1996_05 The Daily Collegian May 1996

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, May 1,1996
Sports
Sports Editor: Brian R. Fisher
Telephone: (209) 278-5733
Long Beach State 4
#30 Fresno State 6
Softball
Game one—
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo     4
#3 Fresno State 1
Game two—
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo     2
#3 Fresno State 5
I        SCHEDULE
Today's Games
• No games scheduled
Tomorrow's Games
• #30 Baseball vs. Hawaii @ Beiden
Field. 7 p.m.    .      ^
• Golf—Western Athletic Confer¬
ence Championships—hosted by the
University of Wyoming @ Chey¬
enne Country Club. All day.
Friday, May 3
• Softball vs. San Diego Stale @
Softball Stadium, 5 p.m.
• #30 Baseball vs. Hawaii @ Beiden
Field, 7 p.m.
• #30 Women's Tennis—First round
of NCAA West Regionals—vs. #19
USC @ Pepperdine University, 9
• Golf—Western Athletic Confer¬
ence Championships—hosted by the
University of Wyoming @ Chey¬
enne Country Club. All day.
Fresno State women
nab first postseason
appearance ever
The Fresno State women's ten¬
nis team has been invited to com¬
pete in this weekend's NCAA
West Regionals at Pepperdine Uni¬
versity in Malibu, Calif.
The 30th-ranked Bulldogs (24-
5) will face 19th-ranked USC (13-
8), the No. 2 seed, at 9 a.m. on Fri¬
day at Pepperdine's Ralphs-Straus
Tennis Center.
''Our goal all year long has been
to qualify for the regionals,"
Fresno State Head Coach Irene
Harris said. "We are very excited
to get this opportunity."
The Trojans feature three play¬
ers ranked in the top 100 for
singles play. Senior Suzanne
Italiano leads the way with a No.
38 singles ranking.
—Staff Reports
'Dogs win
seventh straight
■ Baseball team
finishes season'
against Hawaii in
three game weekend
series here
By David Johnson
Sports Writer
There's no place like home for
Fresno State baseball's
centerfielder Josh Kaitfors. In the
#30 'Dogs 6-4 victory over #25
Long Beach State (30-20,13-5 Big
West) he batted four for five, in a
home run and three runs scored.
Last week at this time, he had
spectacular two home-run perfor¬
mance at Beiden field last Tuesday
against Santa Clara. But over the
weekend, he struggled at Sacra¬
mento State.
"I struggled [at Sacramento]. I
love hitting here [at Beiden Field],"
Kaitfors said. "I came out earlier,
got some extra hits in before the
game, and tried to work out some
things here and there."
The extra work paid off for
Kaitfors, and for the team as the
Bulldogs (33-22, 17-10 Western
Athletic Conference) move into a
great position to receive an at-large-
berth to the NCAA Regionals, re¬
gardless of the outcome of the WAC
race.
"[The win] should go in our fa¬
vor now. Late in the season we have
played really well. Late in.the sea¬
son, we've beat some really good
ball clubs, that should be a plus for
us," Head Coach Bob Bennett said.
But with three home games
against Hawaii remaining, the
'Dogs don't count themselves out
of another WAC title. The Bulldogs
swept the Rainbows in their earlier
meeting this season.
"We're in a situation now where
we just don't have any room to run.
We've got to have three to have a
chance to win the league. And we
gotta have two out of three to have
a chance to be in the playoffs,"
Bennett said.
This week's series looms large
in the path of the Bulldogs. Bennett
will throw the best pitchers he has,
which includes last night's winner
Adam Pettyjohn (2-1, 9.34). Re¬
cently Pettyjohn turned himself
Ryan McKee—The Daily Collegian
Long Beach's Jason Hodges scores the Forty-Niners third run in
the fifth inning in this collision with Guiseppe Chiaramonte.
around pitching-wise, and last week
earned his first Division I win
against Northridge.
"We set him back early in the
year because he really wasn't ready
toi>itch as a freshman, but we had
to throw him into the fire because
we didn't have any other pitchers,"
Bennett said.
After a rough season start,
Pettyjohn had only thrown 13.2 in¬
nings and gave up 20 runs. Once
he got over the nervousness, he be¬
gan to perform as he knew he could,
Bennett said.
"I think [the Northridge game]
got him over the hump. They're a
good hitting team, and I think that
gave him confidence," Bennett
said.
Regardless of previous perfor¬
mances, his team supported him
both on and off the field.
"He's awesome. I knew he'd
come around sooner or later,"
Kaitfors said. "I talked to him the
other day about taking control, but
I didn't think it would happen until
next year. I'm glad it could happen
this year."
Please see BASEBALL, Page 7.
Bulldog softball team
splits with Cal-Poly,
then loses Yorke
■ Bulldogs end road
swing with split with
Cal-Poly, and lose
All-American right
fielder Robin Yorke
for the season
By Matthew Lievre
Sports Writer
For the third-ranked Fresno
State softball team, the friendly
confines of Bulldog Diamond could
not look any better. Fresno con¬
cluded its 12-game April road
swing with a split against the Cal
Poly SLO Mustangs'bjTgetting up¬
set in game one, 4-1, but were able
to come back and salvage a split
with a 5-2 victory in game two.
Jennifer Clark started the first
game and was unable to retire a
batter as she gave up all four runs
on four hits. She dropped her record
to 15-5. Kim Peck came on to re¬
lieve Clark and pitched six innings
while allowing no runs and struck
out seven. Cal Poly pitcher Desarie
Knipfer improved her record to 16-
6 and struck out 10 Bulldogs in the
afternoon.
The lone Bulldogs run came on
a home-run by left-fielder Amber
Wall in the top of the second inning.
Game two featured another
record-break¬
ing perfor¬
mance along
with solid
pitching from
Lindsay
Parker, and
clutch hitting
from Nina
Lindenberg.
Fresno scored Yorke
a run in the first
inning, and another run in the sec¬
ond inning. Then in the top of the
fourth inning.Lindenberg belted her
12th home run of the year with two,
Bulldogs on to put the game out of
reach 5-0.
Parker pitched a complete game
to improve to 17-1 while striking
out six Mustangs.
Earlier in the second inning,
Lindenberg's double to center field,
was the team's 73rd of the year,
which set a new school single sea¬
son record, breaking the old record
set in 1989. f;
The Bulldogs finished the month
of April with a record of 18-2 and'
are now 44-8 overall.
However, Fresno did suffer
some bad news as they learned that
they will be without the services of
All-American right-fielder Robyn
Yorke. Yorke who underwent ankle
surgery last Thursday leaves the
Bulldogs with a .394 batting aver¬
age this season and has a career1
batting average of .440. J
To Redux or not to Redux, that is the question
Monday, a new diet controlled
drug, was approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration for
weight loss and maintenance of
weight loss.
People taking the pill, Redux
(pronounced Ree-do), are believed
to "feel full" more quickly than they
usually do when eating, says Inter-
neuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of
Lexington, Mass. It is the first time
in 20 years that such a drug has been
approved.
The prescription only pill is
thought to increase the release of
serotonin, a neurotransmitter shown
to influence appetite. Serotonin has
also been linked to depression and
other related moods. Studies show
that Redux produces significant
weight loss during a four to six
month period, when maintained and
controlled with the drug therapy for
up to a year. Yet, the safety of ef¬
fectiveness of Redux beyond a year
has not been determined.
Marc Deitch, senior vice presi¬
dent of medical affairs at Wyeth
states, "Redux is a new treatment
option for many obese Americans
who struggle to lose weight and
keep it off."
William Boni, Interneuron Vice
President estimates the drug could
be used for as many as 47 million
Americans.
The safety and permanent effec¬
tiveness of Redux is certainly ques¬
tionable.
Obese Americans may enjoy the
effects if a quick fix, however, stud¬
ies have shown that with calorie
restricted diets up to 70 percent of
the weight lost, is lean body tissue
(muscle). In other words, the weight
that is lost is not in the form of fat,
but of muscle. With calorie re¬
stricted diets, there is a drop in the
basal meta¬
bolic rate—the
rate at which
our body con¬
sumes calories.
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By Matt White
Sports Contributor
metabolic rate, proper exercise, a
diet high in carbohydrates, moder¬
ate protein and fat. How can we jus¬
tify releasing a drug that has pos¬
sible long term side effects, de¬
creases our lean body tissue and
may have addictive properties?
Tampering with one's normal con¬
sumption rate is a serious matter
and should be addressed with fur¬
ther studies.
Any questions or comments con¬
cerning Redux, may be addressed
to Matt White, a senior Exercise
Science major, via e-mail at
mawl0@csufresno.edu