Day of action by the numbers

Last Thursday’s protest at Fresno State was one of more than 100 protests across at least 32 states.

All were part of a day deemed the March 4th National D ay o f A c t i o n fo r P u bl i c Education. Many of the protests, such as the one at Fresno State, were peaceful, but others ended in arrests.

At UC Berkeley roughly 30 stu-dents were arrested during the protests Thursday including an 18-year-old journalist. According to the Daily Californian, UC Berkeley’s on-campus newspaper, multimedia producer Cameron Burns was on assignment. He

was said to have been walking with the protest crowd from

Berkeley to Oakland where approximately 150 pro-

testers headed toward

Interstate 980, according to reports published in the Daily Californian. Burns was held overnight and charged with obstructing a public place and unlawful assembly.

Likewise, at UC Davis a standoff between students and police ended

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community.”Yang has been involved with the

Amerasia Organization for three years. He said the organization was created to have a group at Fresno State that focused on Asian-Americans as a whole, rather than on one Asian cul-ture.

Yang said Amerasia Week organiz-ers wanted to demonstrate that Asian-Americans identify with both their Asian heritage and their integration of America culture. He said the event blended traditional cultural dances and songs with Asian hip-hop groups to show the mix of old and new.

Amerasia Week featured dance and songs from many different Asian coun-tries, including Japan, Thailand, Laos, China and the Philippines. The closing event, “Festival Night,” had 17 perfor-mances.

One of the performances was a Chinese lion dance, which is supposed to bring good luck in the Chinese New Year. Two lions, dressed in vibrant col-ors, danced across the stage interacting with the drum that set their beat.

Another performance was about the afterlife of two lovers who, much like Romeo and Juliet, committed suicide when their parents did not allow them to be together. However, unlike Romeo and Juliet, they turned into two butter-flies and danced together in the after-life.

Festival Night also had a drawing

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University wins third consecutive service award

For the third consecutive year Fresno State has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and it’s the first year the school has been recognized with distinction.

The award was given to the universi-ty for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Fresno State is one of just 16 colleges and universities in California to be selected to the honor roll with distinc-tion. A total of 115 schools nationwide were recognized.

The volunteer service of students is coordinated by The Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning at Fresno State. Director, Chris Fiorentio said there are five community service programs that are reported on through his department, and more than 13,000 students logged more than 923,000 hours in the 2008-2009 academic year.

“This is an opportunity for students to get involved in something that allows them to take what they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it out in the community,” Fiorentio said. “It helps meet a need in the community, but it also betters their own development.”

Fiorentio said the local community economic impact is estimated at $20 million, based on national philanthrop-ic standards.

In a press release regarding the uni-versity’s achievement, President John Welty praised those responsible.

“I applaud the volunteer work of our students, faculty and staff that has allowed the university to gain this national recognition for the third straight year,” Welty said. “It has long been our goal to be one of the leading engaged institutions in the nation, where our teaching, research and ser-vice is aligned with the needs of the community. This honor demonstrates that Fresno State is an institution com-mitted to our region.”

One popular program among stu-dents, Fiorentio said, is the Radin Community Service Scholarship Program.

About 80 students every year partici-pate in this program and each of them has a chance at earning a $1,500 schol-arship. Fiorentio said his students logged about 150 hours of community service through this program in the 2008-2009 academic year. Students par-ticipated in all types of activities, from hosting blood drives to working with kids in juvenile halls.

Another program Fiorentio men-tioned was the Jumpstart program. This involved students tutoring pre-kindergarten children about what to expect before entering grammar school.

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The week celebrates Asian cultureLions, flowers and butterflies came

together last week to celebrate the variety of traditions that represent dif-ferent Asian cultures.

Amerasia Week featured different Asian cultures, Wednesday through Saturday, sharing about each culture through dances, songs and theater performances in the Satellite Student Union.

Vong Yang, the president of the Amerasia Organization, said Amerasia Week began in 1971 with the intention of sharing a variety of Asian cultures, highlighting their differences and sim-ilarities.

“Amerasia Week began because of the need to celebrate our culture, and at the same time to create an identity for Asian-Americans,” Yang said. “Since then, Amerasia Organization has been continuing the tradition of celebrating and empowering the Asian-American

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The first Amerasia Week took place in 1971. The Cambodian Collegiate Association performed the Coconut Dance in the Satellite Student Union on Saturday. See AWARD, Page 5

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That’s What the People Are Saying

“I just want it all to stop. Single-payer National Health Service? Yeah, whatever,

just please don’t make me think about it any more. Health care is intrinsically boring.”

— John Derbyshire, National Review Online

On the health care debate

U pon entering any local super-market, one might be drawn to the produce section. This

large section of the store contains most of the healthiest foods available, and some of the least expensive.

Nannette Miranda from ABC30.com introduced a story last week about Assemblyman Juan Arambula’s lat-est crusade in Sacramento. Arambula wants to make it mandatory for California farmer’s markets to have at least one terminal or vendor that would accept Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards.

As you may have guessed, EBT is the modern-day food stamp program. Gone are the days of Monopoly money food-stamp bills. With the swipe of a card, groceries are paid for, and the balance is deducted from the user’s account, much like a checking account. (Except, in this checking account, the user never contributes to it.)

“Low-income individuals [and] fam-ilies often times don’t have access to the same quality food as other people; there simply aren’t the stores avail-able, or they don’t offer the same qual-ity,” Arambula said.

Don’t have access? By this, Mr. Arambula must think that grocery retailers don’t allow EBT cards to be used in their stores, although they are mandated to. He must think that the people who actually pay for their

food are able to buy healthier things to eat, purely because they have deeper pockets.

Mr. Arambula must not go grocery shopping very often.

Vons and Save Mart, two of Fresno’s main supermarkets, both accept EBT. Right now, Vons is offering, in its once-weekly ad, containers of straw-berries for $1.50 and bagged salads for $3. How about four pounds of navel oranges offered at Save Mart for $1.00? Mr. Arambula, these are examples of healthy, inexpensive veggies and fruits.

If you’re on a really tight budget, and have used your EBT card to buy too many bags of chips, candy and soft drinks, (as I’ve seen countless times as a former cashier for Vons) what’s wrong with frozen vegetables? If you cook them, they come back to life as if they were fresh. Bags of C&W frozen vegetables at Save Mart are currently offered at $1.99 each. Mr. Arambula,

bags of frozen veggies can usually last more than one meal.

Discount supermarkets, such as FoodsCo, Food Maxx and WinCo, sometimes have produce items priced cheaper than Vons and Save Mart.

If an EBT cardholder is more con-cerned about the quality of the pro-duce, Whole Foods Market also accepts EBT cards. How about some organic baby broccoli? It’s priced at a lofty $4, but it’s organic.

If Mr. Arambula’s idea goes through, farmer’s market vendors will have to purchase the EBT trans-action machine and have access to a phone line. If there isn’t a phone line, which in many cases there aren’t, as the majority of farmer’s markets are held in parking lots, a wireless device for transactions runs at a steep $1,000, according to Miranda’s article. Find a farmer or vendor that has that kind of extra cash.

The whole notion about the gov-ernment’s concern that low-income people have poorer diets, which lead to obesity and diabetes, should be thrown out the window. Low-income indi-viduals have access to fresh fruits and vegetables at grocery stores. It’s the individual’s choice to buy them.

By the way, low-income individuals and families can buy things at farm-er’s markets already, Mr. Arambula. They just have to pay cash for them like everyone else.

Thumbs upCursing in the Obama Administration

(For the duration of this “thumb,” The Collegian will substitute a rhyming word for each curse word quoted). White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is already on record calling Democratic activists “sucking tea-shards,” and now David Axelrod, an aide to President Obama, has now exclaimed that he does not give a “flying duck” about critics of the administration. Hey, who can blame them? Times are tough, it’s understand-able that they’d be frustrated. If only their jobs were as easy as Joe “It’s easy being vice-president” Biden.

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Thumbs downPresident of Iran calling 9/11 a “fabrication”

In between threatening to wipe Israel off the map and denying the Holocaust, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said this about the hor-rors of Sept. 11: “The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pre-text for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion Afghanistan.” Tell that to the 3,000 human beings who died that day, you little jerk.

Thumbs upGermany tells Greece what the difference between them is

We’ve all heard Poor Richard’s advice, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Apparently, Germany takes that very seriously. The German tabloid Bild wrote an open letter to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, explaining the differences between the countries thusly: “We get up early and work all day.” Brilliant! Just one question: Can Windex solve Greece’s economic problems?

Thumbs downAmerica’s unemployment woes continuing

The U.S. jobless rate stayed steady at 9.7 percent for last month with 36,000 Americans losing their jobs. This is being hailed by the Obama Administration and its acolytes as proof that the long-await-ed recovery is finally happening. In the meantime, underemployment—which includes part-time workers and those who have given up looking for jobs—rose from 16.5 percent to16.8 percent, according to Bloomberg. What was that about a recovery?

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after police after fired pepper spray into the crowd. According to reports, there were no injuries.

Katelin Paiz, a news editor for The Daily Titan at California State University, Fullerton, said about 200

protesters walked across the campus last Thursday in protest of the lack of funding for higher educa-tion.

“They marched their way around campus,” Paiz said. “They went into the Titan Student

Union, which is one of our main build-ings.”

At California State University, Long Beach, more than 1,000 students, faculty and staff gathered to protest the budget cuts to higher education, said the editor in chief of the Daily 49er Joanne Tucker.

The protests were part of a grassroots movement that started last year, when uni-versity students across California protest-ed tuition increases.

The California State University (CSU) board of trustees raised tuition across the CSU system by 32 percent last semester, in response to a budget reduc-tion of $584 million.

However, California’s universities are not alone. The University of Georgia saw an increase of 35 percent, 20 per-cent at the University of Illinois and the University of Texas at Austin approved a 5.4 percent hike the day before the pro-tests, to name a few.

More than an estimated 10,000 protestors shut down highways and snarled traffic in Berkeley, San Francisco and downtown Oakland. Roughly 30 UC Berkeley students were arrested Thursday.

Evan Walbridge / The Daily CalifornianAbout 75 police officers were called to the scene after nearly 300 students tried to block a freeway onramp near campus. One female student was arrested.

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More than 1,000 protested in an overall orderly fashion. To rally the crowd, one protestor stripped to his boxers and jumped into the school’s fountain.

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A crowd of about 60 people rallied on Dexter Lawn.Ryan Sidarto / The Mustang Daily

The gathering of 300-350 protestors ended with more than 30 participants staging a sit-in inside of the Joyal Administration building.

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Fiorentio said the experience gained through these programs is something that cannot be learned by just sitting in a classroom.

“Research shows one of the best ways for students to get a good education is to get them involved in services outside of the classroom,” Fiorentio said.

He said the award is a credit to every-one involved with the university, not just those in his department.

“It is really a university wide effort and so the recognition is something we can all take pride in,” Fiorentio said. “For us to be part of the presidential awards for three years in a row is no small deal.”

Fiorentio has been pleased every year at the amount of students who contin-ue to get involved in bettering the com-munity, but said there is always room for more.

“Just come on down to the Richter Center and ask about our programs,” he said. “We can always use more vol-unteers.”

that gave away “things that Asian fami-lies usually have at home,” Yang said.

The night concluded with a fash-ion show to display traditional garb throughout Asia.

Kabao Vang, the co-chair of Amerasia Week, said the group worked hard to illustrate the differences between the many Asian cultures present in the Fresno area.

“We want to let the community know how diverse Fresno really is,” Vang said.

She said Amerasia Organization also fundraised all year to create a schol-arship to support an Asian-American student at Fresno State.

“We wanted to put a scholarship together for Asian-American students struggling to afford school,” Vang said.

Joe Cha received the $500 Amerasia Higher Learning Scholarship. He is double majoring in health science and business finance, with plans to work in health policy and management.

Cha said he plans to use the money

wisely and was grateful for being selected.

“I think it’s an honor to get the schol-arship,” Cha said. “I am very excited.”

He said this was his first time attend-ing Amerasia Week, and he plans to come back next year.

“Next year I’m going to bring my whole family,” Cha said.

Cha said he thinks people tend to miss the differences between Asian cul-tures, so he was pleased that Amerasia week helped expose the various aspects of different groups.

“I like the event, because it is also a learning experience,” Cha said.

He said he also appreciated the way Amerasia Week demonstrated the fusion of tradition and modern that many Asian-Americans experience.

“It is a struggle,” Cha said. “But one thing I realize, I can be both tradition-alized and American.”

Physical therapy major William Minh said he came to watch his friend perform, but was convinced to stay for

the whole show.“I was stunned by the performances,”

Minh said. “It was pretty interesting, just looking at all the cultures.”

Minh said he plans to come back next year and check out what is new.

Child development major Lin Chang has been to Amerasia Week for the past three years. Chang said he was pleased that the performances demonstrated the differences between Asian cul-tures.

“I think it’s a great way to express the Asian cultures throughout the commu-nity of Fresno,” Chang said.

Yang said the organization hopes to find a variety of groups to participate in Amerasia Week next year.

“We are always looking for ways to enrich the diversity and looking for new groups to participate,” Yang said.

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As Valley farmers face issues such as drought, protests for water supplies and seasons left in turmoil, efforts are being made to reach a feasible solution. While many have stepped forward to back various options, some have expressed that a step in the right direction can be made by four unlikely gentlemen—Neil Young, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson. These men serve as the board of directors of Farm Aid, an annual

concert aimed at helping family-ran farms. Since its inception in 1985, Farm Aid has helped numerous farms throughout the country – except those in California. Mike Dozier, director of Community and Economic Development at Fresno State, has been leading a coalition to bring Farm Aid to the Golden State for the very first time. “We’ve given them a lot of things to think about,” Dozier said. He said he got the idea when he saw a flier advertising the Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson show that look place at Chuckchansi Park last summer. He urged people to attend the concert in order to leave a good impression on directors Mellencamp and Nelson. “If they think it’s a good idea, they might be open to the idea,” said Dozier. Following the concert, Dozier and a committee of community leaders have met to create a proposal for the Farm Aid committee. Bill Cahill, Assistant City Manager of Merced, was one of the leaders who supported the idea. “Fresno is great for a fall concert,” Cahill said. “This area seems like such a natural place to host Farm Aid.” While the idea is to hold the Farm Aid in Fresno, Cahill’s participation in the process brings to light the importance of farming throughout the Central Valley. “This area has a lot of specialty crops,” Cahill said as he pointed out that Merced is one of the top radicchio producers in the country. Dozier has been in touch with members of Farm Aid through e-mail who have guided him along the way

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All-star concert proposed to make first-time visit to the Central Valleywith advice. They asked him to identify an appropriate outdoor venue that seats 20,000 and get support from farmers. They named Chuckchansi Park as the ideal venue and have started a letter writing campaign to let others express their desire to host Farm Aid. However, Dozier and his team have taken steps further to attract attention. In November, the campaign sent the Farm Aid committee a gift basket full of locally grown produce. The real focus has been on a proposal that was sent two weeks ago consisting of a letter from Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin and a 10-minute video

presenting the need for such a concert to pay a visit to the Valley. Dozier believes these efforts set Fresno apart from the rest. “I think we have a really good chance,” Dozier said. “Frankly, nobody has ever campaigned like this.” Now, rather than playing a waiting game, Dozier and Cahill have encouraged citizens to write letters to the Farm Aid committee. They held a letter-writing launch party and have let people know they have postcards in their offices. “That’s really the phase we are in now,” Cahill said. They are also letting supporters know about the latest breakthroughs and upcoming events through their Twitter fan page. With efforts being made to bring such a large-scale concert to a city like Fresno, how receptive are representatives from Farm Aid to such a proposal? Jennifer Fahy, the communications director for Farm Aid, says the message is not going unnoticed.

“We have received approximately 120 letters and postcards from Fresno to date,” Fahy said. “We have been in touch with the coordinators and we’re looking into the possibility of Fresno, in addition to other potential locations.” While Fresno has expressed interest in hosting the festival, they join a handful of other cities that feel just as qualified. “There has been a history of groups lobbying to bring Farm Aid to their town. Vermont has launched a statewide effort and New York City pitched their city for a quite a while before we were able to bring our

“Fresno is great for a fall concert. This area seems like such a natural place to host Farm Aid.”

— Mike Dozier, Director of Community and Economic Development at Fresno State

concert there in 2007,” Fahy said. “Our president and founder Willie Nelson has always said we like to go where we’re wanted so efforts like the one launched to bring Farm Aid to Fresno are much appreciated.” Now that Dozier has the first phase of hard work behind him, he can reflect on the idea that started in June and blossomed into a reality by February. “It took off because people put a lot of time into this and I’m happy for that,” Dozier said.

“Our president and founder Willie Nelson has always

said we like to go where we're wanted so efforts like the one launched to bring Farm Aid to Fresno are much appreicated.”

— Jennifer Fahy, Communications Director for Farm Aid

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For the second year in a row, junior Jaleesa Ross received first-team All-WAC honors.

Ross also received new honors this sea-son. She was named to the All-Defensive Team and was named the WAC Defensive player of the year.

Ross led the team with an average of 18.3 points in conference play, shoot-ing 53 percent from the floor. Defensively Ross led the WAC in steals, averaging close to three a game.

Ross has also broken the 3-point record with a career-total of 278.

Last season she had 95 total and this season she marks 94, with the WAC tournament just ahead she is sure to break last seasons record.

Teammates Hayley Munro and Rosie Moult also received accolades for their contribution to the team.

Munro ear ned her second-straight, second-team All-WAC honor. She averaged 12.6 points and 5.3 rebounds during WAC play.

Moult was named to the All-Freshman Team, while she averaged 7.8 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.

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Basketball receives recognition

F r e s h m a n c e n t e r Greg Smith began his career at Fresno State memorable. Smith has been named the WAC’s Freshman of the Year and the All-Newcomer Team recognition.

In his first season he averaged 11.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game in his 16 conference starts as well as leading the team with four double-doubles.

He was ranked top 20 in the nation for field goal percentage, shooting 53 percent from the court.

T e a m m a t e s P a u l George and Sylvester Seay earned postseason honors from the WAC

coaches.Sophomore George

headlined the 2009-10 All-WAC’s second-team with a breakout season. Top scorer of the Bulldog’s, George had 16.6 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.2 steals and the best free-throw percentage, 90.6 percent from the line this sea-son.

Senior Seay was rec-ognized as well for his perfor mance receiv-ing honorable mention accolades. He is the 30th highest-scorer in the his-tory of the Bulldog pro-gram with 980 points as well as the seventh most blocks (94) in the history of Fresno State.

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The head coach of the women’s basketball team has ear ned Wester n Athletic Conference Coach of the Year hon-ors, the second in his career at Fresno State.

Wiggins has served as head coach for the Bulldogs since the 2005-06 season and was head assistant coach the sea-son prior.

In 2007-08, Wiggins received his first WAC Coach of the Year award in the 2007-08 season after his Bulldog’s performed

a 22-11 record and a 14-2 conference mark.

Wiggins was the first to lead his team to a perfect WAC record, 16-0, since Louisiana Tech in 2002.

Since Jan. 2 Wiggins and his team have won 17, games consecutive and have been ranked 2 7 t h i n t h e R a t i n g Percentage Index by the NCAA.

The Bulldogs received the WAC title outright this season and will be heading to the WAC Tournament Wednesday to play Hawaii in the first round of play.

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Jaleesa Ross & Team Greg Smith & TeamHead Coach Adrian Wiggins

Lacrossevs. NavyL 23-2

The lacrosse team suffered its fourth loss of the season losing to Navy. Junior Heather Jack and freshman Amanda Cross scored the only goals for the ‘Dogs.

The team will host its home opener on Thursday when they play Detroit at 4 p.m.

Softballat San Diego Classic

The softball team collected its only win in the San Diego Classic beating Wisconsin 3-1. Junior pitcher Morgan Melloh won her sixth game of the season. Melloh pitched seven innings, allowed six hits and struck out nine play-ers.

The ‘Dogs lost the last three games of the tournament losing to No. 5 UCLA 5-4, UTEP 1-0 and San Diego State 8-0.

The team’s final game against Oregon was rained out on Sunday. The ‘Dogs finished the Classic going 1-3.

Baseballvs. Oregon State

The softball team collected its only win in the San Diego Classic beating Wisconsin 3-1. Junior pitcher Morgan Melloh won her sixth game of the season. Melloh pitched seven innings, allowed six hits and struck out nine play-ers.

The ‘Dogs lost the last three games of the tournament losing to No. 5 UCLA 5-4, UTEP 1-0 and San Diego State 8-0.

The team’s final game against Oregon was rained out on Sunday. The ‘Dogs finished the Classic going 1-3.

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The women’s tennis team fought hard on their road trip to Utah but fell short against No. 41.

Renata Kucerkova and Laura Pola fought hard when in each of their matches.

Kucerkova went to a tiebreaker in both sets against Anastasia Putilina who came away with the win 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (13-11).

Pola went into super-tiebreaker set with the Utes’ Evgenia Kucerkova receiving the win as well, 6-1, 6-7 (7-5), (12-10).vs. BYUL 4-1

Pola received a victory against Kristina Doerr win-ning the first set 6-4 and finishing the second set 6-2.

She as well saw action in the doubles matches with teammate Kucerkova, knocking off No. 26 Mcall Jones and Megan Price, 8-7.

Coming up this week...

Men’s Golf: Fresno State Lexus Invitational, at the Copper Beach Country Club on Monday and Tuesday.

Women’s Golf: At the Spartan Invitational on Tuesday against USC.

Baseball: vs. Santa Clara, Tuesday March 9 at 6:05 p.m., San Diego Invitational Thurday-Sunday.

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The pitching troubles are starting to settle in for the Fresno State baseball team as the diamond ‘Dogs lost all four games against Oregon this past week-end at Pete Beiden Field.

On Friday night, the ‘Dogs lost 2-7 and in the doubleheader on Saturday the ‘Dogs lost 4-8 and 2-5. The ‘Dogs fin-ished the series losing 3-8 on Sunday.

The pitching staff struggled to throw effectively against an Oregon team that came into the series batting just .244 as a team.

Oregon put on a hitting clinic as it recorded 14 hits in game one, 11 hits in game two, nine hits in game three and 11 hits in game four.

The starting pitchers for the ‘Dogs struggled during the first two games of the series.

Sophomore pitcher Cody Kendall replaced sophomore Derek Benny as the team’s Friday night starter, but

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The pitching fell short this weekend against the Ducks as the team had several changes to the rotation giving the Ducks what seemed like batting practice.

lasted only four innings against the Ducks while allowing 10 hits and five

earned runs.Kendall was relieved by senior Sean

Bonesteele who fared a little better against the Oregon batters. Bonesteele finished the game throwing five innings with four hits and an earned run while striking out three batters.

In the first game of the doubleheader on Saturday, the pitching troubles con-tinued as senior Matt Morse allowed seven hits and three earned runs in six and a third innings of service.

The doubleheader concluded with

sophomore Charlie Robertson making his first start of the season. Robertson pitched a respectable five and a third innings allowing just six hits and three earned runs but it was still too much for the ‘Dogs to overcome.

“He threw the ball exceptionally well,” head coach Mike Batesole said about Robertson. “I thought he kept the ball down low, his misses were good misses. We didn’t play very good catch behind him.”

Pitching wasn’t the only concern for the team during the weekend, the ‘Dogs had costly errors and mistakes that led to several Oregon runs. The ‘Dogs were credited with 11 total errors during the series.

“We need to take care of the baseball like we did the first two weekends,” Batesole said.

The ‘Dogs did, however, continue its hot hitting ways as it racked up nine hits on Friday, 12 and eight hits in the doubleheader on Saturday and eight hits on Sunday.

The hits went to waste as the ‘Dogs left 28 total runners stranded during the series as the ‘Dogs failed to take advantage of their opportunities to score runs.

“We did some good things and we did some things not so well,” Batesole said.

Junior third baseman Garrett Weber showed flashes of brilliance through-out the series as he made plays with both his glove and bat.

Western Athletic Conference pre-season Player of the Year Danny Muno had a good outing during the series. Muno had a hit in every game over the weekend but was prone to errors. He had three errors alone during Sunday’s game.

The diamond ‘Dogs will try to snap its four-game losing streak as they host Santa Clara on Tuesday at home.

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Third baseman Garrett Weber showed fought hard over the weekend despite the team’s loses against the Oregon State Ducks during the series.

By Vongni YangThe Collegian

‘Dogs swept by the DucksLeaving runnerson base was one short fall to the 0-4 series

Men’s Golf: Monday-Tuesday, at Copper River Country Club for the Fresno State Lexus InvitationalBaseball: Tuesday, at Pete Beiden Field vs. Santa Clara at 6:05 p.m.

This coming week...