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Lions shutout Wesle
Danny Poljak and Mike Liebdzinski watch as fellow freshman Corey Hamilton handles a hard pass. Hamilton scored the game's winning goal.
LAUREN LIEBDZINSKI
staff writer
Behrend freshman Corey
Hamilton used his head to
score the winning goal in the
ECAC South Championship
against Wesley College.
At the 34:12 mark Hamilton
connected with a cross from
sophomore Aaron Meehl. He
put the ball into the right cor
ner of the net passed Wesley
goaltender Nick Talarico.
The number one-seeded
Lions were anchored by senior
goalkeeper Dustin Walker and
defeated the Wesley 2-0.
It was Walker's fourteenth
shutout performance of the sea-
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son as he blocked Wesley's four
shots on goal.
"This season was the perfect
ending to my college career
and I am really going to miss
this group of guys," Walker
said.
Walker was named the ECAC
Tournament's Most Outstand
ing Player.
The first half came to a close
with Behrend ahead of Wesley
1-0, but not before Behrend
freshman Danny Poljak got a
little too aggressive. He re
ceived a yellow card just 24 sec
onds before half time.
The second half began with
Lions putting heavy pressure
on Wesley's defense. Juniors
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Ryan Banks and Jerry Tortella
bombarded Wesley with shots,
but could not find the net.
Behrend continued control
ling the ball and barraged Wes
ley's Talarico with 16 shots on
goal. Talarico gave up two
goals, the second at the 76:08
mark to Meehl.
Meehl got the goal of an as
sist from junior John Teti.
The game got dicey towards
the end when Wesley's Joshua
Chellah and Luis Rivera
crossed the line with physical
play. At the 81:25 mark, Rivera
was yellow carded while Chel
lah was red carded.
The Lions kept composure
and the 2-0 lead until the end.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Medallle hands Behrend
first conference loss, 78-69
Behrend's defense was trampled on throughout the game as
Medallie had a 48.5 shooting percentage. Despite losing, Behrend
guard Kim Pol led all players with 18 points and 40 minutes played.
Behrend's freshman forward Julia Myers had the most points per
minute played with 11 in 13 minutes. The Lady Lions finished with a
mediocre 35.7 shooting percentage as several starters struggled to
find the net. Behrend's shooting issues came from an inability to get
baskets from beyond the three point arc. Over a third of the Lady
Lions' 70 shots came from three-point range and only a third of those
were made. Medaille held a 46-41 slight advantage in rebounding.
The only statistical advantage the Lady Lions held was offensive re
bounding by four boards. The teams had 13 steals apiece with
Behrend's junior guard Amy Oldach leading all players with six. It is
the first game of the season that the Lions did not score at least 80
points. Behrend (2-2, 1-1) plays its next game against Mt. Aloysius at
the Junker Center on Dec. 5 at 1:00 p.m.
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Behrend's victory earned the
program's first ever ECAC
South Championship.
It was the Lions fourth ECAC
Tournament appearance. The
team handled Neumann (2-1,
OT) in the first round and
Lebanon Valley (1-0) in the sec
ond to get to the Championship
match.
"Our team showed a lot of
character throughout the entire
tournament," Walker said.
"Playoff soccer matches are
always close and highly emo
tional, but we were able to stay
composed, score some big
goals and keep a clean sheet."
The Lions set a new soccer
season record with 18 wins.
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December 4, 2009
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Bobby Bowden
defied the odds,
became a legend
Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden roamed college football
sidelines for 44 years and accumulated 388 wins.
SHAWN ANNARELLI
sports editor
At the ripe age of 80, Bobby
Bowden's coaching career has
one last chapter to finish.
He will lead the Florida State
Seminoles into its astounding
twentieth straight bowl game
and his going away party.
It hasn't always been all roses
for Bowden, though.
Bowden has come a long way
from a weathering battle with
illness as a child to become one
of the most legendary coaches
of the modern football era.
Diagnosed with rheumatic
fever at age 13, Bowden spent
six months in an Alabama hos
pital fighting the potentially
fatal disease.
The disease was discovered
when he came home one day
barely able to walk. His knee
joints were swollen, and he
could barely stand up.
He would spend a year con
fined to his house after being
released from the hospital lis
tening to the world outside with
a radio.
The physical and mental pain
he endured was excruciating.
Rheumatic fever would claim
that year and a half of Bow
den's life, but in that time he
grew an infatuation with war
and football.
Bowden had enjoyed playing
football before the disease and
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devestated to learn that he
would not be able to play foot
ball anymore.
In what may be his greatest
feat, Bowden proved his doc
tors wrong and went on to play
football in his junior and senior
years of high school football.
He went on to play at Alabama
for his freshman year and then
Howard College for the rest of
his playing career.
Bowden began his coaching
career two years after his col
lege days were over. Since
1954, he has built a legacy on
the football field that no-one
thought possible when he was
a deathly ill teenager.
Bowden's coaching career is
just as unique as his life.
Bowden and two of his sons
are the only father-son combi
nations that can say they have
led Division-I FBS teams to un
defeated seasons. His son Terry
was the first Bowden to do it in
1993 at Auburn and his other
son Tommy did it in 1998 at
Clemson.
Bobby Bowden is also the
second-winningest coach in
college football history with
388 wins. He has also won the
second-most bowl games with
21.
His football career is quickly
coming to a close. He has his
plans set for after football.
"I'll go out tell everybody how
good I was," Bowden said.