The disappointing slump
Joe Boyle shook his head when he heard the question,
hesitating for a moment but then shrugging.
"No, I don't know what's wrong with Johnny," said Penn
State's golf coach. "He's been hitting the ball OK but he just
can't seem to score well."
Johnny is John Krumrine, the only senior on the golf squad,
a fifth place finisher at last year's eastern championships and
at the beginning of this year, Boyle's most consistent golfer.
Krumrine started strong this year, hitting the ball well even
in the adverse weather. conditions of Happy Valley's early
spring.
The first match this year against Navnd Columbia
Krumrine shot a 75, leading the field and displaying the type of
game—goOd hard drives, accurate short game and steady
putting—that had made him the number one Lion golfer.
Krumrine was playing the type of golf he was accustomed to
playing, low 70's golf. At the Lehigh match Krumrine
ballooned to an 83. Still, the team set a course record that day
and Krumrine's high scores didn't seem important.
Brian Miller
Sports Writer
The Lions traveled to the Kepler Invitational in Ohio at the
end of that week. Krumrine had been sick before the match
but he hadn't felt that would hinder him. Something had
though; Krumrine finished the two day, 54 hole competition at
256, 27 strokes behind the tournament medalist.
"The greens were hard there and even a good shot could
bounce off," Krumrine said just after the match. True, many
of the golfers had complained about the greens but Krumrine
was the senior, the two year varsity veteran and he felt he
should have lead the Penn State team, not finishing 16 strokes
behind his freshman teammate Sherm Hostetter.
At West Virginia the following Saturday, Krumrine turned
in an 81; not good but better than the three scores of 83-88-85 he
had collected at the Kepler.
Maybe he was breaking out of the slump. Perhaps the high
scores were just the result of Krumrine's illness. Monday's
Mid-America, the second major tournament the Lions had
entered in less than a week would tell.
Krumrine shot 83-81-164, 22 strokes behind the tournament
champion, Paul Davis of Ohio State.
Obviously, Krumrine hadn't borken out of the "slump."
Penn State had been blown out in the Mid-American, finishing
13th in a 15 team field. Krumrine's scores were the highest of
all Penn State golfers.
The State College native, who had piled up a record of 73-3-3
for the Little Lions, was philosophical after the tournament
disasters, the tournaments that had introduced Penn State
into the big time collegiate competition.
"My short game hasn't been very good," said Krumrine. "I
just wasn't hitting the greens at the Mid-American.
"Maybe it was because I had so much trouble hitting the
greens at the Kepler. I think that tournament hurt my con
fidence. I'm really disappointed."
Krumrine was disappointed. He had wanted to lead the
young, inexperienced, and inconsistent team. For two years
he had played in the shadow of Dan O'Neil, the 1972 and 73
Eastern medalist and now with (NNeil's graduation,
Krumrine had felt the pressure to carry most of the load, and
so far he hasn't.
"I haven't felt good physically all spring," he said quietly
before last weekend's Eastern Championships. "But the
pressure is on me now to play well, fin the wholb team for that
matter. We all need a good first round in Ithaca."
There was pressure at the Easterns for the entire Penn
State squad. It would be the last trip to this tournament
because of the University's withdrawal from the ECAC and
the Lions had won the last two tournaments, seven of the past
11. They wanted to leave the Easterns on top.
Krumrine had hoped to do well, especially since a poor
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Penn State captain John Krumrine before
ballooning scores and poor season.
showing would kill Penn State's chances of going to the NCAA
championships this year.
But after finishing fourth the first day, just six strokes
behind tournament leader Penn, the Lions succumbed to the
winds of Cornell University's upstate New York course and
their own nerves. Only Hostetter could break 80 the second
day and the Lions ended up a distant fifth, tied with Navy at
652 and 14 strokes behind the tournament winning Quakers.
Krumrine was for the third straight time in a tournament,
the higheSt scoring Penn State golfer. He didn't have a good
first i fdimd (86) or second (82) and Penn State was almost
assuredly not going to the NCAA's.
Krumrine had not carried the burden. Maybe the pressure
had been too great on him, maybe his confidence had been
shaken, maybe he was just in one of those "slumps" golfers
seem to get themselves into habitually.
But John Krumrine felt he had let the team down. He hadn't
lead the team this year or carried the burden and when he
talked about it, he didn't say much, just quietly hid the
disappointment of not doing the job he had been assigned to
do.
Today, Krumrine and the rest of the Penn State golf team
are in Indiana, Pennsylvania for the Indiana Invitational. It is
a relatively minor tournament, with just six Eastern teams
entered, Bucknell the only strong squad in the field.
It is the type of tournament that could give the young Penn
State team (two freshmen, sophomore, junior) a shot of
confidence if they could win big. After the last couple weeks
they all need it, especially John Krumrine. ,
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Jeffrey Field's Red Dragon night rf
By TIM PANACCIO
Assistant Sports Editor
Tonight is Red Dragon
night at Jeffrey Field. For
the price of nothing, you
can see Cortland State's
Red Dragons (6-1) breathe,
shoot, spit, and engulf fire
at 7 p.m. against Dick
Pencek's Lions (4-3).
Cortland (State Univer
sity of NY) is perhaps
the best team Penn State
will face this year. It is
the current U.S. Inter
collegiate Lacrosse Associ
ation college champion and
it spews fires of talent
like a bazooka.
Sophomore Jud Smith
stears the attack with 17
goals followed by Jim
Luchsinger with 18 goals.
Smith is first because he
has 14 assists on the side
and Luchsinger but one.
Last y6 s ar, Smith was one of
12 Red Dragons who had
over 50 points on the year.
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Lion baseballers
By JEFF YOUNG
Assistant Sports Editor
Len Bartek and his pals are
goin' up north ta hunt some
Buffalo. An' if he's on target,
they might all be able ta do a
little more huntin' later on.
Bartek OW is Penn State's
starter for the opening game
of its doubleheader today at
Buffalo. And if the Lions (13-
Goff team
Penn State's golf team is in
Indiana, Pennsylvania today
for the 18-hole, six-team
Indiana Invitational Golf
Tournament.
It will be the fourth in
vitational the Lions have
attended this year,, the others
were Kepler, 'the Mid-
American and last weekend's
Eastern Championships.
Penn State is the defending
champion, although Indiana's
Ron Milanovich captured the
1973 medalist honors.
The six team field consists
of Indiana, Penn State,
Akron, Youngstown, Pitts
burgh and Eastern runner
up Bucknell.
Boyle has selected a seven
hanging
planters
g lorious
pottery
Final home laX fray
Senior co-captain John
Espey was a third team
All-America last year and
returns at midfield with
Scott Noble and Paul
McGee.
The defense isn't bad
despite the loss of All-
America Bob Ernst who
graduated. Boku (pro
nounced Beaucoup)
Hendrickson, Shawn
McDonald and Bob Deegan
give the Dragons a solid
firewall, if you will, around
All-America goalie Pete
Graham.
Graham is strong. For
beginners, a little history
first. Last year, Graham
broke his own school
record of 203 saves with 209
rescues. He averaged 13.9
saves a game, another
record.
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3) can sweep today, their
chances of receiving a
District 2 playoff bid are
looking pretty good.
"It's really hard to say,
cause we're independent, and
sometimes it helps and
sometimes it hurts," the
junior righthander said. "But
I think if we take both games,
we're gonna get the bid."
competing
man squad of John Krumrine,
Tom Amendola, Fred Von
Bargen, Tom Sulkowski, Rod
Franc, Sherm Hostetter and
Bob Dine. Brian Miller
This year...He has
broken New York state's
record for career saves
with 517 (previous record
was 496). He now has 105
coming into this game on
the season and is averaging
15 saves every contest'—
another record to come?
His 39 efforts against
Massachusetts carried the
Dragons to a 10-9 victory in
five' overtimes. On the
subject of overtimes,
Cortland lost its only game
to Hobart by that identical
score in one overtime.
Now that pretty much
takes care of the defense
and any balls going into the
crease area. But what
about those shots that don't
get to Graham? The Red
Dragons stingy defense has
allowed only 6.2 goals find
hunting
Bartek's last outing was by
far his best, as he threw a 7-0
shutout at Juniata one week
ago. Medlar had him in the
bullpen for both games of
Sunday's Temple sweep, but
didn't find the need.
"I can pitch with one or two
days rest," he said, "though
my arm has been a little sore.
I think it's just the change
back to cold weather."
Speaking of weather (above
the expletives of frustrated
baseball coaches), it won't be
much warmer than 50
degrees when Bartek takes
the hill this afternoon. But he
isn't worrying much about the
climate.
"It doesn't matter once you
the crease area per con
test.
In the meantime, the
offense has tingled the
twine for 13.1 goals every ff : ::
game.
Penn State in seven
previous tries has
managed only to tie against
Cortland. Last year,
Pencek's squad took a 20-5
beating.
Pencek will be relying on
Billy Abriel, Keith
McGuire Jack Barry and
Carl Hurtzig to penetrate
that firewall mentioned
before and score.
It'll be tough but the
Lions should be up for this
one. And if nothing else,
tonight is the last time
Penn State performs at
home as they close the
season out with three road
games, so it will want to
leave spectators with
something ' nice to
remember.
Buffalo
get loose," he said. "The only
thing it might do is affect the
hitter, since he's just standing
there a lot of the time and the
pitcher's always working."
Against Buffalo, a team
with four senior infielders
hitting better than .300,
Bartek expects to fire his big
sinker as long as its sinks,
"but some days it just doesn't
work ."
For Buffalo (19-11-1) the
probable starters are lefty
Jim Niewczyk (3-2) and
righthander Jim Ridel (3-3).
Penn State's nightcap starter
will come from Mitch
Lukevics, John Maier, or
Steve Nielsen.