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Fresno State wins Mountain West Championship in 76-70 victory

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian LAS VEGAS — The clock, as it had done so in the Bulldogs’ final two Mountain West tournament games, was winding down aggressively – narrowing the breathing space, intensifying the heat of the moment.

Top-seeded San Diego State – the fast and ferocious reigning conference champion that bullied and dominated and demoralized opponents to get to the title game – wasn’t going to go down without a fight.

Not after coming back from a 22-point deficit to pull within two with 1:13 to play.

But Fresno State had found San Diego State’s kryptonite before, and held its ground when the Aztecs were at their most persistent.

The No. 2 Bulldogs made timely shots, a flurry of timegrinding free throws to stave off the Aztecs 76-70 Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center for the Mountain West championship and the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.

Fresno State (24-8) will make its sixth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance.

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The Fresno State women’s basketball team celebrates with the Mountain West Conference championship trophy after defeating top-seeded San Diego State on Saturday in the title game at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The ’Dogs also took down Boise State and Wyoming on their way to the crown.

The ins and outs of ASI

By Careen Wong The Collegian Fresno State students vote for their Associated Students Inc. (ASI) re presentatives beginning Tuesday.

Among the positions candidates will be running for are the executive vice president, vice president of external affairs and vice president of finance. The election also includes the eight college senator positions and the seven senator at-large posts.

P a r m i t a C h o u d h u r y, a Smittcamp students majoring in business, is the executive vice president of ASI. In the three years she has worked for

ASI, Choudhury has been a senator twice.

Choudhury said her role as the executive vice president is overseeing ASI’s internal functions.

She also manages the ASI standing committees, which include the academic, personnel, legal, legislative, activities, and finance committees.

“What I do is, I manage the senate. That’s the 15 board of directors – the senators,” she said. “I meet with them monthly. I also chair all senate meetings.”

Choudhury appoints three senators to each of those committees. She trains these senators how to run meetings. She

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Senators and executives with Fresno State’s Associated Students, Inc. vote during a meeting. All senators and executives sit on a variety of committees.

also makes sure that the senate’s agenda and information is up to date, as well as making sure the senators are following proper meeting policy.

Choudhury cur rently is running for senator at-large before seeking reelection as executive vice president.

Neil O’Brien, a recreation major, is the senator of parking and safety. He oversees procedures regarding students parking passes and tickets.

“It is my duty to show students and check whether those that say they bought a parking pass, actually have a parking pass,” he said. “Whether they parked illegally, whether they parked intentionally at a spot where they have a good chance of getting a ticket.”

O’Brien also advocates for campus safety and alerts students of ways to protect themselves on campus.

“The campus is the 19th worst crime rated school in the nation,” he said. “So I try to address the parking and safety issues on campus.”

S i m i l a r t o C h o u d h u r y, O’Brien is also running for senator at-large. As senators, O’Brien said that their main role in ASI is advocating for student rights.

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Fresno State University Officer Gaxiola patrolled the Free Speech Area as students watched and bantered with an evangelist speaking on campus.

Safety brought to you by campus police

By Crystal Deniz The Collegian Fresno State has its own police department, fully functional and operational on its own. Staffed with 21 police officers, seven dispatchers and five administrative support staff members, the department is bustling 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long.

All officers have received full training in hazard emerg ency response. T hey are equipped with full, peaceofficer powers in the state of

California. They are also heavily involved in the campus, often giving presentations and making themselves available to students as needed.

This is one of the reasons Tatevos Manucharyan has enjoyed these past nine years as a Fresno State police officer.

“The officers here take time to talk to the students,” he said.

He explained that officers routinely give safety presentations to classes on campus, including University High See POLICE, Page 3

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The fallen City of Angels WEB-SPE@K Less than 24 hours ago, I was riding shotgun in my friend’s silver Hello Kitty-themed Honda en route to the City of Angels.

Opinion Editor Wi t h o u r Liana Whitehead windows down and spirits high, we shamelessly butchered every Bryan McKnight song in her stone-aged iPod Nano with only one destination in mind: our favorite tattoo shop.

We had finally saved enough time and money for our mini vacation.

Breaking away from the Valley for 14 hours and escaping to my hometown was worth every overly priced Frappuccino and gallon of gas.

It was ironic that our ultimate goal was to sit uncomfortably for six hours under several high-speed needles. If you’re into that kind of thing, it’s worth it.

T here is an expected sense of peace and exploration when embarking on a planned road trip, am I right?

You save for months, notify your employers and make the appropriate arrangements — it has to be better than your grueling, everyday life; something out of the ordinary, or else it wouldn’t be a “getaway.”

As my friend and I approached the base of the Grapevine, our surroundings began to change.

A cooler wind was rising and the glowing, greening mountainsides showed off in honor of St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

It was beautiful.

Before we knew it, the horns of road-raged drivers on the highway overpowered Mother Nature. We weren’t in Kansas anymore.

From that point on, last-minute

braking became the most exhilarating part of the trip.

The welcoming spirit of Los Angeles was upon us. We were greeted by middle fingers and ongoing duels between monster trucks and motorcycles.

There we were, peacefully paced, among hundreds of people in a hurry to go nowhere — no destination is worth driving recklessly. Not even an exquisitely done tattoo.

At 10:30 a.m., we entered Gardena, a small-ish town of 62,000 in Los Angeles County, and continued our game of bumper cars in the city’s downtown streets, which are sadly comparable to some of Fresno’s worst areas.

Though I love my home, Los Angeles is sprinting into a downward spiral.

I wonder if there was a time when the world just beyond the Grapevine was friendly or remotely conscious of having manners (holding doors for others, saying “pleases” and “thank yous” or simply smiling).

I am not the Valley’s most enthusiastic fan, but I will say that its people are more apt to shoot you a smile or a wave, while the big city folk fling doors in your face.

Why is that?

Everyone in Los Angeles looks irritated and impatient, confirming my assumption that they are merely a part of a larger, meaner community that encourages rushing life and tackling anyone who gets in the way.

In 2012, Travel and Leisure magazine released poll results that placed Los Angeles as the fourth rudest city in the United States following New York, Miami and Washington, D.C. Los Angeles was also rated as one of the least pedestrian-friendly cities in 2012.

It did manage to crawl from first to fourth place from 2011 to 2012, but what does that say about New

York and other worsening cities?

I lived in Redding, Calif., for two years during junior college, and all I have to say about Northern California is that it is inhabited with aliens. Yes, aliens – mountaindwelling creatures who pull over to fix your flat tire and deliver CrockPots of chicken soup when your entire family is sick.

What a foreign concept.

I believe the same alien species exists in the Valley – nice, pleasant strangers who have good heads on solid shoulders and are genuine in nature.

Sure, every place is home to fools and followers, but I feel that our Valley still treasures the important values in life: selflessness, charity and genuine concern for our neighbors.

Has Los Angeles’ love for money and individuality taken over? Does its selfish nature and social attitude shape the priorities of its inhabitants?

I can see its ultimate demise in the graffiti on its walls and the litter in its streets.

It now encourages shallow, selfrighteous values that thrust people to the top of the social ladder and leaves them clueless to the needs of others.

I used to dream of retur ning to the City of Angeles, bachelor’s degree in hand and a thousand opportunities ahead – a stress-free life near family and the beach.

But the beaches are tainted, the streets are overflowing and my family is ready to leave.

I hope for the sake of my home and a million memories that Los Angeles becomes more than a great place for quality tattoos. I only have so much empty space on my body.

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School students, and are readily available to meet with criminology students for projects each semester.

Manucharyan moved to Fresno from Ar menia 20 years ago and went on to earn his associate’s degree in libe r a l s t u d i e s f ro m F re s n o City College. He worked with Fresno Police Department for a year when he heard that Fresno State Police Department was hiring.

“I decided to apply and just haven’t looked back since,” he said.

T h e U n ive r s i t y P o l i c e Department has two operational areas: patrol and traffic.

Patrol operations is responsible for law enforcement. While traffic operations deals with parking and traffic management.

Manucharyan said some of the basic functions of traffic operations are parking enforcement and directing traffic during the busiest times of the

day, especially at the beginning of a new semester. He added that traffic operations officers assist staff and faculty in locking and unlocking buildings and classrooms.

Officers are also available to escort students, staff and faculty as necessary.

Imagine walking across Fresno State’s campus one night after everything has closed and feeling as though someone is following you, but when you look around, there is nothing but darkness. If you feel uneasy and your car seems farther away than you remember parking it, you can easily request for an escort.

While every job has its challenges, Manucharyan said he truly enjoys his job. One of the reasons he became an officer was he enjoyed the investigative aspect. After that, he went on to spend his first three years with university police as a detective.

“The most rewarding thing is when you actually solve a crime and you can tell the vic-

tim, ‘I got your stuff back’ or ‘I caught the person,’ ” he said.

Some of the success in crime-solving over the past two years could be attributed to an anonymous reporting system called TipNow. It was launched to utilize the popularity of texting and to encourage crimereporting across campus.

TipNow has been quite successful, Manucharyan said.

He explained the system allows anonymous tips via text, email and phone call and the dispatch staff monitors it around the clock, as well as communicates with the tipster.

In the event that a crime is in progress, TipNow allows patrol officers to respond to the scene faster.

The infor mation sent through the various reporting methods is routed using an outside vendor before it is sent to the department. The only way to identify a tipster is with a four-digit alphanumeric alias. With this, even officers are unable to identify the individual.

In the event of an emergency or a crime, call University Police De par tment at 559278-8400. If one would rather anonymously report a crime in progress or has information regarding an open case, dispatch is available round-theclock by calling or texting 559278-3204. You can also email your tip or send a picture message to fresnostate@tipnow. org.

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“A lot of these decisions that take place at those committees affect students.”

Incumbent vice president of external affairs Sean Kiernan, is running for re-election. Majoring in political science, Kiernan was the first person who took on this position.

“I shaped what it does and its purpose,” Kiernan said.

Kier nan is trying to get students more involved in the political process and he also represents Fresno State student’s to California State University (CSU) governing board meetings.

Kier nan deals with anything ou tside of campu s, and ASI that could affect students. Specifically, the board of trustees, the State legislature, the governor’s office and the California State Student Association.

That association represents the student government of the entire CSU system.

For example, as the vice president of external affairs, Kier nan worked with the Fresno County Clerk to get a polling place on campus in November 2012.

“Having a person who is designated to represent Fresno to the California State Student

Association, which is advocating for students state-wide and developing unity in state wide issues is very important,” Kiernan said.

Rebecca Rosengarten, who is majoring in accounting, is the vice president of finance and is also running for a reelection. Leading the finance committee, Rosengarten plans and creates the budget for ASI every semester. These must then be approved by the senate.

“When anyone wants to use funding from ASI, whether it’s the senators, the excutives, students, they come through me,” she said.

She is also in charge of providing necessary funds to school organizations and clubs when they need money to carry out certain activities or performances around campus.

In the finance committee, Rosengarten and her team look through all funding applications.

“We [the committee] communicate with each other.

We’re not afraid to say things that need to be said in this committee,” she said.

It is important for them to make sure all funds are properly used as they are constantly dealing with a lot of money, Rosengarten said.

Currently, she is working on increasing funds for clubs and organizations.

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By Alex Looper Special to The Collegian Dodging bicycles and skateboards, Fresno State students shuffle through a myriad of backpacks to make it to their next class. However, it’s a different struggle for mothers on campus who are searching for a secluded area to pump breast milk for their children.

Fresno State student Nancy Baus is the president and creator of The Breastfeeding Coalition. She said her dream is to make people aware of how important breast-feeding is, and she is doing all she can to bring breast-feeding locations to the campus.

“The Breastfeeding Coalition is a two-part organization,” Baus said. “The first is an all student organization that revolves around volunteer work and advocacy. The second part is the actual coalition where everyone, including faculty, staff and the community, come together.”

Baus said the coalition discusses ways to help protect, promote and support breast-feeding in order to help increase breast-feeding rates in Fresno County.

Two years ago, Baus returned to Fresno State to complete her degree. When she came back to school, her daughter Avery was 4 months old.

Baus was deter mined to accomplish her dream of finishing her degree and says her goal was to breast-feed her daughter because she knew it

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Nancy Baus (with daughter Avery), founder of the Fresno State Breastfeeding Coalition, is pushing for more areas on campus to accommodate student mothers that need a place to breast-feed their children.

was the best choice after educating herself on the benefits of breast-feeding.

“I would carry my breast pump with me,” Baus said.

“It was concealed in a black backpack along with all of my books, computer and everything else required for my classes.”

Baus said that during her first week she had a very difficult time trying to find a

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“After seeking assistance from multiple departments -- nutrition, child and family sciences, the health center and human resources -- I was basically given a sympathetic smile and directions to the nearest bathroom stall,” Baus said.

She said that trying to produce breast milk in such an environment was extremely

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unsanitary and embarrassing.

In a bathroom, trying to organize all the parts of a breast pump on a toilet may be challenging for some, but Baus said the hardest part was trying to keep everything clean.

Baus eventually found a place in the Thomas Building known as the “quiet room,” where the walls were covered with windows without blinds and a door without a lock. “ M a ny t i m e s a s t u d e n t would walk in on me while I was pumping and their face would be in complete shock,” Baus said.

Since then, blinds have been placed on the windows and a lock has been put on the door.

Baus said she knew she had to make a change on the campus so no mothers would have to go through what she experienced.

“No mother should have to give up her desire to be a student or to breast-feed her child,” Baus said.

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the Breastfeeding Task Force.

They were able to petition to become a recognized student organization.

Their goal is to Fresno State follow the footsteps of many other universities, such as George Washington University, and become breast-feeding friendly with more lactation rooms on campus.

So far, Baus’ efforts have led to an outreach within the faculty, and a room in the Child and Family Sciences department that will be converted into a lactation room.

“We have also established a connection with La Leche League of Fresno and will be starting some support group meetings in the near future,” Baus said. “We are also trying to obtain grant money to help convert other rooms on campus into lactation rooms.”

Baus said when she first started the coalition she was hesitant because she thought most college females weren’t focused on becoming parents during their college years.

“I decided to go out on a limb and presented a booth at the Fall Health Fair,” Baus said. “It was surprisingly a great success, and I went forward with my research.”

Baus said her booth at the fair won an award, and it was inspiring because the students voted for it.

Rachel Heinrich, nutrition and dietetics major at Fresno State, said, “Breast-feeding is extremely important. We’ve learned a lot about it from our class, nutrition through the lifecycles, that breast-feeding can reap tremendous benefits.

I encourage any mother who is uncertain to look into it.”

Baus said that colle ge women have a potential to become parents during school.

She hopes to educate more women about breast-feeding, so if the need arises, they can choose whether to breast-feed their children or not.

She is hoping to expand the coalition and continue to provide resources for all mothers.

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'Frozen': Stellar stars thaw average script Theater Review

By Zack Edwards The Collegian

“Frozen” is not as much about the story as it is about the performances.

Set in England during the 1980s and extends through a 20-year period, "Frozen" tells the story of the kidnapping and murder of a little girl. While we never actually meet her, we do see all the circumstances that surround her disappearance and her mother's attempt to find her.

The story is a little hard to follow at times, which is interesting when you consider that it was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play in 2004.

Writer Bryony Lavery uses the technique of multiple time lines for much of Act I, but the nature of the production is too simplistic for it to come across well.

This Fresno State production is held in the Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre, which is a small black box room with 150 seats. With the exception of a bench, a few chairs and the occasional table, there is no set. It is left to the imagination of the audience to apply the scenery — though there are some sound effects to help you get by.

“Frozen” also has some interesting things to say about criminals and evil.

Is evil born? Is it created? Or does it even exist?

What stands out about this production, though, are the performances. The play features a small cast with only four

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Jacob Rico (left) and Austin Yarborough grab the audience's attention in "Frozen." The performance is in the Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre through Friday.

roles – only three of which have lines, but every actor is strong.

The standout is Austin Yarborough, who plays Ralph, a pedophile and a killer. From the moment he steps on stage,

he grabs the audience’s attention and does not let go.

Ralph is terrifically slimy and loathsome. If the play works for any reason, it is because of Yarborough perfor-

mance as an effective villain. He may have a bright future ahead of him.

Rhiannon Fernandez plays Nancy, the mother of the kidnapped girl. There is a lot of emotion in such a part and she plays it well. Her character has the largest arc, and she manages to hit all the necessary points.

It is really when all the actors get a chance to play off one another that the play really finds its stride. Much of the first act is told through monologues, which were well delivered, but as soon as the dialogue begins and the characters interact with one another, the pacing improves dramatically.

As good as the acting is, it does not cover up a story that is an R-rated version of "Criminal Minds" meets "Cold Case." While it is a choice to go for the simple style of this production, it is hard not to wonder how much better it may have been with grander, more fully developed set design.

It is a story that would benefit from the Hollywood treatment.

However, for the acting alone, this is a production worth seeing. Do not let some story and style choices stop you from seeing some brilliant performances.

Fair warning, if this play were a film it would be rated R for strong language and adult situations. Total run time: 100 minutes, plus a 15-minute intermission. Grade: B“Frozen” will be in the Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre until Friday.

Fresno State hosts Young Writers' Conference 2013

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The 33rd Young Writers' Conference will be held at Fresno State on Wednesday.

Via University Communications High school students and their teachers from throughout Central California will come to Fresno State on March 20 for the 2013 Young Writers’ Conference.

Now in its 33rd year, the conference is sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities, the English Department and the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Fresno State. It will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union.

About 300 high school students from Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Chowchilla, Merced, King City, Lemoore, Selma, Tulare and Porterville will participate.

Acclaimed poet and author Gary Jackson will be the keynote speaker.

He is the author of the poetry collection, “Missing You, Metropolis,” which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

Jackson’s poems have appeared in Fugue, Callaloo, Tin House and The Laurel Review.

Jackson teaches at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, N.M., and at the Master’s

of Fine Art (MFA) program at Murray State University in Murray, Ky. During the conference, cash prizes will be awarded to 18 students for excellence in creative writing, including the prestigious President’s Award, the William Saroyan Society Award and the new Dean’s Council Award.

Two high school teachers will also receive awards for excellence in teaching.

Award sponsors include the William Saroyan Society, the College of Arts and Humanities, the San Joaquin Literary Association, the Fresno Area Council of English Teachers, the Henry Madden Library, the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, the Chicano Writers and Artists Association and the Hmong American Writers’ Circle.

Spectrum, an anthology that includes more than 20 of the best student entries in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, will be distributed.

The entries were selected by an MFA student editorial board from nearly 300 submissions. Writing workshops will be offered to students by MFA graduate students and to the teachers by Jackson.

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’Dogs drop opening conference series

By Zack Edwards The Collegian

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The Fresno State women’s basketball team gets swarmed by fans and media immediately after winning the Mountain West Conference Championship on Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

DOGS: Aztecs’ late run not enough

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But, “we needed to keep our composure because we knew San Diego State is a great team.

They were going to come out hard,” senior guard Rosie Moult said.

“We had to make sure we were still being tough and physical on defense and creating shots on offense, and we did that well.”

San Diego State answered back with a 14-2 run late in the second half to pull within two (71-69) with 1:13 left in the game.

But in a second half in which Fresno State always led, it was too little too late.

San Diego State (26-6) and Fresno State split the regularseason conference series. The Bulldogs took the Mountain West opener on Jan. 9 with an 80-72 win at Viejas Arena.

It was at that point in the season in which the Aztecs started their 17-game win streak. And it was also during that span in which San Diego State took the second match at the Save Mart Center, 74-49.

But, in this third meeting, “we really didn’t have our normal sense of defensive presence, and frankly, really didn’t follow many of the rules that we had aspired to going into the game,” San Diego State coach Beth Burns said.

“We usually start and finish halves really well. That’s been a trademark of our team. And obviously what happened to us at the end of the first half, which was just an end result of our lack of defensive composure the majority of the half, really hurt us.”

Fresno State advances to the NCAA Tour nament for the sixth-straight season. The

Bulldogs will find out their seeding and their opponent on Monday. The Bulldogs have not advanced past the first round in any of their trips. This is something they hope to change this year, Fresno State coach Raegan Pebley said.

“Our preparation, there’s nothing we can do really until we see what the seeding comes out. Once that comes out, we’re going to prepare like we do for any and every game.

“You just got to believe in how you do things, approach everything with poise and confidence. I think that bleeds and spills over to your players.

“Business as usual, but we’ll enjoy the experience. This team has talked about how they wanted to not just get in.

They want to advance. That’s the next step that our program needs to take,” Pebley said.

“We’re going to go for it.”

Despite opening to the weekend with a win, the Fresno State baseball team lost another series.

This time it was against San Diego State in the Bulldogs’ d e b u t i n M o u n t a i n We s t Conference play.

The Bulldogs showed signs of improvement on Friday, thanks in large part to a strong perfor mance from pitcher Tyler Linehan. The junior southpaw threw a complete g ame shutout that helped Fresno State take a 1-0 win over the Aztecs.

It was only the second complete game of the season for the Bulldogs.

Linehan, who has struggled for much of the season, gave up eight hits, but only walked two and struck out seven to earn his first win.

The solid outing also helped him lower his ERA to a more respectable 5.40. That is down from the 10+ he had sported for much of the season.

The momentum did not last long for the Bulldogs, though, as they lost Saturday 11-6. The Aztecs jumped out to a fourrun lead in the first inning and never looked back.

Star ting pitcher Derick Velazquez gave up eight runs in his 3 1/3 innings of work.

Garrett Mundell fared a little better in his 3 2/3 giving up three runs. However, it was Blake Quinn once again who closed out the game with two scoreless innings.

A small bright spot for Fresno State was freshman third baseman Louie Payetta,

who went 2-for-4 from the plate and hit his first home run of his collegiate career.

Sunday proved to be a much closer game for the Bulldogs, but they still were not able to do enough to secure a win.

Sophomore right-hander William Munro, the usual Friday starter, had a strong outing, giving up three runs and six hits in his 6 1/3 innings of work.

Unfortunately for Munro and the Bulldogs, that would be all the Aztecs needed to get a 4-2 win.

Fresno State held a 2-1 lead going into the top of the seventh, but lost after San Diego State right fielder Steven Pallares smoked a triple into right field to score third baseman Tyler France.

Mitch Bluman, Aztec designated hitter would then come up to hit a single and score Pallares.

That would be the end for Munro, but the damage was done, and San Die go State would win the game and the series.

With this series loss, Fresno State has extended its rough start. At 4-14, the Bulldogs have lost four of the five series they have played so far — their only series win coming against USC. Fresno State now goes on a long road trip to face Pacific, Air Force, Sacramento State and Nevada.

The Bulldogs will not play another home game until April 2 against Pacific.

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Sheedy, Moult resurge Bulldogs’ 3-point game

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian Alex Sheedy knocked down a 3 to give Fresno State the definite 36-34

lead with 2:06 left in the first half that it would not give for the remainder of the game.

And then she hit another one with 51 seconds to

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Senior Rosie Moult (25) releases a layup during Fresno State’s 76-70 win over the Aztecs. Moult made 4-of-6 3-pointers.

halftime. And nine minutes before that, Rosie Moult and Bree Farley f o u n d t h e i r r hy t h m behind the 3-point arc.

“Yeah, obviously it’s a great confidence booster for our team,” said Moult, who shot 4-of-6 from behind the 3-point arc in Fresno State’s 76-70 win over San Diego State Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center. “ We ’ r e a g r e a t three‑point shooting team. When you’re hitting them early, it always helps, you know, the lead.”

Fresno State (248), which captured t h e M o u n t a i n We s t Conference championship and the league’s automatic bid to the N C A A To u r n a m e n t , didn’t take many opportunities to shoot the 3 in its Mountain West tournament quarterfinal and semifinal wins.

But against the topseeded Aztecs (26-6), shooting (and making) the 3-ball seemed to be the neutralizer to the fast starts that deflated and demoralized No. 9 Nevada and No. 5 New Mexico in the first two rounds.

San Diego State got off to a 7-0. Fresno State

stayed in the game in the first half by making the 3-pointers it has fluidly knocked down in its offense that emphasizes half-court sets.

The Bulldogs knocked down five 3s to pull within 26-25 with 7:26 left in the first half.

Sheedy’s performance (she scored 18 against the Aztecs in the regularseason win) has been the common variable in Bulldogs’ two wins against San Diego State.

The sophomore AllTour nament selection scored 21 points this time around – 15 in the first half. Sheedy made 4-of6 3s against San Diego State.

“I knew that I just had to step up for my team,” Sheedy said. “I knew that that’s what they needed me to do. And I knew I could do it, and so I did it.”

Fresno State made 9-of22 3s (40.9 percent).

San Diego State finished the night making 6-of-23 (26.1 percent) from behind the arc.

Farley scored 13 points shooting 6-of-11 from the field and had two assists.

Both Farley and Sheedy – who will be retur ning next season as a senior and a junior,

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Alex Sheedy (10) nets a 3 past Courtney Clements (54) during Saturday’s win. Sheedy scored a career-high 21 points.

r e s p e c t ive l y – c a m e through big for the Bulldogs, coach Raegan Pebley said.

“We knew that Bree and Alex Sheedy were going to have to be big in this game,” Pebley said.

“They knew coming into this game that we

were going to have those opportunities. Kudos to them for taking advantage of it.”

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for these girls, that their story didn’t end with an amazing shot by Ki‑Ki,” said Fresno State coach Raegan Pebley, whose team and fans stormed the court in jubilation after the game clock hit zero.

“You know, we challenged them before the first game, make these the three most memorable days of the sea‑ son so far. And I think absolutely they were.”

The Bulldogs received big games f ro m i t s b i g - t i m e p l aye r s. K i - K i Moore, the tournament MVP and AllTournament selection, scored a gamehigh 22 points.

Rosie Moult netted 14 points and Bree Farley contributed 13. Sophomore Alex Sheedy, Fresno State’s makeshift center who’s played out of position for most of the season, ended the night with a career-high 21 points and was Fresno State’s other representative on the AllTournament team.

“Just to come to a new conference, to win the championship after split‑ ting the regular season with them, them being the defending champions, I think it’s excitement for our team and coaches as well,” said Moore, who made a game-winning shot the day before to push the Bulldogs into the title game.

Fresno State looked to be the vic‑ tim, not the victor, in the first few min‑ utes of play. The notoriously fast-start Aztecs (26-6) kicked off the game with a 7-0 run.

And then the tides shifted.

San Diego State’s Chelsea Hopkins, “our Superman,” Aztecs coach Beth Burns said, was subbed out with 2:46 to play in the first half after committing two fouls.

Fresno State capitalized.

The Bulldogs, who led 45-34 at half‑ time, went on a 12-0 run to close out the first half.

Fresno State extended that streak to a 23-0 run in the second half for a 54-23 lead with 16:09 to play. San Diego State shot 0-for-10 from the field during that span, while key 3-pointers from Moult, Farley and Sheedy catapulted the Bulldogs to a lead they would not give up for the remainder of the game.

“We picked a bad time to have a bad time,” said Burns, whose Aztecs entered the game having won 17-in-arow after losing to Fresno State at home in both team’s Mountain West opener on Jan. 9.

“I think Fresno State had an awful lot to do with that. We’re very much a physical rep team. We work really hard

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his team has talked about how they wanted to not just get in. They want to advance. That’s the next step that our program needs to take.”

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Bulldogs coach Raegan Pebley cuts down the net after her team’s 76-70 win over the Aztecs Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The ’Dogs finshed the season 24-8.

to try to do things the way we want to do ‘em. And we just, out of the gate, even though we had a lead, it was very much not San Diego State basketball. It was more Fresno basketball, matching bas‑ kets, up and down the floor.”

Taylor Thompson, who was leveled to the ground by an Aztecs elbow to her forehead on a screen, left the game dur‑ ing the second half. She returned min‑ utes later, and finished the night with four points, a steal and a team-high seven assists.

“It’s just Taylor,” Pebley said. “I mean, I don’t know if that’s being Oklahoma, small-town, fight-for-every‑ thing-you’ve-got, blue‑collar. Her par‑ ents are here and they’ve done an amaz‑ ing job raising an amazing woman, that is a woman among children and she’s 10 feet tall and bulletproof.”

And just when the Bulldogs seemed home free, San Diego State countered.

The Aztecs retaliated with a 14-2 run, that cut down the Bulldogs’ lead to 71-69 with 1:13 left.

“Nobody on that team planned on quitting, whether we would have got down by 20 or 30 or 40,” said Aztecs guard Courtney Clements, who, along with Hopkins, scored 15.

“Unfortunately we weren’t able to come back. But you can see that we didn’t quit. No matter what they did, we still tried to come back. We didn’t come back till the clock hit zero.”

Sheedy made three consecutive free throws with 49 seconds to play after getting fouled by Hopkins on a 3-point attempt. Moore made two more free throws with nine seconds left to put the game away.

In that final stretch, “we just played good on‑ball defense,” Moore said. “We knew who was going to take the shots, who they were going to pass the ball to. We played hard defense, one‑on‑one, switches, made them take a tough shot.”

Moore averaged a tournament-high 20.3 points per game.

“She just is a major factor. She’s a great talent,” Pebley said of her star player.

“What we wanted Ki‑Ki to know and really believe when we came in is that great players are going to be good and great in any system. You don’t have to just be good in one system.

“If you’re going to have an opportu‑ nity to go on and play beyond college, you’re going to have to know how to adapt to different systems. And she really did.”

’Dogs turn tables on fast-start Aztecs

By Ricardo Cano The Collegian LAS VEGAS — No. 1 San Diego State didn’t start Saturday’s Mountain West Conference title game with a 19-0 or 12-0 run.

It had been the Aztecs’ signature strategy – one that made No. 9 Nevada and No. 5 New Mexico nonfactors with‑ in minutes in the quarterfinals and semis.

Those fast starts.

The Aztecs got off to a 7-0 run to start the game against the Bulldogs.

And Fresno State had an answer in its 76-70 conference championship win over the Aztecs at the Thomas & Mack Center: 23-0 Fresno State (24-8), though not the one to come flying out the gates, was the one to make the sharp passes, the crisp cuts between defenders to score 23 unanswered in the midst of the Aztecs’

collapse.

In that scoring barrage, the Bulldogs shot 9-of-13 from the field. San Diego State went 0-of-10.

Fresno State led 45-34 at halftime – the Aztecs’ largest deficit at the half this season.

“Well, to credit Fresno State, they didn’t miss a shot,” said San Diego State guard Courtney Clements, who finished with team-high 15 points. “I don’t think that they missed. When they had an opportunity to knock down an open shot, they took the opportunity. All the credit goes to them.

“They found the flaws in our defense and they did what they had to do.”

The Bulldo gs shot 37.3 percent against San Diego State (who shot less than 40 percent in each of their wins) and took a stranglehold over the Aztecs, leading 56-34 with 15:56 to play.

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Ki-Ki Moore (24) drives to the basket past Chelsea Hopkins (1) during the Bulldogs’ 76-70 win over San Diego State Saturday night in Las Vegas.