Mike Woiclochowlez
Lion midfielder Ed Recco will lead the lacrossers' attack sers have added a new alignment to speed up their attack
against Bucknell at 8 tonight at Jeffrey field. The lacros- and create more scoring opportunities.
Netwomen trip Rams;
tune up for Easterns
By MARK FALLER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The Lady Lion tennis team tuned up
for next week's Eastern regional
championships with an 8-1 victory over a
flat West Chester team yesterday.
The tempo of the match was set when
Penn State's No. 6 singles player,
Barbara Hare, disposed' of Allison
Smith, 6-0, 6-1.
"Barb hit the ball well today," Penn
State coach Candy Royer said. "The
other girl, I think, was a little drained."
West Chester looked drained as a
team. The Rams were tired from last
weekend's Middle Atlantic Lawn Tennis
Association Tournament.
"The girls played really hard down
there, through Sunday, and I think there
was a bit of a letdown," West Chester
coach Barbara Karas said. "There are a
number of factors that hurt us the
heat, finals coming up. But it's the same
for both teams."
You wouldn't have known it watching
the Lady Lions. As if almost relishing
the sunshine, No. 1 Carol Daniels
stopped Sue Storm 6-3, 6-0. Daniels
trailed in the first set 3-2, but shook off a
little early nervousness to win the next
nine games.
"I was a little nervous with all the
people sitting there along the fence," the
freshman said. "But I worked at
Rangers win to enter finals;
NEW YORK (AP) Don Murdoch
and Ron Greschner scored second
period goals just 3:42 last night, rallying
the New York Rangers to a 2-1 triumph
over the New York Islanders and sen
ding the winners into the National
Hockey League playoff finals.
Islanders' right wing Mike Bossy
finally broke his longest goal-scoring
slump of the season, snapping a five
game scoreless streak by netting a 10-
foot power-play backhander at 8:56 of
the first period. But the Rangers,
Princeton
By TOM VERDUCCI
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
When Penn State puts its women's
lacrosse national championship on the
line this weekend its top competition will
come from a New Jersey team which
didn't even expect to be in that position.
That team is Princeton, which drew a
second seed behind the Lady Lions, and
it competes this Friday, Saturday and
Sunday in the Division I national tour
nament at Lady Lion Field with 11 other
teams.
"I was surprised to hear that we were
seeded second," Princeton coach Betty
Logan said. "We thought we'd be in the
top five. We'll just have to come to Penn
State and prove that we belong there."
Princeton proved to the seeding
committee that it belonged there by
compiling a season record of 9-1-1 in
cluding an 8-7 victory over 1978 runner
up Maryland at the Terrapins' field. For
Penn State coach Gillian Rattray, who
was on the seeding committee, ranking
the teams was not an easy thing to do.
"It's difficult to equate how good they
are," Rattray said. "Maryland (this
year no. 4 seed) had a tougher schedule
and William and Mary (no. 3) is doing
very well. It's going to be a super
tournament."
For Princeton, the tournament is
nothing to get all that excited about. The
Tigers have taken a relaxed but
determined outlook on their quest for a
national championship.
"We just came off the practice field
Collegian sports
the
daily
blocking the people out. It's something
that comes with experience."
Daniels had faced Storm earlier this
year, at the Middle States Tournament,
where she had a little more difficulty,
winning 6-3, 6-2 on clay.
"She played me better at the Middle
States. My hard shots don't take off on
clay which is why I don't like playing
on it," Daniels said.
In contrast of Daniels' effective hard
shots, the Lady Lions' No. 2 and 3
players "rely very heavily on placement
of the ball," Royer said, a strategy that
was difficult in the moderate breeze
during the match.
Those two matches were the closest of
the day. State's Anne Beasley beat Linda
Ritter 6-3, 7-5, while Carol Zajac needed
three sets to gain a come from behind, 1-
.6, 7-6, 6-3 victory over Kren Zim
merman.
"I wasn't quite ready to cope with the
wind during the first set," Zajac said.
"Then I just started playing my game
and got grooved."
Penn State made it a clean sweep of
the singles matches and clinched the
match, raising its overall record to 11-3,
when Nos. 4 and 5, Gail Ramsay and
Joan Backenstose, won by identical 6-2,
6-1 scores.
In doubles play, Daniels and Ramsay
won their match in two sets, while Donna
Dißenzo and Beasley won in three.
showing the poise that has been their
signature this spring, pulled even when
Murdoch converted the rebound of a
Mario Marois shot to tie it at 5:03 of the
second session.
Before a delirious crowd of 17,372, with
4,099 more watching on closed circuit
television at the Felt Forum elsewhere
in Madison Square Garden, the Rangers
scored their 10th victory in 13 playoff
games the only losses have come in
overtime since the 1979 Stanley Cup
playoffs began.
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(yesterday) and I didn't sense any kind
of pressure," . Logan said. "We're
treating it as just another game, and
taking it very seriously. We know damn
well that we have to go out and win these
games. This is another regular season."
Princeton's first regular season was
very successful. Only a couple of let
downs prevented the Tigers from
achieving a perfect season.
"Any team can have an off day, and
against Penn (a 7-6 loss) and Rutgers (a
7-7 tie) we had a couple of let-downs,"
Logan said. "Against Rutgers we were
behind the whole game and they played
a super game. Hopefully, that was our
slump."
It's difficult to foresee a slump for the
Princeton attack. With five players
scoring in• double figures through the
Lion nine must down Cornell
to keep playoff bid hopes alive
By WILL PAKUTKA
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
"Hey, certainly I'd like to have a fellow who hits a home run
every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when
he's pitching and who is always thinking about two innings
ahead. The only problem is to get him to put down his cup of
beer and come out of the stands and do those things." —Danny
Murtaugh • ,
Murtaugh's quote displays the true feeling of many
managers and it comes as no surprise that the words are
framed over Penn State baseball coach Chuck Medlar's desk.
If those same fans to which Murtaugh was referring have
anything to say about the Penn State baseball team today, it's
probably that the Lions are looking right past this afternoon's
double-header with Cornell (1:30 Beaver Field) and on to
Saturday's toughie with Temple. In fact, the exact opposite
may be true.
With regional playoffs just around the corner, the Lions,
even with their 17-4 record, still have a lot of work to do before
they recieve a bid. But Cornell is in a different boat entirely.
"We're in a difficult position," Medlar said of his team's
play-off picture. "But if we do well from here on out, we have a
good shot."
Being an independent, Penn State has only its won-loss
record to show tournament officials. Since Medlar doesn't
expect to hear from those officials for a while yet, the Lions
cannot afford any losses in their last few games.
"They (the officials) will probably wait till our season is
over," Medlar said. "So we've still got six big games before we
can think about that."
Such was not always the case for the Lions though. At one
Canadiens lose
Bruins 5, Habs 2
BOSTON (AP) Stan Jonathan,
sidelined most of the regular season by a
shoulder injury, scored three goals last
night and led the Boston Bruins to a 5-2
victory over the Montreal Canadiens.
With the victory, the Bruins, beaten in.
seven consecutive post-season games on
Montreal ice the last three years, earned
another chance to end the hex at the
Forum tomorrow night in the deciding
game of the best-of-seven series.
Jonathan, who scored just six times
course of a competitive schedule, the
Tigers don't rely on offensive production
from just one individual.
"We could be playing the weaker
teams and putting in 19 goals a game,
but we play some tough teams," Logan
said. "Our offense is well balanced and
with five players in double figures rather
than one or two high scorers, we're
solid."
The players that help make Princeton
solid are "Wiz" Lippincott (21 points),
Anne Evott (26), Sally Glodgett (13), Sue
Wilkins (23) and Kate Bucknell (28).
Like Penn State, Princeton has been
nagged by several injuries during the
season which prevented the five from
playing together all the time.
"We've had injuries that have cost us
players here and there," Logan said.
"We played with five freshmen for most
of the season. None of the five high
scorers played in all our games."
On the defensive side of the field,
Princeton has been" nothing short of
tough. Its goals against average of 4.9
per game is sixth among Division I
schools and .3 behind Penn State's. The
leader of the defensive corps is goalie
Sue Kohler whose saves percentage of
71.5 is fifth best.
"She is somebody who we can have
confidence in," Logan said. "She relaxes
the defense. We play straight-forward
lacrosse; nothing fancy. Some people
think we play rough but I don't think so.
In the tournament we'll take our chances
on getting called for it."
Bucknell mild relief
Lacrossers need breather
chances," Thiel said. "They work out of
a four-corner set and are very pati l ent.
They'll pass the ball around as long as
they have to to get an open shoe'
Leading the Buffalos offenMivelY is
all-purpose midfielder Pete Van Hofiti'(
man. Thus far this season, he has
produced 25 goals and 29 assists. Lion
midfielder Karl Herzer said, "Van
Hoffman can do it all. He can feed, dodge
and control the ball well; and if he can't
score, he'll look for the assist."
"The defense has been playing well,"
Thiel said. "They got beat on a lot of fast'
breaks against Maryland, but when they
were set, they really did a good job."
Thiel said the team will also _ need
some fine performances from the
goalies in order to win. "To beat
Bucknell, we'll need four quarters of
good goaltending and 65 percent saves." 4
Physical aspects aside, the Lions will
have to be psychologically ready to win
tonight. "We haven't been winning and
I'm not sure if the team remembers
how," Thiel said. "'We need more con
fidence. We have the talent to win, it's
just a matter of playing well enough to lot
do it."
By JUSTIN CATANOSO
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The men's lacrosse team has been
looking for a breather in its awesome
schedule. Although Bucknell can hardly
be deemed a pushover, the Buffalos
must come as a mild relief compared to
the national ranked squads Penn State
has faced off with in the past two weeks.
Bucknell, 6-4 and sporting a well
disciplined, conventional club, will take
on the Lions tonight at Jeffrey Field. For
lighting purposes, the game's starting
time has been moved from 7 to 8.
Penn State, 2-7 after dropping its last
five contests, is having trouble
generating sufficient offense. The task of
scoring more goals will not come easy
against Bucknell's goalie Tom Sanders.
"Sanders is just tremendous in the
net," Penn State coach Glenn Thiel said.
"Against us in the past three years, he's
stopped 70 percent of our . shots (the
Lions lost 16-14 to Bucknell last year)
and has a 66 percent save average this
season."
Since Sanders' strength is blocking
shots pbove the waist, Thiel said he
hopes his attackmen and midfielders
during the regular season, had one goal
in the first period, tying the score 1-1.
Then, after Wayne Cashman put
Boston in front 3-2 with a big assist from
Brad Park at 16:30 of the second period,
Jonathan added two insurance goals in
the finale.
The Bruins, with their backs to the
wall after a 5-1 loss in Montreal Saturday
night, elected to try to skate with the
speedy Canadiens.
Boston had much better scoring op
portunities.
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Penn State third man Michelle Fielder (left) checks new team has entered the picture. Princeton, seeded::
Maryland first home Judy Dougherty in a game held ear- second after a 9-1-1 season, is a top challenger for the:
Her this year. The same two teams met in the Division I • Lady Lions' title. -''.
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national championship finals last year but this season a
time they were members of the East Coast Athletic Con
ference and things weren't quite so involved.
"Three ECAC mini-tournament winners get into the regional
play-offs automatically," Medlar said. "We're no longer a
member of the ECAC and that's made it a little bit tougher.
But so far we're doing well."
Cornell is lucky, though. The Big Red belong to the Eastern
Collegiate Baseball league which is made up of Ivy League
teams plus Army and Navy. The league champion
automatically gets into the regionals.
Cornell is in the middle of a five team fight for first place in
that league and, with a few inter-conference games comming
up, the Big Red are not likely to throw their top pitcher against
the Lions this afternoon.
But don't think that Cornell isn't after a pair of winsioday.
Even though Mike Murphy, a probable starter for Cornell this
afternoon, is not the number one man on the roster, he did beat
the Lions p3,l):JOStY.par,givipg upjust six hits,inlhe process. ~.
"In all probability we're going to go with (Mike) Guman and
(Dave) June," Medlar said of his own pitching situation. "We
hope June will be ready since he wasn't used too much on
Sunday."
EXTRA BASES: Paul Gallagher will be the designated
hitter for the Lions against left-handed pitching but in the case
that Cornell pitches a right-hander, the Lions will waive the
designated hitter option and Guman will bat for himself . . .
However, Cornell is likely to use another left-hander along
with Murphy tomorrow . . . After today's double-header, the
Lions will only have one home game remaining at 1:30
Saturday afternoon against Temple.
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will take aim low and in the corners to
beat him.
Against Maryland last Saturday (a 21-
6 loss), the Lions opted for a slow down
offense in an attempt to contain the
super-quick Terrapins. Against
Bucknell, however, the team will he
running. . .
"We are definitely going to speed
things up,". midfielder Ed Recco said.
"They usually are the ones to slow it
down, so we'll try to beat them with
some fast breaks."
Also, Penn State has added a new
wrinkle to its offensive set. If it is
executed properly, it will create more
scoring opportunities. This alignment
puts one midfielder at the point, while
the other two cut inside setting picks for
the dodging attackmen.
"The play requires more passing and
creates a lot of motion," Recco said, who
leads the Lions in scoring with 22 goals
and 11 assists. "It should get the attack
open for better shots."
Bucknell's offense promises to be less
complicated.
"They play very disciplined and
controlled offense, and won't take many
Run-and-gun Spurs might
decide to reverse strategy"
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) San
Antonio Coach Doug Moe, high priest
of the run-and-gun offense, says his
high-powered Spurs might have to
slow it down tonight night if
Washington's running game gets out
of hand.
"If we're not getting out of the
blocks good, if they're .running us,
then we'll go into the slow game,"
Wednesday, May 9, 1979 —8
Mike Guman
said Moe, whose Spurs host the
Bullets in the third game of the best
of-seven National Basketball
Association Eastern Conference
championship series. The series is
tied 1-1. • •
Moe was concerned, about
Washington's 6-foot-7,. 250-pound
center Wes Unseld, who has grabbed
41 rebounds and scored 40 points.'
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