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Lady Lions' second-half surge stops Ed in boro St.
, .Hj CAHYI. KAUFFMAN .
Daily Collegian Spoi ls Writer
For the entire first half, the Lady
Lions’ basketball team looked like it was
; fmy where but in White Building as
'Edinboro took a 26-14 half-time lead.
Penn Stale, however, came back
Mrong in the second half to win, 60-50.
•* The Lions jumped out to an early first
hall lead but turnovers and a weak Penn
Stale defense gave the Lady Scots the
openings they needed to tie the game at
, eight on an Audrey Scott jumper. Less
Ilian one minute later, Scott sank
.another one to put Edinbpro ahead for
he rest of the half.
. "That was the worst half of basketball
I’ve ever seen Penn State play. We were
never in the game. It didn’t look like our
minds were there,” Penn Stale coach
Vat Meisersaid.
The Lady Lions shot 19.4 percent from
•iiie field as they hit on only 6 of 31. Jen
llednarek, Penn State’s leading scorer
-did not score, while Sue Martin and
Nancy Kuhl combined for only four
points. Meiser substituted liberally the
#ntire first-half.
Angry Donovan sparks comeback
tty NANCY BAUER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
When Penn Slate center Mary
DoYiovan gets mad, the opposition is in
trouble.
Last night Donovan "got fired up” as
she led the Lady Lions with a career
high 16 points and a game-high 18
rebounds, as Penn State defeated
Edinboro St. 60-50.
“That was without a doubt Mary’s
finest game,” Lady Lion coach Pat
Meisersaid.
Donovan came through in the second
half with 12 points and 11 rebounds. The
Indiana State barely
ranked number one
By The Associated Press
The margin isn’t much but Indiana
Sjgtate will take it. Being No.l by six
points is as good as being there by
plenty, as far as the undefeated
Sycamores are concerned.
Indiana State moved into the top
spot in The Associated Press college
basketball poll yesterday, receiving
43 first place votes and 1,196 points
from the nationwide panel of 62 sports
writers and broadcasters. UCLA was
second with 19 first-place ballots and
1,190 points in one of the closest vptes
in the history of The AP poll.
.The Sycamores, who are the
nation’s only major undefeated team,
.scored their 23rd consecutive .victory
Monday night, routing West Texas
State 100-75.
They had been N 0.2 in the poll last
week and moved up when top-ranked
Notre Dame was beaten at home
Sunday by UCLA. That loss dropped
the Irish to third place.
\ p e nn State’s 177-pound Dan Pfautz is back in Lion coach Rich Lorenzo’s lineup matches, Pfautz has been the Lions’ most consistent wrestler this season with a
\after suffering strained ligaments earlier this year. Undefeated in five dual 13-2-1 record.
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“We were substituting, trying to find
the right combination, but nothing
seemed to work,” Meiser said.
In the second half Penn State came out
shooting and cut the lead-in half during
the first three minutes on two baskets by
Bednarek, a Marlin jumpshot and two
free-throws by Kuhl. Lion center Mary
Donovan began to dominate under the
offensive boards and tied the game at 26
with a follow-up shot.
At the defensive end of the court, the
Lady Lions switched to a man-10-man
defense instead oi the zone they had used
during'the first half. That defense held
the Lady Scots scoreless for five
minutes.
“At halftime I told them, ‘you either
want it or you don’t.’ We started to
dictate to the offense in the second half,”
Meisersaid.
“I think I needed to wake myself up,”
Bednarek said. ”1 came out in the first
half not shooting well and every time I
missed a shot it was in the back of my
mind. She (Meiser) really fired us up.”
After Penn Slate tied the score, the
two teams traded baskets until a Sue
sophomore said she was “a little bit
intimidated” by Edinboro’s 6-4 center
Donnene Disco in the first half even
though she is 6-3 herself.
“I got sick of being pushed around,”
Donovan said. “I wanted to make sure I
was playing my own game. My main job
is to rebound.”
Prior to last night’s game, Donovan
led the Lady Lions with 9.2 rebounds per
game.
“I think the adrenaline was flowing in
the second half,” Donovan said. “I was
mad the first half because I wasn’t doing
anything.”
Although Indiana State held a wide
edge in first place votes, UCLA made
it close because none of the voters
had the Bruins lower than fourth in
the balloting.
Notre Dame received 1,073 points
for third place in the poll followed by
two Atlantic Coast Conference teams,
North Carolina and Duke. The Tar
Heels jumped from sixth place to
fourth with 983 points following
victories over Maryland and
Providence. Duke, top-ranked in the
preseason poll and third last week,
slipped to fifth with 901 points.
Southeastern Conference leader
Louisiana State, No.B last week, was
a close sixth with 895 points while
Syracuse, 20-2, remained N 0.7 with
869 points.
Michigan State, which defeated
lowa 60-57 and bombed Ohio State 73-
55 last week, jumped from 10th to
eighth with 795 points. Louisville,
N 0.5 last week, tumbled to ninth.
Martin jump shot put the Lions in the
lead for good with ten. minutes
remaining.
A key factor in the comeback was
Penn State’s pressure defense.
“We had to pressure them so we went
to a man-to-man,” Bednarek said. “If
you sit back in a zone they’re going to
shoot it. We had to go right out after the
ball.”
Mary Donovan’s performance was
also largely responsible for the win.
Defensively, the 6-3 center took away
many second shot opportunities with her
rebounding, while offensively she scored
16 points, 12 of them coming in the
second half.
“In the second half we were angry at
ourselves," Donovan said. "Edinboro
beat us last year and we wanted to show
that we were better than them."
Edinboro’s coach, Judy Sauer, said
she was not displeased with her team’s
performance.
“We played well the first half but the
pressure man-10-man defense flustered
us a bit. I felt there were some
questionable calls by the officials,"
Donovan did plenty in the second half.
Her baskets came in four point spurts
often scoring on offensive rebounds.
Donovan tied the score for the first
time in the second half at 26 and again at
34 after teammate Jen Bednarek missed
a shot. Donovan also made the score 50-
45 and 52-45 on offensive rebound
baskets.
“She positioned herself well," said
Meiser.
“Mary really came through,” said
Bednarek. “She stepped in and got in the
way of people beating us. She gets fired
up at different times. When she comes
Panthers coming off Duke upset
Cagers look to stop surging Pitt
By RON. WEN |C
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Penn State coach Dick Harter will have to try
something to stop Pittsburgh’s seven-game winning
streak at 8:10 p.m. tonight at Rec Hall. So why not try
putting two huge obstructions on the court?
No, Harter is not going to erect police barriers in the
center of the foul lane. But he just may try going with a
lineup featuring both 6-9, 235-pound Frank Brickowski
and 6-8,200-pound Carvin Jefferson in order to combat a
Pitt team which has outrebounded its opponents by an
average of 14 rebounds per game.
“I think that is possibly our best lineup,” Harter said.
“But, because of Brick's proclivity to draw fouls, we
can't always use it. If we could play for just five
minutes, those two would be in the lineup.”
Both Brickowski and Jefferson played effectively
together at various times in the Navy game and Harter
said the combination will definitely see action in
tonight's game.
The Lions' two big men will need all of their size if
Sauer said
The Lady Lions were inconsistent as
evidenced by the difference in their first
and second half performances.
"Maturity, in a team means con
sistency," Meiser said. "Right now
we're ranked eleventh and we’ve got to
play like we're eleventh no matter who
we play."
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Scott 4(1 8-21 tl- 0 .! I 2 Hi
Disco 2 1 ) 1- 5 1- 4 tl 0 4 :t
Skidmore 4(1 4- !) 2-4 11 0 2 HI
Dolby :|<l 7-111 (l- () 1 0 14
Blouse 41) l- 5 ,t- 4 .1 :l :i r>
Petroski tl 1- ■) it- n .1 o o 2
Bonadio 1 0 (I ()• tl () (I II o
22-112 11-12 .IX I It! .-,11
IVnnSinlf —mi
Kuhl :i!) H 4- 4 fill 2 10
Martin .12 2-14 ti- o 4 o :i in
Bednarok 22 fil.i 2- 2 0 2 tl 14
McGuire 21 2- :i II- II (1 0 2 4
Donovan 24 h-i. 7 n- o la o a in
Gabriel I!) 0- 4 0- II 1 0 0 u
Schwinge 7 0- 4 II- II 1 I II II
Cornish 111 I- 2 2- I 1 0 II 4
Adams 1(1 (I- .12-22122
Totals 22-liK 111-11 12 12 12 III)
Halflime score KdmboroSt 211. Penn SI 14
through like that it really helps the team
out.”
Both Donovan and , Disco led both
teams with five blocked shots.
“I thought it was her (Donovan’s)
defense in the second half that shook us
up," Edinboro coach Judy Sauer said. “I
never thought she would have 16
(points). She’s never been that much of a
threat.”
When Penn State played Edinboro at
the Pitt Invitationals earlier this season,
Donovan collected two points and four
rebounds.
they hope to contain the Panther's front line of Sam
Clancy, Sammie Ellis and Terry Knight.
The 6-6, 245-pound Clancy leads the Eastern Eight in
rebounding (13.4), andiseighth in scoring (15.5). He
was named Eastern Eight player of the week on
Tuesday for a three-game stretch in which he scored 44
points, grabbed 36 rebounds and made five steals.
"Clancy was a little worn out and injured the first
time we played them,” said Harter, referring to
Clancy s poor live-point, two-rebound performance
against Penn State two weeks ago. “He should be a lot
tougher in this game."
Besides Clancy, Ellis and Knight cannot be
overlooked in terms of scoring ability. The 6-5 Knight is
averaging 15.2 points a game while the 6-6 Ellis is
averaging 14.2 points-a game, in addition to snatching
an average of 8.6 rebounds.
Although Pitt still managed to hang on for a victory in
its last meeting with Penn Slate, the Panthers could
make life for the Lions even harder this lime around.
They are coming off a stunning upset victory over
nationally-ranked Duke.
Photo by Dave Bloomqufst
Edinboro’s Connie Blouse appears ready to swat away a driving shot taken by
Penn State’s Kelley Cornish, as Lady Scot Donnene Disco looks on during last
night’s game at White Building. The sluggish Lady Lions staged a second-hair
comeback, with Jen Bednarek and Mary Donovan combining for 2(i points,,and
defeated the visiting Scots, 60-50. The Lady Lions moved up in this week’s
college rankings to No. 11, with their next game Thursday against Millersville
at White Building.
Lion wrestler Pfautz
gets back to winning
ways following injury
By TOM VERDUCCI
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
While Lion wrestling coach Rich
Lorenzo has watched numerous injuries
claim the services of many of his
wrestlers this year, it seems that none of
them had as much impact on the team as
that one which occurred during the Jan.
9 home match with Temple.
It was then that 177-pounder Dan
Pfautz left the line-up with strained
ligaments in his knee.
“We planned on having Dan as a
leader this year," Lorenzo said. “When
we lost him, it really took the wind out of
our sails."
The injury was particularly damaging
to Pfautz himself.
“The following match against
Cleveland State was the first match that
I had ever missed," Pfautz said. “It was
hard to be on the sidelines instead of
being out on the mat.”
Pfautz has since returned to the Lion
line-up and has picked up on Ins winning
ways which started back at
Elizabethtown High School, where he
was a Pennsylvania schoolboy runner
up.
. After ' a year at Keystone Junior
College, where he finished third in the
national junior college championships,
Pfautz complied a successful 22-7-1
record for the Lions last season.
Although he is not satisfied with his
Wednesday, Feb. 14,197!) —l2
Meanwhile, the Lions are coming oil a ragged win
over Navy and sport a, 9-16 mark on the season.
Consequently, Harter is still playing musical chairs
with his starting lineup in order to find the right com
bination.
Forward Steve Kuhn, who only played lor ten minutes
and did not score against Navy, will return to the ■'
starting ranks. Mike Edelman, the Lions' leading
scorer, will not.
“Mike and Steve were really getting concentrated on
by opposing defenses," Harter said. "I think they will
start to come around now."
Kuhn and Edelman are the only two scorers for Penn-
State averaging in double figures. The high scoring
Panther attack, consisting of four players in double
figures, is averaging close to 80 points per game.
The Lions will hold one advantage in that the game is
being played at Rec Hall. The Panthers ha\e been less
than successful on the road, compiling a 4-7 record, as
opposed to an awesome 10-1 mark at home.
wrestling right now, Pfautz is planning
to improve on his second place finish last
year in the Eastern Wrestling League's
tournament. ;
“I’m not wrestling as good as I could,"
Pfautz said. “My knee is about 85 per
cent right now, and it could go out at any
time. I’m also beginning to gel my
conditioning back, and I should be ready
for the tournament (Feb. 24). 1 should do
real well there."
Lorenzo agrees with Pfautz and looks
even farther down the road.
"Dan has recovered well and he is m
fairly good shape right now," the coach
said. “If he keeps the right positive
altutude, he could be a place-winner in;
the nationals.” *•
At the moment, Pfautz has supplied
the team with an important ingredient’
which has been absent for most of the;
season consistency. Undefeated in his;
five dual meet matches, Pfautz has;
rolled up a 13-2-1 overall record, and he
is well aware of the importance of this
consistency. ;
"On last year’s team, there were three
or four guys who you could always count!
on," he said. "This year, there are no;
constant performers. We’re not putting;
it all together.
“We’ve lost some people due to in-;
juries, but you have to go with the people;
you have. I never think about the past; I;
try to always lookahead,” he said.
Photo by Davo Bloomquest