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By LAUIUE KARDON
Collegian Sports Writer
Since the beginning of the men’s lacrosse season, Penn was
all you ever heard about. Well, “this game will be a close one,
but nowhere near as tough as Penn will be,” one of the
players might say. Or, “oh yeah, this is an important game,
but not nearly as important as the Penn game is.”
The Lions laxers wrap up their home season tonight against
the visiting Quakers, and now finally everyone will get a
chance to see first hand what all the buildup is about.
There is a lot at stake. Penn State is ranked 13th in the
country, Penn llth. Both teams have only this game plus one
other before the playoffs, and both teams must win tonight if
they have any hopes of competing in post season play.
Selection for the playoffs .is limited to eight teams, and the
only serious consideration is given to teams within the top 10.
, “It goes without saying that this game is extremely im
portant to us,” said Penn State coach Dick Pencek. “I don’t
know whether we’re going to be considered for the playoffs or
not. But I’m not really thinking so much about that. I’m just
' trying to get by first Penn, then Bucknell.”
‘‘ The Quakers’ record is 4-4, but don’t let the won-lost status
’fool you into thinking they’re a mediocre team. Even their
♦ losses have been impressive. When they lost to Cornell two
. weeks ago, 14-7, Penn was extremely pleased ... it was the
closest any team had gotten to Cornell this year.
Pencek has high praises for the Quaker personnel. Junior
altackman Peter Hollis, with 17 goals and 15 assists, is the
leading scorer for Penn. Midfielders Doug Frey and Mike
|Page are also threats to the Lion defense.
jj “Hollis is an excellent attackman, and he has the same style
las' (Penn Stater) Keith McGuire,” Pencek said. “Page,
though, is probably their best middie, and I expect them to go
to him in pressure situations.”
Meanwhile Penn is worried to the extent that coach Jim
Adams -has five times scouted the Lions worried because
they have not been shooting well recently, and worried
because they know all too well they were stung by the Lions
last year on their home turf 12-10.
In that game, Hollis scored three goals and added two
assists. Page scored four times! But the Lions’ Gary Alex
found the goal three times, Larry Warshaw and Paul Repp
each added two, and goalie Rich Caravella made 23 saves to
ensure the victory. Although Penn relied heavily on their
goalie last year for his superb net tending, he has since
graduated and the Quakers are left with an “adequate”
goalie, according to Pencek.
“We’ve been scouted a lot which means that they must
consider this a very important game, too,” Pencek said.
“They need very much to win."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) Jim Rooker and reliever Larry
Demery combined for a five-hit shutout to lead the Pitts
burgh Pirates to a 3-0 victory over the slumping San
Francisco Giants last night.
It was the 10th loss in 11 games fifth in a row for the
Giants.
The Pirates stacked Rooker to a 1-0 lead in the first
inning when Rennie Stennett singled off starter Jim Barr,
took third on a single by Richie Hebner and scored on A 1
Oliver’s sacrifice fly. Rooker scored a run in the third
when he beat out an infield single, advanced to third on
another single by Stennett and scored when Hebner
grounded into a forceout.
Barr yielded the final run in the sixth on consecutive
singles by Dave Parker, Richie Zisk and Duffy Dyer.
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Philadelpia G. Houston 3
Pittsburgh 6, San Francisco 1
St. Louis 4, Atlanta 0
San Diego 6, Montreal 4
Cincinnati 2, New York 0. 11 innings
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The Penn State women’s lacrosse team
survived a late surge by East Stroudsburg
yesterday to clinch its fifth straight win,
straight win, 8-7.
In the Lady Lion’s biggest match since
opening against West Chester, the visiting
Warriors fought back from a 6-2 halftime
deficit to pull within two goals, 7-5 with just
under 10 minutes left in the game. Second
home Nancy Skean netted all three Warrior
tallies in five minutes to bring her squad
within striking distance.
However, right attack wing Charlene
Morett gave the Penn Staters a little
breathing room as she picked her way
through the defense for a close range shot to
complete her hat trick and open up a three
goal lead with six minutes showing in the
clock.
Skean and teammate Vicki Geyer caught
an out-of-position defense for two desperation
goals in the final minute of play, but time ran
out on the Warriors’ catch-up attempt.
“Someone yelled from the bench that there
was one minute to go. They scored that last
goal and then it was over, and I thought,
’phew, that was a relief!” right defensive
wing Sue Wisniewski said.
In the first half, Penn State controlled the
game from the opening draw. The Lady
Lions broke into the scoring column when
Susie McCoy set up Chris Larson breaking
down the middle for a close shot at freshman
goalie Sandy Stockhouse.
The defense cut off several first half passes
from the sluggish Warrior crosses and turned
the ball over to offense. Right attack wing
Lynn Watkins made it 2-0 on a score from the
left side of the crease following a snappy
pass from Larson.
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Second home Sharon Duffey continued the
offensive onslaught as she waltzed through
the defense to shoot at point blank range for
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By BARB PARMER
Assistant Sports Editor
Hot Leach burns Bruins
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
Sharp shooting Reggie Leach
equaled a National Hockey
League record with five goals
as the Philadelphia Flyers
beat the Boston Bruins 6-3 last
night and reached the Stanley
Cup final.
Leach joined the legendary
Maurice “Rocket” Richard
and Darryl Sittler as the only
players in the 82-year history
of the NHL to score five goals
in one Stanley Cup playoff
game.
The defending champion
Flyers eliminated the Bruins.,
4-1, in the best-of-seven game
semi-final series and earned
the right to try for a third
straight NHL title.
The Cup championship hat
trick has been turned only by
Toronto twice and Montreal
once since they started (
playing for the trophy in 1893.
The 26-year-old Leach also
tied the record of 15 goals in
playoff competition,
previously set by Montreal’s
Yvan Cournoyer in 1973 in 17
games. Leach has his 15 in
Canadiens, Celts win playoff contests
If you read the above story
you know the Flyers ad
vanced to the Stanley Cup
finals, so here’s some news
from some other tournaments
and playoffs:
In Montreal, the Canadiens
defeated the New York
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Baltimore 2, Chicago 0
Minnesota 8, Detroit 2
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Cleveland 3, Oakland 1
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her first tally of the day. By the 10-minute
mark into the game, Penn State had built a
surprising 4-0 lead, with Larson breaking the
tight three-man defense in front of the cage
for her second goal of the afternoon.
Then, Skean broke the ice for the cold
Warriors, but Morett and Duffey epch scored
to make it 6-1, Penn State.
Warrior center Paula McKeenan threw in a
shot just before the halftime whistle to cut
Penn State’s lead to four.
“Our first half passes were really good,”
Morett said. “But then we started throwing
long passes away and they started in
tercepting.
“East Stroudsburg really came back hard.
They got a lot more aggressive and it got a lot
rougher,” she added. “I didn’t think they
were going to come back like that.”
An ailing goalie, Jody Field, made seven
key saves' in the first half to bolster a strong
Penn State defenseive effort. Field suffered a
bruised hip over last weekend.
Penn State outshot the visitors, 24-20.
However, East Stroudsburg took the edge on
shots in the second half, 11-10.
“We’re definitely a first half team, but not
today,” Warrior Skean said. “Things started
picking up in the second half. We started
hustling more.
“Defensively, I don’t know if Penn State
was looser on defense or we were playing
better,” she added.
East Stroudsburg takes home a 4-2 record
while the Lady Lions boost their standing to
6-1.
The jayvee squad made things look easier
as they romped over the East Stroudsburg
jayvees, 11-4. A flurry of late first period
goals and again in the early part of the
second half gave the women all they needed
to record their fifth win in a row. ,
The lacrossewomen meet Cortland
tomorrow at 1 p.m. on Pollock Field.
only 12 games, with still at
least four games to play.
The six-foot Leach, from
Riverton, Manitoba, Canada,
set still another NHL record
with his first goal at 5:45 of
the first period. It was the
ninth consecutive game of
this year’s playoffs in which
the 185-pound right winger
turned on the red light.
Montreal’s Richard held
the old record of eight con
secutive goal scoring games,
which he did twice, both times
over two playoff years.
. Leach is the first to score in
eight or more straight games
in one playoff season, and he
has a chance to boost that in
the final series.
Leach’s second goal, which
came at 2:02 of the second
period,' came after Boston’
had tied the scored 1-1 only 59
seconds into the period.
Leach followed it with goals
at 8:51 and 17:09 to become
the 11th player ever to score a
hat trick in one period of a
playoff game.
At 8:07 of the third period,
Islanders 5-2, winning the
best-of-seven series 4-1.
Montreal now meets the
Flyers in the Stanley Cup
finals, with the first two
games slated for Montreal.
The initial game of the series
is Sunday night.
Over in the National
Basketball Association, the
Boston Celtics, led by John
Havlicek, Jo Jo Whtie and
Paul Silas, outlasted the
Cleveland Cavaliers, 111-99 in
the first game of the Eastern
Changes galore in Blue-White
Some things change and others stay
the same, that’s life. And both will be
evident at the Annual Blue-White in
tersquad football game, 2 p.m.
tomorrow at Beaver Stadium.
The changes are the works of coach
Joe Paterno, who happens to be the
nation’s winningest football coach.
Each year about this time he’s full of
changes converting an offensive back
in to a linebacker or a defensive safety
into a running back.
The thing that remains the same is his
team’s success on the field. Eight of the
past years, the Lions have been ranked
in the top ten nationally and have gone to
a major bowl game as Paterno compiled
a 94-18-1 record.
Paterno has an interesting challenge
this year for among the 11 graduated
seniors he must replace, seven were on
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Trackers go solo for Pitt
By RICK WEBER
Collegian Staff Writer
In the double-dual meet
with Maryland and Michigan
last week, the Penn State
trackmen combined efforts
for the good of the team in a
scoring meet. In the sixth
annual Pitt Invitational
today, they’ll go all out to
achieve top individual per
formances.
The Pitt Invitational, with
events scheduled for both
today and tomorrow, has
been gaining momentum
each year and is quickly
becoming one of the East’s
top invitational track meets.
Last year’s classic featured
big win
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Leach blasted his fifth goal of
the game, equalling a feat
accomplished by Richard on
March 23, 1944, at Montreal
against Toronto, and equalled
by Sittler for Toronto against
the Flyers in the sixth game
of this year’s quarter-finals.
. The Flyers missed a golden
scoring opportunity in the
first few minutes of the
game when Boston had two
men in the penalty box, giving
the Flyers a five-three power
play edge for 1:34. The Bruins
killed the penalties, but then
Leach killed the Bruins.
At 3:45 of the first period,
Leach beat Boston’s Brad
semis. The Cavs tied the
score 77-77 at the end of the
third period, but Boston
outscored Cleveland 17-4 in
less than seven minutes and
pulled out the win.
Golden State and Phoenix
resume the Western semifinal
battle tonight in Phoenix.
Each team has one win in the
best-of-seven series.
Moving outdoors, Jack
Nicklaus shot a first-round 69
in the Byron Nelson Golf
defense, which was the backbone of last
year’s team. New faces are needed at
two linebacker spots, two positions in a
three-deep secondary, two defensive
tackles and a defensive end in addition to
both offensive guards, a split end and an
offensive halfback.
Seven of last years 28 letterman in
volved in the present spring cleaning are
George Reihner moving from offensive
to defensive tackle, Neil Hutton from
offensive to defensive back, Randy
Sidler from defensive end to linebacker,
Paul Suhey from fullback to linebacker,
Dave Shukri from center to offensive
guard or tackle, Keith Dorney from
offensive tackle to center and Jimmy
Cefalo from alternating at flanker and
tailback to a full-time flanker job.
The scrimmage, to be played under
near-game conditions, will find half the
36 schools and over 500
athletes. The Lions took on
those top challenges last year
and brought home seven first
place finishes.
“It will really be a good
meet this year with top teams
and individual stars from the
East and a good represent
ative sampling from the
midwest,” coach Harry
Groves said. “Up to now, it’s
been mainly relays and in
vitationals for us. The nice
thing about an invitational
where you don’t have to score
is that you can move the guys
around into events in
preparation for the larger
meets coming up (the Central
Collegiate Conference
Championship and the NCAA
Championships).
“Due to the large size (with
trials, semi-finals, finals) we
begin to change our ap
proach,” Groves continued.
“We’re not trying to win a
title in the meet. We’re
worrying about individual
excellence, not the team
scoring total as in a dual meet
like last week. We’re putting
Penn State's Karen Bretherick (8) and Becca Garwood attempt to
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Park to the puck on the left
boards, skated in and
whipped a back-hander past
goalie Gilles Gilbert into the
far corner of the net.
The Bruins tied it at 0.59 of
the second period when Gregg
Sheppard deflected Dallas
Smith’s shot from the blue
line under Flyers goalie
Wayne Stephenson.
The tie lasted until 2:02
when Bobby Clarke passed to
Leach at the blue line. Leach
zeroed in on Gilbert from the
right side and blasted a 15-
footer right between the
goalie’s pads.
Leach’s third goal came at
Classic, but ended up with an
official score of 71. Nicklaus
was penalized two-strokes op
the first tee when officials
found an extra club in his bag.
The club belonged, as it
turned out, to another golfer,
but neither could figure out
how it got in the Golden
Bear’s Bag.
Mark Hayes fired a five
under-par 66 for the early
lead in the $200,000 event.
And finally, in tennis,
individuals in good com
petition to develop in a good,
positive way. This meet is
another step on the road to the
Central Collegiates and the
NCAA’s.”
Some of the best athletes in
the country are set to com
pete today and tomorrow in
Pitt Stadium. The Lion track
men have shown their
strength against this top
competition in the past,
setting eight meet records.
Three of those were set last
year by current trackmen
George Malley and Bill
Gifford. Malley won the six
mile run in a meet record
time of 28:26.2 and the 3000-
meter steeplechase in a meet
and stadium record of 8:46.8.
Gifford recorded a meet
record in the pole vault as he
topped 16 feet, one inch.
One of the most interesting
battles shapes up in the
hammer throw competition
between Penn State’s A 1
Jackson and Western
Michigan’s Mike Schoemer.
9:51. Orest Kindrachuk
passed from center ice to
Terry Crisp, who pushed the
puck to Leach. The red hot
Leach, who set a record of 61
goals for a right winger
during the regular season,
backhanded a score with
rookie Steve Langdon
hanging on his back.
Leach completed his second
period hat trick at 17:09 when
Clarke stole the puck along
the right board, skated to the
end of the face-off circle and
dropped a pass back to Leach.
Leach fired a 15-footer from
the middle of the circle into
the far corner
Boston momentarily
stopped the Leach assault at
6:09 of the third period with a
goal by Don Marcotte that
made it 4-2. Less than two
minutes later, Leach back
handed a 12-footer for his
fifth goal to make it 5-2.
The scoring was wrapped
up by Larry Goodenough for
the Flyers at 17:13 and
Savard for the Bruins
Argentina’s Guillermo Vilas
reached the semifinals of the
World Championship of
Tennis with a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
win over Bob Lutz. Vilas will
play the winner of the Raul
Ramirez—Dick Stockton
match, with the winner ad
vancing to the finals against
.the Harold Solomon Bjorn
Borg semi.
The finals match will be
nationally televised Sunday
afternoon. And that’s all.
first team offense and half the first team
defense going to each squad.
Chuck Fusina and Doug Hostetler will
probably handle the quarterbacking
chores for the two teams, as regular
quarterback John Andress is still
troubled by a knee injury. If he plays it
will be at less than 100 per cent. Also
injured is outside linebacker Kurt
Allerman who will be replaced by Tom
DePaso, Greg Buttle’s backup last
year.
Some newcomers to look out for in the
offensive backfield are fullbacks Tony
Alguero and Bob Torrey who have been
pushing senior Larry Suhey, and half
backs Rich Milot and Kevin Thrower
who are competing with Steve Geise for
the departed Woody Petchel’s tailback
spot.
Invite
In the Central Collegiates,
Schoemer beat Jackson in the
35-lb. weight throw cham
pionship. But Jackson came
back and got revenge by
topping Schoemer in the
NCAA’s.
Penn State’s top high
jumper, senior Pete Kiproff,
also expects a tough battle in
his event. “The competition
in the high jump will be ex
cellent," Kiproff said. “A lot
of good jumpers will be
there.”
“I’ll be trying to qualify for
the NCAA’s,” he continued.
“I’ve had a couple of good
jumps in practice this week,
and I’m going for seven feet
this weekend.
“My approach will be a
little bit different. We’ll be
qualifying on Friday and then
jumping on Saturday. It’ll be
a good experience to jump
two days in a row. It should be
beneficial to me because
that’s the format that is used
in the NCAA’s.”