—The Daily Collegian Friday, Feb. 9,1979
Fencemen try for ninth victory;
battle always tough Midshipmen
The men’s fencing team will try to sink from final competition. A Navy epeeist Youchak and Stoyan Popovich will
Navy tomorrow for its ninth win of the made it to the semi-finals while another substitute.
seas ° n / ( „ , , _. . was . k T* ed ° ut »" the quarter-final The d will be Jeff Haney,
But it won’t be easy. The Lions have round of the Open. Navy didn't bring a Mike Co P rona * and Bob Malleck Ha ' s
on y won one meet from the Midshipmen sabre team to the competition. ward d Darren Kess , er wi „ dress
in their 20 meetings. The two teams should prove to be of with Jim G transfer from the
Navy brings a 3-4 record with them. In equal strength, Garret said. “The
a triangular meet last weekend, Navy success that either team will achieve
lost to Penn, 16-11, and defeated will be based on errors and
Columbia, 15-12. misjudgements made by their op
“It will be a very difficult task,” Penn ponents.”
State coach Mac Garret said. “The • Starting in foil are Matt Harris, Brian
problem lies in their outstanding foil Gibson and Bart Fried. Don Murray and
team”
A Navy fencer placed fifth in the Penn Don Lear, Jim Miller and Dan Mellon
State Open while the Lions were absent Jarashow will fence sabre. Harry
Host Jersey City ; California State
Fencewomen expect to win twice
Saturday will be an experiment for the In her quest for a number five fencer
women’s fencing team as it faces Jersey to help the varsity in the state and
City State and California State of Penn- national championships, Alphin will try
sylvania. Jan Kappmeyer, Pam Lehning and
„ t. r. ai u* , Ginny Thomas on the first team.
Coach Beth Alphin said both teams J
aren’t very strong. Jersey City is an gll Jersey City will bring six fencers
new team with a new coach. They have while California will bring only four.
lost their strongest player, Sheila Arm- Both schools have agreed to fence both
strong, who gave the Lady Lions trouble the Lady Lions’ first and second teams.
on the strip last season. California has In another switch> A 1 phin has moved
just returned from a break and has only Nancy Anderson to the second team .
practiced one week. wan t her to get the experience of fencing
“It’s going to be a good weekend for all eight fencers but without the pressure
us,” Alphin said. “I’ve really shifted the of a varsity meet,” Alphin said
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Stu Rothenberg will fence as alternates
“We changed Nancy’s game. She
Some Lions will be fencing their last
meet before a home crowd Saturday.
Haney, Youchak, Popovich and Ward
will graduate from the team. The last
home meet of the season will be over
term break, March 3, against Carnegie-
didn’t have an offense. An opponent
knew if they got two touches on her, they
just had to wait to win because she
wouldn’t attack,” she said.
“Now, in the process of attacking,
Nancy has disturbed her distance. She
feels she has to be closer because she’s
not experienced in offense and has a
tendency to get too close and gets picked
off coming in.
“She has to develop an offense. You
can be primarily an offensive or a
defensive fencer but you cannot be
exclusively either and be a good fencer,”
Alphin said.
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—by Becky Andrews
Sabre fencer Harry Youchak and the men’s fencing team' tomorrow at 1 p.m. The Lions have been able to muster
seek their ninth win of the season when they face Navy only one victory in 20 encounters with the Midshipmen.
Lady tankers seek improvements
While their opponent may not be a Rutgers or a Princeton, The meet will be distance with lengths of 100 and 200 yards, ’
the Lady Lion swimmers will be looking to improve their times and 400-yard relays. The Lady Lions have swum only two other' •
and record against a 4-3 Slippery Rock team that is potentially distance meets this year so tomorrow’s outing will provide
dangerous. The meet will be at l :30 at the Natatorium. new opportunities to qualify in the longer races.
“All of this is part of the long climb to the.top,” coach Ellen “We’re swimming a long meet and will be switching people*
Perry said. “Hopefully, we’ll be improving our times<'and will around to get some new qualifiers,” Perry said. '
be able to see how our training program has progressed so far Slippery Rock’s main attack will center around the per
this season.” formances of their six All-America swimmers. Chief among
Penn State will again be placing swimmers in events they these is Les Entwistle, a breaststroker whose best times rival
don’t normally swim in an attempt to qualify more teams for those of Penn State.
the Eastern championships in March. So far more than half of Other close matchups could be-in the freestyle and'
the girls on the 17-member squad have qualified for Easterns backstroke events but the Penn State relay teams should have
and four for Nationals. no problems. - -by Caryl Kauffman;
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