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Marshall Hampson

Marshall Hampson January 24, 2012

Every team needs a leader. The Kings might have the coach for a leader, but they don't have a standout player to lean on. Point guard Tyreke Evans, guard Marcus Thorton and power forward DeMarcus Cousins...

Women win Big Sky Indoor Championship; men finish third

Marshall Hampson February 28, 2010

The women's indoor track and field team set a school-record by scoring 167.5 points, beating second-place Northern Arizona University by a huge margin 76.5 points for the Big Sky Indoor Championship. The...

Stimulus funds part-time jobs

Marshall Hampson February 24, 2010

Sacramento State plans to hire part-time faculty members using its share of the remaining $50.9 million in federal stimulus funds given to the California State University system. There will be openings...

New park could benefit Hornets

Marshall Hampson February 23, 2010

The Sacramento Valley Rugby Foundation's plan to build a rugby complex in Mather Field Park is on its way to being cleared by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. The plan to build the 1,400-acre...

Women’s tennis falls to No. 19 Washington

Marshall Hampson February 22, 2010

Sacramento State women's tennis fell to the No. 19 ranked Washington Huskies 4-3 on Saturday.

The No. 49 ranked Hornets started slow out of the box losing all three doubles matches, facing a 1-0 deficit early. Joyce Ardies and Denise Dy beat Katrina Zheltova and Clarisse Baca 8-4, while the pair of Venise Chan and Samantha Smith defeated Rebeca Delgado and Tatsiana Kapshai 8-4.??However, the pair of Maria Meliuk and Aileen Tsan lost a close battle to the Huskies' Aleksandra Malovic and Lina Xu 8-7, (9-7), giving Washington all three doubles wins.?

Zheltova gave the Hornets their first point when she beat No. 4 ranked Dy winning 6-1, 6-3. Zheltova was ranked as the No. 49 player in the nation in singles going into the match. Meliuk got beat by Huskies' No. 14 ranked Chan in two sets 6-2, 6-3.?

Kapshai beat Xu 6-1, 6-3 as the No. 3 singles then Tsan quickly beat Malovic 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 to go up in the match 3-2.

The heartbreak came in the last two matches. Smith defeated Baca 7-5, 6-4, to leave the deciding point up to the last match. Ardies came back from behind to beat Sac State's Delgado 7-5, 7-5, and leave the Hornets on the losing end of a close match.

The Hornets will be playing at Washington State next Feb. 21 at 10 a.m.

Marshall Hampson can be reached at [email protected]

The Winter Olympics are underappreciated in U.S.

Adalto Nascimento February 16, 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are alive and rolling and quite honestly &- I wish I was ditching school right now to be there. Let's put this into perspective a little bit. You know the shows you...

Stanford defeats women’s rugby, 57-0

Marshall Hampson February 14, 2010

Sacramento State women's rugby lost to the Stanford Cardinal 57-0 on Saturday. The Hornets came out strong forcing, Stanford to commit a lot of turnovers early in the first half. Both teams struggled with...

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