Thursday, October 5,1995
Men's soccer kicking shutouts
Photo by Colleen Gritzen/Collegian Photographer
Gentlemen, start your engines: Freshman Steve
Gibbs races with the opposition towards goal during recent
soccer action.
Bryan Harkins
Collegian Staff
This past Saturday, the Penn
State-Behrend men's soccer team
bouldered over Nazareth College
4-0.
Before Saturday's contest,
Behrend was winless against
by Mike Coursey
Collegian Staff
This past week, intramural
champions were crowned in slow
pitch softball and cross country.
Thirty-two teams entered the
slow pitch softball tournament,
with 21 mens teams, eight coed
teams and three womens teams.
This was the biggest turnout
ever for slow pitch softball.
The winners in the men's
division was Surething over
Sigma Kappa Nu. The winners
of the Coed division was Graphix
over Staff Infection, and in the
Women's division the victors
were Niagara 3 over Perry 1.
There was also more interest in
cross country than ever before.
More than 100 runners turned out
for the competition. The course,
which was 3.1 miles throughout
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Nazareth. But that all changed in
a hurry.
The win puts the Lion's
winning streak to four games.
During this stretch, Behrend has
out-scored their opponents by a
15-0 margin.
Co-captain Sean Blank, who
tallied a goal against Nazareth,
Update
the campus, proved to be a
challenging one.
The top finisher was Joe
Trettel with a time of 17:23.
Shawn Denslinger came in
second with a time of 17:38, and
Brett Kocijan of Sigma Tau
Gamma came in third at 19:14.
The points race is very
competitive once again this year.
Among fraternities, Sigma Tau
Gamma remains in first place
ahead of Kappa Delta Rho 705-
530.
The Jolly Ranchers lead the
Independent division 315-205
over The Sure Thing.
Niagara 3 leads the womens
division with 145 points, and
Team Graphix lead the coed
division with 205 points
Intramural football will start
its five week season next
ian Clas
Sports
commented, "We came out strong
in the first half. We are
improving as a team and we're
playing with more unity."
Chris Hey added to the Lion
scoring effort by hitting the back
of the net twice. Travis Lang put
one by the Nazareth goalkeeper
via a penalty kick.
Many players feel their success
is due to the unity of the team.
Jay Hodkinson claimed, "We
play well together, as a team."
Head Coach Dan Perritano is
happy with the team's success
and is optimistic about the
future.
"We have gained experience and
we can still continue to improve
out soccer in the future," said
Perritano.
Behrend men's soccer is
certainly on the rise, as the team
currently stands at a 5-5 slate for
the season. Blank recognizes the
importance of the Nazareth win
to turn the season around for the
Lions.
"This is a great win to turn us
around and get us to the .500
mark," said Blank.
This Saturday, the Lions travel
»vith The Penn State-Behrend
Lady Lions for a doubleheader at
Alfred University. The men's
kickoff is at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday. The deadline for entriei
is tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. in th<
IM office.
The purpose of intramurals,
according to IM Director Rob
Whitman, is "participation,
meeting people, getting involved,
blowing off steam and getting
exercise."
When asked how successful
intramurals has been this year.
Whitman replied, "out of five
sports, three of them has had
more participation this year."
Those sports were sand
volleyball, golf, and slow pitch
softball.
If you have any questions,
contact Rob Whitman at the IM
office in the Reed Building at
x 6208.
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Running it up
Some college football teams have been accused of running up game
scores this season as an effort to place higher in the national
rankings.
Blowouts in college football games are nothing new. But for
many college fans, there’s no place in college football for the current
slew of 60-point blowouts.
“It’s unnecessary, and it’s stupid,” said Alan Loville, a
Northwestern University graduate who attends numerous Big Ten and
Notre Dame games each year. “Believe me, I’ve seen my share at
Northwestern. A win’s a win. I don’t see why coaches have to run
up the score.”
Neither do most fans. But the pollsters are a different story. With
the Bowl Alliance scheduled to pit the top two ranked teams against
each other in the Fiesta Bowl for the national championship, most
coaches are wary of losing a top ranking because of a standard win
over a lesser opponent.
When Nebraska destroyed Oklahoma State 64-21 on Aug. 31,
Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden said he was worried that the
Cornhuskers would pass up his top-ranked Seminoles in the polls.
To ensure his team’s ranking, FSU pounded Duke 70-26.
After receiving a complaint from Duke Coach Fred Goldsmith
about a touchdown pass late in the second half, Bowden sent a letter
of apology to the Blue Devils. One week later, however, as Nebraska
was running over Arizona State 77-28, FSU was pounding North
Carolina State 77-17.
When the dust cleared, the AP poll’s top seven teams averaged
wins by an average of 45 points, averaging 63 for the day.
University of Michigan Coach Lloyd Carr said he was “sick of
guys who run the score up” after the Wolverines 23-13 victory at
Boston College. At the end of that game, Carr told his third-string
offense to down the ball near the BC goal line at the end of the game
instead of going for the touchdown.
“You want to talk about sportsmanship? We won’t let kids take
their helmets off on the field. They get penalized if they show any
emotion,” said Carr at his press conference after the game. “And you
have coaches trying to run up the score. I think it’s ludicrous.”
When the polls came out after the game, Michigan dropped a spot
to number 10 and were passed by the University of Colorado, who
beat Northeast Louisana 66-14.
In mid-September, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany sent out a
letter to the poll voters, 62 members of the media for the AP
rankings and 62 I-A coaches for the USA TODAY/CNN poll, asking
them to examine their alleged policy of rewarding big wins with high
placement in the polls.
“We just want everyone to take a look at the big picture,” said
Delany, whose Big Ten teams, along with those from the Pac-10, are
out of the Bowl Alliance because of their commitment to the Rose
Bowl. “If teams are running up the score against someone who really
has no business being on their schedule, then what’s the point? We’re
rewarding teams for beating up on under-matched teams.”
by Marco Buscaglia
Copyright 1995 Distributed by Tribune Media Services
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