page 12 The Behrend College Collegian. Thursday. April 23. 1998
Men’s tennis
wins AMCC
championship
by Art Faix
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The Penn Stale Behrend men's
tennis team finished their season
ith a Hurry of positive results. The
netters started with the nail biting 5-
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onlv the second doubles mateh re
maining. Matt Carlson and Ivan
MeCraeken battled like true cham
pions and took the victory 10-6.
"There was a lot of pressure on us
to um this match, but Ivan and I
handled it well and we came out on
top." commented Carlson.
The win placed the netters record
at 4-7 heading into the conference
championships at Frostburg State
(located in Maryland). The team
headed south to Maryland Friday for
a clash with rival Lake Eric. The
long van ride slowed the netters in
the early stages of the match. How
ever. the Lions regained their poise
and took it to Lake Erie. The final
score of the match was a convincing
SI. The lone loss was suffered in a
three set three hour marathon at sixth
singles by Phil Defabio. Defabio
battled through a severe illness
which was apparently caught during
the team's stop for lunch in Pitts
huieh.
"They must have slipped something
in my food, because I felt terrible all
day and through most of the night,”
described Defabio.
"Phil showed amazing courage
c\en completing the match, he gave
it hi - all under the worst possible
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Luckily Defabio's illness wasn't
contagious, but his never say die at
titude was as the netters awoke the
next morning to battle Frostburg
State in the match to decide the first
ever AMCC Champion. The Lions
came out with fire in their eyes as
they breezed through the doubles 3-
0 and surrendered only a mere
singles match to the final score, 8-1.
“I don’t know what got
into that kid, he just
couldn’t keep his mouth
shut, I guess,”
tennis player Ivan McCracken
Ivan McCracken won the featured
singles match, as his opponent was
defaulted for excessive use of ver
bal profanities.
“I don’t know what got into that
kid, he just eouldn’t keep his mouth
shut, I guess," described McCracken.
The win ensured the Lions of their
first of what hopes to be many
AMCC Championships. Coach
Keenan also saw his dream of a win-
ning season come true as the Lions
finished with an 11-7 record.
“This team is definitely heading in
the right direction, We won our con
ference and competed strongly out
side the AMCC," stated Keenan.
Congratulations is definitely in
order for Coach Keenan and his en-
tire tennis squad
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Lion softball team to play
title this weekend
AMCC
by Dylan Stewart
sports editor
The Lions softball team were
forced this week to play both bad
news bears squads Lake Erie and
Laßoche, before having to adjust to
l ace a real challenge at the end of
the week in the name of Fredonia
State College.
Behrend may have had a lough
time adjusting from one extreme to
another, as they started their week
off by easily smashing both Lake
Erie and Laßoche, before getting
handed two defeats by Fredonia.
Although the two losses were by
no means welcome to the Lions,
head coach Cindy Jacobelli thinks
that they might have been a
good way to prepare for the up- _„
thiTweek^td CChamPlonShiPS Ithink if we go in with somethin g positive, we will come
“it was a good tune-up for out with something positive,
the stretch run of the season,” ________
said Jacobelli. “We really
needed to see some competition had four hits apiece, while Calhoun
before going into the playoffs,” added an amazing eight RBl’s and
added Jacobelli. three runs scored
“I think that our team will be in Freshman Meeghan Trumbull
real good shape if we all start hit- was an impressive 5-5 from the
ting the ball the way we are capable plate, with one run scored,
of hitting the ball,” said outfielder Stacy Blass and Becky Rishel also
Lisa Fox. poured on three hits apiece for the
The AMCC championship tour- victors, as they both combined for
nament is slated for this weekend at nine runs scored,
host school Pitt-Bradford, with the Mandy Bodnor capped off the of-
Lionssettoplay Frostburg State, be- fense going 2-5, with a home run
fore playing the winner of Pitt- and five RBl’s.
Bradford and Laßoche in the cham- Beth Calhoun got the win, going
pionship game. five innings of work, only allowing
The Lions were successful against
Frostburg State all year long, win
ning in three out of four games. If
the Lions were to make the cham
pionship, they would most likely
face host school Pitt-Bradford
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whom the Lions have split with this
year with one win and one loss.
“We need to hit the ball and stay
mentally focused to win the
AMCC,” said Jacobelli. “We are
confident that our team is very ca
pable of doing both those things and
coming away with a title,” com
mented Jacobelli.
The Lions started their week out
by beating Laßoche unmercifully
by a score of 26-3, before Laßoche
forfeited the second game in the
doublehcader sweep.
Behrend banged out eighteen hits
on offense, while only allowing
Laßoche three hits in game one.
Steph Roberts and Beth Calhoun
Congratulations 1998 men’s tennis team
1998 AMCC champions
three runs on three base hits.
The Lions next moved on to
smash Lake Erie by scores of 13-1,
and 14-3.
Beth Calhoun was solid on the hill
in game one, as she gave up only
three runs on five hits, while strik-
ing out seven in six innings of work
Calhoun also produced offen
sively, as she went 2-4, with two
triples and two runs scored.
Mandy Bodnor was 3-3 at the
plate, with two RBl’s and one
double, while both Lisa Fox and
Meeghan Trumbull chipped in with
two hits apiece.
Game two was another blowout,
as the Lions prevailed by a score of
freshman slugger Meeghan Trumbull
Mandy Bodnor threw a one-hit
ter, while giving up one run and
striking out seven.
A trio of Lions provided the of
fense for Behrend, as Lisa Fox,
Mandy Bodnor, and Beth Calhoun
each had three base knocks in the
winning effort
The Lions finally ran into some
trouble at the end of the week as they
dropped a doubleheader to Fredonia
State by scores of 0-3, and 3-5.
The offense seemed to be miss-
ing in game one, as the Lions came
for
up with only four hits, as they lost
by a score of 0-3.
Beth Calhoun gave it her best ef
fort, as she gave up only two earned
runs on nine hits, while striking out
four.
Mandy Bodnor was the only Lion
to show up at the plate, going 2-3.
with two singles.
Game two was another case of
missing bats, as the Lions pitching
and defense held up only to have the
oftense MIA, as Behrend lost by a
score of 3-5.
Mandy Bodnor went six innings
of work, allowing three earned runs
on four base hits, while striking out
two and walking three.
Once again the Lions only
came up with only four hits in
the loss, with Lisa Fox leading
the way going 2-3, with two
single tallies.
Looking ahead to the
AMCC tourney, freshman
slugger Meeghan Trumbull was op
timistic as she declared, “I think if
we go in with something positive,
we will come out with something
positive.”
The Lion softball squad move
their overall record to 15-16, while
moving their AMCC record to 11-
3.
Behrend will travel to Pitt-
Bradford this weekend for the
AMCC championship, before dos
ing out their season next week with
two doubleheaders on the road.