PAGE 2B THE BEHREND BEACON DECEMBER 10 1999
SPORTS
Fall Sports Wrap-Up:
by Matt Wiertel and
Craig Hazelwood
sports editors
The Penn State Behrend athletic
program experienced enormous
success during the fall season.
Behrend had three teams capture
their respective AMCC champion
ships and several players were
named to the All-AMCC teams.
Behrend's women's soccer team
continued their regimen of success
this season by capturing their third
consecutive AMCC title. By do
ing so, the women moved into the
Eastern Collegiate Athletic Con
ference playoffs. They opened the
playoffs versus Villa Julie in the
opening round of the champion
ships and advanced to the semifi
nal matchup on the foot of Amy
La Rocca. La Rocca scored the
game winning goal with 38 sec
onds remaining to lift the Lions to
victory. The Lions then moved
onto the semifinal of the playoffs
where they fell to number one
seeded Johns Hopkins by a score
of 3-0. Nevertheless the Lions
closed another exciting season and
are looking forward to repeating
this year's performance next fall.
The men's soccer team matched
the performance of their female
counterparts by capturing an
AMCC title of their own. For the
second time in three years, the
Behrend men's soccer team was
crowned the AMCC champions.
The Lions prevailed over AMCC
rival Frostburg by a score of 2-1
and thwarted the Bobcat's chances
of repeating as champions.
For their outstanding play this
season, players from the men's
squad were selected to the All-
AMCC team. Behrend defender
Rob Paredes, forward Chris
Lightner, and midfielder James
Martin, all were selected to the
All-Conference team. In addi
tion, Martin and Behrend's Matt
Saunders were tabbed as the
AMCC's Co-Most Valuable play
ers. Next season the Lions are
looking to build on this year's per
formance and defend their AMCC
title.
The women's tennis team con
tinued the fall successes by going
undefeated in the AMCC and con
sequently winning an AMCC title
in the process. This was the third
AMCC title for the women's ten
nis team in as many years. The
women were 10-0 in conference
play which helped them to secure
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The Behrend volleyball team hopes to build on this year's accom
plishments next fall.
offs. In addition the tennis team set statistics during the season were very
a school record for wins by winning impressive. Junior Mary Good led the
17 matches. team with 264 kills and 342. digs. She
Like the soccer teams, the tennis finished the season with a career mark
team dominated the all-conference of 1,083 digs, only 5 shy of the
teams. Six players were named to Behrend record held by her sister,
the team and they included Behrend's Amy. Senior Tanya Deats finished
Julie Leininger. Jamie Brubaker, An- her final year with 205 kills and 47
gela Albertson, Jen Morton, Chris- blocks. Freshman Karen Walters had
tine Chan, and Emily Rubin. Tennis 808 assists this past season, and av
coach Jeff Barger also was recog- eraged over 8 assists a game. Walters
nized for the performance of the ranked fourth in Behrend's all-time
team. Barge[ was named AMCC All- list for assists in a season. Sopho-
Conference coach of the year for his mores Brianne Engelbert, Jessie Long
title next fall
involvement with the team. The Li
ons hope to go for a fourth consecu
tive championship next fall when
they start the 2000 season.
The women's volleyball team had
an exciting season, but didn't play
to their potential. They finished the
season 12-17 overall and 5-6 in their
conference. The women qualified as
the fourth seed in the AMCC cham
pionship. They entered the tourna
ment with high hopes, but lost to re
gionally ranked Frostburg in the first
round. The Lady Spikers' individual
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the team received honors from the
league. Co-captains Deats and Good
were named to the all-conference
team. Both are repeat recipients of
the honor.
The Lady Spikers have a lot of
promise for next fall. Only one se
nior is leaving the team, meaning the
remaining members will build on the
chemistry they have already estab
lished together. Behrend plans on
having a talented freshman class com-
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We are the champions
ing in again next year. The women
look to improve on this season and go
all the way in the AMCC champion
ship.
The Penn State Behrend Cross
country teams finished strong this sea
son by placing second at the AMCC
conference championships. Both the
men's and women's teams finished
behind perennial conference cham
pion Frostburg. On the men's side,
Mark Suroviec and Tyler Travis were
named to the all-conference team af
ter finishing in the top ten at the cham
pionships. On the women's side Jen
Smialek, Jessie Coe, Kathy Perry, and
Betsy Voigt were named to the all
conference squad. Cross country
coach Rich Hoffman is optimistic for
the future of the team. Hoffman com
mented on the team status going into
next fall by saying, "we made signifi
cant improvements from past seasons
and we will be in a really strong posi
tion to challenge in the future."
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next year after winning the AMCC title this season
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considering the recent success of the making the teams equally competitive
sports teams. The majority of the play- to this season's teams.
ers who excelled on this year's squads