January 23, 1975
Cubs Split Pair
by Jay Schonthaler
Sports Editor
The Behrend basketball squad
split a pair of games in last
week's play and kept their season
mark above .500 in the process.
The Cubs, 7-6 as of last night's
game with Geneva, last Wed
nesday traveled to Pitt-
Johnstown where they dropped a
97-88 decision, but returned home
on Saturday and found the
familiar surroundings favorable,
routing Eisenhower, 87-65.
The Cubs kept things close
throughout the entire contest
against Pitt-Johnstown. Behrend
led, 22-20, at the ten minute mark
in the first half and trailed by five
at half-time. With ten minutes left
in the game they had moved to
within four.
But Pitt-Johnstown kept up
their relentless scoring pace right
to the final whistle en route to the
nine point victory. "Pitt-
Johnstown is not a great defen
sive team, but they score like
crazy," said Behrend coach
Roger Sweeting.
Despite Johnstown's high
powered offensive display,
Sweeting admitted it wasn't the
most unexpected occurrence of
that game. "We weren't sur
prised by Pitt-Johnstown. I think
we were surprised by ourselves in
that we were in the ball game and
had a chance to win it." John
stown is ranked sixth in District
18. Against Behrend, their leading
scorer was sidelined with an
injury.
Sweeting pointed out that the
high - score resulted from a
combination of hot shooting and
sluggish defense. "I was very
pleased with our offense. It was
one of our better offensive per
formances of the year."
"Now I've got to do a selling job
on defense and show some people
that it's no good to score eighty
points if you give up ninety
seven." Behrend has gone over
the 80 point mark on offense in
each of their last four outings.
-Mark - Chesko• was thigh - `for
Behrend with 22 points. "Mark
played extremely well in that
game, probably his best game of
the year," remarked Sweeting.
Larry MacAleer followed with 16,
Above the mass of arms and legs rises a Behrend Cub to
the occasion of pulling in a rebound in the game against
Eisenhower.
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Jim Davis contributed 15 and
Eddie. Evans had 12 to highlight
the Cub scoring
Against Eisenhower all 12 of the
Cubs figured in the scoring as
Behrend rolled to an easy win.
More importantly, though, was
the fact that Behrend came
through with that strong defen
sive showing hoped for by
Sweeting.
There were several key
defensive performances turned in
by the Cubs. Jim Davis had the
assignment of guarding
Eisenhower's Neil Kromer, their
leading scorer who last year
scored 34 points against Behrend
in one game. Davis' task was to
keep Kromer from going inside
with the ball and this Davis did,
holding his man scoreless for the
first 30 minutes. Kromer ended
the night with five points, all
coming with Davis resting on the
bench.
Behrend's guards, MacAleer
and Pat Gahr, also stood out
defensively. MacAleer hounded
their floor leader, Kevin Berkley,
making it difficult for him to set
up the offense and, at times,
forcing Eisenhower out of any
offensive pattern whatsoever.
Gahr held the other Eisenhower
guard to one field goal in the first
half, by which time Behrend had
moved to a 48-27 lead.
Sweeting noted that the
pressure defense played by his
club made the difference in the
game. Man for man, he felt the
Cubs were the quicker team and
elected to go with an attacking,
pressing defensive defense.
"When -we play pressure defense
we have a tendency to foul too
much or give up the back door
play. I hate to simplify, but
quickness is the most important
thing in pressure defense."
Chesko again led the Cub
scoring parade with 22 points.
Sweeting added of him, "In the
last three games he's pumped in
quite a few points for us." In
thosethree,games he raised his
average fr om eight to just under
12 points per game.
Other top scorers in the game
for Behrend included Davis with
16, Larry Szoszorek, and Jeff
Gillette with eight each, and
Behrend Collegian
MacAleer and Gahr, both
collecting six.
Last night the Cubs had their
hands full as they traveled to
Geneva to take on the Golden
Tornadoes, whose basketball
team is much better than its
nickname. They feature a 5'4"
guard with a 21 point average
(that's points, not blocked shots)
as well as a 6'9" center by the
name of Soule, currently the
leading rebounder in District 18
with 16 grabs a game.
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