Grapplers call on 3
By JEFF SCHULER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The strength of p team often depends
not on the athletes that attain starting
status, but instead on the athletes that
provide the depth for a squad.
The wrestling team's strength will be
tested this weekend when three
newcomers will be in the starting lineup
as the Lions travel to upstate New York
to meet Cornell at 7:30 tonight and
Syracuse at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.
"Our starters are pretty well banged
up," Penn State coach Rich Lorenzo
said. "This weekend should tell us how
deep we are."
If you count freshman 158-pounder
Kirby Wood, Lorenzo will send four
wrestlers to the mats tonight that did not
start against Cal Poly in the season
opener. Wood filled in for Guy Petroski
against Michigan last Monday night,
who is still sidelined with a sprained
ankle.
The three first-time starters are:
• Freshman Mike Slowey at 150,
who will be filling in for the injured Mike
Doherty. Doherty had started against
Michigan, playing a big part in the
Lions' victory after notching an 8-7 deci
sion, but suffered a sprained ankle in the
match. Doherty had started in place of
Steve Welker, who quit the team for per
sonal reasons.
• Sophomore Tom Slowey at 177, star
ting for Andy Bingaman, who suffered a
knee injury in the Michigan match.
• Junior Jim Sleeper, filling in for
Scott Longcor at heavyweight. Longcor
has an elbow injury.
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collegian
Leimkuhler keys
women cagers'
72-71 victory
By 808 GROVE
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
It was a proverbial barn-burner.
'`:Thd, women's basKetball team suffered
selcond-straight lackluster first-half
performance last night before gaining a
'Climelfrom-behind 72-71 victory over
previously undefeated St. Joseph's.
Penn State (5-1) needed 98 second-half
points to defeat the Hawks (5-1), who
suffered the defeat after missing a shot
in the final seconds. The win was the
Lady Lions' third straight away from
home.
Penn State went into the locker room
trailing 31-24 at halftime, despite jump
ing out to a 20-11 lead with just over eight
Minutes to go in the first half. St.
Joseph's senior Joanne Gentry scored 10
of her team's next 16 unanswered points
to give the Hawks the lead, which they
held until just before the 12-minute mark
of the second half.
"At halftime, I just screamed," Penn
State coach Rene Portland said. "I said
I'd hold open tryouts when I got back and
that I'd quit. I told them they were mak
ing a mockery of the sport I love."
The pep talk worked. Although the
Hawks held the lead for a good portion of
the second half, the Lady Lions stayed
within striking range, thanks to
sophomore Louise Leimkuhler, who led
all Penn State scorers with 22 points.
Sophomore Carol Walderman added 18
points to the Penn State scoring effort,
raising her team-leading average to 16.3
points per game.
Scoring efforts by Leimkuhler and
sophomore Corinne Gulas finally put
Penn State back into the lead, 60-59, with
7:18 left. Penn State remained in the
lead until the Hawks' Renie Dunne fed
sophomore Kate McPeak for a bucket
with 1:58 left. Dunne recorded a school
record 14 assists in last night's game.
L.4dy Lions got the game-winning
points when Leimkuhler sank two shots
from the free throw line just 13 seconds
later. Penn State was 8-11 from the line,
raising its season foul-shooting average
to 70 percent.
Penn State takes on Villanova (3-1) at
5:45 p.m. tomorrow at Rec Hall. The
Wildcats have defeated Pittsburgh, West
Virt..nia and Howard thus far this year,
suffering their only loss to Montclair
State.
Villanova head coach - Harry Perretta
said his team will need to play good
defense in order to stay with the Lady
Lions, who are' now averaging 86.8 points
per game.
NOTES: The Lady Lions' 72 points last
night were the fewest they've scored all
season. They have recorded victories
against Howard University in their
opener, 82-44; Fairleigh Dickinson and
DePaul in the Pitt Invitational, 106-66
and 92-81, respectively; and Lock
Haven, 94-54. . . .Penn State's only loss
was to Cheyney State, 88-75, at the Pitt
Invitational.. .
PENN STATE (72)
GuMs 3 0-1 6, Leimkuhler 10 2-2 22, ‘Valderman 9 0-1
18, Davies 3 2-2 8, Ellison 1 0-1 2, Lombard 23-3 7, Serge
1 0-0 2, Donovan 3 1-1 7. Totals 32 8-11 72.
ST. JOSEPH'S (711
hlePeak 5 1-4 11, Boyer 9 0-0 18, Dunne 6 1-1 13, Gen.
try 9 1-2 19, Polaeliek 2 0414, Sabalesky 2 0-0 4, Foy 10.0
2. Totals 34 3.7 71.
Halftime St. Joseph's 31, Penn State 24.
Another Lion, Bob Bury (134), will
wrestle this weekend despite a knee in
'jury suffered in the Penn State Invita
tional Tournament last weekend. Bury
also irritated his hip as a result of favor
ing his knee, Lorenzo said, and will have
to be wary of both problems out on the
mat.
Mike Slowey realizes that the
newcomers suffer from a lack of ex
perience, but he still is confident that he
and the other first-time starters can fill
in capably.
"The wrestlers coming in just don't
have the varsity experience," Slowey
said. "Jim (Sleeper) and Scott
(Longcor) are pretty even, but my
brother and I are both inexperienced.
"I'm nervous, but I'm still confident I
can do the job. I was No. 2 (behind
Welker) at 150 at the beginning of the
season, but Doherty had a good tourna
ment and the coaches decided to go with
him against Michigan."
"Syracuse has a good team," Slowey
added. "But I think we have a good
team, too. When all our injuries heal, we
have the capability to be very good."
So it will be a patchwork squad that
travels this weekend to meet two teams
that are among Eastern wrestling's
finest.
Cornell was 11-6 last season, and
finished sixth in the Eastern Inter
collegiate Wrestling Association
tournament.
The. Big Red's top two wrestlers figure
to be Sam Edwards (134) and Gene
Nighman (142). Both qualified for na-
A sneaker's eye view of Lion basketball coach Dick Harter, who hopes his
team can rebound from its loss to Nebraska when Penn State hosts East
Carolina at 8:10 p.m. tomorrow in Rec Hall.
ChiSox sale rejected; LA nixes Lynn dea,‘
DALLAS ( AP) The American
League turned its back on Youngstown,
Ohio businessman Edward Deßartolo
for the final time yesterday, rejecting
his $2O million bid to purchase the
Chicago White Sox.
The vote at baseball's winter meetings,
was a decisive 11-3 against him. Com
missioner Bowie Kuhn opposed Deßar
tolo's bid to purchase the Seattle
Mariners last year and spoke out against
him again when he surfaced once again
as a bidder for the White Sox.
The Los Angeles Dodgers said they
were ending their bid to obtain Boston's
Fred Lynn. The Dodgers had received
permission from the Red Sox to talk with
Lynn and spent most of the night in con
versation with the center fielder and his
agent, Jerry Kapstein.
Lynn, entering the option year of his
contract, refused Dodger bids to sign a 4-
or 5-year agreement, demanding a
1-year contract which could permit him
to be a free agent next November. The
Dodgers rejected that idea and ended
the talks.
"I've never been ashamed to be a
tionals last year, and Nighman won the
Invitational Tournament last weekend.
"We have to be up for Cornell," Loren
zo said. "We're one of three teams they
really want to beat." He said the others
were Lehigh and Syracuse.
However, the best Cornell can hope for
this year is two out of three, as the
Orangemen blasted Cornell, 48-6, in a
dual match last week.
Syracuse coach Ed Carlin has labeled
his team the best he's had at the school
in his 18 years as coach, and was touting
his squad as potential national cham
pions until defending National Collegaite
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
champion lowa came into Syracuse and
won, 41-5.
Still, the Orangemen are strong, com
ing off a fifth-place finish in the EIWAs
last year to earn Top 10 status in the first
Amateur Wrestling News poll. Syracuse
returns 14 from last year's 6-15 team,
and five redshirts will be eligible this
season. .
The strength of Syracuse revolves
around the lower weight classes,
especially the Mills brothers Gene
(118) and Dale (126).
Gene, a 1979 NCAA champ at 118, took
last year off to train for the 1980 Olympic
team which didn't go to Moscow. He did
get a berth on the 'honorary' team and
won a World Cup title.. He is currently
the top-rated wrestler in his weight class
according to the AWN.
Dale won the EIWA 118-pound title last
year as a freshman, and moved up to 126
this year when his brother returned to
the team.
r s
member of the American League
before," said Bill Veeck, president and
principal owner of the White Sox. "To
day, I am. The American League unfair
ly and unthinkingly turned down a fine
offer from a fine man. I am
embarrassed."
Deßartolo needed 10 votes for ap
proval. He had fallen two votes short on
Oct. 23 when the AL last considered his
offer. With eight dubs supporting him
then, he thought he could sway two more
votes. His support crumbled and the only
teams reportedly voting for him were
the Oakland A's, Cleveland Indians and
the White Sox.
The expressed opposition to Deßartolo
centered around the issues of absentee
ownership and his involvement in three
race tracks. After the Oct. 23 vote, he of
fered to establish a residence in Chicago
and sell his tracks, but that apparently
did not impress the AL owners.
The racetracks in which Deßartolo
has controlling interests are Louisiana'
Downs, Thistledown in Cleveland and
Balmoral in Chicago.
backups for help
• Photo by Janis Eliirer
Bernie Fritz (left) will wrestle at 142 when Penn State (1-1) tries for its second and third wins of the season this weekend. • •
The Lions will take on Cornell at 7:30 tonight and Syracuse at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon on the road.
on a low
By WILL PAKUTKA
Daily Collegian Sports Write►
The lAwst4tistics sheet printed up
liefore Penn State basketball games,
is divided into two columns one for
season highs (the best performances
of the year) and the other for the
Nebraska game.
It's usually called the "season's
lows" column, but why confuse
people?
Tuesday night's 75-50 loss at
Nebraska was the season low in
points scored, field goals made, field
goals attempted, rebounds,
assists. . .get the picture?
With luck, it will stay that way.
With luck, things will not get any
lower because if they do against East
Carolina at 8:10 p.m. tomorrow in
Rec Hall, Penn State will be in
trouble.
Next Tuesday, Penn State must
travel to Syracuse. The Saturday
after that, the Lions play a much im
proved Rutgers team in New Jersey.
It's hard enough to win in those
places when your team is hot. To go in
a slump is a waste of money.
"This team has too much ex
perience to let something like the
Nebraska game affect us," Lion
guard Craig Buffie said. "Our next
six games are very important. That's
why we can't let the loss affect us. It's
only one loss."
Penn State went to Nebraska confi
dent, but unprepared. The 25-point
loss was a pretty good indication of
how the team played..
If the Lions lost anything in
Nebraska, it should show early in
tomorrow night's game.
"The loss will help us, depending on
Photo by Stel Varies
"The decision was made by the clubs
for valid business reasons," said AL
President Lee MacPhail.
Deßartolo, who also owns the San
Francisco 49ers of the National Football
League and the Pittsburgh Penguins of
Harter puts Lions
Bowie Kuhn
free diet
the way we react to it," Buffie said.
"I never think a loss in itself is
beneficial.",
East!'tiilolina- is 3 7 1; which is 'the
same as Penn State. But the record
doesn't mean too much.
East Carolina has beaten Ohio
University, Texas Wesleyan and
Berry College not exactly Notre
Dame, DePaul and Kentucky. East
Carolina's only loss was a 112-81
blowout at Maine.
The Pirates lost six of the top eight
players from last year's 16-11 team.
All the starters are new, including
6-11 senior center Tom Szymanski
a 4.0 student with a scoring average
only a few points higher.
The Lions don't just need a win
tomorrow night, they need to play a
good game.
Whether it's a blowout or not, Penn
State has to play well because after
Syracuse and Rutgers comes Boston
College in the Music City Tournament
and Lafayette and Temple just after
break.
It can make you forget a 3-0 start
fairly quick.
NOTES: The latest edition of The
Sporting News named Penn State to
"Best of the Rest" where it is in the
company of Duke, Georgetown, N.C.
State, Rutgers and San Fran
cisco. .. .Penn State has won 11
straight in Rec Hall. The last loss at
home for the Lions was to Temple
almost' a year ago.... Frank
Brickowski leads Penn State in scor
ing with a 13.8 average. Rich Fetter is
next with 12.3. ...East Carolina's
high scorer is freshman guard Barry
Wright with 13.8 points per
game. . ..The two teams have never
met.
the National Hockey League, appeared
hurt by the rejection.
"I've conducted myself in the best,
most honorable fashion all my life,"
Deßartolo said. "To do with my life what
I did and then to have 14 men sit in judg
ment of a fellow like myself, well it's im
possible to believe it really happened."
Lynn, gambling that baseball's free
agent auction will continue to be a rich,
lucrative marketplace, seems intent on
going that route after the 1981 season.
The Red Sox openly have offered Lynn
around at baseball's winter meetings
and late Wednesday night accepted an
offer from the Dodgers which apparent
ly included pitcher Steve Howe, the Na
tional League Rookie of the Year, pit
cher Joe Beckwith and third baseman
Mickey Hatcher.
But the deal hinged on Lynn signing a
long-term contract with Los Angeles and
he wasn't prepared to do that.
The Dodgers issued a statement,
declaring their bid for Lynn at an end.
"We had hoped to sign Fred but we
had no interest in a one-year pact," said
Friday, Dec. 12 6
Lady spikers absorb
.
pair of trouncings
at AIAW nationals
By 808 GROVE
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The women's volleyball team was
cold, despite the fact that it was play,*
in sunny Santa Barbara, Calif.
The
opening •, ma ches yestiday ak: the
Association ft9iiintercolleg ate . Athletiq
for Women championships,i losing to No.
1-ranked Southern California (5-15, IJ-Ir4
. and 13th-ranked Houston (10-15, 4-15)*
Penn State (33-10) will have to defe4t
both Colorado State and San Diego State
(which yesterday defeated Houston) t(--
day to have any chance of realizing itp
goal of finishing among the top 12 teams
in the nation.
"We're really outmanned," Pefqi
State coach Russell Rose said. "We'i.e
over our heads. I didn't expect us to 4.
embarrassed, but up to now, we've beef
embarrassed."
Rose said the Lady Lions "never'' go
- out of the gate" against the Trojans, ‘1,14)
needed just 24 minutes to clinch the V7o-,
tory. Penn State was aced 12 times in ail
match.
Penn State's problems didn't end
there. Eight service errors contributed
to its defeat at the hands of the Cougari;
"No one played well," Rose said. "1\141:t
one. We just got blown out.
" They should be very disappointed. r
wasn't pleased with their effort. I think
we gave up (yesterday)."
Rose said the difference between ht
•
team's talent and its opponent's' is sucl3
that winning the championship wouldt4
nearly impossible.
"We just don't have the kids to do it.•
he said. "Hard work can only get you s
far."
But Rose is still hopeful that hard wor •
will change hiS team's fortunes.
"If we work hard, I think we can still'
make it into the top 12," lie said.
it's going to be tough "
i ,
Al Campanis, vice president of the clubi
Money, apparently, never wasi
discussed in the talks. Length of contract- 4 p
was the only subject and Lynn decided ill
would be better for him to keep his freqi
agent options open.
Because Lynn signed prior to Aug
91
1976, the contract cutoff date, under),
baseball rules, Boston would receive , n 4,
compensation if he left as a .free agent
On the other hand, if he signed a one;
year deal and then left, the club losin
him would get an amateur draft choq.
Management, claiming that is not 01 ?
ficient return, is trying to upgrade thaid
compensation in talks with the players!:
association. 4
Lynn'S 1981 salary is about $:300,600.
far less than today's going price fOi•
1
player with his skills. By standing fiti,
on his demands for a one-year contra&
he may be costing himself about half
million dollars next season. But. ) i
baseball economics continue to escalate
as he and Kapstein obviously believe'
they will, that gamble could pay of
handsomely after next year's re-entr
draft. —f.
Lady Lions ready to open season
By SHARON FINK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
...Last year, for the first time in eight tries, the
:.s omen's gymnastics team beat Clarion State College
ig a dual meet. And barring any major catastrophies
on the Lady Lions' part, Penn State should win again
tomorrow night. •
Even Clarion coach Gail Truitt-Bean will tell you
that.
- :Because even though the depleted gymnastics pro
gram at Clarion, a schOol that won national champion-
OAPs in 1976 and '77, has improved from last year,
Truitt-Bean said her team isn't planning on beating
l'enn State in the first regular season meet for both
teams. The competition begins at 8 p.m. tomorrow in
Clarion's Waldo Tippin Gymnasium.
• :"Our goal is not to win this meet," she said. "I don't
think that's possible. Our goal is to have clean.routines
*id do the best we can."
'And that's just about what the Lady' Lions expect
from Clarion, too. -
"I think they'll have really clean routines," Penn
State's Lisa Ingebretsen said. "But I don't think they'll
have a lot of difficulty. I don't think they'll be a threat
to us."
But in its first meet of the season meets which are
trsually remembered for low .scores and rocky perfor
mances Penn State could be a threat to itself.
"If we really blow it, they could beat us," In
gebretsen said.
Lady Lion coach Judi Avener agreed.
"First meets are awful, just awful," she said. "So if
We're bad, they're gonna give us a run for our money, I
guarantee you that."
Penn State assistant coach Marshall Avener said any
gymnastics team can lose a first meet, no matter who
it is going against.
"In gymnastics, not everybody can score a 9.5," he
said. "But I guarintee you anyone can score a 6.5.
There's no limit to how low you can go."
Judi said she's particularly wary of meeting Clarion
first. You should always be ready for a good meet from
the Golden Eagles, she said, because of their great
gymnastics tradition.
"There's a lot of pride left over," she said, "even
hough the team doesn't seem to have quite as much
alent as it used to."
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POLAND
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Lady Lions
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REC HALL 7:00 p.m. #2 team in Eastern
MONDAY Dec. 15 Europe: beaten only
PRICE $1 by the Soviets.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS
Fri.-Sun., Dec. 12-14 .
Friday, Dec. 12
Holiday Festival VII: 'Dough Sculpture demo, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Kern
Gallery; HUB Craft Center, Instructor's Sale, noon-4 and 7-9 p.m., Room 312
HUB; Phi Mu Alpha Dixieland Band concert, noon, Kern Lobby; International
'Holiday Candlelight Dinner, 4:45-6:45 p.m., HUB Terrace Room; "Glow at
Christmas," buffet dinner and entertainment, 6:30 p.m., Room 102 Kern;
Mystery Plays, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
STS/TCD luncheon, noon; presentation, 12:20 p.m., Room 101 Kern. Ronald F.
Arbler, geography, on "Is a Wired University Possible?"
Campus Crusade for Christ, 6 p.m., Rooms 102 and 105 Forum.
,Ballroom Dance Club, 7 p.m., Room 133 White Bldg.
I "Commonsplace Theatre, Dark Victory, 7 p.m.; Key Largo, 9 p.m., Room 112
t I I Kern.
Rec. and Parks Society. Square Dance, 7 p.m., Walnut Bldg.
Wargame Club, 7 p.m.-midnight Sunday, Room 101 EE East.
Astronomy Club, Open House, 7:30 p.m., 6th floor, Davey Lab. Cloud date, Dec
13.
'College of Science Week, info on majors: Astronomy, Room 445 Davey;
Biophysics (MCB), Room 2 S Frear, both 7:30 p.m.
Interlandia, folkdancing, 7:30 p.m., Room 3 . White Bldg.
Commonsplace Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern.
Saturday, Dec. 13
Campus Crusade for Christ, 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Room 102 Forum.
toliday Festival VII: HUB Craft Center, Instructor's Sale, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Room 312 HUB; Children's Christmas Party, 12:30-4 p.m., Robeson Center;
GSA Coffeehouse, international entertainment, 8-10 p.m.,•Room 102 Kern.
Sports: bowling vs. Temple, 1 p.m.; swimming and diving (women) vs.
Villanova, 1 p.m.; basketball (women) vs. Villanova, 5:45 p.m. and (men) vs.
East Carolina, 8:10 p.m. •
,France-Cinema, Blier, Femme Fatales, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern.
PSU Symphony Orchestra and University Choirs, Ralph Vaugh-Williams,
Hodie, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium.
Sunday, Dec. 14 •
Sports: bowling vs. Drexel, 1 p.m.
Jloliday Festival VII: PSU Glee Club and Women's Chorus, concert, 3 p.m.,
chwab; University Chapel Choir Christmas Concert, 7 p.m., Eisenhower
Chapel; Mystery Plays, 8:30 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church.
Contmonsplace Theatre, Dark Victory, 7 p.m.; Key Largo, 9 p.m., Room 112
Kern.
Under former coach Ernestine Weaver, Clarion was
at the top of collegiate gymnastics it was the na
tional powerhouse. But after the '79 season, Weaver left
Clarion to become head coach at the University of
Florida, taking with her some of the Golden Eagles' top
performers. Her defection caused others to transfei to
other schools.
Last year, which was Truitt-Bean's first season at
the helm, Clarion didn't field a full team of six girls
it had five gymnasts competing and was winless in
dual meet competition.
This year, however, Truitt-Bean is, happy with her
situation. She has nine girls on the team, including
three freshmen recruits, and a group of returners led
by Leslie Davis, a leftover from Weaver's time. Davis
sat out last year with an injury but looks very good so
far, Truitt-Bean said.
"There's a lot of potential in the team," she said. "I
hope we can show it and come on strong later in the
year. But being so early in the season, I expecta lot of
mistakes, a lot of breaks and falls.
"I know we're not as polished as we could be. It'll be
interesting to see how polished Penn State is this early
in the season. I think they'll be as good as they always
are."
Clarion did compete in the Cornell Invitational last
weekend, finishing second in a six-team field with a
score of 118.2. Its highest all-around finisher was An
drea Kandravi, who finished third with 31.05 points,
while Davis and Meg Minderler tied for first on beam.
The Aveners said Penn State is looking at Clarion as
an exploratory meet because so many questions sur
round this year's team, which needs some experience.
"I think, in a sense, that's what we're really looking
forward to this meetfor," Judi said. "There's so many
questions that we're hoping this meet is gonna answer
some of those questions. It's really an experimental
kind of thing for us."
Neither Penn State's nor Clarion's lineups were set
as of yesterday because both coaches said it depends
on who looks good in practice and who's healthy. All
the Lady Lions, though, know what they can do routine
wise, Ingebretsen said, and are pretty confident.
"Right now we just want to get used to the meet
situation and doing routines," she said : "We're work
ing on getting together as a team. But everybody feels
good."
THE UNIVERSITY
CHAPEL SERVICE
Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel
Sunday, 7:00 p.m.
December 14, 1980
Christmas Candlelight Service
University Chapel Choir
directed by Tommie Irwin
Sponsored by the Office of Religious Affairs
(A Division of the. Office of Student Affairs)
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OPENING EVERYWHERE
ON DECEMBER 17TH
Lisa Ingebretsen and the women's gymnastics
team do not expect to have any trouble winning
their season opener at 8 tomorrow night at
Clarion
Battered
face stiff
By RON GARDNER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Gymnastics is not commonly thought
of as a hazardous sport, but don't tell
that to the men's gymnastics team.
At noon tommorrow, Penn State will
go up against Indiana State, Michigan
and Michigan State in the Wolverine In
vitational at Ann Arbor, Mich. The Lions
will go with a team that might as well be
held together with "paper clips and bal
ing wire," coach Karl Schwenzfeier
said.
All-around performers Pat Besong
and Gregg Simon both suffered hand in
juries at the Farmingdale Invitational
last week and will be slightly injured for
the invitational.
Sophomore Kenn Viscardi, still nurs
ing an irritated shoulder, will not make
the trip; Steve Marino will try to com
pete in two or three events; and floor
specialist Tom Gray spent Wednesday in
bed with the flu, but should be ready for
the meet.
"Having two guys like Viscardi and
Marino in a protected situation really
depletes the team score quite a bit,"
Schwenzfeier said. "We're looking for
ward to getting those two back in the
lineup, but not quite yet."
Despite the injury problems, Schwenz
feier said the Lions have just as good a
chance as any of their opponents of tak
ing top honors.
"This will be a tight one," Schwenz
feier said. "It'll be hard to tell who will
win. All four teams are rather for
midable and at one time or another have
won the NCAA tournament."
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gymmen
challenge
Michigan is' led by Marvin Gibbs, a
solid all-around performer, and Ivan
Murray, who transferred from Penn
State after his freshman year.
Schwenzfeier knows very little about
Indiana State, which will be competing
under first-year head coach Chuck
Duncan.
"We're in the dark on their team situa
tion," he said. "But we always seem to
have trouble with them."
Michigan State is no slouch either.
Chris Van Mierlo provides solid support
in the all-around and the Spartans also
have Big Ten rings champion Darrell
Yee.
Penn State will use Besong, Tom
Forster, Simon and Ed Sabonya in all
around competition. The Lions'
specialists will be Bobby Painton, floor
exercise and parallel bars; Gray, floor
exercise and vault; Jim Thompson,
pommel horse; Bill Stanley, pommel
horse; Glenn Simon, rings, parallel bars
and horizontal bar; and Marino, rings,
vault and horizontal bar.
"We're not going to take any great
risks," Schwenzfeier said. "We don't
want to push people too far this early in
the season and risk more injuries. That
would be rather foolish."
Despite last weekend's second-place
finish at the Farmingdale Invitational
and the team's injuries, Schwenzfeier
remains confident about Penn State's
prognosis.
"This is a very critical time for a gym
nastics team," Schwenzfeier said, "and
we're making more progress than we've
ever made."