Left Field: Sweeter than honey

What you want, baby they got it.

What you need, you know they got it.

Enjoying the early October sunny weather, the Sac State athletic program went out and had a pretty sweet week.

Hornet football put Portland State back on the bus shell-shocked after a Ricky Ray air attack.

Angela Lewis, Maureen Rafferty, Sarah Chlebana and mates killed the competition. A victory over Montana State Monday marked their fourth win in a row.

Cross country came in injured but they sucked it up and took what team they had to San Francisco where the men came in second and the women in third, that with former Big Sky Runner of the Week Katie Fontana benched with a bum foot.

Meanwhile ...

Sac State was “Aretha” awesome.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T ...

Volleyball has been on a tear lately after their somewhat slow start. Lewis, Chlebana, Rafferty and hot-handed Tasman Dwyer have all turned out some great games against Big Sky teams.

Coach Debby Colberg has amassed a legendary winning percentage of .744 during her 24 years with the Hornets. Somebody give her a plaque, for crying out loud.

Find out what it means to me ...

With a nagging rib injury bringing football deity Charles Roberts back to the ground level with the rest of us, and without Scott Towne to shag flies from the endzone, Ricky Ray threw to eight different Hornets in his 18-for-22, 244-yard performance.

The indispensable Hornet defense held Portland State to a feeble 14 points, 215 total yards, 4-for-16 on third and fourth downs and a 3.6-yard average per play.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T ...

Senior setter Rafferty is ever so close to the Big Sky mark for career assists and she could care less about the individual achievement. She’s a gamer — it’s all about the team baby.

Freshman outside hitter Jayme Wright is coming into her own and getting comfortable with the Big Sky. She is going to be a huge asset to the team for the rest of this season and in coming years.

Sophomore middle hitter Dwyer is a wall at the net, and, at six feet, is tall enough to be a big presence in Division I-AA.

Six of the 11 girls are freshmen and sophomores and they are turning it on for the conference games.

Take care, T.C.B. ...

The Hornet football team beat the team that beat Montana.

The offense went to Fred Anderson Field and rushed pretty decent against a team that played to defend against the run.

Then they passed all day.

The defense refused to give up any big plays and with inspired play from Antione Alderson and Nick Donati, who stymied nearly every Viking offensive attempt.

Head coach John Volek and Sac State did what they needed to do with their team to keep them in this conference race.

They went out and won.

Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me ...

Party of the week: Coach “T” and men’s basketball’s Midnight Madness this Friday night at 10:30 in the gym. Let’s keep the fire going. Coach “T” is serious about this basketball team, and with close friends like Dick Vitale and Digger Phelps, he’s a great personality. Sac State is lucky to have him.

See you there.

Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me ...