Stickers fall in By BARB PARMER Collegian Sports Writer Post season play for many it is the battle for the pot of 1 gold at the end of the rainbow. 1 Clinching a national title is the ultimate dream of every player and coach. Since the early, days of sport, teams have fought it out on the gridiron, on the court, or on the field for a! place in the national limelight: For women’s field hockey, however, teams had little to look forward to after the final game of the season. All post season' honors were lauded on an individual basis. The best team of 11; players gainedWnimal recognition on anational level. But, all of that changed this year with the introduction of regional and national tournaments on a team basis. Now coaches can choose to go the individual Or team route for national recognition. Penn State was one of several teams opting to enter post season play as a team. “I think the concept of it (a team tournament) is great because I think very firmly that hockey is a team sport,” Penn State coach Gillian Rattray said. “This is a culmination of a season’s work together.” \ The women entered the regional event in mid-November seeded fourth in a field of sixteen teams. Two goals from freshman forward Charlene Morett and one goal each from senior co-captain Susie McCoy and sophomore forward Chris Larson led the women to a 4-0 first round victory over jVilliam Injuries take toll on NFL teams The National Football League regular season still has ihree weeks to go, raising the possibility of all kinds of new injuries to be tacked onto one of the longest lists of disabled players in professional football history. At the moment, there are 151 players onjthe NFL’s injured reserve list, very close to the most ever in the league's 56-year history. At least one team, the Kansas City Chiefs, has so many players on injured reserve that it has slopped adding to the list and is merely playing out the schedule with as many healthy' bodies [as can be assembled each week. 1 For example, Kansas City’s active roster for Sunday’s game against San Diego will include! quarterback Mike Livingston and cornerback Jim Marsalis, botli out for the year with knee surgery. Actually, the Chiefs will probably have no more than3s or 36 players physically able to play against the Chargers. The hesitancy to add players to the injured reserve list can be traced to the NFL’s stocking plan for its new Tampa and Seattle franchises. Teams will'be allowed to protect only three players from reserve listsj and team£ out of the playoff running, like the Chiefs. are probably" better off leaving injured players on the active roster where they at least can be placed off-limits|to the new teams. Kansas City leads the NFL in one respect with 11 players on injured reserve including wide receiver Otis Taylor, defensive end Marvin Upshaw, guard Ed Budde and rookie quarterback Mike Nott. Since the start of training camp 15 different players have beemused at left guard for the Chiefs. The position has been as dangerous as a mine field. Coach Paul Wiggin greets visitors to the Chiefs’ camp with a hearty, “Welcome to Medical Center.” The Chiefs’ secondary Sunday will include Jim Lynch, listed on your scorecard as a linebacker but filling in for Marsalis. Players out of position is nothing new for the Chiefs this year. Things got so bad last week that punter Jerrell Wilson hurl his leg while kicking and will be out indefinitely. Last season, the NFL reported 156 players oh injured reserve. That is five more than the total reportedPfor this season. 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In the second game of the single elimination tourney, the women held Ursinus to one goal during the first 50 minutes of play, but failed to contain the Grizzlies, as the Ursinus offense exploded for five tallies in 10 minutes to wrap up a 6-0 win and a place in the semi-finals. Although the wjomen were disappointed With the loss which wiped out any dmncp of seeing national tourney action, the idea of team competition was well-received. “I think it’s gbirig to have to have a consistently strong team, and 11 athjetes who are not only highly skilled but are strong enough to! play a whole game,” senior co-captain Deb Gorman said. | The Penn State squad came up against the heart of U.S. field hockey in the regional event. 1 In the first year of the national tournament, the strength of the mideastern region was parjticularly evident the three representatives from the mideast took first, second and fifth places in the nation.. j | During the regular season, Penn State played each of the nationally ranked teams fron^ the'region. The stickwomen lost to West Chester and Lock Haven fcry 2-0 counts and bowed to Ursinus, 5-2. , =. i i “We still have the strongest .(earns in the country and our tournament is like the national tournament,” Gorman said. “Now they (Penn State) know What they have to work on. The competition is. going to get stronger and Stronger every year, and they’re going to have to get stronger themselves.” Although Penn State was not able to overcome the national powerhouses this season, a nucleus ,of experienced players will be back for the seasons to coimel j Five seniors from the starting lineup will be lost to graduation. Gorman, McCoy, goalie Debbie Hess, halfback Francine O'Brien, and fullback Sue Ritter, leave gaps to be filled next season. ! The women finished the year withja 6-4-2 record. FREE HITS Morett took high scoring honors with 12 goals in as many games ... West Chester and Ursinus finished one-two in the nation. West Chester won on penalty flicks after thetwo teams played to a 1-1 tie. Bankes takes third; lady harriers Collegian Sports Writer Penn State was; the biggest, surprise at the AIAW Cross Country Nationals as its women’s cross country team, not expected to finish in the top ten, captured second place! Kris Bankes placed third in a fieldpf 162 runners at the meet held in Ames, lowa. The Lady Lions finished with 104 points, eight points behind champion lowa State. Michigan State placed third with 116 points. “We were not expected to place anywhere of any significance,” Penn State coach Chris Brooks said. She a'dded that Penn State was the only team in the tgp ten coached by a woman. = . .. Bankes covered the three-mile course in 17:12. The winner, Peg Neppel of lowa State, finished in 16:31i Bankes finished in front of Colorado State’s Wendy Knutson, who will be at tending the Olympic training camp in Florida, and Olympic participant Chiu-Schi-Lee of Saint John’s University. “Kris has a name for herself now. From how on she will be expected to be one of, the top runners in the country,” Brooks said. i Women's tennis meeting There will be a meeting for ticipaMng in the fall should all women’s tennis candidates report at 6:30. All others Tues. Dec. 9in the game room interested should report at of White Building. All 7:15 p.m. returni" - s ~r- \ Sera-Tec Biologicals Inc. Join our plasma donor program j and earn ss2 a month j By BARB SHELLY Penn State's co-captains Deb Gorman (11) and Susie McCoy team up to move the ball in on goal against Millersville Brooks said all five runners on Penn State’s team had close to or better than their fastest times of the season at the meet. Liz Cunningham placed 12th (17:35), Liz Berry placed 15th (18:02), Eileen Meenan took 45th place (18:59) and Karen Johnson finished in 62nd place (19:26). “I knew our kids were good,” Brooks said, “ft was a matter of whether they would click on the same day and they did.” Brooks commended the effort of Karen Johnson, who only started running cross country meets in the middle of the season. After outstanding performance in Ames, Bankes competed in the AAU Nationals in Belmont, California. She S P >Answer to fall term’s .’final question: . Because. Q Today’s question: Who was the last player to win back-to-back most valuable player ' awards in the American League? TRIVIA SHARE THE RIDE WITH US THIS CHRISTMAS AND GET ON TO A GOOD THING. Us means Greyhound, and a lot of your fellow students who are already on to a good thing. You leave when you like. Travel comfortably. Arrive refreshed and on time You'll save money, too. over the increased air fares. Share the ride with us on weekends. 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Runners who make the team will compete in the World Championship meet held in Wales this March. Brooks said the three-mile course at Belmont was rugged. Bankes covered the course in 17:39. Lynn Bjorklund, from Duke City Club in New Mexico, repeated her performance as last year’s national champion with a time of 16:32.6. Bankes finished one plape behind Cindy Poor, the United States representative in the Pan Am games. Brooks noted that Bankes had only one season of long distance running before this year. “Last year she couldn’t touch half of these kids. Now she’s quite easily Handling them,” Brooks said. Brooks said Bankes’ performance, as well as the team's second place finish in the AIAW Nationals, should help in future recruiting. "The fact that Bankes had not done too much running before and has achieved this in such a short period of time will help us as a team and me as a coach,” Brooks said.
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