May 6, 1976
Baseball team has good possibilities
The winning Cubs
By Brad Phillips
Collegian Staff Writer
With the baseball season just
past the midway mark, the
possibility of Behrend College
gaining a District 18 playoff berth
looks pretty good. The team has
initiated 'a- mid-season surge,
boosting its record to 106 while
winning four straight bailgames.
On Wednesday, April 28. the
Cubs took both ends of a double
header against visiting Grove
City, terminating a two-game
losing streak. The Gravers drew
first blood, scoring a pair of runs
in the first inning, but Behrend
came back with markers in the
first and third before Grove City
grabbed the lead in the top of the
sixth. Right fielder Russ Gavran
was the hero for the Cubs, driving
home Tom Lawless and Bill
MacMillan with a bases loaded,
two-out single in the bottom of the
final inning. Jim Davis also high
ighted the 11-hit attack with two
doubles. a single, and a RBI.
Mark Falvo went the distance for
Behrend and picked up his second
victory of the season.
In the second contest, pitcher
Al Maki took control. The big left
bander scattered 5 hits and
blanked the Grovers 5-0. The
Cuts jumped to an early 3-0
margin with three rtus in the first
frame and were in command
throughout the rest of the
WBCR (cont.)
necessary advertising
publiCity departments v►►ill be
formed !hen. too_ News spots.
. talk shows. and the like. will
probably be considered when the
station is more firmly on its feet.
says Young. Their most exciting
goal is the one which will be the
most difficulty to actualize:
obtaining the - license transmitter
and antennae to broadcast as a
regular FM station. Much land
surveying. bureaucratic
haggling, and. of course, much
money is required to get FCC
approval.
The club has about twenty
members of varying degrees of
involvement, and is looking for
more. "We get lots of offers for
1).11.-ing. but not many for other
types of help." complains Young.
It will be the Station's policy.
however, to require anyone who
goes on the air to work in the
Spring Ads (cont.)
RUB Banquet area. The cof
feehouse will also showcase the
'talents of Behrend students and
faculty.
Walk-in movies on the ski slope
will close-out Saturday's ac
tivities. The . selected short
subjects and cartoons are
sponsored by the JRC. Reels roll
at midnight.
Sunday. in addition to being the
final day of the festival, promises
also to be one of the most ex
citing.
The craftsmen will be joined on
the South lawn by artist Peggy
Odson. Peggy will exhibit
charcoals and watercolors in
addition to doing charcoals
sketches of festival goers.
One of the festival's most
colorful events will occur at 1:30
p.m. Three sky divers perform
various aerial maneuvers
utilizing flares and smoke before
dropping onto the ski slope.
A first in this year's festival
will be the broadcast by WQLN
FM of the Bluegrass festival. Hal
Libbel of WQLN will serve as MC
for the festival which will feature
some of western Pennsylvania's
finest bluegrss bands. Included on
the program will be United,
Naturale Grass. Sweet Corn &
Sour Mash, The French Creek
Valley Ramblers and the
Allegheny Mountain Boys. The
festival runs from 2:00 to 5:00
p.m.
Performances by the Darktown
Poker Club, Mike Hamilton and
Phillippe will close out the music
ballgame, - capitalizing on six
Grove City errors. Bill Mac
millan and Russ Gavran provided
the offensive punch, banging out
two hits apiece. The double
victory raised BC's record while
the Grovers dropped to 9-11.
On the following Saturday, the
Cubs extended -.their winning
streak to four games with a two
game sweep over Houghton. The
opening Contest went into extra
innings before the Cubs pulled out
a narrow 4-2 decision. BC held a
slim 2-0 lead until the sixth inning
when Houghton pulled even on a
baseit, a base-on-balls, a passed
ball, and a dribbler through the
infield. The game went into the
ninth before Behrend loaded the
bases and the Hougton pitcher .
lost his control and walked in the
winning runs. Pete Car ter
relieved starter Bob Maras in the
seventh and pitched three shaky
innings to get his first win.
Club softball news
Women's Club softball team is
doing great.
Last Thursday, the girls faced
Gannon College on their home
turf. The brisky day proved to be
lucky for the Club. Never falling
behind Gannon, the firal score of
the game was 24-9. a. first win for
the Club team. Last Tuesday. the
and station office as well_ -t-
Wilt attained his post after Ed
Fratus relinquished it to work as
Chief Engineer, and will manage
at least until the club holds its
elections in September. Fratus.
who graduates this year. was
very irmtrumental in WBCR's
conception. Some others who hold
posts are Dale McAdoo.
Production Director. and Mark
Erter and Mike Pond. Traffic
Directors_ Mr. Harold Neumann.
Engineering Professor. is faculty
advisor. Helping also is Mr.
Wayne Hemberger. Business
Instructor.
+ Next year. Wilt will probably
also screen prospective disc
jockeys to get the best possible
staff. rather than allowing anyone
to, go on the air. Right now, this is
impossible since there aren't
enough people who volunteer.
festival.
Sound reinforcement for the
music festival will be provided by
Raven Enterprises_
At 5 p.m. on Sunday. festival
goers will be treated to a square
dancing demonstration in Erie
Hall_ Russ Weston will serve as
caller for this lively event_
To close out the festival. Father
Guy Patrick will condust a vesper
service at 8 p.m. in the RUB
Lecture Hall. The l3ehrend Choir
will participate in the service.
Food concessions will be
available on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday.
Elections
held for
"senator"
Elections for University Senate
Student representatives were
held throughout the Com
monwealth campuses, including
Behrend, last week_ Comprised of
faculty - members and three
student representatives, the
Senate is responsible for deciding
many of Penn State's policies and
regulations. Behrend's own Ed
Mulkearn, freshman class
president, was a candidate for
representative. Results,
however, won't be known until a
later date.
Behrend Collegian
In the second game, the Cubs
got down to business. They
pounded out nine runs in the - first
inning and coasted to an easy 14-2
victory. Al Maki continued his
brilliant pitching with a five
strikeout, two-hit performance
and won his second consecutive
ballgame. Coach Stoner pulled
his starters after the second in
ning and let his pitchers play the
field, but they still managed to
score five additional runs. The
game was called on the account of
rain after five innings and
Houghton was saved from further
embarrassment.
Coach Stoner feels that the key
to his club is a combination of
good hitting and pitching. He has
five regulars over the .300 mark
and a team batting average of
.284. Tom Lawless leads the team
in batting (417) and has the most
stolen bases (4). Bill Metzler and
Jim Davis lead the RBI depart-
girls went- to Mercyhurst to play
their third game of the season.
The girls had a great start at the
beginning of the game, yet by the
sixth inning the score became a
close 16-15 in favor of Behrend.
Byt the end of the seventh inning
(and the end of the game).
Behrend Club softball pulled
ahead of Mercyhurst 27-16. Today
the Club plays at Allegheny. Good
luck and keep up the good work,
team.
Athlete of
the week
By Brad Phillips
Collegian Staff Writer
Russ Cavran is this week's
selection for Athlete of the Week.
Russ is the rightfielder for the
baseball team and is hitting .381
on the year. During a four game
stretch last week, he hit a .416
clip, including a triple and drove
in the winning run against Grove
City. His coach. Clarence Stoner
summed Russ' performance this
way: "In general, he made good
contact, has had timely hits, and
has made a good contribution to
the team. - Russ is a resident
student and a sixth term Business
Administration major.
Congratulations Russ Gavran!
(Editor's note: Due to a light
mix-up. Russ picture will not
appear in this week's paper but
will definitely appear in next
week's issue.)
Boast beef
reported to
be real junk
(ENG) Junk food has such a
hold on American tastebuds that
Arby's Roast Beef Restaurants
are converting to "fabricated"
beef. And, part of the reason is
that Arby's customers don't like
the real thing.
About 510 Arby's franchises
have switched to the artificial
roast, which the fast-food chain
describes as "structured." The
substitute is made from cuts of
beef that are "reduced in size.
trimmed "of excess fat, and
blended with chopped beef binder
into a loaf."
Only about 40 Arby's francises
have held out and continued to
sell real roast beef. But, now New
Times magazine is reporting that
some of the hold-outs are giving
in. A Louisville, Ky. Arby's
recently made the switch because
so many of its customers com
plained the restaurant's sand
wiches did not taste right.
According to--Chuck Hafsass,
director of quality control for the
chain, "We get more complaints
about the beef in those stores till
using top round than in all of the
stores using structured roast."
ment with 10 and 11, respectively. has yet to win his first ball game.
Mr. Stoner is also surprised by but according to Coach Stoner.
the depth of his pitching staff. Bob is "coming on, and starting to
"I'm finding that I have people develop confidence."
that can come off the bench.
throw strikes, and hold the op- The team will play
position." Al Maki (5-2, 2.87 doubleheaders against Edinboro
ERA) and Mark Falvo (2-3, 2.02)- on Wednesday and Westminster
form the core of the pitching on Saturday. Wins against these
rotation which has compiled an two tough opponents would
excellent 2.81 team earned run greatly enhance Behrend's
average. Bob Maras (0-0, 2.02) playoff chances.
Golf tale
The Golf season is almost
finished. Who cares? We do.
Last Thursday, Behrend played
at Culbertson Hills against
Edinboro and Gannon, then they
played at the Malone Invitational
Tournament in Canton, Ohio.
These matches were the low
points of the season.
The Behrend Golf team totaled
427 points, but were outplayed by
the Edinboro and Gannon golf
teams with respective scores of
368 and 403. Mr. Onorato men
tioned, "the main reason why we
lost is the terrible greens."
Nevertheless, the team tried with
Gary Lorei shooting 79; Larry
Cunningham, 85; Mike Litoukin.
103; Mark Webster, 85; John
Carneval, 85; Tom Hamilton, 97;
and Kurt Cavano, 93.
93.
Next. they played at Malone
with Mark Webster, a team
inember, summing up the game.
-"We got smashed!" Behrend
played Thiel and a couple of
branch campuses of Kent State.
There were six Behrend players
who entered the tourney with the
top five scores being used. The
players entered were Gary Lorei
Sports outlook noticed
for State's 1976 season
These are excerpts from the
programs for Penn State's Spring
sports for the 1976 season. Here
are the outlooks for the teams and
the results will just have to prove
how close these predictions are to
the future facts.
GOLF
Penn State coach Joe Boyle
expects this year's Nittany Lion
team to be able to compete with
the "fast company" of collegiate
golf.
The Lion golfers are beginning
their third season as an in
dependent, a status which has
matched Penn State with top
flight competition.
"We've been rather disap
pointing the last two years,"
Boyle said. "When we became an
independent, we decided to break
out and join fast company.
However, we had so many
inexperienced golfers the last two
years that we didn't play as well
as we had in the past."
The top seven golfers returned
from last years team. The ad
dition of several newcomers and
the improvement of several
returning players should provide
needed depth.
"Last year we were just one
player away from having a real
good team," Boyle said. "We
should have the numbers to play
much better this spring." Boyle
then went on to add, "We have a
lot more depth. A good seventh
man can really help; one man can
make a big difference."
BASEBALL
Penn State's baseball team has
qualified for the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
tournament, six years in a row,
but the Nittany Lions may need
some luck to make it seven.
"Pitching is the name of the
game," says Lion coach Chuck
Medlar, a former righthander in
the Detroit 'Tigers system. "We
feel we have enough arms to have
a good season, but some of our
starters will have to take
charge."
By Tom Armstrong
Collegian Staff Writer
who shot an 81: Larry Cun
ningham. shot an 84 Mark
Litoukin. 87: John Carneval. 89:
Kurt Cavano. 88: and the sixth
player whose score wasn't en
tered - Mark Webster. Also. it
cost Behrend 30 dollars to enter.
There were a couple reasons
for Behrend's defeat. One, they
played some of the best golf
teams around the area. Next.
they played on some terrible
greens (again). Finally. Behrend
had to play with many distur
bances. At the end of the tenth
green is a huge pond. While the
tourney began. a scuba diver was
diving for golf balls. He dove for
five minutes. ten minutes. forty
minutes until somebody noticed
there weren't any air bubbles
coming from the pond. Then
Behrend was teeing off at the
tenth when a National Guard
helicopter flew in. The men in the
helicopter spotted' the scuba
diver in the pond. dead. This golf
match will never be forgotten.
Our deepest sympathy to the
diver's family.
The sports staff hopes no more
golf stories will end on such a sad
note - let's go. golfers. Get
swinging.
The Lions lost their top pitchers
from last year - Len Bartek to
graduation and Mitch Lukevics to
the Chicago White Sox. Those two
righthanders carried the pitching
load during a 10-game winning
streak that lifted the Lions into
the NCAA playoffs last season.
The Lions appear to have
plenty of hitting and defense to
carry them until the pitching
comes around. Six of eight
regulars returned from last
year's team, which ranked ninth
in the country with a .315 team
batting average.
TENNIS
Penn State temis coach Holmes
Cathrall felt his 12th Nittany
Lions team would have been one
of the most balanced squads he
has had.
"Our team won't be as strong at
the top of the line-up, but there
won't be as much of a drop-off at
the bottom of the line-up,"
Cathrall said.
Last year the Lions' top two
single players, Jan Bortner and
Miguel Maurtua, compiled a
combined record of 25-3 in 14 dual
meets: but the rest of the line-up
won only 32 of 56 singles matches.
Bortner has graduated and
Maurtua moved up into the No. 1
singles slot. The rest of the line-up
could ( or probably did) shift from
match to match because of the
balance on the team. Returnees to
the team included Mark Darby
and Jim Howell who will be aided
by a junior college transfer Jim
Ellis and freshmen Peter Cole,
Alex Davidson, Fa bricio
Valdivieso and Randy Whiteside.
"We have three doubles teams -
that are very close in strength,"
Cathrall said. "Ellis and Maurtua
are the top pair, because they are
a little 'more experienced and
have bigger serves."
Penn State has become one of
the East's top teams with a 49-17
record the last five seasons and
Cathrall is optimistic that the
Lions can maintain that winning
place.
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