FRIDAY, PE,BRUARY 1, 1963 1 r c agers ~er te• f ' By DEAN BRUCK Sports Editor The Penn State basketball team boosted its chances for a post-season tourney bid last night in Rec Hall with a 75-64 win over Carnegie Tech, but it's a good thing there wasn't anyone from the selection commit tees watching the game. In short, while the Lions did win their eleventh in fourteen starts, the manner in which they did it wasn't too impressive. The cagers staggered and sputtered against an under manned Tech team that shouldn't have even -been on the same floor. STATE TOOK a brief 3-0 lead' and then sat back and watched while the Tartans played a ball control game that jumped them into a 16-9 lead. Tedi held the lead until 3:19 re maining in the first half when the Nittanies finally edged into the lead on two foul shots by Earl Hoffman for a 22-21' margin. While State didn't impress -too many of the 3,000 fans that attended the game, Tech coach Mel Cratsley liked what he saw of the Lions. "This is probably the best Penn State team that I've seen in my 14 ,k, —Collegian Photo by Den Coleman . . BULLS-EYE—Lion co-captain Earl Hoffman Tech in Rec Hall. 'Hoffman scored 26 points as arches one of his patented jump shots toward the State won its 11th in 14 starts. hoop during last night's 75-64 win over Carnegie . - PRELIMINARY TRYOUTS - , for Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival Eastern Poetry Reading Festival East StroudAourg Reading Festival , TUESDAY —_ FEBRUARY 5 - 3-4. P.M. 4.5 P.M. 5.5:30 P.M. Read 5 minutes of your favorite prose, poetry, or drama - Sign the list on door of 311 Sparks Bldg. indicating the hour convenient to you not later than Feb. 4, 5 P.M. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA years at Tech," Cratsley said in the locker room. "You probably had your poorest game and we had our best one and still you beat us by 10 or 11 points. 'Your club is young and they're going to get better." While joking about it, the Tech coach ad mitted he felt the only way the Tartans could have won was to play complete ball control "We figured we'd have to shoot around 100 per cent from the field to win," Cratsley said. "I told the boys not to shoot unless Hof (man they thought they had a 75 per cent chance of nailing it. I know the crowd didn't like it, but we didn't come here to play a game for the crowd." CRATSLEY SAID he felt the Lions' Hoffman was the big differ ence in the game. Hoffman scored 26 points. "He is the best shot we've played against this yeai," the Tartan coach said. "Every time we thought we were getting close, he'd pop one of those jumpers in frOm outside. it's kinda hard to stop shooting - like that." 'The Liun co-captain hit on 11 of 20 shots to up his shooting percentage to near the 50 per cent mark. State, as a team, shot-47.5 r per cent from th e field. Tech hit on 45.4 per cent While Tech played the old-fashion, slow down type ball, it was State's fast break and superior heighth ad vantage that was the deciding factor. Time and again the Lions would clear the Donato boards and fast break with either Bobby Donato,- Bob Weiss or Hoff man at the scoring end of the break. Donato had one of his best nights with 17 points and Weiss was third high scorer with 14. George Frazier was the top point getter for Tech with 15 points. Sam Cupps, the stocky but aggressive Tar tan center, was next with 13. THE. LOSS for Tech was their eighth agains five wins Freshmen Crush Altoona For 4th Straight Victory After a sluggish start, the Penn State freshman basketball team rolled to its fourth straight win of the season last night in Ree Hall with a 93-59 over the Altoona Center. The Altoona team took an early . 8-6 lead in the game as the Lion frosh were cold from the field. .Then, led by the hot outside shooting of guard Jim Reed and good playmaking by Jerry * * * Roseboro, the frosh slowly pulled away to a comfortable 48-23 half time lead. HIGH SCORING Carver Clin ton and Ray Saunders controlled the boards in the first half and also chipped in with key points. The frosh 'Built up a 41-16 lead with 4:00 remaining before coach Snowy Simpson pulled his start ing five. Some sloppy defensive play by the frosh early in the second half kept the Altoona team in the game as they' took advantage of the loose play to score easy buckets However, as soon as Altoona looked like they were making a comeback, Reed went to work hitting his long, high-arching 20- foot jump shot. When the Altoona zone defense moved out to cover Reed, Clinton and Saunders started hitting kir the key hole and the corners. Midway through the -- second half, Simpson cleared. the bench and let his reserves play the -re mainder of the game. " Reed led all scorers with 23 points while Clinton had ,19 and Saunders 18. Mike McCoy topped the Altoona team with. 16 points. LEVINE BROS. MEN'S SHOP GROUP OF SUITS TOPCOATS SPORTCOATS ONE GROUP OF i HEAVY SWEATERS • $5 VALUES to $16.95 Every Winter Item Reduced Greatly For ,This Special Sales Event LEVINE BROS. MEN'S SHOP State's biggest lead of the night was a 72-58 margin, but most of the game was played within the 10-point mark. The Lions led just 32-29 at halftime and with only 7:50 remain ing in the game the lead was just, 51-47. But Weiss, Terry Hoover and Hoff man hit on successive shots on the end of State's fast breaks to ice the game. "We threw a couple of bad passes toward the end and it might have meant the difference in the game," Cratsley reasoned after the game. "Our boys panicked a couple of times and that was it." State won't play again until Feb. 9 at Navy when the drive for a post season tourney bid begins in earnest. The summaries PENN STATE FG 1."11' 17 Euppi NV visa 6 214 • Morrison Hoffman 1 I 1 26 I', axiet A villion 2 0 I ' Laird alincha 1, 2 3 i N led ra 1 3 6 Wet runelt 2 0 I I 0 2 liorkow,k i 2 0 I 0 0 0 Male: try 0 0 0 Itit chi.. 0 1 1 Toth 21., II GA 29 17 75 11nIftirne seOre: Penn Suite 32; Carnegie Teeti 29 ALTOONA Fit F TP Watkins 0 13 Chilton McCoy 6 fi 15 Neurnsys Rolnick 43 3 15 Sounders Will 2 7 11 Rote's., 0 Coterie 0 (I 0 Reed McCreary 1 0 2 Tedrow .Johnson 0 t I liassman Lightner 1 0 2 Reilly Sella f Strickittall Totals 21 17 59 Tot:lN DOLLAR DAYS ONE GROUP OF DIRER 1 / 2 Off COATS SHAKER SWEATERS $6.50 SIZES SMALL & LARGE STATE COLLEGE, PA PAGE NINE •ru:cu 1.;1•"11` 4 6 13 I 0 8 6 :i I 5 3 II :i 2 8 JIM RZ,7:I) * * k 1' EN N ST A T 1 , , Ft ; I , I 1 0 7 1 5 0 10 3 2 I 1 0 / 0 1 0 1/ 2 Off
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