—The Daily Collegian Thursday, December 5, 1974 Kristc►n sizes,up on Lion By RICK STARR Collegian Sports Writer PITTSBURGH Rich Kriston was headinlymfor the trainer's table afiert"Penti State's win over Pitt Thanksgiving night when a short congratulator slapped , him on the shoulder. "Hey Rich," he beamed, "You did a great job for us little guys." "You know what," Kriston laughed. "They even cut me a half inch in the program. And I need all the help I can get." At 5-9 1 / 2 , no one has ever ac cused Kriston of intimidating anybody with his presence. Pitt quarterback Bob Medwid may have even scratched his helmet when he saw a head sticking up just over the three point stances of the Lion defensive front wall. But from his inside, linebacking spot, Kriston, Making only the second start of his Penn State career, helped, the usual stalwarts close down the Pan ther offensive show, allowing just 10 points. 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Of the six Lion players, only Buttle and Rafferty are juniors, the rest, seniors. As expected, the Lions placed the most players. Pitt's Tony Dorsett and Temple's Joe Klecko were the only sophomores selected. Perin State as a team had a big jolly by on; again capturing the Lambert Trophy (for the fourth consecutive year) as the best team in the east. Penn State received 70 points in the balloting while Pitt and Boston College (yes, that's right, Bostoq College) tied for second with 56 points. He has a great pionships arm." "I would rather beat Pitt thin any of our other op ponents," Kriston admitted. "All Summer long I heard how Pitt was the best in the East, and how they were gonna beat us. It was turned into a pretty big rivalry "I was nervous befog/ the game," he continued, "siEce it was in front of my home crowd." For Kriston, the Pitt game was a return to the scene of - I We SELL Sunday 1:30-5:00 defense earlier triumphs as Three Rivers Stadium was the set ting for his two tryouts with the Pittsburgh Pirates. "I do Well here,", Kriston said. "It seems like every time I come here something catches. I was down here for two Pirate tryouts and,they really went well. The second time I hit,a home run. It was something, hitting a home run in a Major League park." Whether or not Kriston will start the Cotton Bowl depends on the outcome of the close battle he is having with his competition, junior Jim Rosecrans. Kriston started the Ohio and Pitt games, and has been running with the bomb squad all year. At the beginning of the season, Kriston was listed on the third unit at his position, but Thanksgiving night, after crunching the Pitt kick return man, Kriston didn't trot off the field. Even though nobody gets to see it, some of the most corn petitive football at Penn State is played in the gloom of twilight on the Lion practice field. only $149.95 Waft Bahr looks ahead to next year Rooters lose in playoffs By DAVE MORRIS Assistant Sports Editor Statistics in sports don't always tell the truth, and Penn State soccer coach Walt Bahr is the first to admit it. Bahr guided the hooters to an 8-1-3 record in his first season in Happy Valley, including State's fifth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. It was in the tourney's first round against Bucknell on Nov. 19 that the team lost its only contest. Penn State outshot the Bisons by a 2-1 ratio, but the Bisons outscored the Lions 1-0. In regular season action Buckiiell and Penn State battled to a 1-1 stalemate. "You can outshoot and outplay the other team but the only thing that counts is balls in the nets," Bahr said. "We made one error against Bucknell and they capitalized on it. But I still think if we played them 10 times we could beat them 10 times." Bahr's disappointment, at least most of it, was lost in the shuffle of recruiting for next season. "You have to be disappointed when you lose, but I'm not disappointed with the team effort," he said. "We played as well as we are capable of playing. If we had to play the game over I don't think I would have done anything differently." Now that the battle is over, Bahr is looking for prospects for next season. Five starters will graduate, leaving Bahr with many shoes to fill. The seniors are Randy Garber, Bruce Allen, Bob Viehweger, Ciro Baldino and Chris Bahr. But a strong nucleus will return.. "We have a lot of players back, and I would have a fairly good team without bringing anyone in," Bahr said. "I'm looking for three or four top prospects to step ihto the starting lineup." His search for talent took him to the Junior College playoffs where several possibilities were found. In future weeks Bahr will attend high school all-star games in the Philadelphia and South Jersey areas. Basically ;Bahr knows what he's after. "I've heard about some of thete guys, I just want to see them in action," he said. CORNER KICKS Bucknell lost to Philadelphia Textile in overtime of the second round playoff game last week. The finals will be held in St. Louis this weekend. Birds go to market NEW ORLEANS ( AP) outfielder Rich Coggins and Baltimore 'dropped another minor league pitcher Bill trading bombshell on Kirkpatrick, the Orioles ob baseball's winter meetings tained Singleton. and right - yesterday, swapping veteran handed pitcher Mike Torrez. lefthander Dave McNally to It was the second major deal Montreal in a five-player deal for Baltimore at these that sent outfielder Ken meetings, coming less than 24 Singleton to the American hours after the Orioles had League. acquired veteran National League slugger Lee May from Houston. In exchange for McNally, Photo by Eric Felack
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