Scott Soltis, Sports Editor
The Behrend Beacon
Calendar of
Events
Behrend
A thletic
Events
Saturday
Men’s and Women’s Indoor
Track & Field, TBA
Women’s Basketball
@ Laßoche, 6 p.m.
Men’s Basketball
@ Laßoche, 8 p.m
Monday
Women’s Basketball
vs. Grove City, 7 p.m
Tuesday
Men’s Basketball
@ Carnegie Mellon
7:30 p.m.
Thursday
Men’s and Women’s
Swimming & Diving,
@ Grove City, TBA
Men’s Basketball
vs. Medaille, 7:30 p.m
Intramunals
Schedule
Swimming
Men’s, Women’s, & COED
Entries Due Friday,
Feb. 21
Meet Date TBA
Volleyball
4 on 4 COED
Entries Due Friday,
Feb. 28
Games begin Tuesday,
March 4
Men’s, Women’s, COED
Entries Due March 7
Games begin March 18
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Blue and White sing the blues
by Lauren Packer
assistant sports editor
In baseball, basketball, softball, and
about any other sport it's called a
slump. In swimming, it’s called the
pre-taper blues.
Any way you put it, these aren't
places athletes want to be.
Unfortunately, Behrend swimmers
found themselves singing those blues
this past weekend at the Pittsburgh Pan
ther Collegiate Invitational. A time trial
meet, it was one of the Lions last
chances of the season to get more
swimmers qualified for the ECAC
championships.
However, both Behrend teams swam
slower than normal and head coach
Josh Heynes attributes this to the “pre
taper blues."
“Their bodies can’t react to the added
What is
Well, it is coming down to the wire
in this year’s NCAA basketball season
and no one really seems like they want
to be No. 1. This week it belongs to
the Arizona Wildcats who have
held the top spot three different
times this year. However, no
one seems to be talking about
them. Sports analysts are just
waiting for another loss so that
one more team can fall from the
No. 1.
Take the perfect example of
the Pittsburgh Panthers. They
have had three opportunities to
be the first-place team. Ala
bama was on top of the poll and
lost, but yet Pitt lost to Georgia
on the day the new polls were
being tallied. I guess no one
really wants to be No. 1 be
cause they fear that everyone will be
gunning for them. Subsequently, Ala-
BEACON SPOBTS BRIEFS
Men’s Basketball
| David Hairston is the AMCC
I Player of the Week. Hairston
I averaged 15.5 points per game
I and 5 rebounds per game to
I claim this honor.
J Behrend remains atop the
[ AMCC standings and is riding a
■ five-game win streak.
| The Lions are first in free throw
| percentage in the AMCC,
I shooting 72.7 percent from the
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Friday, February 14, 2003
rest we are giving them and so we
didn't swim as fast as we had in previ
ous meets. Their bodies will take about
a week to catch up to the taper tech
nique," head Coach Josh Heynes said.
Swimmers near the end of the sea
son or near championships use the taper
technique. Cutting the daily workouts
almost in half gives the Lions' work
out-weary bodies a chance to rest and
recuperate from the tortures of the de-
manding season.
“It feels so good," senior Ann Marie
Havcy said.
“Ideally, when it comes time for
championships, their bodies w ill have
had enough rest to perform at their op
timum level.” said Heynes.
“This [championships! is what they
have been waiting for all year.”
The Lions have a tough road ahead
of them. It is easy to spoil the effects
it about being No. 1?
bamu is no where to he found anymore.
The teams that seem to be getting the
most attention are those that were los
Douglas Smith
in top shape as
the Bluegrass
State is looking to have the two host
BEHREND SCENE
Eric Mo/.dy shot 60 percent
from the floor, 100 percent from
the line, and scored 24 points en
The Lady Lions are currently
second in the AMCC and are
8-2 in conference play and on a
two game win streak.
Behrend is second in scoring
defense in the AMCC, allowing
an average of 59.8 points per
ing in the early going
and have found a
balance in mid-Feb-
ruary. Of course,
that is what most
college
want, to be hot go
ing into the tour
nament of mad-
teams include
Louisville,
w hich is on a 17-
. game win streak
as of Thursday.
Rick Pitino hits
the Cardinals
Women’s Basketball
route to a victory over
Frostburg
game
of taper and ruin the hard work ol a
season. Abnormal sleeping, eating, and
practicing schedules all can affect taper
dramatically, said Heynes.
The Lions are off this weekend as
part of their resting cycle and are back
in action February 20-22 at Grove City.
Behrend hopes to get more swimmers
qualified for FCACs, scheduled Feb
ruary 28-March 1.
Currently, only two Lions have quali
fied for FCACs. Sprinter Travis
Kochel and diver Michael Sandretto
will represent Behrend. Sandretto
needs only 10 more points in his div
ing rounds to qualify for Nationals.
Sandretto must have a dual meet score
of 265 points or better through sixdives
on the one meter board, or have a com
bined score of 430 points through 11
dives on the one and three meter boards
to qualify.
teams in jjollege men's basketball go
ing into the tournament.
Kentucky has won 13 in a row, de
spite losing its first game of the sea
son. Neither of these two teams have
made it to No. 1 position, and maybe it
is better that way. Louisville and Ken
tucky. along with Arizona and Florida
will probably hold the No. 1 seeds in
each of the four respective brackets as
things stand right now. This is where
these teams want to be.
teams
The poll during the season has really
been shown to be nothing of impor
tance. Isn't it ironic how No. 1 during
the season means teams are gunning for
you and No. 1 in the tournament means
you have 8H easy road to the Final Four?
Speaking of the Gators of Florida,
they may be the best example of why
being No. I this year has not been fun.
One day after being announced as the
new' No. I team they were humiliated
These
All-Star Games
The West beat the East 155-145
in the NBA’s first ever double
overtimeAll-Star Game.
Kevin Garnett shot 17-24 and
scored 37 points and went on to
earn the MVP.
Garnett’s 37 points were the
most points by an MVP since
Michael Jordan scored 40 points
Sunday was Jordan’s final
All-Star Game
NATIONAL NEWS
in 1988
"1 plan to do a lot of visualization
and a lot of repetition of my dives. My
list of dives is already set for the next
two weeks. I have improved a lot this
season," Sandretto said.
For the rest of the Lions, qualifying
for Nationals becomes harder every
meet. They must first qualify for
ECACs and then from ECACs qualify
for Nationals. One road block to
Behrend’s success could come from the
Division 1 and II schools which
Behrend will have to compete against
if they qualify for ECACs.
With a week of resting on the way.
the Lions are confident in their abili
ties to perform at their optimum level.
"We're ready to swim fast," assistant
coach Jen Slack said.
by Kentucky. The Wildcats had a 25-
point lead at one point in the game sim
ply stopping the Gators with their pres
sure defense. Florida got to stay at the
top for a week, but that is only because
the polls are released after every week.
Once again this year’s tournament
should live up to its reputation. The
mainstays like Kentucky, Duke, and
Kansas are all in the top 10, but sur
prise teams like Notre Dame,
Creighton, and Xavier are lurking to
take down the big teams and prove that
they know how to dance. I will prob
ably touch on this again in a few weeks,
but 1 usually make my opinion known.
I am a die-hard Kentucky fan. Let’s go
Cats! And I hope that the tournament
lives up to the hype.
NCAA Basketball
The UConn women have won I
62 consecutive games. UConn I
has not lost since the Final Four ■
in 2001. I
Arizona reclaimed the top spot
in this week’s Top 25. Former
No. 1 Florida dropped to fourth
place after losing 70-55 to
Kentucky.
The longest free throw streak by
any division of women’s basket
ball ended at 69 when Concordia-
Moorhead guard Jess Visness
missed Wednesday night.
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