Lady spikers of consistent offense The women's volleyball team, recently plagued by an inconsistent offensive attack, travels to the University of Pittsburgh this weekend to compete in the Pittsburgh InvitOonal Tournament. . - The Lady Lions, who displayed a somewhat inconsistent offensive attack last weekend at Temple and earlier this week against East Stroudsburg and Rutgers, are looking to the Pitt tourney to put their attack together. "We're making progress, that's what counts," said coach Tom Tait. "Every part of our game is getting better as it goes along." - Tait said that. the lady spikers began executing with some regularity against Rutgers. "We're still not executing at a consistently high level to beat the higher teams," he added. Polomen aiming high Penn State's water polo team will be disappointed if it does not win all four games it plays here in this weekend's tournament at the Natatorium, ac cording to its coach. Brian Kaiser, who also plays on the team, said that Johns Hopkins and Lehigh will give the Lions the most trouble in the first league tournament of the season, but the team avoids the league's strongest teams. "The toughest teams in our league are Princeton, Villanova and Monmouth, and we play them in the next tour nament," Kaiser said. The Lions lost to Princeton in over ' time, 18-17, in last week's tournament, Netwomen The Lady Lions tennis team faces off i i, against some tough competition this 7 weekend when they take part in the Eastern Collegiate tournament in New , Paltz, N.Y. • Teams from 36 schools are expected to -participate in this year's tournament and Coach Candy Royer said she expects „, that "it's going to be tough." 11 1 "Virginia and Princeton will be the teams we have to beat at Easterns," Royer said. Joy McManus and Carole Zajac will represent Penn State in the singles while the teams of Joan Backenstose and Gail , Ramsay and Donna Dißenzo and Carol t Daniels are entered in the doublies. Last year Penn State finished fourth in in need Tait attributed the inconsistency to the new, multiple offensive attack that the Lady Lions are using. "Running a more sophisticated offense takes more time to put together," Tait said. For this weekend's tournament, the Lady Lions are seeded second in their bracket of competition. Also in the bracket are top-seeded University of Maryland, the defending Eastern champions, along with Virginia Com monwealth and Oneonta. Tait said his team would have to make sure to finish in the top two since only two teams from each bracket have a chance at the championship. "We're starting to come along," Tait said. "I'm hoping we're at a stage now where we can put some teams away." —by Ed Socha but the game did not count in the league standings. "We played last week without two starters (Jim Ward and Brian Muller) and we were hurt by a lack of depth," he said. Both will play this weekend, he said. The team also lost to Pittsburgh, 18-13, before crushing Millersville, 25-14. Lack of depth hurt the club in the Pitt game as the Panthers outscored the Lions 8-3 after Kaiser and Joe Mertz fouled out. Kaiser is confident despite the two losses. "We looked good last weekend," he said, and he calls his team "one of the best in the league." —by Carl Smith in NY tourney the tournament and McManus reached the quarterfinals in singles competition. This year McManus is seeded third in the. singles behind Cindy Brinker of Virginia and Debbie Campbell of Princeton. In the doubles, Penn State's team of Joan Backenstose and Gail Ramsay are seeded third. Virginia and Princeton are also seeded first and second, respectively, in the doubles. In action yesterday, the netwomen trounced Colgate, 8-1. All the Lady Lions were victorious except Carole Zajac, who lost to Sue Aery, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. The doubles competition was played in 10 point pro sets because of the lack of time available. —By Caryl Kauffman Saturday, October 7 • COME OUT AND PARTY at AXI with OX 9:30 til ? Ladies & Rushees Welcome 406 S. Pugh St. 237-7881 U-031 IT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD BUT YOU CAN SEE IT AT THE ASTRONOMY OPEN HOUSE TELESCOPE DEMONSTRATIONS SLIDE SHOW Friday, Oct. 6 7:30-10:00 p.m. 6th Floor DAVEY LAB (roof) R-003 Sponsored by PSU Astronomy Club rmii....cm...••••••••••••••.........mmumwmim. ■ 31 PHI KAPPA TAU •: . I : i : proudly announces its • Fall 1979 Pledge Class • • Art Belfiore Randy Buffington Mike DeSimone Tom Haulik MI II SUSSOIIIOIIIOIIIOIIIOIIOIIIOIIIOIIOIIIIIIIOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIOIIIIIIIII4IIIIIIIIIIOIIOIIIIIIIIIIOIIIOIIOIIIIIIIO Smart people read Collegian ads. Right? Marty Campfield Pat Meighan Dave Petroski Dan Shaffer Mark Robin TURNTABLES The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 6, 1978 ~ t e0!i!
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