1996_02 The Daily Collegian February 1996

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Ttiesday, February 6, 1996
Sports
Sports Editor: Brian R. Fisher
Telephone: (209) 278-5733
BULLDOG
SPORTS
* If a Fresno State athletic
event has or will happen on
campus, you'll find it here.:    ''
SCORES
WOMEN'S TENNIS
University of Nevada       2
Fresno State 7
WRESTLING
(dual meet @ San Francisco)
Fresno State 111
Cal Poly—SLO        -        104
Cal State Fullerton 56
SCHEDULE
TODAY'S GAMES
• Golf — The Ping/Arizona
Invitational @ University of
Arizona. All day.
• Baseball —doubleheader—vs.
St. Mary's College @ Beiden
Field, first game 5 p.m.
• Men's Tennis @ USC, 1:30
p.m.
TOMORROW'S GAMES
• Wrestling vs. Cal Poly San
Luis Obispo @ North Gym, 7
p.m.
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• Women's Tennis @ Stanford,
1:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, FEBt 3
• Men's Basketball @ San Diego
State University, 7 p.m.
• Women's Basketball vs.
Wyoming @ North Gym, 7 p.m.
• Men's Tennis — National
Individual Indoor Champion¬
ships @ Dallas, Texas, All day.
BULLDOG BRIEFS
Fresno State bowlers to
participate in
Collegiate Championships
The Fresno State Women's
bowling team will compete in .
the Intercollegiate Bowling
Championships. April 10-14 at
Kansas City. Mo.
The Lady Bulldogs will be
^jalfeof^ixteen teams competing
for the national title.
The team is led by freshman
Traci Anderson who had a 214
per game average during a nine
game span at the Sam's Town
Collegiate Shootout in Las
Vegas. Dec. 28-29, 1995.
Anderson had a tournament
high game of 279 and was
selected to the All-Tournament
team.
Fresno State wins wrestling tourney
Courtesy of Sports Information
Champ of the mat. Fresno State's Nick Zinkin was named the
Most Outstanding Wrestler at the California Collegiate Champi¬
onships in San Francisco on Saturday.
By Casey Angle
Sports Writer
Fresno State will be looking to
extend stheir home unbeaten streak
to eight tomorrow night when they
host Cal Poly-SLO at seven in the
North Gym. '
The 25th-ranked Bulldogs are on
a hot streak of late, after dominat¬
ing at the California Collegiate
Championships in San Francisco on
Saturday and winning their last two
duals.
At the Collegiate Champion¬
ships, six Bulldog wrestlers took
home titles and two others took sec¬
ond as Fresno State won the tour¬
nament for the third straight season.
"Obviously I'm happy," Bulldog
Head Coach Dennis DeLiddo said.
"I brought seven starters and all
seven were in the finals. It wasn't
the toughest tournament in the
world, but we had six champs. I
can't complain."
Leading the way for Fresno State
on Saturday was junior Nick
Zinkin, who was named the
tournament's Most Outstanding
Wrestler after winning the 126-
pound title.
Zinkin was dominating, pinning
three opponents, including
Stanford's Matt Cano 1:23 into the
title match. He also won the Coach
Haddad Award for getting those
three pins in 10:58.
"He started wrestling like he's
capable of," DeLiddo said. "It was
good to see him cut it loose."
"Everything was working for me
and I felt good," said Zinkin, who
had been battling the flu last week.
In addition to Zinkin, Yero
Washington (134 pounds), Alfonzo
Tucker (158), Jason Street (177),
Lalo Moz (190), and Darin
Preisendorf (heavyweight) also
took first. Brendan Buckley (142)
and Byron Campbell (158) took
second.
Fresno State tallied 111 team
points to second-place* Cal Poly-
SLO's 104. Cal State Fullerton was
a distant third with 56.
San Luis Obispo, who carries a
7-3 (3-1 in the Pac-10) record into
torrjorrow night's matchup with the
Bulldogs, and have won six of their
last seven.
"They [Cal Poly] matchup pretty
tough against us," DeLiddo said. "If
we wrestle good like we did at San
Francisco we should be all right.
But we have got to get a consistent
performance."
Head Coach Lennis Cowell's
Please see WRESTLING, Page 7.
Track splits
squad, 'Dogs
break records
By Jabari Lawrence
Sports Writer
Saturday marked a day of
fallen records as the Bulldog Men
and Women's track teams split
their squads and competed in the
Bill Cosby Indoor Invitatiqnal in
Reno, Nev. and the Bakersfield
Roadrunner Outdoor Invitational.
Bill Cosby Indoor Invite.:
• Senior Moses Kearney broke
his own school high jump record,
which he had set just a week ear¬
lier, as he cleared 7'-4 1/2" to win
the event.
His performance automati¬
cally qualifies him for the NCAA
Indoor Championships.
Sophomore Erik Nyberg fin¬
ished, tied for second at the Bill
Cosby Invitational by clearing 7'-
0 1/4".
• Senior Kipp Ortenburger
overcame illness (mononucleosis
and hepatitis), which he had been
suffering with since the end of the
cross country season, to finish
first in the mile with a time of
4:12.28.
• The women's relay team of
won the 4x400 meter relay for the
second consecutive week. Sopho¬
mores Ardin Harrison and Tami
Simpson, freshman Angela
Daigle and senior Felecia Brown
set a new Frenso State record at
3:44.07.
Please see TRACK, Page 7.
Women's Tennis team beats Nevada
| The Women's Tennis
team follows the lead of No.
1 seed Dora Djilianova in
route to its seventh win of
the season.
By Paige Devers
Sports Writer
Despite overcast weather, the
Fresno State Women's Team con¬
tinued to shine on Friday with a 7-
2 win over Nevada.
The win boosted their season
record to 7-1.
Six of the seven wins came in
singles play as the Bulldogs contin¬
ued their hot play.
No. 1 seed Dora Djilianova, a
freshman from Bulgaria, beat
Nevada's Kristi Harris 6-1.6-1, with
ease as she improved to 5-0 on the^
season.
No. 2 Marta Pitarch continued
her .dominating season by beating
Nevada's LeAnne Mattland 6-1,6-
1. Pitarch is now 11-2 on the sea¬
son and has ye-, to lose in four dual
matches.
Another Freshman standout, Liz
Marpuri sparked win number 12
with a 6-0,6-0 win. The Freshman
swept the top 5 with Shana Peete's
(Germantown, Tenn.) bright finish
of 6-4, 6-4 making her No. 4.
Prior to the game, Coach Irene
Harris said that Nevada was a good
team that was very strong in doubles
play.
Coach Harris' words proved true
Paul Martinez — The Daily Collegian
Backhand smash. Fresno State's Dora Djilianova,returns a shot
from Nevada's Kristi Harris. Djilianova won the match 6-1, 6-1.
as Nevada dominated in doubles
action.
Djilanova and Terje Pallo fell to
the tandem of Harris and Mattland,
8-6.
Fresno State's Marpuri and
Townsend also lost 8-6.
The Bulldogs did however get a
win in with their lowest doubles
team.
Freshman Kandiss Crieghton
and Peete recorded a 9-7 victory.
Fresno State faces their tough¬
est opponent of the season when
they take on second ranked Stanford
at Palo Alto today.
Stanford's six single players are
all nationally ranked. They are led
by junior Katie Schlukebir. Their
three doubles teams are ranked as
well. Last year the Cardinal finished
third at the NCAA Championships.
The Bulldogs won't be home
again until Feb. 25th when the team
hosts UC Davis.   .
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