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Freshman
Where no one
has gone before
by Paul D. Young
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Competing in her final
semester as a member of the
Lady Lions' tennis team,
sophomore Annmarie Faso of
North Allegheny has saved her
best tennis for last.
This past weekend she became
the first Behrend player in
history to be invited to compete
in the Rolex ITT Champion
ships.
The event was held at Kenyon
College in Ohio and featured
sonss, of the strongest Division
111 players in the region.
As the tournament unfolded,
however, it became apparent that
just being invited to the event
was not going to be enough to
satisfy Faso.
The unsealed Faso coasted to a
first round victory oiler Toni
Olmos of host Kenyon College,
dropping just a single game
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Athlete of the Week: Matt Lafferty
along the way.
In the round of 16, she found
herself pitted against second
seeded Hallie King of Dennison
College. Unfazed by the level of
competition, Faso played one of
the greatest matches of her
tennis career and advanced to the
next round with a 6-3, 7-5
straight set win.
Though very deserving of a
break, the Lady Lion still had
one more singles match to go. A
win would place her in the
semifinals.
Unfortunately, Faso simply
ran out of gas and fell to Shelly
Rice of Oterbein College by a 6-
3, 6-2 score.
"Her heart didn't give out, but
her legs failed her," explained
coach Dan Gallegos.
Behrend was represented in the
doubles competition. by .
"ironmanr Faso -
and sophomore
Jennifer Puerto of Miami. They
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were defeated in the first round
by an aggressive team from
Capital with a 6-3, 6-3 result.
"I was mentally and physically
drained," Faso said after her long
day of tennis. "It was a learning
experience," added Puerto.
In addition to her exploits at
the Rolex tournament, Faso led
the women's tennis team to a 6-
3 defeat of. Buffalo State last
Thursday here at Behrend. After
splitting the six singles
matches, Buffalo State was
forced to default all three doubles
positions. This allowed the lady
netters to avenge an early season
5-4 loss to Buffalo State.
The Lady Lions currently hold
a 9-6 record, and as Coach
Gallegos so eloquently put it,
"The tennis ingrain is like Star
Trek. The players ;continue to go
where no Behren players have
gone before!"
phenom
Scores six goals
in three games
by Ilia Belkin
Collegian Staff
This week's Athlete of the
Week is a member of the men's
soccer team.
This past week, freshman
forward Andy Lafferty from
South Park, PA scored a
combined six goals against three
teams.
He scored one against
Allegheny, four against Pitt-
Greensburg, and added another
one against Waynesburg,
helping the Lions go 3-0 in the
passed week.
Lafferty has been playing
soccer since he was seven years
STAN SMITH'S TENNIS CLASS
Thursday, October 7, 1993
old. However, he also played
baseball, basketball, and ran
track in high school.
As an engineering major,
Lafferty doesn't have much free
time to do anything.
In his limited free time
Lafferty hangs out with his
friends and his twin brother
Matt, a goalie on the team.
When asked about the team
Lafferty said, "We are really
improving. This is a bunch of
young guys who are only going
to get better."
Lafferty likes playing at
Behrend, but hasn't decided if he
will stay here for a full four
years.
th JACK NICKLAUS