PAGE SIX Mat men Lions Take 5 Weights; Frosh Beaten, 20-6 By ROY WILLIAMS Two sophomore wrestlers opened against Le high Saturday, facing their first varsity compe tition,~and despite their losses to two'of Lehigh’s best men, Penn State won, 17-13. The win was the Lions’ seventh straight over Lehigh. - Although it appeared that Lehigh pushed the Lions to the final wire before dropping the con test, mat coach Charlie Speidel said yesterday that “once John Pepe won the 137-pound bout, 1 never felt we were in danger of losing.” Last year Penn State clinched a 15-13 win when Bill Oberly copped the heavyweight decision. Penn State jumped off to a 11-0 lead in the first three matches; Lehigh then countered with two pins and a decision to lead, 13-11. Then Co- captains Bill Oberly and Joe Krui scored decisions for a 17-11 score. 'Performing before a capacity crow of 3200 Lehigh fans, junior Sid Nodland copped his sec ond straight win with a 4-1 decision over Bob Myers. Le high soph. Myers scored his only point in the first period on an escape. Johnny Johnston also won his second match when he turned in a surprising pin on Lehigh’s mat veteran, Tom Deppe at 130 pounds. Johnston led 4-2 when he got a one-half nelson and head chancery on Deppe at 6:50 for the five-pointer. With an 8-0 team lead, Pepe was penalised two points in the second period for an illegal' hold. In the third period he countered with five points plus siding lime to hand Dave Bates his fust loss of the season at 137. Lehigh struck a solid blow to the Lions’ mid section when it capitalized on Penn State’s pri mary weakness—the middle weights. Captain Ed Eichelberger walked on the mats in the 147 pounder battle, and met sophomore Earl Poust. ’“Poust got in there and mixed it up, countered, and was clere,” Speidel said of his in experienced soph, *’but Ike just had too many guns.” Eichelberger is National and Eastern 147-pound 1955 champ. Eichelberger led 6-2 when he scored the first-period pin with an arm bar and chan cery. Lehigh narrowed the gap to three points when Joe Gratto narrowly picked off Dave Ad ams in the 157-pound bracket. Adams and Gratto were stale mated 2-2 in the first period, and 5-5 entering the-final stan za. Adams reversed Gratto at lhe start of the final period, but Gratto reversed him. gained a near fall, and had riding time to win. 10-7; Adams was lead ing 7-5 until the final 15 sec onds. Lehigh forged ahead when vet eran Dick Whited met ex-Lion footballer Ray Pottios at 167- pounds. Whited took a quick 4-0 lead, and then got the pin at 4:22 with a bar arm and chancery. Lehigh, with its best wrestlers already relaxing on the bench, sent Joe Walton at 177 and heavy weight Dave Gallaher to protect its slim 13-11 lead after six matches were completed. They failed. Krufka put the Lions back into lhe lead, 14-13. when he decisioned Walton. The match practically turned into a merry go-round as Krufka was forced to chase Walton to the edge of the mat at least six'times, only to have Walton roll off the mat, and out of Krufk&'s pinning at tempts. Krufka commanded lhe entire match and won, 5-0. Oberly met Gallaher, and won 6-4, as he had some of the same trouble that Krufka faced as he attempted to work for the pin. Oberly got the first-period take down, then Gallaher reversed him. In the second period Oberly tame up from the bottom for two, and JACK'S Barber Shop 131 S. Pugh St. Win 2d; 157-pound bout at Lehigh Saturday. Adams lost his first match of the season when Gratto decision ed him. Jka, 177-pounder, Frosh Cagers Win Ist; Top Altoona Center 85-62 Coach Don Swegan’s freshman basketball squad posted its first win of the season Saturday night with a 85-62 victory over Altoona Center on the loser’s court. The Lion yearlings, who also hold two exhibition wins over the junior varsity, meet Bucknell Wednesday night in their second test Today is Deadline For Six-Day Ski Trip Registration Gordon McCartney, president of the Penn State Outing Club, an nounced that 7:30 tomorrow night is the deadline for signing up for the Winter Sports Division’s ski trip to Allegheny State Park to be held from Jan 26 through Jan. 31. Those interested should sign up at the main desk in the Hetzel Union Building. A $5 deposit must be paid upon registering. Tonight in the HUB Auditorium the Club will present a film en titled “Winter in New -York.” There will be a discussion of the coming ski trip following the movie. then allowed Gallaher to escape. Oberly picked up a point fof time. The frosh took a 20-6 trouncing by the same Lehigh lineup—with one exception—that lost to Cor nell’s frosh, 14-12. Penn Slate won the 137- pound bout when Dean Seltzer de cisioned Andy Corcoran. 3-0; ~ and the 167-pound tussle when George Gray shutout Bill Gus lifson, 5-0. Bruce Gilmore dropped a nar row 3-2 match to Dave Lennox, 117 pounder. John Evans, 147-pounder, lost by another one-point margin to Richard Santora, 8-7. Evans and Santoro battled to a 4-4 first period score; in the second period Santora took a 7-6 lead, but in the last period Evans escaped to knot it at 7-7. Santora got the nod on riding time. Joe Cramp, 123; Don Peters, 130; Bill Labone, 157; and heavyweight Clem Newbold also lost. HOME... Stop in and. fill up with that Good GULF gasoline. A quick checkup at no charge will keep your car running longer. Make Bathurst Gulf your regu lar stop. BATHURST GULF SERVICE Open 24 Hours W. College and Atherton THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA of the 1955-56 campaign, Nine of the 10-man frosh trav eling squad dented the scoring col umn against Altoona with five of the men hitting in double figures. Tom Hancock led the parade with 22 points followed by Carmen Palmiero, 18, Bob Edwards, 16, Greg Schwendeman, 16, and Joe Fenkel, 10. However, Altoona’s Bob In gram topped all scorers with a 27-point barrage. Teammate Smith also hit the double figures with 12 counts. Altoona jumped off to a 7-2 lead at the start of the fray but the frosh soon tied it up. The lead exchanged hands sporadically throughout the first 15 minutes of the game, but with five minutes remaining in the half, the frosh spurted ahead, taking a 45-32 lead. It was 57-50 in the early mo ments of the second period, but that was the closest the Moun taineers ever came, as Swegan’s forces padded their lead. Swegan was not too impressed about the freshman triumph. “Our shooting was way off—especially our layups,” the frosh mentor said, “and our defense could do With a good bit of improvement.” ma Ywk Mi WasMmtM Cagers Lose Panthers Topple Lions, 78-60; Marisa Scores 15 for Nittanies Dropping its third consecutive game and second straight on the road, the Penn State basketball team once again got cold in the final minutes Saturday night in the Pitt Field House and lost a 78-60 verdict to the Panthers. The loss was the Lions’ seventh against five wins. Rudy Marisa, who had his best night of the season Friday when the Lions dropped an 81-79 decision to West Virginia, again led the Nittanies in the scoring column with 15 points. He had 27 against the Mountaineers, and in three games he has scored 57. He now trails only Co-captain Bobby Hoffman for individual Penn State scoring honors. Hoffman is 'averaging 16.3 per game and Mar isa is connecting at a 11.3 pace. He also led the Lions in the re bound department against the Panthers. Shooting mostly from side court, he managed to keep the Lions in the game until Pitts burgh began to pull away in the final 10 minutes Leisher Looking Goc-d Bob Leisher, who is steadily proving that Coach John Egli’s decision to move him up among the first six on the Nittany roster was a correct one, was second for Penn State with 11. He was fol lowed by Hoffman’s 10 and Co captain Earl Field’s 8. Center Bob Ramsey also had 8 for the Lions, and Steve Baidy, Norm Hall, Joe Hartnett, and Ron Rainey rounded out the Lions’ scoring for the evening. Lazor Leads Scorers Pitt’s 6-4 pivotman, Bob Lazor, was the night’s individual high high scorer with 28 points. The majority of his points came as a result of clever maneuvering for short shots and tip.-ins under the Panther offensive boards. Pete Reiser connected on only four field goals, but made 10 of 12 fowl attempts to take the games second scoring honors with 18 points. As a team, Penn State was be low its usual par in shooting per centage-connecting on 27 per cent —while Pitt, getting consid erably more shots from the floor, made an average 33 per cent. Pitt Leads in Field Goals For the first time in several games the Lions were outscored from the floor, making 17 field goals—ld less than the winners. However, the Nittanies were suc cessful on two more attempts from the free throw. They made 26 of 40 and Pitt hit on 24 of 33. The Lions trailed by nine points TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1956 By RON GATEHOUSE at intermission—37-28, and after half of the second period had elapsed they were behind by 10. At that point. Penn State couldn’t seem to find the handle and as a result lost several scoring at temDts on sloppy passes and couldn’t find the basket. Meanwhile, the Panthers were taking advantage of the Nittanv mistakes and put the game out of reach. Ramsay, who scoring-wise has been disappointing in the Lions' last few outings, got Penn State off to a good start with three quick two-Dointers in the opening minutes. He made one additional field goal before fouling out in the second half. In 12 Penn State games to date he has committed 52 personal fouls—the closest man is Marisa who has 38. Hoffman Leads With 195 Marisa’s recent scoring splurge leaves him with a 12-game total of 135 points; Hoffman has 195. Also above the century mark are Fields, 121; Ramsay. 109; and sophomore Steve Baidy, 102. Bai dv, who has been high scorer for the Nittanies in three games, has also been in a recent scoring slump. Hoffman has led the Lions in five games, and Marisa has been high on three occasions. The latter two shared the honors in one game. The Lions travel to Bucknell tomorrow for their third straight away game. PENN STATE F« F Tl. F* P Tl. Field* 1 «- * * Hlmt 4 10-12 18 Hoffman 1 B*lo 10 Fcfws 4 ft- ft 8 Ramsey 4 0- 1 8 Lstor * 12 2- 326 Marian 4 7- 8 IS Fenwick 2 2-20 Baidy 9 1- K 1 Hursh 0 4-74 Hall 2 0-04 Laneri 02-22 Leisher 4 3* 5 11 Lester 10-12 Hartnett ft 1* 2 1 Kleinian 2 0-14 Rainey 1 ft- ft 2 Zimmovm 1 4- 6 6 Ritter ft 0- ft 0 Markovich 1 0- ft 2 Totals 17 20-40 «0 Totals 27 24-33 78 PENN STATE 28—78 PITT . 37—ftft Woodrow '56 Captain Don Woodrow, of Pittsburgh, is the newly-elected captain of Penn State’s 1956 cross-country team. The Perry High graduate succeeds Doug Moorhead, of North East.
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