SDSU ATHLETICS PRESS CONFERENCE 10/30: BASKETBALL IS STARTING
Printer-friendly version Like our sports coverage? Donate to help support ECM’s sports section! Type “Sports” on the donation line! Check out our sports section for more sports stories! Follow @ECMagSports on Twitter for live sports coverage and in-game updates! By Liz Alper For video of Anthony Luke and Kahale Warring’s portion of the press conference, click “read more” and scroll down. October 30, 2018 (San Diego) – SDSU men’s basketball begins their season on Thursday against Chaminade. Today, SDSU men’s basketball head coach Brian Dutcher and senior guard Jeremy Hemsley sat down with the media, as well as football coach Rocky Long, senior defensive end Anthony Luke and junior tight end Kahale Warring. “…We’re excited to get the exhibition part of our schedule going this Thursday with Chaminade coming to town.” Dutcher opened with. “Everyone knows we had a close scrimmage against USC. It was great to see our guys against someone else other than ourselves…We’re excited to get our young guys in front of a crowd. Jeremy and Devin, my senior guards, experienced that, but to put the young guys out with the bright lights in front of the Viejas crowd, it’s going to be exciting to see how they respond to that. We’ll kick off the exhibition game on Thursday and then start the regular season Tuesday against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.” SDSU is participating in the Maui Invitational again this season and it’s going to be tough. Dutcher previewed the field. “…Maui this year is an elite eight. We open with Duke and then we’ll have the winner or loser of Auburn-Xavier and then the other side is Arizona-Gonzaga, Illinois and Iowa State. So, it’s an elite eight field and that’s exciting for us and will give us an opportunity to see where we are as a program early in the season. Regardless of what happens there, the season lays in front of us. Obviously, everything we do is to get ready for the conference season so it’ll give us a good early test to see where we are as a team and what we have to work on.” Dutcher scouted the freshmen. “…I asked them early when they got here, ‘How do freshman play here at San Diego State?’ I got the answer I wanted as I work with them: they defend. They defend. That’s how you get on the floor as a freshman, you play great defense. So I wanted them to have a defensive mindset, not thinking they had to come out here and score 20 points to find their way on the floor. They have to come in there and defend at an elite level that we have over the years and let their offense come.” Dutcher talked about the challenges that come with coaching new players. “Some of them, they’re really long and athletic so they have always been the biggest guy on the team, but that doesn’t mean they’re the biggest guy on this team. They might have guarded the center their whole career and now they’re guarding a small forward or they’re guarding an athletic guard. Six-six isn’t the tallest kid on the team anymore and so they have to guard on the perimeter, they have to move their feet, they have to stay in front of people. [With] the bigs, the adjustment is, bigs play on eggshells in high school. Every time they turn and someone falls down, it’s a foul. So now they get to use those bodies that they’ve been blessed with and play a more physical brand of basketball, so that’s an adjustment. So lots of adjustments, but I like the way they’re learning. I thought they did a good job up at USC in their first action against someone other than ourselves and I think they’re going to all contribute.” How are the new kids doing? “I think they’ve all impressed me. They’re all different. We haven’t had Nathan Mensah because he had a finger injury that he’ll have re-evaluated on Thursday, so hopefully he’ll be cleared to start practicing, but he hasn’t really been involved in a full practice in four weeks. I’m excited to get Nathan back. Joel (Mensah) has done a good job, you know, he does what he does. He does Joel. He shoots the 15-foot jump shot in. He shoots it every time he gets it and he’s confident in it. At USC, he made four of them, they all went in and so our kids were excited for him. That’s the best part when the kids are excited for another. Ed Chang is a very good three-point shooter that is trying to catch up to speed on defense at the college level. Aguek Arop is long and is probably the most-able to contribute right away, in my estimation, because he guards at a level and he rebounds. He’s a special rebounder. He goes every time. He’s long. He’s got a seven-one wingspan and he’s the most versatile probably to help us at both ends. I think they’re all able to contribute. I think Adam Seiko, our redshirt-freshman from last year, was a little nervous in the first half at USC but settled in and made a couple threes and guarded like I knew he could guard. They’re all feeling their way and they’re gaining my confidence, which is the most important thing.” Hemsley agreed. “I think they’re doing good. It’s always nerve-racking as a freshman just to be in this process and leading up to that first game, but I think they’re doing a good job. I think they’re mature for their age and wise beyond their years and I think that they’ve done a good of just listening to the older guys on the team and buying into what the coaches are saying. I really do think that they’re going to do a good job of helping the team this year, for sure.” Guard Devin Watson is a senior this year. Dutcher told us what he expects from
SDSU WOMEN’S GOLFER CAMERON LEE TIES FOR SECOND AT UC IRVINE INVITE
Printer-friendly version Aztec sophomore records career-high finish Source: goaztecs.com Photo courtesy goaztecs.com October 30, 2018 (Santa Ana) – San Diego State’s Cameron Lee (Tustin, Calif.) tied for second place individually at the UC Irvine Invitational on Tuesday after shooting a career-low 4-under-par 68 during the final round at the par-72, 6,072-yard Santa Ana Country Club. With her total, the Aztec sophomore completed the 54-hole tournament with another collegiate-best of 7-under 209, landing in the runner-up spot along with Cal Baptist’s Erica Wang, three shots behind medalist Caroline Cantlay of Cal Poly (-10). Lee paced the SDSU delegation of seven unattached golfers in their final event of the fall, climbing three places on the leaderboard thanks to a team-high six birdies, including four on the back nine. Among her drains after the turn were back-to-back conversions on the fifth and sixth greens, with the former ranking as the third-most difficult hole of the week as a par-5, 537-yarder. Conversely, Sara Kjellker (Hollviken, Sweden) fell out of contention, slipping three-notches into a tie for fifth at 3-under 213 following a final-round 74. Despite opening with seven straight pars, the Aztec sophomore was unable to keep pace, notching just two birdies at the par-4 No. 2 and the par-4 No. 6. However, two bogeys and a double-bogey on her finishing hole at the par-3, 170-yard No. 9 precipitated her fall. Elsewhere, fellow classmate Gioia Carpinelli (Boppelsen, Switzerland) tied for the 14th position at 3-over 219 after matching Kjellker with a 74 on Tuesday. The Swiss native moved up one notch in the standings, offsetting two bogeys with a pair of birdies, including a successful drain on the par-3 17th, which ranked as the fourth-most difficult hole of the final round. However, a double-bogey on the par-5 No. 5 prevented a loftier perch. Despite carding a final-round 76, senior Daniela Anastasi (La Jolla, Calif.) still managed to crack the top 25 for the first time in four outings this fall, tying for 23rd with a 5-over 221. The La Jolla High alumna sank two birdies after the turn, including an impressive conversion at the par-3 ninth, which ranked as the toughest hole of the tournament. However, four bogeys and a double on the par-4 No. 6 hastened her drop of eight places on the leaderboard. Fernanda Escauriza (Asunción, Paraguay) finished two shots behind Anastasi in a tie for 30th at 7-over 223 after logging her second straight 73. The SDSU junior recorded five birdies on the day, including three on the back nine, to jump nine places in the standings. However, six bogeys, including three straight before the turn at No. 13-15, slowed her ascent. Kitty Tam also gained ground on Tuesday, jumping three places into a tie for 39th at 9-over 225 after shooting a 74. The Aztec senior registered eight pars on the front nine before draining two birdies at the par-4, 400-yard No. 3 and the par-4, 369-yard No. 7, the former of which ranked as the second-most difficult hole of the tournament. Rounding out the SDSU contingent was freshman April Ranches (San Diego, Calif.), who completed her first collegiate event in a tie for 57th at 17-over 233 after carding a 76 on Tuesday. Despite logging just one birdie on the aforementioned seventh green, the Serra High product still moved up four places thanks in part to a steady diet of 13 pars. San Diego State will take a break from competition over the next four months before opening its spring schedule at the Bruin Wave Invitational Feb. 25-26 2019 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. UC Irvine Invitational Final Results Santa Ana, Calif. Santa Ana C.C. Par 72, 6,072 yards Individual Leaders (Top 6 of 71 players + SDSU) 1. Caroline Cantlay, Cal Poly 68-70-68—206 (-3) T2. Cameron Lee, SDSU^ 72-69-68—209 (-7) T2. Erica Wang, California Baptist 72-67-70—209 (-7) 4. Marnie Murez, Santa Clara 73-67-71—211 (-5) T5. Sara Kjellker, SDSU^ 66-73-74—213 (-3) T5. Vanessa Wang, Cal Poly 71-68-74—213 (-3) — T14. Gioia Carpinelli, SDSU^ 73-72-74—219 (+3) T23. Daniela Anastasi, SDSU^ 72-73-76—221 (+5) T30. Fernanda Escauriza, SDSU^ 77-73-73—223 (+7) T39. Kitty Tam, SDSU^ 74-77-74—225 (+9) T57. April Ranches, SDSU^ 75-82-xx—2xx (+13) ^ – competed as individuals Final results Printer-friendly version
BOULEVARD PLANNING GROUP TO VOTE ON WIND TURBINE HEALTH STUDY AND SEXUAL PREDATOR PLACEMENT NOV. 1
Printer-friendly version By Miriam Raftery View full agenda View minutes from last meeting View letter from Mark Wardlaw on wind health impacts study October 30, 2018 (Boulevard) – The Boulevard Planning Group will meet Thursday, November 1st at 7 p.m. in the Backcountry Resource Center (39919 Ribbon Rd., Boulevard behind the old fire station). Action items include Chair Donna Tisdale’s request to respond to a letter from County Planning Department Director Mark Wardlaw in which Wardlaw advised that the County Health and Human Services Agency is preparing a report on human health effects of wind turbines. The group will also vote on opposing placement of Alvin Quarles, a sexually violent predator, in Jacumba. The agenda also includes discussion of additional projects of interest including Baja Rail’s efforts to repair a railway line for shipping liquid propane and other goods, as well as a federal extension of the comment period for the Energia Sierra Juarez Supplemental EIS to December 3rd. For a link to submit comments, view the agenda. Updates will also be provided on major solar projects and and energy storage facility, an application for agricultural clearing at Live Oak Springs, and Tule Wind. The agenda includes contacts for noise and other complaints related to Tule Wind. Fire Safe Council and Revitalization reports will also be provided. Printer-friendly version