Sports
CROSS COUNTRY
Cross country hosts Behrend Invite
Emily Berry runs to a ninth place overall finish.
SHAWN ANNARELLI The men finished third over
sports editor all while the women placed sec
ond. Each team finished at the
head of the AMCC class. Out of
conference, opponent Uni
verisity of California of Penn
sylvania was the best in the
women’s division, and the men
from Mount Union were first as
Penn State Behrend’s men’s
and women’s cross-country
team had a strong meet against
14 other men’s teams and 11
women’s teams at Behrend’s
Invitational.
Cross Country Invitational Standings
Women’s
California, PA
Penn St. Behrend
Westminster
Mount Union
Cuyahoga C.C.
Penn St. Altoona
Point Park
Thiel
D’Youville
Pitt-Greensburg
Hiram
Mt. Aloysius
♦Points determine the overall standings in cross country
meets and are accumulated by each team’s five best indi
vidual placings. For example, the Behrend women’s five
best placings was sixth, eleventh, sixteenth, twenty first and
twenty third. Added up the Behrend women had 77 points.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Behrend shuts out Grove City 1 -0
Valerie Wagner (left) and Julia Schroeck (right) celebrate Schroeck’s
game-winning goal.
Jon Klein / The Behrend Beacon
Kevin Gomy led the Behrend men with a time of 26:56
a team in the standings. faces of Emily Berry and Kevin
California’s Erin Kling fin- Gomy. Berry finished with a
ished Behrend’s route with the time of 24:40 and placed sixth
fastest time of 23:35. The overall, and Gomy had a time
quickest man on the course of 26:56 and finished ninth,
was Mount Union’s Bryce Ba- Behrend had six men finish
sista with a time of 26:06. in the top 30 and five women
Leading the way for the Nit- finish in the top 25.
tany Lions were the familiar
Pts
30
77
90
109
124
150
165
226
229
291
292
360
The Behrend women's soccer
team won Wednesday's game
against Grove City in a 1-0
shutout.
Freshman midfield Julia
Schroek scored the game's only
goal late in the game. Each
team had several dramatic
scoring opportunities in the
first half, but between the
goalies and desperate defensive
efforts the game was held
scoreless through the first half.
“I told the team they had to
be more aggressive in the sec
ond half. We needed to create
more turnovers,” said head
coach Patrick O'Driscoll.
The Lady Lions came out
fired up from O'Driscoll's in
structions and applied heavy
offensive and defensive pres
sure on Grove City's team for
the remainder of the game.
The first sign of any solid mo
mentum for the Lady Lions
came when, at the beginning of
the half, junior forward Caitlyn
Elser had an opportunity for a
goal off a comer kick, but it
was stopped by Grove City
goaltender Bethany Preston.
Behrend kept the pressure on
Preston and soon after sopho
more Lindsey Steinsdoerfer
had a close shot at the goal, but
it was again stopped by Pre
ston.
The Lady Lions finally broke
Men’s
Mount Union
California, PA
Penn St. Behrend
Thiel
Westminster
Wash. & Jefferson
Hifam
Penn St. Altoona
Point Park
Pitt-Bradford
Pitt-Greensburg
Mt. Aloysius
D’Youville
La Roche
Hilbert
AMANDA STETZ
staff writer
at the 9:23 mark Schroeck
scored the winning goal on a
beautiful pass from Lindsey
Steinsdoerfer through the top
left comer of the net.
Grove City's girls vigorously
attempted to strike back, but
Behrend's senior goaltender
Kayla Frost blocked all Grove
City's last-ditch efforts. Kayla
recorded three saves on goal,
and she also had her fourth
shutout of the season.
“The shutout was due to the
hard work of the team,” said
Frost. “The midfielders did a
great job tracking their marks,
and the defense did not allow
[them] to cross off. The defense
did a good job of pressuring
them at the top of the box, too.”
Overall, O'Driscoll was
pleased with the results of the
game, because Grove City is al
ways a competitive team.
“Grove City is a great team in
this division,” said O'Driscoll.
“We always have close games
with them.”
The win brings the team's
record 5-2-1. The team's next
game is on Saturday, Sept. 26 at
rival Penn State Altoona, who
currently has a record of 7-1-0.
"The Altoona game is going
to be a battle,” noted Frost. “I
think we are a team full of
depth and hard workers, and
we'll grind it out until the last
minute of play. If we play like I
know we can, I think we can
get the win.”
Behrend Beacon
September 25, 2009
www.thebehrendbeacon.com
GOLF
Contributed photo
Joe Nelson lines up a put. Nelson’s score of 78 was one of the best of
Behrend hosts
golf invitational
SHAWN ANNARELLI
sports editor
Thursday afternoon, Penn
State Behrend’s golf team
placed highly as the team
seperated into two seperate
squads, the blue team and the
white team, while hosting the
Penn State.
Senior Joseph Nelson led the
blue team to a third place fin
ish, while freshman Dan LHe
bier led the white team to a
seventh place finish out of
twelve total teams.
LHerbier tied for third indi
vidually with a 76-shot effort,
and Nelson had the sixth best
score of the day with 78 shots.
Each school had four players
reprentent their respective golf
team. Had Behrend been
the day.
permitted to combine the
team’s best four scores of the
day, the Lions would have
placed second with 315 strokes.
Only three women competed
in the invitational, and Behrend
sophmore Andrea Schlaufman
was one of them. Schlaufman
came in third place with a score
of 106.
The next stops for the Lions
will be at the Medaille Invita
tional on Saturday, Sept. 26 and
the La Roche Invitational on
Tuesday, Sept. 29.
These will be Behrend’s last
two stops before the AMCC
Championships commence at
Mt. Aloysius on Sunday and
Monday, Oct. 4 and 5.