1991_05 The Daily Collegian May 1991

              Sports
The CoUegian • May 3,1991
Tennis team to play unwanted match against UW
Players await word on NCAA tournament bid
By John Welsh
Collegian Sports Writer
In a match mat Fresno State's
players aren't too excited about,
the Bulldogs play host to Wash¬
ington Saturday at the campus
courts.
After having captured the
school's first ever Big West Con¬
ference championship Sunday in
Ojai, the Bulldogs just want thc
answer to this Shakespearean
question: To be in the NCAA
Championships? Or not to be in
theNCAAs?
"We just want to know if we're
going to the NCAAs so we can
either practice hard or take a vaca¬
tion," said junior Greg Andersen.
'I'd rather not play the Washing¬
ton match. I've talked to every¬
body on the team and thafs how
everyone is feeling."
With the conference crown,
Fresno State (12-10 overall) im¬
proved its shot at a berth to the
NCAAs, scheduled May 17-27 at
Athens, G A.
However, the "Dogs, rated No.
24 nationally in the Volvo Tennis
Collegiate Rankings, will have to
wait until May 10th to find out
whether they will make the tour¬
nament If so, it will be FSU's first
NCAA team ticket ever.
First though, Fresno State plays
host to Washington. Yawn.
"TheWashingtonmatchdoesn't
countinrankings. Ifsjustascrim-
mage really," said Bulldog Bert
Lemercier, who is 12-8. "We just
want to get it over with. Well just
try to take care of business."
FSU's businessat home has been
a squeaky clean operation. The
Bulldogs an? undefeated (8-0) in
matches played on their campus
courts.
Senior Marcos Carzo, named Big
West Conference Player of the
Year, leads the FSU attack. He is
23rd in the VTC rankings and he
solidified his shot at a second
straight individual NCAA berth
with the conference's individual
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title at the No. 1 singles position.
LemercierplaystheNo. 2 singles
slotforFSU. HeandSteveJackson,
the Bulldogs' tandem at the No. 1
doubles position, ha ve a chance to
make the NCAAs as a doubles
squad. TheduoupsetUCIrvine's
25th-ranked Brent Hansen-Dent
and Calton Hoffmann in a first
round meeting at the conference
championships.
Andersen (13-12) holds down
the No. 3 spot while Nils Koitka
(11-12) is theBufldogs'No.4 player.
Both players finished second at
the Big West tourney. Jackson is
FSU's Na 5 man. He is 10-8.
Mike Noel may be the come¬
back player of the season for the
'Dogs. Noel, a junior, wasn't a
regular starter this year but he
earned his way back into Ihe lineup
for the conference show. He won
three straight matches and cap¬
tured the No. 6 slot title. He beat
Long Beach State's John Freeman
6-4,7-6 for the crown.
For the second straight cam¬
paign, FSU's Brad Sbnewasnamed
Coach of the Year.
Stine sports a 77-52 mark in five
seasons. Now al' he has to do is
keep his squad motivated for a
match they don't want to play.
"Ifs kind of a letdown. Every¬
body is just waiting for the phone
call (from the NCAA)."
Baseball 'Dogs look for sweep of
the 49ers in 3- game weekend series
Continued from page 5
team with a .346 average, but has
been slumpingat the plate the last
couple oi weeks, watching his
average fall by over 30 points.
Pitchingwise, the Bulldogs
should expect to see ace Bobby
Jones turn in another solid per¬
formance, as Jones has been next
to unhittable in Big West play,
recording a 5-0 conference record
with a 0.40 ERA against confer¬
ence opponents. Jones has allowed
only twoeamed runs while giving
up just 22 hits in 45 innings of
work In-confercnce play.
Second starter Robbie Saitz (7-
4) has come on strong of late, and
is capable of giving the Bulldogsa
solid performance; while Todd
Johnson, recently inserted as the
team's third starter, has looked
brilliant at times. But his 4 1/3
inning performance against Ne¬
vada-Las Vegas last weekend was
less than impressive.
Sophomore Mike Salazar re¬
corded two wins last week in relief
appearances and seems to have
eased head coach Bob Bennett's
fears of going to the bullpen-
Notes— Long Beach State's
three losses dropped them into a
tie for second place with Cal-State
Fullerton in the Big West Confer¬
ence race...Forty-Niner reserve
outfielder John Mancha was a
teammateof former Bulldogstand-
out Tom Goodwin when both
players attended Central High
School in Fresno. Mancha also
played for Fresno City College
when the Rams won the Central
Valley Confernece Title in 1988,
the last year that former Ram coach
Len Bourdet was head coach.
Bourdet retired after that season
and is the all-time winningest
junior college coach in California
history with over 820 wins.
See Monday's Col¬
legian for Mr.
McLeod's full wrap-
up of all the base¬
ball action from
Long Beach State
University.
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