1996_09 The Daily Collegian September 1996

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Tuesday, September 24,1996
Sports
Sports Editor: Tom Sepulveda
Telephone: (209) 278-5733
CORNER
Volleyball
USA Today/CNN
Coaches Poll
Top 25
I.Florida (38)
2. Florida State (22)
3. Penn State
4. Ohio State (2)
5. Notre Dame
6. Michigan
7. Nebraska
8. Tennessee
9. Miami
10. Alabama
11. North Carolina
12. Arizona State
13. Kansas State
U.Texas
15. Colorado
16. Virginia Tech
17. Virginia
18. USC
19. Louisiana State
20. Kansas
21. Washington
22. Aubum
23. West Virginia
24. BYU
25. Iowa
1.524
1.494
1.380
1,359
1,197
1.181
1.166
990
945
913
896
821
771
744
724
675
614
573
551
402
305
245
174
172
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Cross Country results
The women's team finished
fourth and the men's team took fifth
at the Fresno State Invitational at
Woodward Park on Friday.
Fresno State senior Danielle
Nelson took seventh place in the 5
kilometer run with a time of 18 :19.
The women had 112 points, well
behind first-place Stanford's 26
points.
Stanford also won the men's
competition with 17 points.
For the Bulldogs, senior Nacho
Flores was the top finisher, taking
seventh place with a time of 25:39
in the 8 kilometer race.
Gold medal celebration
this Saturday
Fresno &tate will recognize its
USA Olympic softball gold medal¬
ists with a celebration at the Bull¬
dog Diamond on Saturday. Sept. 28.
The ceremony will last from 3
p.m.to6p.m.and will include USA
Olympic softball video highlights on
three large screen televisions located
on the concourse.
All six Fresno State softball
Olympians will sign autographs
from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Sports staff still MBM
The Daily Collegian is looking
to fill three sportswriter positions.
If you are enthusiastic about
sports, a good writer, and depend-
• able, contact sports editor Tom
Sepulveda at 278-5733.
Interested students can also ap¬
ply in person at the Daily Collegian
in the Keats building.
Men's soccer team gets 300th win
■ Win at home on Sept. 5 over UC-Santa
Barbara is milestone victory for soccer program
at Fresno State
By Luis Hernandez
The Daily Collegia*
When the Fresno State Bulldogs
beat the Santa Barbara Gauchos 1 -
0 on Sept. 5 at Bulldog Stadium,
the men's soccer team program
earned ic 300th victory in 26 years
of existence.
That averages out to a cool 12
victories a year.
Right now, the men's soccer pro¬
gram has 303 victories, 144 losses
and 40 ties, for a winning percent¬
age of .663.
The'Fresno State program has
had only three coaches.
The pioneer— Bob Bereskin -
was   first.   Then   came   Jose
Elogorriaga, who now does color
commentating on the radio during
Fresno State matches. John Bluem
is the coach racking up wins for the
school now.
Out of the 300 victories,
Elogorriaga is responsible for a
little more than half. His record was
170-58-20 in 10 years before he
retired.
Coming up next in the list is
Bluem. His 74-24-10 record in six
years yields out to a .755 winning
percentage.
Of all the victories, Bluem said
that there is one that stands out the
most.
"Probably, the most significant
victory would be the 1994 Cham¬
pionship game of the Mountain
Pacific Athletic Association,"
Bluem said.
His team beat UCLA 1-0 here
in Fresno to capture its tenth cham¬
pionship conference title.
But Bluem still has another vic¬
tory in mind: The NCAA champi-
maining victories. His record was
59-62-10. His highest total of vic¬
tories came in 1977 with 11. His
team went undefeated in conference
play at 7-0 and Bereskin was named
SCISA coach of the year.
In comparison, the men's soccer
program at Stanford, which has
"The ultimate goal is to win the national title.
The championship is not unrealistic but
difficult"
— John Bluem
men's soccer head coach
onship.
"The ultimate goal is to win the
national title," Bluem said. "The
championship is not unrealistic but
difficult."
Bereskin accounts for the re-
been around for 30 years, has a
record of 255-200-61.
For further comparison, the foot¬
ball team, which has been around
for 74 years, has a record of 441-
294-29.
Tired players, new
faces a
ccount for loss
By Tom Sepulveda
The Daily Collegian
It was just one play against #7
Fullerton State, right at the begin¬
ning. But it was enough to change
the course of the game.
The Bulldogs men's soccer team
ran into the Fullerton State Titans
— or more appropriately, the
Titans ran into Fresno State — and
dropped its first game of the sea¬
son, 3-0.
But in the first two minutes of
the game, Fullerton State forward
Charlie Lynch wiped outSBulldogs
defender Sylvain Tern pie man with
a bad foul, earning a yellow card
but sending Templeman, one of
only three veteran Bulldogs defend¬
ers available for the game, to the
sideline.
"That's the story of the game
right there," Head Coach John
Bluem said. "Fullerton State played
a very physical game, and that's
OK, that's part of college soccer."
"But if that's what they want, we
can play that way next time we see
them," he added.
v Fresno State dominated the time
of possession, and played most of
the game injuillerton State's end.
But the Titans were rarely caught
with less than six players back,
thanks to an early goal.
Templeman's loss forced Bluem
to play freshman Aaron Kincade at
left defenseman. The Bulldogs had
already shifted, to a three-defender
lineup after losing Jake Dancy to a
red card Friday night against Bowl¬
ing Green.
Add to that Shawn Saunders in¬
eligibility, and the Bulldogs have
become dangerously thin in the
back line.
And the Titans took advantage.
Bulldogs goalkeeper J J. Wozniak
gave up three goals, and it would
have been five if the center
defenseman Sean Novak hadn't
cleared two balls off the line.
The defense made some mis-'
takes. Midfielder Ryan Robson de¬
flected a centering pass into his own
net at the eight minute mark.
Later, down 2-0, Wozniak was
caught out of position after the Bull¬
dogs' defense turned the ball over
in its own third of the field, allow¬
ing Titans forward Sheldon Thomas
to nail a 25-yard half-volley into the
lower left corner of the net.
These are the kinds of mistakes
Bulldogs fight hard in
loss to #1 ranked Hawai'i
By Kael Moffat
The Daily Collegian
The Fresno State women's vol¬
leyball team had its toughest match
of the year on Friday night, facing
the #1 ranked Hawai'i Rainbow
Wahine in Honolulu.
The Bulldogs lost the match 14-
16, 15-3, 15-9 in front of a crowd
of 7.617.
Fresno State Head Coach Lindy
Vivas counted the match a big plus
for the team. "I thought we played
well," she said. "First game we
played as well as we've played all
season. Second game we let down,
but we played them strong in the
third. That was good to see."
The bright spot for Fresno State
was the play of senior middle
blocker, Debbie Davis, who had 11
kills, three digs, and three block
Tricia Tuley posted good all-
around numbers with eight kills,,
four service aces, and eight digs.
Jessica Toy a handled the setting
duties, with 36 assists, six digs, and
two block assists.
"Our middles, Debbie and
Adaline, played well. They got a lot
of touches on a lot of balls," Coach
Vivas said.
Hawai'i All-American middle
hitter Angelica Ljungquist lead all
scores with 19 kills, three service
aces, 11 digs, two solo blocks, and
five block assists. Ceclia Goods
added 12 kills and five block assists
and All-American setter Robyn Ah
Mow had 49 assists, five kills, and
12 digs for the Rainbow Wahine.
"This match was good for us. It
gave us a chance to evaluate our-
selves against the best. It showed'
us that when we play our best, we
can compete with anybody," Vivas
said. "The -key is to stay at that
level."   //
fans can expect when new lineups
have to be thrown together at the
last minute.
Novak, Dancy. Templeman and
Posey make up a powerful defen¬
sive line, as they showed last week
in a 3-1 crowning of UCLA.But the
team lacks experienced substitutes,
and it showed Sunday.
Kincade didn't play poorly. Nei¬
ther did Ryan Boyajian, who played
most of the game as one of four
midfielders in a 3-4-3 set.
But Templeman's loss forced the
four midfielders to come back and
defend Fullerton State's quick
counterattacks. And with Kincade
and Boyajian forced into action —
two players the team wasn't used
to work ing with — combined with
a tired squad, there was a lot of
room for miscommunication.
please see ANALYSIS page 7.
Fresno States newest
sport ready for season
| Women's
equestrian gears up
for first season as
varsity sport
By Gary Chapla
The Daily Collegian
With 20 years of club-level
competition, Fresno State has
again reached into its magical
bag of sports
and has pulled out equestrian
•as the new women's.varsity
sport.
The team will continue its
membership in the Intercolle¬
giate Horse Show Association
(IHSA), the governing Organi¬
zation of intercollegiate eques¬
trian sports.
The IHSA, which has flour¬
ished since 1967, currently con¬
sists of 20 regions with 235 col¬
leges and universities represent¬
ing 4,500 riders. ^
To accommodate the vast
number of riders, IHSA holds
competitions at the regional,
zone and national levels.
The IHSA gives both the in¬
experienced and experienced
rider the opportunity to ride ei¬
ther in English or Western riding
disciplines and to compete indi¬
vidually and/or on a team.
Six months ago, equestrian
did not even show up on the
chalk board when Fresno State
was thinking of what varsity
sport should be added to
women's athletics.
Yet Athletic Director Al Bohl
said that after researching the
sport it had "tremendous popu-
Please see EQUESTRIAN page 7.