Penn State sports roundup
Hanrahan falls in NCAA meet
The Lion wrestling team sent two
representatives to the NCAA
Championships this week. Late in the
first day of wrestling, one had his
season come to an end while the other
held on by a thread.
John Hanrahah won a wild-card
berth in the tournament's 158-pound
class and was scheduled to wrestle
early yesterday morning in a
preliminary bout. But Hanrahan was
beaten by Hofstra's Bill Keck in that
Match.
However, Hanrahan wasn't of
ficially out of the tourney until Keck
was pinned by the tournament's top
seed in the 158-pound class, lowa
State's Kelly Ward.
The Lions' other qualifier, 190-
pounder Sam Sallitt was beaten in his
first-round bout when he dropped a
17-5 decision to Oklahoma's Edcar
Thomas.
Sallitt's fate now rides with that of
Thomas in the later rounds. Sallitt
could hang on in the tournament if
Thomas advances far enough but, as
luck would have it, Thomas' next
opponent was Lehigh's powerful Mike
Brown. The two squared off late last
night and results were not available.
—by Will Pakutka
Track team set for
NCAA indoor meet
Coach Harry Groves and the rest of
his Lion track team have to be feeling
a bit of deja-vu at about this time.
A few months ago, Groves took his
men's cross country team to the
NCAA championships where it
finished fourth. Now, Groves has
taken many members of that team to
another NCAA championship. This
one is the National Indoor Cham
pionships in Detroit, Mich.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
- SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday-Sunday, March 9-11
Friday, March 9
Sports: Pa. Interscholastic Athletic Assn
Natatorium
, ARHS Book Co-op, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB Ballroom.
Human Performance Lab, James Kollias Memorial Lecture, 1:30 p.m., Room
121 Noll. Frederick M. Kao, SUNY, Downtown Medical Center , on "Studies
of the Regulation of Respiration Including During Exercise."
= Commonplace Theatre, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 7 and 9 p.m.; Room
. 112 Kern. • ;".'
GSA Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern. ,
Saturday, March 10
Sports: PIAA swim meet, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Natatorium; men's and women's
bowling, vs. Maryland, 1 p.m.; men's volleyball, vs. Army, 7 p.m.
Artists Series, Prince Street Players, Alice in Wonderland, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.,
Schwab.
France-Cinema, Mr. Klein, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern
Sunday, March 11
University Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel. The Reverend Robert
Boyer, United Ministry, PSU, speaker.
Thespian meeting, 1 p.m., Schwab.
Lois Oakley, violin recital, 3:30 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall.
Commonsplace Theatre, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 7 and 9 p.m., Room
112 Kern.
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The Lions qualified teams in the
distance medley and the two-mile
relay. State will also have at least one
entry in both the three-mile and two
mile runs.
The Penn State distance medley
team consists of Bill Austin, Paul
Lankford, Mike Wyatt and Larry
Mangan. In the two-mile relay it will
be Tom Rapp, Ray Krombel, Glenn
Chumley and Jim Close.
Bob Snyder will definitely compete
in the two-mile run for the Lions and
freshman Alan Scharsu is definite in
the three-mile.
Groves will also be taking along
two other runners who may see action
in those races. John Ziegler is a
possibility for the three-mile while
Bruce Baden may run the two-mile.
—by Will Pakutka
lcers gun for finals
against W. Chester
The ice hockey team has just one
opportunity to advance to the play off
finals. To do so, the first place Lions
must beat fourth place West Chester
in the semifinal at the University of
Pennsylvania's Class of '23 Rink in
Philadelphia, tomorrow.
"I want to put a lot of emphasis on
this game," Penn State coach
Clayton John said. "It was the
semifinal that eliminated us from the
playoffs last year."
Although Penn State has fared well
against West Chester in regular
season play, John said that during the
playoffs you have to forget the
regular season.
"The playoffs are a different game
altogether," John said.
John said that spring break might
effect team play, since the players
couldn't practice together, but he
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swim meet, 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m.,
doubted it would hurt individual
efforts.
"The other teams have been
practicing and playing games
throughout our break," he said.
Because of the warm weather the
team couldn't practice on the
University's rink. For that reason the
team will leave for Philadelphia
today so that it can have some
practice time.
Saturday's winner will meet the
winner of the Villanova-Delaware
game for a best-of-three final series
to be played next weekend.
—by Anita Spiegel
Championship hopes
slim for trackwomen
Women's track coach Chris Brooks
said the outlook is dim for the Lady
Lions in this weekend's Eastern
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women indoor track
championships at Princeton.
"It depends on the competition and
the kind of shape they're in, but our
chances don't look good," she said.
Brooks said the reason for
pessimism is the loss of Lady Lion
standouts Liz Berry and Kathy Mills
due to injury. Berry, the defending
two and three-mile champion, and
Mills, the defending one-mile titilist,
had been tenatively scheduled to
compete earlier in the week, but now
both are definitely out.
She said the team's strongest
competitors will be Sandy Miller and
Penny Fales in the half-mile and
Patti Murnane in the mile. These two
events and the quarter-mile should be
the team's strongest, Brooks said.
The Lady Lions are sending 15 girls
to compete in seven events in the 40-
team competition. —by Sharon Fink
Fencers ready to defend team title
•
By SHARON FINK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Defending sabre titlist Don Lear and
last year's epee winner Matt Harris will
lead the men's fencing team in defense
of their three-weapon team title at the
North Atlantic intercollegiate Fencing
Championships today and tomorrow at
Rutgers University at Newark.
. The Lions will send a total of six
fencers into the competition against
fencers from Jersey City State, Johns
Hopkins, New Jersey Tech, Pace,
Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rutgers-Newark, St. John's, St. Peter's,
Seton Hall and William Patterson. Dan
Jarashow will fence sabre along with
Lear, Harris will move to foil with Brian
Gibson; and Jeff Haney and Mike Corona
will compete in epee.
.
"We have a great chance to re-capture
the title," head coach Mac Garret said,
"but we will have great opposition from
last year's runner-up William Patterson
as well as St. John's and Johns Hopkins.
We will also have competition in spots
from other schools that have one or two
strong fencers."
Garret also said the Lions used their
final dual meet of the year, a 20-7 win
over Carnegie-Mellon, as a warm-up for
the championships.
"We used almost everyone who suited
up," he said. "We wanted to use as many
as possible and test some fencers who
hadn't seen much action this year."
Each of the individual weapon squads
came away with a victory. Jarashow
was 3-0 in the sabre squad's 8-1 win.
Stoyan Popovich was .2-0, Lear was 1-0
and Jim Miller was 2-1.
Gibson and Bart Fried were both 2-0,
Doug Murray and Stu Rothenberg both
1-1, and Harris won his only bout as the
foil squad won 7-2.
Corona and Haney led the epee
squad's 5-4 victory with two wins each.
Hans Ward was 1-1, Bob Malleck was 0-1
and Jim Gregg was 0-2.
"Carnegie-Mellon is just beginning
their competitive program," Garret
said, "and they lack top-level com
petitive experience. But for their first
year they've developed a fine aggregate
of fencers."
Four Lions also won individual honors achievement.
in competitions over the term break. At the Amateur Fencers League of
Lear won the sabre title at the Junior America's division championships,
United States Olympic Fencing Lions Harris, Fried and Gibson finished
Championships over a 75-man field, first, second and third respectively in
finishing the competition at 18-2. Lear «1 the foil competition to qualify for sec
now advances to the World Junior • tionals and the U.S. National cham-
Fencing Championsbips. April 12-16 at pionships.
Beaver Falls will face
Burrell
PITTSBURGH (AP) Beaver Falls
'has been there before, but Burrell High
School will make its first appearance
ever in the WPIAL high school
basketball finals Friday night.
"We will have our hands full and so
will they," Burrell Cciach Tony Sellari
said of the Class AAA title clash.
"Win or lose. These kids have far
exceeded anything we had hoped for.
What poise!" added Sellari, whose team
overcame a 17-point first-quarter deficit
en route to a double-overtime victory
over Ringgold in the semifinals.
The game will cap a WPIAL cham
pionship tripleheader at the Civic Arena.
In the opener, the girls Class AAA title
will go to Franklin Regional or North
Hills. In the second game, the boys Class
AA title is up for grabshbetween
Midland and Ford City.
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in WPIAL final
Notre Dame. Garret said Lear is the
first Lion fencer to reach this level of
The WPIAL champs will get first
round byes in PIAA interdistict play as
top entrants from District 7.
Beaver Falls takes a 25-1 record into
the Class AAA title game. The Tigers
beat Ambrige for the WPIAL crown in
1970 and lost in the 1977 finals to Fox
Chapel
This season, Beaver Falls sustained
its only loss in the Johnstown Christmas
tournament to powerful Overbrook High
School of Philadelphia. In the tourney,
Beaver Falls beat DeMatha Catholic,
which went on to a 25-2 record and the
Washington, D.C., title.
Leading Beaver Falls are two 6-foot-3
standouts, senior Damon Bryant and
junior Dwight Collins. Both were among
the best football running backs in the
state last fall. Collins has been a varsity
basketball starter since ninth grade.
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