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DEADLINES
April 6 - Badminton Singles
(Men’s and Women’s)
Badminton Doubles
(Men’s , Women’s, and Coed)
April 13 - Swimming Individual
(Men’s and Women’s)
Swimming Team
(Men’s, Women’s, and Coed)
Meet on April 21
Behrend
Sporting
Events
March 24
Women’s Water Polo at W & J/
Gannon 4:00 PM/7:00 PM
Women’s Softball at Penn State
Altoona 1:00 PM
Men’s Tennis vs. Penn State
Alttona 11:00 AM
March 26
Women’s Softball at Pitt-
Bradford 3:00 PM
March 28
Men’s Baseball at Pitt-
Bradford 3:00 PM
Men’s Tennis vs. Thiel 3:00
PM
Women’s Softball vs
Fredonia 3:00 PM
March 29
Women’s Softball at Buffalo
State 3:00 PM
LIONS
Galley is making history for
the women’s water polo team
by Jeanine Noce
assistant sports editor
Katie Galley is one of 16
members of Penn State Behrend’s
first women’s water polo team. This
is Galley’s and several other
members first year playing this
challenging sport. The ARC houses
the women’s polo team and has just
recently opened for water polo
games.
Galley came to Behrend from
North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania,
where she attended Norwin High
School. She is majoring in
communications and media studies
and began playing water polo just
two months ago. The team began
practicing and selecting members in
February. The team has been
together for approximately two
months and is working extremely
hard to make the water polo team
successful.
The 2000-2001 season is the first
for both the men’s and women’s
water polo teams. The men began
practicing during the fall semester,
however, their practices were held
at other locations. The women’s
team was the first to begin practicing
in Behrend’s new pool.
Galley does not hold a specific
position. Each of the members on
the team plays both offense and
defense. The practices are held
every morning from 6:30 a.m. - 7:30
a.m. They are also held every
Women’s
by Bob Palivoda
staff writer
The battle rages on for the women’s
water polo team to achieve its first win
of the season.
After coming off a loss to Marist
College last week, the Penn State
Behrend women’s water polo would
try to earn its first win of the season
against Cal State of Hayward. Being
that Cal State (Division 111 school) is
from the West Coast, the PSU women
knew that they must prepare differ
ently.
“California is going to be extremely
tough, west coast teams play a differ
ent style of polo,” stated coach Josh
Heynes prior to the game. “We just
got to keep plugging away and hope
fully something will pop.”
Unfortunately, the game proved
tough, for the Behrend women as they
lost 19-2. The game started out
slowly. Partway through the first pe
riod Behrend found themselves down
7-0. In the waning seconds of the
period, Lauren Packer made a save to
keep the lead to 7.
Another great save by Packer
opened the second period, but a poor
pass gave Hayward the ball, and a
chance to score. With 5:53 left in the
second period, the lead was increased
to 8. Hayward did not waste time
getting the ball back, with help from
a foul committed by Behrend, to in
crease the lead to 9-0. This pattern of
turnovers at the expense of Behrend
continued through the second period
when the score came to 13-0.
To begin the second half, Lindsay
Spiegel earned control by beating the
Sport
afternoon from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Galley joined the team a week or two
late, due to having a Spanish class
from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Due to
this conflict, Galley’s afternoon
practice schedule is practicing from
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and then she
attends class form 4:00 p.m. -
5:00p.m. When class is finished she
then returns to the pool and practices
with the team from 5:00 p.m. - 6:00
Galley is also the Editorial Page
Editor of the Beacon and a member
of the Omicron Delta Kappa honors
fraternity. These are just two of the
other activities that Galley is involved
in. Galley believes that it is extremely
difficult to balance working on the
newspaper, attending classes, and
playing water polo. However, she
stated that the way to handle all of her
different activities is to give 110%
always.
Galley enjoys being a member of
the water polo team. She commented
that it is very different from being a
member of the newspaper staff. Every
aspect of water polo involves the
entire team as opposed to being an
editor of the Beacon where a majority
of the work is done individually.
Galley stated, “The Beacon staff
works together as a team on the layout
nights, but the rest of the time I
usually work by myself.”
Galley’s head coach Josh Heynes
and manager A 1 Haywood are very
patient with the beginners. Galley also
stated, “Coach Heynes helps out
water polo team continues to struggle
opponent to the ball. In the first
couple minutes with Hollie Stash’s
help, Behrend maintained control.
However, with a penalty and a good
goalie stop by the opponent, the game
returned to the control of Hayward.
A combination of strong defense,
as well as a few bad passes by
Behrend dominated the third period.
Hayward was able to extend the lead
to 18-0 with just 10 seconds left on
the clock. Finally in the fourth quar
ter Behrend got its rhythm. Shortly
into the fourth quarter, Betsy Voigt put
the first Behrend point on the board.
Stash made a strong attempt, but the
goalie was too much to handle. With
4:21 left Hayward scored its final
goal, which brought the score to 19-
1.
Mary Good did not give up. With
2:25 left in the game, she fired a shot
that was unstoppable. She brought the
score to 19-2. Behrend controlled the
last few minutes of the game, and had
a couple more scoring attempts. The
Lions’ didn’t start out strong, which
resulted in a 19-2 loss.
However, the score does not reflect
the possible outcome of the game
could have had. Behrend was able to
hang with the West Coast style; it just
had problems connecting with its
passes. When Behrend would con
nect, it had problems getting shots off.
Losing is tough on some teams and
even devastating at times. However,
this is far from the truth for the
Behrend women. Coach Heynes be
lieves that instead of the women
throwing in the towel, the team is
gaining momentum and striving that
much harder for their first victory.
PHOTO BY BECKY WEINDORF
everyone. He has taught us so much
in such a small amount of time.”
Haywood was a member of the
men’s water polo team in the fall and
is now using his knowledge to help
the women’s team.
Galley’s favorite experience thus
far was when she was able to start
in the water polo game against the
University of Michigan.
The team’s record thus far is 0 -
6. Galley hopes that the team will
win one game before she graduates.
Galley graduates in December,
however, the season ends during the
last week of April. So, this will be
the only semester that she will be
able to play.
The water polo team has played
most of its games here and at
Gannon University. The team also
will travel to Grove City College,
March 30 and 31. This weekend the
team will travel to Washington and
Jefferson College to compete in four
games. One will be played on
Friday and three will be played on
Saturday.
Galley concluded by stating,
“even though this is a brand new
team with such little polo
experience, all of the women are
playing and practicing extremely
hard. A lot of us did not know
anyone on the team when we joined,
but in these two months we have
been practicing, we have all learned
to work together and everyone gives
100%.”
“Actually, losing has brought the team
closer, they want to get better. They
hate losing, but I hate losing more
than anyone. Like I said, the improve
ments are showing and not just on the
scoreboard,” stated Heynes.
Cassie Harris is a sophomore for
PSU Behrend who has had years of
experience in water polo. “We’re try
ing our hardest,” she commented.
“We’re definitely coming together as
a team, but we have a lot of work that
still needs to be done. Water polo isn’t
an easy sport to master.”
It seems that not only do the women
Coach Heynes encourages the water polo team during a time-out on Tuesday. The water polo team,
however, was unable to stop the Hayward offense.
Softball team hopes for better
weather conditions
by Mike Bello
staff writer
After its Florida trip, the softball
team looked forward to returning
home and preparing for its next
competition, starting with Baldwin &
Wallace and a few other independent
games before running into AMCC
competition.
Instead, all the team could do to
keep its game sharp was nearly two
weeks of indoor practices and drills
due to inclement weather conditions.
Besides the game with B & W, the
match-ups at Washington & Jefferson
on Friday, March 16, and at home
against Thiel on Monday, March 19,
were postponed as well.
“The team is hanging in there,”
said head coach Cindy Jacobelli,
about the layoff. “It is very frustrating
to go outside for a week in Florida,
and then come back to the gym for
two weeks. They have been doing a
lot of hitting in the cage and the
pitchers have gotten in some good
workouts, so we should be ready to
go. We just want to play.”
Behrend’s first game since Florida
was scheduled to take place
yesterday at John Carroll (1-9). The
game was originally scheduled in
Erie, but instead was moved to
Cleveland. The Behrend field is still
not ready to host any games yet due
to the wet and muddy conditions.
The Lions will then switch gears
away from their indoor practices and
play five different opponents in a
week’s time starting on Saturday.
Behrend travels downstate to play
Penn State-Altoona (2-1) on
Saturday, followed by a game at Pitt-
Bradford two days later. Altoona got
an early confidence builder by
sweeping a double-header against
Wilson College but, like the rest of
the league, is still unproven as to how
competitive they will be in the
have to battle opponents in the pool,
but now a battle occurs with oppo
nents outside the pool too.
A rumor has not only made it
through the women’s water polo team,
but it has also found its way to the
Heynes’ ears. “Rumor has it on cam
pus that treading water for four quar
ters at seven minute intervals isn’t dif
ficult. So anyone who wants to come
out and try it for themselves, practice
starts at 4 p.m. in the ARC daily.” Ex
pressing his anger towards these ab
surd comments, Heynes said, “I prom
ise you, one game in the pool and you
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a game also because of the weather,
but has already lost some players to
injuries. That could hurt their chances
of finishing atop the AMCC, which
is a realistic goal heading into the
season
On Wednesday at 3 p.m., Behrend
plays host to Fredonia College.
Before the Lions can even catch their
breath, they will then make a trip up
north on March 29 to compete
against Buffalo State. Buffalo State
was an NCAA playoff team last year
which has yet to play this year.
Behrend will then finish out its
stretch of five games in eight days
against AMCC foe Pitt-Greensburg
(2-1) on March 31. Despite
struggling the last few years, the Pitt-
Greensburg team has high
expectations since nearly all of its
players are returning from last year.
The Lions will look to improve
upon their pitching performances
from Florida after having ample time
to throw in between their last
tournament game and John Carroll.
Mandy Bodnor logged in the most
time on the mound on the trip,
pitching 24 innings and giving up 24
earned runs. Bodnor, 1-3 on the year
so far, gave up 42 hits while striking
out 13 batters. Covert (1-1) was
another key factor for Behrend,
pitching 16 2/3 innings and giving
up 11 earned runs with 5 strikeouts.
Jennifer Pinkhouse picked up a win
by pitching 7 innings and giving up
only 1 run, while sophomore Becky
Corbin suffered the other loss for the
Lions during the Cocoa Beach
Tournament.
With a handful of different
opponents approaching, the Lions
hope that all the time spent practicing
in the new ARC and away from the
outdoor fields will make up for the
games lost and allow them to shake
off the rust from a long layoff.
will never be as sore or as tired as you
will be when I get done with you.”
The water polo team faces perhaps
its biggest challenge of the season so
far when it competes in the Washing
ton and Jefferson Tournament at W&J
this weekend. On Friday, it will take
on Grove City at 8:30 p.m. The
women will then come back for two
more games on Saturday. The first
will be against Washington and
Jefferson at 4:00 p.m. followed by
Gannon at 7:00 p.m.
PHOTO BY BECKY WEINDORF