Sherkel gives fast, fast relief
tate sweeps
By RAY McALLISTER
Assistant Sports Editor
Some unexpected hitting
frorri the bottom of the lineup
brought Penn State a sweep of
its Saturday doubleheader
with Ft'der. The Lions (10-1)
took each game from the
Broncs (9-5) by a 3-2 score.
Rick Sherkel finished off
both games in relief retiring
each of the seven batters he
faced during the afternoon.
Ironically, Sherkel, who won
the second game and stands 4-
0, ended both contests by
retiring Rider shortstop Rich
Bender.
Penn State's hitting may
not have been frequent but it
was timely. It was also long
as six of the Lions' safeties
went for two or three bases.
Several came out of the
bottom portion of the batting
order.
Lefthander Jim Conroy (5-
0) started the opening contest
but was shaky in a couple of
frames. He escaped from
trouble in the third but was
nicked for two runs in the fifth
on a single, a free pass and a
triple to deep center by
shortstop Bender.
State, meanwhile, had been
doing some scoring of its own.
Leadoff hitter Cliff Steffy hit
the first pitch in the first
inning to the fence in right
center and wound up on third.
He later scored on Gerry
Micsky's ground out. It was
Micsky's 11th RBI of the
season, tops on the club.
George Coval tripled to left
field in the second, then
scored on Denny DeWitt's
single. The Lions made it 3-0
in the third inning on Harry
Rogers' walk, Micsky's
sacrifice and Don Stine's
double down the right field
line.
Conroy, trying to protect
the 3-2 lead, seemed to tire
late in the game. When he
gave up a single with one gone
in the seventh Medlar called
upon Sherkel. The
righthander got the first
batter on a fly to center, then
fanned Bender to end the
game.
State coach Chuck Medlar's
search to find a third starter
behind Conroy and Sherkel
gave John Maier a chance at
Women golfers win
Andrea Dutcher fired an 84
Saturday to lead the Penn
State women's golf team to a
379-413 victory over Cornell
on the University White
course.
Other scores by the Lady
Lions were: Kris Wittaker
(99), Ruth Ferguson. (100),
and Anne Kerwick (94).
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his second start of the season.
Though never really hit,
Maier gave up a run in the
first inning of the second
game.
With two out and a runner
on second, Rider catcher Bill
Adams dumped one down the
third base line which third
baseman Stine made a play
for at the last moment. Stine
couldn't pick it up and Adams
had a single.
The hit was Adams' only
one in six trips to the plate
Saturday afternoon. He'd
entered with a .406 average as
the Broncs' leading hitter.
Adams then broke for
second, drawing a throw from
catcher Gary Hager. Adams
slid in safely and a moment
later, Rider's Kermit Piggott
slid safely into home on the
second half of the double
steal.
The Lions moved ahead on
two runs in the fourth. Mark
Tanner led that frame off
with a walk. and was
sacrificed to second. Hager
then grounded to Rider pit
cher Lee Jackson who
whirled and picked Tanner off
second.
Golfers capture 2nd Big Four title;
Conn medalist with 1-over 72
Senior Jim Conn fired a
one-over-par 72 in leading
defending champion Penn
State to a two-stroke victory
in the second annual Big Four
Golf Championships.
The Lions 383 total edged
West Virginia's 385, while Pitt
and Syracuse brought up the
rear with 4035. The tourney
was held at Green Oaks
Country Club, Pitt's home
course in Verona.
Though coach Joe Boyle
"thought as a team we would
play better," he was im
pressed with Conn's round.
"Conn played super just
super," Boyle said. "He was
two under par (34) on the
front nine and that's a tough
course.
"We were down six strokes
at the end of nine but we
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DeWitt followed with a
triple to right-center, scoring
Hager, and scored himself a
moment later on Pete War
chal's single.
The visitors tied it up at 2-2
on a double and a single in the
sixth but State jumped in
front again in the bottom half
of that inning. Warchal, who
entered the game hitting .107,
singled in the go-ahead run
for the second time.
This one proved enough as
Sherkel had come on,
relieving Tom Kirsch. Kirsch
had given up one run in the
three and two-thirds innings
he worked.
Warchal and DeWitt each
finished the afternoon with
two RBIs. State's extra base
hits cam:: is the form of
doubles by Stine, Rogers and
Micsky, and triples by Steffy,
Coval and DeWitt.
"The bottom of the order
won the second game for us,"
Medlar said, underscoring
the importance of the men
low in the lineup. That second
game made it seven in a row
for the team, which travels to
Pittsburgh on Thursday.
would've been hurting a lot
worse without his score," the
coach said.
A few of State's top men
had rough days r on both nines
which tightened up the
competition considerably.
Penn State had been a heavy
favorite.
Harry Hamilton, whose
average is the lowest on the
team for the undefeated
Lions, slipped to an 80. His
nines of 40-40 were too high to
be counted, as only the top
five scores of each seven-man
team are recorded.
Usually steady Dan O'Neill
also had problems, finally
coming in with a 79 which was
just good enough to be
counted.
"O'Neill," Boyle said, "had
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CHARGING OVER from his left field post, Cliff Steffy
(right) cuts in front of centerfielder Denny DeWitt to make
the catch. Action came in the fifth inning of the first game,
just before Rider scored its only two runs. State swept both
ends of Saturday's doubleheader by identical 3-2 scores.
one of the worst days he's
ever had for us.
"There's a real tough par
three on the back nine,"
Boyle said, "and O'Neill went
all out on it. He hooked it into
a hedge and took a triple
bogey six."
In addition to the scores of
O'Neill and Conn, Gary
Bethune's 75, John
Krumrine's 78 and Fred Von
Bargen's 79 were tabulated
for the Lions. Jim Borrell's 80
was not.
Host Pitt had been expected
to supply most of the com
petition for the Lions but fell
far short. Not one of the
Panthers broke 80 as they fell
18 strokes behind West
Virginia. A week earlier Pitt
had taken the measure of the
Mountaineers by four strokes
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Boyle feels that one of the
reasons the Lions and the
other teams, for that matter
—did not play up to par (so to
speak) was the conditions
under which the tourney was
staged.
"We had to play the ball
down for the first time
(summer rules) and the
course played real tight," he
said. "I've been trying to get
them to play it down before
but when they're trying to
qualify against everyone they
want the advantage everyone
else has.
"You couldn't get much roll
on the ball either. When it hit,
it'd take one short bounce and
then stop," he said. "But the
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