CSUB notebook: San Francisco State stuns Roadrunner wrestlers
By The Bakersfield Californian
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco State snapped a 34- match losing streak dating to 1974 against CSU Bakersfield with a 20-16 win in wrestling Friday.
The Roadrunners (2-7) did not use two of their top wrestlers, 125-pound Tyler Iwamura and 133-pound Frank Lomas. But the CSUB replacements both won: Miguel Comparan beat Andrew Yu 5-3 at 125 and Jose Mendoza downed Julian Perez 10-2 at 133.
Also winning for CSUB were Anthony Box at 157 (a 19-1 technical fall), and A.C. Brown, who had a 9-1 win at 197.
The Gators, an NCAA Division II program, clinched the victory in the final bout, a 16-0 technical fall by Dylan Phillipy over Erik Martinez in the 149-pound match.
Women's soccer
Eleven new players will join the CSUB women's soccer team for the 2012 season, coach Melissa Phillips announced this week.
Among them is Erica Shelton, a transfer from UC Santa Barbara and Stockdale High graduate who was The Californian's All-Area Player of the Year as a junior and senior.
Shelton, a 5-foot-4 midfielder, had one goal and two assists for Santa Barbara last season.
Three newcomers are from overseas: Sonja Ericsson and Alexandra Lindberg from Sweden and Megan Todd from Great Britain.
Ericsson, a 5-10 midfielder, has been playing on some of Sweden's top teams. Lindberg played on Finnish national teams as a youth. Todd, a forward, "has an incredible knack for goal," Phillips said.
Seven freshmen from California will also join the team. They are Bakersfield High product Whitney Strong, Kiara Burkett from Santa Cruz High School, Brooke Carter from Tesoro High School in Southern California,Joanna Ortiz from Manteca-Sierra High School; Melissa Rios from Panorama City-St. Genevieve High School, Chloe Varvell from San Jose-Branham High School and Taylor Wheeler from La Habra High School.
CSUB has also hired Albert Martins as an assistant coach for the women's soccer team. He replaces John Smith, who was hired by new Stanford men's coach Jeremy Gunn as an assistant. Gunn, recently hired by the Cardinal, was a standout player and former assistant coach at CSUB.
Martins spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach for the Modesto Junior College men's soccer team. Martins was a two-time all-league player at Cal State Stanislaus.
Softball
The Roadrunners have been picked to finish in fifth place in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference's Coastal Division in the PSCS preseason coaches poll released Thursday. CSUB placed fifth last season with a 5-15 league record.
Loyola Marymount was picked to finish first and received 9-of-12 first-place votes. San Diego was picked to place second and had two first-place votes. Picked third was Sacramento State, Saint Mary's was chosen fourth, CSUB fifth and Santa Clara sixth.
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