FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2000 To The Edge Intramural Calendar DEADLINES September 29 - Cross Country (Individual and team) October 2 - Fantasy Hockey leaL,ue October 6 - Flag Football The season continues to be played for tennis. The Intramural golf play date has been moved to October 7 due to a rain out this past Saturday. Contact Rob Wittman if you cannot play on that day and must play , before October 7. 113etitend Sp,atting EuentA September 29 Women's volleball vs. Penn State Altoona 7:00 PM September 30 Women's tennis vs. Penn State Altoona 1 I:00 AM Women's volleyball vs. Frostburg 1:00 PM Men and women's cross country at Frostburg Invitational 11/I 1:45 AM Women's soccer at Pitt-Greensburg 1:30 PM Men's soccer at Pitt-Greensburg 3:30 PM Men's water polo at Johns Hopkins TBA October 1 JV soccer vs. Fredonia 2:00 PM Women's tennis at Pitt-Greensburg 1:00 PM October 2 Men's golf at AMCC Champinship at Champion Lakes TBA Women's tennis at Edinboro 3:30 PM October 3 Women's volleyball vs. Pitt- Bradford 7:00 PM Women's soccer at Allegheny 4:00 PM October 4 Men's soccer at Grove City 4:00 PM October 5 Women's tennis vs. Thiel 3:30 PM Lady Lion is taking the shots for the team by Jeanine Noce staff writer This Lady Lion is not only the cap tain of the team, but she is also the goalie taking the hits. Her name is Michelle Malatesta, and her "goal" is to lead the Ladv Lions to a confer ence title. Malatesta, a junior, has trav eled to Penn State Behrend from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, which is Outside of Pittsburgh. She arrived on August 18 for the team's condition- ing and start of practices. Malatesta has played soccer for the past fifteen years. She has been a member of various teams. She has played for Bethel Park High School's varsity soccer team all four years, also the Beaching soccer team for all four years during high school, and the Penns Forest team for two years dur ing high school, The Lady Lions, which is a team ATTN: All Behrend Students! EA I At all Behrend home sporting events, spirit paraphernalia will be given to students. Such prizes include spirit T-shirts, hats, and food like Bruno's pizza. Sports Update: Slow Week Tommy Sieg defends goal during a game earlier in the season. by Douglas Smith sports editor Behrend women's soccer, men's soccer, and women's volleyball have had easy weeks. The soccer teams had a doubleheader this past Satur day against La Roche. The men lost 2-0 falling to 1-1 in conference play. The women won 4-3, with Michelle Gutting scoring threegoals and mov ing the team up two spots in the Na tional Soccer Coaches of America Great Lakes poll. The women's team is now 2-0 in conference and 7-2 overall. The men and women will play a doubleheader , at Pitt- ~, r 0 of twenty women, have practice daily from 5:00p.m. until 7:00p.m. and typically have two games a week. One of the games is normally during the week; one is on the weekend. Malatesta feels that it is not extremely difficult to balance school and soccer. She stated, "I do better because I am on a strict schedule. - Malatesta also juggles one more activity, which is working for the Penn State Behrend Admissions Office. Malatesta's major is General Arts and Sciences. She is hoping to pur sue a career in education, and upon graduation from Behrend College she will be completing her fifth year of school at Mercyhurst College for stu dent teaching. Malatesta also stated that she loves being a part of the team. She believes that the Lady Lions coach, Dan Perritano, and the assis tant coach, Nate Weily, are extremely helpful and very understanding. Michelle Malatesta has been strong in goal despite not facing too many shots lately. For instance, she only faced one shot during the game against Pitt-Bradford last Wednesday. tie 4. • % • 111 Greensburg this weekend. The women's volleyball team beat Lake Erie in their first conference game on September 21 The team will have a busy weekend playing Friday and Saturday. Saturday's game is at Behrend. 0130011 LIONS c j , f'.!' I Malatesta's favorite experience on the team was last year's Eastern Colle giate Athletic Conference quarterfinal game against Villa Julie, which Be hrend hosted. The game went into double overtime, and the Lady Lions scored with thirty-eight seconds re maining. Malatesta also stopped a penalty kick in this unforgettable game. This year the Lady Lions are work ing extremely well as a team. Their record as of September 29 is seven wins and two losses. The women un fortunately will not be traveling any where over fall break this year but will he competing in California next fall. The next conference game will be held this Saturday. September 30, where the Lady Lions will attempt to defeat Pitt-Greensburg at 1:00 p.m. ....... _ ...... w PHOTO BY NEIL MAKADIA PHOTO BY JEFF MILLER Laura Furko waits for her teammates in a previous game. The woman's w>lleyball team practices earlier this year. PHOTO BY JEFF MILLER r \ Intramurals offer intense competition outside of varsity sports by Jeanine Noce staff writer The teamwork, the variety of spol7',, and the fun are just a few of the rea sons students at Penn State Behrend are becoming involved with intramurals. The Behrend intraniural program has greatly increased the number of activities and participants over the past ten years and is continu ally expanding. During the tall and spring semesters there are se‘enteen different activities to participate in and also several fantasy leagues that can he played on the computer. For a person to he able to partici pate in the intramural program they have to he a full or part-time student. a faculty member or a staff incinher. The cost is three dollars per person and the team can consist of all men, all women. or it can he coed. The team has to also fill out an application he- PHOTO BY DOUGLAS SMITH Rob Wittman takes a break from his busy day as intramural director and assistant coach in the intramural office located on the bottom floor of the Reed Union Building. fore the stated deadline and return it to the Student Activities (Alice lo cated in the Reed Building to he eli gible to play. The intramural program has been in effect for well over twenty-five years, and Penn State Behrend's cur rent intramural director, Robert Wittman. is planning to continue the variety and availability of these pro grams. Brett Banker, who was simul taneously the sports information di rector and the intramural director held the position previously. Due to this, Banker was unable to dedicate all of his time to the intramural program Wittman filled the position of intra mural director in 1991, which tva.s the first full-time position given for the intramural program. The main incentive for the program is the intramural point system, s hich is an all-year competition where the teams can earn points by participat ing in intramural activities. The com petition takes place in five sub-divi sions: Men's Residence I lall, Frater nity, and Men's, Women's and Coed Independent. The number of points Women's tennis racking up wins by Kate Levdansky Petrikis staff writer The Behrend women's tennis team is coming to the end of their regular season play. The Behrend Lions picked up two more wins this past weekend. After leaving Erie for a long drive, Behrend played Frostburg on September 23. The Lions aced the match 9-0, making their season record 8-2, after hav ing defeating Frostburg by this same score earlier in the year. Penn State Behrend played the next day, September 24, against Penn State Altoona. Behrend won this match 7-2, increasing their sea son record to 9-2. Coach Jeff Barger said the out standing players of the weekend were Julie Leininger and Jamie Brubaker. Julie Leininger was named this week's Food and Hous ing Athlete of the week. Leininger won all three of her number one singles matches and all three of her number one doubles matches against Frostburg and Penn State ihe method by which the\ ,UC aN,lltied Vary from tourna ment io toufiNiment. The five criteria are: the fulfillment of the schedule pelt:lining to no toitetts. the per game ‘tetone,. the placement in the finals, the team that 1, the champion and the team thdt i, the 'miner-up. Fora team C.llfl 111,111\ points as possible thc\ nu! .1 cfuel ,ts nram, teams oF in is possihle up to the I C.k.11 toarnanteut. :11.11. the \\ mum:: ;c,llll for edch individual sptw t-Thirty. I \ CAI IhCIC (me male and telltale ' fnuamural Athlete of the Year This male and female is cho sen based un who has hest displayed the intwinural ideals and philosophy through her participation. A tew other crtre r ia that the as and is based Oil :11c ;1011ClIC JjlieVement, outstand ing leadership capabilities, sports inanidup. ;winkle and desire and the male (it \+,hich represents the intramural ideals or social interaction and exercise. A committee reviews the nomination and then the recipients kill have their picture placed on the Penn State liehrend wehsite until the next }ear.Alski, the winning teams for each individual sport will have their pi, tuft. placed kin the wehsite until the next Cur file intramural program can also he loh hir imy student here at Behrend. ate and are paid per/hour it !hey arc new and $6.50 pet/hour it they have refereed the ,I . ),)111)H.)ri.. Any student is eligible liar this position 'and will he hired if they till oul application and go to the informational training meeting. Ai Penn State liehrend, any indi- Ulnal tan he involved in a recre ational non-athletic activity. The va let ot spirts on and Ott of the field is an incentive to become involved. Students that ish to make the most ul their time should consider the op tion tit the inti animal program. Altoona. She has led the Behrend Lions to a 4-0 conference record. Another player to note for her re markable play is Jamie Brubaker, who won all of her number two singles. and teamed up with Julie Leininger to win all three of the number one doubles matches. Behrend has a busy schedule for the next couple of weeks. Matches were scheduled on September 27 against Fredonia, and on September 30 against Penn State Altoona. The women's tennis team seems to be on a roll. In October, Behrend has matches on the Ist against Pitt- Greensburg and on the 2nd against Edinboro. Ci=l
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