Trackmen, Cats dominate
blustery IVittany Relays
By RICK WEBER
Collegian Sports Writer
Villanova and Penn State dominated a
field of 40 university and track club
teams at the sixth annual Nittany Lion
Relays over the weekend.
Before the colossal event began, Penn
State track coach and meet director
Harry Groves extolled Villanova for its
strong relay squads. And when the meet
reached its conclusion late Saturday
afternoon at Westerly Parkway Junior
High School, the Wildcats had proven
Groves correct. •
, Villanova won five relay titles in the
championship division the mile, two
mile, four-mile, sprint medley and
distance medley relays.
In addition to the relay titles,
Villanova claimed an individual title in
the triple jump as Nate Cooper leaped 48
feet, two-and-one-half inches.
Villanova's other place finishers in
cluded Greg Eckman ( third in the 400-
meter intermediate hurdles), John
Burns and Dean Childs ( second and
/third in the mile run).
Penn State trailed Villanova with four
first-place titles, but the Lions captured
18 place finishes to be the overwhelming
leader.
First-place finishes were recorded by
freshman standout Ray Krombel
(10,000-meter run), George Malley (open
nine-mile road race), Bill Austin (400-
meter IH), and Dave Hajnak
(decathlon).
Hajnak, a 6-1, 163-lb. senior, trailed
Ken Talton of Cornell and Ken
Osbourne of the Philadelphia Pioneer
Track Club after Thursday's events.
• But Hajnak said he was satisfied with
his position.
"I felt pretty good because I usually
come back harder the second-day;Lhe
said
On Friday, Hajnalktook a second in the
110-meter high hurdles and won the pole
vault and javelin to clinch his victory in
the grueling event.
"The pole vault was the key," he said.
"That's where I pulled away. I knew they
couldn't touch .me in the next two
Men's results from
Decathlon-1. Hajnik, PSU, 6446;
2. Talton, Cornell, 6067; 3. Papa,
Slippery Rock, 5969.
Nine-mile road race 1. George
Malley, PSU, 48:07.3 (Relays re
cord; old record 49:50, Sam Bair, un
attached, 1976); 2. Steve Pulos,
Greater Rocheiter Track Club,
48:15; 3. Charles Trayer, Reading
AATC, 48:38. .
10,000 meters 1. Ray Krombel,
PSU, 31:20.3; 2. John Doub, Ship
pensburg, 31:30.1; 3. Tim Dolen,
Bucknell, 31:46.0
Discus 1. Mike Dakan, Buck
nell, 149-4; 2. Terry Bruce, Alfred,
142-1; 3. Tom Kadien, Bucknell, 139-2
400 IH 1. Bill Austin, PSU, :54.6;
2. Linford Jones, Slippery Rock,
55 3; 3. Greg Eckman, Villanova,
:55 4,
Championship distance medley re
lay 1. Villanova (Mark Belger,
Glenn Bogue, Phil Kane and Ed
Takacs); 10:12.5; 2 PSU, 10:13,8;
3. Syracuse, 10:31.5
Triple jump Nate Cooper, Villa
nova, 48-2 , ,2; 2. Julius Brown, West
Penn Track Club, 46-8; 3. Larry
Dietrich, Bloomsburg, 46-5; 4. Joe
Batteer, PSU, 45-514.
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Trackwoman Patti Knighton broke the Beaver Stadium women's long jump record
with a jump of 18 feet, two and three-eighths inches but was edged out of first place
by teammate Regina White's 18 feet, two and three-quarter inch leap Sunday in the
Nittany Lion Relays.
events."
Austin's victory was notable because
he bested a good field which included
Maryland's Greg Eckman and Lion Paul
Pollock.
"His time ( : 54.6) didn't look that
fast," said Groves, "but under the
conditions it was good. He beat the IC4A
champ, Eckman, to win it."
The conditions Groves was talking
about included 35-degree temperatures
and bone-chilling 20-mile-per-hour gusts
of wind which hit the athletes directly in
the face coming off the second turn.
"The weather was hard," Groves said.
"It just wears on you and you feel tight
and stiff. It's probably good in the long
run because you get tougher from it."
Nearly all the performances suffered
from the frigid temperatures and strong
winds.' Some examples: Villanova won
the distance medley in 10:12.5, a full 23
seconds slower than the meet record its
relay squad set in 1973; and Villanova
won the two-mile relay in 7:41,2, 17
seconds off the record.
The wind also played havoc with some
of the jumpers.
"It was a pretty tough wind," said
Lion freshman Joe Batteer, who took
fourth ' place in the triple jump on
Friday. "It made my approach a little
slower. The run is a big part of the jump.
If you feel you are running slow, it's
gonna mess up the rhythm of your jump.
"It affected everyone," Batteer add
ed, "but it probably affected the other
guys more than me because I've been
practicing in bad weather all spring.
Cooper-would have hit 50 (feet) if the
weather had been better."
Putting the weather aside, Penn
State's only other nagging problem was
its inability to capture a title in a relay
-event.
'The Lions took seconds in five relays
the 880, sprint medley, distance
medley, mile and four-mile.
"I think we held the record for
seconds," Groves said. "Where we could
have won, someone was there to stop
us."
That someone was Villanova. The
Mile 1. Ken Schappert, New
York Athletic Club, 4:22.0; 2. JOhn
Burns, Villanova, 4:22.1; 3. Dean
Childs, Villanova, 4:23.4.
Shot put 1. Steve Bulger, Seton
Hall, 50-1 1 / 2 feet; 2. Robert Carr,
Slippery Rock, 49-6%; 3. Mike
Wallace, Pittsburgh, 49-1.
Pole vault 1. Todd Wunderlich,
Slippery Rock, 15-0; 2. Bob Hottle,
PSU, 14-0. (others failed to clear
opening height of 13-6)
Open 119-meter hurdles 1. Mike
Holston, Hagerstown, :15.0 (wind
aided at 0.69 mph); 2. Paul Pollock,
PSU, :15.3; 3. Richard Prescott,
Delaware St., :15.3.
Open 100 meters 1. John Cham
bers, Seton Hall, :10.8 (wind aided at
6.82 mph); 2. Aaron Harvey, Dela
ware St., :10.9 3. Rick Swanson,
Colgate, :10.9.
Hammer 1. Al Jackson, Philly
Pioneers, 198-4 1 / 2 ; 2. Carl Shields,
unattached, 194.7 1 /:; 3. Gary
Greaser, PSC, 168-6.
Invitational 100 meters 1. Calvin
Dill, Seton Hall, :10.4 (Relays re
cord; old record :10.5, Mike Sands,
PSU); 2. Mike Sands, New York
Pioneers, :10.5; 3. Eldred Stephens,
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Open Javelin 1. Greg Geraci,
Bruce Track Club, 250; 2. Ken
Andrews, Bruce Track Club, 220-10;
Kevin Johnson, Bruce Track Club,
216-7. •
3,000-meter steeplechase—i. Pete
Heesen, East Stroudsburg, 9:18.3;
2. Kelly O'Brien, PSU, 9:35.8; Jim
Doughtery, Rochester, 9:41.9.
Long jump—i. Winston Strachan,
Alfred, 22-11; 2. Julius Brown, West
Penn TC, 22-5; 3. John Sallade, PSU,
22-4%.
Championship two-mile relay
1. Villanova (Fallon, Kane, Takacs
and Belger), 7:41.2; 2. West Vir
ginia, 7:46.7; 3. PSU, 7:47.0.
800 meters 1. Bill Miller,
Hagerstown, 1:55.2 (Relays record;
old record 1:56.4, Mike Martin, Mt.
St. Mary's, 1976); 2. Jack Cava
naugh, Baltimore TC, 1:55.5; 3. Tom
McLean, Bucknell, 1:55.9.
400 meters 1. Joseph Coombs,
Essex, :46.9 (Relays record; first
time contested); 2. Mike Sands, New
York Pioneers, :47.5; 3. Bill Hicks.
Philly Pioneers, :48.1.
Two-mile run 1. Charlie Ma
guire, Philly Pioneers, 8:59.4; 2.
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Wildcats continually held off Penn State,
winning four of the five events in which
the Lions finished second.
The most exciting of those came on
Friday in the distance medley.
Lion anchorman Paul Stemmer was
about four or five yards behind
Villanova's Ed Takacs when he received
the baton for the final leg.
Stemmer reduced the margin to two
steps as the runners approached the
final lap. Then they hit the windy
backstretch. On the last turn, Stemmer
started to kick. But Takacs maintained
the margin to the tape and edged
Stemmer by one second.
"I was satisfied with our per
formances," Groves said. "We scored in
a lot of places. A lot of teams weren't
able to do that.
"People use this kind of a meet to
develop. It's early and they know it's
gonna be chilly. They know it's really not
that important yet."
Beta Theta Pi fraternity turned in one
of the most outstanding performances of
the meet in the eight-man intramural
mile relay on Friday. Its relay team took
first place in 3:17.9, breaking the record
of 3:18.4 it had set on Thursday.
"We just tried to better Thursday's
time," said Barry Fagan, a member of
Beta Theta Pi's strong team. "We were
about 11 seconds ahead of the closest
team on Thursday. We figured that
unless someone came up with a super
performance, we'd win."
Fagan said the wind bothered the
runners, although the record-setting
time didn't show it.
"The wind bothered us, especially on
the first, third and fifth legs," he said.
"It almost blew you off the ground."
MEET MEMOS: Winston Strachan of
Alfred University was named the out
standing performer in the field events.
Strachan won the long jump (22-11) and
the high jump (6-8). "He definitely
deserved it," Groves said. "The com
bination of those two events is difficult
under any conditiol . ls. He beat a lot of
good guys."
Greg Fredericks, Philly Pioneers,
8:59.4; 3. Mel Boyd, Pitt, 9:03.3.
Shuttle hurdle relay 1. Seton
Hall (Williams, Wyatt, Ware and
Bunting), 1:01.2; 2. Bucknell, 1:01.6;
3. PSU, 1:01.8.
High jump —l. Winston Strachan,
Alfred, 6-8; 2. Jeff Curruthers,
Bloomsburg, 6-8; 3. Dan Goodyear,
Pitt, 6-6.
Championship 880 relay 1.
Essex (Bethel, Muhammad, Hus
bands, Coombs), 1:16.7; 2. PSU,
1:30.9; 3. Philly Pioneers, 1:31.2.
Championship mile rely—i. Villa
nova (Harbour, Belger, Bogue, Eck
man), 3:15.2; 2. PSU, 3:16.9; 3. Dela
ware State, 3:16.6.
Championship 440 relay 1.
Essex (Bethel, Muhammad, Hus
band and Paul ), :41.4; 2. Seton Hall,
:41.7; 3. Delaware State, :41.8.
Championship sprint medley re
lay 1. Villanova (Bogue, Brown,
Harbour and Beller), 3:26.9; 2. PSU,
3:28.2; 3. Seton Hall, 3:34:0.
Four-mile relay 1. Villanova,
17:10.9 (Flynn, Childs, Burns and
Takacs); 2. PSU, 17:18.5; 3. Syra
cuse,l7:34.l.
Keystone impressive in sprints
Trackwomen control distances
While most people were enjoying Easter candy
and family dinners yesterday afternoon, the Lady
Lion track team was at Beaver Stadium battling an
impressive Klub Keystone in the Nittany Lion
Relays.
Between them, Penn State and Klub Keystone (an
AAU club) took 14 of 18 first places and set four new
Beaver Stadium records.
"You could divide the events into two halfs," said
Klub Keystone coach Hickey. "Penn State took the
half-mile and up, and we took the other events."
Klub Keystone, who came away from the Relays
with nine first places, set new highs in the 100-yard
dash and the 880-yard medley relay.
Rhonda Yancy ran an 11.1 to surpass Lady Lion
Tina Leatlierman's old record of 11.3 in the 100-yard
dash. Four Klub Keystone harriers, shaving the old
record by more than a second, compiled a time of
1:48.5 in the 880-yard medley relay.
Penn State sprint coach Warren Coleman com
mented on Klub Keystone's domination of the
shorter races. "If I could have those sprinters from
Klub Keystone, I could win the national cham
pionships," he said. "They're 'Class sprinters."
"We're (Penn State's) coming," he said. "We're
improving, but the competition is, too."
NBA refs' strike begins a game early
By The Associated Press
National Basketball Association
referees, who already have voted to
strike next week's playoffs, walked
out on the league's final eight regular
season games yesterday.
The strike was ordered by Richie
Phillips of Philadelphia, the attorney
for the 24-member National
Association of Basketball Referees,
which represents all but two of the
league's referees
"The NBA has refused to negotiate
or recognize the association as the
collective bargaining agent .for the
referees," Phillips told The
Associated Press yesterday. "As a
result, the referees who are members
of the association have gone out on an
unfair labor practices strike against
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Baseballers double dip Rutgers
In his first 23 trips to the
plate last season, Lions' left
fielder Bob Miller produced
just one hit for a get this
.047 batting average. This
year has been a bit different,
however, for after leading the
team to a 3-1, 9-3 twinbill
sweep at Rutgers Saturday,
he has now mustered eight
safeties in 11 appearances,
including four doubles and a
homer.
"Bobby hit some real shots
last weekend," Lions'mentor
Chuck Medlar said. "As a
Ratter of fact, he didn't hit a
bad ball all day. That good
wrist action is back."
And so was Lion hurler Jim
Nielsen, who after posting a
sub-par 4.06 earned run
average last year, came alive
in Saturday's opener, yielding
just three hits in eight in
nings, while striking out nine.
State's offense didn't help
the big rightie any, as it left 13
men stranded on the
basepaths, while scoring just
one run in the seven regula
tion frames. Rutgers, how
ever, could do no better, but it
was not until the eighth, with
the score knotted at one, that
the Scarlet Knights were fin
ally overtaken.
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Pollock digs for a second place finish in the Nittany Lion
By GARY SILVERS
Collegian Sports Writer
The Lady Lions, living up to what is becoming
expected of them, did much better in the distance
races. In the Distance Medley Relay Penn Staters
Donna Gardner (880), Lea Ventura (440), Hilary
Noden (three-quarter mile) and captain Kris
Bankes (mile) shattered the old record of 12:34.2
with a time of 11:56.
Regina White (18-2 3-4) and Patti Knighton (18-2 3-
8) , earning first and second positions ih the long
jump for Penn State, both surpassed the old Beaver
Stadium record of 18-1 1-4.
The fifth and final record of the Relays was set by
Central Jersey Track Club's Penny Fales. Fales
broke another Beaver Stadium record by more than
two seconds with a time of 1:03 in the 400-meter
hurdles. She is ranked seventh nationally in that
event.
In the half-mile (880), Kris Bankes ran a 2:15.5 to
win the event, and together with teammate Peggy
Hall, who raced to the time of 2:16.2, qualified for
nationals.
"I was very pleased with all the half-milers," said
Lady Lion coach Chris Brooks. "Their times are
well ahead of what they should be at this point in the
season."
"Kris Bankes is doing now what she was doing at
the end of last year," Brooks continued. "She
the league."
An NBA spokesman termed the
strike "illegal" and vowed to hold the
referees responsible for possible
damages. Regarding possible
negotiations, the spokesman said,
"The NBA will not submit to ex
tortion."
The contracts of the 26 referees
expired yesterday, the final day of the
regular season. In past years, ac
cording to NBA Deputy Com
missioner Simon Gourdine, there
always were separate agreements for
the regular season and the playoffs.
"New contracts were always
negotiated after the playoffs for the
following season," Gourdine said.
Not anymore, says Phillips.
"At this stage, it is very unlikely
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Lions' right fielder Andy
Onkontz started the two-run
rally with a walk. Catcher
Tim Searer advanced him to
second which set up the game
winning double by Bill Benner
(2 for 4). Shortstop Bob Orwig
followed that sequence with a
single to center and the
visitors owned game one.
In the nightcap it was all
Penn State. And Bob Miller (4
for 4, three doubles). The
Lions jumped off to a 7-0 lead
after the first three and a half
innings and never looked
back.
The biggest outburst oc
curred in the first, when State
Bullets, Chenier beat 76ers
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) Phil Chenier
broke out of his shooting slump yesterday by
scoring 29 points to take the Washington
Bullets to a 131-121 National Basketball
Association victory over the Philadelphia
76ers.
The Bullets, who lost to the 76ers by 32
points in Philadelphia Saturday night, out
scored them 36-28 in the third quarter to take
the lead for good. Chenier had 14 points in the
period.
Mitch Kupchak came off the bench to score
23 points and grab seven rebounds for the
Bullets who finished with the same 48-34
record they had last year.
Kupchak sank 10 of 17 shots to finish second
that the referees will return only on
the promise of negotiation," Phillips
said. "We want to have a contract
before we work. We will no longer
work without a contract."
The groundwork for the strike was
laid earlier this week.
"The members of the NABS met in
Chicago Monday and voted 24-0 to
strike the playoffs," explained
Phillips. "They further voted to
empower the executive committee to
declare a strike prior to the end of the
regular season if the NBA persisted in
its unfair labor practices.
"We held out every hope that
during the past week the NBA would
negotiate in good faith. The NBA has
continued to refuse to do so despite
many entreaties on the part of the
Monday, April 11, 1977-9
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put together four hits and a
wild pitch by Rutgers starter
Mike Nalinski to produce
three early runs. The big blow
was a two-bagger by Miller,
knocking in Randy Sidler and
Kevin Moronic, who both
reached base on singles.
The Lions went on to tally
single runs in the second and
third and two more in the top
of the fourth before the Scar
let Knights finally dented the
scoreboard with an unearned
run in the bottom half of the
inning.
Rutgers scored their final
runs of the game in the fifth
on a single by Doug Tighe and
in the league in a field goal percentage with a
.572 mark the best ever for a rookie.
Julius Erving, who had 40 points Saturday
night, scored 31 before sitting out the fourth
quarter. George McGinnis did not play
because of a sore toe.
The 76ers finished the regular season with
a 50-32 record, the best in the Eastern
Division.
Referees Jake O'Donnell and Joe Gushue
refused to work the game as NBA referees
walked out on the league's final regular
season games.
Eastern League referees Joey Crawford
and Richie Jackson officiated the game.
probably could have run a faster time if she had
some competition."
Penn State also secured top honors in the two-mile
relay (Carolyn Wernstedt, Lisa Turner, Kathy Mills
and Peggy Hall) with a mark of 9:36. In the discus,
Barb Hess connected on a throw of 117-0 1-2 to beat
out her nearest competitor's, teammate Gayle
Bodin's, throw of 103-3 3-4.
One distance event that the Lady Lions did not
capture was the two-mile. Penn Stater Janet Norem
finished second with a time of 11:53.8 behind
Bucknell's Sue Cluzel ( 11: 50.6)
Two other distance events, the three-mile and the
mile, were cancelled.
Lady Lion freshman Vicki Cesan (high jump -5-4),
Patti Knighton (100-meter hurdles-15.4), Regina
White (100-yard dash-11.3) and Rhonda Dakelman
(javelin-133-4) all secured seconds in their
respective events. The second places marked their
first competition in an outdoor season as Lady
Lions.
Some of the teams that were scheduled to com
pete in the Nittany Lion Relays did not show up, and
the crowd that looked on was sparse. Coach Brooks
attributed these factors to Sunday being Easter.
"It was our first meet," she said of the team's
showing. "And all in all, we were pleased."
IM:1
a homer by center fielder Jeff
Heiman.
The winning pitcher in
game two was Jim Farr (2-
0), who went six innings,
allowing five hits and three
runs, while fanning five.
"We really thought Rutgers
would hit the ball like last
year," Medlar said,
"especially after they just
beat Bucknell Friday (10-1).
It's definitely an under class
ball club from the last time
we saw it."
The Lions next contest is at
3 p.m. tomorrow when they
host Bucknell at Beaver
Field.
referees' association to get to the
bargaining table."
Phillips said he was in contact with
league officials at 7 a.m. yesterday.
"We gave Commissioner Larry
O'Brien and the NBA till noon to let us
know they were willing to sit down
and negotiate," Phillips said. "If they
had done that, there would have been
no strike. Since they did not get back
to us, they apparently are not
prepared to negotiate.
"I'm shocked and disappointed that
matters have reached this stage. This
development is very disappointing to
me. I don't know why the NBA has
taken the position it has there's no
reason for it. Maybe they didn't know
that our association was serious. No'w
they know."