1994_02 Insight February 1994

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February 16,1994
FSU Bulldogs
shooting high
Hadi Yazdarparah/INSIGHT
FSU's Travis Stel drives for a bucket against Air Force
Saturday night as teammate Davon Satterwhite looks on.
The 'Dogs dropped Air Force 72-66.
By Jason Gibbs	
StaffWriter
Brian Santiago passes off to Seth
Marshall, who penetrates the defense
and passes to Lee May berry.
With a loud grunt, Mayberry gives
the ball a forceful slam through the
hoop.
Thc rafters shake and Coach Gary
Colson claps his approval.
"That's what I want to see," he says.
This is Ihe South Gym. where the
men's basketball team ■y~"Jc~ r.r-y
day at 3 p.m.
It is home to a Bulldog team which
has a chance to have ils first winning
season since 1989 (15-14), and possibly even a conference championship.
The B ulldogs, 9-3 in conference and
14-7 overall, are the WACs hottest
team, having won six straight.
Thc team and thc fans are riding a
wave of enthusiasm for Fresno State
basketball, which seems to have been
in hibernation since the early 80's and
lhe days of Boyd Grant.
Hope for post-season play has returned to Fresno State basketball, and
with it have come the fans, who have
nearly filled Selland Arena for the past
few games.
"We haven't had good basketball in
Fresno for so long that I almost forgot
whal it was like," said David Avakian,
23.
Thc Bulldogs have six regular season games left, with a legitimate chance
at their first conference championship
since Ihey won the PCAA in 1982.
While they aren' t packing their bags
for the NCAA tournament yet, the team
has high hopes going into thc last month
ot me season.
But Ihe Bulldogs have been in this
position before. Just two years ago the
Bulldogs jumped out to a familiar 14-
7 record, only to lose nine of their last
ten and finish the season with a losing
record of 15-16.
So what's different about this year's
team?
Senior Ted Bull has an answer.
"We have five starting seniors, six
seniors including myself, and we all
want to win bad. We've been there
before, and we're not going to let what
happened two years ago happen again."
See BASKETBALL, Page 8
'Cool Zone' offers athletes relief
By Kelley Scott	
StaffWriter
Hook up a powerful electric fan to
a garden hose at a football game and
what do you get?
A Cool Zone misting system that
fights hcatcxhaustion for athletes who
play, for example, in hot, humid Hawaii weather as thc Bulldogs did
Christmas Day.
After two and a half years of product research and design of water misting systems, the Cool Zone has developed a series of innovative "outdoor
air conditioners" for athletic events
and their fans.
They are called the Cool Zone Team
Misters.
"Thc players use it as an oasis,"
said Garth Tagge, co-owner of Spot
Coolers Inc., which sells and rents the
units.
"Playcrstypically will breathe in thc
cold air, cool thcirhclmcis, their backs,
necks, feel or any combination of thc
above and have maybe a five- to 30-
sccond blast to refresh themselves."
Thc 28-inch oscillating fans stand
about five feet tall with specially made
motors and hoses that produce the fine
mist.
There arc no tools, pumps, regulators, or filters needed.
Thc system can be attached to a
garden hose and plugged into a 110—
volt/20—ampere circuit. Thcopcrator
controls thc areas of coverage and the
amount of mist produced.
Heat exhaustion haunts athletes
when temperatures soar above 100
degrees. Humidity can make conditions even worse.
The Cool Zone system can lower thc
surrounding air temperature as much
as 25 degrees. The m ist, when it touc hes
ihe body, acts like perspiration, evaporating io cool thc body.
"They cooled us off really quick,
especially with them being ihcre right
on thc bench," said Jason James, Fresno
State's 6-fooi-5 renter.
Thc Aloha Bowl was played in 76
degree heat with 62 percenl humidity,
making it feel more like 100 degrees.
The Fresno team welcomed these
new contraptions as they battled with
the Colorado Buffalos in thc sticky,
tropical heat.
There were mixed feelings among
thc players as to how well the cooling
systems worked.
"They could have been much belter," said strong safety Nakawa Shepherd.
"They were getting mc pretty wet"
Kicker Armcn Torigian was more
postive.
"It was a good source for cooling
off," said Torigian.
"Instead of getung a water boule
and throwing water all over your face,
you could just walk by the fan and il
cools you off."
Thc Cool Zone system is currently
being promoted in thc NFL and among
college teams as the most effective
evaporative cooling system for the si de-
lines and bench areas.
Numerous NCAA conferences and
corporate sponsors are discussing supplying a whole conference for the '94
season.
Thc Cool Zone has been featured on
AT&T's 'Science and Technology'
segment during ABC Monday Nighl
Football.
Ryan Wood
Ken Koller/INSIGHT
Athlete of the Week
By Kelley Scott
StaffWriter
An aspiring teacher for the deaf
has made Athlete of the Week.
Lcad-offhittcr Ryan Wood started
off the series against Wyoming by
slugging it out of the park on the
second pitch of the game.
Wood wcnt7-12in thc
weekend stand against
Wyoming. He wound
up with fourRBI'sand
four stolen bases.
Wood hasn' t always
been successful in the
sport though.
"His senior year in high
school at Redwood, hc only batted
a .180. Hc had a horrible year at
bailing," said Wood's father,
Michael.
Wood went to Kings River, but
not to play ball.
"I wanted to get out of Visalia
and start all over and try to grow-
up on my own," said Wood.
Wood feels he learned more
lessons in life than in the sport
itself from his former coaches at
Kings River.
"They taught me more than
baseball. They taught mc to be a
man - to be responsible for
your   actions,"   said
Wood.
In his freshman
year at Kings River.
Wood was named
theieam'sMVPand
made All-NorCal.
Wood earned All-
Central Valley Conference honors both years.
His high school batting average of. 180 increased to a .413 his
freshman year.
He finished off his year's at
Kings River with a 340 batting
average.
Wood is majoring in education
with an emphasis in deaf studies.
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