—The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 29,1976 Volleyball • By BILL KLINE Collegian Sports Writer Penn State’s three volleyball captains received All-East honors yesterday, but each emphasized the teamwork behind the Lions successful season. Larry Wile, Tom Hahn, and Dave Evans made the Eastern Collegiate Volleyball League (ECVL) first team, while John Phillips earned second-team honors, and Lion mentor Tom Tait copped the Coach-of-the-Year award. ’ “The rest of the players deserve these awards as much as us,’’ said the 5-9 Evans, a two-year All- East selection. “Had it not been for the other guys, we wouldn’t have had four guys on the All-East team,” said Tait. “We rely on every guy that walks on the floor.” “I could count on Jeff Morris,” said Evans, “and Frank Guadagnino always had good ups (passes to the setter). Evans also lauded 6-5 junior Jeff Seavy’s blocking and the setting of senior Dave Dicker. “If you look at the statistics, he (Dicker) did the job,”, said Wile. The 5-10 Dicker played both setter and front-line for the Lions. , The third Lion setter, Frank Agnew, played only when Penn State used its three alloted substitutions. Attitude change helped women's sports By CHUCK BUCHANAN Collegian Sports Writer If Henry David Thoreau spoke.. nothing truer, it was “Things do not change, we do.” And perhaps nothing better illustrates this principle than the rapid evolution of women’s athletics. ' Pat McTarsney, coach of the Lady Lions softball team and an astute observer of the history of women in sports, agrees. And what has changed, she says, is public attitude. Although there has always been, for many girls, an innate • interest in sports, McTarsney feels that “much of, their desire to participate and their opportunities to participate have been suppressed by sociological factors.” More specifically, the role assigned to women; which con cerning sports, McTarsney says, is “Little girls aren’t supposed to get hot and sweaty.” To this point, McTarsney ‘credits the Women’s Lib movement with making many girls stop and think Hqnest Pleasure readies for Ky. Derby LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Kentucky Derby favorite Honest Pleasure drew a crowd yesterday when he went to the track for a morning gallop. John Nazareth had the best seat of all on the horse. Galloping Honest Pleasure, Nazareth explained later, is no easy matter, even with Robert “Pinky” Hurley alongside on a lead pony, to help control the colt’s speed. “The first part isn’t too bad, but when we try to let him out a little bit, it’s a matter of brawn. We both pull for all -we're worth and it doesn’t seem to faze him,” Nazareth said. horses do in a full workout.” Nazareth should know. Among the horses he’s helped train are the great Graustark, who was injured, before he got to the Derby in 1966, and Proud Clarion, who won the big race the following year. Graustark was nothing like Honest Pleasure, Nazareth said. ‘‘He pounded his hooved into the ground and that’s what shattered, the bones in his leg," he added. ,Nazareth has been assistant to trainer Leßoy Jolley, for three years and, before that, spent about 20 with Loyd Gentry. Earlier, he was a jockey and rode Shag Honest Pleasure can fool an -^ a l] s '. n ,^ e i 9™ iP exercise boy, Nazareth said, Tails finished 13th. “because he’s graceful like a Entries and the draw for ballet dancer and can go as post positions for the 103nd fast in a gallop as most other Derby are; scheduled for r5T”—-™-rre™™™ i 79-SPECIAL ! 79*SPECIAL I ■ WITH THIS COUPON I I WITH THIS COUPON I I GETANARBYS j I GET AN ARBY'S j ■ ROAST BEEF SANDWICH I J ROAST BEEF SANDWICH I ■ FOR 79* Si FOR 79* I ■ i OFFER COOP AT BOTH LOCATIONS I VALItIIMAY, APRIL )O.IM^T, IW ■ 111 SOWERS STREET 400 W. COLLEGE AVE. tri-captains honored He came in cold in the Springfield game, Wile said, “and put four sets on the button.” But Hahn, Wile, Evans, and Phillips were the mainstays of the ECVL champion Lions. The 6-5 Hahn occupied the middle of Penn State’s formation, playing both middle hitter and middle blocker. “He ranks right up with the top players in the country in terms of basic skills,” said'Tait. “It’s difficult to find a better technician. ’ ’ “Anytime the offense is sputtering, we give it to Hahn and we’ll get started again,” said Evans. Evans was charged with the all-important task of running the complicated Lion mutiple set offense. “He calls intelligent plays, and knows what’s going on,” said Hahn, the receiver of many of Evans’ sets. Phillips earned second team honors, as.voted by the 19 league coaches, on the strength of his back line play and serving. “His ups are on the button every time,” said Evans. “I can call any play I want and not worry knowing he’s going to get the ball to me!” It was Phillips’ serving, though, that helped key the Lions’ ECVL championship two weeks ago. “It helps my front line play when he serves,” said • about “What do I want to do?” rather than • “What does everybody else expect me to do?” She, too, credits Billie Jean King with promoting women’s athletics so well that today the public accepts female athletes almost as much as they do their male counterparts. When women in sports became acceptable, McTarsney says, then the interest came. She describes the cyclical nature of the rise in ac ceptance of women’s athletics: “When it becomes acceptable, then, you see the interest; you are no longer inhibiting the interest, you are encouraging it. Better performances result. And as the performance gets better, that’s more encouragement; you see even better athletes. And as you see better and better athletes, the public becomes even more in terested.” * , ' I There was;a time not too long ago, however, when interest • and en couragement were not to be found.' McTarsney became interested in sports through her peer group. She grew up in a rural environment and spent much time with her cousins, practically all of which were boys. So as not to be left out, as McTarsney puts it, “I played football when the boys played football.” For much the same reasons, girls today become interested in sports. However, McTarsney says, there is for them an additional incentive. The publicity which women’s sports is getting with highly competitive professional golf and tennis tours is a supplement, she feels, to any en couragement offered in the home. The increased interest and en couragement is making girls today not only better athletes, but smarter athletes. McTarsney notes that when the softball program began at Penn State in 1965, she would spend many hours each week teaching the basics and pre-fundamentals of the game. How to catch and throw properly, what a double play was < let alone how to make one), and knowing-that you today and Jolley is making it the probable second choice in no secret that he’s hoping for the betting; Elocutionist, the outside position in the Cojak, Inca Roca, On the Sly, expected field of nine. Play the Red, Amano and The outside' post, he said, Bidson. gives the rider an advantage Life’s Hope, owned by “because he can look over Harbor View Farm, worked a and see what’s happening, half-mile in 2-5 at Sports whereas the inside rider has -man’s in Chicago to commit. ’ ’ yesterday and apparently will Challenging Honest remain there for the'lllinois Pleasure in the I‘A-mile Derby. He had been a possible Derby will be Bold Forbes, entry in the big race here. Chessmen 2nd in The Penn State chess team recently captured second place with a 4-1 record in the Eastern Team Championships held at Montgomery County Community College. Sixteen teams competed in the tour nament, including four. Masters. Tom Sweeney, the tournament’s first board prize winner, led the team with a perfect 5-0-0 record. Joe Veach followed with OFFER GOOD AT BOTH LOCATIONS 111 SOWERS STREET 400 W. COLLEGE AVE. Hahn. When Phillips serves, “he takes away a lot of their (the opposition) middle hits,” added Hahn. The floor leader of the Lions was Wile, a 6-1 outside blocker and hitter. “Larry was the main leader,” said Evans. “He held us together. In a tight situation, ,he always surfaced.” , “He was very consistent with good, solid play in every department,” said Tait. “He had no glaring weaknesses in his game.” Piloting the spikers was Tait, who doubled as president of the ECVL. “He puts more into volleyball than maybe deserves to be put into it,” said Evans. Some of the coaches of the California powerhouses “are not as, knowledgeable as him.” Hahn didn’t play volleyball in high school, and Tait has guided the Reading native. , “Everything I know about the game, he taught me. All the skills and the mental aspects,” said Hahn. Tait’s devotion has left an indelible mark on his squad. “Whatever he asks you to do, you’re willing to give it a try,” said Evans. “You want to win for him,” added Phillips. a 4-1-0 mark on second board, while Jerry Thomchick posted a 2-2-1 record on third board. Nick Bachovchin was 2-1-2 on fourth board. Penn State beat Philadelphia Textile, Temple, Queensboro and Bloomsburg. The tournament was won by the University of Pennsylvania while the University of Indiana took third place. Advertising Department is looking for artists to illustrate advertisements, beginning summer., term, continuing through the '76 - '77 school year. Bring a sample of work to 126 Carnegie any day this week PPODUCTION6 Av* presents Ur s Unruly Children A Pennsylvania Bicentennial Vaudeville A5O Cent Student Preview Performance April 28 Tickets on sale at the Playhouse Box Office April 28 only. No reservations accepted for the preview. Curtain time 8:00 P.M. The Pavilion Theatre Its like a mouthful of Quaker Outs and Philadelphia Cream Cheese It's hard to swallow! For reservations call 865-1884. can overrun first base were the topics drilled on. “The skills are so different now and so much farther advanced,” she says. Where the problem then was to find 10 or 12 girls capable of playing com-' petitively, the coach now must anguish over which skilled athletes to cut from her squad. “It’s more of a problem in some ways,” she says, “ but it’s a better one to have as far as the sports program is concerned.” McTarsney predicts"' continued growth and expansion for the future of women’s athletics. “We are at the point now where with media pressure and spectator pressure, women's sports is going to develop in many respects in the same way that the men’s has. The competition is going to get better, there are going to be more professional teams, and there's going to be a lot of spectator interest. .“It’s a very exciting time for women’s athletics,” McTarsney says, “with lots of changes, exciting challenges, and lots of satisfaction.” The, Derby, at 5:40 p.m., EDT, Saturday, will be telecast by ABC at 5-6 p.m., and broadcast by a syn dicated radio network. With more than 100,000 fans expected to jam historic Churchill Downs for the race, it will be the first time and perhaps the only time for some of the horses to race with a screaming mob on their left side in the infield. Easterns ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ •4( Come to the n * * * ANTIQUE AIRCRAFT $ * FLY-IN $ Saturday, May 1 . 10 a;m. - 4 p.m. University Park Airport 7^ ***************** i m '■il'v r >*''> * ''-i'*’* *< r' «? *\’ I'-J' Vv^ , •) C * »' > . ’ ■*•'»» ,-. , •...-.• All-East spiker Larry Wile blocks teammate Jeff Seavy's (7) hit, as All-East setter Dave Evans looks on. Netwomen top Bisons By BARB SHELLY man and Cindy Brinker, the top two players s Collegian Sports Writer , from Virginia Penn State’s top four women tennis players Gavett and Backenstose, aftef playing try the tournament circuit again today, while second in the Middle States tournament last the remainder of the team defeated Bucknell weekend,-are seeded fifth in the doubles., in an exhibition match yesterday. Brinker and Goldman have the top spot on ' Joy McManus, Wendy Gavett, Joan the doubles draw. Backenstose and Micki Larkin will represent McManus and Larkin will be Penn Slate’s Penn State in the three-day Middle Atlantic other doubles team. Lawn Tennis Association (MALTA) tour- Penn State won yesterday’s scrimmage nament at Mary Baldwin College, Virginia. with Bucknell, 5-3. Molly' Wesner, who Penn State and West Chester are the'only usually plays third singles on the varsity, ■ Pennsylvania schools entered in the fieldof won an easy match over Jody Canpana, 6-1, > 18. Most of the competition will be from 6-1. Teammate Mon Androsko had less Virginia, including the University of success over Louise King, losing 6-3,6-3. Virginia, which, handed the Lady Lions their Freshman Karen Goldstein continued only loss this season. undefeated in singles competition by Both McManus and Gavett are seeded in defeating Andi Hoffman 2-6, 6-1, 6-3: Minda the singles competition. McManus is ex- Fall was defeated by Ellen Boecker, 6-4,6-1, pected to advance at least as far as the Jeanne Peterson beat Denise Pappas 6-2,6-2, , semifinals, being the fourth seed. Gavett is and Laura Stanonis survived a second set tie- ; rated seventh. The favorite is Kathy Mueller, breaker to win 6-1,7-6 over Pat Sermon, a sophomore from Trenton State who placed In doubles competition, Wesner and fifth in the Eastern Collegians last fall. Peterson lost to Canparia and King 6-3,1-6,6- McManus placed fourth in that tournament. 0. Goldstein and Fall had no trouble beating Other seeded players are Barbara Gold- Hoffman and Boecker 6-2,6-3. ■ /■Oft A 4 rVi'^U. v-''’V K - I , ;■ .« \ /f >’ V '■r . * 0 •Vs v ? 5 f ?!»-'• * ( ' # ~ , * , Photo by David J. Vllo ' . stock . in^tnenca. Join the Payroll Savings Plan. THE SILVEI CELLAR Silver, Gold, Gemstones ISIS. Allen Open 10-6