harsu, Snyder shine at Cob°,
By DA • ENE HROBAK
Daily C Ilegian Sports Writer
Mem ers of the men's track team probab, wouldn't call this past
• weeke I's NCAA Indoor Track
Championships a success, but two
„ Penkslate runners did manage to
it
coil 'itiothe from Detroit as All
-1
AM ieans.
1 4 i F i shman Alan Scharsu turned in
-1.,. th best performance for the Nittany
4 1 is, when he finished sixth in the
11 ti -mile run with a time of 13:44.8.
I
It, I•d i rnerican status is awarded to the
Hip six American finishers in each
' rac Scharsu ' was the second
1 , P . ,
rcan to finish. '
; , • other Penn State All-American'
~,, vy ;senior Bob Snyder, who'finished
t. the! two-mile run in 8:58.12 making
Min Ike sixth American and ;eighth
i ikijisper overall.
;‘,
~, fVilanova edged Texas-El . Paso'
.‘ ' (II F,1') for the team title by a mere
1
3 . 4 \ Poi 1. ,5 2-51. Points were awarded to
\ the4 op six finishers in each race. The
4 4
4:" Lio' s:, were tied for 54th place at
, ,
c , IDetruit's Cobo Arena with the one
i f po,iiqcharsifs sixth place finish won
!hem: , •
I I , 6 4fiu take anything , you can get in
LlLA'det,",Perm State coach Harry
Gro s said, pointing out that the
oili, Oitio,h." in the!! championships
,vas. il
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rate. "Thdre are so many
,'team ' represented that if you win
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anything, you immediately move into, j pretty well. He's got a great future,
the top twenty." but he still has a long way to go.
UTEP's Mike Musyoki won the "He's 18-years-old and he's racing
three-mile run in 13:21.64, 23.16 against people who have 10 years on
seconds faster than Scharsu had run. him as far as development."
But for Scharsu, the only freshman in Groves was referring to the
the race, it was the climax of his very number of foreign athletes who
first indoor season. competed in the NCAA's. The winner
"I don't know too much about of the two-mile, in which Snyder
running indoors and I lost the race on raced, was Kenyan Silliman
tactics," he said. "The group pulled Nyambui of UTEP who ran a 8:37.87.
away from me and I had to make a Another Penn State squad that
decision to stay with them or try to qualified for the finals was the
catch them at the end. distance medley relay team of Bill
"If I would have stayed with th6m, Austin (half-mile); Paul Lankford
I might have done a little better." (quarter-mile), Mike Wyatt (three-
But the race ' wasn't a disap- quarter mile) and Larry Mangan
pointment for Scharsu. He pointed (mile). Their trial run of 9:48.2 was
out that it was an honor to even be in the third fastest qualifying time.
the race, since only the top ten
, collegiate three-milers in the country
qualified. Making 41-American was
icing on the cake. :
"I was really excited," Scharsu
said of his All-American honors. "I
had always .heard about kids being
All-American, and the first one's
always the most exciting one. I think
I could have done a little better than I
did, but I've got three more chances
to do it,''•
"He ran,a good race in a pressure
situation fOr a freshman," •Groves
said. "The top two guys were among
'the best in tha world and he held up
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However, it was Tennessee which
won the finals in 9:47.1 while Penn
State finished seventh in 9:55.7.
Austin ran a 1:56.3, Lankford :50.9,
Wyatt 2:58.4 and Mangan, who had
run a 4:04.9 in theyials, ran a 4:10.9
"In the finals, it gets pretty intense.
All these guys are ready to go, but a
lot of it has to do with getting too
excited and nervous. You're trying to
go so fast, so hard.
Penn State's two mile relay team of
Tom Rapp, Ray Krombel, Glenn
Chumley and Jim Close had a 7:46.5
in the trials which failed to qualify for
the finals.
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Trackwomen lose indoor crown
The women's track team entered the
Indoor Track Championships at Prin
ceton this weekend as the defending
champions and finished second to
Maryland. The Terrapins outscored the
Lady Lions, 77-61.
Penn' State runners who placed in the
short distances were Lea Ventura, fifth
in the 440-yard dash, and Sandy Miller
and Penny Fales, fourth • and fifth
respectively, in the 880-yard dash.
In the one-mile run, freshman Patty
Advance to finals next weekend
Pucksters win
By beating West Chester 5-2 in the
semifinals Saturday, the ice hockey club
qualified for the best-of-three final series
against the University of Delaware next
weekend.
Penn State's John Grainda said he was
glad the team would. be playing
Delaware instead of Villanova
(Delaware beat Villanova in the
semifinals) because Delaware won the
Championship Cup last year.
"Now we're going to take it away from
them," Grainda said. "And I think it will
only take two games."
Team captain Jerry Fry said Penn
State took control of the game from the
start. The Lions led at the end of the
second period, 4-0. ,
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Murnane set a new meq , re 4/ cord with a
4:49.07 time. She broke teammate Kathy
Mills' old record of 4:50.3. Murnane also
came in second in the two-mile event.
Fales, Ventura, Miller and Tina
Leatherman finished.sec.,ond in the one
mile relay and Murnane, Cleary, Mary
Rawe, and Caroline Ihrig took fifth in the
two-mile relay.
Penn State swept first, second and
third places in the pentathalon which
consists of the high jump, shot put, long
together since our last regular season
game against Villanova," Fry said.
"Still, we were prepared to do what we
had to."
Grainda said• the team "came out
flying in the first period mentally and
physically." He said the second period,
provided motivation for the team,
although it lost momentum because it
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jump, 60-yard hurdles and the 80-yard
dash. Ann McKillop finished first with
3,429 points, her best performance of the
season. Kathie Hart was second and
Mary Ann Wojcicki was third.
Penn State coach Chris Brooks said
that up until the final event, the high
jump, Maryland and Penn State were
neck and neck. Maryland took first,
second and third in that event.
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was up by four."
"In the third period the West Chester
playet's started getting chippy because
of the realization their season was
over," Grainda said. "The key to our
victory was that we kept our cool. This
was our best game for self-discipline."
—by Anita Spiegel