Sports Rap
By Eric Riedinger
Well, Spring is finally here and
everybody is getting out their
worn down frisbees and
Sunglasses. But the big news is
that Major League Baseball is
back. The Yankees and Phillies
think they are going to take the
baseball crown this year and the
Metssimply don't want to be em
barrassing. The Mets have ac
quired Rusty "old enough to be
my grandfather" Staub and Dave
"lack of personality" Kingman
this past spring in trades and
have hopes that these two will
rescue their team this year. The
Mets, however, just don't have
the pitching staff to be con
tenders. As for the Yankees and
Phillies, well, both of these teams
certainly have the talent to win,
but they just might have too
much talent and too many in
flated egos to even win their
respective divisions this season.
Look for the Kansas City Royals
to win the World Series this year;
their time has come.
In boxing, Larry Holmes
Volleyball team spikes
a winning 7-5 record
By Joe Thear
The Hazleton Campus
volleyball team finished the 1980-
81 season with a winning 7-5
record. Coach Bruce Young was
pleased with this year's per
formance and he is optimistic
about next year's team.
"This year's schedule was
much more challenging than it
has been in previous years," said
Coach Young, "but I believe the
team fared out quite well."
Hazleton took third place in the
Commonwealth Tournament, los
ing to York P.S.U. in the semi
finals. Kensington P.S.U. cap-
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defended his W.B.C. heavyweight
title on April 11 against Trevor
Berbick with a unanimous deci
sion. Holmes is by far the best
heavyweight boxer in the world
today. He has won 37 bouts with
no losses and seems to be at the
peak of his career. His fight
against Berbick, however, was
not very impressive compared to
his former fights. His incredible
knockout streak, came to an end
and it should not have against an
opponent such as Berbick. The
question is, when will Holmes
fight Mike Weaver, the W.B.A.
heavyweight title holder, for the
undisputed claim of heavyweight
champ?
Winbledon, the grand old tour
nament of tennis, is coming up
soon. Expect another Borg ver
sus McEnroe supermatch. Chris
Evert is back in top form, so look
for her to do well. The biggest
match, though, might be John
McEnroe versus the English
Sports Press, after the temper
tantrums he threw last year at
Wimbledon.
tured the first place trophy. The
Hazleton Campus has two
representatives which were sent
to the All-Conference game in
May.
The 1981-82 season will be a year
of rebuilding. Only two out of the
ten team members will return
next year. Coming back will be
Freshmen Vernon Tang-Yuk and
Bryan Osifat. Sorely missed will
be co-captains Paul Ondeck and
Robin Stauffer.
Also leaving are Mike Flores,
Ken Tomalavage, Tony Curto,
Chrts Herr, Bill Lightner, and
Phil Gentile.
Ticket Sales Cl
uondorsftnish season
to increase
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The Highacres Condors tmished
Penn State is increasing its foot- the 1980-81 basketball season with
ball season ticket sales for the a commendable 15-9 mark. Coach
public from 50,000 to 55,000 for the Tom Cacesse had a lot of praise
1981 season, according to Nittany for co-captains Ron Cann and
Lion athletic ticket manager Bud Peter O'Donnell. "They did a
Meredith. superb job on and off the court,
"The expansion of Beaver showing leadership and giving
Stadium in 1980 brought on over- moral support."
whelming response for season Quite a few individual records
ticket requests from the public," were broken this year. Bryan
Meredith says. "We had to cut off Brassington now has the most re
the sales at 50,000 last year bounds and blocked shots in a
because of our planned single- single game. Setting the rebound
game sale. This year we will be record at 22 against Mont Alto
increasing our season sales again P.S.U. and setting the blocked
and we hope we can meet the shot record at 8 against Baptist
response to Penn State's attrac- Bible College. Bryan now has the
tive home schedule." career rebound and blocked shot
Last year in six home games,
Penn State averaged 83,045 fans
in Beaver Stadium, the nation's
fourth-highest average for col
lege football. With a schedule
featuring Eastern and national
contenders, beginning with the
Cincinnati game Sept. 12 and en
ding with Alabama and Notre
Dame on Nov. 14 and 21,
Meredith feels that the Lions
could break that 1980 record this
fall.
"Already, we have received
many requests for season and
single game tickets," Meredith.
says. "We have had very heavy
mail for this early in the year."
Season ticket prices are $72 for
the public and $66 for Penn State
faculty and staff for the 1981 six
game home schedule.
Renewal applications haye
been mailed to 1980 season ticket
holders and the ticket office also
is accepting season ticket ap
plications for the public, Penn
State faculty and staff and Nit
tany Lion Club members.
The deadline for 1980 season
ticket-holders to renew tickets
was May 1. New season ticket
orders will be filled after that
date and single-game ticket
orders will be filled on July 6 and
7.
A minimum of 3,000 single
game tickets will be available for
each home game, Meredith says.
That total may be increased,
based on tickets returned by
visiting teams and any public
season tickets not sold.
Information on season and
single - game (home and away)
tickets may be obtained from the
Penn State Athletic Ticket Office,
237 Recreation Building, Univer
sity Park, Pa., 16802, telephone
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Beauty Salon'
, 6 Pine Street
McAdoo, Pa. 18237
929-1109
Tuesday-Saturday
Hours by Appointment
record with 397 and 156 respec
tively. Lenny Kott holds the best
all-time free throw percentage
with an impressive 83.08 per cent.
The team also broke its old most
rebounds in one game record this
year with 62 against Schuylkill,
P.S.U.
Some of Coach Cacesse's goals
for next year are to topple the
BASKETBALL STATISTICS
PLAYER
Bryan Brass
Ron Cann
Bob Davies
Brad Guise
Bob Kennedy 21
Mark Kolbush 32
Lenny Kott 272
Steve Markle 68
Peter O'Donnell 214
Kyle Raupers 1 26
Bob Stoff a 173
Dan Wolfberg 45
POINTS
296
235
16
81
Condors' Brian Brassington (54) at
tempts shot as Ron Cann (44) looks on.
The Highacres Collegian-
"most wins in one season" record
of 17, and to win back the
Christmas Classic trophy. Coach
Cacesse is relying on the
freshmen turnout to carry the
team to success. It will be a
rebuilding year next year;
however, the coach assured me
they will not play like a
rebuilding team. He is looking for
big things from Lenny Kott also
and foresees him as possibly the
league's top player.
The all-time attendance record
was set this year with 3,500 plus.
Coach Cacesse would like to
thank the faculty, the students,
and the community for their sup
port. He would also like to thank
McDonalds, WAZL, and the AM
travel agency for the publicity
and prizes in the trip to the
Bahamas they furnished. John
Klucher, a Junior at Hazleton
High School, won the trip.
Next year the team will add St.
Mary's and Alvernia to their
schedule.
F.G GAMES F.Gil
124 52-92 24 17
111 13-25 21 48
9 0-0 11 38
32 17-31 23 35
7 7-7 5 41
15 4-6 10 41
107 54-65 24 49
25 16-22 20 44
90 32-56 24 38
41 46-66 23 37
81 13-28 24 43
20 541 21 25