PAGE SIX West Virginia By DEAN BILLICK Sports Editor MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Jan. 16 —A young, but scrappy, Penn State basketball team fought tooth and nail with 9th-ranked West Virginia through the first 35 minutes here to night, but couldn’t cope with the Mountaineers’ fast break and drop ped its third game in 12 starts, 89-73. Led by the shooting of Earl Hoff man, Bob Weiss and Tom Malinchak, the Lions drove within three points of the Mounties, 70-67, with 6:16 re maining. But West Virginia iced the game on three fast breaks and a long one-hander by Mike Wolfe, who led both teams with 28 points. "IT WAS a much closer game than the final score indicated,” Mountie coach George King said in the locker room after the game. “Penn State had a bigger and better team than I expected. “We expected a real scrap and we got it. Egli has that team coming along real well. They have real good Wrestling By JIM BUKATA A new wrestling dynasty is developing in the East, one that may last for at least three years. The perennial / powerhouses, Pill, Lehigh and Penn State, now have to take a back seat to Syra cuse, the East’s top wrest ling team. Coached by Joe Scandura, the Orange have swept to four con secutive victories with a team predominantly made up of sopho mores and juniors. ALREADY THIS season, they have crushed Lehigh and Pitt, both considered to be the lead ing contenders. With the wrestling season near ing the half-way point, six of the Orange wrestlers still remain unbeaten. Heading the list is Bethel Greenhalgh, a 130-pounder. Greenhalgh defeated Eastern Champion Pat Smartt of Lehigh and drew with Mike Johnson, Pitt’s great sophomore. Gary Sirota at 157 and Dick Slutsky at IG7 are other return ing iettermen who remain un beaten. Sirota placed fourth"' in the Easterns last year. THE BIG REASON the Orange are “riding high" is the perform ance of their sophomores.' Terry Haise (123), Gerry Ever ling (191) and Jim Nance (Hwt) have strengthened the Syracuse lineup this season. While Syracuse dominates as the strong team of the East, many individuals are making a name for themselves with outstanding wrestling. DESPITE A LOSS at the hands of Maryland’s Bob -Kopnisky, NCAA champion Mike Natvig of Army looks like the top threat for the 157-pound Eastern cham pionship. His main opposition CORDUROY SUITS $16.50 PARISH'S MENS SHOP 113 S. GARNER ST. * PARTTIME EMPLOYMENT Advertising manager of inier nalional firm requires 16 college men for promotional work. Must have average grades and two afternoons free.- Car unnecessary. $l5 per day. For appointment, rail Mr. Cross,' AD 7-7112, 9 a.ra. to I p.m. -K size and that Hoffman can really shoot. “From what I saw here tonight our game in Rec Hall is going to be a real cliff hanger. I expect it to be as close as two or three points.” Lion coach John Egli wasn’t dis appointed by his team’s showing. “I thought it was a well-played game,” Egli said. “I think that this is as good a West Virginia team as I’ve ever seen. The fact is, we are better than usual. The other teams are coming up to West Virginia and the fans are just go ing to have to become reconciled to it.” The win was the Mounties’ 11th con secutive over the Lions and moved their .season record to 11-3. It was on the boards and with a fast break that West Virginia sub- Dynasty Rises JO£ SCANDURA . . . Syracuse coach ★ ★ ★' should come from Tom Carr of Pitt, Harley Ferguson of Lehigh, and Sirota. • . Merriam, Haise and Fred Craw ford of Navy should battle it out for the 123-pound title. Off early season performances, th'e 130-pound class could de- Ex §3 I fo 1 Hear Those Jarnmin' Sounds... 1 | the I Catalinas | i Music GREAT for Dancing at STATE • | | M | Call: Tom Bohn AD 7-2315 | | Ed La Dov UN 5-4837 I || ‘ | Welcome to | 1 Alpha Chi Rho's i [ CHOCOLATE MILK PARTY i | (in honor of Kaiser’s birthday) | | 9:00 p.m. SATURDAY | | Dress: Crazy hais and ties | | Rushees Welcome! f I P.S. Regular party Friday night. | ftiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiEiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiH THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA in Syracuse velop as the best in the Easterns, which will be held this year at Navy. JIM MELDRIM of Cornell, Haney, Johnson, Greenhalgh and Smartt all shape up as strong contenders. Haney, still unbeaten for the Lions, must face Meldrim, John son and Greenhalgh in dual meet competition. The other unbeaten State wrestler, George Edwards, should face his stiffist competition in the 147-pound class from Slutsky and Dom DeMeo of Cornell. Ed wards and DeMeo wrestle each other this week at Cornell. The 167-pound class, for the third consecutive year, is being dominated by Kirk Pendleton of Lehigh. The two-lime Eastern champion has beaten everyone he has faced in decisive fashion. ' A real scramble should take place at 177-pounds, where no one is outstanding. With Ray Nickla of Army, Den Focht of Rutgers, Ed Pohland of State, and Everling leading the way, the 191-pound class shapes up as a top weight class, and the heavyweight division should be a two-man battle between Nance and defending Eastern champion Ed Scharer of Rutgers. Romps, dued the Lions in this, the graveyard for opposing teams. The Mounties have, lost only two games in seven years here and the last time State did it was in 1955. The Mountids outrebounded State 64-50 and posted more field goals, 37-31. BUT IT WAS a game Lion team that didn’t quit tonight that almost pulled the upset no one thought was possible. Behind as many as 15 points in the second half, the Lions clawed their way within the three-point margin on a basket by Hoffman, but that was as close as State could get. Hoffman was high man for the Nittanies with 22 points, followed by Weiss with 19 and Malinchak with 18. Ron Avillion with one point and Bob Donato with six points had “off nights” or else State just might have done it. Hoffman 'Rod-Thorn was held to 18 points, six under his average, but Wolfe took NBA Rejects Franchise Bids From Philadelphia, Kansas City ; LOS-ANGELES (TP) The Na tional Basketball Association’s board of governors rejected yes terday applications for franchises in Philadelphia and Kansas City.- The governors tabled an appli cation by Irwin and Israel Feldt for a franchise in Baltimore. It is scheduled for further consider ation at the board’s next meeting in New York. Howard L. 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