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‘Teen Mom’ stars talk pregnancy and adoption

By Elly A. Walker Special to The Collegian

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On Saturday, “Teen Mom” Reality TV stars Tyler Baltierra, 21, and Catelynn Lowell, 20, spoke at Fresno State’s Satellite Student Union to promote open adoption.

They shared their own story of teenage pregnancy and adoption.

Infant of Prague Adoption Service, a local and full-service adoption agency, sponsored Baltierra’s and Lowell’s visit to Fresno State.

“Our mission is to provide comprehensive counseling to both birth-parents facing an unintended pregnancy and adoptive families wishing to build their family through adoption,” said executive director Stephanie Grant said.

Along with connecting birth parents who choose to keep their babies with various parenting resources, the service guides birth-parents through the process of open adoption. Open adoption allows birth mothers and fathers to stay in contact with their child through social media, phones calls and in-person activities.

“Open adoption really is a very healthy option that is a win-win for everyone involved,” said social work practitioner Ashley Phelan.

At the young age of 16, Baltierra and Lowell faced the shock and struggles of an unintended pregnancy. Surrounded by a chaotic family life and unstable home, the pair chose to plan for adoption despite opposition from their family members.

Although Baltierra and Lowell did not work with Infant of Prague Adoption Service through their adoption plan, they worked with a similar adoption agency in their Michigan hometown.

Within the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno County has some of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies. Often, teenagers and young adults are not aware of adoption as an alternative option, Phelan said.

Through Baltierra’s and Lowell’s story,

Tyler Baltierra (left) and Catelynn Lowell, MTV’s ‘Teen Mom’ participants, share their experience with open adoption Saturday night at Fresno State’s Satellite Student Union.

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Fresno Chukchansi dispute reviewed ready for Kids Day

By Jacob Rayburn The Collegian

By Hayley Holland Special to The Collegian The Valley’s largest fundraising event, Kids Day, is taking place Tuesday on street cor ners throughout the Central Valley. The $1 Kids Day Edition of The Fresno Bee will be sold from 6 a.m. through 3 p.m.

Children’s Hospital Central California will join forces with ABC 30 to publish the 26th edition of this paper. It will feature stories and photographs on patients throughout Central California. The proceeds will go directly to the hospital and benefit local children in our community who are treated there every day.

Debbie Cohen, a founding steering committee member for Kids Day, has seen a slight decrease in the amount of papers that have been bought over the See KIDS, Page 4

Khlarissa Agee / The Collegian

Fresno State alumna and former tribal council member Dora Jones talks of the recent and growing dispute between various factions of the Chukchansi Indian tribe.

The Chukchansi Indian tribe is divided, and a panel was held Thursday night at the Peters Business Building at Fresno State to discuss the emotional topic of disenrollment and the state of the tribe.

“Disenrollment is tantamount to individual terminations,” said Kenneth Hansen, associate professor of political science at Fresno State. “Termination is when the government tells people they are no longer American Indians.

How can they tell people who are obviously indigenous people that they are not Indian?”

The meeting came on the one-year anniversary of an incident at the headquarters of the Chukchansi tribe, that turned violent after several tribe members claimed an election was fixed.

Members of the tribe who said they had been legally elected but were being denied their positions holed up in the headquarters building, eventually leading to a brawl involving about 40 people.

Disenrollment was at the heart of the protest last year and continues to be a hot topic. The election and the legality of disenrollment according to the tribe’s constitution is questioned See TRIBE, Page 3

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SEQUESTER SUPERSTORM?

By Micah Escobedo The Collegian Perhaps it is best to think about the political gridlock and massive dysfunction on Capitol Hill as just another storm in a politically turbulent climate.

If you don't understand what a "sequester" is, you aren't alone.

There are a few different meanings, but for this instance and in Washington, it is the $85 billion worth of across-the-board cuts to the federal budget.

By 2023, $1 trillion will have been cut thanks to the sequester and that's on top of the projected $1.5 trillion cuts that were passed in 2011. Overall, projections place total cuts for the next decade at $4 trillion.

A couple of years ago, during the debt-ceiling fiasco that resulted in a downgrade of our national credit rating, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011. The sequester was a part of the law and was designed to force a deal.

I say "force" because, by its nature, sequestration is something lawmakers actively avoid.

It is designed to be so painfully unpleasant that they will do anything to avert it.

These cuts are so devastating that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that about 750,000 jobs will be lost and that's just from the current $85 billion in cuts that took effect Friday.

It will also be devastating to the poorest and most vulnerable in our country.

Congress would do anything to prevent the loss of so many jobs

in a weak economy, right? They She chronicled the mess: In 2011 wouldn't take action that hurt alone, the House threatened to those who are already suffering shut the government down twice the most in this economy, would and its aversion to raising the nonthey? A deal – that didn't happen. controversial, self-imposed debt While most economists agree ceiling until the last second resultthat a mixture of spending cuts ed in a downgrade of the nation's and increased revenue (higher credit rating. taxes on the wealthy) is the best In December, there was the fissolution, Republicans on the Hill cal-cliff fiasco. Now it's the sequeshave refused to budge. ter. In March, we're up for another The president proposed the debt ceiling fight. Hooray. mixed approach. Republicans then T h e Re p u b l i c a n N a t i o n a l demanded deep cuts with no tax Committee called the cuts "devraises. End of astating." Yes, the story. same party that has Remember called for acrosshe president prothe recent "fisthe-board cuts, meacal cliff ?" A deal suring in the trilposed the mixed wasn't reached lions of dollars, is approach. Republicans on setting new now calling the cuts then demanded deep tax rates until "devastating" after cuts with no tax raises. the last secthe president signed ond, where the the sequester into End of story.”

Bush-era tax law. cuts were made Never mind the permanent for all annual incomes fact that, according to a New York below $400,000 (the best approach Times report, the House is happy wo u l d h ave b e e n e x t e n d i n g with how things turned out. them for annual incomes below The good of the country be $250,000). damned – the GOP has leverage That projected $700 billion against the president! This is in new revenue was narrowly exactly what the House wanted. achieved.

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Kevin and Amy Sage speak at the presentation sponsored by Infant of Prague Adoption Services.

The Sages said they are very pleased being the parents of a child through an open adoption.

Infant of Prague was hoping to educate the community on open adoption.

“We want to educate the community about the beauty of open adoption so that others can be supportive of their friends or relatives who make an adoption plan,” Phelan said.

Coming from a family of teenage mothers, Lowell wanted to give her daughter something more than what her grandma gave Lowell’s mother and what Lowell’s mother gave Lowell.

“Coming from the chaos of our family, I always looked at my mom, and he [Tyler] always looked at his dad, as people we were not going to be like,” Lowell said.

Before deciding to make a plan of adoption, Baltierra and Lowell discussed the pros and cons of parenting and the pros and cons of adoption.

The couple chose open adoption because it gave their daughter, Carly a life she deserved — a life her teenage birth-parents could not give her.

Birth-parents who decide to make a plan of adoption look beyond personal needs and loss in order to give their child a life that they cannot provide at the time, Grant said.

“Birth-parents who make a plan of

TRIBE: Disenrollment means losing stipend CONTINUED from page 1 by many associated with the Picayune Rancheria Chukchansi.

Dora Jones, a former tribal council member who was suspended after last year’s standoff, was inside the head-

quarters building and involved in the protest.

“When we were in that building with those burning logs that were thrown in at us, I didn’t know if we were going to make it out of that building,” Jones said.

Jones shared her concerns about the disenrollment process and the rule changes regarding the number of votes required for disenrollment. Jones noted a specific turning in the disenrollment battle. It occurred at the rancheria in July of 2011, while she was away in Washington, D.C. “The council that was there were four people and they changed the requirement from a super majority down to just a majority,” Jones said.

“That meant it only took four [council members].”

Tribe members who are disenrolled lose monthly stipends from the rancheria’s multi-million dollar casino revenues and benefits for housing, education, medical, and elder and child services.

Professor Hansen said the issue of who qualifies as a Picayune Rancheria Chukchansi has split the tribe into four political factions.

“Individual ter minations allow tribal politicians to choose their voters rather than the other way around,” Hansen said. “It’s a kind of indigenous version of political gerrymandering.”

One faction believes only people who have direct ties to the Picayune Rancheria property are members of the tribe. Another says it’s only those in the foothills. The third group believes the elders of the tribe and the electoral process have been disrespected by the current leadership. The final group is a collection of disenrolled family members.

“This disenrollment issue is tearing the heart from our Indian country and our Indian people,” said Kathy Cory, a disenrolled Chukchansi Yokuts Indian.

“Let there be no doubt in your mind that this is due primarily to the greed that has been brought about by the casino issue in California and beyond.”

There is disagreement over the exact number, but hundreds of tribe members have been disenrolled since the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino opened in 2003.

Cory added that reports on the news saying the debate has to do with whether the number of Chukchansi people is 46 or 200 are well short of the actual number.

“There should be well over 2,000 Chukchansi people,” Cory said. “You have 2 percent of Chukchansi people that are enrolled in the tribe.”

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adoption are courageous and loving,” she said.

Over the past four years, Baltierra and Lowell have spoken at high schools, colleges and universities about teenage pregnancy and open adoption.

Hoping to have a family of their own someday, the couple is now engaged, planning a summer 2013 wedding. Both Baltierra and Lowell are now enrolled in college.

Lowell plans to major in social work and become a pregnancy counselor and Baltierra also plans to major in social work, in effort to aid at-risk youth.

Along with educating the Fresno State community, the No. 1 message Baltierra and Lowell wanted the audience to hear was that adoption is not like it was several decades ago.

“If you have an unintended pregnancy and if you are the birth mom, you can choose all that you want for your child,” Lowell said. “It is all up to you.”

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KIDS: Community supports fundraiser for children in need CONTINUED from page 1 years but has hope that it will grow.

“Children’s Hospital Central California serves the needs of children on Kids Day,” Cohen said. “With the growing health care expense, it helps in serving the needs of kids in our community.”

Cohen manages the distribution site at Bullard and West avenues and has seen a small decline in volunteers over the years.

“If you would like to participate in selling Kids Day papers, you can go to the Children’s Hospital Central California website and sign up or call the hospital and ask to be placed as a volunteer,” Cohen said.

Cohen sees a bright future for the event.

“We’ve seen an increase in groups over the years. For example, Bullard High School has had a commitment to the event by selling papers on the street as well as collecting business contributions,” she said. “There’s been a growth in groups coming forward and everyone can afford a dollar!”

Rosie Manock is a student who has participated in both buying and selling Kids Day papers.

“I always buy a paper because I want to support the cause,” Manock said.

“When I sold the papers, I went to about three different locations and a lot of people bought them.”

Manock plans on buying a couple of papers at the upcoming Kids Day.

“I like to participate so that I can help out the hospital and volunteering is also a good way to get service hours if you need them,” Manock said.

S i n c e M a n o c k ’ s g r a n d m o t h e r, Carolyn Peck, is one of the founders of Children’s Hospital Central California, she has personal ties to the annual event.

“It’s important because you’re supporting the hospital and children in need,” Manock said.

Mary Kate Lucas, a student at Fresno State, also supports Kids Day by buying a paper.

“I buy the Kids Day paper to help the children, and so I can put it on the dash in my car to show support,” Lucas said.

Lucas has had a positive experience with Children’s Hospital Central California.

“I had to have a bunch of tests [run] at the hospital,” Lucas said. “They were really good there and helped figure everything out.”

Lucas plans to buy a paper at Kids Day. “I think it’s important because it helps raise money for the hospital and it gets other kids and the community involved with the hospital,” Lucas said.

Kids Day will have 5,000 volunteers in 20 cities in and around the Fresno area.

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Rosa Parks Awards honor students, faculty said Francine Oputa, director of the Central Valley Cultural To mark the end of African Heritage Institute that coorPeople's History Month on dinates the month-long obserc a m p u s , t h e Ro s a P a rk s vance on campus.

Alonso-Lazaro is a member Awards ceremony honored outstanding Fresno State students of various student clubs and and faculty at the Smittcamp organizations, including the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, the Alumni House on Thursday.

Richard Alonso-Lazaro, a Gamma Sigma Alpha Honors senior majoring in criminol- Society and the Renaissance ogy from Clovis, was honored Scholars Program. He has volunteered at more than 30 differwith two awards.

Alonso-Lazaro received both ent locations in the community the Athletic “Just Do It” Award through these organizations, and the Outstanding Person with a focus on helping foster Award at the Feb. 28 ceremony, youth.

“I am very for tunate to which recognized two other students, a Fresno State faculty receive this award. There were a lot of great candidates, and member and an organization.

The Outstanding Person I am grateful to receive the Award recognizes an indi- award. It has been a humbling vidual who exemplifies the experience,” he said.

He is also on the Fresno principles Rosa Parks lived by.

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Fresno State students are honored for their academic, athletic and artistic accomplishments during the Rosa Parks Awards on Thursday at the Smittcamp Alumni House. The awards ceremony capped the African People's History Month at Fresno State.

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Teroy Rober ts, a senior from Stockton majoring in Mass Communication and Journalism (broadcast emphasis), was the recipient of the Owning the Spotlight Arts Award, an award based on character and performance.

Roberts is president of the Pi Beta Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity at Fresno State. He is also an intern at a local radio station, B95.

“This has been a great experience. I hope to inspire people to do better. Where you are and where you’re going is up to you,” Roberts said.

The Outstanding Scholar Academic Award, to honor academic achievement and wo rk i n g fo r c o m m u n i t y improvement, was presented to Raven Kapphahn, a senior from Porterville majoring in Sociology. Kapphahn is currently studying abroad in Jordan, Africa. Since entering the university as a transfer student in 2010, she has been on the President’s List, for her 4.0 GPA. The Unsung Hero Award went to Mar nel NilesGoins, an associate professor and graduate coordinator in the De par tment of Communication and a faculty coordinator for the First-Year Experience (FYE) program and the African American Edge Initiative. Niles-Goins serves as the campus advisor for the Black Students United student

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority received the Making It Happen Group Award, which honors a campus organization that mobilized its members to be proactive citizens and dedicates itself to a cause by expanding outreach and creating a network of socially conscious students.

Jothany Blackwood was the keynote speaker for the evening. She spoke about students and their jour ney through their academic careers.

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Baseball

Bulldogs win USC series in dominating fashion

By Zack Edwards The Collegian The bats came alive for F re s n o S t at e b a s e b a l l o n Sunday.

After a dismal 9-1 loss to USC on Friday, the Bulldogs snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 5-1 win against the Trojans on Saturday night.

They continued that trend with a 14-3 showing over USC in the final game of the three-game series.

The starting pitchers and the offense carried the Bulldogs in Sunday’s game.

Freshmen Tim Borst got the nod to start the game and proved he is adjusting to the collegiate level. He went 5 1/3 innings, giving up nine hits and two runs.

Fresno State coach Mike Batesole said he had some concerns about the lack of strikeouts from Borst – he only had one. Batesole said he generally expects five or six strikeouts from a starter, so he might push Borst back a start to give him more time to recover in between outings. Even with a low strikeout count, Batesole s a i d B o r s t ’ s p e r fo r m a n c e impressed him.

“To go out there and pitch on guts, just like you see (William) Munro do every Friday, that’s pretty special when a kid can

do that,” Batesole said. “If you can win when you don’t have your best stuff, you have a chance to be pretty good.”

The bullpen, which has been an area the Bulldogs have struggled to find consistency in, caught a break on Sunday with shutdown performances from sophomore Aaron Gillis and freshman Blake Quinn.

“We’ve been waiting to get Quinn in there. The one benefit that Quinn had is that some of these other younger guys have gone in there and tried to do too much,” Batesole said.

“You’re still going to throw with your best velocity that you can with a downward angle and with good location. You get away from the downward angle and the location, you get ripped -- I don’t care if you’re throwing 94 (MPH). We’ve seen some of that happen to some of our guys.

“Instead of going out there a n d l e a r n i n g t h at o n h i s (Quinn) own, he’s had the ability to watch the other guys performances and learn.”

At the plate, the Bulldogs star ted their of fensive onslaught early, putting up five runs in the first inning.

They ear ned all 14 of their runs before the end of the fifth inning. That total is the highest score Fresno State has put up all season.

Fresno State found production throughout the lineup, with RBIs coming from all but the first two spots in the lineup.

Outfielder Aaron Judge contributed four RBIs of his own.

Catcher Austin Wynns put up three RBIs in his first at-bat.

Sundays have proven to be big days for Judge, who came within a home run of hitting for the cycle — he went 4-for6 with two doubles, a triple and a single. That follows last Sunday’s game at Stanford, where he went 5-for-5. Judge has gone 12-for-15 in Sunday games this season.

While the Bulldogs won the game, they did suffer a loss in the form of outfielder Jordan Luplow. He came out of the game in the sixth inning with an injury to his left shoulder (his non-throwing arm) after diving for a ball in center field.

H i s s t at u s i s c u r re n t ly u nk n ow n, a nd h e wi l l b e meeting with team doctors on Monday to get a diagnosis.

Fresno State (3-7) will play its next game on Tuesday at Beiden Field against the San Jose State Spartans (2-9) at 6:35 p.m.

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Pitcher William Munro took the mound against USC on Friday, a 9-1 loss decision that was the Bulldogs’ only loss against the Trojans.

Equestrian

’Dogs sweep Senior Day doubleheader at home Collegian Staff

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Members of the Fresno State equestrian team pose with Timeout before their second competion of a doubleheader against South Dakota State. The Bulldogs swept them and New Mexico State on Friday during their last home competitions of the season. Seniors Lisa Beach, Christa Beezley, Lauren Carr, Sydney Coletti, Kimberly HewsonBudnik, Lanie Madrazo and Marisa Mohn were honored.

Classifieds

The Fresno State equestrian team has had a rough showing in dual competitions this season, posting a 0-8 record heading into Friday’s doubleheader against New Mexico State and South Dakota State.

It was Senior Day. It was the last time seven seniors would compete before a home crowd.

They wouldn’t be denied their last hurrah at the Student Horse Center on Friday.

The Seven seniors – Lisa Beach, Christa Beezley, Lauren Carr, Sydney Coletti, Kimberly HewsonBudnik,Lanie Madrazo and Marisa Mohn – capped their final perfor mance at home by swee ping New Mexico State and South Dakota State, both tied for 10th in the National Collegiate Equestrian Association coaches poll.

The Bulldogs (2-8) scored a total of 22 points and earned eight Most Outstanding Player awards en route to taking decisive victories over the Aggies (a 9-6 win) and South Dakota State (13-3).

HewsonBudnik led the

Bulldogs in Equitation Over Fences – where she ear ned both MOP honors (scoring 84 against New Mexico State and 86 against South Dakota State) – and On the Flat, winning all four of her matchups. “ I t w a s s o awe s o m e t o win all four of my points today,” HewsonBudnik said.

“Knowing that this was my last home match made riding today that much better.”

The seniors were honored between both competitions.

F re s n o S t at e c o n cl u d e s the regular season on March 22-23, when it travels to take on University of TennesseeMartin and New Mexico State.

Softball goes 3-2 at San Diego State Classic I The Fresno State softball team went 3-2 this weekend at the San Diego State Classic I, g rabbing wins against Brigham Young (a 5-4 victory), Utah State (9-6) on Saturday and University of San Diego (8-1) on Sunday.

Fresno State retur ns to Bulldog Diamond Thursday to host the Fresno State Classic.

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Men’s Hoops

Women’s Hoops

’Dogs swat Falcons in season finale Bulldogs rout Air Force on the road

By Zack Edwards The Collegian Even before tipof f, emotions ran high for the Fresno State men’s basketball team on Saturday night.

The game against Air Force was a big one for the Bulldogs.

Despite being near the bottom of the Mountain West Conference standings, their 56-41 win might be enough to keep them out of the first game of the Mountain West tournament – a game reserved for the eighth- and ninth-seeded teams.

Saturday was also senior night at the Save Mart Center, and the final home game for the Bulldogs this season.

In honor of the team’s four seniors, there was a pregame ceremony to commemorate t h e i r t i m e w a s B u l l d o g s.

Fresno State coach Rodney Terry even altered his usual starting lineup, getting all four seniors – Jerry Brown, Brad Ely, Kevin Foster and Garrett Johnson – on the court at tipoff along with guard Allen Huddleston.

For Ely, it was the first start of his collegiate career. As a walk-on his junior year, he has become somewhat of a underdog figure for the Bulldogs. “ B r a d ’ s b e e n awe s o m e.

From the time that we discovered Brad over at the rec center when we needed some bodies, Brad has been an unbelievable addition to our program, just the effort that he brings every day, the kind of student-athlete that he is,” Terry said.

After five minutes of play in the first half, Ely came out of the game. He sat on the bench for much of the game, but that did not stop fans from cheering “put Brad in” off and on throughout.

Terry said that the team tried to get Ely a shot, things just did not work out.

“He’s going to be a very successful guy off the court,” Terry said. “He’s very serious about his academics, but the effort that he brings every day.

You know what you’re going to get from Brad every single day.”

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NOT IN MY HOUSE: Senior Jerry Brown (0) prepares to swat Taylor Broekhuis’ shot attempt during the Bulldogs’ 56-41 Mountain West Conference win over Air Force Saturday night at the Save Mart Center.

While the night as a whole was about the seniors, guard Tyler Johnson was the one who controlled the game.

Johnson went 9-of-11 from the floor, putting up 21 points.

Along with Huddleston’s 11 points, they scored more

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Senior Brad Ely (22) defends Mike Fitzgerald (5) during the Bulldogs’ 56-41 win over Air Force Saturday night at the Save Mart Center.

than half of the points for the Foster and Brown scored a Bulldogs. combined 11 points.

“I just wanted to come out Fresno State (10-18, 4-11 and be aggressive,” Johnson MWC) will now get a week said. “My off before its teammates final game of Current Mountain West did a g reat the regular Conference standings job executing season in Las from the get Vegas against 1. New Mexico (12-2) -go and that UNLV (22-7, 9-5 kind of set MWC).

T-2. Colorado State (9-5) me up to get Ter ry said some of the the break T-2. UNLV (9-5) shots I did.” comes at a Terry said good time for T-4. Boise State (8-6) Jo h n s o n th e te am, as could make i t w i l l g ive T-4. San Diego State (8-6) them a chance himself into a player who to rehab and 6. Air Force (7-7) could be allcatch up on conference academics T-7. Wyoming (4-11) next season before closing if he continout the season.

T-7. Fresno State (4-11) ues to work “ We k n o w t he way h e we’re getting 9. Nevada (3-11) has worked ready to step this season. into a hornet’s “ T y l e r nest down in Johnson’s working hard, and Vegas come Saturday,” Terry I think it’s a lesson for all our said. “We’ll have a team that’ll guys,” Ter ry said. “If you be ready to play, with us havreally want to be good at this, ing beat them here in our place. you’re going to have to put time They’ll be ready to play, so in, extra time, to be good in this we’re going to have to be preleague.” pared to play.”

The Fresno State women’s basketball team, with one game remaining in the regular season, has maintained its stranglehold on the No. 2 seed for the upcoming Mountain West Conference tournament.

The Bulldo gs (20-8, 12-3 MWC), with the help Ki-Ki Moore’s solid perfor mance, grabbed an 80-55 win over Air Force, eighth in the conference standings, Saturday night on the road to preserve its onegame edge over Wyoming (22-6, 11-4 MWC) for second place in the Mountain West.

A f t e r s c o r i n g j u s t fo u r points on 2-of-12 shooting against Colorado State (only the second game this season in which she scored in single digits), Moore led the Bulldogs with a game-high 24 points on 11-of-15 shooting in a game in which the Bulldogs led by as much as 28.

Rosie Moult added 15 points and a career-high seven steals and Bree Farley contributed 14.

The Bulldogs forced 28 turnovers on the Falcons – scoring 30 points off of them – and grabbed 21 steals. Fresno State shot 47 percent from the field.

Moult and Jeanna Furst (the sole seniors this season) earned their 100th career win against the Falcons.

“Not many student-athletes can claim they have won 100 games in four years,” Fresno State coach Raegan Pebley said. “Being the type of teammates Rosie and Jeanna are, they would want to acknowledge those that helped them along the way achieve something so special.”

Fresno State will conclude the regular season on Saturday when it hosts UNLV (11-17, 7-7 MWC) at 2 p.m. at the Save Mart Center.

Current Mountain West Conference standings

1. San Diego State(13-1) 2. Fresno State (12-3) 3. Wyoming (11-4) 4. UNLV (7-7) T-5. New Mexico (6-8) T-5. Colorado State (6-8) 7. Boise State (4-10) 8. Air Force (3-11) 9. Nevada (2-12)