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The Behrend Beacon
Calendar of
Events
Behrend
Athletic
Events
Friday
Women's Volleyball
D'Youville
Junker Center
2 p.m.
Women's Volleyball
Fredoia
Junker Center
3:45 p.m.
Saturday
Women's Volleyball
Hiram
Junker Center
9 a.m.
Men's Water Polo
Grove City
,Dunker Center
9 a.m.
Women's Tennis
Bethany
Behrend Tennis Courts
10:30 a.m.
Women's Soccer @ Penn
State Altoona 11 a.m.
Men's and Women's Golf
@ L.ake Erie 12 p.m
Men's Soccer @ Penn
State Altoona 1 p.m.
Men's Water Polo
Mercyhurst
Junker Center
2 p.m.
Men's Water Polo
Washington & Jefferson
Junker Center
6:30 p.m
Sunday
Women's Tennis
Behrend Tennis Courts
Frostburg
9 a.m.
Lake Erie
11 a.m.
Tuesday
Men's Soccer @ Lake Eri
2:30 p.m
i Women's Soccer @ Lake
Erie 4:30 p.m.
Women's Volleyball @
Buffalo State 7 p.m.
Wednesday
Women's Tennis @ Pitt
; Greensburg 4 p.m.
Thursday
Men's and Women's Gol
Behrend Invitational
Peek 'n Peak
12 p.m.
Women's Soccer @
Carnegie Mellon 4 p.m
Women's Volleyball
Lake Erie
Junker Center
7 p.m.
Intramurals
Schedule
Friday Sept. 28
Cross Country Invitational
Men's and Women's
Cross Country Team
Men's, Women's, and Coed
Fantasy Hockey League
All entries must be at the
intramural office
by 4 p.m.
on the scheduled date
Sports world comes to halt after attacks
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Tiger Woods, like many Americans
this past Tuesday, put his hand over
his mouth in disbelief v hen word had
reached that terrorist attacks had just
occurred on U.S. soil. Venus Williams
stood among the crowds at Jackson
ville International Airport, stranded
due to the cancellation of f l ights across
the nation. Retired football star
Boomer Fsiason, founder of the
Men's water polo team
heads into sophomore
season with new attitude
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Water polo head coach Josh Heynes returns
for his second season with a revamped lineup,
including 12 new recruits on the men's team.
year. Heynes has 19 94 did swim
mers tin the squad li,r Ohs r'llol
Behrend has seven men returning
who will help thc team a great deal
with their experience I'la , ,ers to
watch include rennning seniors Chad
Holtshu. Jon Harding. ritti Al
Haywood. Holyshu is the key to the
team, taking over the Ind , position.
Ile is expected to lead the team
throughout the season !larding will
make an impact with his speed and
endurance, white Ila\wurrd till make
a difference from the outside w ith his
shooting arm. Junior Mimi Vallor. an
other player to keep on eve tin. will
be the defensive expert in the cages.
Top newcomers include Andy
llanhauser ( C.l.ey Doody
(Scarborough. NIF), Lucas Duschac
(Indiana, PA Llust in lawas (I louston,
TX), and Nick Mc( ;lady (Pittsburgh.
PA). I lanhauser cot npeted in the 2001
Pennsylvania State Championships
"We are a brand new team and
things are going to change this
year."
qiier Fsiason Foundation for Cys-
tic fibrosis, waited anxiously to
receive word on the status of his
OM Ofßounds
employees, whose offices were
,Jason Snyder located on the It) st floor in
Building I of the World
Trade Center.
Competition for these athletes be
came a little less important this week.
Sports entertainment for us became un
necessary. Sports, as a whole, were
put back on level ground with the rest
of the world as Americans began to see
that there are inure important things
in life than home-run chases and pen
nant races.
Major League Baseball cancelled all
scheduled games on Tuesday within
hours of the attacks in New York and
Washington D.C. It was only the
fourth time in history that MLB can
celled all games due to tragedy. The
last time it happened was 1945, two
days following the death of Franklin
I) Roosevelt. t)-Day in 1944 and
President Harding's death in 1923
with NlcDowell high school.
"We had an awesome pre season
ca up to help us get conditioned, and
ino,t or the guys came back to school
in shape and ready to play. - said
l i n s.
liArend is looking for sonic wins
this \ car, "especially from the Divi
sion 111 schools that we play, like
Washington and Jefferson and Grove
said I levnes. "We would like
to run with the Division I
teams and make those
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opens Saturday with three
home games. Behrend
will play Grove City at 9 a.m., fol
lowed by Mcrcyhurst at 2 p.m., and
then against Washington & Jefferson
at 6:3(t p.m. Following those games
Behrend will host the first CWPA
tout nament on September 21-23.
Sophomore Mark Ostrenzenic is one
of seven players returning from last
year's team, its first year in existence
-Coach Josh Heynes
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Friday, Septemberl4, 2001
games interesting as well.
We have the speed in the
water and the game sense
that we did not have last
The Lions are get
ting ready for the season
by practicing 18-20 hours
a week, the maximum
amount allowed by the
NCAA. "Being able to
have a place to call home
and being able to practice
twice a day, instead of
traveling to a high school
pool really has helped us
to improve," said lieynes.
"These are just some of
the things that have im
proved the quality of the
team."
Behrend played a
scrimmage on Saturday
against, Divsion 1 school,
Fordham hut lost 22-9.
The Lions also lost to
Division 1 Gannon, 15-3.
The regular season
were the only other occasions in his
tory that America's pastime took a
hack seat to real life sadness.
The PGA Tour cancelled its events
that were to take place this weekend
and offered to help in any way pos
sible. College football games have
been cancelled. Major League Soc
cer games postponed.
Other sports have taken a different
spin on the events, planning to play
through this tragedy as a symbol that
American spirit will prevail over cow
ardly acts of terror.
The events this week have raised
many questions about America and
what we stand for. But it has also pro
vided many answers. We've learned
that terror can bring out the best in
people. We've seen athletes, whom
we often times despise for their greedi
ness, finally come back to earth and
see the real picture of what life is
about. We've finally directed admi
ration at the true heroes in our soci
ety, the men and women who put their
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.ophomore Travis Lightner dribbles past his scrimmage opponent during one of the Lions' many outdoor
ractices at the Behrend Fields. The Lions begin the AMCC season on Saturday against Penn State Altoona
Men's soccer team enjoy
• arly-season success
by Mike Francis
staff writer
Things are looking good for the men's var
ity soccer team after an impressive overtime
in last Saturday against Plymouth State. The
ighth annual Men's Soccer Classic was hosted
y Fredonia State and sponsored by the Days
nn.
The victory over Plymouth raised Behrend's
ecord to 3-1, while dropping Plymouth's to
-2. Behrend struck first, scoring a goal in
he second period for a 1-0 lead. Shortly af
er, Plymouth's Michale Canelli answered with
goal of his own to tie the game. The two
earns battled it out until the end of the game,
Cross country teams upgrade play
in second invitational of season
by Kate Levdansky Petrikis
assistant sports editor
Behrend's cross country team raced
well at the California, PA Invitational
held Saturday.
The women's team placed fourth
with 111 points. The Lions top indi
vidual runner, Jessica Knapp, placed
10th with a time of 21:29. Other
Behrend finishers were Andrea
Sanko, placing 12th in 21:38; Susie
Szafran, placing 24th in 22:50; Claire
Manelick, placing 31st in 23:29;
Lyndsey Boor, placing 34th in 23:38;
Jessie Coe, placing 40th with a time
of 24:07; and Tara Burgess placing
lives on the line to save others
Lots of things were put into perspec
tive for Americans these past couple
of days. We can finally see that win
ning and losing are nothing but tem
porary moments of joy or frustration.
They are instances in life that will
eventually be forgotten and deemed ir
relevant.
There is nothing irrelevant about the
actions that occurred this week. These
acts won't be forgotten. And unlike a
loss, which can be avenged, death can
not. It is permanent, and therefore
more important to us.
We've learned from these tragedies
that America can unite. Politicians and
middle-class workers, athletes and the
people who watch them, are all on the
same page. We've shared the same
emotions. We've garnered the same
anger. And we've maintained the same
pride of being American.
We don't tolerate our athletes not try
ing. We don't tolerate our teams fall
ing short. And we won't tolerate
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pushing it into overtime. Finally, 93 minutes of
ter the game began, junior defender Ryan Ohl, wit
a major assist from Chris Lightner, came up wit
the game-winning goal for Behrend and a 2-1 vic
tory over Plymouth State.
Even though Plymouth lost the game they di4
not go down without a fight. Plymouth pullet
three penalty cards and shot 15 shots on goal, twici
as many as Behrend. With the pressure of 15 shot
on goal, Behrend's goalie Jacob Hordych rose ti
the occasion with six saves, doubling the total o
Plymouth's Scott Laine.
The team was scheduled to play at Washingto
& Jefferson on Thursday at 6pm. The Lions wit
travel to Penn State Altoona Saturday to play at
46th in 24:34
The men's team placed fifth with
151 points. Kevin Ritzert won
Behrend's top individual honor, plac
ing 15th with a time of 29:32. Other
finishers for the Lions were Dan
Croft, placing 26th with a time of
30:36; Tim Schulthe, placing 33rd
with a time of 31:11; Matt Sprung,
eg eny r,aun
Mike Bello, Sports Editor
behrcolls@ aol.com
Americans losing faith in a system
that keeps us together in times like
this.
The terms "winning" and "losing"
aren't spoken today like they were
one week ago. Before, we defined
winning as having a better score on
the competitive fields and in arenas,
and losing as the dejected feeling that
you didn't prevail on that one night.
Today, winning means that we
have reconfirmed to ourselves that a
free world has prevailed over a cow
ardly one. Winning means that our
losses have been avenged to the best
of our ability.
Losing, to us today, means that evil
has changed our way of thinking
about freedom. Losing means that
cowards have halted American cour
age. Losing means that this tragedy
didn't bring out the best in Ameri
cans.
The score today shows that
America is well on its way to vic
tory.
placing 38th with a time of 31:39; Dan
Alvis, placing 39th with a time of
31:57; Matt Heidecker, placing 40th
with a time of 32:00; and Mike
Barlett, placing 42nd with a time of
32:14.
The Behrend Lions next meet will
be held September 22, 2001, at the
Slippery Rock Invitational.
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