Turnovers, fouls end season
Lady cagers zapped by Rutgers
By DENISE BACHMAN
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
TOWSON, Md. The women's
basketball team's bid for a spot in
nationals was halted Friday when
Rutgers dropped the Lady Lions, 88-82,
in the Middle Atlahtie regional tour
nament semifinals.
The Lady Lions dug•their own grave in
the first half, committing several costly
turnovers and fouls. Their 16 turnovers
and 11 fouls, including three apiece of 6-3
center Mary Donovan and 6-2 forward
• Peg Schwinge, helped put Penn State
down by 10 at the half, 44-34. Rutgers
was 12-15 from the foul line compared to
the Lady Lions' 2-4.
"Things went very tough, for us in the
• first half," said Penn State coach Pat
. 'Weiser. "We didn't control the transition
game and the quick buckets hurt us the
whole half."
, It appeared as though Rutgers'
fastbreak was right on target, especially
in the first half, as the Lady Lions
. constantly tried to catch the Lady
Knights. But Rutgers' personnel tend to
, disagree.
"Our fastbreak was not crisp at all
;tonight," said Rutgers coach Theresa
0 Grentz. "Our' freshmen were reluctant
to let go. They were very conservative in
, their play."
(, "It felt like we were chasing them the
,whole night," said Rutgers freshman
, guard Pat Coyle, "not the other way
'around."
Penn State trailed throughout the
"majority of the first half, grabbing the
lead only • twice within the first five
:minutes of play.
Lady gymnasts
By DARLENE HROBAK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
It took until the last meet of the regular season and it
came against less-than-powerhouse Rutgers, but the
Lady Lion gymnasts finally got what they've been
waiting for.
Penn State scored a nation high total of 143.8 to
Rutger's 127.3 Saturday night and established itself as
one of the teanw,to beat in the upcoming regional and
national championships;
"We've been waiting for
Lady Lion coach Judi AVener iaid. "We have needed
this type of meet since the beginning. It's good to know
we could do one before going into regionals."
What Penn State did, Avener said, was perform with
more enthusiasm, spirit and determination than it had
all year. That was especially reflected in the 36.4 points
with which Marcie Levine won the all-round title and
in Lisa Ingebretsen's second place total of 36.1, her
highest this year
._. _
"I think we did a lot better than we had been doing,"
Ingebretsen said. "We had talked,it over after the last
meet (Pitt) and we wanted to do well."
"-'Regionals and nationals are no , les than two weeks
away. It's about time we did well."
• Not that the Lady Lions have been exactly em
barrassing themselves, however, prior to Saturday's
meet, it was Clarion who, with 142.75 points, had the
St. John's upsets sixth-ranked
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Reggie
Carter hit a six-foot jump shot from the
baseline with four seconds remaining
yesterday and gave upstart St. John's an
80-78 victory over sixth-ranked Duke in
the NCAA-East . Regional basketball
tournament.
Tony Price poured in 25 points earlier
in the day as Ivy League champion
Pennsylvania upset N 0.3 North Carolina
72-71.
The doubleheader left both Atlantic
Coast Conference entries' out of the
regional tournament where they had
entered as the top two seeded teams.
St. John's, 20-10, will face Rutgers and
Pennsylvania takes on Syracuse in the
East Regional semifinals at Greensboro.
Friday night.
Dave Phillips (4) sets to Chuck Kegerreis (15) in the men's volleyball team's
Friday night match against Pittsburgh. The Lions defeated the Panthers, 15-6,
15-13, 10-15 and 15-1. In its second match of the weekend Saturday night, Penn
State defeated Army, 15.3, 15-13 and 15-0.
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Rutgers opened up the game at the
13:34 mark, taking a seven-point lead.
The Lady Lions eventually cut the gap to
one, but after the teams exchanged two
buckets each the Lady Knights coun
tered with 10 consecutive points behind
the strong shooting of 5-11 forward
Kathy Glutz, who connected for six
points. Rutgers was also aided by fouls
by the Lady Lions' Donovan and Debbie
ChrWman and went up by 12 points with
one minute remaining until halftime.
In the second half, Penn State chopped
the 10-point halftime margin to five, but
history repeated itself as the Lady
Knights scored eight straight to jump to
their biggest lead of the game, 56=43.
"All we tried to do was put as much
pressure on their guards as we could,"
Grentz said, "especially Nancy Kuhl.
She's a very fine player and we wanted
to make her think."
"We haven't had depth in that one
spot, and we tend to rely on Nancy too
much," Meiser said. "Even though
Nancy was able to take the ball down, we
were slow to get in our offense, and she
felt the pressure."
The Lady Lions, however, cut down on
their turnovers ( they had only five in the
second half) and switched to a zone,
while ' hammering away at Rutgers'
lead. Finally, with 9:12 left to go Penn
State stole the lead, 65-64.
"We switched to a zone in the second
half," Meiser said, "because we felt we
had to come out of our man-to-man to
avoid getting into foul trouble.
"Then when we went ahead by one
point I felt that we could control things.
save best for Scarlet /Cnig►hts
highest score in the nation. Penn State had a previous
high of 142.3. Clarion, with the highest composite score
of 142.2, still has the No. 1 seed for next week's
Easterns, but it no longer has the top national score.
"We have performed like the national champion team
we were last year," Avener said. "It was obvious to the Saturday's meet couldn't have hurt any in starting
girls and it was obvious to the audience."_ the psychological process.
Indeed, 'the Lady Lions didn't waste any time in "I think this helped us tremendously," Ingebretsen
getting started. After Ingebretsen hit a vault with a full said. "Now we know we can do it. It's just a matter o 6
twis,tior a score of 94 . 0ut of a RossibleA,s, yamnit.p ; r ,g 9 iog,stiut.,,and doing','„
it.,, ~.) . „ .,:,-: . .,/ " ,n
„ ~',,::),;., matter of d
Jan Anthony followed with the same vault and a score , "We had one meet left before t_he tournament to d d b
of 9.45
Avener conceded the scoring in the meet and on the
vault might have been a little high, but added "it was as
well'as I had ever seen that vault done."
The Lady Lions ' turned in performances on the
uneven bars and floor exercise that scored above the 9.0
mark, but they again had trouble with the balance
beam. Ingebretsen said the first performer fell off
beam and the rest followed.
Pat Spisak, who performed without a cast on her
wrist for the first time since last season's national
,championships, fell off the beam while attempting to
execute two handsprings and scored a 7.85.
Lynn Samuels, coming off a knee injury, vaulted and
did the floor exercise.
Two other injured gymnasts Ann Carr and Margie
Foster did not compete, but Avener said they should
Duke called timeout immediately
after Carter's basket and Mike Gminski
had a 45-foot shot rim the basket at the
buzzer. .
St. John's, which downed Duke 69-66
earlier this season in a holiday tour
nament in New York, never trailed after
Greenwood's second half surge paces Bruins
LOS ANGELES (AP) Two-time All-
American David Greenwood scored 12 of
his 18 points in the second half Sunday as
No. 2 UCLA downed stubborn Pep
perdine 76-71 in the NCAA Basketball
Tournament Far West Regional quar
terfinals.
Greenwood, a 6-foot-9 1 / 2 senior for-
But they don't make a lot of mistakes,
despite playing a lot of freshman."
The Lady Lions' lead was short-lived
as the fouls haunted Penn State once
again, with Donovan and Schwinge each
picking up their fourth fouls at the 8:57
and 8:24 marks respectively, resulting in
six straight Rutgers points.
Penn State did rally again to come
back within one point and pulled within
two points several times. But disaster
struck when Donovan, who Was
phenomenal from the floor, connecting
on seven of her eight attempts, fouled
out with 3:59 remaining.
"When Mary went out, it turned things
around for us," Kuhl said.
"They picked apart our inside with
quite a few three-point plays," Meiser
said. "Mary's been a big factor for us in
the stretch because she's become more .
offense oriented, and we were successful
to an extent."
"Depth was a big factor for us because
we were able to keep June (Olkowski)
from getting her third foul before the
half," Grentz said, "by putting Sandy
( Tupurings) in; she was able to help
with Donovan. We couldn't allow her
(Donovan) to get the ball that much
because she was perfect from the floor."
Glutz picked apart Penn State's
defense, pacing Rutgers' victory with 28
points. Denise Kenney and Mary Coyle
followed her with 22 and 19 points
respectively. Jen Bednarek led the Lady
Lions with 22 points.
"Kathy couldn't be handled;r. Grentz
said. "She's been strong down the
stretch; she has her confidence back.
Ron Plair hit two free throws to give the
Redmen a 59-58 advantage with 9:02
remaining.
St. John's built its lead to six points
with five minutes to play before Duke
started a comeback behind Gene Banks,
who scored eight of the Blue Devils' last
10 points.
ward, had 10 points in the first five
minutes of the second half as UCLA
broke from a 38-36 halftime deficit. The
Bruins reeled off a 20-6 string in an eight
minute stretch to take a 64-54 advantage
with eight minutes to play.
UCLA's Brad Holland, who had 10
Pepperdine's Waves clOsed the gap to points , in the second half, hit two free
five points with 3 1 / 2 minutes remaining, throws for the final margin.
Stale spikers still defeat Pittsburgh, Army,
By GLENN KAUP
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Prob;ems of concentration plagued the
men's volleyball team last weekend
even though the team picked up two
wins.
The Nittany Lions beat a vastly im
proved Pitt team 15-6, 15-13, 10-15 and 15-
1 Friday night and defeated last year's
Eastern runner-up Army 15-3, 15-13 and
15-0 Saturday.
"Pitt was essentially a preping match
for Army," said Penn State assistant
coach Scott Anderson, who filled in for
head coach Tom Tait.
"Our biggest problems were the lack
of concentration in the Pitt match. I used
all of the personnel on the bench and
none of the combinations should have
lost."
Penn State started the match in good
shape by easily winning the first game,
butthe Lions ran into problems in the
middle of the second game as Pitt came
from behind to take the lead 11-9. Penn
State came back to tie the game,.at 11
and 13 before taking two straight points
to win.
Pitt jumped off to a 13-7 lead befoe the
Lions put together an offense and scored'
"Coach Meiser did a heck of a job,
though. They had a well-prepared game.
They did an excellent job; it was a tough
game."
_
In the consolation game Saturday,
Cheyney St, seeded No. 1, tripped Penn
State, 75-59. Maryland upset previously
undefeated Cheyney St. Friday in the
semifinals, 60-57, to knock the Wolves
out of national competition.
FREE THROWS: Rutgers downed
Maryland, 80-75, in the finals to be
crowned regional champions. . . . Penn
State finished the season with a 21-8
slate. . . . Kuhl and Bednarek' were
named to the Middle Atlantic all
regional team. . . . Bednarek was also
selected to the Kodak all regional team.
Bednarek
Martin
Schwinge
Donovan •
Gabriel
Cornish
McGuire
Christman
Adams
TOTALS
M. Coyle
Sikorski
Olkowski
De!chanty
Tupurins
P. Coyle
TOTALS
Halftime score: Rutgers 44, Penn State 34
Attendance: 1,072
be ready for next weekend's Eakern Association for
Intercollegiate Athletcis for Women championships.
"We're going to have to work really hard this week to
get ourselves mentally and emotionally ready," Avener
said.
this," Avener added, "and we finally squeaked one
through."
BACK FLIPS The EAIAW Championships will be
held in Maryland this Friday and Saturday. . . .
Saturday's crowd was the largest that had ever turned
out to watch a Rutgers women's gym meet. . . . Rutgers
coach Sandy Salvas told Avener that one of her gym
nasts said during the meet: "Coach, you told us they
(the Lady Lions) were going to be good. But you didn't
tell us they were going to be this good."
SCORES: (All gymnasts from Penn State) Vaulting: 1) Jan Anthony 9.45
2) Lisa Ingebretsen 9.33) Marcie Levine 9.1 Uneven Bars: 1) Anthony 9.2
2) Ingebretsen 9.15 3) Joanne Beck and Levine 9.1 Balance Beam: 1)
Levine 8.75 2) Ingebretsen 8.7 3) Beck 8.7 Floor Exercise: 1) Levine 9.45 2)
Beck 9.1 3) Debbie Alston 9.05 All• Around: I) Levine 36.4 2) Ingebretsen
36.13) Anthony 34.9
Duke by two
Carter hit two free throws withs 74
seconds remaining to build the lead to 78-
74, but Banks came back with a tip-in
and Jim Suddath' canned a 25-footer with
31 seconds left to knot it at 78.
Carter led the Redmen with 21 points,
and Banks took scoring honors with 24 as
Duke ended its season at 22-8.
but UCLA didn't let the Waves get any
closer until the lead was cut to three
points with only nine seconds left in the
game.
four straight points. But the Panthers
rebounded to win the game.
"Each game we got stronger," An
derson said. "I was very pleased with
the way the team played in the final
game. They stepped in and played ex
cellent ball."
Saturday, the Nittany Lions defeated
Army for the second straight time this
season. Penn State won the first match
at West Point 10-15, 17-15, 15-10 and 15-4
over break.
"We got everything back together
again after the long break by beating
Army," co-captain Dave Mull said. "The
team played a little better than last night
as Dave Phillips was running a super
offense. It is not too often that you go up
to the outside and there are no
blockers."
In the first game, Penn State jumped
out to an 8-0 lead before Army could
score its first point. Carey Seavy and
Mull both had two kills and two routs in
the game.
"All through the first game, the team
executed real well," Anderson said. "In
the second game we were leading 12-6
and starting to ease up just when Army
starting rolling."
PENN STATE 82
MIN FG-A FT-A R A TP
• 40 7-18 3- 3 9 10 11
32 111-16 0-0 0 0 22
20 I- 6 2- 4 3 4 4
36 5-13 5- 6 11 I 15
30 7- 8 0- 0 9 0 14
• 6 1-3 0.0 0 1 2
24 5-10 2- 3 3 5 12
8 1-2 0-0 2 0 2
3 0- I 0- 0 1 1 ,0
1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
200 35-77 12-16 37 20 82
RUTGERS 88
28 8-10 3- 4 1 5 19
35 9-18 4- 5 6 3 22
37 10-17 8- 8 4 1 28
8 1.2 0-o 2 1 2
22 3- 7 I- 1 5 1 7
9 as 0- 0 3 1 0
2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
33 3-8 0-2 15 2 6
25 I} 5 4- 4 2 5 4
I 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
2QO 34-73 20.24 38 19 88
P hob, Ar Sherrie Weiner
Both Nancy Kula's collegiate career and the women's basketball team's season;
- came to an end when Rutgers downed the Lady Lions, 88-82, in the Middle A 4 4,
!antic regional semifinals Friday at Towson State. r 4 4- p 4.
Men fencers capture
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third - donsecutive"titlel
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preliminary round at 9-1, but HagOt
went 6-0 in the finals to capture the eel
title. Corona finished the final roundeli
to end up seventh. 'Garret said Handy,*
winning percentage for this year nc2w;
stands at 79 percent.
Don Lear successfully defended gig ,
sabre title without' a loss, and I:00
Jarashow ended up at 12-5 to finish fittlii
in that competiton.
By SHARON FINK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The Lion fencers won six of the seven
team and individual weapon cham
pionships, including a sweep of all three
individual weapon titles on the way to
their third three-weapon team trophy in
as many years at the North Atlantic
Intercollegiate Fencing championships
at Rutgers University at Newark on
Saturday.
The Lions won the epee and sabre
team titles and finished second to
Rutgers-Newark by one point in the foil
competition to collect 53 points for the
team crown. They finished 10 points
ahead of second place St. John's with 43
points. Last year's runner-up William
Patterson was third with 42.
"It was a great team effort," Lion
head coach Mac Garret said. "The boys
worked awfully hard for this."
In the individual weapon competitions,
the Lions sent five of their six fencers
into the final round of fencing and took
first place in each weapon for the third
year in a row.
Matt Harris, who last year won the balanced team going into the nationalsi:',l
epee championship, switched to foil this But he also had praise for Gibsoq,l
year and finished the competition at 15-1 Corona and Jarashow. WI
to win that title. Garret said this gives "They all played a very important re, , '
Harris a winning percentage of ap- in the team's coming back with the
proximately 84 percent for this year. trophies," he 5aid...z....41
Brian Gibson was the other foil entrant "Our chances for the nationals ar44
for the Lions. Garret said he had a good," Garret said. "Wet can not on
"rough time" in the preliminary round, improve on last year's eleventh plaqe . ..)
finishing at 6-4 and was the only Lion standing, but we're hoping with eaclP
who didn't advance to the final round. individual performance, as demon',
Epee competitors Jeff Haney and strated on Saturday, that all three bOyAti
Mike Corona both finished the -- will become
All-Americans , ~„,,?;4
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In the second game, Penn State had ei v.
total of five kills and thOe routs. SeavV 4
and Kegerreis tied at tvyo kills and o *
rout. 4 ....
The third game was not even close a * *
the Nittany Lions shut out the Cadet
Phillips controlled the third game kV 2
serving the first eleven points. 11
"Dave Phillips' serving was a',
cellent," co-captain Seavy said. "Wr
started hitting over the middle a 1 1
opened the game up." Itoj
The two wins over Pitt and Arm
increased the Lions overall record to 1 ; 11
1-3 and their league record to 3-1.4,11
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-,
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Pens' Mahovlich sidelined*,
Pittsburgh's first goal, was hurt when li f'111 1 ' !
was checked into the boards late in fit ,:::
first period by rookie Ken Linesman 0 ;;
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Philadelphia. i
• 1 0 .
Mahovlich led Pittsburgh withi' l =s
points in 60 games. ~.. '„,,;
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The team spokesman said Mahovli : i
would undergo surgery and be ouf 40 1 ,,/
action four to six weeks. His statuaittii
the playoffs was uncertain. i ,! ;.• ii,t 4 l
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Army came back to tie the game at 12
before the Lions scored again. The
teams both battled at 13 before Penn
State took the lead with a key block by
Chuck Kegerreis to win the game.
"Dave Phillips showed a lot of poise,"
Anderson said. "He kept his head and
ran a pump fake at a time which kept us
in the game."
"Our defense had eased up during the
middle of the game and we weren't get
ting the ball to the middle once," Phillips
said. "They knew that we were going to
the outside and their blocking was pretty
good."
PITTSBURGH (AP) Pete
Mahovlich, the Pittsburgh Penguins'
leading scorer, will• be sidelined the
remainder of the regular season with a
left shoulder separation, a team
spokesman said Sunday.
Mahovlich, 32, sustained the injury
Saturday night in Pittsburgh's 3-2 vic- ,
tory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
The veteran center, who'd scored
Monday, March 12, 1979-6 '
;:.A
"Don Lear has had a phenometg
year," Garret said. "He word the Per(ti 4
State Open, the U.S. Junior' Olymplel
championships and now the North"
Atlantic title. This makes him 51-5
three major tournaments and 79-11 with')
an 88 percent winning percentage for filel
season." r" 14 1
Harris, Haney and Lear will adva6'el
to the National Collegiate Athleif
Association championships at Prince*
March 22-24.
"For the nationals, we've got the bey
team we could possibly Liu( together
since I've been here," Garret sad
"Winning percentage-wise, it's alm(lsC
impossible to attain such a weITH
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