MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1961 Middies Nip Lion Cagers, 58-56 Poor Foul Shooting Drops Record to 7-7 By SANDY PADWE John Egli’s patience is slowly ebbing but you can't really blame him. Egli watched in' ulcerous silence Saturday as his Penn State basketball team failed miserably at the foul line and dropped a 58-56 decision to Navy at Annapolis, Md. The Lions missed 13 fouls and many were of the one-and-one variety.. “Just think,” a dejected Egli said after the game, “we out score them from the field on their homecourt and then blow it at the foul line.” Saturday's game was the third time in the last four outings that the Lions have lost at the foul line. At Bucknell, Jan. 10, they scored 31 field goals compared to 30 for the Bisons but at the foul line they were 5 for 10 while the Bisons were 11 for 17. At Army Jan. 14 it was 21-21 in field goals but the Cadets had a 14-7 edge from the free-throw line. Saturday’s win boosted Navy’s seasonal mark to 6-8 and evened State’s record at 7-7. It was a typical Navy-Penn State game—rough and close most of the way. The game was tied eight times and at the half the Middies led 28-27. • But after seven minutes of the second half, Mike Nash and the Middies began to open the gap. A three-point play and a pair of fouls by Nash gave Navy a six point lead and the Middies grad ually widened the margin to 51-42 with nine minutes left. '■ With a comfortable lead, Navy began to play possession ball but their strategy backfired a 3 the hustling Lions outscored the Mid dies 10-0 the next five minutes. Mark DuMars’ fall-away jumper with 4:09 remaning put the Lions ahead 52-21 but Dave Tremaine; scored a few seconds later to put; Navy ahead again. j Some 1200 spectators groaned | when John Phillips' push from ; the top of the key gave State j the edge, 54-53. | That was State’s last lead. Tre maine, a fiery little competitor,! made another jumper from the! corner and the Middies went in front for good with 2:05 left. j The next time the Middies! Frosh Five Drops Second To Navy, 81-71 Penn State’s freshman basket ball team dropped its second game in three outings at Navy Satur day, 81-71, and the outlook for the rest'of the season doesn’t look bright. The reason for the bleak out look is that Wayne Lundy and Charlie Marin are dropping off the squad to concentrate on their studies. Lundy, who scored 26 against the Middies Saturday, was State’s top scorer with 80 points in three games. Marin also was a starter. The Lion frosh will be in action tomorrow night against Bucknell. They lost to: the Bisons, 69-65, in Lewisburg last month. PENN STATE (711 NAVY (81) FG F Ttl FG F Ttl Lundy 11 4- 6 26Kanninsr 5 3- 5 13 Kart 12-2 4Davcnnort 2 2-28 M«rin ;) fl. i OXhoniHH 4 0-18 Donato 5 3- 3 ISMahoney 7 6- S 19 Dunn 5 0-0 lOCampbell 11 5- 5 27 Gvuukovieh 0 0-0 OTorwit’Ker 0 0-0 0 Barle 2 0- 0 4(C<?tt)ohodt 2 0-04 Bobbins 2 4- 6 8 Vaughn 12-44 Totals 29 13-18 71 Totals 32 17-22 81 Titans Hold Reins In West Penn Loop PITTSBURGH (/P) The West minster Titans currently West ern Pennsylvania's winningest college basketball team have taken over undisputed leadership in the West Penn Conference. The Titans turned the trick Sat urday night by whipping Carnegie Tech 68-56 at New Wilmington while Geneva’s Golden Tornadoes were upset 81-70 by St. Francis of Loretto at Altoona, ★ . ★ f*v • ~ i. JOHN EGLI ... those fouls! ★ ★ ★ gained possession they made it pay off. They moved the ball quickly against the Lion zone and with 41 seconds left Nash found an jopening and scored on a layup to make it 57-54. The Lions came right back on a Jake Trueblood jump and they had a chance to go ahead when they gained possession with 13 seconds left. DuMars tried a jump shot from his favorite spot at the top of the key but it missed. Ron Terwilliger iced it for Navy with a foul just before the final i buzzer, Tremaine, A 1 Hughes, who has! been hobbled by a knee injury, and Tom White all did a good defensive job on DuMars, but Tremaine deserves most of the credit. The Lions return home tomor row night against Bucknell at 8 in Rec Hall. PENN STATE <561 NAVY (581 FG F Til FG F Til DuMars 4 !i-13 14 While 11-13 Harris 3 4-8 lOTremaine 5 5- 7 15 Truebiood 7 0- fl HMiua 3 3-4 9 Mitchell 8 fl- 1 12Nnsh 4 5-5 13 Huffman 1 fl- 1 2TerwH’iier 6 3- 515 Phillips 2 0- 0 41luirhes 11-43 Kirvan 0 0-00 Totals 23 10-23 56 Totals 20 13-20 53 Halftime Score: Navy 2? Penn Stftte 27 Basketball Scores NBA Boston 123, St. Louis 121 Philadelphia 136, New York 128 Los Angeles 125, Detroit 120 ❖ ’ Local Ad Staff New office hours are in order. New accounts will be distributed. Information about the general staff test will be presented. BE THERE! . . . EVERYBODY! Tuesday - 7:00 p.m. Room 9 Carnegie THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Duke, Cincinnati Challenging Ohio State for Cage Honors I Associated Press Sports Writer j Put the weekend down as tough on basketball winning streaks except for Ohio State plus Duke and Cincinnati, two potential Buckeye challengers coming on like the winter wind. While top-ranked Ohio State breezily led the advance of fa vorites with an 80-58 rout of Mich igan for its 21st straight victory, five of the nation's gaudiest streaks were ditched—-topped by fourth-ranked Duke’s 81-77 snap per against fifth-ranked North Carolina. The Tar Heels had won 12 in a row. Duke's triumph, led by soph omore Art Heyman's 36 points, sped the Blue Devils into sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference with ! an 8-0 record while avenging | their only loss of the season in I 17 starts 76-71 to North Caro lina in the Dixie Classic final in December. It was Duke’s seventh in a row since the Tar Heel spill, and surg ing Cincinnati bolted to its 11th straight and 16th in 19 tries, 77-60, over sixth-ranked lowa at Chi cago Stadium. But elsewhere the big streakers went tumbling: . Eighth-ranked Southern Cali fornia, the Big Five conference leader with eight straight, lost to UCLA 86-83 despite a 37-point show by John Rudometkin. The Trojans had whipped the Uclans in the first of the two-game set Friday 78-63. Florida, erstwhile co-leader of the Southeastern Conference, with seven in a row, was routed 89-68 by mediocre Kentucky. Mississip pi State, winning its eighth [straight, took over the undisputed SEC lead at 6-0 by thumping LSU 77-61. ; Memphis State (15-2), a prime tournament hopeful with six Bucknell Loses Scoring Star LEWISBURG, Pa., (JP) Dick Kniffen, the high-scoring co captain of the Bucknell basket ball team, has dropped the sport for the remainder of the sea son. The University reported that the junior from Kokomo, Ind„ planned to concentrate on his studies to avoid further aca demic difficulties. He had been averaging 20 points per gaime. Bucknell’s next game is with Penn State at University Park, tomorrow night. Kniffen scored 16 points against the Lions last month when the Bisons won, 71-67 here. MEETING By DON WEISS Heym a n , contained when North Carolina beat Duke in their earlier meeting, broke loose for 24 of his 36 points in the second half including six in a row after the Tar Heels had grabbed a 73-70 lead. The game ended in a free-for all among the players and some spectators at. Durham,'touched off when North Carolina’s Larry Brown collided with Hoyman with nine seconds remaining. The loss, dropped NCAA-ineli gible North Carolina i7-l) to third place in the ACC behind Duke (8-0) and Wake Forest (9-1), a 78-09 winner over Maryland. . Bob Wieserihan's 25 points led T __ nv j TT _. _ Cincinnati, which hasn’t lost since * propping a 72-53 Missouri Valley * * (Conference-decision to loop lead straight victories and 32 in a ro\v, er Bradley on Dec. 23. Bradley at home, was walloped at Mem-; now j s 5.1 j n the MVC, with Cin phis by Dayton (12-8), 96-77. jcinnati percentage points behind And Army, with a nine-game 'at 6-2. burst representing its longest e«:i, streak in 16 years, was knocked Syracuse Fails tO Show, off 86-62 by Boston College in Colgate Subs for Orange Boston. - It was a weekend of tough sled- Coupled with lOth-ranked Kan-'ding for-sports in the East, sas States 71-63 success over; The national TV college.baskct- Oklahoma, and loses earlier in jball series avoided a cancellation tile wek for third-ranked Brad-jbecauso of the snow, but needed ley. seventh-ranked Louisville, a scramble to do it. When Syra and nine-ranked St. John’s, an-, C use couldn’t get to Utica, N.Y., ,other reshuffling of the nation’sion time, .Colgate stepped in and fop ten is in order. U p Se t NYU 80-75 in the TV game. Ohio State remains clearly at But even the Red Raiders need the head of the list, however, ed a tow from a farmer's tractor after toying with the Wolverines to get there on time. Syracuse at Michigan hitting 66 per cent finally showed up and lost 100-71 from the field in the first half to Holy Cross, which was to have and using its regulars only 30 played Colgate, in the second minutes. game of the doubleheader. John Havlicek, who hit ninc for-nine in the first half, and Mel Nowell each had 18 points. All- America Jerry Lucas scored 17 points and grabbed II rebounds for the Bucks, who play tough Indiana (10-4) at Columbus to night. PAGE NINE
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