-LION'S EYE- MARCH, 1988 - Baseball Team Looks Ahead by Anna Gianturcco Sports Editor Spring training is about to start for the Penn State Delaware County Baseball Team. Their spring 1988 schedule is set, and their first practice began Febru- ary 8th. The baseball team’s coach is Dr. James Diskin, a Instructor of Math here at Delco. He has been coaching at this campus for six years. Before coming to Penn State he spent a year coaching at Holy Ghost Prep. The team leaves for Co- coa Beach, Florida on Feb- ruary 27th. They are shar- ing expenses with P. S. U. Harrisburg. The team will be staying at a Holiday Inn on the beach and play their games at the Cocoa Beach Municipal Complex. While in Florida, if there is enough free time, the team will go to Disney world and perhaps visit a professional baseball team in spring training. Mr. Diskin hopes to visit the Houston Astros. The team had a Christ- mastree sale in December to help with the funding to the trip. In this sale they raised $2,375. Mr. Diskin would like to extend his gratitude to the Penn State faculty and students for the great success on the tree sale. The teams first game rap- - idly approaching on March 18th. The teams new base- ball field was just completed this semester. This is also their last season playing as a independent team. In their next season, the team will be playing as part of the Eastern Pennsylvania Col- legiate Conference. Some key players to look for in the spring season are: Ed Grafstrom, who was voted the most valuable player of the year in the spring and fall seasons, Ron Palermo, their fastest lead- ing hitter, Joe Boyle, their top pitcher, and Bob Baxter, their top reliever. With these players, the Penn State Delco baseball team will have a promissing season to look forward to. by Gary Jones Editor-in-Chief coach. Bill Wiley, who has coached the team for the past two years, did not ex- “I was very disappointed pect what the past season in the season record...” brought to him and his as- stated the Penn State sistant coach of one year, Members of the BSL working hard Lou Tosti. “I had high ex- pectations for the season,” said Coach Wiley, “but as the season progressed we lost a lot of players.” Coach Wiley did not know, that out of sixteen players, half Men's Basketball season ends in disappointment; Looking forward to a better season would quit. So what did the season hold for him now? When it rains it pours. Out of those eight players left, coach Wiley lost yet an- other. Carl Wagner, a 64" center, got hurt in a recent game against Penn State's Schuylkill campus. So that dried coach Wiley’shopes up for a while. But, as the old saying goes, “Good things come to those that wait” - and the team waited, and waited, and waited for a center to show up among those eight courageous play- ers. Finally, as the season progressed, a slim 64" freshmen named Brain Phillipf gained confidence and added the spark that ‘Wrobleski ‘have hope for the future. the team needed. Despite the loss of the teams’ captain, David Ellis, and players Mark and Bill Ryan, all of whom will be graduat- ing, the team does, however Freshmen players did play an important role in the late progress of the team.. Point Guard, Mike Oerther, who was a late starter, averaged a little over 23 points a game. And the teams one two punch could not be so if it wasn’t for the sharp shooting of Joe Demaio. Other freshmen contribut- ing were: forwards Matt Vandevere, and Gary Jones. Tony Brown delivers his speach on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday celebration, sponcered by the Black Student League hy Staff members view the feast e of PSU Delco. Leag Third String, a jazz band, performed for the Black Student
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