1996_03 The Daily Collegian March 1996

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Tuesday, March 26,1996
Sports
Sports'Editor: Brian R. Fisher
Telephone: (209) 278-5733
BULLDOG
SCORE
Fresno State
Hawaii
Baseball
(Sunday's game)
18
3
(Saturday's game)
Fresno State 11
Hawaii 5
(Friday's game)
Fresno State- 7
Hawaii 4
Softball
(Consolation game @ Cal State
Fullerton Pony Invitational)
#4 Fresno State 2
#5 CS Northridge       m        I
Women's Tennis
Boise State 1
#36 Fresno State 6
|        SCHEDULE        |
Today's Qames
• SoftbaH vs. Bowling Green @
Softball Stadium. 5 p.m.
• Baseball @ San Diego State
University. 7 p.m.
• Golf—Southwestern Intercolle¬
giate Tournament (hosted by
USC)—@ North Ranch Country ,
Club. Wesllake Village. All day.
Tomorrow's Games
• Men's Tennis vs. Boise State @
Fresno State Tennis Courts. 1:30
p.m.
Thursday. March 28
• No games scheduled.
1   SPORTS SHORTS   |
Start of Spring football
just two weeks away
The Fresno State football team
will begin its spring football practice
on April 8.
The team had initially planned to
start on March 7. however Head       g
Coach Jim Sweeney decided that
because of the field conditions,
which were poor at the time due to
rainy weather, practice should be
postponed.
The practice period will last for
IS days and will be conclude'd with a
■ intra-squad scrimmage on Satrudayj
May 4. I
Football Notes... The Bulldogs wili
return 47 letterman to this fear's
squad with a breakdown looking like
this: J9 on offense, 25 on defense
and three special team players.
Seven of the offensive players and
eight of the defensive players were
starters at some point last season.
The typical practice schedule for the
team will be on Monday, Wednes¬
day, Friday and Saturday. The team
will not practice on the Friday before
the Spring game.
'Dogs sweep
four-way
track meet^
)
■ Fresno State
performs well, but
Price suffers injury
to her face while
attemping a jump in
the women's pole
vault.
By Jabari Lawrence
Sports Writer
Senior Staci Darden set a new
Fresno State record at the meet held
Sunday at Warmerdam Field in the
hammer, tossing an incredible 176-
10. The mark automatically quali¬
fies her for the NCAA Outdoor
Championships which will be held
in Oregon on May 30-June 1.
Fresno State pulled off a sweep
of its three opponents in its first
home meet of the year, Sunday at
Warmerdam Field. The Bulldog
men beat Long Beach State, 113-
64 (women, 124-66); Air Force,
113-75 (129-61) and Kent, 106-79
(124-94) in duals and finished first
overall in the four-way scoring. The
wins raise the Bulldogs' dual-meet
records to 6-0 on the season, hav¬
ing beaten Cal Poly, Stanford and
Cal State Sacramento earlier in the
year.
The Bulldog's women used a to¬
tal of 14 event victories to beat their
three opponents on Sunday, while
the men won seven.
Senior Jason Dossey, who
picked up wins in the discus (169-
10) and the hammer (190-11), set
personal bests in both events.
Dossey also placed second in the
shot put (51 -6 1/4). His mark in the
discus is eighth all-time at Fresno
State.
Fresno State also got individual
victories from Aaron Samansky in
the 800-meters (1:51.58), Ranjeet
Randhawa in the 110-hurdles
(14.82), David Cox in the pole vault
(17-8 1/2), Erik Nyberg in the high
jump (6-11 3/4) and the 4x400-
meter relay team of Samansky, Matt
Potter, James Gross and Demetrius
Snaer.
For the women, freshman An¬
gela Daigle won the 100-meter at
11.86. Just last week, her 100-meter
time of 11.68 at the Cal Poly Invi¬
tational not only was good enough
to win her event, but placed her at
No. 3 on Fresno State's all-time list.
Senior Felecia Brown had a busy
day, as she won the triple jump (37-
9 1/2) and the long jump (19-0),
then ran a leg for the winning 1600-
meter relay team (3:46.18, PR),
placed third in the 100-hurdles
(14.32) and competed in the javelin
(126-4) and high jump (5-2).
Also, senior Kesha Criswell won «
the 200 at 24.97 and ran a leg for
the winning 4x100 relay team
(45.60) and placed second in the
100 (11.95) as well. Senior Samone
Cole won the 100-hurdles event at
14.04, and third in the 100(12.00).
Sophomore Tami Simpson set a
personal record in winning the 400
in 55.91 as well as a leg for the win¬
ning 4x400 relay team.
Senior Irene Orozco seta
PR in the 800, finishing at 2:10.49
for first place and senior Devon
Please see MEET, Page 8.
Winner again. Melissa Price clears 13 feet to win the women's
pole vault event by a margin of 5 feet. During a later attempt of
13-4, she injured her mouth when she hit the bar.
Fresno State wins consolation at Pony Invite
By Matthew Lievre
Sports Writer
FULLERTON- They say that
good pitching will always beat good
hitting, and that was the scenario
this weekend for the Fresno State
softball team at the Cal State Ful¬
lerton Pony Invitational.
The Bulldogs (18-6) finished
with three wins and two losses
which put them in the consolation
bracket, but it was a roller-coaster
three wins that went along with two
heat-breaking losses.
Sunday's consolation game was
an early WAC showdown as the
Bulldogs met rival Cal State
Northridge (26-6).
The Bulldogs turned to Lindsay
Parker to send them back home on
a high note, and she rewarded her
teammates with her best perfor¬
mance of the year.
Fresno fell behind 1-0 in the
third but tied it in the sixth, and
went on to win it in the top of the
seventh.
Amber Wall led off with a
double and was moved to third on
a wild pitch, and eventually scored
on another wild pitch for a 2-1 Bull¬
dog victory.
Parker who picked up her sixth
victory, without a defeat pitched a
complete game allowing one earned
run while striking out three.
"It's a great way to end a tour¬
nament, because you can walk
away from something like this bit¬
ter about your performance, and we
played our best game today and that
was good timing," Head Coach
Margie Wright said.
Fresno opened the tournament
with a bang by defeating Ohio Uni¬
versity Thursday, 8-0. Nina
Lindenberg led the 14 hit attack as
she hit for the cycle. On the mound
Jennifer Clark picked up her sev¬
enth win of the year and took a no-
hitter into the fifth inning uhtil
Staci Bellville broke it up.
Thursday evening the Bulldogs
met the fifth ranked Cal State Ful¬
lerton, but left their bats back at the
hotel.
The Bulldogs and Titans re¬
mained scoreless after seven in¬
nings, forcing the game to extra in¬
nings.
Softball's International tie
breaker rule was put in effect which
states that after the seventh inning
a runner is automatically placed at
second base.
feated the Minnesota Golden Go¬
phers 2-1 on a.dramatic home-run
in the bottom of the seventh inning
by second baseman Trina Puckett.
"I was just looking to get a base-
hit because I'd been struggling a lot
lately," Puckett said.
Friday night Fresno faced
UNLV in bracket play, and once
again they got a great pitching per¬
formance from Clark, but the of-
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