6—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 23,1980
Lady Lion assistant
to be Sooner coach
By CARYL KAUFFMAN
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Maura McHugh, the assistant
women’s basketball coach, has been
named head women’s basketball coach
at Oklahoma University, it was an
nounced Monday. McHugh replaces
Doyle Parrack, who resigned in late
March.
McHugh will complete the academic
year at Penn State then move to
Oklahoma in the summer.
A 1975 Old Dominion University
graduate, McHugh was one of the first
women athletes to receive an athletic
scholarship there. She lettered for four
years in basketball for the Lady
Monarchs.McHugh was the captain and
most valuable player of the Lady
Monarchs in her senior year.
Upon graduation, McHugh came to
Penn State as a graduate assistant to
former Lady Lion coach Pat Meiser and
later became Penn State’s first full-time
assistant women’s basketball coach.
Don Jimerson, Oklahoma’s assistant
athletic director, said McHugh is the
Spikers finally bridge season-long generation gap
After three years of struggling, there
were preseason hopes that the men’s
volleyball team would finally release the
Eastern Collegiate Volleyball League
championship cup that had been held
hostage by Rutgers-Newark since 1977.
Even though Penn State started the
season with seven freshmen on its 14-
man roster, Lion coach Tom Tait ex
pressed an extreme amount of optimism
about his club, saying that this year’s
team had the most talent of any other
team he had coached.
But gradually, as the season went on,
Tait’s optimism turned to skepticism.
Sure, Penn State beat Ohio State, Ball
State and Rutgers-Newark, three top 10
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best choice to head the
women’s basketball program.
“We were exceptionally pleased with
all the applicants for the position,”
Jimerson said. "The final choice was a
difficult one. I think our committee
choice is the best one for this program at
this time.”
McHugh was chosen by a unanimous
vote.
teams, once each and took the Nittany
Lion Invitational. The final results,
however, don’t tell the rest of the story.
•The problem remained with Penn
State until two weeks ago when the Lions
were humiliated at Ohio State in three
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Uon nine hosts Mansfield for 2
ByWILLPAKUTKA
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Mansfield State College is a tiny school
with an enrollment of about 2,200 nestled
in the Tioga River Valley, a rural section
of northcentral Pennsylvania.
You’d never expect it to be in the way
of anything, except maybe a cow or two,
but a look at the baseball schedule shows
Mansfield is clearly in the way of Penn
State.
The schedule shows a game with the
tiny state college scheduled for 1:30 p.m
today at Beaver Field
But the schedule also shows a much
bigger game slated for Saturday af
ternoon against Division I powerhouse
St. John’s University.
What it all means is the Lions will have
to try and keep their concentration today
against Mansfield the first non-
Division I team they have seen all
season before they can think about
continuing their 74-year rivalry with St.
John’s, one of the best teams in the East.
To make things just a little worse, the
Lions will play a double-header against
Mansfield instead of the single game as
indicated on the schedule.
“I don’t think we’ll really be looking
past Mansfield,” Lion third baseman
Paul Gallagher said. “We really can’t
afford to lose any more games with the
playoffs coming up.”
Sooners’
But Gallagher isn’t really speaking for
himself. He can look past Mansfield as
much as he wants.
Gallagher won’t play this afternoon
because of a minor injury he suffered in
Saturday’s second game against
Howard. But he should be back for
Saturday’s game against the Redmen.
“After the Ohio State disaster, I tried
to stand back and evaluate what was
going wrong,” Tait said. “Bits and
pieces of things weren’t falling into
place. We had made significant progress
in technical areas, but something was
still definitely wrong.
“Incredible as' it may sound,” Tait
said, “it finally boiled down to a
generation gap.”
A generation gap? On a college team?
Glancing at the players’ ages, however,
it seems quite possible that the coach
was right.
Seven of the Lions are 21 or older while
five are 19 or younger, a wide
discrepancy.
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Just as Bill Benner is blocking second base from a Howard runner attempting to steal earlier this season, the baseball
team will have to block any thoughts of looking ahead to its double-header against St. John’s Saturday as it hosts a 1:30
p.m. double-header today at Beaver Field with Mansfield State, a Division 111 college.
Things shouldn’t change too much,
though. Gallagher, a junior from Yar
dley, Pa., will be replaced this afternoon
by Dave Morrell, a sophomore from
Yardley, Pa.
Today’s games mark the first outing
for the Lions since they split double
headers with Robert Morris and Howard
over the weekend. Those were the first
losses for the Lions after eight straight
wins. Last Sunday’s scheduled game
with Rutgers was canceled.
“I think it lets us realize that we can
“They looked at things quite dif
ferently,” Tait said. “When I looked
back at things, it was clear what was,
wrong. Before, we were going after sign
and symptoms instead of attacking the
disease.
“We faced the problem squarely after
the Ohio State match. We made some
recommendations to solve it and put
responsibility evenly on the shoulder of
each player, instead of just a few.”
Once again, the Lions finished second :
to Rutgers-Newark in the ECVL
playoffs, which ended last Saturday.
Some observers were probably sur
prised that the team members were not
disappointed because Penn State did not
reach the National Collegiate Athletic
lose,” Gallagher said of the two weekend
losses. “We were looking forward to
playing Sunday, but I think the day off
helped us a little.”
The Lions shouldn’t really need too
much to beat Mansfield today that is,
if you listen to Mansfield’s coach.
John Heaps said his Mansfield team
has lots of hitting, but no defense and
suspect pitching.
He may be right. But Mansfield has a
14-4-1 record so far, even with suspect
Association Final Four, the annual Lion
goal.
“We had some personality problems,”
junior co-captain Mike Gordon said after
the ECVL playoff loss. “Last week, we
just got together and decided to play as a
team. It was the first time this season I
had fun playing. It made my season a
success.”
The other Penn State co-captain,
Chuck Kegerreis - a 25-year-old Air
Force veteran expressed the sen
timents of his teammates best.
“We played our best ball of the year
against Rutgers,” Kegerreis said of the
ECVL finals. “It was a successful
season, but it could have been even
more.”
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pitching and no defense
They really must have lots of hitting.,: *
NOTES: Dave June, who hasn’t
allowed a run in 16 innings so far this
season, and Jim Bennett will probably,
pitch for the Lions this af-.
ternoon.. . .Mansfield shortstop Dave.
McDermott and left fielder Dale
Reynolds are both hitting oven
.400. . . .Mansfield’s 14-4-1 record in-,
eludes some fall games. . . .Penn State,,
after winning last year’s game 16-15,;
took a a 7-2-1 lead in the series.
Tait said that if he would have,
discerned the gap earlier, the Lions:
could have won the ECVL title. ,
“I’m pleased that we overcame at
major hurdle,” he said. “What bothers
meisvvhatwe could havedoneasa team,
this year. :
“I hope that everybody learned from;
this experience to forget petty feelings, >
to get away from being T. or ‘me’
oriented and to compromise with
people.” i
If that lesson was indeed learned, then.;
this season was every bit as successful
as any championship year could ever be. _■>
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* l| Mary Ann Cremo lays down a bunt during the women’s softball team’s double-header yesterday at Lady Lion Field. Penn
i State lost the first game, 2-1, but came back to win the second game, 10-1.
Softball team splits double-header
I# GLENN KAUP
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
■ Despite a host of strong hitters,
defensive players and good pitchers, the
softball team has been plagued with one
major problem all season con
sistency.
$ And yesterday was no exception as the
Lady Lions split what was supposed to.
be an easy double-header with Lock
Haven. Penn State lost the first game, 2-
1, but whalloped the Golden Eagles in
the second game, 10-1
“I
_ feel very disappointed having lost
(fcie first game," Penn State coach Pat
McTarsney said, “especially the way
some of the runs were scored on errors
during routine plays. We had some
problems in base running, which has
been a strong point in our offense.
“We are also not getting the hits when
#e need them.”
L,ock Haven got on the board in the
second inning when Lady Lion catcher
Margaret Baker threw the ball past
third baseman Jan Carlson, allowing
Golden Eagle Terri Bittner to score.
Penn State scored its only run in the
srath inning, when Dee Dee Berard
tripled and scored on an error by pitcher
Kim Eckley.
The second game was a completely
different story for both the Lady Lions
and the Golden Eagles.
“Our first pitcher, Kim Eckley, is the
b(#t one that we have,” Lock Haven
coach Don Keener said. “The team plays
Jpetter when she pitches and they have.
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confidence in the team and they tend to
play better. We were hitting well in the
first game and experimenting with the
hits.
“But the team does.not have the same
kind of confidence with the second
game’s pitchers (Sharon Bailey and
Kathy Strobel).
PENN STATE
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Cremo, CF
Stauffer, 2B
Berard, LF
Nuss, IB
Baker, C
Carr, DH
Lolacono, DH
Hoy, P
Zawacki, SS
Malone, SS
Viehdorfer, RF
Carlson, 3B
Turo, PR
TOTALS
LOCK HAVEN
AB R
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3 0
3 0
0 0
3 0
3 0
3 0
3 1
3 1
3 0
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0 10 10 0 0
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Beegle, CF
Contursi, 3B
Roe, DH
Eckley, P
Miller, K., SS
Martin, C
Hocker, RF
Bittner, IB
Miller, S„ LF
O’Connell
TOTALS
Lock Haven
Penn State
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Penn State
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game did not depend very much on any
differences in the Lock Haven squad as
the Lady Lions got their hitting back on
track. Penn State pelted Golden Eagle
pitchers Bailey and Strobel for 13 hits
Mary Ann Cremo led the Lady Lions in
the second game with three RBIs.
Malone, SS
Stauffer, 2B
Berard, LF
Nuss, IB
Cremo, CF
Komara, 3B
Lolacono, DH
Frey,P
Baker, C
Viehdorfer, RF
Turo, PR
TOTALS
Beegle, CF
Contursi, 3B
Roe, DH
Stobel, P
Miller, K„ SS
Martin, C
Hocker, RF
Bittner, IB
Miller, S„ LF
O'Connell, 2B
Boden, RF
Calko, LF
Dermer, PH
Igo, DH
2 6 1
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TOTALS
Lock Haven
Penn State
Second Game
PENN STATE
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3 0
2 0
0 0
3 0
3 0
2 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
2 0
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