1997_03 The Daily Collegian March 1997

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Tuesday, March 4, 1997
Sports
Sports Editor: Luis Hernandez
Telephone: (209) 278.-5733
CORNER
Swimming and
diving
4 Dogs grab sixth
place at conference
championship
Last week, the Fresno
State women's swimming
and diving team competed in
the Western Athletic Confer-
.   ence Championships.
The meet- began last
Thursday at the Palo Alto
College Natatorium. in San
Antonio. Texas.
For three days, the Bull¬
dogs w ent up against the best
swimmers in the WAC
A total o\ 19 pool records.
15 meet records, and nine
WAC records were set.
For three of the top five
teams, this had beeij, their
first WAC Championship
meet.
Southern Methodist Uni¬
versity won the team title
with 867 points, as well as
many individual awards.
In a distant second was
Bngham Young University
whose team earned 455
points.
TheUniversity of Nevada
Las Vegas finished third with
411 points.
Fresno State placed sixth
in a field of 14.
v Despite not winning an .
event there were a few proud
> moments for Fresno State.
Sophomore Holly Gravatt
took second place in the 200
meter breaststoke
And junior Deanna
Voudouris took fifth in the
200 meter butterfly, just sec¬
onds out of the top three.
In two weeks. Fresno
State will send Holly Gravatt
to the NCAA Champion¬
ships.
She will be competing in
the 200 meter brcaststroke.
At the NCAA Champion¬
ships, the top conference fin¬
ishers nationwide will be
swimming for individual
titles.
This meet will be the
1996-97 season finale for
collegiate women's swim¬
ming and diving.
—ByJeffBernsen
Lobos defeat Bulldogs in tournament
The New Mexico Lady Lobos
►rode the heels of a sparkling sec¬
ond half by junior Abby Garcheck
to knock off the Fresno State Bull**
dogs. 70-59. in the first round of the
women's WAC basketball tourna¬
ment.
Behind 21 points from
Garcheck. New Mexico improved
to 18-9 on the season and set up a
quaterfinal showdown with the Pa¬
cific Division champion San Diego
Aztecs on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
Fresno State ended their season at
14-13.
"In the first half I think we came
out a little over anxious, maybe
even a bit too pumped up," New
Tamika Luois
shot better, executed better, and
made the right adjustments in the
second half."
Fresno State's penetration and
aggresivc defense left the Lady Lo¬
bos in a 34-29 halftime hole after
being held to only 37 percent shoot¬
ing in the first half.
But foul trouble doomed the
Bulldogs in the second half and the
Lobo's attack took advantage by
reeling off an 11-1 run with 15 min¬
utes left in the second half.
Garcheck. who had only six
points in the first half, stepped up
in the second half with 15 points,
while dishing out five assists for the
game.
New(Mexico took advantage of
the hole in the middle left by 6-4
Zanete Law picking up her fourth
foul and Lori Brown fouling out.
by getting the ball to post players
Anita Vuletic and Katie Kern who
each scored in double figures, and
combined for 20 rebounds.
"We tried to calm our girls dow n
because we knew they were getting
themselves in foul trouble," Fresno
State Head Coach Linda Wunder
said. "People were going in to help
on defense, but then others weren't
helping them out."
For the game. New Mexico
placed four players in double fig¬
ures, as Sonya Bryant added 10
points despite having four fouls.
New Mexico bounced back for
their fourth win in their last five
games.
Tamika Louis scored 16 points
to lead the Bulldogs in scoring.
Lesons the softball team must take to heart
By Kael Moffat
The Daily Collegian
Lesson one: The Dodger
Syndrom is bad The Dodger
Syndrom is characterized by the
bottom four hitters of the line up
going cold.
And, just like the bottom four of
last year's Dodgers, the bottom four
hitters of the Fresno State line up
need to remember that the bats they
carry up to home plate aren't just
pretty. In Saturday's double header
against the University of Utah Utes.
the first five hitters combined for
14 hits and four RBIs. The bottom
four combined for two hits and two
RBIs on the evening.
Lesson two: A top ten ranking
simply means you have a bullscye
on your back Fresno State entered
Saturday's games ranked second in
the nation with a 9-0 record. Fresno
State exited the evening with a 10-
Paul Martinez — The Daily Collegian
Lesson number five: Freshman Amanda Scott needs support to win games for the 'Dogs
Fresno State's tennis teams get mixed results
Please see JUMP KEY page I
V
I Women's tennis team .
bounces back from
defeat in New Mexico
By Ranjeet Randhawa
The Daily Collegian
The Fresno State women's ten¬
nis team faced a spirited University
of New Mexico team at Albuquer¬
que. UNM, ranked No. 60 in the
nation is off to its best start (10-0 )
under Head Coach Kathy
Kolankiewicz. Fresno State ranked,
34th in the nation, lost to Lobos 8-
i at the Lobo Tennis Complex last
Saturday.
The lone victory for Bulldogs
came from outstanding sophomore
Dora Djilianova who defeated
UNM's Ana Friganovic 6-7,6-4,6-
3. Djilianova is ranked No. 25 in
the nation. She has 17 wins this sea¬
son in single tournaments and is
Please see Women's page 8.
Dora Djilianova was the only Bulldog player to get a victory in the
Fresno State match against the hosting Lobos this weekend.
■ Bulldogs top San
Diego Toreros in men's
tennis
The Fresno State men's tennis
team defeated the University of San
Diego Torreros on Sunday in San
Diego.
The Bulldogs improved their
record to 6-4 this season. The
Toreros dropped to 2-5.
The Bulldogs were led by
Fredrick Giers, who had two wins
to add to his total this season.
Geirs defeated San Diego's
Rikard Roos 7-6. 6-2.
Andy Scorteanu beat Ola
Lindblom 6-4, 7-5.
In fact, with Robert Lindstedt's
victory over Rodolfo Rodriguez 6-
4, 6-4, the Bulldogs were able to
jump to a 3-0 lead they never sur¬
rendered.
San Diego came back, winning
three of the next four matches to
Please see Men's tennis page 8.
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