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Intramural Calendar
DEADLINES
April 13
Swimming Individual (M and W)
Swimming Team (M, W, and Coed)
Meet on April 21
13d)real ,qx)rting
April 14
Women's Softball vs. Laßoche
1:00 p.m.
Men's Baseball at Frostburg
1:00 p.m.
Men's Tennis at Frostburg
12:00 p.m.
April 16
Men's Baseball at Thiel 3:00
Men's Tennis at Thiel 3:00 p.m
April 17
Men's Tennis at Lake Erie
4:00 p.m.
April 18
Men's JV Baseball at
MCNE 4:00 p.m.
Men's Tennis at Fredonia
3:00 p.m.
Women's Softball AMCC
Tournament TBA
April 20-21
Women's Softball AMCC
Tournament TBA
April 20-22
Men's Baseball AMCC
Tournament TBA
April 21
Men's Tennis AMCC Tour
nament TBA
Men's and Women's Track
& Field at Slippery Rock
10:00 a.m.
TATS
BEH
Track & field team finishes respectably at Invitations
by Jamie Salapek
staff writer
Two first-place finishes paced the
Behrend track and field team at the
Case Western Reserve University
meet in Cleveland, Ohio on Satur
day. Behrend rallied against Mt.
Union, Walsh University, Case West
ern, John Carroll and Thiel College
to a respectable finish. The team's
strong performance against some
solid teams last weekend brought
home two medals and a new ECAC
Tough AMCC competition keeps baseball team at .500
Keith Lepionka looks for the ball as he guards first base for the Lions
by Kate Levdansky Petrikis
staff writer
The weather warmed up amd so
did the Penn State Behrend baseball
team, by winning six of eight games.
Jake Boyle, who is a junior
outfielder, led Behrend through this
outstanding week, hitting .529 with
11 RBIs. Boyle was named
AMCC's "Best of the Rest."
Behrend took control April 4
against La Roche winning a
Tennis team sports winning
record in AMCC play
by Jeanine Noce
assistant sports editor
The Penn State Behrend tennis
team served up three wins out of four
matches this week. The Lions played
AMCC opponents Pitt-Greendburg,
Frostburg and Lake Erie plus a regular
season game against Fredonia. All
four games were played at home.
Behrend won its first match on
April 5 against Pitt-Greensburg 7-2.
The Lions captured four of the six
singles matches. Matt Sudak was one
of the winners for the singles match.
He defeated Pitt-Greensburg's Pvneet
Mehorta 6-2 and 6-3. Atif Chaudry
also finished well against his
opponent, Brian McNamera.
Chaudry's final scores were 6-3, 3-6
and 6-3.
Three doubles matches were also
played and Behrend won each one.
That made doubles player, Dave
Cooper, very happy.
"The Pitt-Greensburg match was
the first time that the team played
under the lights here at home this
season. The match was very long and
grueling. Every match went to the
third set except for one," said Cooper.
Cooper and Brent Carlson defeated
Pitt-Greensburg's Chris Knauff and
George Klein by a score of 8-5.
The second tennis match, against
Frostburg on April 8 was extremely
Sport
(Eastern Collegiate Athletic Confer
ence) qualifier.
"We had some terrific perfor
mances from several athletes," said
coach Rich Hoffman. "Times were
affected somewhat by the heat, which
slowed the distance races some be
cause the athletes from all of the
schools are not acclimated to it yet.
Overall, we competed pretty strongly
against some solid competition."
For the women's team, Lynn
Herrmann won the javelin event and
nearly broke her school record with a
doubleheader by scores of 10-1 and
13-4. The team continued its winning
streak April 5 against Hilbert in
another doubleheader, taking both
games 19-3 and 9-8.
The two games scheduled for April
7 against Case Western Reserve were
cancelled. On April 8, against Pitt-
Greensburg the Lions split the
doubleheader, losing the first game
8-3, and winning the second game 9-
1. However, in the doubleheader
April 10 against Pitt-Bradford, the
tough. The final score of the match
was Frostburg 9-0. Frostburg won all
six singles matches. Brent Carlson
had the closest scoring match.
Carlson lost to Jacob Cook by a score
of 6-4 and 6-3. The three doubles
matches were also losses. Bill
Weisburg and James Sheen were the
strongest team losing to Frostburg's
Gary Lyst and Shawn Shillinger by a
score of 8-5.
"The Frostburg match was
extremely tough," said Cooper. "The
team is doing very well this season
and it was also an extremely windy
day, so that could have been a
contributing factor to our loss," said
Cooper.
The final match was against Lake
Erie on Sunday and Behrend won 4-
3. The Lions took four out of five
singles matches. Carlson finished
well, defeating Lake Erie's Jason
Jakabec by a score of 6-3 and 6-0. lan
Brendle, Sheen and Sudak also won
their singles matches. Behrend was
not able to defeat their doubles
opponents. Weisburg and Sheen were
the toughest competition to Lake Erie,
losing 8-5.
"In the Lake Erie match, senior
Dave Marasco played his first
Behrend tennis match, said Cooper.
"He played second doubles and
finished well, being defeated by 8-4."
throw of 110-7. Lindsay Schulte won The men's 4X400 relay continues
the 200-meter race, clocking in at to improve and was in the running
27.37. Schulte also sprinted well,
placing second in the 100. Kathy
Perry ranked second in the 3000
steeplechase with a time of 14:02.09
and teammate Louise Wingerter also
took second place in the pole vault
with a mark of 7-6. Bernadette
Wingerter followed in pole vault with
a close 7-0 for third place. Heather
Efaw also placed third in the 400 in
termediate hurdles with 1:13.31 on the
clock.
Behrend Lions dropped both games
by the scores 12-7 and 8-5.
The Behrend Lions travel to
Frostburg for a doubleheader on
Saturday. Penn State Behrend should
be wary of Frostburg's Tom Shaffer,
a senior outfielder, who hit well last
week going 13 of 19 (.684) with five
doubles, a triple, eight runs scored,
and seven RBIs, helping the Bobcats
to a 5-1 week. Frostburg is 4-1-1 in
the conference and 15-6-1 overall.
Behrend then goes on the road
"The team is doing
very well this season.
--DAVE COOPER
Doubles player
On Wednesday, the team hosted a
match against Fredonia and won 9-0.
Cooper finished well in his singles
match with a score of 6-3 and 6-2.
Also, Marasco and Jacob Cornwell
had their first doubles win ever. The
match went into a tie breaker and the
men defeated Freedonia with a score
of 9-8.
Behrend's men's tennis team is
playing relatively well this season.
The Lions are now 3-2 in the
conference and 4-6 overall. They
have managed to be above .500 in
their conference record and are
continuing to improve during each
game. Their next game will be
Saturday, at Frostburg State at 12:00
p.m.
for second, missing out by less than
a second. Jay Davids took second
place in the high jump, with a mark
of 6-2, while Tim Linden placed third
in javelin, with a toss of 156-11.
"We'd like to have a van full go
ing to ECAC's.," said Hoffman. "I
think that's realistic, especially as we
get some better weather. We're close
in a number of events. That would
be a good way to end the season.".
again on Monday to take on Thiel
where it can begin gearing up for
its next challenge. From April 20-
2 the Lions will play in the AMCC
tournament. At last year's tourny
the Lions lost to Penn State Altoona
6-2 and beat Pitt-Bradford 6-3. The
following day, the game that was
supposed to be played against
Frostburg or Penn State Altoona
was cancelled.
Penn State Behrend is 7-11
overall and 2-2 in the league.
Ramone Enriquez serves a point for the Lions on Wednesday
For most of the team, the season will
come to a close on April 28.
Saturday, Behrend travels to
Geneva College for the Western PA
Championships.
The ECAC Championships will be
held May 16-17 and those who qualify
for the NCAA Championship will
compete on May 26. Davids will make
his appearance in the high jump and
Herrmann will represent Behrend in
the javelin event.Behrend hopes that
many other athletes will qualify in the
ECAC championship.
Woods
redefines
golfing
excellence
am ,
"trleg
After Tiger Woods' dominance in
the 1997 Masters, the world
wondered if a star was in the
making. Four years later, that
question has been answered. The
only problem is that the star isn't just
"in the making" anymore. With the
"Tiger Slam" completed this past
weekend, it's apparent that a star has
already been made, and another
sports legend is emerging.
You would have to go back to
1984 to find some sort of parallel in
which to compare Tiger Woods. The
immediate impact that Woods is
having on golf is almost a perfect
reflection of Michael Jordan's
impact on basketball when he
emerged in the mid 80's.
But to just say that Tiger is the
greatest competitor to come along in
the past 16 years is deceiving.
Especially when you look at the
greater scheme of things. If Tiger is
to continue dominating golf, you
could begin to give him a different
title besides "the greatest competitor
since Jordan." You could consider
adding him to a distinguished list
with the names of Jordan, Babe Ruth
and Muhammed Ali.
FILE PHOTO
WOODS
continued on page 3B
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2001
Out of Bounds
.0 Jason Snyder
PHOTO BY JEFF MILLER