1988_04 The Daily Collegian April 1988

              Collegian Sports
California State University, Fresno
Monday, April 11,1988
Rampaging 'Dogs sweep SJS
By Brian Veneski
Sports Writer
Fresno Slate's ;iaseball learn is on a
rampage, and there is no sign of a
ietdown.
After a 7-1 drubbing of San Jose Stale
Sunday, which completed a three-game
sweep of the Spartans, the No. 3-ranked
Bulldogs now possess a 20-game win
streak, a 9-0 first-place record in the
Pacific Coast Athlebc Association and
an overall mark of 36.7
In addition, after last weekends
sweep, two new FSU single-season
records were established by Tom Goodwin and Lance ShebeluL
The Bulldog hit parade was led by
Eddie Bustamante and Steve Pcarse. who
had four hits apiece as FSU totalled 22
hits on their way to a 17-3 clubbing of
the Spartans Friday.
John Salles picked up his 10th win of
the season against no losses as he went
the distance striking out 10. Goodwin,
meanwhile, stole his 42nd base of the
season eclipsing his own school single-
season record.
On Saturday, the Dogs were powered
by the record-setting Shebelut, who hit
his 20lh and 21st homers of the year
surpassing Jim Rothford's 10-year-old
record of 20 homers in a season at
Fresno State.
The record overshadowed a superb 15-
strikcout .complete-game pitching performance from freshman Erik Schullstrom.
Schullstrom,   now   8-1   on   tbe  year.
received support from Pearse who
knocked in four runs with two doubles.
In Sunday's game, where the 'Dogs
were going for their 20th straight win
(only two shy of an FSU record), Fresno
scored late with four runs in eighth
inning after two were out to blow open
a close contest.
In the eighth, with the "Dogs up 3-1,
Eddie Zosky opened with an infield
single and Shebelut then stepped to the
plate. He proceeded to drill a line drive
right at Spartan third baseman Eric
Nelson.
Nelson dropped the hot smash but had
plenty of time to go to second and gel
Zosky, who held up on the line drive.
San Jose's second baseman Mark
Phillips then flipped the ball to first
completing the double play, the Spartans fifth of the game, and it looked like
Fresno would go to the ninth hanging
on to a 3-1 lead
But Fresno was not to be denied as
the next batter Brandon Mitchell delivered by way of a solo home run to deep
left that sparked the two-out outburst.
Cary Windes was the next batter and
he reached first on an infield hit and
wen to second on an errant throw.
Then the hitting hero of the day.
Steve Hosey walloped a double to right
center, his fourth hit of the game to
plate W indes and give Fresno a commanding 5-1 lead.
Hosey had four hits and four RBI in
four ai-bats. "The coach told us not to
Please see SWEEP, page 7
Over 2,000 athletes, ranging from grade school to world class levels, participated In last weekend's Fresno Relays at Ratcllffe Stadium.
UCLA's Devers stars in Fresno Relays
By Jon Matsuoe
Sports Editor
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Gail Devers' show-stopping American
record jaunt through die 100 meter
hurdles was one of many spectacular per-
formances at me Fresno Relays Friday
and Saturday in Ratcliffe Stadium.
Tbe UCLA superstar, who was
selected the meet's outstanding female
performer for the second straight year,
posted a time of 12.71 in the event,
besting her closest competition by over
a second.
Devers ran a 12.83 in the qualifying
heat, three one-hundredths of a second
off the U.S. coUegiaie record. In the
finals, bested not only the collegiate
standard, but the American mark as well.
The second-place finisher, Natalie Day
of the Sacramento Track Club, was almost an entire hurdle behind Dever and
rc-gsiiered a 13.80.
In other meet highlights, Ruth
Wvsocki ouidueled Sylvia Mosqueda of
Cal State-Los Angeles in the 1.500
meter race with a timeof4:13.33,Tonie
Campbell won the 110 hurdles with a
meet-record 13.50, and ex-Fresno State
star Doug Fraley, captured the pole vault
with a peak of 18-4 1/2.
California's Sheila Hudson was the
only dual winner of the day, capturing
the long jump at 20-7 3/4 and triple
jump at 44-2.
Fresno State junior Billy Coleman,
meanwhile, r*cduced an Olympic Trials
qualifying mark of 26-1 3/4 in winning
the long jump.
Although his personal record was a 25-
11 recorded for Taft Junior College, and
his previous best for Fresno State was a
25-6 (registered in a dual meet March
26), Coleman was not surprised
"I knew I was going to jump big," he
said. "I got height off the board and 1
didn't lean back.
"I wasn't that excited I know I should
have been, but it's been just like every
day."
Coleman's effort, which ranks third
on the all-time Fresno State list, was
the highlight of a Bulldog team victory
in the men's intercollegiate competition.
Fresno State scored 60 points. The
University of Illinois, which competed
only in distance and pole vault events,
finished second with 49 points. Cal
Poly-San Luis Obsipo was third with
34.
FSU also triumped in the women's
competition, netting 61 points and easily outdistancing UCLA's partial team,
which took the No. 2 slot with 33
points.
Anthony Barnes, another former-Taft
standout competing for FSU, captured
the 100 meter dash in 10.39 beating
three-time Olympic long jumper Larry
Myricks, who clocked in at 10.42.
A showdown pitting Barnes, FSUs
top sprinter, against Canadian Rick
Jones, the Bulldogs' leading sprinter last
year, was prevented when Jones was
chsqualified for a fast start
In a showdown that did take place,
one between the top two collegiate
3,200 relay teams in the nation. No. 1-
rated Unversity of Southern California
finished at 7:19.36 and edged No. 2
Illinois (7:30.01).
The 400 relay team from defending
NA1A champion Wayland Baptist put
together a time of 39.75 and edged out
FSU for first place. The Bulldog team of
Coleman, Barnes, Benjie Green and Harlan South came in at 40.05.
Wayland Baptist came close to
pulling off a second relay victory — this
one in the 1,600 but Illinois recorded
a 3:03.77 for the top spot while Way-
land Baptist was timed at 3:04.77.
Another strong finish gave James
Robinson a time of 1:47 .60 and first-
place in the 800. Boise State's Windell
Lawrence, who won the triple jump
with a 54-10 1/4, was selected the
meet's outstanding male performer.
Brian Crouser of the New York
Olympic Athletic Club threw the javelin
252-1 overcoming Japanese Olympian
Masami Yoshida's toss of 250-3.
The women's compctitiai. featured a
discus duel between Olympic prospects
Penny Neer and FSUs Lacy Barnes.
Neer, competing unattached, peaked at
190-10 at edge Barnes' 188-1 Both
throwers surpassed Barnes' meet record
of 187-2 set last year.
Also grabbing second place finishes
for the Bulldog women were Chris Harris in the javelin (151-7), Simone
Srubek in the high jump (5-7) and the
distance medley and 3,200 relay learns.
Devers, gained a record in the 100
hurdles, but lost her Fresno Relays'
mark in the 400 meter dash. Anrat Ba-
kaie of Azusa Pacific compiled a 52.55
and trimmed Devers' 1987 standard of
52.66.
Devers does, nonetheless, still hold
two meet records. Her 1987 time of
11.33 in the 100 meter dash stood up
under the one-year test.
Ex-FSU standout Tonya Mendonca
took second in a strong high jump field
Battling nationally ranked jumpers
Jane Clough. Latrese Johnson and Col-
een Somroer, Mendonca was limited to
second place when Sommer left the
other three at 5-10 3/4 and made it all
the way to 6-3 1/4.
Mendonca gained the No. 2 spot on
strength of fewer misses at the final
height. J ohnson Finished third
The on ry world record perform ance
was turned in 71 -year -old Pay ton Jordan.
who ran the masters 100 meter race in
13.28 and broke his own mark set in the
1987 Fresno Relays.