softball. They'watched her play and convinced her that she "needed to be in softball." "She had a baseball swing and a baseball throw," Hall said. "She came Out with us and played on my dad's team. Usually we were always on the same traveling teams." Wall said she essentially had to start over wKenrt came to bat- ting against girls. Baseball helped her play tough and forced her to become a switch hitter in softball. "The two are fundamentally different," Wall said. "Boys at a young age are more athletic and moreaggressive. Itmadememore aggressive." Perhaps her finest moment at Fresno came when she was up to bat in the second of two games against Cal-State Fullerton on Feb. 28. With the bases loaded in the 10th inning, one out and the count at 2-1, Wall hit a solid single to score the winning run. "When she hit in the run against Fullerton,'' Wright said when asked about Wall's high¬ light of the year. "I think that matured her quite a bit" ' "The 5-foot, 7-inch freshman from Turlock was a three-sport athlete at Turlock High. Wall was a three-year varsity starter, batted over .400 in her high school career and earned best offensive player of the year honors her junior year. "The intensity is way higher at the collegiate level," Wall said. "The game is the same. It's impor¬ tant mentally to focus and be a lot tougher." ^ Wall also played basketball and excelled en the volleyball court, raking in athlete-scholar awards; first-team, all-league honors in 1993 when Turlock won .the league tide and was all-district and best offensive player of the year. In addition to school activi¬ ties, Wall played on five softball traveling teams during high school. Thafs the kind of dedica¬ tion her peers admire. "I like to throw to her;" sopho¬ more pitcher Jennifer Clark said "Amber gets the job done. She has a powerful swing. She's young, and I think she'll be a great catcher.'* "You have to be good at this level," Hall said. "You have to be a good leader because you're be¬ hind the plate calling the show. You have to know how to call your own pitchesO Amber is do¬ ing a good job." Even Wall's declared major is an example of the opportunities she creates for herself. She is plan¬ ning a career in marketing be¬ cause she said she could basically do anything. "Ifs easy to grasp, and I can do . a lot with it" she said. But the thing Wall is most look¬ ing forward to now isn't being a leader in the classroom; ifs the situation every catcher plays in her mind: the confrontation at the plate. "I've been waitingand prepar¬ ing for a collision," Wall said. "I might not looklike r can take it but ifs going to take a lot to knock me down." From Page 8 '1 don't really want to get into it" Siweff said. "The truth is that, everyone in this office is praying that none of this occurs. The truth is we like baseball here... and we got into this business because we love the game. "We've told our people to tell callers that we can't speculate... It's an uncomfortable position for everyone right now. We want them to play. Unfortunately, the union doesn't feel the same way we do." Sh\otf was asked if he and his staff had discussed possible deci- "I, have to be trarhful/' Siwoff said. "Yes, we have" Major League Baseball could give The Sporting News and Elias strong signals on how to handle the Ripken record, as commis¬ sioner FordFrickdidinl961.That year, Roger Maris chased Babe Ruth's single-season record for homers of 60. Prick, a longtime admirer of Ruth, armounced that if Maris were to supplant Ruth in the record book, he would have to do so in the first 154 games. V Baseball FrontPage 8 the idea that if they stayed close in the ballgame long enough, the chance to win would come. They picked up three runs in their half of the fifth with con¬ secutive RBI's .from, ironically enough," their'middle fielders. Chad Brown, who was playing in center field (and eventually played all three outfield positions throughout the night) drove in the first run on a sacrifice fly to left field. Second baseman Jim Fisher followedi with a two out RBI double ahclUaen shortstop Ben Reynoso singled home Fisher. Portland came back to score another runin the top of the sev¬ enth and the Bulldogs countered with two more runs on DH Pete Hennecke's single to left fields Hennecke would finish the night going two-for-three and driving in three runs a And after paitently waiting, Fresno State got what it was hop¬ ing for. Down.10-6 in the bottom of the eighth, ancLwith one run Kennel Bookstore Graduation announcements are now available! rdexfjrour personalized puncements today at > ■enriel Copy Center Minimum order of 10: $15 >c« i Additional increments of 5: $5 Lower Level 278-3945 IViA'dLY Free Free Free already home, the Bulldogs sent nine men to the plate and capped otf^tWo^iti^Vtimii1-' to-back doubles by pinch hitter Quentin Stone, which drove in three runs, and then by Hennecke, who drove in Stone, to tie the same at 10-10 -^X. "I was impressed with the way the kids never quit," head coach Bob Bennettsaid. "They didn't get discouraged, and a lot of them came through in the various situations that we needed them to. We finally got where we were enjoying the dang thing." ^ Both teams exchanged runs in the 11th inning, before the Bull¬ dogs dramatic 13th inning vic¬ tory. ' .. . In earlier action, the Classic started with a match-up of two teams going in opposite direc¬ tions. The baseball faithful were treated to a good -game as the Hustlin' Rebels scored one run in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 2-2 before taking a 4-2 lead in the top of the tenth. The Tigers came back to score one'in the bottom of the eleventh making it 4-3, but did not puih the tying run •Hospital Sterilization ^ •Fine Line »Coior •Cover ups «Re-work •'Traditonal" , or Custom •Piercing & Cosmetic Wm MOKMWy KteW% FrOaWiO CMS) tOT-TAT Also Featuring: tlie Black Dragon Mobile Tattoo Studio | You come to us... or we come to you! •252-TAT2v The second game featured the Gonzaga Bulldogs versus the #15 Nevada Wolfpack. Nevada used three pitchersbut got the job done as they recorded a 4-3 victory. The final game before the Fresno State nightcap was the Virginia Tech Hokies against the Wyoming Cowboys. Tlie Hokies, coming off of a 14- 0 drubbing of Holy Cross last Thursday, were able to pull off a 7-3 victory over the hapless Cow¬ boys, -v-
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Title | 1995_03 The Daily Collegian March 1995 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1995 |
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 |
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Title | March 14, 1995, Page 7 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1995 |
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 | Tuesday, March H, 1995 The Daily CoHegian--r7 Wall steps In, not down, for 'Dogs strike By Kelly Jones Staff writer When Amber Wall sees an op¬ portunity, she doesn't hesitate to jump at it Example No. 1: Har¬ boring the wish to play catcher as a 14-year-old outfielder, Wall filled in when the regular catcher was unavailable She never left that position and is now starting for the Fresno State softball team (234). Example No. 2: Wall's ball- playing career actually started on a baseball field where she played for nine years! Realizing that stay¬ ing with baseball may not be in her best interests, she switched to Softball and now starts for one of the best college teams in the na¬ tion. w Example No. 3: Pursued by San Jose State, Wall chose Fresno because she "saw a chance" for herself and felt that her "best op¬ portunity" to play would be in Fresno. "I think even if I had offers from other schools I would have chosen Fresno," Wall said. "This program had the best reputation. Coach [Margie] Wrightis the best I wouldn't play for any other school." This season Wall has picked of f one runner, committed no er¬ rors and started in 23 of 27 games for Fresno. She is batting .279 with 14 RBI's on the year. She has a slugging percentage of 382. "She's a hard worker and, she has a lot of talent," Wright said. "She's everything we need." Bulldog teammate Brandy Hall and her father can be-credited with inspiring Wall to trade base¬ ball for softball. They'watched her play and convinced her that she "needed to be in softball." "She had a baseball swing and a baseball throw," Hall said. "She came Out with us and played on my dad's team. Usually we were always on the same traveling teams." Wall said she essentially had to start over wKenrt came to bat- ting against girls. Baseball helped her play tough and forced her to become a switch hitter in softball. "The two are fundamentally different," Wall said. "Boys at a young age are more athletic and moreaggressive. Itmadememore aggressive." Perhaps her finest moment at Fresno came when she was up to bat in the second of two games against Cal-State Fullerton on Feb. 28. With the bases loaded in the 10th inning, one out and the count at 2-1, Wall hit a solid single to score the winning run. "When she hit in the run against Fullerton,'' Wright said when asked about Wall's high¬ light of the year. "I think that matured her quite a bit" ' "The 5-foot, 7-inch freshman from Turlock was a three-sport athlete at Turlock High. Wall was a three-year varsity starter, batted over .400 in her high school career and earned best offensive player of the year honors her junior year. "The intensity is way higher at the collegiate level," Wall said. "The game is the same. It's impor¬ tant mentally to focus and be a lot tougher." ^ Wall also played basketball and excelled en the volleyball court, raking in athlete-scholar awards; first-team, all-league honors in 1993 when Turlock won .the league tide and was all-district and best offensive player of the year. In addition to school activi¬ ties, Wall played on five softball traveling teams during high school. Thafs the kind of dedica¬ tion her peers admire. "I like to throw to her;" sopho¬ more pitcher Jennifer Clark said "Amber gets the job done. She has a powerful swing. She's young, and I think she'll be a great catcher.'* "You have to be good at this level," Hall said. "You have to be a good leader because you're be¬ hind the plate calling the show. You have to know how to call your own pitchesO Amber is do¬ ing a good job." Even Wall's declared major is an example of the opportunities she creates for herself. She is plan¬ ning a career in marketing be¬ cause she said she could basically do anything. "Ifs easy to grasp, and I can do . a lot with it" she said. But the thing Wall is most look¬ ing forward to now isn't being a leader in the classroom; ifs the situation every catcher plays in her mind: the confrontation at the plate. "I've been waitingand prepar¬ ing for a collision," Wall said. "I might not looklike r can take it but ifs going to take a lot to knock me down." From Page 8 '1 don't really want to get into it" Siweff said. "The truth is that, everyone in this office is praying that none of this occurs. The truth is we like baseball here... and we got into this business because we love the game. "We've told our people to tell callers that we can't speculate... It's an uncomfortable position for everyone right now. We want them to play. Unfortunately, the union doesn't feel the same way we do." Sh\otf was asked if he and his staff had discussed possible deci- "I, have to be trarhful/' Siwoff said. "Yes, we have" Major League Baseball could give The Sporting News and Elias strong signals on how to handle the Ripken record, as commis¬ sioner FordFrickdidinl961.That year, Roger Maris chased Babe Ruth's single-season record for homers of 60. Prick, a longtime admirer of Ruth, armounced that if Maris were to supplant Ruth in the record book, he would have to do so in the first 154 games. V Baseball FrontPage 8 the idea that if they stayed close in the ballgame long enough, the chance to win would come. They picked up three runs in their half of the fifth with con¬ secutive RBI's .from, ironically enough," their'middle fielders. Chad Brown, who was playing in center field (and eventually played all three outfield positions throughout the night) drove in the first run on a sacrifice fly to left field. Second baseman Jim Fisher followedi with a two out RBI double ahclUaen shortstop Ben Reynoso singled home Fisher. Portland came back to score another runin the top of the sev¬ enth and the Bulldogs countered with two more runs on DH Pete Hennecke's single to left fields Hennecke would finish the night going two-for-three and driving in three runs a And after paitently waiting, Fresno State got what it was hop¬ ing for. Down.10-6 in the bottom of the eighth, ancLwith one run Kennel Bookstore Graduation announcements are now available! rdexfjrour personalized puncements today at > ■enriel Copy Center Minimum order of 10: $15 >c« i Additional increments of 5: $5 Lower Level 278-3945 IViA'dLY Free Free Free already home, the Bulldogs sent nine men to the plate and capped otf^tWo^iti^Vtimii1-' to-back doubles by pinch hitter Quentin Stone, which drove in three runs, and then by Hennecke, who drove in Stone, to tie the same at 10-10 -^X. "I was impressed with the way the kids never quit," head coach Bob Bennettsaid. "They didn't get discouraged, and a lot of them came through in the various situations that we needed them to. We finally got where we were enjoying the dang thing." ^ Both teams exchanged runs in the 11th inning, before the Bull¬ dogs dramatic 13th inning vic¬ tory. ' .. . In earlier action, the Classic started with a match-up of two teams going in opposite direc¬ tions. The baseball faithful were treated to a good -game as the Hustlin' Rebels scored one run in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 2-2 before taking a 4-2 lead in the top of the tenth. The Tigers came back to score one'in the bottom of the eleventh making it 4-3, but did not puih the tying run •Hospital Sterilization ^ •Fine Line »Coior •Cover ups «Re-work •'Traditonal" , or Custom •Piercing & Cosmetic Wm MOKMWy KteW% FrOaWiO CMS) tOT-TAT Also Featuring: tlie Black Dragon Mobile Tattoo Studio | You come to us... or we come to you! •252-TAT2v The second game featured the Gonzaga Bulldogs versus the #15 Nevada Wolfpack. Nevada used three pitchersbut got the job done as they recorded a 4-3 victory. The final game before the Fresno State nightcap was the Virginia Tech Hokies against the Wyoming Cowboys. Tlie Hokies, coming off of a 14- 0 drubbing of Holy Cross last Thursday, were able to pull off a 7-3 victory over the hapless Cow¬ boys, -v- |