1981_09 The Daily Collegian September 1981

              Paga 10/Saptembar 8. 1981—Dally Collegian
Polo squad reaches for top ten
Sports Editor
Last season, coach Don Laster's
Bulldog water polo squad finished the
year with an impressive No. 11 national
ranking, but as nice as that was, Laster
is looking for even better things in the
1981 campaign.
'We finished just out of the top 10,
and now I don't think there is any
reason to believe that we can't get into
it this year,' he said last week.
But Laster and his team definitely
have its work cut out for it this year
as they are dealing with a loaded and
demanding schedule that includes many
of the finest teams in the country.
Topping last season's overall won-loss
record of 21-8 will be no easy chore.
CSUF's only drawbacks may be its
geographical location and the league
it belongs to. Almost all of the nation's
water polo powerhouses are situated
on the West Coast, with Stanford head¬
ing the list as the defending national
And last year, the Bulldogs could only
manage a fifth-place finish in the
PCAA post-season tournament due to
the tough forces of UC Irvine, Pepper-
dine, UC Santa Barbara and Cal State
Long Beach, teams that were all ranked
among the top seven in the country.
One of the Bulldogs' main goals is
to finish in the top three in this year's
PCAA tourney, which would earn them
a   berth   in   the   NCAA   tournament.
The water polo team, which starts
the year Off with an alumni game Sat¬
urday, will be a young one, with only
three seniors and five returning starters.
Heading the returnees will be senior'
Matt Weinheimer, the second-leading
scorer last year, and Randy Biglione,
a junior who led the Bulldogs in steals.
Other returnees include senior Mike
Crgich, juniors "Ron Meyer-Hagen and
Eric Fredrickson, and sophomores
Rich   Kahn   and   Scott   Chamberlain.
Laster will be relying heavily on new¬
comers including Ken McDougall of
Cuesta JC and Jeff Ammann, who was a
member of the 1979 state junior college
championship team from Colden West.
Other welcome additions this year
include two top College of Sequoias
recruits in goalie Ben Blankenship and
WATER POLO continued on page 12
Only four starters back, volleyball returns
With only four returning starters,
it would seem that the CSUF volleyball
team is headed for a rebuilding year
this season, but on the contrary, nth-
year coach Leilani Overstreet feels her
Bulldogs will be as tough as ever.
'It's almost like we're starting over
with all the new faces around,' she
said last week. 'But the girls are
reaching a good level pretty fast. We're
going to have a fine team."
CSUF finished third in the Northern
California Athletic Conference last sea¬
son with an 8-4 record. All of those
losses came at the hands of conference
champion University of Pacific and
runner-up Stanford. It wasn't a bad
showing at all, considering the fact that
UOP ended the year with a No. 2 nation¬
al  ranking  -nd  Stanford  was   No.   9.
"I really hope we can improve on that
third place showing,* said Over-
street. "We're going to work hard to
knock off Stanford, and I know it will be
tough, but we'll do our best to beat
UOP."
Overstreet will be able to see just what
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