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
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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
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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-
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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
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THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 1963
89-73
up the slack with his long jumpers
from the corner.
West Virginia held a 67-53 lead
midway through the second half
when the-Lions made their big move.
With Hoffman and Weiss leading
the way, the Lions closed the gap to
70-65 with 7:10 remaining. A minute
later, Hoffman swished a jumper and
State was within three of closing the
gap-
The Lions had the ball a moment
later with a chance to pull within
one, but shots by Hoffman, Malin
chak and Avillion all missed.
Thorn hit three straight jumpers
and Wolfe hit two others and the
Lions were out of the contest.
PENN STATE WEST VIKGINIA I
FG F T FG F T 1
10 2 22 Catlett 2 0 0 3
Oil Wolfe 9 10 2H J
7 4- 18 Lowry 1 113 |
9 1 18 Thorn 9 0 18 §
2 2 6 McCormick 6 113 §
g Hoffman
H Avillion
1 Malinchak-
| Donato
§ Hoover
s Ludwig
10 2 Weir
g Shuck
I Total* 31 11 73 Total*
jl Halftime score: .
s West Virginia 46, Penn State 38
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in Philadelphia.
, A move to eliminate the terri
torial draft rule failed to gain
two-thirds approval. The draft
rule lets a team, no matter what
its -place in the standings, have
first claim on players within a
50-mile radius.
BASKETBALL SCORES
Furman 66, Va. Tech 61
Harvard 59, Dartmouth 55
Louisville 75, Xavier (Ohio) 66
North -Carolina 67, N.C. State 65
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