Day 9
Keeping up with the trend of sports, I’ll post about Fresno’s thriving sports scene. We’ve got numerous teams to be proud of with the bulk coming out of the university while the city’s teams include a baseball team (Grizzlies), hockey team (Monsters), soccer team (Fuego), and even a roller derby team (I’ll admit it, I have a crush on Betty Rocker).
Like I said, most of the sports do come out of the Fresno State University: football, basketball (men and women), softball, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, soccer, cross-country, track & field, tennis, volleyball, equestrian, swimming & diving, golf, and even rugby. Each of these teams do quite well actually in our Western Athletic Conference winning conference championships and recently the Commissioners Cup (an overall achievement based on all sports in the conference). Men’s basketball won the NIT championship in 1983, softball won the national championship in 1998, and there was that little 2008 baseball team that won the College World Series as the lowest seeded team. I’m still waiting for coach Pat Hill to get his WAC championship in football; he’ll get his comeuppance soon, I can feel it.
We did have a very good minor league hockey team in the Fresno Falcons. On my birthday (2008), me and my friends got to witness their final game against the Stockton Thunder and we had no idea that was to be their last. They folded up shop mid-season on top of the conference, we definitely could have won a championship with that team. We now have a league below the Falcons in the Fresno Monsters, who I hear are tearing it up on the ice. Good going guys!
There are few things to hang our hats on and brag about in the sporting world in Fresno and I’m sure the future will bring even more bragging rights of why we’re better than you.
This is why I love Fresno.
=ryne=
