1996_10 The Daily Collegian October 1996

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Monday, October 7,1996
Sports
Sports Editor: Tom Sepulveda
Telephone: (209) 278-5733
CORNER
WAC Football
#21 BYU
Utah State
#24 Utah
UTEP
#25 Wyoming
San Jose State
Colorado State
Hawai'i
Rice
New Mexico
Nevada
UNLV
Tulane
TCU
Missouri
SMU
45
17
34
27
45
22
28
16
38
21
54
17
35
7
27
26
Volleyball
Bulldogs def. #24 Colorado State
6-15.15-11.15-5.8-15.15-10
Bulldogs def. Wyoming
15-11.7-15.15-10.13-15.15-10
Men's soccer
Met Life Classic-
#3 St. John's 3
#22 Fresno State 1
#5 Rutgers
#22 Fresno State
2
10T
Women's soccer
Fresno State 2
Loyola Mary mount 1
Cross Country
Stanford Invitational
Fresno State results:
women's team 12th
men's team 15th
top men's finisher:
Alejandro Ramirez (26:15) 27th
top women's finisher:
Kelly Jacobson (18:44)      29th
Pro football
San Francisco
St. Louis
Oakland
New York Jets
34
13
l Gray tad offcast
Junior Michael Pittman leads the
team with 304 yards rushing (76.0
ypg). but JC transfer Michael Gray
(232 yards rushing) has led the team
the past two games.
Fullback Jamie Kimbrough has
rushed for 159 yards and two TD's
, this season, and is second on the
team with 12 catches.
Gem in rough carrying women's soccer team
Sophomore
newcomers
Paul Martinez — 77k- OmTy Collegian
Kristen Sinclair, of Vlsalia, is one of the 'Dogs' top
and leads the team in scoring this year.
By Erik Pfeifle
The Daily Collegian
So far in the Fresno State
women's soccer season, games go
as sophomore forward Kristen
Sinclair goes.
This is most clearly shown when
you consider she has scored goals
in five games and the Bulldogs have
won all of those games. Their 2-1
victory at USC was their only win
without a goal from Sinclair.
Maybe unknown to those not
closely follow ing the women' soc¬
cer team is that Kristen Sinclair usu¬
ally does not start, but rather comes
off the.bench. Out of the eleven
games Fresno State has played this
year. Sinclair has only started two.
However, Sinclair sees this as an
advantage, rather than disadvan¬
tage, when it comes to her scoring
goals.
"Since I don't start and I come
off of the bench, I am able to look
at what is going on and my job
when I come off of the bench is to
fire the team up. Once I get in, it is
a fresh pair of legs up front and ev¬
erybody picks it up a bit while I'm
in. It is just a team effort. It is my
job," said Sinclair.
Another statistic to look at is that
Sinclair has taken only 16 shots in
scoring those eight goals.
In 1975, Sinclair's father was
stationed for work overseas in Ma¬
laysia, where she was born and
lived until 1979. Then her family
moved to Vlsalia, where they have
lived since.
Her father, being full-blooded
English, started his daughter play¬
ing soccer as soon as she was old
enough to play in leagues. With the
exception of a few years of gym¬
nastics in junior high, she has
played soccer ever since.
As odd as it may sound. Sinclair,
who is the 'Dogs top scorer with
eight goals and 16 points, almost
never played college soccer. After
completing a brilliant high school
career at Mt. Whitney, in which she
was All-West Yosemite League all
four years, MVP of the league two
years, and member of the Premier
District VII team in '91-'92, she
was only recruited by St. Mary's.
She attended the College of the
Sequoias, which does not have a
women's soccer program, the past
two years and played on club teams.
After women's soccer head
coach Peter Reynaud took over, he
happened to be talking to the
women's soccer head coach at
Buchanan High School, who played
against Sinclair, and she brought up
Sinclair's name and told him he
should go see her. A few phone
calls from both sides and watching
her play a coed match was all that
Please see SINCLAIR page 7
Injuries
hamper
runners at
Stanford
By Erik Pfeifle
The Daily Collegian
The Fresno State men's
and women's cross-country
teams competed at the
Stanford Invitational this past
weekend.
Unfortunately, against a
tough field, the women did
not finish with the services of
top runner Danielle Nelson,
who collapsed due to heat
exhaustion, She was in 10th
with only 300 yards left when���she lost consciousness.
The men's top runner,
Nacho Flores, also ran into
difficulties. After running
most of the race in tenth po¬
sition, a knee problem with
only amile left slowed Flores
to a 93rd place finish and a
time of 27:52.
Since both top runners
were in 10th place at the time
of their demise, a finish in
that place would have pro¬
pelled both teams at least five
places higher overall in the 49
Please see RUNNERS page 7
Men's soccer team extends
winless streak to four
By Luis Hernandez
The Daily Collegian
The misery continues for the
Fresno State men's soccer team.
This time the Rutgers Scarlet
Knights came from behind to beat
the Bulldogs 2-1 to close the
Adidas/Met Life Classic at Yurak
Field yesterday.
This defeat extended the Bull¬
dogs' woes. They have not won a
game since they beat Bowling
Green State in a 2-1 overtime vic¬
tory on Sept. 22.
The Bulldogs had jumped in
front at the 15th minute of play
when Steve Patterson opened the
scoring off an assist by midfielder
Marek Nowacki. Nowacki had
gone to the goal line of Rutgers, and
passed the ball back diagonally to
Patterson who scored from seven
yards out. It was Patterson's sev-/
enth goal of the season.
The Scarlet Knights tied the
score when Michael Shaw scored
from 18 yards out after a miscue by
Fresno State's senior goalkeeper
J J. Wozniak.
"An incredible bad mistake in
the first half cost us a goal, so we
gave them one goal," John Bluem,
Fresno State men's soccer coach,
said.
The game ended tied 1-1 after
regulation. The 'Dogs, however,
controlled the stats sheet. Fresno
State had ten shots on goal to
Rutgers' six during regulation. The
'Dogs had nine corner kicks to the
Scarlet Knights' six.
Rutgers' second goal came in
the 94th"minute of play, right after
the start of overtime. Substitute
Vincent Almeida scored from eight
yards out after a deflection. It was
a controversial play since Bluem
protested the play.
"It's clearly a hand ball goal on
the second goal," Bluem said.
Then, to make matter worse for
the Bulldogs, Sean Novak, a senior
defender, was sent off at the 103rd
minute of play. Despite a good ef¬
fort, the Bulldogs could not tie the
score.
Despite the loss, Bluem is still,
optimistic about his team. "Rutgers
survives to win against us with a
hand ball goal and a mistake by our
team — a gift goal," Bluem said.
"Even after we had a guy sent off,
we were playing and creating
chances."
^We're 5-3-1 and our three
losses have come against top-10
teams," Bluem said. Despite that,
this defeat will cost the bulldogs
some spots when the polls come out
later this week.
"It was a long trip and the ball is
just not bouncing our way right
now," Bluem said. The Bulldogs
will have to find a remedy for that,
since their schedule does not get
any easier. Up next, the Bulldogs
will open conference play at Bull¬
dog Stadium Wednesday, Oct. 9 at
7pm against the San Jose Spartans.
Earlier in the tournament, the
Fresno State Bulldogs had dropped
a 3-1 game to the Saint John's Red
Storm.
The Bulldogs, whose record has
dropped to 5-2-1, had played a good
first half, but Jesse Van Saun open
the score for the Red Storm, whose
record improved to 9-0-1, at the
42nd minute of play.
"After a solid first half, we gave
up a silly goal (just before halftimel
and that psychologically hurt us,"
Bluem said.
Medufia Kulego at the 53rd
minute and Ricardo Joseph at the
60th minute further increased
Bluem's misery.
Fresno State closed the gap in
the scoreboard at the 75th minute
when sophomore forward Craig
Tomlinson scored on a 35-yard
blast. Junior forward Steve
Patterson was credited with an as¬
sist.
"His goal was electric," Bluem
said of Tomlinson's goal.
The Bulldogs' attack created
nine shots comparedko St John's
11. The 'Dogs also had three cor¬
ner kicks to St. John's five.
Defensively for Fresno Stale, J J.
Wozniak had three saves.