CAPrrAL TIMES, September 13, 1989
Baseball team in
fall training
Hemy Rappold
Capital Times Staff
Baseball coach Gary Pritegard is in
need of a few more baseball players for
his fall scrimmage schedule.
Presently the coach has fifteen
players out for the eight-game fall
schedule, and he would like to double
that amount.
Pritchard has five returning players
this year, along with these are four new
players that he recruited while the team
was on its spring training trip to Florida
this year.
The third year, the coach feels it's a
shame more players don't come out for
,the team.
"It's a good way to make some good
friends and to play some good ball"
Pritchard said.
Pritchard said Penn State Harrisburg
has one of the nicest fields in the
conference
After the fall sacrimage schedule, the
team looks foward to its trip down south
next year for a week long spring training
schedule. This year's trip probably will
include a two-day stop over in North
Carolina.
The team practices every day at 5
p.m. on the field east of Olmsted
building. The coach invites students to
bring their gloves and give the game a
trY.
Pritchard will be taking players until
right before the first scrimmage game on
Sept. 17.
When they return from spring
training, the Lions will begin a 24-game
spring schedule of baseball.
Penn State Football:
Hank Rappokl
Capital Times Staff
Football:
Fact: Five Penn State opponents are
ranked in the top 25 this year.
Fact: Two of Penn States opponents
were serious contenders for the national
championship.
Fact: Penn State is coming off a
losing seson, going five and six last
year.
Fact: Penn State is ranked 12th in the
country going into this season.
Hold it! Ranked 12th, that isn't
possible. What could the reason for this
shocking fact be? Well, there isn't just
one reason for this but several.
The biggest reason might be last
year's dissapointing five and six record.
Penn State having a losing record, can it
be? The last time Penn State was a sub
.500 team was back in the 30's! The
team is out to prove last years showing
was a fluke. Penn State is hungry to
win and win it will.
Another big factor is the team is
healthy again. Blair Thomas, #32,
Penn State's Hiesman Trophy candidate,
returns to pick-up where he left off in
1987 where he represented axi jimmive
just the facts
This Lady Lion
roars from the Den
Mary Alice "Harv" Pittman, the cook in the Lion's Den made her first hole-in-one
August 24 after three months of golfing. The event took place at the Spring Creek
Golf Club in Hershey. Hary used a five iron on the par-three 120-yard fourth hole.
Witnesses were Lois Cochran and Jan Morrow.
59.4 percent of the lions rushing attack
and rushed for 1,414 yards.
Thomas's 1987 rushing stats are good
enough to place him third on the all
time single season Penn State record
books. Only Lydell Mitchell, in 1971
and former Heisman Trophy winner John
Cappelletti have rushed for more.
In 1988 the Lions minus Thomas
came up 500 yards short of the teams
rushing total of 1987. So Thomas is
going to be a vital factor in Penn State's
success during the 1989 season.
The quarterback struggle between
Tom Bill and Tony Sacca, both
experienced and capable quarterbacks,
also might explain some of the Lions'
optimism.
Sacca filled in, after Bill went down
to injuries early last season and did a
good job for a first year quarterback.
With an experienced quarterback at
the helm and a healthy Blair Thomas as
the foundation added to the sour taste
last years losing season to draw upon,
the Lions look ready to do some damage
in their schedule.
Turn to the Capital Times to keep
track of the Nittany Lions this season.
NOTE: Penn State lost it's Sept. 9
season opener . jo Virginia, 14-6.
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sports update
Hank Rappold
Capital Times Staff
In recent days, sports across America
have been quite busy. Let's see if we
can catch up on things....
Pete Rose is gone from baseball but
he bets he'll be back soon Jim
McMahon is no longer a Bear, now he is
Charging up the lackluster San Diego
offense... Nolan Ryan picked up career
strikeout No. 5,000 in striking out
Ricky Henderson. Ricky wiill
remember that 90-plus miles-per-hour
fastball for a long time.... Good news
for little league baseball, a little league
team from Conneticut, USA., ended
South Korea's three year reign as Little
League World Series champions. This
brought the trophy home for the first
time in six years... Football wives
beware, both college and pro football is
back in action.... An era has ended,
Chris Evert played her last U.S. Open
match, losing to Zina Garrison after a
string of dominating perfomances in her
earlier matches.... Finally on a sad
note, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Major
League Baseball Commissioner, died of
a massive heart attack. A new
commissioner is yet to be named.
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