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African Americans in music are incredible and whenever you can highlight that in a community and the American community, it’s really important,” Ray said.

Ray said that although the concert highlights AfricanAmerican history and music, the event still focuses on the growth of students.

“It’s gives the students another chance to experience another world of music that they may not experience in the

This time of year is economically stressful because while working adults are focusing on filing their taxes, many students are also completing their Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Along with a good education comes a good chunk of money out of your pocket.

Thankfully, there is federal student aid to help fund education beyond high school.

While some students benefit from grants and scholarships, there is also financial aid available to students in the form of work study and student loans.

The federal student aid office of the United States De par tment of Education provides more than $150 billion in aid to nearly 14 million students and their families, according to the 2011-12 guide to Federal Student Aid. The financial aid office at Fresno State provides informational material for students to access regarding financial aid availability. There are pamphlets with information for grants, work-study programs and student loans.

This includes helpful hints for preparing to file the FAFSA, receiving financial aid and repaying student loans.

In addition to calling the financial aid office to conduct business, students can also visit the office to meet with a representative regarding their financial aid status. The office is commonly known to be overcrowded at times, especially when approaching the FAFSA deadline, which is March 2.

While patiently waiting to receive help in the financial aid office, chemistry major Brittney Block said that for her, the FAFSA process has been fairly easy with parental assistance.

“My mom fills out her income tax information right away,” Block said.

Students, like Block, that plan the process beforehand have more time to work on the application should they run into a problem.

It is convenient for Block’s parents to be involved in the process because for students that are claimed as a dependent on their parents’ taxes, a large portion of the FAFSA requires parental infor mation. This helps to determine the students expected family contribution, ultimately determining the amount and form of financial aid that the student will receive.

Some students prefer to file the FAFSA application as soon

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By Carlos Perez The Collegian At a time when the world watched as former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned from his regime and the newly-elected governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, proposed a “Budget Repair Bill” that would potentially strip his state’s workers of their collective bargaining rights, the term “protest” isn’t taken lightly.

As the California legislature prepares to make budget decisions in early March, students from all over the state will join together on March 14 to march in protest of recent and proposed budget cuts to higher education. Protesters

will meet at the California Au t o m o b i l e M u s e u m i n Sacramento at 10 a.m., and will march to the west steps of the capitol building. A rally will take place from there from 11 a.m. to noon.

“If we are loud enough and show our support, we can

President Pedro Ramirez said in a phone interview. “The protesters will be the last voice the representatives hear, as the deadline for the budget is the next day, March 15.”

Ramire z is assisting in raising awareness on Fresno State’s campus for students to

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f we are loud enough and show our support, we can make a difference and change our education system.

— Pedro Ramirez ASI President make a difference and change our education system,” ASI

get involved.

The march is organized

by t h e C a l i f o r n i a S t a t e Student Association and the Student Senate for California Community Colleges.

Ramirez, along with other re pres en tative s from th e California State University system, the University of Califor nia and community colleges, are urging students to join together to protest budget cuts against higher education.

“The goal for Fresno State ASI, specifically, is to encourage as many students on campus to go to Sacramento,” Ramirez said. “If we can get 50 to 60 students from Fresno State alone, we’ve definitely succeeded.”

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Gospel singer visits Fresno State

By Leonard Valerio The Collegian The Fresno State Concert Choir held their first performance of 2011 with guest conductor and gospel musician Robert Ray on Sunday, Feb. 27.

Concert Choir Director Dr. Anna Hamre said Ray brought an energy that was unparalleled and was the biggest event the choir had ever put on.

“It’s a great opportunity to have someone that has changed the course of choir music,” Hamre said. “This is

huge. He’s flown all over the world. We are so jazzed. He has taught us so much.”

Comprised of approximately 65 students, the concert choir has had its fair share of big events. Choir members provided the singers for the Star Wars traveling concert in 2010, traveled to China for the 2008 Olympics and have performed in Vienna.

Members of the choir also felt the event was the biggest ever.

Sophomore vocal major Aaron Burdick said he felt

the event was humongous and nothing else compared.

“Robert Ray is amazing and his work is renowned all over the world,” Burdick said. “It’s just really cool because he can bring so much to our Fresno State campus, and he brings a new sound that we don’t normally sing.”

An associate professor for the University of Missouri, Ray said that having the concert during Black History month makes it that much more special. “ T h e c o n t r i b u t i o n s by

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EDITORIAL

Let Libyans decide Libya’s fate “I

cannot leave my country,” Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, said in a recent speech, “I will die a martyr.”

With that, Gaddafi announced that the protests in Libya are far from over, and that many more Libyans will have the same fate as roughly 2,000 already have — death at the hands of a tyrant.

While the protests in the Middle East have indeed enacted much change, with the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders already deposed, most of the protests in the region have been peaceful thus far, in large part because those governments have been unwilling to kill citizens.

Not in Libya. Instead, Gaddafi is desperately clinging to power, even going so far as to blame the uprisings on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and coffee spiked with drugs.

Bizarre.

All this puts the United States in an interesting position. Thus far, President Barack Obama has been, if not completely silent, restrained in his comments about the situation. At most, his administration has publicly talked about putting sanctions on Libya.

This response has been found wanting by many. An open letter signed by a veritable who’s who list of neoconservatives (among them Max Boot, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Cliff May, John Podhoretz, the list goes on) recommended a list of things that the U.S. could do, including establishing a “presence in Libyan airspace” and

temporarily halting the importation of Libyan oil into America.

The two senior hawks of Congress’ deliberative body, John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) have begged Obama to establish a no-fly zone over the country, which could be a first step toward direct military action into the troubled nation.

“It is very important that we not just make statements about the massacre that is occuring in Libya but that we lead an international coalition to do something,” Lieberman said. “What is happening in Libya today reminds me what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s. We in the United States decided that we could not simply stand by and watch a government massacre its people.”

If Obama takes the advice of these false prophets, this country will have taken its fateful step onto the escalator to war, moving forward without taking a step, unable to turn back.

The temptation is certainly there.

Libya has been a thorn in the side of the United States since the early ‘80s, with the U.S. even trying (and failing) to assassinate Gaddafi.

But what can be gained by intervening in Libya?

To do what the neoconservatives advise would accomplish effectively nothing. Gaddafi has built his trenches and is busy lobbing grenade after grenade toward his opposition. Halting Libyan oil imports and establishing a no-fly zone would be little but annoy-

ing flies to the homebody lounging outside.

Nay, these actions would inevitably lead to war, which this country can ill afford.

Question for the neocons: Why must America do a thing?

Stay out of these Arab conflicts.

Quit meddling in faraway lands with people we don’t understand. Build our fortifications here at home. Let the sheiks, imams, monarchs, ayatollahs, Islamists, indeed all Arabs figure out their governments for themselves.

Why is that any of our business?

Gaddafi will increase his attacks on Libyan protesters, hoping to break their will, and Libyans will continue protesting, hoping to finally get out of the grip of a ruthless tyrant.

Time will tell whether Gaddafi or the protesters will triumph. For now, the U.S. must offer its hopes and prayers to the Libyan citizens, and nothing more. Let them determine their course.

Let Gaddafi have that which he so desperately wishes — the fate of a martyr.

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Culled each week from discussions in The Collegian newsroom.

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The rainbow state Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed same-sex civil unions into law Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. Hawaii is now the seventh state to permit civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.

Whoop whoop.

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Christian Bale forgets wife’s name Apparently actor Christian Bale forgot his wife’s name during his acceptance speech at the Oscar’s. Really? Come on, Batman! Even Charlie Sheen after a 36-hour coke binge could remember something like that!

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Zombies vs. Robots For all of you Humans vs. Zombie groupies out there on campus, Michael Bay’s big screen adaption of the IDW comic book is in the works. It will have to suffice.

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Thumbs down Neil Lansing

The homeless man arrested on a drug charge, broke the record for the number of things an inmate has ever packed in his rectal cavity — at 30 items: 17 round blue pills, one cigarette, six matches, one flint, one empty syringe with an eraser over the needle, one lip balm container, one additional unused condom, a receipt from CVS pharmacy and a paper coupon.

Thumbs up Prince

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (Rogers Nelson) and his ned band, The New Power Generation, sang a pretty amazing cover of Rihanna’s ‘Rude Boy’ at Oakland’s Oracle Arena last Monday night. Check it out.

Thumbs down Rep. David Wu

This congressman has been photographed wearing a tiger suit and has been accused of sending e-mails to staffers pretending to be his daughters.

That’s just creepy.

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FAFSA: Surviving the stress of financial planning for school CONTINUED from page 1 as it is available at the beginning of the year, even if they have not yet filed their taxes.

Undeclared major Vanessa Medina said that she, too, has had no problems with her FAFSA applications thus far because she files her application as soon as possible.

“I select the ‘will file taxes’ option, so I can complete my

application and fill in the tax information later,” Medina said.

T h i s g ive s M e d i n a t h e advantage of having her application submitted early while she can still access the application to edit her income tax information after she files her taxes.

“One thing that we try to emphasize is to file the FAFSA early,” Maria Her nande z,

director of financial aid at Fresno State, said.

Hernandez said that many students and their parents are under the impression that they need to have completed their taxes to file the FAFSA, which is not true. It is easier for students to file the FAFSA and return to it with tax information, Hernandez said.

Oscar who? Astronauts too busy for earthly awards

By Marcia Dunn Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex said Sunday that gearing up for their first spacewalk and accomplishing other chores kept them too busy to pay attention to the Academy Awards back on Earth.

When asked by a TV interviewer, the Inter national Space Station’s skipper said he wasn’t even aware of the celebrity event. More pressing news was delivered: Mission Control told the six shuttle fliers that Discovery made it through its final liftoff relatively unscathed, and that no further inspections would be needed before undocking next weekend.

NASA officials had said they did not suspect any damage from a section of insulating foam that broke off the fuel tank and struck Discovery’s belly. At least four pieces of debris came off the tank during Thursday’s launch, though none posed a safety concern.

More than 300 digital photographs snapped from the International Space Station d u r i n g D i s c ove r y ’ s cl o s e

approach Saturday confirmed the shuttle’s thermal armor is free of any serious deformities. The pictures still are being analyzed, but nothing worrisome has popped up, said LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team.

The 12 astronauts hustled Sunday to haul fresh supplies from Discovery into the space station, and get ready for Monday’s spacewalk, the first of two planned for this week.

They were so busy some of them, at least, did not realize the Academy Awards ceremony was Sunday night.

When asked if the two crews might tune in, station commander Scott Kelly said it would be possible for Mission Control to beam up portions of the awards broadcast — “if we weren’t working.”

One of two astronauts stepping out Monday — Stephen Bowen — joined the crew last month, replacing lead spacewalker Timothy Kopra, who was hurt in a bicycle crash.

In a series of interviews Sunday, Bowen said Kopra helped get him up to speed.

Bowen said there’s still a lot he doesn’t know about the 11-day mission, but his crewmates “have been able to pick up the

slack that I kind of brought on board.”

Bowen is an experienced spacewalker with five to his credit.

Kopra — still on crutches — will help direct both spacewalks from Mission Control.

During Monday’s outing, Bowen and Alvin Drew will m ove a b ro ke n a m m o n i a pump to a better storage area on the station’s exterior and install an extension power cable. The cable extension needs to be hooked up before a chamber full of supplies can be installed permanently on the orbiting lab; the Italianbuilt compartment was carried up aboard Discovery to serve as an extra closet.

The first humanoid robot in space — Robonaut 2 or R2 for short — will remain boxed up inside the compartment for another few months.

Beginning in spring or early summer, it will be tested as an astronaut helper. R2 will remain indoors; future versions may venture out on spacewalks.

“Today my crew is going to be getting ready for the mission’s 1st spacewalk,” R2 said in a tweet, posted by a human collea gue back on Ear th.

“Wish I could go with them!

Maybe someday.”

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PROTEST: Fresno State students urged to join the rally CONTINUED from page 1 ASI is sponsoring a bus that will provide students with a means of transportation to and from Sacramento.

Interested students are encouraged to stop by the ASI office in room 316 in the University Student Union for more transportation details.

The purpose of the March for Higher Education is to raise public awareness about the value of education to both the public and decision-makers in Sacramento. The march wants to bring as many students as possible that are concerned about the future of the education system.

Olgalilia Ramirez, CSSA director of government relations, said that the march is an opportunity for student advocates to voice their opinions to send a clear message to the state.

“While we might not be able to compete with large campaign donations that support budget cuts to higher education,” Olgalilia Ramirez said, “[students] have power in numbers and a voice to be heard.”

This year the march is anticipating more than 20,000 students and supporters — it would be its largest turnout to date.

Over the past few years, the rally has seen an increase in attendance. According to Olgalilia Ramirez, the march began with only 5,000 students. Then it grew to 8,000.

Last year, the march brought together 13,000 protestors at the steps of the state capitol.

Fresno State, however, has not been very successful in the amount of students that made the trip to Sacramento — only about 30 students participated from Fresno State

last year. Jaime Moncayo, ASI senator-at-large of legislative affairs, said that while ASI tries to get a large amount of students involved in the political process, it’s ultimately the students’ decision. “[ASI] provides the opportunity for students to fight for their education,” Moncayo said. “The motivation to act upon the opportunity, however, has to come from the students themselves.”

Moncayo is also the chair of the legislative affairs committee for Fresno State and deals with lobbying efforts ASI has put forward to get students to go to Sacramento for the march.

“The committee plays an active role in being involved with the campus and trying to raise student interest in this important issue.”

Allyson McCaffrey, a psychology major at Fresno State, attended the march last year and hopes to participate again next month.

“It’s our future and the future of our children that we’re protesting for,” McCaffrey said. “We need to show the decision-makers that we’re paying attention to politics and taking account of what is being done.”

McCaffrey believes that the majority of her age group, 18 to 24, is not very politically active and it’s because the legislature tends to not vote with that constituency in mind.

“It’s important for students to show their support and have the legislature consider us,” McCaffrey said. “Students are people too — our voices should not be ignored.”

CONCERT: World renowned musician performs with concert choir CONTINUED from page 1 classroom,” Ray said. “The opportunity for the students to perform a body of music they may not normally perform is also important for their musical growth.”

Coordinator of the music education program, Dr. Tony Mowrer shared the same view as Ray. “To perform this style of music is a great opportunity for the students,” Mowrer said. “Normally we’re singing a style of music that is from a European and classical background and to perform a style of music that is not usually done by the choir gives them a whole new educational level.”

Vocal major Constantine Pappas said the concert choir couldn’t be any more excited to perform alongside Ray.

“It’s always a great thing when a composer comes in, especially a composer of the music he brings,” Pappas said.

Pappas also said this experience goes beyond the performance.

“We get to dive into why he wrote the music and the knowledge he has of writing music,” he said. “It gives you that more in-depth feel of music and for him to come direct us is a big honor.”

Pappas said the short time the choir spent with Ray would be felt long after he departs.

“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and the knowledge we learn will transfer to all the music pieces we sing,” he said.

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By Beeta Taidi-Laskowski The Collegian The consistent modernization and sophistication of the Internet, as well as general technology, can be paired with the refinement of dif ferent types of identity theft. Identity theft is becoming a concern among some college students.

C o n s u m e r s h ave b e c o m e increasingly uninhibited with their personal information and feel comfortable entering it into websites, such as social networking sites.

Similar to the willingness to share information on social networking is the level of complacency with smart phones and online shopping. The youngest generation of consumers no longer thinks twice about entering their personal infor mation when purchasing items online or checking their bank accounts.

“Online banking is safe to use if you make sure you never share your password with anyone and log off when you finish your session,” Justin Witte, assistant branch manager of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Compass Bank of Fresno, said.

Consumers should be wary of the ways hackers and scam artists have evolved and the lengths that they will go to in order to obtain another individual's information.

“Remember that your bank or credit union will never send you an e-mail asking for personal infor mation,” Witte said.

said his credit card number was compromised last spring and he has since begun to pay close attention to his monthly statements.

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ocial networking sites are really dangerous in terms of putting your information out there.”

— Greg Wiles, Fresno Treasury Officer

“I make sure to check my bank status online a lot more,” Worman said.

Attention should be given not only to monthly statements, but also to any e-mails received by banks and similar websites regarding passwords being reset or security questions being asked. Consumers are likely to use the same passwords for most if not all accounts, making it easier to hack into multiple accounts.

The usage of user names for websites has continued to advance and have become available to the public. Memberships with specific sites allow consumers to have distinct user names to share with friends.

The usernames are directly linked to personal information, making them more identifiable and searchable.

T h e Vi e n n a U n iv e r s i t y o f Technology in Austria conducted a study using a business-oriented

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nline banking is safe to use if you make sure you never share your password with anyone and log off when you finish your session.”

— Justin Witte, Assistant branch manager of Compass Bank of Fresno

Websites such as PayPal can help ensure safety when shopping on lesserknown websites, and will only share the minimal information necessary while shopping. Consumers can also protect themselves by only entering their information into well-trusted and secure sites.

Additionally, banks have developed programs that will help protect their cardholders from fraudulent charges.

Regardless of the banks' efforts to help, it is essential that consumers frequently double-check the use of their debit and credit cards to ensure that no one else is making additional charges.

Business major Derek Wor man

network based in Germany collecting data on 6,500 groups, totaling 1.8 million users. After analyzing an overlap between the membership lists, it was determined that roughly 42 percent of users were personally identifiable by the groups they visited.

“Social networking sites are really dangerous in terms of putting your information out there,” Greg Wiles, the Fresno Treasury Officer, said.

Infor mation including, but not limited to, your current whereabouts, address and phone number should be kept private. The more personal infor mation that is made publicly available to others, the easier it is for your bank accounts to be jeopardized.

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Dance students celebrate Centennial

Swan Lake, West Side Story mash-up makes for smash hit Kyle Lowe / The Collegian

The Fresno State symphonic band plays the score for the Centennial Symphonic Dance Project, a performance that sold out four times this weekend.

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By John Quinlan falling off the stage for this reason.

The Collegian The Contemporary Dance Ensemble The Centennial Symphonic Dance members are all a part of the class Project, a joint event produced by the Dance 163, which is a preparatory class music and theater arts departments, for performance and careers in dancopened Thursday night to a sold-out ing. house, a pattern that would continue “It’s essential that the students over the weekend during the project’s actually have this opportunity to go next three performances. through a grueling rehearsal period The performance was headed by and performance,” Balint said. “To be contemporary dance ensemble direcable to perform with the symphony is tor Kenneth Balint along with Fresno just amazing. Sometimes professional State symphony orchestra conductor dancers don’t even get to do that anyThomas Loewenheim. more because performing with a sym“The conductor and I, at least in the phony orchestra is just too expensive.” beginning, jokingly teased each other Eugene Rodolfa, one of the male that it probably would be another hunleads, said that dancing with a live dred years before the departments colorchestra is what he enjoyed most laborate,” Balint said. about this performance.

The performance featured a con“You can defitemporary mashnitely feel the up of “West Side he energy behind the music movement a lot Story” and “Swan is just powerful.” more and the Lake.”

Students, pro— Eugene Rodolfa energy behind the fessors, friends Male lead music is just powe r f u l , ” Ro d o l f a and family of said. perfor mers and The behind-the-scenes production many others made their way into their and direction of the show is almost seats as more than 400 filled the John fully student run.

Wright Theater, selling out all four per“I like the theatre department formances. because it’s very hands on,” stage man“This is my last night playing ager Angela Salinas said. “The person Odette, so I’m pretty excited,” Nicole who’s running the light board is a stuAskren said before perfor ming on dent.”

Saturday. Askren switches roles with A lot of what goes on behind the another dancer each performance, as scenes requires quick changes. In do both of the male leads. many cases, the performers have to be “Both the two gentlemen in the show completely re-dressed in less than 45 partner differently, so it’s a challenge seconds. working with two different partners at “It’s all about being prepared,” the same time, but it works,” Askren Salinas said. said.

Fresno State’s centennial year Askren said she gets plenty of provided an opportunity for the two rehearsal time. The dancers have been departments that don’t normally work practicing for this event since October. together to collaborate on a project that The two weeks leading up to the perturned out to be a huge success. formance is the most intense, Askren “I really like how two departments said, as they have rehearsal every sincame together and did this show gle night. because it really does show that people On the floor of the dance studio they enjoy theatre,” Salinas said. “We do six rehearse in is a taped-on version of the shows a year and sometimes we don’t theater stage, which Balint pointed out get a lot of people, but I think is going is six inches smaller than the actual to bring in a lot of people because stage. Many times the dancers have to they’re seeing what we can do.” walk backwards at certain points in

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GOLF: Bulldogs will square off with No. 1 UCLA CONTINUED from page 8 good players. The main thing is us putting it together.”

Watney said the team has struggled in the spring session of getting all competing players to perfor m at a high level in the same matches. The Bulldogs placed 10th in the Arizona Intercollegiate’s 16-team field and seventh at the John Burns Invitational at Hawaii.

One area of mild concern for Fresno State has been the play of the Bulldogs’ premier player Patel. The junior has labored down the stretch after a terrific fall campaign. Patel’s average of 75 per round in Fresno State’s two spring tournaments is well under his fall average of 69.71.

But if Patel can return to his fall form at the USC Invitational, and his four teammates can prove to be an ample supporting cast, Watney believes his team is nationally-ranked caliber.

“If you have an All-American, and solid support, you should be a top20 team,” Watney said. “In Bhavik we have a guy that, until the last two tournaments, is definitely playing AllAmerican level. But we’ve been inconsistent behind them.”

Watney held a competition during Wednesday’s practice to determine which five members on his roster he would take to the invitational. Patel, Brian Sunker, Brad Wyatt, as well as surging Bulldogs Nate Jessup and Bryan Hogan made the cut. Hogan shot one-under at the John Bur ns Invitational in Hawaii while Jessup, just a freshman, shot a third-round 65.

“I had a freshman last week shoot 65 in Hawaii,” Watney said of Jessup.

“That’s a fabulous score. I mean that’s beyond good — that’s fabulous seven under par.”

Although Watney has plenty of confidence in his five-man group, North Ranch Country Club’s layout presents plenty of unfavorable circumstances itself. The course is relatively short at 6,869 yards, but keeps the driver out of players’ hands and warrants caution on out-of-bounds areas.

“For the free-swinging type of player, that can be very difficult, very scary, because you can’t just give it a rip because, I mean, most golf courses you hit it left you might hit trees or be in another fairway,” Watney said. “Here you’re out of bounds and reloading.”

Watney said even for the teams of NCAA elite status, the course’s dynamics level the playing field.

“At the NCAA, Arizona came into it prohibitive favorites,” he said.

“They’d won like seven tournaments during the year. They had several future [PGA] Tour players, and these guys were bombers. Well they go to this golf course, take the driver out of their hands, now they’re hitting three irons and some short, straight hitter who normally can’t compete against the bomber, but he can hit his driver against the other guy’s three iron.”

This year marks the fourth straight season the Bulldogs have competed in the USC Invitational. The best a Fresno State player has finished in the last three invitationals is last year when Hogan shot a 69-69-71—209, good enough for fifth place.

But Watney reiterated that his team’s struggles of late are simply a product of his players putting it all together at the right time.

“Every sport it’s hard,” Watney said.

“It’s like the quarterback is right on and his receivers keep dropping passes. One guy’s on and the other guy’s not on, and you don’t have success.”

Matt Weir / Collegian File Photo

Surging senior Bryan Hogan is one of five players head coach Mike Watney will take to Southern California to compete in the USC Invitational.

Softball 6-1 after Cathedral City The Fresno State softball team headed to Southern California for the second time this season to compete in the Cathedral City Classic.

Head coach Margie Wright’s team opened the tournament in prolific fashion with wins over Virginia and No. 19 Oklahoma State.

But Fresno State’s perfect record suffered its first blemish, losing to a 9-2 Syracuse squad in the seventh inning, 4-3.

The Bulldogs got back on the winning track on Sunday, running through Massachusetts 7-5 to improve to 6-1 on the season.

In the tournament-opening victory over Virginia, pitcher Mackenzie Oakes improved to 3-0 after her seveninning, one earned run performance.

Fresno State survived a late-game surge by Oklahoma State in the second game of the tournament. The Bulldogs scored all four of their runs in the second inning. The win was Fresno State’s second over a nationally-ranked opponent this season.

The ‘Dogs capped off the tournament with their win over UMass, due in large part to catcher Caitlin Stiglich’s

grand slam in the fifth inning.

Sanchez WAC indoor shot put champ Although the Fresno State track and field team took just sixth place out of eight teams in this year’s WAC Indoor Championships, it got a huge boost from senior Rosario Sanchez.

Sanchez’s winning throw of 50-feet2.75 inches was nearly two feet farther than Utah State’s Lindsey Spencer’s mark of 48-feet-8.25-inches.

Sanchez scored a second-place finish in the WAC Indoor Championships during her freshman season.

Saylah Barserian also had a standout meet, taking second in the women’s mile with a time of 4:59.62.

Watney bounced from Match Play in third round Former Fresno State golf great Nick Watney lost in round three of the WGCAccenture Match Play Championship to No. 12 seed Ryan Moore.

It took 19 holes, but Moore took out the eighth-seeded Watney on Friday.

Watney advanced to the third round after scoring an upset of No. 1 seed Lee Westwood on Thursday.

No. 3 seed Luke Donald went on to win the championship over No. 1 seed Martin Kaymer.

DOGS: Bulldogs undefeated CONTINUED from page 8 by scoring two runs. Second baseman Joe Sever hit an RBI ground out.

Pepperdine would also add another unearned run due to a fielding error by shortstop Garrett Weber.

For the first time this year the Bulldogs would use more than one reliever to finish out a game.

After Gonzalez left after 5.2 innings

when he allowed two runs, one earned, the ‘Dogs would use five relievers with Taylor Garrison getting the win and Charlie Robertson picking up the save.

The pitching staff ended the game with nine strikeouts and only one walk.

Gonzalez had six of the strikeouts.

Fresno State took down the Waves 8-1 in the second half of Sunday’s double header.

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THIS COMING WEEK

The men’s and women’s basketball teams play their final home double-header of the season on Thursday.

SPORTS EDITOR, BEN INGERSOLL • COLLEGIAN-SPORTS@CSUFRESNO.EDU

BULLDOGS BASEBALL

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Men’s golf heads to USC Invite

By Ben Ingersoll The Collegian

Mike Howells / The Collegian

Austin Wynns and the Bulldogs drew in four of their seven runs in the final three innings in Saturday’s win over Pepperdine, then capped off an undefeated weekend with back-to-back wins in Sunday’s double header.

Fresno State golf coach Mike Watney and his team have a stiff challenge ahead of them starting today at the USC Invitational, but the 30-year Bulldog leader insists his team can outlast the strong field.

The two-day, three-round event at Westlake Village, Calif.’s North Ranch Country Club has 15-school field, seven of which are currently ranked top-25 in the nation, including No. 1 UCLA. But Watney believes the five players making the trip to Southern California are in it to win in what he says is one of the very best fields in the country.

“We think we can win,” Watney said. “This is a very, very good field and based on our ranking we shouldn’t. However, Bhavik Patel is a fantastic player who can win anytime he tees it up. I have other very See GOLF, Page 7

Robinson’s debut a hit, ‘Dogs sweep

By Tim Salazar The Collegian The Fresno State baseball team opened up a three-game series against Pepperdine on Saturday because, for the second consecutive week, the Bulldogs Friday night game was canceled due to inclement weather.

Friday’s game was postponed to Sunday after the regularly scheduled 1:05 game.

Saturday’s game featured the pitching matchup of Fresno State’s Derek Benny against the Waves’ Aaron Gates.

The Bulldogs won the game 7-3 pushing their perfect record to 4-0.

Benny continued his strong 2011 start in the first Pepperdine matchup, going seven innings and allowing only two ear ned runs. Reliever Charlie Robertson ear ned his second save pitching two innings to close out the game. Robertson allowed one unearned run and one hit. This marked the fourth consecutive game that only one reliever was used.

The Bulldogs’ bats made the most of their six hits, crossing home plate seven times, including four over the final three innings. Rightfielder Dusty Robinson, making his first appearance of the season after coming off a five-game suspension, blasted a sixthinning home run on just his third at bat of the season. Freshman Aaron Judge, an imposing 6-foot-7 leftfielder, also hit his first home run in a Bulldog uniform in the eighth inning.

The Wave were able to strike out 13 Fresno State batters, but also walked six and threw five wild pitches.

Sunday’s first game featured righthanded Bulldog Greg Gonzalez against

Pepperdine right-hander Jon Moscot.

The ‘Dogs would use some late-game heroics from third baseman Danny Muno to pick up a 7-5 victory to remain undefeated at 5-0. With the bases juiced and one out in the bottom of the eighth, Muno hit a ball to deep left that popped out of David DiPaola’s glove, leading to two clutch Fresno State runs. Muno was credited an RBI since there was only one out.

Fresno State broke through first when Muno hit an RBI ground out bringing in catcher Austin Wynns in the third. The Bulldogs scored two more times in the fifth. The first came when second baseman Pat Hutcheson hit an RBI single to bring in designated hitter Kenny Wise. The second run of the inning came when centerfielder Brennan Gowens hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded and one out.

In the top of the six the Waves, with the help of a Bulldog miscue, were able to string together a pair. A single

by Pepperdine centerfielder Brian Humphries brought in third baseman Miles Silverstein, who opened the inning with a double. Humphries would later come around to score when Tyler Brubaker had a pinch-hit single.

The ‘Dogs would answer back with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning. Robinson homered for the second day in a row while Wynns would add a double to bring in Wise, who reached third on a triple.

Pepperdine would score in the seventh when Silverstein beat out a throw to first allowing leftfielder DiPaola to score from third. The Waves were then able to tie the game in the eighth See DOGS, Page 7

Matt Weir / The Collegian

Dusty Robinson had plenty to celebrate about during his 2011 debut over the weekend. The preseason All-WAC selection was 2-for-4 this weekend at the plate with a home run on Saturday.