BEACON SPORTS
Women's basketball fights to the finish
Freshman Ellen Kolos (Bellefonte/Bellefonte) dribbles the
court in the Lady Lions' game on Tuesday night. Behrend
By Matt Burneisen
staff writer
mrbso6 1 (g` psu .edu
The women's basketball team will wrap
up its regular season at home this week
end. Both games on Friday and Saturday
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comfortable at the end of the season. We
just played the last four games away, and
we played [Tuesday] night at home." The
Coach also said, "It was nice for our sen
ior, Kristie Connolly, for her to finish up
her career on the floor on her own ..ourt."
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night will be
played against
conference
opponents.
First Behrend
will take on
La Roche at 6
p.m. This will
be the final
televised
game of the
regular season
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Sports. On
Saturday
night, the
Lions will
host Lake Erie
for their final
regular season
game of the
year. The last
time the Lions
played both of
these teams
they won, 58-
20 and 54-44
respectively
women's bas
ketball coach
Roz Fornari
seemed happy
to be playing
the last three
games of the
season
said. "It gives
us an opportu
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La Roche, 5-11, in the Allegheny
Mountain Collegiate Conference is in a 3-
way tie for seventh place out of 10. On
Saturday night free Pepsi and chips will be
given out. The opponent that night, Lake
Erie, is currently tied with La Roche at 5-
11. The Penn State Behrend team is fourth
at 10-6.
The Lions will advance to playoffs on
Tuesday night. The team clinched their
position in the AMCC Tournament before
the final two games of the season. So, will
the games affect the playoffs? Coach
Fornari replied, "They won't because of
the tie breaker: we have a tie breaker over
"It was nice for our sen
ior, Kristie Connolly,
for her to finish up her
career on the floor on
her own court."
-Coach Roz Fonari
the next two teams that we play." The
coach and the team hope to be victorious.
The coach made this clear when she said,
"They might not make a bearing on what
turns out, but our players want nothing
more than a win, so we can start better on
the floor.-
Last Tuesday night in the Junker Center,
the women's basketball team played a
non-AMCC game against Fredonia State.
The Lions won, 70-64, in a strong game
from Junior Rachel Slomski
(Erie/McDowell). She led her team's scor
ing with 17 points and 2 blocked shots in
the game. Brittany Mays
(Knox/Keystone), a 5'9" junior con
tributed six assists and four steals.
HOUSING AND FOOD SERVICES
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
NAME: Missy Pilewski
SPORT: Women's Swimming
CLASS: Sophomore
DATE: February 13, 2006
Missy Pilewski (CranesvilleNilla Maria) has been named the Housing and
Food Services Athlete of the Week.
The sophomore led the Blue and White with a strong performance at the
Grove City Invitational over the weekend. Pilewski finished second in the
100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1.09.21. She also placed fifth in the
200-meter breaststroke and competed on every relay team, all finished in the
top eight of each event.
Pilewski's second place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke qualified her
for the ECAC Tournament, which will be held Feb. 25 at the University of
Pittsburgh.
.Infonnation Staff
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Friday, February 17, 2006
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