baseball
Seniors step-up in
ALEC ITALIANO
s ports editor
Spring training wrapped up
for the Behrend baseball team
in Fort Pierce, Fla. as the team
went 7-1 in an all-around offen
sive explosion.
Senior leadership was
tremendous for the squad in
the pre-season after losing five
seniors who graduated last
year.
“We had an exceptional
week. Our senior presence was
strong. Our 1-2-3 starters on
the mound are seniors, and
they gave us a chance to win in
all six of their starts. Gray,
Fyffe, Dubensky, and Liddle
were tremendous throughout
the week offensively,” said head
coach Paul Benim.
“We expected certain things
out of the senior class, leader
ship, execution, guidance, per
formance and they each
provided it.”
Benim is in his 18th year with
the Behrend baseball program
and has had phenomenal suc
cess so far with the flourishing
team.
Last season the team posted
a 16-2 regular season record
and won its second straight
NFL
Local teams make moves
Months away from the 2010 opening kickoff,
the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland
Browns have made some major moves with the
hopes of improving their teams.
The Steelers managed to resign all-pro nose
tackle Casey Hampton, who was set to become
an unrestricted free agent earlier this month
Hampton, who signed a
3-year contract exten-
sion, has been with the
Steelers for his entire ca-
re'£V, since 2001, and is
happy to stay in ' Pitts-
burgh
“It is really important
to me,” Hampton said. “I
think that any player’s
goal when they get to an
organization is to stay
with one team through-
out their whole career.”
Also, safety Ryan cos after spending
Clark agreed to a 4-year just three years in
contract extension, Receiver Antwaan Randle El returns to the Steeters Clevaland
while Pittsburgh put a u . ... ~ n , ~ Quinn was
franchise tag on kicker after four years With the Redskins traded for fullback
Jeff Reed.
Wide receiver Antwaan Randle El was drafted
by the Steelers in 2002 and played with the team
until 2005, then returned from the Washington
Redskins. Randle El signed a 3-year contract
with the Steelers.
Also returning to Pittsburgh is linebacker
Larry Foote. Foote spent the 2004-2008 seasons
with the Steelers, winning two Super Bowls. In
TRACK AND FIELD
Squad success
SEAN NEELY
The men’s and women’s
track and field teams have had
quite the results recently.
They have come off a suc
cessful event on March 6th at
Salisbury University in place of
the ECAC Championships.
Both teams continue their
trend of ECAC qualifiers. Com
ing off of the Salisbury Invita
tional, the track teams look
forward to their next competi
tion at the Coastal Carolina
University.
For the men’s team, they
would be without one of their
jumpers, Ronson Mazany, who
would compete at the indoor
ECAC Championships in
Boston. Mazany has previously
garnered Athlete-of-the-week
honors.
The Coastal Carolina Invita
tional would take place on the
weekend of March 12-13. The
trip, much like their previous
Salisbury Invitational, would
turn out a success.
Five Behrend records were
broken. Sophomore runner,
Steve Gibbens said, “it was nice
to compete outside, the
weather was nice, and we were
all poised to have a successful
trip. Many personal records
were set.”
John Bowman broke his own
AMCC title. This earned the
team a national ranking and a
spot in the NCAA tournament
and was recognized by the
NCAA as one of the winningist
programs of the decade.
The team faced an impres
sive schedule going into Fort
Pierce facing teams like
Susquehanna and Ursinus who
both had over 25 wins last sea
son. But the Behrend squad
prevailed only dropping one
game to Manhattenville in the
second game of a double
header their last day down
there.
Second basemen senior Ryan
Liddle, one of the leaders of this
year’s squad, posted a .308 bat
ting average throughout the
eight games and has some high
expectations for this season.
“You can’t think to be any
where else but to be No. 1,” Lid
dle said. “We definitely have a
target on our back and teams
are coming after us. If we play
to our potential we are going to
be hard to stop.”
Depth is one of Behrend’s
key aspects going into the sea
son; highlighted by 14 prospec
tive freshmen and a trio of
junior pitchers including Ryan
Zamiskie who earned the
NICK BLAKE
sports editor
record during the week, throw
ing the hammer 37.07 meters.
The women’s team, also had
a new record holder for the
hammer throw. Katie
Monoskey threw her 8 kilo
gram hammer 39.14 meters.
staff writer
The men’s and women’s
4x200m relay teams broke
records as well.
Greg Benscoter, Jordan Telin,
Craig Webb, and Shane
Cyphert ran a total time of one
minute 34.07 seconds. On the
other side, Dana Turley, Mandy
Wehrle, Jenna Fatica, and Vic
toria Harwood ran the event in
a total time of 1:48.95.
Finally, Junior Justin Dipenti
clocked a 3000 m time of nine
minutes 2.89 seconds. Also,
Mike Stark and Denny Kang
qualified for the outdoor ECAC
Championships by posting a
14’ 7.25” in the men’s pole
vault.
Sophomore Meghan Kronen
wetter also viewed the trip as a
success, saying “our team
works very hard at practice to
correct any mistakes they made
in past performances and work
towards newer and bigger
goals.” For the men and
women’s Track teams, they are
getting positive results, and
they plan to continue to work
towards their next event, which
will be at the Wheeling Jesuit
Invitational on March 26-27.
opening
AMCC pitcher of the week
award after striking out ten in
his one win, two save effort in
Florida.
“The freshman really sur
prised us, Coach Benim threw
them right into the fire and they
responded with great pitching
and clutch hits,” said senior
outfielder Jonathan Gray.
“Also, the pitching staff came
into this year as a question and
they really stepped up and
threw really well.”
Another senior to look to
ward for leadership is the hot
comer man, Dustin Dubensky.
He led the team with six dou
bles in spring training and
racked up a .345 batting aver
age on the week.
“A big question mark heading
into this year was the number
of young guys we have on the
mound,” Dubensky said. “As
for any questions anyone had
of those guys, they answered
them all and through extremely
well in Florida.
“We need to get better and
make progress,” head coach
Benim said. “We are still defin
ing who we will become in
April and May, but we started
really strong in spring train
ing.”
May of 2009, Foote signed with the Detroit Lions,
where he played one season. Foote returns to the
Steelers under a 3-year contract.
One noticable move made by the Browns, was
the resigning of kick return specialist Josh
Cribbs. The all-pro kick returner is the team’s
most electrifying player, and Team President
Mike Holmgren is pleased that Cibbs will remain
on the team.
The Browns also made very big moves at the
quarterback posi-
Peyton Willis and two undisclosed draft picks
After shipping off two quarterbacks, Holmgren
and the Browns signed 12-year veteran Jake Del
homme, who was released by the Carolina Pan
thers earlier this year.
Delhomme led the Panthers to the Super Bowl
in 2004, but had his worst statistical season last
year. Delhomme threw 18 interceptions and had
a passer rating of 59.4.
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tion. First, Cleve-
terminated
Derek Anderson’s
contract, after
spending five sea-
Browns. The
Browns then went
on to trade first
round draft pick
Brady Quinn.
Quinn was traded
to the Denver Bron-
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