Guys with fancy footwork: women's soccer wants you

It’s a little too late to walk on to the men’s soccer team, but the women’s team is still accepting applications—if you’re a man.

The women’s soccer team is looking to put together a team of male students to scrimmage against during spring workouts, coach Stacy Welp said.

Interested students must be NCAA eligible, but Welp said that shouldn’t discourge those willing to participate.

No dates or times have been scheduled, but questions may be directed to the women’s soccer office at 278-8302.

The women’s soccer team’s season ended last week when Rice eliminated the Bulldogs 3-0 in the opening round of the Western Athletic Conference women’s soccer tournament. The Bulldogs finished with a 7-9-2 record.

The team had two All-WAC performers this season. Sophomore Katri Nokso-Koivisto was selected first-team All-WAC with five goals, and sophomore Kortney Lewis made the second team, leading Fresno State with nine goals.

Equestrian to host first event of the season Saturday

The Fresno State equestrian team hosts its first show of the season Saturday at the Student Horse Center.

The competition begins at 8:30 a.m. with fence equitation. The remainder of the English-style events will follow, and the competition will wrap up with the Western-style classes.

Cal Poly-SLO, College of Sequoias, Nevada, Sierra Nevada College, Stanford, UC Davis and Fresno State will be competing in the Intercol-legiate Horse Show Associa-tion event.

First-year coach Chuck Smallwood has led the team to three straight first-place finishes, including a high-point finish in the Cal Poly Double Western Show on Nov. 8.

Women’s basketball opens season on the road at

Pac-10 weak sister Washington State

The Fresno State women’s basketball team will officially begin the season with a nonconference road game against Washington State—a team that had 19 fewer wins than last year’s Bulldogs team that reached the second round of the WNIT.

Fresno State’s trip to Pullman, Wash. marks the second straight season the Bulldogs will open their season on the road.

The Bulldogs own a 5-1 lead in the series, but the Cougars edged Fresno State 69-68 when the teams last met in the 1996-97 campaign.

Both teams split a pair of exhibition games, and this contest will be the season opener for each. The Bulldogs and Cougars each lost their first exhibition game and won the second.

Fresno State junior Veronica Mack led the Bulldogs to a 90-74 victory over Fresno Pacific on Monday with 20 points.

Washington State beat Strakonice/Czech Republic 73-68 in its last match.

Men’s basketball plays first game of season against Pac-10 conference champion Oregon

The men’s basketball team will get off the Bulldogs’ pacific northwest caravan in Eugene, Ore. to face defending Pac-10 conference champion Oregon in the season opener.

While the football game will be broadcast on the radio by KMJ 580, KOOR 790 will air the basketball game.

KOOR has broadcasted Fresno State football games in Spanish this year, but the Spanish-language broadcast of the football game will be postponed until the completion of the basketball game, which will be broadcast in English.

Oregon leads the all-time series with the Bulldogs 6-2, with the Ducks owning a 6-0 advantage at McArthur Court.

The last time Fresno State defeated Oregon was during the 1995-96 campaign. Jerry Tarkanian led the Bulldogs into Eugene the following year in his first season on the job and dropped an 87-75 contest.

Track and field begins

preseason workouts with Turkey Trials

Joe Vasquez had a chance to go home Wednesday with Thanksgiving dinner, or he could have taken the T-shirts.

The Fresno State track and field squad opened preseason workouts Wednesday with the Turkey Trials—a friendly competition between Fresno State athletes, former Bulldogs and other communiy invitees.

Vasquez won the co-ed javelin throw, shot put, discus, hammer throw and weight throw titles in the competition.

The winners of the Turkey Trials traditionally take home a Turkey Trials T-shirt or a frozen turkey.