Friday, October 31, 2008 Behrend Soccer takes on Medaille By Nick Blake spurts editor nphso4 1 psu.edu The men's and women's soccer teams concluded their regular season this past Tuesday with games against Medallic. The Lady Lions lost 3-2 in a very strong effort against the Lady Mustangs. The Lions came out strong and possessed the hall most of the game. The Mustangs struck first with a quick goal from Laura Freeman 16:40 into the game. Her goal was followed by a goal from Danielle Radlick which came 23:44 into the game. The Lions didn't give up how ever. Five minutes after Radlich's goal, Behrend answered with one of their own. Freshman Heather Klimustka scored on an assist from fellow freshman Lindsey Behrend pulls upset at Johns Hopkins By Connor Sattelv numaging editor c i,50600 r,ti.edu Behrend's Men's Water Polo pulled off their first win against Washington and Jefferson in at least eight years this weekend at the Division 111 Eastern Championships at Johns Hopkins. The Blue and White played four games at the event, which spanned Oct. 25 through Oct 26. On the first day of the cham pionships. the Lions took down Connecticut College 21-12, and lost games to host Johns Belovod plwers a ork hard to dtlivid their goal Connor is still maintaining a lead over the rest of the staff, but Rachel is starting to creep towards first place. Matt and Ryan roll in tying for third, and Chris sits in last place. Where would you place? Take a look at next week's schedule on NFL.com and e mail your picks of the game to cisso6o@psu.edu. Steinsdocrfer. Senior Lion Nikki Frisbee was very pleased with the play of the freshmen. "All the freshmen show great effort to give it all they've got on the field," said Frisbee. "They are working very hard and it shows." The half ended with a score of 2-1 in favor of the Mustangs. The Lions came out in the second half ready to play. Seven minutes into the second half. Freeman scored her second goal for the Mustangs. Once again the Lions answered quick ly. Six minutes after Freeman's goal. Frisbee scored one of her own. Unfortunately, the Lions were unable to score again, but fin ished the game strong. The Behrend men also played Medallic and a win would have given them the regular season Hopkins 5-20 and MIT 15-21. On the final day of the event, they took down a strong Washington and Jefferson team 12-9. The online athletic records of the team only date hack to 2000, the Lions have posted a no wins versus their division rival, since. "Everything really clicked this weekend," said sophomore Jon Bacon. "I don't think we've ever beaten them before, at least not that I can remember," he said. "Even people who never really even played water polo that much before played great." ONTRIIWTEI) PHOTO Beat The Experts N.Y.J. @ Buffalo New England OP Indi Jacksonville @ Cinci Baltimore @ Cleveland Tampa Bay @ K.O Houston @ Minnesota Arizona @ St. Louis Green Bay @ Tenn Miami @ Denver Dallas @ N.Y.G Atlanta @ Oakland Tie-Breaker Pittsburgh @ Wash Last week: * denotes winner NCAA #1 Texas @ #7 Texas Tech Wisconsin @ #23 Mich. St #8 Florida @ #6 Georgia Pittsburgh @ Notre Dame #l5 Florida State @ Georgia Tech Last week: * denotes winner Season Totals: conference title The Lions played a very strong game that ended in a 1-1 tie. The Blue and White scored first when freshman Kyle McKinney buried his first goal of his collegiate career, 36:07 into the game. The first half ended with the Lions leading 1-0. Medaille scored 64:28 into the game, getting a goal from Josh Meier. That would prove to be the final goal scored in the game, even after going through two overtime periods. Lions' coach Dan Perritano was pleased with the way his team performed. "Our team is peaking at the right time," said Perritano. "Our last three per formances have been typical playoff performances." Postseason play begins for the men and women on Saturday. They will be playing in the Bacon attributed most of the success to the team's practices. "When you have a bunch of kids on different skill levels, at the beginning of the year it can drag a bit. But at the end of the year, when everything clicks, that's when you have some thing special." Head Coach Joe Tristan, in his fifth season as Behrend's coach, explained that commu nication was one of the keys to victory. "Our communication led to greater conversion on our shooting," he said. "21 of 28 against Connecticut College, 12 of 25 against W. and J. We played 4 complete quarters, and I can't ask for anything more from these play ers." Behrend finished third in the tournament, behind host Johns Hopkins and MIT. After their two losses, the Lions faced a formidable challenge. We knew we could still place in the top three, said Tristan. So, get ting some sleep, eating a good breakfast, traveling and warm ing up as a team for the third game were major factors. Bacon and Matt Pluta were selected to the All-Tournament 2nd Team. According to Tristan, Behrend has had at least two players selected to the team every year since 2004. Connor Matt Buffalo Buffalo Houston Arizona Arizona Miami Denver Dallas Atlanta Oakland Mich. St. Wisc Georgia Florida F.S.U. F.S.O 88-37 75-50 84-41 75-50 65-57 SPORTS A Behrend player prepares for a header AMCC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament will follow if they should make it that far. Matt and Jon will join a great group of Behrend players on this list. They played very well. Tristan also realizes that teamwork played a huge role in their wins. "The team effort was apparent in all of our games on both offense and defense," he said. "Any time the ball went to two meters, we had 3 players crashing to the ball, we played a great drop defense to shot block and com municated very well on the offensive end." The Behrend Lions now look forward to the Southern Division Championships at Princeton. They will then play the Eastern Division Championships at Navy, fol lowed by their NCAA Championships in early December. We're not finished yet. said Tristan. Our focus is turned to play and finish better than last year. The Lions' good finish at the Eastern Championships, said the coach, will be a great way to lead into the next games. They're going to be a great stepping stone to the Southern Championships, he said. Rachel Ryan Buffalo Denver Dallas Atlanta Georgia Chris Houston Arizona Denver Denver Dallas Atlanta Oakland Mich. St. Mich St Florida Georgia F.S.U. G. Tech "Off the Wall" Each week, managing editor Connor Sattely picks a widely accepted NFL view and disputes it in his editorial column, "Off the Wall." Think he's wrong? Let him know and your rebuttal might make next week's edition. New York Giants miarterbtick l ii Ahmaim; la)tts the Lombardi Who was the best team last year? Answer: Who's the hest team in the On a week to week bask. port fans have a veritable arm \ ()I sportscasters (hem NAith information and brcakdown on games to help Mem reach !heir own conclu s ion. ESPN c\pcik assemble a list of Po‘xer every week. imitating college football, giving each [Cain a rank- ing 1-32 based on that ‘‘eek's formance But. what about all-lime? Talking about the NFI. through the Super Bowl era. the Steeler 49ers. and Co \\boys collie to mind. The era of the Dolphin perhaps. puts them at the top How would one decide who has been the best NFL team since the Super Bowl era? First. I don't think there's any way to balance out the clisath an age that expansion teams are suh- 'ect to in this conversation. so let's get that Out of the way. Sorry Carolina. Houston et al.. you situ- ply can't he the hest team since 1967 if you hair only been around a handful of years. Secondly. I've argued with plenty of sports fans on the sub- MIEIMI[IIIM!III!El earn in the history of the NH and everyone seems to have then own theory: sonic favor regulin season records, others go h\ some arbitrary fan agreement on who is the best, yet others go by simple wins and losses for the entire ,ea- son, regular and postseason hoth included. I think the hest team in the NFI ast year was the New York Giants. No. not the Patriots. ‘‘ho went on a 16-0 regular season run blowing out almost every team hey faced (close games against he Ravens and Giants). The Giants were the best because they won the Super Bowl. The veal before last. the Colts were the best; before that. the Steelers before that, the Patriots !Or two years. Each year, the hest team in the NFL is the team that wins the Super Bowl The first argument that I hear when I share this opinion is it's just one game. True. It is. But it's The Behrend Beacon I 7 Giants. N.Y. Bt . Connor Snitch Ma11(1011 , ..; i i~il lhl ll~i ~n,ILC~~II the ame. It literall \ the game to deCillC \\llo orld champion is in .lincrican foutflall. II the Ritriok v, on L\ cn, \ Cdr. and lilt that 2ttme. they ire not the world champions I ho, iirc rrrtainl Ih. sccond hest lc un ijtN likc the Rcarti Scalia \\ and Panthers \lCre 111 C ~ CCOIId hest in recent Wears ). hut the\ arc not the hest \lino , t in to my argu- ESPN did an kinic pm\ cr ranking , " in which Mc\ contrultAl [mgr amount , ' ttl C\ idciicc to determine Ilk. 1-32 rankiini. of all teams the heginning of the Super tio\\ I era. The\ tkCd a point Ecru Much point. for Sive! 130‘‘,1 , Cason, 12 or more \‘nl\. Can interest thased on con , ,ccuti‘c ,cllouts. Monday Night Football appearances): it took a\\ iv point things like I)rart IR\ an Lear, etc.). or sc,isorh Guey, who \\ at the tO[)? The Dallas Cow.hovs and Pittsburgh Steelers essentiall \ tied for first with the Cimho\ s taking a slight edge: ihe San Fransisco 49ers came in third. Statistical evidence lantit , itici it a(I(k a le2.itiniate ring to that con\ cration. hut my theory k more simple than that Fake out the statistics, analysis of fans: ha , se it silllplV on who' , . won the moq Super Bowls For those til uu who think that the Patrtiots ‘Nere the best team last \ Cal. VOU ',lre simply Wrong Fhe World Champions in American Football are the New York Giants. This is coming from it Steclers lan. too Year from now. people will he looking hack at the 2007-2(X)8 season and ‘\ under who was the hest. The\ \\ ill look at the Supei Bowl and decide that it was the Giant, Thi s year. I'll he glad to explain ho I think k the best team. I'll he certain exactly who it is on Feb. 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