Friday, October 8, 2004 Lady Lions volleyball advances in AMCC standings By Alyssa Peconi staff writer In the past week, the Behrend Lady Lions volleyball team has evened up their overall record for the season, now standing at 9-9 overall and 2-1 in the conference, after playing two AMCC matches away from home. Last weekend, the women’s volley ball team traveled a few hours to Altoona for their second conference match this season. On Saturday, they faced the Penn State Altoona’s women’s volleyball team, a difficult opponent, and lost in four games, 1-3. At that point, their overall record for the season was 8-9 and their confer ence record evened out to 1-1. However, the girls came out strong from their loss against Altoona on Sat urday to win in their next game on the road. On Tuesday the Lady Lions visited Hamburg, NY for their third confer ence game against Hilbert College. The only junior member of the women’s volleyball team, Amanda Evans, said that in the game, a few less experienced teammates got a chance to play and did very well to close the game in victory. “They proved to everyone that if we need to move people around, they are ready to go in and play hard,” said Evans. The ladies swept Hilbert in three games, 3-0, improving their overall record to 9-9 and 2-1 in the conference for the season, where they currently ECAG OhlßPltlShlß oMes Bafenid infers By Annie Sevin staff writer Last weekend the men’s varsity golf team com peted in the Easter Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships and finished in 12 lh place. On Sept. 23 and 24, the team competed at University Park to qualify for the championship. They placed second out of 8 teams at the University Park tourna ment, which allowed them to move on to Rochester, NY for the finals. “Last year we didn’t qualify for the second round so we’ve done considerably better this year,” Head Coach James Curren said. In October, the players participated in 36 holes of golf in two days. They ended up with a team total of 654 strokes, which placed them 12' h out of 18 teams along the ECAC. Individually, the scores ran thus: Josh Loaney - 161; Kevin Grignol - 176; Anthony Pagliari - 168; Josh Hull - 176; and Alex Kiproff - 158. Kiproff finished 12 ,h overall as an individual. At the qualifying ECAC round the previous week end, Gringol finished fourth with a score of 73. Kiproff and Grignol, both freshmen, have been a nice surprise for the men’s golf team this year. “They’ve played really well for freshman. They’ve been some of our top golfers this season,” said Curren. Kiproff seemed pleased with his performance in Rochester, “Overall I played well except for a few holes but [a score of] 79 for both days was good enough to put me in a tie for 12 lh individually.” “During the weekend of the ECAC’s, we went there hoping to play to the best of our ability,” said Kiproff. Women’s Tennis BB: What are your plans for after graduation? CL: I plan to get a high paying job in sales, eventally get married, be rich and happy. BB: What will you miss most about Behrend? CL: Hanging out with friends, partying, going to bars, athletic formals, my roommates, crazy times with bia and using George Foreman. BB: What are your favorite memories from your sport? CL: Launching balls with Holey, Hooters and Hoover, tennis outfits, Mexican mouse, Ronald, Absolutly, and JRB dance (we haven’t won AMCC’s yet!) BB: What is your most embarassing moment? CL: Getting beat by a six foot, 300 pound girl who looked like Ronald McDonald. Senior Women’s volleyball prepares to face AMC The Lady Lions have spent this past week in practice preparing for upcom ing games against Fredonia and Laßoche College because in the next Even though the team didn’t place in the top ten, Kiproff was still optimistic, “1 think our team was ex pecting more as a group.. .but that’s just the way things go sometimes, plus there’s always next year.” During the tournament, the weather turned a little sour. On Saturday, the teams only got about 13 holes in before rain and cold temperatures settled in. And that unfortunately didn’t help anyone’s game that day Kiproff said, “the rain and the below 45 degree weather put an end to many good rounds that day.” Curren says that the team is really looking forward to their next match. They will be playing in the AMCC Championships at Pitt-Bradford this Sunday. Overall Curren has been pleased with the team’s performance this year saying, “They’ve all worked hard... [this is] one of the best years as a golf team.” Likewise, Assistant coach James Bowen is also very proud of the team, “I have been helping out with the golf team for 12 years now. In those 12 years, I had the opportunity to coach some very good players and we had some good teams.. .[but] this is the best all around team of 12 players I have coached.” The coaches are trying to improve the team this year, and so far they think it’s been working. Bowen said, “All of our players.. .get along very well.” He also has been extremely pleased with the golfers this season, “This team takes representing Behrend athletics very seriously. ..lam proud of all of these guys for the ef fort they have put forward for the Behrend golf team. It has truly been a pleasure working with these young Men’s Cross Country BB: What are your plans for after graduation? MB: I am hoping to attend law school to either study criminal law, litigation or real estate law. BB: What will you miss most about Behrend? MB: I will miss the atmosphere, I like how tight it is on campus. Everyday, you see somebody you know. BB: What is your favorite memory from your sport? MB: When I was selected to compete in the NCAA Regional race, and performed with a personal record. I astonished myself because it was a goal I set ear lier in the year. BB: What is the funniest thing that has happened to you during competition? MB: Everyday, somebody does something ridicu lous reminding us that sports are truly about having competitors Fredonia an week, the Lady Lions have three home Fredonia at 1 p.m. at the Junker Cen matches, including two key AMCC ter. Also, this weekend the women play competitions. La Roche in a match at 1 p.m. in the The next match is scheduled for Sat- Junker, which will be the Lady Lions' urday, October 9 at home against fourth conference match this season. Grant C. Travis, Esquire Car Accidents Drunk Driving Defense Criminal Defense www.paautoinjury.com www .duilawyerpa. com The Behrend Beacon | Evans said. “We aren’t taking these games lightly, but we know we can beat them. We have been trying to im prove our offense and I think this week we will see Elaine (Voltz). Karla (Murray). Lisa (Wagner). Paige (Payer), and (Amanda) Butta get more kills.” Also, on Saturday, an Alumni vol leyball game is scheduled to be played at the Junker at a time yet to be an- nounced. The ladies will finish their three game home stand against Lake Erie College on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Junker. This will be the fifth confer ence match for the Lady Lions this sea- On an additional note, the women's volleyball team would like to recog nize their captain, Ashley Ordy. who is doing a great job as the team's leader. She is currently ranked at num ber five in the AMCC in aces per game and number two for digs per game. The women’s volleyball head coach, Phil Pisano, would also like to thank the many fans that showed up for the Lady Lions’ home match against Pitt- Bradford last Wednesday. We have been on the road battling all season and it gave our team a nice boost to play in front of their home crowd,” Pisano said. The upcoming home stand presents a great opportunity for students to see how well the women’s volleyball team is doing this season and will give fans a chance to show their support for the Lady Lions this season. 100 State Street Suite 210 Erie, PA 16507 455-3839
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