—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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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
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their left side in the infield.
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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.
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