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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,2000
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Intramural Calendar
DEADLINES
Friday, November 10-3 versus 3
basketball (Men’s and Women’s
divisions)
Play begins November 13
The intramural bowling tournament
is tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. The
Final sign up this semester will be
for five versus five basketball and
that will be due December 8.
However, play for this intramural
sport will not start until early in
the spring semester. Also, flag
football playoffs have concluded.
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November 11
The men’s soccer
team plays in the
ECAC tournament
this weekend, and
will face
Muhlenberg Col
lege at Gettysburg.
November 11
Men’s and
Women’s cross
country at NCAA
Mideast
Regionals at
Dickinson 11/12
November 16
Swimming at
Grove City, 7:00
PM
BEHREND
LION S
Men’s soccer finds success in
by Mike Bello
staff writer
The Penn State Behrend men’s
soccer team came out strong in the
AMCC Tournament, only to lose in the
heartbreaking final 1-0 against
Frostburg on Saturday, November 4.
Behrend battled to the end, but just
could not pull out the victory as
Frostburg sophomore Adam Fletcher
scored 52 seconds into the overtime
to give Frostburg the win and their
second AMCC title in three years.
Behrend won the tournament last year
beating Frostburg, 2-1.
Although the Lions lost in the title
game of the AMCC Tournament, they
were picked as the sixth seed in the
Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC). This marks the first time
Behrend has been in this tournament.
The loss in the AMCC tournament
gave Behrend a 10-9-1 record for the
year, but the record is a little
misleading since Frostburg, which
finished 15-4 for the year, had to take
Behrend to overtime just to score the
only goal of the game. Tommy Sieg,
who has been outstanding all year,
made seven saves in the game, but it
wasn’t enough. Fletcher took a pass
from senior Kirk Gibson who had
dribbled into the right-hand corner of
the field and deflected the ball into the
left corner of the goal. On the
offensive side, Behrend was able to get
five shots on goal, but Frostburg goalie
Mike Pregnall proved strong in the net,
stopping all five shots he faced.
The opening game against La Roche
on Nov 3 proved much different. La
PHOTO BY BECKY WEINDORF
Tommy Sieg kicks the ball against Western Maryland.
Men’s water polo finishes up
disappointing first season
by Douglas Smith
sports editor
The men’s water polo season
wrapped up their first season as a var
sity team at Penn State Behrend this
past weekend. The team could not find
a way to win a match this season, but
they gave it their all in the inaugural
season. The season finished up at the
Southern Division Championships at
the U.S. Naval Academy. They played
tough competition in Princeton, Wash
ington and Jefferson, and Johns
Hopkins.
Behrend lost to Princeton 14-0 in the
first game at the championships. This
was followed by a 12-1 loss to Wash
ington and Jefferson. Behrend played
Washington and Jefferson four times
this year. Coach Josh Heynes was the
assistant at Washington and Jefferson
last year. The final game at the South
ern Championships was against Johns
Hopkins, ending in a 9-2 loss.
Coach Heynes would like to send a
note of appreciation to his team. He
stated, “the entire team stood out in
my mind. If you took a look at them
at day one; when they had no idea what
water polo was, couldn’t catch the ball,
couldn’t pass; some could not even
swim. And now take a look at them.
They pass and catch great, and play
well. They can swim an entire 28 min
utes of a game, get beat up and keep
going in for more. People have to re
alize that they are playing against al
ready established Division 111 teams
and are even playing Division I and II
Sport
Roche was never in the game with
Behrend, as the Lions rolled to a
rather easy 6-0 win. Behrend gained
revenge for La Roche’s 2-0 victory
earlier in the season by scoring five
goals in the first half alone.
Junior Dan Falk started off the
scoring against La Roche with a free
kick from 20 yards out in the ninth
minute. Nine minutes later, senior
forward Dave Kowalczyk added his
seventh goal of the season with an
assist from James Martin to put
Behrend in front 2-0. Sophomore
Mike Fry then recorded a hat trick,
all on headers, to put the game out of
reach.
Fry’s first goal was a pass from Ran
Ohl in the 34 lh minute of play. The
same tandem then repeated their
performance eight minutes later. As
time was expiring in the first half,
freshman Andy Laver lofted a pass
in front of the goal that Fry was able
to head past La Roche goalie Kevin
Cummings. To add injury to insult,
La Roche defender Jeff White put the
ball in his own net in the 54 ,h minute
as he attempted to clear the ball away.
Behrend had 23 shots on goal while
La Roche only had 6. Sieg made four
saves in the game before being
replaced by Jacob Hordych.
On Wednesday, Behrend hosted the
first round game of the ECAC
tournament, playing the third seed
team. Western Maryland. Western
Maryland also lost to Frostburg
earlier in the year with a score of 2-1.
On paper the teams were evenly
matched However, Behrend defeated
Western Maryland 4-1. James Martin
teams, which most athletic teams
don’t do.”
Despite all the losses for the team
this year, there are some bright points
to the season.
Coach Heynes said, “good points
that we got out of the season are
many. First the team learned what
PHOTO BY BECKY WEINDORF
The men’s water polo team is looking forward to the new ARC instead of practicing at Harbor Creek High
School next year.
Mark Szewczykowski kicks through the ball during the ECAC playoff game
scored in the 24 lh minute for the first
goal of the game and Mike Fry scored
about 20 minutes later. Jason Falk
and Dan Falk scored later in the
second half. Ryan Ohl had two assists
on the day. Behrend mustered nine
shots on goal to Western Maryland’s
five shots on goal.
The ECAC Tournament initially
consisted of six teams with the top
two seeds getting byes for the first
round. Gettysburg College is the first
seed. Muhlenburg College is the
number two seed and will now face
Behrend on Saturday, November 11 lh
at Gettysburg. Gettysburg College
will face the winner of today’s
matchup between Wilkes University
and Washington College. The
championship game will be played on
Sunday.
Mike Fry leads the team this year
with 12 goals and 26 points. Dan
Falk and James Martin are tied for
second in points with 18. Ohl leads
the team with six assists. Tommy
Sieg has made 130 saves on the year
and that translates to 1.45 goals
against average. He has tallied six
and a half shutouts on the year.
Four players also made the AMCC
All-Conference team for the 2000
college water polo is all about; both
the mental and extremely physical
aspects. What I got out of the season
was learning a lot of patience and
dealing with losing games instead of
winning. Like I tell the team, the only
easy day was yesterday.”
Mark Ostrzeniec led the team in
season. Junior defensemen Chad
Droz was rewarded for his quiet play
by being named on the team. Martin
capped his brilliant career at Behrend
by being named to the team as a
midfielder. Mark Szewczykowski
joined Martin, who was co-MVP of
the conference last year. Dan Falk
was selected as one of four forwards
on the team. Tommy Sieg and
Behrend plays Muhlenburg College tomorrow.
most of the major categories.
Ostrzeniec had 34 goals coming off
of 91 attempts. He also led in shoot
ing percentage with 27%. Adam
Demarco led in assists with 15. He
also led the team in steals with 59 and
turnovers with 82. In goal, Brian
Vallor led the team with 43 saves.
SECTION D
stseason
freshmen Kris Bauer were put on the
honorable mention list.
Coincidentally, the MVP of the league
was Kirk Gibson; the man that set up
the play that allowed Frostburg to
claim victory in the AMCC
championship game.
This led to a blocking percentage of
29.6%.
The team will now look to staying
in shape for the next season, in which
the Athletic and Recreation Complex
will be complete. Many of the men on
the team have joined the new swim
ming team to help their workout
schedule. The team is also planning
an open pool night so that the
Edinboro, Gannon, and Behrend
teams can get together to play pick up
games.
Adding to this point, Coach Heynes
stated, “next season we are looking
forward to having our own pool to
practice at and to bring in a great re
cruiting class to take us to the next
level. We are also looking forward to
having some games here on campus.
We are also going to increase the train
ing level and expectations of the team.
We have many recruits who are look
ing at us and some that have already
been accepted and plan on attending
Behrend. Others are still on the bor
der but hopefully with some Recruit
ing weekends and the new facility we
can bring them here. Plus Pennsylva
nia water polo states are now over and
we can now bring in those athletes to
come and take a look at us.”
The team played 23 matches in six
different tournaments and failed to
secure a victory. Coach Heynes firmly
believes that the scores do not show
the team’s real improvement. He sug
gests not writing the team off yet and
just waiting until next year.