—The Daily Collegian Monday, September 13, 1976
Lions blank Lock Haven ; 3-0
Booters solid in season opener
By RICK•WEBER
Collegian Sports Writer
SophoMore winger Bob
Ehrlich tallied two goals and
collected one assist to lead
Penn State's soccer team to a
solid 3-0 season-opening
victory over Lock Haven
Friday night.
A Jeffrey Field crowd• of
4,000 survived a cold, blustery
night to see the Lion booters
completely dominate the
smaller squad from Lock
Haven. The Lions outshot the
Eagles 30-9, and had a large
edge in corner kicks, 9-2, as
they outclassed a team that's
usually a powerhouse in the
Major league standings
National League
East
W I.
86 55
82 59
74 67
65 78
62 77
48 91
West
93 52
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Montreal
Los Ang ,
Houston
San Diego
San Fran
Atlanta
71 74
67 78
65 81
61 81
Yesterday's Games
St. Louis 6, New York 5
Philadelphia B, Chicago 0
Pittsburgh 6, Montreal 1
Atlanta 3-0, Los Angeles 2.2, Ist game
10 innings
San Francisco 3-B, Cincinnati 1.9, 2nd
game 11 innings
Only Games scheduled
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Pennsylvania
ference.
"Overall, we did quite
well," said Penn State
soccer coach Walt Bahr.
"Bob - Ehrlich had his best
game since he's been at Penn
State. Ken McDonald played
a nice settled game. Matt
Bahr was very steady and
Herb Menhardt did well for a
freshman.
"We did at times con
trol the tempo the way I
we were forcing too many
balls forward and we got into
a kicking game with Lock
Haven. In the second half, we
slowed it down quite a bit and
American League
East
Pct. GB
.610
.582 4
.525 12
455 22
.446 23
.345 37
New York
Balt
Cleve
Boston
Detroit
Milwkee
.641 Kan City
.567 11 Oakland
.490 22 Minn
.462 26 Calif,
.445 28 1 2 Texas
.430 30'2 Chicago
Yesterday's Results
Detroit 8-1, New York 0.3
Boston 11, Cleveland 8
Kansas City 16, Minnesota 6
Baltimore 3, Milwaukee 1
Oakland 9, Texas 5
Chicago 2-5, California 1-1
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controlled the tempo well."
"There really wasn't much
pressure on the defense,"
Bahr added, "but we were a
bit ragged back there
anyway. All in all, with so
many key people missing in
an opening game, we did
well."
The key people that were
missing included midfielders
Sal Bommarito and Kevin
Costello, halfback Dave
Lloyd, and attacker Jim
Stamatis. Bommorito, Lloyd,
and Costello had pre-game
injuries that kept them out of
the lineup. Stamatis, a fresh
man from Bethlehem, started
and played a short time in the
first half before he was in
jured. He went up for a head
ball, came down, and twisted
his ankle. X-rays were
negative but Stamatis will be
hobbled by a bad sprain for at
least a few days.
W L Pct. GB
87 54 .617
77 65 .542 10 1
72 70 .507 15't
68 74 .479 19'7
66 76 .465 21 , 2
62 . 79 .440 25
West
Both Penn State and Lock
Haven had good scoring op
portunities early in the first
half..-With 7:48 gone, Ehrlich
fired a hard liner at Lock
Haven goalie Tom Fitzwiter,
but the ball sailed over the
crossbar. Six minutes later,
Lion winger Rich Reice broke
free inside the 16-yd. line and
booted a hard shot that hit
Fitzwater in the hands and
deflected over the goal.
"We had a lot of op
portunities to score," Bahr
said, "but we just hit a lot of
wood. The shots just weren't
going in. We could have
82 60 .577 -
77 65 .542 5
73 72 .503 10 1 2
65 79 .451 18
64 78 .451 18
61 82 .427 21,
doubled our goal output with
some luck."
Lock Haven had a number
of chances, but the best came
with 15:58 gone, when for
ward Billy Bush was left open
on the left side of the penalty
area. Bush kicked a grounder
that was just wide to the right
of the post.
"If Lock Haven had scored
just once early," Bahr added,
"they could have sat back and
nursed that one goal lead. It
would have given them a lot
of confidence if they could
have made good on just one of
their opportunities."
Lock Haven didn't cash in
on any of its chances, but with
18:11 gone in the first half,'
Penn _State did. Freshman
attacker Jim Stamatis took a
~pass from Ehrlich on the left
side of the 16-yd. line and beat
goalie Tom Fitzwater with a
grounder to the right corner
of the goal. - -
The Lions made it 2-0 with
13:55 left on Ehrlich's first
goal of the night. Ken
McDonald fired a shot which
Fitzwater knocked up in the
air. Lock Haven halfback Bert
Gottbrecht tried to save it but
Ehrlich punched it in.
. With 7: 22 gone in the second
half, Ehrlich missed a golden
opportunity for his second
goal. He booted a grounder
from inside the 16-yd. line but
it was deflected by Fitzwater
and missed the right post of
the goal. ,
However, Ehrlich wasn't
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to be denied on his next
scoring chance. With 10:00
elapsed, he drilled a _ high
liner over the outstretched
hands of Fitzwater to
giVe Penn State_ a 3-0 lead
"Penn State has a very
strong squad this year," said
Lock Haven coach Mike
Parker. "They moved the ball
well and looked very strong. I
have to give . full credit to
them."
The Lion booters will take on
an Irish University team in an
exhibition game tonight at
7:30 at Jeffrey Field:
Ehrlich switch rises goal production
By PETE DOUGHERTY
Collegian Sports Writer
What difference could a year make in
the Penn State-Lock Haven soccer
rivalry?
Well, first of all, it gave Lock Haven
goalie Steve Tanner, who made 18 saves
many of the spectacular variety in
a 1-1 tie during the game of a year ago, a
chance to graduate. .
But much more important than the
absence of Tanner was the presence of a•
different offensive tactic and a dif
ferently-Positioned Bob Ehrlich, both of.
which were keys in the Lions' 3-0
blanking of Lock Haven in the latest
meeting Friday night at Jeffrey Field.
Ehrlich, a sophomore, scored two of
the goals and assisted on the other by
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mate Jim Stamatis as a part of coach setting up Stamatis with what proved to
Walt Bahr's new strategy along the be the winning goal at 18:11, Ehrlich
forward wall. made it-2-0 less than 12 minutes later
"We anted to try to go with two
`strikers' up front and play the wings
more back," explained Bahr. "This pulls
Bob Ehrlich back where now he gets the
ball more at midfield. It's almost like
playing four people at midfield."
A halfback last year, Ehrlich agreed
that one of the major reasons for the
;witch to forward was because "we
weren't getting enough, midfield play
last year."
Ehrlich was figured to be more in
Penn State's offensive plans this year
after a one goal, three assists season in
1975, but few figured he would double his
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three Penn State goals Friday night as the Lions
blanked Lock Haven.
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beat Lock Haven goalie Tom Fitzwater.
, "We've worked' on the play all
preseason," Ehrlich said. "Coach Bahr ,
said if it payed off once the whole year it
would be worth it."
With ten minutes gone in the second ..
half, Ehrlich rammed home a 20-yarder`,l
to close the socring. "I was lucky it even '•,_
went toward the goal," Ehrlich said of
the shot that found the upper-right ,
corner of the net.
Penn State outshot the Eagles, 30-9
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