Baseballers
Penn State baseball coach' team plays its first game on
Chuck Medlar, would like' to April 5 (at Lehigh) and this
follow the United Airlines doesn’t begin
travel agent’s advice and printing again until April 10.
“come on down” to Florida So, without further ado:
for a pre-season exhibition
workout.
Unfortunately, Medlar and
his baseball team won’t be
heading south this year, as
they normally do, so their
progress as a team will be
delayed unless Happy Valley
gets some balmy spring
weather.
, ,“We’ve got to get outside,"
Medlar, who also doubles as
head of Penn State’s trainers,
said yesterday while deciding
whether to send -his squad
outside for an afternoon of
practice. .
“We’ll know more, about.,
some of our players once we
get outside. We need a break
in the weather and if we don’t
get it we’ll be behind all the
teams we play during the
early part of our schedule,”
he added.
As for the team, a positiori
by-position roundup would be
appropriate at this time,
seeing as how the baseball
Netters
By MARK SIMENSON
Collegian Senior Reporter
One of the most notable
revivals on the Penn State
campus has been the Lion
tennis team.
Playing a schedule that
yielded more defeats than
victories for several decades,
State received an antidote for
its losing plague in 1965. The
medicine came in the form of
a hew tennis coach, Holmes
Cathrall. The Lion mentor
has reversed, the tennis
program and has made the 1
netters an Eastern power.
Last year Cathrall- used
only two lettermen and a few
underclassmen to post the
most wins (11) in any season
in _6o_y_ears. _After finishing
second to Columbia in the
Lady gymnasts
Penn State’s women’s gym
team (9-4) finished its season
Saturday with a 88.6-82.5 win
over Towson State College.
Cathy McCardle took a first
in the vaulting competition
with an 8.5 while Debbie
Renton won the runner-up
honors by tabulating a score
of 8.45. Miss Renton also won
the floor exercise with an 8.05.
Margie Kessler placed
twice, winning the balance
beam (7.75) and finishing
i. third in the floor exercise with
a 7.95. Darcie Stolz’ 6.65 was.
good enough for second place
in the balance beam.
Peg Portman led the Lady
Lions on the parallel' bars
compiling an 8.05. Dorrie
DeLuca finished behind her
PSU Hockey Club
faces full slate "
The Penn State hockey club
will face a full schedule this
weekend in the Ice Pavilion.
The Hampden ~Leafs~,~who
hail from the' Harrisburg-
Jlershey area; will face off
against the Penn State “B”
squad Friday night at 10:10.
The Leafs lost both their
.previous._encounter.s_. this,
season with coach Larry
Hendry’s “A” team.
The Penn State “B” team is
composed' of 20 players
chosen from the hockey club’s
six intramural teams.'
The Lions’ “A” crew will
meet Maryland Saturday
afternoon at 4:30 and Sunday
morning at 9.: 30. .
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charge for any of the games.
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PITCHERS—The ' Lions
return two starters from last
season; lefty Jim Conroy and
righty Rick Sherkel. Conroy,
a senior, will ;be the staff
leader. .He’s : sneaky fast,
throws a nice curve; changes
speeds well and complements
Sherkel quite well.
Sherkel is one of those guys
who likes to fire fast ball after
fast ball and then, when the
hitter least expects it, slip by
a fat change of pace,. He had
great, success in the latter
half of last season.
Medlar went with three
starters last year.
Righthander John Maier and
lefty Frank Stulgis have the
most experience of the other
returnees and should vie for
the third spot. Pushing them
will be Tom Kirsch, Carl
Dunn, football' player Jadk
Koniszewskir John Stoken,
Fred Adams and Len Bartek..
Medlar says each pitcher
has shown promise thus far
will be strong again
Easterns, Penn State was the
v highest ranked team from the
'East at the Nationals with a
20th place.
The team that made their
opponents know the meaning
of the word “loye” is back
practicing at the indoor
courts next to the Ice
Pavilion.
Putting it simply, the squad
is loaded with talent this year.
Cathrall has eight letter
winners returning and that
includes the entire 1971 team..
“We are stronger down the
line where most teams are
stacked at the top of their line
up,” Cathrall said.
This year’s team presents
Cathrall with the problem of
who will be the number one
end season
with a score of 7.95.
Miss Kessler, Miss Renton
and Miss Portman will"
compete in the eastern
championships March i_B_in_
Springfield, Mass.
Brown All-ECAC
Penn State sophomore Ron
Brown was named to the All-
ECAC team last week after
scoring 25 points in the Lions’
77-66 win -over Rutgers
Saturday. ,•
Brown, a strong candidate
for ECAC sophomore-of-the
year, appeared on the weekly
team three other times this
season.
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look for sunny skies
but reiterates, “you never
know for- sure until you get
outside.” The baseball team
has spent most of its practice
time inside the Ice Pavilion,
where a dirt layout has been
provided.
INFIELDERS—MedIar is
set at three positions. Mark
Tanner, the leading home run
and rbi producer last season,
will again man the first base
slot.
Soph Jerry Micsky, who hit
over .300 as a freshman last
year, is again at shortstop
while Don Stine will play third
base.
Pete Warchal has the inside
track on the second base
position vacated by Mike
Smith. Medlar says “he looks'
fine in the field, is agressive
"and-attacks the ball at-the
plate.”
Other, infielders are
utilitymen Jim Taylor, Rob
Kepler, Sam Lammie, Glenn
Morsey and Ken Smith.
OUTFIELDERS Harry
Rogers, Dennis De_Witt and
Cliff Steffy. Remember the
names. You’ll see them more
than a few times before the
player on the courts. “Any of
our top four can beat each
other,” he said.
"Cathrall indicated Walker
Shivar Has the inside track for
the top spot due to his play as
the top seed last Spring.
Applying pressure on
Shivar will be Tom Wright,
freshman Jan Bortner and
sohpomore John Karr.
Wright, a 142-pound wrestler
for coach Bill Koll during the
winter, is also' a doubles
player.
. The State College native is
teamed with Shivar. They
were the best doubles team in
the East Hast year.
The upcoming tennis
season has been made
tougher by scheduling three
tennis- powers, Penn,
Columbia and Hampton In
stitute. •
The'key to the early season
performances will be the
Southern trip that the team is
making during the term
break. Modeled after the .
rigorous NBA schedule, the*
. J tinery_ includes-16 stops- in -15
days. Traveling as far South
as Georgia, the net men will
be taking advantage :of the
good climate to play outside,
a risky practice for those
native to Happy Valley air
currents
With the advent of fresh
man eligibility, Penn State’s
schedule becomes rougher.
Cathrall wouldn’t hazard a
guess to his team’s chances.
A repeat 11-2 record against
this season’s”: better ‘teams
Spring term is over. The first
two were regulars last'year
while Steffy'. a senior, has
played sporadically over the
past two years and is finally
stepping into a spot of his
own. '
Others competing for jobs
are Bill Burkert, Jack Throm,
Lammey (he also plays
outfield), Art Ochs and Bill
Tussey.
CATCHERS George
Coval, last'“year’s regular, is
back and that’s a comforting
thought for Medlar. Com
peting with him for a job are
football player Gary Hager
and an ex-GI, Walt Stankus.
Both handle' the glove well
and -the only question is
whether they can make
contact, according to Medlar.
OUTLOOK—MedIar has
sent the Lions to four post
season tourneys in his nine
'years as coach, including two
years in a row. With six
regulars returning, along
with' two experienced _ pit
chers, Medlar may
three in a row. A little sun
shine wouldn’t hurt his
chances at all.
would be an accomplishment,
but Cathrall won’t be satisfied
until his ■ team goes un
defeated all the way.
SHIVAR
Play ball?
MARK TANNER; first-baseman on the Penn State baseball
team, may really be a "cool’' character. Tanner and the
Lions will not be making the spring trip to Florida this year.
Their fate is in.the hands of the State College weather.
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