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<h1>Bulldogs are hurting after big loss</h1>
<p><strong><font size="3">Fresno State's eighth- straight loss comes to No.8 Louisiana Tech, 85-52</font></strong></p>
<p><font size="2"><strong>By Darrell Copeland</strong></font></p>
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<p align="justify">Fresno State's Aritta Lane went down with an
injury in the team's 85-82 loss to No.8 Lousiana Tech on Thursday
at the Save Mart Center. She LImped off the court with the TRainer's
assistance </p>
<p class="byline">-Photo by Jeff Criesi</p>
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<p>Coming into Thursday night’s game against No. 8 Louisiana Tech,
not many people expected the Fresno State women’s basketball team
to pull off the impossible—and the Bulldogs didn’t.</p>
<p> The Bulldogs (7-13, 1-9 Western Athletic Conference) lost for the eighth
consecutive time, 85-52 to the Lady Techsters.</p>
<p> “
When you shoot 17 for 70, you’re not gonna win many games,” Fresno
State coach Stacy Johnson-Klein said.</p>
<p> The losing streak has been compared to a jungle animal of sorts by
Johnson-Klein.</p>
<p> “
It’s this huge monkey that I don’t know if it will come off
their back or not. I hope it does,” Johnson-Klein said.</p>
<p> Fresno State senior Mindy Clark, who had a team high 10 points in the
loss, said she tries not to focus on the losing streak with good reason.</p>
<p> “
If you focus on it all the time, it’s just gonna eat you alive,” Clark
said.</p>
<p> That kind of advice is just part of what Clark has been trying to pass
on to her teammates during the past several weeks.</p>
<p> “
I’m trying to teach them the good and the bad things I’ve
learned while being here,” Clark said.</p>
<p> In the first half of play, the Bulldogs shot a woeful 21.6 percent,
a result of 8-for-37 shooting, including 1-for-10 from beyond the 3-point
line.</p>
<p> “
We’re just not that good of shooters,” Johnson-Klein said.</p>
<p> But in the second half, Fresno State did all that Johnson-Klein has
been asking of them for the past several weeks—improve.</p>
<p> After being outscored by 22 in the first half, the Bulldogs managed
to contain the Lady Techsters to an 11-point advantage in the second
half,
compared with a 22-point first-half edge by Louisiana Tech.</p>
<p> Fresno State also managed to outrebound Louisiana Tech for the second
time this season, but couldn’t put the rest of its game together
to equal the intensity on the boards.</p>
<p> “
In a game like that you gotta bring your ‘A’ game and have
some luck too, and we didn’t have either one,” said Johnson-Klein,
a former Louisiana Tech assistant.</p>
<p> The highlight of the night came when generously listed 5-foot tall
freshman Angelica Lopez came into the game. </p>
<p> One woman in the crowd felt especially pleased to see Lopez in the
game, motivating her to yell a few words of encouragement.</p>
<p> “
Come on little one,” the woman said.</p>
<p> Even with encouragement, the Bulldogs are still trying to salvage some
sort of positive aspect from each game.</p>
<p> “
I do see ample opportunity each night out to not only score but to put
ourselves in a position to win,” Johnson-Klein said.</p>
<p> That is something that their opponent, a renowned national power, Louisiana
Tech, has been able to do for years now. Johnson-Klein said she is
hoping these growing pains are taking her team in the right direction
to being
able to achieve the same level of prominence.</p>
<p> “
You have to crawl to walk, you have to walk to run,” Johnson-Klein
said.</p>
<p> The Bulldogs remain at home this weekend, hosting Southern Methodist
at 1 p.m. in the Save Mart Center.</p>
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