PA&*' 9Ty Cagers Top Mouniies, Matmen Trip Terps for Lions Capture 14th Win of Season, 24th Straight Victory on Home Court A scrappy Lion five successfully put the clamps to the Mountaineers last night and took their 14th win of the season by a significant 20 . points. Final score was 77-57. The highly confident West Virginians had been averaging 83.4 points a game, but good defens ive work throttled their big. scorer, Jim Sot tile, who only managed three for the-game. But the way the tilt started out it looked as though the Mounties would duplicate —Photo by McCabe ED HAAG, Niiiany guard, sprawls on the floor along side of West Virginia's Mack Isner in last night's Rec Hall court action. Ready to lend assistance to Haag are teammates Herm Sledzik (10) and Jim Blocker to Sledzik's right. Stale thumped the Mountaineers, 77-57, for their 14th win of the season. their January victory. They swiftly pushed in six points in side of two minutes without missing a shot, and it wasn’t un til Jack Sherry pushed in his jump shot did the Lions break into the scoring column. The jittery Lions couldn’t seem to find the basket until about two minutes left in the first quarter, when Ed Haag pushed in two points; Jesse Arnelle added a hook with two men hanging on his arm and then Sherry put in another jump to make the score read 13-16 at the end of the first quarter. Five minutes later in the sec ond quarter, Ronnie Weidenham mer broke into the scoring with a long set that put the Lions ahead for the first time, 23-22. Mack Is ner, who was tied with Eddie Becker with 15 for high scoring for the Mounties, put in a foul shot for the last time the visitors were anywhere near the ram paging Lions. 21-Poini Splurge Coach Elmer Gross began put ting in ijis second string subs to give his first team a rest and the strategy paid off as the fired up Lions began to pull away from their visitors in the second quar ter. Speedy Jim Brewer, playing good defensive ball, broke up a fast break and was fouled in the attempt. He made the free throw just before the half ended with the Lions ahead 34-26. The Lions had picked up 21 points in the second quarter while the bewildered Mounties only put in ten on three field goals and four foul shots. Sottile, who had been averaging 20 points a game, was effectively guarded the first half and couldn’t get clear-to sink his famous jump shot. Arnelle High West Virginia began using a full court press in the third quar ter and for a few minutes it slow ed the Lions’ offense. But such tactics also mean a wide open defense, and the Nittanies quick ly switched their offense to quick passing and more dribbling un til the score at the end of the third period read 56-39. Arnelle, high scorer of the eve ning with 19, opened the final period with a jump shot to put the Lions 19 points ahead. From there on the two teams exchanged baskets vi : h t l,i> Lions getting 21 points in the f'nal period while their visitors put in 18. (the most ★ ★ they were able to score in a single period). The victory was a very impor tant one for the Blue and White — it not only preserved their win ning streak in Rec Hall (now stands at 24 straight), but was sweet revenge on the Mountainers who had beaten them by 10 points earlier in the season. Boxscore: Penn State West Virginia FG F T FG F T Sledzik 5 7-7 17 Sottile 1 4-1 3 Blocker 1 0-0 2 Isner . 4 15-7 15 Sherry 4 2-1 9 White 1 6-5 7 Rohland 1 3-0 2 Morris 0 5-2 2 Arnelle 6 12-7 19 Coil 1 5-2 4 Wcid'ham*r 3 4-4 10 Holmes 2 0-0 4 Edwards 2 8-5 9 Spadafore 3 1-1 7 Haag 2 3-2 6 Becker 5 7-5 15 Brewer 1 1-1 3 Totals 25 40-27-77 Totals 17 43-23 57 Penn State West Virginia Leopards, Palms, Capitols Win IM Court Crowns Three new champions were hailed in intramural basketball play at Rec Hall Tuesday night. The Leopards, league E, the Palms, league D, and the Capitols in league F finished their seasons with perfect 7-0 records to earn playoff entry, to begin March 4 The Palms waved away Joe’s Boys opposition to the tune of 26-18, with Charley Thursam lead ing the way with 12 points. The losers wound up their season with a barely respectable 4-3 slate. In the same circuit, D, the Aces won by forfeit from the Graymen, thus , earning the sec ond place berth in the league with a 6-1 record. Harry Bray led his champion. Leopards to their final victory, racking up four shots from the field and six from the free-throw line for 14 in all. Ramblers Lose, 36-18 League E. also had the Eagles clawing the Panthers, 20-17, to score their fourth win of the year as opposed to three losses. DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA By TED SOENS 13 21 22 21—77 16 10 13 18—57 By TOM WERNER Sax to Run 440 in Meet Saturday Swhae ome fresh from a record-smashing 600- yard victory in the IC4A meet in New York, will stick to the collegiate pastures this week when Chick Werner’s indoor thinclads travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday for a triangular meet with Ohio State and the University of Michigan. : Sax will pass up his defense of the “Casey 600,” featured in the Knights of Columbus Games in New York, to meet Jack Car rol, Michigan speedster, in the 440 yard feature at Ann Arbor. Car rol won Western Conference hon ors last year and participated in the Olympic games this summer rnder the Canadian banner. The race will mark the first indoor 440 for the sensational Sax this season. He’s run five 600 races and one 500. The event will highlight the meet which will. bring the three schools together for the first time indoors. Werner will take a 14- man squad to the contest, includ ing his two other IC4A champs, high-jumper Jim Herb and pole vaulter Dan Lorch. This will mark the third non invitational meet in which the Nittanies have participated this season. The Wernermen lost to Army earlier in the season, 63 %- 45%, and finished second in a field of 42 colleges last week in the inter-collegiate indoor champ ionships, scoring 22% points be hind winner Manhattan. WBA Eesufifs BOWLING Chi Omega over Mac Hall. Beta Sigma Omicron tied Phil otes. Alpha Gamma Delta over Lit tle Lions (forfeit) BRIDGE North-South Kappa Alpha The ta. East-West Phi Sigma Sigma. The Capitols added the finish ing touch to their 7-0 account, by finishing off the Ramblers, 36-18. Best Capitol on the floor that night was Bill Kutz with 11 points. In the same loop, the Hustlers, after being knotted with the Wil kinsburg five, 13-13, at the end of the first period of play, pulled ahead to win the contest 34-21. Top Hustler was Dick Leety with 13 markers. Ed Ritter, with 20 points, paced the Explorers’ attack in overcom ing the Owls, 34-21. This win put the,; Explorers, in league G,. be hind, the champion Sinkers who have already assured themselves of a playoff berth. The Owls ended their year with a 2-5 rec ord. CO-CAPTAIN, DON FREY picks up his Maryland foe. Bob Dreier, for a preparatory pin in the 147-pound ba'ftie in Rec Hall last night. State's 147-pound standout increased the Nittany Lions lead. 11-3, when he scored a fall in 2:45 with a half nelson inside crotch. The, pin wds his third of the season and gave him a 4-1-1 log for the season. Penn State won, 18-11. Samson’s 18-11 Win It was the closest shave Cogch Charlie Speidel’s EIWA champions had this season, but with heavyweight Hud Samson scoring a pin in championship style, Penn State’s matmen not only kept their record and Eastern honor intact but gained- Southern prestige by defeating previously-unbeaten Maryland, 18-11, last night in Rec HalL Samson had more than 5000 enthusiastic spectators standing when he almost secured a pin for ' the fifth time. The talented heavy weight, however, acknowledged the fans’ ovation by making Mary land’s Bob Evefly observe Rec Hall’s lights with a double bar in 7:50. Like the win over Cornell, Samson’s fall clinched the victory and the Nittany Lions’ 27th con secutive dual meet. Carroll Take-Down The breath-taking thriller was one of the best matches seen in Rec Hall for some time. Like any championship match, Penn Statq and. Maryland—both two-t i m e champs—put on an exhibition of open wrestling for the fans. The power-p acked Terrapin squad gave the' Nittany Lions much to think about in the open ing encounter when Roney Carroll took down EIWA champion Bob Homan for an early two-point j lead. Maryland’s 123-pounder lost! a sure pin in the takedown by one turn Homar} Wins 12-4 But it was when the 123-pound, champion got the opportunity to wrestle from the referee’s posi tion that .Homan performed his mat. knowhow. Homan reversed Carroll within a split second and THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1|53 77-57; 27th ★ ★ Pin Clinches in Dual Meet By SAM PROCOPIO then had one of.. his pins slip from under him. He did, how ever, gain a near fall on the re versal of position. In the third period Carroll es caped from Homan’s hold. He didn’t remain standing long, how ever, because Homan placed him flush with the mat and held him there until the buzzef. Gaining two points for time, advantage, Homan enhanced his - total' of points to 12, and captured his ninth successive match without a defeat. 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