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Faix named ATW, men
by Matt Plizga
Collegian Staff
"Art is a very steady player.
He is consistently good," Tennis
Coach Chuck Keenan stated. Art
Faix earned this weeks Housing
and Food Service Athlete of the
Week for his outstanding
performance Saturday vs. Grove
City.
Fain, a freshman. on the men's
tennis team won both his doubles
and singles matches vs. the
Wolverines. In his singles match
he won 6-4, 6-3 as the fourth
seed for the Behrend Lions. He
and doubles partner Trent Goerk
defeated Grove City's thin! seed
6-4, 7-6, and 7-1 in the tie
breaker.
In the world
of sports
by Nick Zulovich
Sports Editor
Down and out In Texas
Texas does not seem the place
to be for two NFL stars. Byron
"Bam" Morris was arrested in
Rockwell County Texas Tuesday.
The Pittsburgh Steelers running
back was said to have had six
pounds of marijuana and 1.5
grams of cocaine in his Mercedes-
Benz. Morris was a key member
to the Steelers team that made it
all the way to Super Bowl XXX.
Morris and his pasenger,
Rodney Dwayne Reynolds, were
released on 25,000 dollars bond.
Neither Morris or his attorney
made any comment. [Big
suprisel
Steelers Head Coach Bill
Cowher could have an interesting
dilema regarding his offense when
training camp starts this summer.
Quarterback Neil O'Donnell left
to sign a fat contract with the
New York Jets and Morris could
be spending his time in the big
house.
But Morris was not the only
NFL player getting himself in
trouble in Texas. Dallas
Cowboys wide receiver Michael
Irvin failed to show up at a grand
The freshman from Warren
Area High School is used to
winning on the court. As a
junior he was District 10 doubles
champion and a state qualifier.
He returned to state as a senior
topping off a four year varsity
career.
"Mentally staying on top of
the game is the most important
part of tennis. I never give up on
a point," said Faix. He did a fine
job this weekend earning both of
the teams two points.
Faix has no pref.:m:lre between
singles and doubles, he just
points the advantages of each. "I
like singles because of the
individual achievement possible,
but I also enjoy the teamwork
jury last Thursday. He said he did
not realize he was to be present
because he said he did not
receieve a subpoena.
But Irvin was present in front
of the grand jury on Tuesday.
The jury has taken no immediate
action on how to punish Irvin for
not appearing last Thursday.
Irvin's entire mess stems from
a incident of he being present at a
hotel room in Dallas where two
women were arrested for drug
possesion. The incident which
occured March 4, also involved
former teammate Alfredo
Roberts.
Irvin and his attorney, Kevin
Clancey had no comment after
the appearence. [Big surprise ll]
Its amazing that Morris and
Irvin have nothing else better to
do than be involved in drug
trafficing. And wasn't the
controversery on whether or not
these players should be role
models? Professional atheletes
are becoming very overrated.
The streak Is over
No Cal Ripken's games played
streak is not over. [Baseball
doesn't officially start until next
week.] But Orlando's home court
winning is over thanks to the
Los Angeles Lakers. Nick Van
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involved in doubles play."
"Art is very level headed. He
wins by keeping the ball in
play," said teammate Greg Best.
Faix attributes his tennis success
to the "head game;" "Once you
are mentally strong, everything
else falls in place," he added.
Faix and the rest of the Lions
have played two matches this
season. Behrend has fallen in
both of them, 7-2 to Grove City
and 9-0 to Allegheny.
Keenan stated, "Allegheny has
always been strong. I don't
remember the last time we beat
them."
This season's club consists of
seven members, two seniors au
five freshmen. Best and Brant
The Penn State-Belurend club
volleyball team thought they
were going to have a tournament
at Erie Hall this past weekend.
Unfortunately, there were no
participants and the tournament
did not happen.
Player/Coach Dave Stoehr said.
"it didn't turn out to be. We sent
out letters, but no teams came
because they were either finished
for the season or getting ready for
the playoffs."
Fortunately, the Lions are in
the latter situation, getting ready
for the club volleyball playoffs.
The Lions are the number one
seed in their division for the
Exel led the Lakers with 22
points and Cedric Ceballos
returned from his "vacation", to
score 15 in the Lakers 113-91.
For 40 straight games, Orlando
dominated the opposition. But
Shaq, Penny and company could
not get the job Tuesday night. It
certainly helped that Ceballos
was back with the team.
Ceballos said he left the team
for personal reasons. It just
happened to be that Ceballos'
absence happened right after his
playing time had been diminshed.
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Tournament cancelled
men still prepare for playoffs
by Nick Zulovich
Spats Edikrr
drop first two
Suhrie are the two seniors and
make up the top doubles
combination for Behrend.
Behrend has been forced to have
all of their practices and matches
at the Pennbriar Athletic Club
because of the weather.
"We always practice and play
all of our matches at Penribria' r
for the first month and a half of
the season. We take it outdoors
when . the weather breaks,"
We are pretty talented team,
but those first two matches
were probably the toughest
wel play all year.
- Coach Chuck Keenan
playoff tournament set for
Sunday at lUP. The Lions will
face Wesuninister and Penn W e f eel pretty good.
State-Beaver in their first Eveybody is excited about
matches, going.
If the club wins their first
round matches, they will move
on to the University of Maryland
and the Eastern Intercollegiate to put together a quality team.
Volleyball Association Stoehr and Lions are going
tournament set for the second into the tournament Sunday
week of April. facliwthey hamemothastan lose.
Stoehr feels the success of the "We feel pretty' good.
team is due to the fact the Everybody is very excited about
members have come from going. Nothing could replace the
winning high school programs. success all of us enjoyed in high
The team has been able to use school, but this is still pretty
their prior high school experience good."
At least he blew off his steam off
the court instead of taking his
aggresion out on his teammates,
coaches or the refs [i.e. Rodman's
headbut].
Camby collecting more
trophies
UMass center Marcus Camby
was named the Player of the Year
by the National Association of
Basketball Coaches. Camby,
who averages 203 points and 8.2
rebounds, was named both the
Thursd , , March 28 1996
Keenan said.
Keenan knows his team is
young but feels there is great
potential for the club.
"A winning season would be
good, but our season is pretty
tough. We are pretty talented but
those first two matches are
probably the toughest we'll play
all season. So the team is a Mlle
discouraged right now," explained
Keenan.
The Lions host their own
tournament Saturday April 6. A
total of eight teams including
Allegheny, Waynesburg, Alfred,
Frostburg State, Washington and
Jefferson, St. John Fisher,
Carnigie Mellon and 13elverxi are
all participating.
Playe#Coach Dave Stoehr
Atlantic 10 Player of the Year
and the Boost/Naismith Player of
the Year. But the best piece of
hardware Camby would like to
put his hands on is the National
Champioship trophy. He and the
rest of the Minutemen take on
Kentucky on Saturday.
Some predictors including this
one feel that it could be the
Minutemen cutting down the nets
at the championship geme. For
that to happen, Camby will have
to play as well as his awards say
he is.
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