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The Light of Life
The remembrance of an agriculture and life lover
Darlene Wendels • The Collegian
Active members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity bow their heads for a moment of silence during a candlelight vigil for fellow member Joel Talbot in the Free Speech Area, Thursday, April 7, 2016.
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Joel Talbot touched the lives of many with his passion for agriculture, his pursuit of adventure and his love for people. Hundreds of those who held him close to their hearts came together in the Free Speech Area for a candlelight vigil Thursday to remember Talbot, the life he lived, the people he touched and the loved ones he left behind. The vigil began with a prayer: “His life and his passions live on in the family he leaves behind and the love he has extended to all of us in one way or another.” Talbot, a senior in crop science production management and member of Alpha Gamma Rho, was riding his dirt bike on the campus farm Tuesday night or early Wednesday when he hit a post in the dark and was likely killed instantly, Fresno police Lt. Joe Gomez said. Slowly his friends and family were notified of the situation. Katie Milam, his best friend who knew him since freshman year in high school, was
in disbelief when the first phone call came in, but others soon followed. “Sure enough I was getting a phone call from his roommate letting me know the news,” Milam said. “It still hasn’t fully set in. It has been quite a shock to all of us and it will take take time to heal and move forward from him.” Milam wasn’t the only one taken back by the news, Robert Willmott, the Fresno State orchard manager, was too. “[Wednesday] we worked all day
together from 7:30 [a.m.] to 4:30 [p.m.],” Willmott said. “Last thing I told him was ‘Joel, go out fill up the stations, come back, lock up the shop and let’s get out of here.” After they both finished their tasks the last words Willmott said to Talbot were: “Alright Joel, I’ll see you on Thursday.” “That’s why when it happened this morning, when they notified me it was Joel who was in the accident I was
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o day we say goodbye to a loved one, a best friend, a loving brother a caring son. He cared about everyone he met, making new friends wherever he went. He was always willing to lend a hand and he loved working on the land. His happiness and passion was contagious to anyone around him. From the twinkle in his eye to the cheerful sound in his voice, he was always full of life and full of joy. Always carrying a smile on his face he could cheer up everyone, everyplace. From playing in his truck and camping with his friends to having a barbeque or family trips to Capitola for the weekend. With him the fun would never end. But then one day the Lord decided to call him home and no one had any way to know that our last hug, our last kiss, our last words would be the last. And so we all now mourn that he has passed. But he would have wanted us to rejoice and celebrate his life and share our memories here now as family and friends try to pull through somehow. We shall see him again some day in the big sky above. Until then his memory will live on as if he had never gone. - dedicated by Joel Talbot’s best friend, Katie Milam
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DEBUNKING MINIMUM WAGE MYTHS Have no fear, your low-income savior is here – and it is fantastic By Megan Bronson @Bronsosuarus
By 2023, California will have a $15 minimum wage. Thank God. It is time for minimum wage to become a livable wage. There are many criticisms floating around about this measure. Some of them have merit. Others are just ignorant. So let me put some of the ignorant ones to bed. If you compare those who flip burgers to other careers and say, “Their work is lesser, and therefore they deserve lesser,” you are playing into the politics of poverty. No one deserves to go hungry. No one deserves to have basic necessities of life deprived of them because they do not make enough money. Asking that people who make burgers do not make a livable wage is hateful and tortuous. Do they deserve to live in squalor because you have deemed their work lesser or unnecessary? No. Get off your high horse and stop attacking poor people because you do not think it is fair. Believe me, they don’t think going to bed hungry while feeding children on minimum wage is very fair, either. Do not attack the workers and whether they “deserve” better pay. Attack the corporations who do not pay their employees a livable wage. These are the real crooks in this situation. Wal-Mart can afford to pay its cashiers enough to have housing, transportation and food. The problem is that not all
businesses are corporations. Some are small and claim that raising the minimum wage would put them under. But the fact remains, if your business model relies on paying people unlivable wages, then your business is broken and needs to either remodel or fail. That is free market capitalism. Adjust. Another argument I keep hearing: Minimum wage workers are lazy because they do not go get “real” jobs that would pay them more. I hate to break it to you, but there will always be a need for unskilled labor in America. We cannot all be doctors or lawyers. We cannot all go to school and further our education. Some of these things are matters of privilege. Some are matters of location. And you know what? We don’t all want to become high-income earners. If people find joy in manual labor and are good at it, why should we ask them to change their path in order to make enough money to survive? All people at a base should be paid enough to survive. No argument could convince me otherwise that people who work full time do not deserve to support themselves without government assistance. Another argument is that these kinds of minimum-wage jobs were only meant for kids, like high schoolers who were in between careers. So the idea here seems to be that we give this work to kids in an effort to motivate them into getting better jobs. We force members of our young, lower class to survive off of crap pay in order
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California Governor Brown signs a minimum wage bill at the Ronald Reagan State Building on Monday, April 4, 2016 in Los Angeles.
to pit them against each other in a job market. I believe Suzanne Collins made a lot of money off this notion. It was called “Hunger Games.” A big fat “also” in this scenario is that these jobs are not just for kids. Many people of all ages work for minimum wages – those without higher education, those who have no work experience because they were stay-at-home parents or those who move around too much to work up in a company. Many circumstances put people in need for whatever job they can find. It is not fair to penalize them with unlivable pay for circumstances out of their control. People complain that raising the minimum wage will make
the cost of everything else go up. Yeah, that is a possibility. There is not really a way to get around inflation. But I would gladly pay an extra 50 cents for a gallon of milk so that the people who slide my groceries across a scanner can afford the copays on their medication. The positive thing about putting money in the pockets of the poor is that it will cause these same people to begin consuming again. Everyone seems concerned that this money will somehow disappear, and the value of the dollar will tank. In reality, the lower class will just contribute more than they do to the economy. They will begin spending and put that money right back into the econo-
my. People could afford to get off of government programs. If we pay our citizens a livable wage, we will be able to cut back on government assistance, and that money can be used for something else, like building better roads or channeling it into education. The government cannot afford to sustain so many government programs. The American lower class cannot survive in this state. The private business sector needs to step up its game and pay its employees what they deserve.
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IN BRIEF CSU and CFA reach tentative agreement on the strike The California State University (CSU) and California Faculty Association (CFA) announced Thursday a tentative agreement for the wage dispute which has postponed a threatened strike. Leaders of both the CSU and CFA will announce the tentative agreement on the reopened contract Friday, the CFA stated through an advisory. “The proposed five-day faculty strike, slated to begin on April 13, will be postponed pending approval and ratification of the agreement by the CFA board of directors and membership,” the statement from CFA read. The CFA is striving for a 5 percent general salary increase agreement opposed to the 2.65 percent service salary increase offered by the CSU. “Once ratified by the CFA membership, the tentative agreement will be voted on by the CSU board of trustees at the May 2425 meeting,” the statement continued. Prior to the tentative agreement, both parties agreed to a 48 hour blackout period, effective April 6, in which neither party will talk to the news media. The 48 hour blackout period is scheduled to end Friday. Lecture to shed light on Sikhism A lecture will be hosted by the Sikh Student Association Friday, which aims to educate students, faculty and staff about the Sikhism religion. The lecture is titled “Understanding Sikh Identity” and will be presented by Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, a Colby College professor. The event will take place from noon to 2 p.m. at the Leon S. and Pete P. Peter’s Education Center, located in the Student Recreation Center. Workshop to focus on autistic spectrum disorder In collaboration with Fresno State’s College of Health and Human Services and Valley Children’s Healthcare, the second annual Interprofessional Education Workshop will take place on Friday. Titled “Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Family-centered Approach to Serving Children with ASD,” the workshop will allow students and health professionals to work together on a case study, which focuses on autism spectrum disorder. Participating students will also be able to listen to a panel of experts who have experience in raising an autistic child. One of the panelists will be Dr. Christine Maul, assistant professor of com-
municative disorders and deaf studies at Fresno State. The workshop will take place from noon to 2 p.m. at Valley Children’s Healthcare. Car show comes to Fresno State Parking Lot 20 (Barstow Avenue) will be filled with fun-filled activities Sunday, during the Fresno State Car Show. The free car show, hosted by the Motorsports Club, will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will include competitions for best-in-show and car classes. There will be three best-inshow trophies and 20 car-class trophies awarded. All car clubs are welcome to participate, and exhibitors can register at the entrance for $20. All proceeds from the event will go towards the Fresno State Motosports Club. “The Book of Liz” play opens The Experimental Theatre Company (ETC) will be performing its spring production of “The Book of Liz” Friday through Sunday. “The Book of Liz” by Amy and David Sedaris follows the story of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock who is Squeamish. Donderstock tries to take on the role of making cheese balls for her entire religious community, Clusterhaven, while also trying to balance a job at a restaurant. While working at the restaurant, she’s offered a promotion to be the manager. However, she has a sweating problem that has to be fixed prior to taking on the role as the manager. Can Donderstock make all of the cheese balls and overcome her sweating problem? Find out at the Lab School Theatre at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Friday, 8 p.m on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $5 and are available at the box office. Wine, wine, wine Food, wine, games and live music will all be a part of Fresno State Winery’s, The Taste of Spring event Saturday. The event will provide attendees with the opportunity to taste several new student-produced wines such as the 2011 Saviez Syrah, 2012 Sangiovese, 2012 Zinfandel and more. Additionally, the winery will be having a sale during the event and provide winery tours. The Taste of Spring will be from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Fresno State Winery (2360 E. Barstow Ave.). Tickets are $10 for students, faculty and Fresno State Wine Club members and $15 for the public.
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Milam: “Today we say goodbye to a loved one, a best friend, a loving brother, a caring son.” JOEL TALBOT from Page 1 just taken back,” Willmott said. “I thought it couldn’t have been him. I just saw him yesterday.” Talbot was a student assistant in the Fresno State farm who worked with the tractors and was a great welder said, Mark Salwasser, the farm coordinator. Salwasser said he remembers Talbot as a happy guy who always had a smile on his face, was great company and had passion for agriculture. “He was really excited about his future in ag,” Salwasser said. “He was talking to us recently about his interest in wanting to farm his own land one day. He just really blossomed here these last few months in his work and his interest in agriculture. You could just really see that excitement in him that he really found his niche and had a direction where his life was going.” When the news was announced during an administrative meeting, Dr. Carolyn Coon, dean of students, said an audible gasp was heard. “It’s a very tragic situation when you lose someone who is at that point in their life that they are a senior, getting ready to graduate and have chosen a career and then just – gone,” said Coon. “It’s hard to have a death that.” During the vigil the remembrance and celebration of his life continued. “For anybody that knew Joel, you know that he didn’t just have friends – he had best friends or really good friends,” said
Clay Kruse, a former AGR president. “And it’s obvious by how many people are here today that he really impacted a lot of folks here at Fresno State.” After the lighting of candles a moment of silence was observed by the audience. Once a piano began playing “Hallelujah” the moment of silence was broken and those who wanted to share experiences they had with Talbot began telling stories. Shawn Anderson, Talbot’s roommate, spoke about the kind of person he was. “For those of you who knew him, you know he would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it,” Anderson said. “He was the most fun, caring, loving guy you would ever meet. If you need a place to live he would give you his house. If you knew him he left a piece of him with you.” Milam continued and expressed her feeling of loss through a poem. “Today we say goodbye to a loved one, a best friend, a loving brother, a caring son,” she began. “We shall see him again some day in the big sky above. Until then his memory will live on as if he had never gone,” she said ending the poem. Miliam described Talbot as the type of person who always wanted to make people smile. “He loved everyone he met and could cheer anyone up even if he didn’t know them,” she said. “He was just that type of person. He was full of life and full of joy.” Although Talbot’s family was not present they were kept informed by a close fam-
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Fresno police officers and an employee of Ray’s Towing load the dirt bike of 25-year-old Joel Talbot, whose body was found in a field at the Fresno State Farm, onto the bed of a tow truck, Wednesday, April 6, 2016.
ily friend, Ludie Olenchalk, who was his sister’s roommate. The family asked her to relay a message to those at the vigil mourning along with them. “They are amazed by the amount of people here,” Olenchalk said. “They are amazed of how many people Joel touched, how his smile could got to people and how
his personality was just one people would gravitate towards. They would like to thank you for loving him when he was here. Their prayer is that you always remember Joel.” A memorial site is beginning to grow at the location of the crash, where a cross and flowers have been placed to honor his memory.
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PEACE RALLY
“Dump Trump” rally comes to Fresno State
Khone Saysamongdy • The Collegian
(Above) Women’s Alliance hosts a table-supplying anti-Trump buttons for students at the free speech area during the Dump Trump event, April 6, 2016. The event was a collaborative effort to create awareness and promote students to think critically when voting for this year’s candidates. (Below) Stephanie Canales and Stefan Alvidrez set up a banner for the Dump Trump event.
By Razi Syed @TheCollegian
An anti-Donald Trump rally held Wednesday in the Free Speech Area attracted about 40 students and local activists. The rally was put together to protest comments and policy positions of businessman and hopeful presidential candidate Trump. Junior Miguel Bueno, math and economics major, organized the rally with the help of Students for Reproductive Justice, Muslim Student Association, United Student Pride and other groups. “The rally is really for people to express their anger and frustration with the amount of approval and acceptance that Donald Trump’s rhetoric has obtained,” Bueno said. “Specifically, his anti-religious, his anti-ethnic rhetoric – rhetoric against women, rhetoric against Mexicans, specifically, rhetoric against Muslims.” Senior and sociology major Ashley Flowers attended the “Dump Trump” protest as a member of Women’s Alliance, a feminist student organization. “This is basically our way of doing a peaceful protest of a sort against Donald Trump’s rhetoric of hate,” Flowers said. “We just want to empower people to stand up to a lot of the negative, bigoted comments he’s made.”
Trump has faced criticism from many for comments he has made since formally announcing his campaign in June 2015. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said in his speech announcing his candidacy. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Bueno said the protest came about out of frustration that he and the leaders of several student groups felt. “Several student organizations felt as though their groups and they had been personally attacked by Trump during his campaign,” Flowers said. “Of course, we know Donald Trump has a tendency to make negative comments about women.” Trump comments about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina drew criticism from women’s groups as being sexist. Criticism in recent days increased after Trump suggested that if abortion were made illegal, women should be punished for aborting a pregnancy. Trump later backed off those comments. Bueno said this was the first time he’d been inspired to express his political opinions this publicly. “I do, of course, have my own political ideology and my own political opinions,” he said. “But I’ve never really expressed them
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in a strong way. “However, I really felt as though – and I’m glad this is shared amongst many people – now is the time to speak out because we essentially have people putting their faith in a demagogue who spews so much anti-religious, anti-ethnic rhetoric.” Bueno said the location of the protest had a symbolic element to it. “We really want to have it here in the
Free Speech Area, more so as a way to express our values and in front of the Peace Garden,” he said. “Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi fought for ethnic and religious acceptance, and to think we’ve come so far just for the same hate to be spewed again really says a lot.”
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TECHNOLOGY
Students and faculty demonstrate the latest technology By Jasmine Castrellon @TheCollegian
Students and faculty from the Lyles College of Engineering demonstrated on Wednesday the latest technology in mechanical and geomatics engineering. There were three different engineering machines on display for people to view and interact with. Students crowded in front of an Augmented Reality Sandbox, taking turns watching colors change with every movement of sand. Using an XBox Kinect and infrared sensors, the camera on the sandbox displayed a model in 2D back on top of the sand. Victor Rasgado, a geomatics engineering student showed, off the sandbox, explaining how it works. “What we are doing is remote sensing, and so the principles behind it are called photogrammetry,” Rasgado said. “So you have two cameras here, and what they do is overlap one another, and from there you get a good x and y, so any changes we make we know our corner coordinates as well as our center. From there it’s able to critically platform, but the infrared cameras are what allow it to sense depth.” This image displays the depth of the sand in different colors, with the highest depths in red and the lowest depths in blue. Rasgado said the display helps promote topographic maps and what engineering students do. An engineering student created the sandbox, but the other two mechanical dis-
Khone Saysamongdy • The Collegian
Fresno State students test out the augmented sandbox in the Engineering East building, April 6, 2016. The sandbox is an engineering tool used for topography, geography, water shed analysis and many more.
plays were purchased. Scott Peterson, an engineering professor, did a demonstration scan of the Fresno State’s Bulldog mascot, Victor E. Bulldog III, using the old scanner and then the new one – the Leica ScanStation P20. Peterson explained what the scanner could be used for. “It creates a 3D model,” Peterson said. “I’m creating things all from a distance. We sent it using light and the technology to then be able to create what this room looks
like, the dimensions of it, the height of it, what’s in there, the characteristics of it.” Peterson said the machine could be used to scan an entire building, or scan the height of a bridge without even getting up on top of it. Students need to know how to use tools like this, Peterson said. “They need to understand that when they get out in the real world, they’re going to be problem solvers,” Peterson said. “They got to know all the tools to best use
what their client is looking for.” Peterson said his favorite part of teaching was working with his students. “I love seeing the students, ‘Aah” I get it now, I understand it, I see how this is going to work,’” Peterson said. “And I hope that they see in me the excitement I have for this profession. I see this, and I geek out about it.” These investments help students see what is applicable in real life, Peterson said.
SMOKING
State legislature moves forward to raise legal smoking age to 21 By Razi Syed @TheCollegian
Buying lottery tickets, voting and buying cigarettes have for years been privileges California residents received when they turned 18. However, a package of tobacco bills awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature may send one of those options up in smoke. On March 10, the state Senate approved a set of bills that raise the legal purchase age to 21 from 18 and add new restrictions on electronic cigarettes and vaping equipment, which would then be regulated like a traditional tobacco product. The measure by the state Legislature is the latest in what has been an increase of status offense laws enacted over the last 30 years, said Dr. Kenneth Hansen, a Fresno State political science professor. Status offense laws refer to measures which criminalize behavior that is otherwise legal for people of a certain age. Curfews and the minimum legal drinking age are examples of status offense laws. “Since the 1970s, there seems to have been an effort to make more things illegal for that 18 to 20 age group,” Hansen said. “So the one thing since the ‘70s that people in that age group could do that they couldn’t do before is vote.”
“But they can’t do almost anything else that they used to do, with the exception of drive – but even that is heavily restricted from what it used to be,” he said. If the governor signs the measure, California will follow Hawaii as only the second state with a smoking age of 21. The bill contains an exemption for active members of the U.S. military. “From my perspective, it’s almost as if they just want everyone to be teenagers until they’re 30,” Hansen said. Junior and criminology major Kent Cha said he felt that 18-year-olds should be able to make their own decisions. “They’re 18. They’re an adult. They should have the right to make whatever choice they want,” Cha said. “What can you do? It’s their life.” David Castaneda, a freshman psychology major, agreed with the idea of reducing the number of smokers but wasn’t confident it would have much of an effect. “I kind of think it’s pointless because, regardless, people always break rules,” Castaneda said. “They’re going to smoke regardless, even if they raise the age up.” Hansen said many of these laws come from assumptions that don’t always reflect reality. “Going back to the Progressive era, we assume if we have a problem and we want
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Melanie Walchli, 20, smokes during a downtown Chicago walk on January 14, 2016. She said she supports the idea of raising the minimum age to buy tobacco. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing raising the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21.
to make it go away, that if we pass a law, it’ll go away,” Hansen said. “And that’s not actually what happens. “If people between the ages of 18 and
21 want to smoke, whether it’s vaping or whether it’s tobacco, they’ll just do it. Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” he said.
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MLB
Peter Schmuck: New slide rule has left base runners holding the bag By Peter Schmuck Baltimore Sun/TNS
There has been speculation since the early days of spring training about the impact of the new slide rule that has been adopted by Major League Baseball to better protect middle infielders. Well, we're finding out. The Toronto Blue Jays lost a game to the Tampa Bay Rays when slugger Jose Bautista and teammate Edwin Encarnacion were both called out after video replay officials in New York ruled that Bautista illegally contacted infielder Logan Forsythe in the ninth inning of Tuesday's game at Tropicana Field. The decision negated an errant throw by Forsythe that allowed two runs to score and temporarily gave the Jays the lead. Instead, the game ended on the play with the Rays holding onto their 3-2 lead, sending Jays manager John Gibbons into a rage. “It turned the game into a joke,” Gibbons said. “That's flat-out embarrassing. That cost us a chance to win a major league game.” That was the second time the rule was used to create an interference double play during the first week of the regular season. Former Oriole Nick Markakis was called out on Monday, along with Braves teammate Hector Olivera, for intentionally sliding into Nats second baseman Daniel Murphy. The so-called “Chase Utley Rule,” which was instituted after Utley broke the leg of New York Mets infielder Ruben Tejada during last year's National League playoffs, clearly is in full effect. Orioles manager Buck Showalter expressed concern early on about the possible ramifications of the rule change, which requires base runners to slide into the base and prohibits them from changing direction to target the pivot man in an attempt to break up a double play. But he said before Wednesday's game that the call on Bautista was “pretty cut and dry.” “They told us exactly what they're going to do, and, so far, they're doing it,” Showalter said. “It's not really open to interpretation.” So, Showalter said he has instructed his minor league managers and instructors to make sure that every player in the organization knows how to slide within the new
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Baltimore Orioles’ Mark Trumbo (45) slides with an insurance run on a double hit by Matt Wieters on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
rule. He and the major league staff already have been putting extra emphasis on adapting to the change. “There's not replay down there obviously, but we're sending them some tape that we've been showing our guys since really the first days of spring training,” Showalter said. “We've showed them, attacked it three or four times. We're going to meet about it today after batting practice and show them a couple things that have happened the first couple games that have impacted games so they can continue to be aware.”
Veteran shortstop J.J. Hardy said the Orioles already are well-versed on what they can and cannot do on the bases. “We've talked about it,” Hardy said. “We know what the rule is, and it's going to be different for guys like Jonesy who go in hard and get to the guy pretty much every time there's a double play opportunity. He's definitely going to have to change the way he slides. It's just you can't reach for him. You've got to slide toward the bag and try to stay on the bag.” Second baseman Jonathan Schoop said
that he does not believe that the new rules will affect the way he turns the double play. “I'm going to turn them the same way because I'm going to use the bag for protection,” he said. “For me it's easier because they can't get you all the way in the front and can't get you all the way in the back. They've got to stay somewhere where they can still touch the bag. I'll still stay there and let the bag protect me.”
MOUNTAIN WEST Big sixth inning fuels Bulldogs past Sac State BASEBALL STANDINGS TEAM
BASEBALL from Page 8 home run game as a Bulldog. He hopes the team stays consistent in conference play. “That’s important to being a championship team. A good team is playing everybody to your level and to not get scared of the team because of their reputation,” he said. “It’s all about playing the same.” Viers had his second consecutive multihit game with a solo home run and a single. Batesole added a pair of singles, drove in
two runs and scored a run. Sacramento State collected 11 hits, including five for extra bases. Sophomore outfielder Andrew McWilliam went 4-for-5 with a double, home run, three RBI and a run scored. Leadoff hitter Chris Lewis added a single, double and an RBI. Varnell picked up his first career win, throwing 5.1 innings, allowing six hits, three earned runs, two walks and struck out two.
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BASEBALL
Bulldogs hold off Hornets for 7-5 win By Cox Odia | @coxthaone
‘Dogs pick up fifth win in last six games
Fresno State crushed four home runs and then cut off a comeback bid by Sacramento State on Wednesday night at Beiden Field to defeat the Hornets 7-5. In a game filled with hits all over the field, the ‘Dogs swung their bats well, accounting for nine total hits on the night, notching the team’s 13thstraight game with seven or more hits. Bulldogs’ freshman pitcher Kenny Varnell allowed the first run of the game but then threw four shutout innings as he became more comfortable on the mound. Sophomore infielder Korby Batesole then drove in two runs in the second inning, with infielders Jesse Medrano and Kevin Viers scoring to give the ‘Dogs a 2-1 lead. In the fifth, the ‘Dogs scored two more runs when both Batesole and junior infielder Scott Silva reached base on singles and came around to score on a throwing error by the Hornets’ shortstop. But the clinching hit came in the bottom of the sixth inning from junior outfielder Austin Guibor when he cracked his second home run of the night After Sacramento State was held to five hits through the first five innings, the Hornets got a home run and scored again to pull themselves within one run at 4-3. But in the bottom of the sixth, Guibor blasted his first home run to right field to help the ‘Dogs pull away. “I was just trying to hit the ball hard and get things going for the team,” Guibor said. “The momentum was kind of falling, and I think we needed a boost to get back into the game.” The great hitting continued for the ‘Dogs with Viers crushing a home run of his own to give the Bulldogs a comfortable 6-3 lead after six. The Hornets managed to score two more runs near the end of the game, but another long ball by Guibor sealed the deal for the home team. Three Bulldogs had a pair of hits including Guibor’s two solo home runs for his first multi-
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(Top) Fresno State freshman pitcher Kenny Varnell recorded his first collegiate win Wednesday against Sacramento State. (Above) Fresno State senior outfielder Brody Russell runs toward first base during Wednesday’s 7-5 win.