TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1961
Cagers Drop Third Straight
Lost Second
Shot Wins
For Orange
By SANDY PADWE
Penn State stuck to the
script Saturday night and
blew its third straight game,
this time to Syracuse, 63-61.
Steve Berkenfeld, a Syracuse
co-captain, gave the Orangemen
(3-14) the win when he dropped a
five-foot push-shot with just
three seconds remaining.
It was the second time within
a week that John Egli saw his
Lions (9-10) lose under similar
circumstances.
Last Tuesday, West .Virginia's
Ken Ward hit on a corner jump
shot with five seconds left fo
give the Mounties an 80.78 win
in Morgantown.
Egli had visions of an upset
over the Mounties when State
took a five-point lead with 4.35
left but his Lions were too an
xious and mistakes eventually
cost them the game.
The veteran , ouch ran into
similar trouble at Colgate Friday
night.
After leading throughout most
of the first half, the Lions lost a
six-point spread by intermission.
With the pressura on and
Mark DuMars in State College
with the grippe, the Lions just
fell apart and Colgate won
80.72 thanks to a blistering sec
ond-half rally.
Then as Egli watched in utter
disbelief, Penn State pulled the
same act Saturday night in Syra
cuse.
The Lions were in command at
halftime, 40-33, and with 15 min
utes remaining they led by eight,
49-41.
But without DuMars, they sud
denly fell apart again and Syra
cuse wasted little time taking ad
vantage.
Midway in the :;econd half, the
Lions hit a cold streak and didn't
score a field goal for six minutes.
During that time Syracuse
was at the opposite extreme and
Pete Chudy's jump shot tied the
score at 55 with 8:51 left.
All-American football player
Ernie Davis put Syracuse ahead
by one, 56-55, and Loren James
gave the Orange a 58-55 lead at
7:07.
Gene Harris converted a foul
and Jake Trueblood tipped one
Frosh Basketball Team
To Meet Ogontz Center
Penn State's freshman basket
ball team will be seeking victory
number three tonight when the
Ogontz Center comes to Rec Hall.
Game timeis 6:30.
The Lions who lost their fourth
game of the season Saturday to
the Altoona Center, 75-62, de
feated Ogontz earlier this year,
65-34.
Versatile Cager
Penn State eager John Mitchell
played guard, center, and forward
at different times in his high
school career. He also starred in
football and baseball at Pitts
burgh's Central Catholic.
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in to produce a 58-58 tie with
only 5:28 showing on the clock.
Harris temporarily gave the
Lions a 60-58 lead hut a foul by
Davis and a jumper by James put
Syracuse ahead 61-60 with three
minutes left.
After the Lions missed a
chance to go ahead, the Or
ange gained possession and
went into a freeze.
State didn't make much of an
effort to get the ball and the sec
Basketball Scores
NBA
Syracuse 126 Los Angeles 121
College
Michigan State 00 Illinois SO
Duke 77 Virginia 66
Geneva 11 Slippery Rock 74
Syracuse 74 Massachusetts 66
lowa 60 Michigan 46
Morgan State 82 Virginia State 67
Ohio State 73 Indiana 60
Long Island U. 77 Adelphi 70
Siena 64 Niagara 44
St. Louis 71 Notre Dame 60
Mansfield 83 Millersville 16
Arkansas College 63 Henderson fit
Grambling 90 Texas College 40
Marshall 67 Bowling Green 60
Gettysburg 77 Delaware 70
Alabama 68 LSD 60
Two-Sport Man
John Phillips, a Penn State bask
etball starter, also plays on the
Nittany Lions' varsity baseball
team as an outfielder or third
baseman.
THE DAILY COI.LEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
MARK DUMARS
by again,
. • heal
onds ticked away.
Then the Lions got a break. Da
vis, drove toward the basket but
Ihe whs charging and Earl Hai
man went to the line. He con
•verted the free throw at 0:58 to
knot the score.
The Orange again held the ball
and with nine seconds left called
for a time out. They came up the
floor and set Berkenfeld up for
the easy pop shot.
It swished through and for the
first time this year Syracuse fans
had something to cheer about.
Syracuse's victory was a grat
ifying one because the Lions
had beaten the Orange, 77-58,
earlier when DuMars had 36 •
points.
SYRACUSE (631 PENN STATE (611
FG FTP FG FTP
Quigley 3 1- 1 7 Trueblood 5 5- 621
Churls g i- 1 17 Mitehell 6 2- 2 11
Berkenfeld 3 1- 2 7 Harris 7 1- 3 15
Connors 1 0- 0 2 Hoffman 8 1- 4 7
James 6 5- 6 17 Wilson (1 0. 0 0
Davis 4 2- 3 10 Phillips E 0- 0 4
King 1 1. 3 3
Salz 0 0- 0 0
1..0Am, 0 0. 0 0
Markey 0 0- 0 0
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Box Score
DuMars Returning
To Nitta.ny Lineup
(Continued front page one)
Virginia again is one of the top
teams in the nation.
Last week the Associated Press
ranked them 10tH in their week
ly poll and this week UPI ranks
them 14th.
The Mounties have won 18 of
their last 19 games, and currently
they're on a ten-game winning
streak.
The Mounties are an extreme
ly colorful team to watch. They
often fall behind and then re
sort to a devastating zone press
to pull them out of trouble.
Lion coach John Egli isn't ex
tremely worried about the Moun
tie press.
"I felt we got through it OK
down there," Egli said. "Mark
broke through a few limes Lind
Jake Trueblood got a real impor - -
tant basket against it."
Apparently Egli is going to
ROD THORN
wait and see how the Lions do be-I
out w ith ankle injury
. . .
fore using DuMars tonight.
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"I think I'm going to start ;
John Phillips out front with John either Joe Poseh or Ward vs'id
Mitchell," Egli said. "I'll put Mark:start up front.
in when we need him. He might' Nineteen Cany. Slulistiert 19-101
get tired because he hasn't played c rl4. 1 , PtK. Avg.
all week." " Harr( ____ 19 120 15<s, 255 15,0
; '' 2.61 i 4 i 5
The rest of the Lion lineup fl ,, i ': ( l . l ',',`,.i' l ---- :17, ;:',;' ' -. i. 929 19.0
finds Harris jumping center H 1.11101,1004 -- _ - _:l9 11' , NG 2211. 11.7 i
with Jake Trueblood and Earl 1n0rt . ,..,, ____is 63 16 142 7.9
Hoffman at the forward slots. Philii" ---- 1725 7 57 2.11
Wilson ___
..., 0 LI 0 2g 3,1
King will probably go with Lee,titaub 5 2 3 7 1.2
Patrone and Jim McCormick iniwitmer •--- I I 0 2 0.5
the backcourt. iiintehintion __ 3 0 1 1 143
!Sera fin _.._l 0 0 0 041
Jim Ritchie, Paul Miller anctothers 7 1 1(1 12 1.5
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