1985_04 The Daily Collegian April 1985

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FSU's Wheeler top performer at Bee games
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By Steve FaJrman
Sports Writer
All roads are leading to Austin, Texas, for Jeremiah
Wheeler, the Fresno Sute sprinter who triumphed
Saturday at the Fresno Bee Games at Warmerdam Field.
Upstaging five Olympians, Wheeler was named out¬
standing athlete of the meet after setting two Bee records
and anchoring the winning 400 meter relay team.
Wheeler won the 100 meters in 10.43 seconds and the
200 meters in 21.67, in each race pulling away in the late
stages from the field after the halfway mark. The team of
Wheeler, Sam Chance, Tony Sanders and Calvin Scruggs
recorded 40.69 for the one-lap relay.
Now Wheeler must be thinking of qualifying for the
NCAA national championships, to be held May 27-31 at
the University of Texaa. A mark of 10.33 is needed to
make the trip, but Wheeler's best last year at Fresno City
College was 10.26 and he did 10.15 with a gale blowing
behind his back.
"He's coming along well and he's a heck of an athlete,"
coach Bob Fraley said of Wheeler. "I look to the Mt.
SAC [Relays, April 27] for a big breakthrough."
' Wheeler wasn't the only Fresno State athlete to
s, where four school records
o much track
is and Thanksgiving dinners
The Bulldogs took eight first pla
including wins by Lacy Barnes in thc
school record) and Doug Fraley in the
Mark Thompson won the high jump
Vergo took the 200 in 25.07, close to th(
25.05.
Chuck Dounley won the long '
25-foot mark, with a legal be;
attributed his success to the big n
little pressure put on 1
"IVe had a lot of pre
that's kept me from training the
Dounley. "I don't need anymore. The best thing for me to
do is to get away from people...! just don't like people
—S__orts
April 9,1985 7
perform well at the Bee Gar
were broken and there w-
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Bulldogs win fifth Best in the West Classic
Sports H
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See Track, page 8
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ficts this time of year at Freino Sute
University.
Students salivate at the thought of
Vintage Days' being just around the next
bead, but shiver and shake at the mention
of semester finals. And Bob Bennett and
fcj Bulldog baseball team will be getting
(heir season-ending charge in gear.
While most FSUite* used the Easter ,
break to work on the tan or put a dent on
their stockpiling homework, Bennett's
bunch put in some overtime at librae in
accomplishing two tasks: Winning the
Bcsiinthe West Classic again and taking a
three-game series from defending national
champion Fullerton State.
Saturday night before the season's
lirgesi Beiden Field crowd of 3,160, the
Bulldogs nailed down their fifth classic
title in thc seven years of the tournament.
FSU avenged an earlier tournament defeat
by topping Long Beach State 6-3 in the
four-icam classic's title game.
The upstart 49'ers took a 3-1 lead after
three  innings   Saturday   and   another
possible Long Beach upset appeared in
he malung. On the classic, se^^gh?
Lw fV.7•who *_re ,wept <*lti« ^ £*
by FSU in a three-game set ir* Lons
Beach, trimmed FSU 3-2. 8
But any classic title dreams the 49'ers
might have harbored went up in smoke -
literally-undera barrageof Mark Gardner
stnkeout*. Gardner, who picked up ,hr£
win* dunng the break, fanned a FSU
o?fi°ve_s:-,5in8ctiing,be49,-do-
Meanwhile, the FSU ofTerue evened the
game at three when classic most valuble
player Bob Bafia unloaded a two-nin
home run in the bottom of the fourth.
With the score still tied in the seventh, Joe
Xavier got the game-winner by slapping a
two-run triple. Xavier scored the Bulldogs
final run on a wild pitch.
,n?"ve.r' _ r11" Gardn«. Eric Fox
and Nate Hill joined Bafia on the ail-
McNaughton, Jim Spooner and Don Blake™
ship also made the all-tourney squad
£n va^eo0, Which dcfea,ed «ate rival'
UNLV 4-2 Saturday afternoon for third
place placed Jim Puzey, Rob Richie and
Ted Higgins on the all-tournament team
swell.
re*^ ^J*.? h"d ,0 KnlCh »Dd C>*» t<>
reach Saturday's classic final in.,
blasting UNLVy,6-3 onTueSyto o£n
tournament play, FSU was beaten on
consecutive night* by one run. Weds-
nesday. Long Beach did the honor* 3-2 by
•coring a run in the top of-ie ninth. Thi
49 er triumph failed tc/over»b_dow a
milctone for Xavier. Pernor .nor_top
FSU hit leader when be drilled a fourth
inning double, tbe 235th hit of hi* .tellar
Fre.no career, breaking Greg Funk',
previou* mark. *
Still reeling fror_ Wedsnesday'* defeat
the Dog. were tripped up again Thur*day
night when Reno did the honor* 6-5. But
£5rt ,0 »" old whipping boy, UNLV,
FSU reached Saturday', title affair. For
the second lime in the tournament and the
fourth time thi* year, the Bulldog* topped
the Rebel* 4-2 on Friday night.
FSU warmed up for the deferue of iu
classic title by taking two of three games
from Fullerton in a key battle of Pacific
Coa*t Athletic Association division leaden
to close out the month of March.
The Bulldogs took the *eries opener at
Beiden on Friday, March 29, when
Gardner did the honors by four hitting
Fullerton a* FSU won 3-1. The two foe*
»plit the next day. with FSU taking the
opener 15-7 and the Titans escaping a
*eries sweep by besting the 'Dog* 9-4.
" Thanks to the series win over the Titans,
FSU not only lead* the Northern Division
with an 11-4 mark, but al*o has tbe all-
important best mark in the entire PCAA.
Fullerton lead* the Southern Div_ion
with a 9-5 record. The division winner
with the best record will host the PCAA
playoffs beginning May 18. After it* 3-2
tournament showing, tbe Bulldogs are 25-
15 overall.
BULLDOG BITS: For Oases of you who
mi*—i Wrea—mania on Sunday, March 31 at
Waroori Theatre, you wen in lock if you. matk it out
lo Be—en for Satan— y1. ekinic Turn0. Appearing _
Ihe main event wai Bolldo* leftfieldcr Naie Hill
■cai-t 49er pitchen Howie Towmend and C—rt
H-linfton. Mlcr tayin4 down i Uxtbook i_Tifice
bunt in the bottom of the aeventh, Hill wu _sept
Hill and
the 49 «r
•tarter droppin| hii miu. On the way to the dn* out.
Hill was bumped by Lone Beach State catcher Rob
Reliever Healington added the straw thai broke _e
ca—el* back in the eiahth. H_lin*ion drilled Hill
FSU women place second at Hawaii
un and surf of Hawaii turned out
ry successful for the Fresno State
. softball squad over the spring
is the Bulldogs battled to a second
place tie with  UCLA in the  Hawaii
Invitational Tournament.
Donna  Pickel's seventh ranked club
:ked up opening wins over Oregon and
man before dropping a heartbreaking,
ira-inmng loss to arch-rival Fullerton
ite in the winners-bracket finals. The
Bulldog batting attack that exploded for
linst Oregon and six more
ipinst Hawaii was silenced in a 1-0, nine
the Titans. It was the second
l three tries against Fullerton
The long-awaited  matchup between
Fresno State and UCLA in the lo*er»-
final was rained out a* was the
championship game, giving the Titan* the
|c_mpionship trophy with a 3-0 record.
The Bulldogs continued their successful
road trip in Honolulu with a double-
header sweep of Chapman College on
Wedsnesday.
FSU hurler Lori Romerio picked up
her tenth win of the year against three
losses with 5-2 win over the Panthers,
while senior pitcher Barbara Cambria
mopped up in the nightcap with a 9-2
victory. Cambria improved to 6-3 and
lowered her team-leading ERA to 0.30.
Fresno Sute improved to 23-7 on the
season, but Pickel was still not to happy
about her team's 4-1 record in Hawaii.
-The Bulldogs have had trouble beating
teams ranked above them and lack of
offense seem* to be the major reason.
Four of the Bulldogs seven losses have
come agaiiut team* that were ranked
above them, and three of them have been
one run affairs. Fresno Sute ha* lost to
the Titans twice, and the Aggies of Texa*
Nine hiu, four RBIi and four runs acored.
A&M also took a pair of games from the °"doer- * "** ftf-ander 'rom dovi. H«fc.
Bulldog* in early March. Fresno Sute ^< ^ the way on the mound in _,„r_ win., in 27
scored a grand toul of two runs for all *ai,,erin«inDin- " woric' 04rtlacr *"owed £? ,3
four games, and was shutout twice. hi" "** "rikio* oa' " J***"** * umWBt m
Fresno State is tied for first with *■"_"___*TV"1 """*«"»*
California and San  Francisco in the "J BoUd«' «■ re,ura «° rcAA •"">- wben
Northern Pacific Athletic Conference. All ****"j*^,|
three team* are 2-0 and have yet to n F™'*" *
ims season. The Bulldogs next home
contest will come this weekend a* Nevada
Reno and and Cal-Poly Pomona invade
the FSU diamond for a non-conference,
'"-*-"'— date.
Friday. After a single game Friday ni«ht, the Spartam
and the BuUdof. will mix it up in a Saturday
afternoon doubleheader. Tha following weekend.
FSU wilt be in Stockton fora I—rc-fame act with the
University of Pacific.- The Bulldog, only it
home p.™ in April will be a two-)
: University of S
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