Kevin Fiorenzo & Amy Frizzell, orts editors Spring sports wrap up Men’s and women’s track teams compete at lUP The men’s and women’s track and field team com peted at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania where if they put up another set of strong results in the non-scoring event In the women’s running events, the team got its best result in the 4x400m relay where they finished in the second place. The relay team consisted of juniors Jessica Knapp, Claire Manelick and Jessica Sarver and freshman Holly Weinheimer. In the 800 m run, the squad got seventh and eighth place finishes from Knapp and Sarver, respectively. Knapp also finished in sixth in the 1500 m run. In the field events, the top finisher was once again sophomore Staci Banaszek. Banaszek got her best result in the triple jump .where she finished in sixth. In the high jump she finished in seventh and came in eleventh in the long jump. Women’s water polo season ends at Michigan The women’s water polo team closed out its sea son at the Michigan-Allegheny Championships on April 17-18. The event ended being a disappointment for the Lady Lions as they lost all four of their games and finished ninth out of nine teams. With this result, the women’s record dropped to 4-23. The team’s four wins came against Utica, Macalester and two wins against Carthage at the Wheaton Invitational. While the team did not perform as well as it would have hoped, it has many young players and reason to be optimistic. One of these players is freshman Cara Ludwig. The Sigma Delta Alumni Association of Tau Kappa Epsilon would like to recognize the following graduating brothers as well as those transferring to Main Campus: In the men’s events, the best result came from junior Isiah Meek, who came in second in the ! 10 hurdles. Meek also did well in the 4x400 and 4xloo re lays, where he and his relay team finished in third place in both events. In the field events, the best finish was from sophomore Dan Mitchell, who came in second in the javelin throw. Another high finish was from junior Donnie Hackworth. He came in third in pole vault. In the triple jump, Behrend filled out the third and fourth place spots with strong finishes from freshman Jon McKinney and sophomore Shane Rock. Both track teams will resume action on Sunday at the Baldwin Wallace Invitational. In a game against Carthage at the Wheaton Invita tional, Ludwig scored an astounding seven goals in the game to carry the team to the win and set the single game scoring record for Behrend. Ludwig also set several season long records in her first season on the team. In a game against Gannon, Ludwig’s scored three goals to set the all-time goals in a season mark with 61. This season she has also accumulated 34 steals and 10 assists. With several players returning to play for the Lady Lions’ next season, they have reason to be lieve that next year will be a very successful one. Lou Cionni Accounting & Finance Chris Pecora Mining Engineering Guy Reschenthaler Political Science SPORTS Friday, April 30, 2004 Congratulations and good luck. Tennis team goes undefeated in AMCC, wins conference title The men’s tennis team ended the year at 14-7. It Garrett Grenek. went undefeated in the conference at 6-0 .setting a The Lions dominated the first round of play as new mark in men’s tennis history at Behrend, as the it sent a player to every final for every flight ex first team to go undefeated in the AMCC. eluding second singles. The Lions also tied Junior Ryan Deimel earned the team the school record of its AMCC Championship as he took the most wins in a single seascon After returning from spring break in Hilton Head Island, the blue and white dominated the confer- Sophmore Jon Bar ber earned AMCC player of the week for two weeks in a row, while freshman Matt Meyer earned AMCC best of the rest. Freshman home the crown, beating Frostburg State by one Brian Espin earned housing and food service ath- point. This is the first time Behrend has won the lete of the week. title since 1998, the first year the championship During the season both Barber and Meyer went was held, undefeated in the AMCC for singles play. They both For their efforts all season Deimel earned Co entered the championships with first seeds along Player of the Year along with Frostburg State’s with sophomore Kevin Fiorenzo. No. 1 player. Meyer earned Co-Newcomer of the Doubles team Barber and Espin entered with a Year along with Frostburg State’s sixth man. first seed along with Meyer and partner freshman Coach Jeff Barger earned Coach of the Year. Softball team wins four out of its last five games The softball team finished out its 2004 season by This was because they lost a tiebreaker with Penn winning four out of its last five games but failed to State Altoona, who was also 6-6, for the fourth and make the AMCC Tournament. final playoff spot. The Lady Lions closed out the season this past Though this development was a disappointment, T uesday with a double- header sweep of non-con- ference foe Grove City. In the first game, t h e Behrend squad came away with a 6-3 victory. It ing per then took centage the second at .935. game as - Indi well, shut- vidually, ting out the Lady Wolverines 2-0. the team is led in batting average by freshman On the previous Saturday, the team continued its Kristin Macha, who is hitting .384, ninth in the winning ways with a sweep of Mount Aloysius, AMCC. routing them in both 12-1 and 20-7. Senior Brandy Pollinick is leading the AMCC in With these wins, the team finished the year with stolen bases with 12. She was also named this a 9-25 overall record, 6-6 in the AMCC. week’s AMCC player of the week. Though the Lions finished the season off well In terms of pitching, senior Becky Corbin has and had a .500 conference record, they failed to the best ERA with a mark of 3.18. She also has 32 qualify for the conference tournament. strikeouts on the season. Francis Kargbo Electrical Engineering Technology Shannon Pine Mechanical Engineering Ryan Riviello Marketing The Behrend Beacon win at first singles. Barber also won at third singles and Meyer at sixth singles. They were all named to first team all conference. Espin and Fiorenzo took second place, earning a spot on second team all-conference. Doubles team of Deimel and sopho- more John Marini took second place along with Barber and Espin, and Meyer and Grenek. All teams earned a spot on second team all-conference. At the end of the day the men took Page 13 the team had sev eral indi- vidual and team results to be proud of this year. As a team, the Lady Li ons led the AMCC in field-
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