Thursday, September 28,1995
Women playing for pride
by Michael Coursey
Collegian Staff
The Penn State-Behrend 1995
Women's Tennis Team continued
their fall season against
Frostburg State last Friday night.
Though the Lady Lions put on a
great effort, Frostburg State
defeated them 7-1.
The match had to be moved to
the Pennbriar Tennis facility
because the steady rain made
outdoor courts unplayable.
Behrend Head Coach Chuck
Keenan commented, "We lost
four players from last year; we
are a young team.”
Co-Captain seniors Rhonda
Dennison and Melissa Barger
started the doubles match with a
8-6 victory. Using lobs and
strong backhands, they defeated
their Frostburg state opponents.
The other doubles team of
Elizabeth Alstad and Shanna
Cotti did not fare as well. They
fell to Frostburg after a valiant
effort 8-2. The night really
unraveled for Behrend in the
remaining matches.
Frostburg won the final
doubles match 8-4 and then swept
the remaining singles matches 6-
0, which included a forfeiture due
to injury.
The scores for the single
matches were 6-7,3-6/1-6,0-6/6-
7,3-6Z2-6,3-6/1-6, and 2-6.
The team's spirit was not
shaken, though they had higher
expectations for the match
against Frostburg State.
Coach Keenan commented,
"We are in a rebuilding year after
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last year, and numbers [players]
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been hard to recruit on campus."
Assistant Coach, Karl Van
Tassel, felt there are many
positives about the Behrend
program. "The team is unified,
they're having a fun time, and
these are good facilities at
Pennbriar.”
The Lady Lions continued their
weekend play in the Annual Penn
State-Behrend Tournament
This was a round robin
tournament including St. John
Fisher, Frostburg State, John
Carroll and Allegheny College.
The tournament started at 9 a.m.
and finished around 6 p.m.
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Shanna Cotti prepares to return a serve during a recent
match. The Lady Lions continue their season tomorrow
against Grove City.
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Behrend started slowly, losing
four singles matches and one
doubles match to Allegheny.
The day did not brighten,
however, for the Lady Lions as
they were defeated by Frostburg
State 1-4, John Carroll 1-4 and
St. John Fisher 0-5.
Allegheny went on to win the
tournament with 17 team points.
Van Tassel commented, "The
girls worked hard, played well and
continue to improve. They need
to work on some other areas of
their game."
The Lady Lions next game is
tomorrow at Grove City and then
October 2 against Buffalo State.
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Men’s Golf:
Preparing for
EC AC tourney
Though sometimes Erie weather does not look like conditions for
golfing, the Behrend men's golf team continued its season Monday at
the Mercyhurst Invitational.
Behrend finished seventh out of twelve teams in the tournament
held at the Lakeview Country Club in Northeast.
Dave Koster finished with the best round from a Behrend player at
79. Chris Donnalies and Blake Caldwell finished with rounds of 83
and 84 respectively
Coach Herb Lauffer was happy with his teams effort at the
tournament.
"It was a little disappointing where we finished, but the effort by
the team was very good," commented Lauffer.
Overall Koster was happy with his individual performance.
"I played pretty well. I didn’t finish [the round] as well as I'd like
to, but sometimes that's the way it goes,” stated Koster.
As expected for this time of the year, the course was not in
absolute perfect shape.
"Some of the players missed some putts that could have gone in if
the course was in perfect shape," explained Lauffer.
In order to keep greens in decent shape, courses must install airing
plugs which makes the green not as smooth.
As a player, Koster explained how it can sometimes be difficult to
play this time of year because of the weather.
"It can be tough. It's colder and much windier, but you can't let
that get to you.”
The next event for the Behrend squad is the ECAC qualifying
tournament next Wednesday and Thursday.
"I think they will do fine. We have a couple of players on the
team that have a legitimate shot to qualify for the championship
tournament," concluded Lauffer.
Check out
Behrend athletics:
Men’s Soccer Saturday 2 p.m.
Women’s Volleyball Tuesday 7 p.m.
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