B—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 31, 1980
Sophomore forward Steve Munienthal and the rest of the Lion soccer team go for their seventh straight victory tonight
against SUN Y-Binghamton al 7:15 at Jeffrey Field.
Lions start playoff stretch drive
By WILL PAKUTKA
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Former assistant coach and part
time philosopher Mike Ditchfield
knew why the Lion soccer team was
so successful last year.
“Pressure,'’ he would say. “These
guys don't know what pressure is.”
Pressure didn’t mean anything to
(he team, especially around this time
last year.
The Lions beat Temple and Connec
ticut. Then they beat Princeton in the
first round of the NCAA tournament
a nd pulled the upset of the year with a
2-0 win over first-ranked Indiana
before moving on to the Final Four.
Maybe those other teams were feel
ing pressure. Maybe they weren’t ex
pecting anything from Penn State.
Maybe that’s why Penn State beat
them.
But this year is bound to be dif
ferent in a few ways. This time people
are expecting great things from Penn
State. Maybe that adds a little
pressure.
All but one player from last year
has returned, so if the players are ex
pecting more from themselves, add a
little more pressure, too.
And this year, the Lions won’t close
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out their regular season with such
tough games.
Temple is gone, replaced by the
State University of New York-
Binghamton, Penn State’s opponent
at 7:15 tonight at Jeffrey Field.
Big-name Connecticut is still there,
but it’s sandwiched between little
names Lehigh and Towson State.
The Lions are expected to win at
least three of those last four games.
The team is expected to make the.
playoffs again. And, it’s expected to
do well again.
Did someone mention pressure?
“For some reason, whoever comes
out with the polls doesn’t rank us too
high,” Lion goalie and captain Angelo
Nickas said. “So nobody really ex
pects us to win it all. There’s more
pressure on teams like (No.l) San.
Francisco or (No. 2) Alabama A&M.”
Penn State is ranked 10th in the na
tion this week. More important,
however, are the regional polls,
which have the Lions second behind
unbeaten Philadelphia Textile.
Penn State, because it plays a
much tougher schedule than Textile,
could take over first place in the
rankings with wins in these last four
games. That would mean a home
field advantage in the playoffs
something that helped the team con
siderably last year.
How nice. Now you have the Lions
with a home field advantage in the
NCAA playoffs. But notice how easily
those plans could be destroyed if
Penn State loses to SUNY-
Binghamton tonight. ,
It’s not that remote a possibility.
The teams have one common oppo
nent in Oneonta State. The Lions lost
to Oneota in a preseason tournament,
but Binghamton won its game.
Also, Binghamton is a respectable
8-2-1 and ranked ninth nationally in
the Division 111 poll.
“I’d put them a notch above East
Stroudsburg and Bucknell,” Penn
State coach Walt Bahr said. “But I’d
put them a notch below Cleveland
State and St. Louis (teams the Lions
have already beaten).”
Last year at this time, the team
started to make its drive. After
beating a bunch of “nobody specials”
the Lions proceeded to beat four of
the nation’s top teams.
“Last year at this time, I don’t
think anybody, on the team really
knew how good, f we were,” Nickas
said.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Matt Bahr,
who made some big kicks for the Pitt
sburgh Steelers last season, has missed
a few this season.
“My father has always said that the
world doesn’t end when you miss,” says
Bahr, son of University soccer coach
Walter Bahr.
“He says you are only as good as your
next kick; whether you miss your last
one or you make it, it doesn’t matter
when you go out for your next one.”
As a rookie last year, Bahr won two
overtime games with field goals a
41-yarder aghinst New England and a
37-yarder against Cleveland. •
He also kicked a 20-yard field goal with
13 seconds left to'beat St. Louis.
But this season, Bahr just missed a
51-yarder in the finals moments of a
30-28 loss in Cincinnati.
Then he missed'a 39-yarder in the final
seconds of Pittsburgh’s 17-16 home loss
to Cincinnati. :
Then last week in Cleveland, Bahr
missed a extra-point attempt as the
Steelers lost 27-26.
“It’s tough to explain,” Bahr said this
week. “Statistically, I’m doing better
than I was last year.”
Indeed, Bahr has hit eight-of-eight
field goal tries from inside the 30-yard
line, and he is 10-16 overall. Last season,
he hit 18-30.
“Last year, I wasn’t happy with my
kicking but I seemed to make the big
ones we needed. This year, when I miss
one, if comes back to haunt us.”
Of course, the Steelers are having
many problems this season. That’s why
they have lost three in a row and fourth
of eight games, not just because of
Bahr’s misses. -
“What I tried to do at Penn
State. . .you try to make them all of
course. . .was finish the year with bet
ween 80 and 90 percent inside 40 yards,
50 percent outside,” Bahr said.
Tourney big test for lady keg!ers>
By TONY SMITH
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
If you like multiple choice questions,
try this one on for size. The women’s
bowling team:
(a) is loaded with talent.
(b) hasn’t had any serious competition
yet.
(c) both a and b.
The correct answer is probably (c),
but Penn State coach Don Ferrell said
the Lady Lions (4-0) will have some
serious competition this weekend when
they travel to Weirton, W.Va., for the
Holiday Lanes Tournament.
“We expect the maximum challenge, ’ ’
Ferrell said. “The teams that beat us in
the nationals last year will be there.
“We’re going down there to see how
we fare against some of the better teams
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Matt Bahr, shown during his career at Penn State, is not enjoying the sarnie
success this year for the Pittsburgh Steelers that he had as a rookie in 1979. i
“Thai’s what I am striving for here.”
And that’s what Bahr will be striving
for in this Sunday’s game in Pittsburgh
with the Green Bay Packers.
“It’s a mental game,” he said. “You
try not to let your confidence wane.
“You don’t get too excited when you do
in the country and to see what kind of
strategies we’ll employ as the year goes
on.”
Penn State finished third in the na
tionals last year behind Erie and SUNY-
Buffalo, both of whom the Lady Lions
face this weekend as well.
However, the Lady Lions' are the
defending champions of the Holiday
Lanes Tournament, and judging by the
scores of their first four victories (19-0,
17-2, 16-3, 16-3), it seems possible that
they could duplicate last year’s
performance.
Nevertheless, Ferrell said he is not
completely satisfied with his team so far
this season.
“We need to improve on our level of
concentration when bowling against in
ferior teams,” Ferrell said.
something well, and when you don’t do
well, you try not to get too low.”
Bahr was a key ingredient to his Penn
State team in 1978 when the Lions went*
unbeaten in the regular season. He kick
ed 22 field goals that year, establishing a
National Collegiate Athletic Association
record. ! i
And he may be right.
Sophomore Audrey Hichar said the
Lady Lions did not, bowl well as a tegm
last weekend, and they must do better
this weekend if they expect to win.
“The conditions were tough last ?
weekend,” said Hichar, who rolled a 195.
“I bowled well in comparison to the
other bowlers, but I could have done
better.”
The Lady Lions will travel to Buffalo
for the Sheraton Lanes Tournament ijiepct#
weekend and Hichar said she is looljupg
forward to that type of competition in the
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“If we can win the tournament ithis
weekend, we’ll have a mental edge giving
into the tournament next weekend,”jshe
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By TONYBMITH
Daily Colljgian Sports Writer
The me’s bowling team is unbeaten
, this year, jut team captains Jay Jacob
- • son and Trry Sanson are not satisfied.
“I don’l think this team is close to
* where it snuld be,” Jacobson said. “We
: haven’t bo/led together well.”
: ' The Lion (4-0) will have a chance to
, put thingsjtogether this weekend when
i f they compete in the Holiday Lanes Tour
• hament injVeirton, W.Va., this weekend.
'? Nonetheless, Jacobson was optimistic
■ • about theest of the season.
1 “As we bowl in more matches and
.more touinaments, I think that we’ll
'start to je ,” Jacobson said, “and we’ll
: r probably i get going by January or
./►February’.
; - ; Sanson said he believes the Lions
haven’t rejched their potential yet, but
C “we usual]/ reach it around Christmas,”
* ;'he said, j
“We’re frying to get some consistent
■ bowling orib much higher level,” Sanson
said. “But;]ach of us has to be picked up
by the peofle around us. Once we get us
.’■■ed to each'jther, we can do well.”
Last weekend, Penn State traveled to
George Washington and Maryland and
came away with victories. However,
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neither Jacobson nor Sanson was pleas
ed with the bowling conditions.
‘‘We’re doing OK as a team, conditions
permitting,” Sanson said, “but we bowl
ed in a couple of dungeons last
weekend.”
Jacobson explained that when going
up against teams of Penn State’s caliber,
other teams sometimes resort to modify
ing the conditions of the lanes in order to
make it difficult for the better team.
“They tried to catch us off guard,”
Jacobson said. “In' the end, however,
talent always prevails.”
Sanson said he expects the lane condi
tions will be better tomorrow in West
Virginia, and he said that the Lions will
be able to come up with a better perfor
mance as a result.
i “I haven’t seen any of the teams in the
tournament, but I would say that with
the personnel we have, I think we could
beat anyone,” Sanson said. “I know that
sounds cocky, but I believe we have the
talent enough to do it.”
After the Holiday Lanes Tournament,
Penn State will come home to prepare
for another important tournament next
weekend in Buffalo, N.Y.
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Just like the rent-a-car company, the women’s
volleyball team is No. 2 and trying harder.
The Lady Lions (25-5), just one week away from
concluding what has been a very successful season,
are trying hard to establish their superiority over
defending regional champion Pittsburgh.
Penn State has defeated the Lady Panthers just
once in four matches this year. But it will have
another crack at them tonight at 7 at the Pitt Field
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Lady Lion junior Janet Fox doesn’t hide her feel
ings about the Lady Panthers.
“We’re sick of losing to them,” she said. “They’re
a good team, but they’re not better than us. We real
ly want to take it to them. . .they’re so cocky. Oh, I
can’t stand them.”
If Fox’s feelings are any indication, the Lady
Lions appear emotionally prepared for tonight’s
showdown between what are undoubtedly two of the
strongest teams in the region.
. Pittsburgh (33-10) has beaten Penn State once in
Pittsburgh, once at Rec Hall and last weekend at
the Maryland Invitational, The Lady Panthers
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“To telljjid truth, I think we should have a few
less losses,” Pittsburgh coach Shelton Collier said.
“We’ve been upset by three or four teams of what
we consider lesser caliber than us. But we expect to
lose a few games every year to teams like Penn
State.”.
The Lady Lions lived up to that expectation just
once this year at the Penn State Classic, where
Penn State took tournament honors by defeating
Pittsburgh in the finals.
“(The women) weren’t happy about losing to Pitt
sburgh last weekend,” said Penn State assistant
coach Carol Ford, who was in charge of practice
yesterday because head coach Russell Rose was
scouting a high school game near Pittburgh.
“They’ve been working very hard this week,”
Ford said. “They’re taking this game very
seriously.”
“This has been one of the hardest weeks of-prafc
tice we’ve had,” junior Ellen Crandall said.'“Welre
all tired.” .
The Lady Lions have been .practicing long and
hard all year - and it shows'.
“(Rose’s) practices;must be well grounded in the
fundamentals and-defense,” Collier said, “because
you can tell from watching them. That’s what wins
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“Penn State’s malm .attribute is that they’re
steady they play steady- volleyball.”
Collier hinted that just that attribute steadiness
may be what enables Pittsburgh to do so weli
against the Lady Lions.
“We can set up a clear, concise game plan against
Penn State,” he said. “Our team then concentrates
on fulfilling that game plan rather than relying on
any emotional variables. Our game is more tactic
oriented than mental.”
Collier also said Pittsburgh’s game plan also
revolves around treating Penn State and Crandall
as anything but a “one-woman team”.
“That would be foolish,” he said." “We try to
neutralize the other players. •
“Trying to stop Crandall. . .Well, maybe you can
do it sometimes, but there are times when you simp
ly can’t.”
With the regional championships just three weeks
away, .this home-and-home series (the Lady Lions
close out their home schedule Tuesday aginst the
Panthers) should produce some excellent
volleyball.
“We’ll have to work very hard to beat Penn State
up there,” Collier said. “I’m not going to be happy
until I’m sure we’re gonna win the regionals easily
and I’m not sure right now that we can.