Page 2B The Behrend Beacon ersonal bests broken at Gannon swim meet by Lauren Packer staff writer While most students headed home for Thanksgiving break, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams traveled to Gannon to take on the Golden Knights last week. The intercity rivalry raised the Lions level of competition and saw many personal bests broken or come close to being broken. Seconds fell off Behrend's times faster than a price rollback at Wal-Mart. Head coach Josh Heynes is pleased with his teams' performance so far. "The men are 2-1 overall. We arc swimming fast and diving well each time we compete. The women just keep getting faster each time we swim." Christine Williams, Tara Braden, and Danielle Rearick have been the workhorses for the women's squad. Williams fought a hard battle against enn State Football Watc Lions going bowling GRAPHIC COURTESY OF CAPITALONEBOWL.COM Penn State has been selected as the Big Ten representative in the Capital One Bowl to be played on Wednesday. The Nittany Lions (9-3) will be play ing in the Orlando, Fla. bowl game for the fourth time, having previously played in the Florida Citrus Bowl on New Year's Day in 1988, 1994 and 1998. Penn State's opponent is still to be se lected and most likel won't be known Men's Basketball School C.R. Overall Pitt Greensburg 0-0 3-1 L Roche 0-0 2-0 Pitt-Bradford 0-0 3-1 Behrend 0-0 2-1 Lake Erie 0-0 3-3 Frostburg State 0-0 1-2 P S Altoona 0-0 0-5 ESPN/USA Today NCAA Basketball Coaches Poll Arizona 2-0 Texas 4-0 Duke 3-0 Pittsburgh 3-0 Alabama 4-0 Oregon 3-0 Oklahoma 3-1 Maryland 3-0 Florida 4-1 Marquette 4-0 Indiana 5-0 UConn 3-0 Kansas 2-2 North Carolina 5-0 Missouri 2-0 Xavier 2-1 Minnesota 2-0 Kentucky 2-1 Tulsa 3-0 Illinois 3-0 Michigan State 2-2 Stanford 4-1 Virginia 3-2 Mississippi St. 2-1 Gonzaga 2-2 the Gannon women in the 200 meter. freestyle, eventually losing in the last few strokes. However, Williams bounced back in the S(X) freestyle and took first place. Teammates Rearick and Carrie Smock completed a Behrend sweep on the medal stand in the 500 freestyle, finishing second and third respectively. Rearick is the go-to swimmer in distance events. Dropping six seconds off her previous time in the 1000 freestyle, Rearick took first place for the Lions. Braden placed third in the 200 freestyle behind Williams but was able to claim first place in the 100 breaststroke. The women completed a second medal sweep in the 100 breaststroke with Erin Troester finishing second and Ann-Marie Havey finishing third. In the 100 yd. Backstroke, the women until the Bowl Championship Series teams are announced on Sunday after noon Arkansas, Auburn and Georgia are among the teams under consideration as possible Penn State foes. The Capital One Bowl will kick off at 1 p.m. ABC will nationally televise the contest from the Florida Citrus Bowl. THE PENN STATE SPORTS SCENE Women's Basketball School C.R. Overall Frostburg State 0-0 5-1 PS Altoona 0-0 3-3 Behrend 0-0 2-3 Pitt-Greensburg 0-0 2-3 Pitt-Bradford 0-0 1 -3 La Roche 0-0 1 -3 Lake Erie 0-0 1 -4 THE NATIONAL SPORTS ARENA National Hockey League League Leaders Points Team POS P 1 MLemieux PIT C 47 2 A Kovalev PIT RW 34 3 J Thornton BOS C 33 4 M Modano DAL C 30 5 M Naslund VAN LW 29 Goals Team POS Go A Kovalev PIT RW 15 M Naslund VAN LW 15 M St. Louis TAM RW 15 M Hossa OTT RW 15 M Gaborik MIN LW 15 Assists Tea M Lemieux PIT C 35 DTarnstrom PIT D 21 J Thornton BOS C 20 M Modano DAL C 20 A Kovalev PIT RW 19 Saves Team POS S Player 1 M Denis CLS G 701 2 0 Kolziq WAS G 586 2 NKhabibulin TAM G 586 4 J Giquere ANA G 570 5 D Cloutier VAN G 545 tv-*>"‘IIIT AV\ • vfl4,\:* ',44121, , •tezY` , l-1, `!'s 4IW Friday, December 6, 2002 completed the third and final medal sweep of the evening. Lauren Stachowiak, Kandace Bloom, and Melissa Donnelly came together and went one-two-three. Donnelly dropped four seconds off her previous 100 yd. Backstroke time. On the men's side, the Lions missed a medal sweep in two races but managed to get one sweep in the 500 yd. Freestyle. Jeff Howard, Ben Atkins, and Steve Schleicher finished one-two three in the race. Gannon placed first in the 200 yd. Freestyle and the 100 yd. Butterfly to ruin the Lions chances of medal sweeps. In the 200 yd. Freestyle J.R. DeLorenzo, Joe Deely, and Todd Keck finished consecutively two-three-four. In the 100 yd. Butterfly, the Lions again went two-three-four with Carl Ward taking two, Keck taking third, and Deely placing fourth. "1 hope everyone takes a real good look at Larry for the Heisman Trophy. He's been one of the most amazing football players and has had one of the most amazing seasons of anybody I've ever been around and that goes back to Lenny Moore, Lydell Mitchell, Franco Harris, Curt Warner... He's an amazing football player. People don't realize how many passes he's caught. He's one of the best punt blockers we've had here. Larry Johnson is one of the greatest football players I've ever been around, if not the greatest." - Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach Men's Basketball Statistics School GP Points Pitt-Greensburg 4 87.5 La Roche 2 81.5 Pitt-Bradford 3 79.0 Frostburg State 3 76.3 Behrend 3 74.7 P S Altoona 5 70.4 Lake Erie 5 66.0 Player Team TDS YDS 1 RGannon OAK 23 3877 2 D Bledsoe BUF 21 3514 3 PManning IND 20 3115 4 T Brady NE 24 3093 5 K Collins NYG 12 3049 Player Team TDS YDS 1 PHolmes KC 19 1322 2 LTomlinson SD 12 1318 3 R Williams MIA 12 1284 4 T Henry BUF 11 1108 5 DMcAllister NO 10 1049 Player Team TDS YDS 1 M Harrison IND 8 1318 2 T Owens SF 10 1102 3 H Ward PIT 11 1090 4 J Horn NO 7 1058 5 E Moulds BUF 7 1043 National Football League League Leaders OFFENSIVE Passing Rushing Receiving Scott Soltis and Zoe Rose, sports editors The men did manage to go one-two in the 1000 yd. Freestyle. Freshman distance swimmer Jeff Howard outlasted senior workhorse Ben Atkins to place first, two seconds ahead of Atkins. In the men's sprints, it was once again Ward and Travis Kochel leading the way for Behrend. The men's 50 yd. Freestyle claimed first place with Ward and Kochel managed to slip in behind Ward into third place. Kochel went on to place second in the HX) yd. Freestyle. "The men impressed me at Gannon by only being down one point at the half way mark of the meet," said coach Heynes. The Lions now will be working toward the ECAC Championships and a heated rivalry against Penn State Altoona December 14th. Coach Heynes has plenty of goals for his team and is ready to keep them Johnson finalist for award Penn State tailback Larry Johnson has been selected as one of three finalists for the Doak Walker Award, presented an nually to the nation's top collegiate run ning back. The announcement was made by the SMU Athletic Forum Board of Directors. The nation's leading rusher and all-pur- Women's Basketabll Statistics School GP Points Pitt-Greensburg 4 75.0 P S Altoona 4 74.8 Frostburg State 5 71.8 Pitt-Bradford 3 55.3 Behrend 5 60.4 La Roche 4 50.5 Lake Erie 5 45.2 DEFENSIVE Tackles(TKL) Player Team POS TKL 1 B Urlacher CHI MLB 113 2 Z Thomas MIA MLB 112 3 J Foreman HOU LB 103 3 L Fletcher BUF LB 103 5 K Brooking ATL LB 101 Sacks Player Team POS Sack 1 S Rice TB DE 14.5 2 J Taylor MIA DE 13 3 J Peppers CAR DE 12 4 M Strahan NYG DE 11 5 R Colvin CHI DE 10.5 Interceptions(lNT) Player Team POS INT 1 B Kelly TB CB 6 2 R Woodson OAK SS 5 2 D Sharper GB SS 5 2 G Wesley KC SS 5 2 M McCree JAC SS 5 behrcolls@aol.com motivated to swim their best "Preparation will include seeing ho fast we can swim with little rest at ECAC's and at Altoona next weekend. This will help dictate what types of training we will do for the second semester. Also, we want to have a good showing at ECAC's and crush Altoona," said Heynes. One bright spot for the Lions as they head down the home stretch of the semester is their holiday training trip. After the Lions compete at Altoona and ECAC's they will head to Cocoa Beach for more training that coach Heynes hopes will keep them motivated for the rest of the season as well as providing them with fun in the sun. pose ruzi . erjoticilim is joined by o Qjis Brown (Colorado) and Willis McGahee (Miami, Fla.) as finalists for the Doak Walker Award. Former Nittany Lions Ki-Jana Carter (1994) and Curtis Enis (1997) have been among the three final ists for the honor in previous years. Big Ten Football School C.R. Overall Ohio State 8-0 13-1 lowa 8-0 11-0 Michigan 6-2 9-3 Penn State 5-3 9-3 Purdue 4-4 6-6 Ilinois 4-4 5-7 Minnesota 3-5 7-5 Wisconsin 3-5 7-6 Associated Press Top 25 College Football k Team Record PTS 11-0 1825 1. Miami 2. Ohio State 13-0 3. lowa 11-1 4. Georgia 11-1 5. USC 10-2 6. Kansas State 10-2 7. Washington State 9 -2 8. Oklahoma 10-2 9. Texas 10-2 10. Penn State 9-3 11. Notre Dame 10-2 12. Colorado 9-3 13. Michigan 9-3 14. Alabama 10-3 15. West Virginia 9-3 16. Florida State 9-4 17. N.C. State 10-3 18. Virginia Tech 9-3 19. Boise State 11-1 20. Auburn 8-4 Maryland 10-3 386 Arkansas 9-3 379 Florida 8-4 262 Colorado State 10-3 239 Pittsburgh 8-4 221 1749 1663 1597
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