10 The Daily Collegian Monday, February 14,1977
Fencers
By MIKE MISSANELLI
Collegian Sports Writer
The good news in yesterday’s win over
Navy for the Penn State mens fencers in
the final home meet of the season may
be overshadowed by the bad news.
The good news is that the Lions
whipped the Middies, 17-10, before a
standing room only crowd in the fencing
room and leave University Park without
ever losing in 1976-77.
But the bad news is in order for the
Lions to remain undefeated, they must
meet the challenge of a pentagonal meet
in Detroit next weekend, a 10 hour ride
and a mere two days before finals week.
And sorry folks, more bad news: Lion
All-American foiler John Corona had his
streak of 26 consecutive victories
stopped by Navy’s LaSelle Booker.
“All week in practice I haven’t been
fencing well, so last night I had a talk
with myself. I figured, the reason I
wasn’t fencing well in practice was that I
knew all my teammates moves. I didn’t
think I was going to start against Navy,
so when I got the nod, I made up my
mind not to lose.”
In Bohl’s case, it was a question of the
mysteries of fencing.
“Fencing is a weird game, you never
know what is going to happen,” the
junior said. “I've only been to two
practices in two weeks because of my
school work load, didn’t get much sleep
Boosters capture own indoor tournament
It may not be much, but the
Penn State soccer team
gained a little measure of
revenge from Hartwick
Sunday in winning an indoor
tournament at Rec Hall.
Hartwick, which edged the
Lions 2-1 last fall and later
went on to place third in the
NCAA championships,
managed a tie with the Lions
in morning round-robin action
but lost a 3-2 overtime game
in the semifinals.
Penn State went on to
dominate .Cleveland State,
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last night, but when I got here, I felt
really good. Sometimes after a layoff,
you review what you’ve done all season,
and it all comes back to you.”
But Bohl’s’ foilmate Corona, had his
troubles. The All-American was wiped
out by Booker, 5-0, in the first match and
had to scrap to win 5-4 over Peter Sisa in
the second.
“I have no excuse,” Corona said about
losing to Booker, a man he had beaten
before. “Today he was a better fencer
than me. I just wasn’t fencing up to par.
Some days you get the peanuts, some
days you get the shells. Today, I got the
shells.”
The Lions did however, have little
trouble in winning their 12th straight.
Although the score was 5-4 after the first
round, Penn State then opened up a 13-5
lead by winning eight of the next nine
bouts. The Middies put on a rally with
three straight wins, but sophomore epee
fSncer Jeff Haney clinched the victory
with a 5-3 win over Charles Ivey.
The win was especially sweet for Penn
State mentor Mac Garret who was given
a special tribute at the conclusion of the
match before the packed gallery, which
included many parents of the fencers.
“Penn State, State College and the
entire state of Pennsylvania should be
quite proud of this team,” the coach
said. “We had another fine day.”
Two of Saturday’s finer performances
5-0, in the finals, after which
Lion coach Walt Bahr said
that winning and losing really
aren’t important in an indoor
tournament.
“We were playing indoors
and anybody can win,” he
said, “and we had an ad
vantage because we practice
here (in Rec Hall).”
The Lions gained the No. 1
seed for the afternoon
semifinals by finishing with a
1-0-2 record in the round-robin
portion. Penn State blanked
Cleveland State, 2-0, and tied
Akron, 2-2, to go with the
deadlock with Hartwick.
Cleveland State and Akron
were tied for second at the
end of the morning round with
1-1-1 marks while Hartwick
was at 0-1-2.
In the first semi, Matt
Bahr's goal 3:41 into sudden
death overtime capped the
Lions’ come-from-behind win
over Hartwick. After Ken
McDonald gave Penn State a
1-0 halftime lead, Hartwick
took a one-goal edge in the
second half until Sal Bom-
belonged to Haney and junior foiler Ken
Bohl, who each went 3-0 on the day.
According to Haney, a change in tactics
enabled him to sweep through his three
wins.
“I got up at about7:3o,” he said, “took
out the trash, walked around downtown
and got my hair cut. I wanted to get my
adrenalin flowing for. this one.”
“Losing in his first bout caused a
psychological imbalance in John,”
Garret said. “He said lets down a bit
when he feels he can’t lead the team to
victory himself. But he’s a great human
being and one of the finest leaders we’ve
ever had at Penn State. ’ ’
Next weekend the Lions will have to be
tough to end their season unbeaten. They
will fence Wayne St., last year’s number
two team in the nation, as well as
Detroit, Illinois, and Wisconsin-Parkside
in their first pentagonal meet of the
year.
“Finals are going to be a big deterrent
to this meet,” Corona said. “We’re going
to study Friday and Saturday on the bus.
And Wayne St. will be tough. They
always seem to import an outstanding
foreign fencer."
“The schools we’ll be meeting are all
tops in the midwest,” Garret confessed.
“There’s going to be no easy competitiop
for the fellows the entire day. But if we
don’t take these schools lightly, we’re
going to finish our season unbeaten.
marito’s game-tying goal
with 2:12 left.
Kevin Costello, Bob Erlich,
Jim Stamitis, and McDonald
all scored in the first half of
the championship game as
the hosts breezed to the title.
The Penn State hooters will
travel to two indoor events
this month, starting Saturday
at Lafayette in a six-team
tournament. On Feb. 26-27,
Penn State travels to Hart
wick for, another six-team
affair.
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Penn State’s Bill Squire (right) battles it out with sabre match 17-10 to remain undefeated and kept its hopes alive
fencer Robert Richards of Navy. Penn State won the fora national championship.
Vol/eybal/ers spike four on road
By CHUCK BUCHANAN
Collegian Sports Writer
Continuing their winning ways, Penn State’s undefeated
spikers claimed four victories at West Point, N.Y. this
weekend.
The Nittany Lions, 9-0 in collegiate match play, had a tough
time getting started, however, against a tough Delaware
squad. Playing what Lion Coach Tom Tait could only call
“very, very bad volleyball,” f?enn State dropped its first
game, 4-15
The Lions came back strong from this opening setback,
though, and went on to win eight consecutive games.
Behind the excellent serving and receiving of Dave Evans
and Dave Phillips, Penn State grabbed the second game by a
15-12 count. The comeback was complete in the third and final
game of the match, as Carey Seavy and Frank Guadanino
brought the hitting to life. The Nittany Lions took that see-saw
affair, 16-14.
Delaware, an Eastern Collegiate Volleyball League
member, went on from this defeat to win its next six games.
The Nittany spikers will face the Blue Hens again this season,
and the two look right now to be the favorites to capture the
ECVL championships late in April. (
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The Lions' had ah easy time of downing their next three
opponents.
.“We thoroughly dominated East Stroudsburg with just
excellent all-around play,” said Tait of Penn State’s 15-6,15-7
trouncing. “We did not have a single mistake blocking in the
first game, and our receiving really came together in the
second.”
Rich Emanuel, the latest addition to the Lions’ starting line
up, played a full game, as did the Seavy brothers, Jeff and
Carey.
Penn State then man-handled the host Army squad, 15-7 and
15-6, as Dave Mull’s serving kept the Cadets off-balance most,
of the match. >
In their final action of the day, the first stringers bombed'
Albany State, 15-6. Coach Tait then inserted the second team,
and, except for some communication problems mid-way t
through the game they played well. Frank Agnew, Rich
Genday, Mike Casey, and Don Uveges played particularly,
well in the Lions’ 15-11 victory.
The Lions hope their winning ways will continue through
this weekend, as it will be a crucial one for them. Penn State
will play three ECVL divisional matches, with a home contest
against Cornell this Sunday capping the action. ,
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