Condors By Mark Brennan The Hazleton P.S.U. Condors recently took first place in the Fourth Annual ilighacres Holi day Basketball Classic by whipp ing Dußois P.S.U., 91 - 75. and then rolling over Delaware P.S.U., 65 52, in the champion ship game. Dußois took the con solation match by trouncing Wilkes-Barre P.S.U., 102 - 85. The Condors were paced by Jim Donlan in the tournament who scored a total.of 56 points; thirty against Dußois and 26 in the championship game. Dußois Coach John Earley said, "Never before had we met anyone with Donlan's talent." Other stand outs for Hazleton were Lenny Kott who had 16 points in the opener and 12 in the final, Mike Jones who had 18 and six points Volleyball Review By Will Robertson Coach Bruce Young made his debut as head coach of the women's volleyball team. His team posted a 6-10 record. Coach Young commented on the team record. "We had no returning girls this year. It is hard for a group of girls who never met before to get together and play as a team." Despite their 6-10 record, the Condorettes were the first team in the league to take first place Ogontz to a three-game series. In the third and deciding game, the Condorettes were edged by a score of 14-16. The match against Ogontz was the starting point at which the Condorettes soared through a four game winning streak, bringing their record from 2-10 to 640. Coach Young is confident that with the returning of co-captain Andrea Kortez and teammates Wen dy Wertz and Anne Martino, he will have a successful second season. Pictured above are the members of this year's squad: Mikelin Prokopovitch, Cindy Perecca, Linda Zimmerman, Wendy Wertz; second row: Coach; rtice Young, Yvonne Cormier, Andrea Koretz, Cathy Grey, and Anne Martino. take top honors and grabbed eight rebounds in the second game; Steve Markle, who had 13 points in the first game; Brad Guise, who had 12 points against Delaware; and Mark Brennan, who took down six rebounds against Dußois. The Condors' coach Tom Cac cese substituted freely, playing everybody on the team in both games. He said, "It's certainly nice to be champions of your own tournament," adding, "we've finished runner-up the past two years." "I wish we could have been a better representative," said Wilkes-Barre Coach Bill Kaiser. "We lost four of our five starters because of grades (less than a 2.0 cum)." He also commented on how well the tournament was planned and organized, the tremendous facilities, and everyone's hospitality. Wilkes- Barre no longer has a team, but with trophy Coach Kaiser hopes to field a team next year. "We enjoyed the tournament and it was well run," said Dußois Coach John Earley, whose team took the third place trophy by drubbing Wilkes-Barre 102 - 85 in the consolation game. He also pointed out the excellent of ficiating of the games, that the Hazleton players were excellent on and off the court, and Coach Caccese's excellent job of coaching and running the tourna ment. He said the only problem was that his boys missed classes Reminiscing the Fiesta By Mark Brennan The pre-game attention of the media prior to the Fiesta Bowl may have been mainly focused on Reisman Trophy winner Marcus Allen of U.S.C., but he was outrun by Curt Warner, Penn State's junior tailback, who rushed for 145 yards and Awo touchdowns as compared to Allen's 85 yards. It was the first time this season that the senior had been held to under 100 yards. Penn State, who defeated Ohio State last year in the Fiesta Bowl and lost the 1979 Sugar Bowl game which cost them the na tional championship that year, capitalized on Allen's fumble on the Trojans' seventeen yard line when Warner scooted the 17 yards around the left end to score on just their second offensive play of the game. This all oc curred just fifteen seconds into the game. The game, the first between the two schools since the 1923 Rose Bowl, attracted a Fiesta Bowl record crowd of 71,053 to the Sun Devil Stadium. Penn State coach, Joe Paterno said he believes the Nittany Lions deserved consideration for the national championship. When questioned by reporters, he said, "I thought the winner of this game should be number ONE." But the Lions finished third in both the A.P. and U.P.I. sports writers' polls. The Penn State defense, which wasn't as potent in the late season as it was in the middle of the season, rose to the occasion. Not onl did the defense hold Photo by Jerry Trently because the tournament was held on Wednesday and Thursday. Coach Ron Case of Delaware. whose team took second place honors by beating Wilkes-Barre and then losing to Hazleton in the final, was not available for corn ment. Bowl Heisman trophy winner, Allen, to just 85 yards on 30 rushes, but they also held U.S.C. to a net total of 60 yards rushing. This was the lowest total for a U.S.C. team in recent years. The Lions, on the other hand, had 218 yards rushing. Besides Curt Warner's rushing touchdowns of 17 and 21 yards, other scoring came on a pass from Todd Blackledge to split end Gregg Garrity, a 21 yard field goal by Brian Franco in the second period, and a safety in the third quarter when Dave Pat fenroth blocked a Trojan punt and the ball rolled out of the U.S.C. end zone. Southern Cal had tied the game, 7-7, late in the first quarter when linebacker Chip Banks returned an interception of a Blackledge pass 20 yards for a touchdown. The rest of U.S.C.'s points came on a 32 yard field goal by Frank Jorden in the third period. Penn State's defense was led by Roger Jackson and tackle Leo Wisniewski. Jackson grabbed Allen's first fumble out of the air to set up the Lions' first score. Wisniewski picked up Allen's se cond fumble, with Jackson mak ing the tackle to set up Franco's field goal in the second quarter. Penn State quarterback Todd Blackledge, a sophomore, fin ished the game with completions on 11 of his 24 throws for 175 yards and was intercepted twice, while Southern Cars John Mazur con nected on 11 of his 23 passes for 123 yards and had two balls picked off. The victory closed Penn State's season at 10 - 2 and the Trojans finishedi - 3.
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