FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2000
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Athlete of the Wee
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Jamie Brubaker
JAMIE BRUBAKER WON ALL
THREE OF HER SINGLES
MATCHES IN THE THIRD PO
SITION. SHE ALSO WON IN
DOUBLES AGAINST ALFRED.
Intramural Calendar
September 29 - Cross Country
(Individual and team)
October 2 - Fantasy Hockey league
October 6 - Flag Football
The season continues to be played
for tennis, softball, and sand
volleyball. Remember that the
intramural seasons are very com
petitive, so be sure to check out a
game or two
Behrend
Sporting
Events
September 16
Men's golf at Pin-Bradford 1:00
PM
Men's soccer Vs. Bethany 1:00 PM
Women's soccer Vs. Mt. Union
3:30 PM
Women's tennis Behrend Invita
tional 9:00 AM
September 17
Women's tennis Vs. Frostburg 9:00
PM
Vs. Lake Erie 11:00 AM
September 18
Men's soccer at John Carroll 4:00
PM
September 19
Women's volleyball Vs. Buffalo
State 7:00 PM
Women's tennis Vs. Laroche 4:00
PM
September 20
Women's soccer Vs. Pitt-Bradford
2:30 PM
Men's soccer Vs. Pitt-Bradford
4:30 PM
September 21
JV soccer at Fredonia 5:00 PM
Women's volleyball at Lake Erie
7:00 PM
Men's and women's golf Penn State
Behrend Invitational at Riverside
12:00 PM
Women's tennis team
this season
by Kate Levdansky Petrikis
staff writer
Anna Kournikova, Lindsay
Davenport, and the Williams sisters
are all household names in the tennis
world. Women's tennis has
improved incredibly over the past
fifteen years. With more powerful
equipment and weight-trained
bodies, many women players now
feel that they can compete with men.
Perhaps that is an understatement,
but today's women tennis players
are more powerful and quick. Some
women tennis players now play a
more aggressive come to the net
style of game, similar to men's
tennis.
Behrend women's tennis coach
Jeff Barger said,"for the most part
they still play from the baseline, but
they have the ability to hit the ball
harder off the ground. I think young
women players try and copy world
class players. But, for the most part
I think you have to stick to your style
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by Douglas Smith
sports editor
The women's soccer team
experienced a slight downslide
this past weekend. The Behrend
Lions were fresh off of two wins
at the Herb Lauffer Tournament.
That feeling of victory was
quickly doused, but not until after
another impressive showing.
In the third game of the year, the
women's soccer team took on
Wooster on the Behrend Fields.
Michelle Malatesta proved to be
the difference in goal, stopping
fifteen shots on the way to a 2-0
shutout victory. Laura Furko
scored the first goal and Jen Baker
netted the second goal for
Behrend. Michelle Gutting
provided the assist on both goals.
Furko scored early in the eleventh
minute of the game. Baker's goal
was simply insurance in the
seventy-first minute. This took
Behrend to 3-0.
Coach Dan Perritano looks on intensely at the women's soccer team. Practice wil pick up in intensity as the women try to stay above .500 in the win column
is sure to bring home many victories
in run toward fourth AMCC conference title
of the game."
"This is my third year coaching
at Penn State Behrend. It has been
a great experience for me. I have
worked and met many fine coaches
and staff members. All my players
are great students, people, and
athletes. I've had a lot of highlights.
winning the conference
championship my first year as coach
here was great, but every win is a
highlight," said Barger.
Behrend plays in NCAA Division
111 and the women's team competes
in the Allegheny Mountain
Collegiate Conference. The team is
very competitive, having won the
conference title three years in a row.
They do not succeed only in
conference play, as last year's record
was 17-2.
The squad is led by senior tri
captains Jamie Brubaker, Christine
Chan, and Jen Morton. All three
were named all-conference players
last year. Juniors on the team
include Angela Albertson, Michelle
This is when the slight
downslide took place. The next
The Behrend women's soccer team has encountered recent hardships
against Grove City and Mount Union.
Brendel, and Lennys Redonabo.
Albertson was a first team all
conference at the fourth singles
position in 1998. The Most Valuable
Player of the AMCC from last year,
Julie Leininger, returns this year.
The team is also competitive
against each other. They compete
on a regular basis determining who
will be number one on the team.
Coach Barger sets up a "ladder" at
the beginning of the year and a
player can challenge anyone a step
above her. This works well because
all the players must stay "match
tough.-
"We have a lot of promising
players. We have a veteran team that
knows what it takes to win. Plus the
entire team is promising," said
Coach Barger.
The Behrend Lions will welcome
several teams at the Behrend
Invitational on September 16'.
Penn State Altoona will host the
AMCC Tournament on September
21.
game was against Ohio Northern
on September 9. Behrend got
PHOTO BY JEFF MILLER
The Behrend Invitational is September 16th and is sure to provide fast
paced action. The team is off to a very good start with a record of 3-1,
after their match at Alfred on September 10.
ninteen shots on goal hut °ill).
managed one goal in a 2-1 loss.
PHOTO BY JEFF MILLER
They hope to recover in games
SECTION 2
Michelle Gutting scored the
Behrend goal late in the seventy
first minute, just after Ohio
Northern registered their second
goal. Ohio Northern onIV had
seventeen shots on goal, hut made
them count.
The women traveled to
Heidelberg the following day to
play a game in the rain. The game
went to double overtime with
Heidelberg scoring their second
goal in a 2-1 victory in the
eleventh minute of that second
overtime. Bethany Cummings
scored the goal for Behrend.
Despite registering twenty-three
shots, Behrend could only manage
the one goal.
The women's soccer team
played Grove City yesterday and
will play Mount Union tomorrow.
They will get into Allegheny
Mountain Collegiate Conference
play on September 20 against Pitt-
Bradford. Their record is now 2-
3.
0 BY JEFF MILLER
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