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By ED SOCHA
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The United States women's national
volleyball team, led by 6' 5" Flo Hyman,
defeated the Japanese national women's
volleyball team three games to two in an
exhibition match Friday night at Rec
Hall..
The U.S. women won by scores of 15-
10, 13-15, 15-11. 11-15, and 15-5.
Abbut 4,000 people saw the American
team come back from a four-point
deficit in the first game to take control
the remainder of the game. With Sue
Woodstra serving, the Americans reeled
off six straight points to jump to a 9-7
lead a lead they never lost.
In the second game, the Japanese
began leaping and diving techniques, a
characteristic of Japanese play. They
jumped to an early lead, which was
again taken away by strong American
play, but came back to tie the score at 13-
13 and eventually win the game.
In game three, the Americans
demonstrated that they were a strong
team, even without Flo Hyman. With
Hyman on the bench and Laurel Brassey
in her place on the floor, the Americans
ran off six straight points on their way to
a 13-6 lead. They held on to go ahead of
the Japanese two games to one for the
match.
Game four belonged to the Japanese.
Although it was a close match most of
the way, the Japanese came back with
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By ED SOCHA
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The American victory at Rec Hall Friday night
carries with it a few suggestions about the world of
volleyball in the future.
By virtue of their three-games-to-two-victory, the
American team went ahead 15-5 in tour wins. American
coach Arie Selinger expected the tour to be more evenly
matched. .
"Considering this is the twentieth match with a lot of Selinger said Yamada has benched three of his players
travel and a little rest, I didn't expect it to be that much that competed on the gold medal winning Japanese
of a kill," Selinger said. "I expected it to be fifty-fifty." team at Montreal in 1976 through most of the tour.
The teams have been exposed to some grueling The American coach also said that his team is im
punishment. Both the Anlericans and the Japanese proving steadily. He said his team proved that fact in
have played, practiced and travelled every day since •the world competition by, beating another recognized
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six straight points from an 11-9 deficit to
force the fifth and deciding game.
In that deciding game, the Americans
took an early lead and held on to win the
game and the match. Hyman, Woodstra
and Patty Dowdell were all the offense
the Americans needed in the 15-5 win.
After the match, Nittany Lion
volleyball coach and local match
coordinator Tom Tait commented on the
play of the two teams.
"The Americans had the firepower,"
Tait said. He was especially impressed
with the play of Flo Hyman. "She was
dominating," Tait said. "She was hitting
very high."
Tait explained that some of the other
American players were hitting the ball
low over the net, making it easy for the
Japanese to block.
"High hitting makes it hard to block. It
gives you an enormous difference in
what you can do offensively," Tait said.
About the Japanese, Tait said,
"They're a lot better team than what
they've shown at this stage." He added
that the Japanese have been working
extremely hard at recent practices, but
were just outplayed by the Americans on
Friday night. .
Tait sees Friday's match as a possible
springboard for volleyball both at Penn
State and in the country as a whole.
"It's one way to introduce volleyball to
people who hadn't seen it before," Tait
said.
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Coach Selinger says that the tour shows both the
improvement in the American team and somewhat of a
decline in the Japanese team. He pointed out that the
Americans had little trouble handling the Japanese
early in the tour, and thinks that the Americans will
have little trouble the rest of the way.
Selinger pointed out that the Japanege coach Shigeo
Yamada is building a new team for the 1980 Olympics.
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volleyball power, China, by a 3.0 score in a five game
match.
Selinger is convinced that his team has a legitimate
chance at a medal at Moscow in 1980, and is not con
cerned by Japanese coach Yamada's benching of his
experienced players.
"When they were in, we beat the Japanese 3-0. When
they were on the bench; we beat them 3-0."
When asked if the three Japanese Olympians would
make a difference if they played later on in the tour,
Selinger replied, "I don't worry, we'll beat them . . . 3-
0."
The Japanese and Americans have only eight more
meetings left on the tour, which' ends October 29 in Hilo,
Hawaii.
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