1984_03 The Daily Collegian March 1984

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Bulldogs head east for national championships
Armour, Gaffney
lead tracksters
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The setting for
the 1984 NCAA indoor Championships
suit Fresno State tracksters Jack Armour
and George Gaffney just fine, but for dif-
The Univeristy of Syracuse's spacious
Carrier Dome will be the stage for the
championships in which three and possibly four Bulldogs will take part on Saturday. Armour, who will compete in the
500-meter run, ran at nearby Farleigh
Dickenson Univeristy (Jersey City, N.J.)
before transfering to Fresno State this
year. Gaffney popped off his best jump
ever in his specialtiy, the long jump, last
year at Northern Arizona's Skydome.
That leap, 26-11, was one of the top
indoor marks in the world last year.
Gaffney went 25-6 at the same location
this year to qualify for his next straight
trip to the indoors championships. Armour is also taking part in his second
consecutive indoors championships, having qualified while competing for Farleigh
Dickenson. Armour comes in with a
1:02.19 clocking.
Cameron Baxter, the school record
holder in the shot put, will take part in the
35-pound weight competition having hurled the large mass 62-6'/, this season.
Another Bulldog. Matt Mileham has the
distance to qualify in the same event but
has used up all his indoors eligibility but
will take part in the outdoor season this
Sophomore Clint Williams is the first
alternate in  the triple jump.   Williams
•See Track, page 7
Wrestling foursome
shoots for top 20
in NCAA finals
EAST RUTHERFORD. N.J. — Wednesday Fresno State wrestling coach
Dennis Deltf do showed the cream of his
team the breathtaking sites of New York
City. '
Today is a different story though as the
third year Bulldog leader will throw his
team into the meat grinder'which is the
NCAA Championships. Sylvester Carver,
Pablo Saenz, Joe Isamy and John Vega,
who make up the largest contingent of
grapplers to represent Fresno State in an
NCAA final since 1974, will take on the
rest of the nation has to offer as the cham-
(EST) in the massive Meadowlands
Arena. The championship will continue
through Saturday.
Fresno State, which sent four wrestlers
lo the 1974 finals, has sent no more then a
single athlete to the championships in the
last nine years. But thanks to three individual championships and an at large
berth at the Pacific Coast Athletic Association finals that string was blown to pieces. Carver (167 pounds), Ismay (126) and
Vega(134) all gained titles at the PCAA
championships in Las Vegas on February
24. Saenz finished third but thanks to his
glistening 42-6 season mark was awarded
a coveted at large berth.
All four wrestlers will be aiming to finish in the top six which would guarantee
them the status of All-American. If all
four could pull the feat the Bulldogs
would be assured of an impressive finish
in the team stand-ings.
"We are shooting for the top 20,"
•See Wrestling, page 7
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Intramural program continues popular trend
By DanMoon«y
Staff writer
Like* Lai Vegas casino, CSUF- highly
competetive intramural-recreation pro
. gram rolli up some big numbers every
The program offered students 10 sports
to participate in last year. Flag football,
frisbee golf, soccer, swimmingahd volleyball were offered in Fall 1982.
Last spring students enjoyed basketball, softball and water polo, while rac-
quetball and tennis tournaments were
held in both semesters to eager string
Even more impressive is the number of
students who annually flock to the intra
mural-recreation office to get their names
on team sign-op lists. A total of 4,331
names appeared on those lists during the
!9._-_lschoolyea_. representingsoughly
25 percent of CSUF's total student body,
according to Val Valverde, director of the
intramural-recitation program.
Tbe most popular of all sports offered'
was softball, which attracted 1,405 participants, followed closely by flag football
which drew 1,029 rough and ready cus-
"Intramurals continues to be one of the
most popular things to do at Fresno
Slate," Valverde said.
The original director of the program,
Pete Conrad, started tbe program in 1973,
Valvtrde, a 1975 CSUF graduate physical education, was hired at a assitant in
_ has si
e moved/into the top
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The program has frown into a S31,000
annual budget. Tbe AS Senate supplies
the bulk of the funds needed by the
intramural-recreation office, with $26,000
annually. About $2,500 is donated while
another $3,000 cooks from team feet.
A $10 fee is charged to each team that
enters competition.
Valverde said that her office has tried to
find ways to do away with the fee, but has
found it to be an economic necessity.
Expenditures include awards, depreciation of equipment and a membership fee.
in the National Recreation Sports Association. Awards include the treasured intramural t-shirt, given each member of
The biggest layout of funds for tbe program goes right back into the student
body, Valverde pointed out. Eighty percent of the budget goes for officials and
score keepers, many of whom are students.
The intramural-recreation office provides $20,000 worth of student jobs each
year.
"When we present our budget to the AS
Senate, a key for us is (hat most of our
budget goes right back to the students
anyway," Valverde taid.
An approaching problem for the intramural and recreation program lies with
CUSFs athletic teams: with Beiden Field-
still under construction, the practicing
baseball team has been forced to use up
•Wrestling
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Deliddo said, "All four have the ability to
Carver appears to have the greatest
chance for success. Carver finished fifth in
the last year's NCAA Championships and
might do even better this time around.
Carver, 43-3 for the year, has been ranked
as high as second in the nation in the 167
pound weight class. Mike Sheets will be
the heavy favorite in Carver's division as
the Oklahoma State standout is the ,
defending national champion and has
defeated Carver in all three matchups
"This will be my last time, if I face
Sheets, to defeat him so I'm really going
all out," Carver said.
Saenz, who was weakened by the flu
duringthe PCAA finals, will try lo usp his
intensity to place. The Reedley native was
ranked in the sixlh position for a portion
of the seasonal 118 pounds.    ""'
Ismay will come into the championships as the hottest Bulldog grappler. The
Junior dropped weight after wrestling
most of the season at 134 pounds to capture the' 126 pound class at the PCAA
finals. Ismay also has the confidence of
knowing he can wrestle with the best. Earlier this season Ismay battled tough Oar
Anderson of Oklahoma Stale, ihe defending national champion, at 134 pounds, to
a scoreless draw.
Weight problems and injuries have
hampered Vega's season but the Senior
standout has regrouped to fight his way to.
the NCAA finals. Vega brings a 17-7-1
record to New Jertey.
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Continued from page 6
comes in with a best jump of 52-4 which is
the 19th best mark nationally. Fretno
State's mile relay quartet will have to stay
home despite blistering the track in the
Skydome last week with a school record
3:09.15 time. Armour, Robin Johnson,
Sam Chance and Rick Jones ran the
record setting time, with Jones replacing
injured freshmen Larry Walker who was
the California state high school champion
last year while at Fresno's Edison. Jones .
turned in the fasled leg though with a 46.5
lead off leg.
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