1984_01 The Daily Collegian January 1984

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Hopes rising for Bulldog hoop teams
Men       defense II Women
I another
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 Sports Editor	
After a season-long sabbatical, the once
highly-regarded Fresno State defense
finally arrived in town again midway
through the Bulldogs' PCAA lilt with
Long Beach Stale Saturday night. The
resulting impact was enough lo send the
dazed 49ers wandering back to Long
Beach with a 58-42 loss, and renewed
respect for the Bulldog defense of old.
"We hit a dead spot there somewhere,"
admitted Long Beach Slate Head Coach
Dave Buss. "They were extremely hard to
Buss's "Dead spot "hit five minutes into
the second half, when Fresno Slate,
playing its trademark trapping zone def¬
ense with cool, precision-like effeciency.
finally managed lo slop Long Beach Stale
it potent weapon, Joedy Gar-
it pomi
e the 6
uard had rivetted Fresno Stale
wiih a five-for-seven shooting binge, in
guiding the 49ers to a 30-25 lead.
"We just started talking lo each olher."
explained forward Ron Anderson of the
Bulldogs'  defensive   turn-around.   "We
'We were definitely keying
on Gardner. We shut him
down and made him work
for everything.'
—Carter
knew where there shooters were and how
to stop them."
"We were definitely keying on Gar¬
dner," said Fresno State guard Marv
Carter. "We shut him down and made him
work for everything."
"Great communication." was how Scott
Barnes summed it up. "That was the best
defense we've played this season." he said.
Indeed, there was no question in any¬
one's mind why Fresno State beat Long
Beach State Saturday night. It was the
same reason the Bulldogs made it to the
NIT championship and beat DePaul last
March. It was the same reason the
Bulldogs rolled to a 27-3 record and a
PCAA championship two years ago. And
it was the same reason Boyd Grant is the
third winningist coach percentage-wise in
the country over the past three years.
"The way to play was to take our time."
said Grant. "By having more patience we
took everything away from them."
For a span of 13 minutes in the second
half, the Fresno State defense almost took
everything from Joedy Gardner to the
Queen Mary away from Long Beach. So
effective, was the Bulldogs' zone, that
Long Beach State failed to get a shot up
for almost nine minutes until Mr. Gardner
sank two free throws with 6:33 left in the
game. Even then, it took three more
minutes before the 49ers' Rickey Smith
canned a jumper from, 17 feet out.
Meanwhile on offense, the Bulldogs
weredoingsomethingtheywerentableto .
do all that well in the first half — put the '
ball in the basket. Of course it's pretty
tough to miss when Bernard Thompson
follows-up a Barnes' bank shot with a
dunk. That particular play, with 13:30 left
in the game, put the Bulldogs to within
one point of the 49en, 30-29. A minute
later. Carter drove in from the right side
and banked in a close-range jumper to put
Dont look now, but that other basket¬
ball team has finally arrived.
Fresno States olher hoopsters, coach Bob
Spencer's women's team, took a giant step
towards some long overdue recognition
Saturday nighl at Selland Arena with a
convincing 70-56 upset of the University
of Oregon. This was no ordinary win for
the upstart Bulldogs. Consider the impli-
eThe victory, following Thursday
night's upset of Oregon State University,
h a slight dose of
.•nding the Ducks lo
...... u>« .v/^u6o...3i four victories in the
I'orthern Pacific Conference, Ihe Bulldogs
playoff fever. While
increased
top four .«..,.	
NorPae playoffs.  Coi
orPac record lo 4-2. Fol-
)ogs' surprising win over
'. Spencer said his team
ivcr the Ducks to put them-
tention for the'group of the
..  o the
Karen Cooke (4t)
foal from Oregon • Helen Hlgp (34) Saturday night.
'Without a doubt, this win
was not only pivotal for us
In the conference, but our
program as well'
—Spencer
ePerhaps ihe most important aspect of
Spencer's growing program. In order to
shake that monkey of unrespcctability off
their backs, the "Dogs needed a win over a
top notch team, a victory over a team they
had continually lost lo in the past, like
Oregon or Oregon State. Saturday night's
win over the Ducks, a team that owns a
victory over then top-10 ranked Mary¬
land, may have been lhat win. The 'Dogs
can put away their Rodney Dangerfield
albums, because respect is on the way.  .
"Without a doubt, this win was not only
pivotal for us in the conference, but for
our program as well." said an obviously
delighted Spencer. "This certaintly puts us
closer to making it into the top four ofthe
conference."
The fact that (he Bulldogs defeated the
Ducks wasnt near as surprising as the
dominant fashion in which they did it.
They slightly outshot and outrebounded
(41-32) the Ducks, but with 10 minutes left
in the contest, things were still tight. And
when Oregon's Allison Lang, who led all
scorers with 20 points, broke free under¬
neath for an easy layup that pulled the
Ducks to within 46-44, things got even
tighter.
Suddenly, the 'Dogs, who had been up
by a 28-23 count at halftime, were reeling,
the Ducks were making some noise, and
Spencer quickly called his first timeout of
the evening.
Fresno Slate, led by Carcana Clay, prompt
ly responded with an outburst of its own,
Clay scored six of her 16 points in a 14-2
Bulldog blitz that all but put the game on
ice. By the time the staggering Ducks
could call timeout, the confident Bulldogs
were whooping it-up on the bench with a
12 point lead.
"We had told the girls lo play relaxed
and .have some fun," said Spencer.
The Bulldog guards, whom Spencer
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•Men
Continued from page 6
Ihe'Dogs up for the first time in the game,
31-29.
"First off, I was just trying to pen¬
etrate," said Carter of the go-ahead play,
"Then I saw the shot and took it." For
Carter, it was his only two points of the
game, but it put the Bulldogs upforgood.
The win raised the Bulldogs' PCAA
record to 4-3 and 13-5 overall. Long
Beach State dropped to 6-11 in the
conference and 3-5 overall.
Gardner ended the day with 15 points
for Long Beach Slate, while forward
Craig Lack followed-up with seven^points
and three rebounds.
For Fresno State, Thompson finished
with a game-high 21 points, Anderson
with 14, and Barnes with II points and
nine  rebounds.   Most  of those points,
the Bulldogs started making the same
shots they were missing earlier.
The first half saw Fresno State come
out colder than possibly anytime this
season, as the team shot a miserable 37
Long Beach State, meanwhile, ihot.57
percent in the first half, thanks primarily
to Joedy Gardner.
In the second half Barnes turned things
around and hit three out of his next six
shots, Thompson hit foup<Jut of eight and
nine out of ten from the line, and* An¬
derson hit two out of'four. ' *
For the third consecutive game, how¬
ever, Fresno State was a seven-man team,
with Ron Strain and Cleave Lewis getting
two and four minutes playing time res¬
pectively, in addition to the starters.
"I dont think we can get away with
playing seven players againit'Utah State,"
admitted Grant, in reference to tonight's
game against the Aggies in Logan.
The game is a key matchup for both
team as Utah State beat San Jose Stale,
79-70. Saturday night, bringing its record
up to 4-3 and tying Fresno State for
fourth place irt^he PCAA. In the past the
Aggies have given Fresno State quite a bit
of trouble at home, beating the Bulldogs
two out ofthe last three times in Logan.
"The biggest reason is thai they always
have agood basketball team,"said Grant.
"The only times weVe beat them there was
when they didnt have a good team."
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•Women
Continued from page 6
was counting on heavily entering the
game, were having plenty of fun. Wendy
Martell scored 18 point's and Chris Wyci¬
nowski pitched in 13 as the two guards
loosened up things enough in the middle
:n Cooke toscore 13 points.
s for tl
Idogs. Spencer was quick to point out tl
nothing has been clinched by any mea
and things dont get any easier from hi
:   Bul-
"I really think we have to split on our
road trip to Washington." said Spencer.
"We like to work from the basic premise
of taking things one game at a time."
The Bulldogs face Washington State
University Thursday night and, t'hen
make the short trip to the university of
Washington for a Saturday contest. Fres¬
no State will complete the road swing with
a February 9 meeting with the University
of San Francisco Dons.
As Spencer points out, this has all the
makings of a brutal road trip, but the
Bulldogs will be entering the storm on a
roll. And with a little respect.
•Classes
Continued from page 1
dramatized  within  a  working  setting.
Professor Wendy Rose teaches the Na¬
tive American class. In Ihe class she covers
the problems of the American Indians
resulting from acculturation , minority
status and legislative action.
Rose said she has 50 students in the
class this semester. She is having to turn
people down, she said, because so many
signed up for the class. She also teaches a
class called Indians of California. The
class focuses on California's Indian cul¬
tures, food and social organizations.
In the Armenian studies section, the
most popular class is the Introduction to
Armenian Studies. This class focuses on
many difcrcnt ares such as history, geo¬
graphy and literature. It also focuses on
the language and the art from ancient    LatetatheBi
times to the present with the emphasis on • aasasjaaassssa
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