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By JEFF SCHULER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The football team has its Colgates, the
men's basketball team has its Loyolas,
and the women's basketball team its
Edinboros.
Every team has one. They're known as
the patsies, the teams that are on the
schedule to provide breaks in the sched
ule or for traditional reasons.
The women's lacrosse team played its
patsy yesterday, and Slippery Rock
played its role perfectly, falling 10-3 to
top-ranked Penn State in front of 75
shivering fans at Lady Lion Field.
After an emotional and fast-paced win
over William & Mary on Saturday, the
Lady Lions (4-0) had to guard against
suffering a letdown against the Division
111 Rockets (1-2-1). But a letdown never
developed as Penn State jumped out to a
5-0 lead and never looked back.
"The competition was not as big of a
challenge," Penn State co-captain Lynn
Thompson said. "We try to go into every
game thinking it will be a tough game,
but. . ."
"We had a long layoff (10 days between
Towson and William & Mary) and now
we're getting into the season. It's good to
have games'no matter what the competi
tion is like."
Tough this game wasn't. By the time
Slippery Rock got its first goal at 16:57 on
a bouncing shot by Lauri Philo, Penn
State had its 5-0 lead behind three goals
from Candy Finn and two from Thomp
son. By halftime the Lions had a 30-7
advantage in shots on goal, and a 7-2 lead
on the scoreboard. .
In fact, the final result could have been
much worse if it wasn't for the play of
Rocket goalie Debbie Talbot. Most of the
action took place in her end of the field,
and the Lady Lions bombarded her with
66 shots, 31 of which she saved, a record
for a Penn State opponent.
But all those shots didn't mean the
Penn State offense was clicking in high
gear. Penn State coach Gillian Rattray
saw some flaws in the machine that is
averaging 14 goals per game.
"We weren't cutting through," she
said. "We were getting fustrated and
shooting too soon; we were taking poor
percentage shots.
WQtlieffto coatfiets ponder move .to NC A A
.By DENISE BACHMAN
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
With the deadline for making a determination
to the AIAW championships for next season less
than a month away, some coaches of women's
athletic teams at Penn State already have a
definite idea as to whether they would like to stick
with AIAW or opt for NCAA championships.
• "The NCAA is the better of the two evils,"
basketball coach Rene Portland said. "I don't
think the NCAA is perfect, but it is a little more
consistent than the AIAW, and that's really why
we're leaning towards it right now."
Lacrosse and field hockey coach Gillian Rat
tray, however, is leaning in the opposite direction,
although she may be forced to change her posi
tion.
"Philosophically, I'm still with the AIAW,"
Rattray said, "but I'm realistic enough to realize
that if the majority of the top schools are going
Spikers in good hands with Pittsburgh
By STEVE GRAHAM because the set is so much lower than a
Daily Collegian Sports Writer normal set, a hitter doesn't have as much•
If men's volleyball coach Tom Tait had time to pick out his spot on the court.
become an insurance salesman, you'd With Kegerreis and 6-5 middle blocker
have a hard time convincing him to sell a Mark Kraynik, Penn State has allowed
policy to Pitt's men's volleyball team. the middle attack to play a vital role in
Tait would concede that the Panthers its game plan. Of course, its defense of
don't live in a neighborhood ridden with the outside attack hasn't actually been
vandalism and they don't even buzz quiet either
around campus raising havoc in their
souped-up automobiles
"No team has been able to beat us with
a high outside attack," Tait said. "Our
But he would also tell you that by outside block has adjusted well this year
employing a high-risk offense, the Panth- to the quick attack."
ers might even run Prudential into bank
ruptcy. In light of the Panthers' rapid devel-
Pittsburgh is hoping its offensive at- opment, the Lions have also improved
tack won't be a major liability when it markedly in nearly every aspect of their
meets Penn State (25-3) in an Eastern game. Saturday's three-game wipeout at
Collegiate Volleyball League match at 7 the hands of defending ECVL champion
tonight in Rec Hall. Rutgers-Newark may not have set Penn
The Panthers, who have succumbed in State back too much.
two previous encounters with the Lions In fact, Tait is rather optimistic that
this year, will need to be near-perfect in the Lions will rebound with a win tonight.
their execution if they hope to overcome "This team has begun to mature and
the Lions' dreaded front line of 6-5 Chuck has begun to look at things more realisti-
Kegerreis, 6-6 Steve Hunkins and 6-1 tally than earlier in the year," Tait said.
Ahmet Ozcam. Without a doubt, the Lions have real-
And if Penn State's experience this ized that there are teams like Ohio
season is any indication, it won't be easy State and Rutgers-Newark that can
fol Pitt to successfully use a high-risk try their patience throughout the course
attack, which consists of making quick. of a match. Now, Penn State has learned
sets predominantly to the middle of the to keep its composure and, at the same
engirt. time, increase its level of intensity.
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"The reason why you would go with a
high-risk attack," Tait said, it's
for a team to stop a team without
making some major adjustments.
"Pitt earlier in the year made error .
Per error after error. As the year goes NOTES: Penn State, 7-1 in the ECVL,
along, they get better and better running upended Pitt in two games at the Nittany
a high-risk offense." Lion Invitational in January and also
One advantage of using quick sets, Tait defeated its cross-state rival at Fitzge
said, is that the defense cannot quickly raid Field House three weeks ago, 15-4,
set up a double (two-man) block. But, 15-13, 16-18 and 15-9.
"But they weren't intimidated. Their scored four goals and assisted on anoth
goalkeeper played extremely well. And er, while Thompson set up two and
their defense played well, too," scored two herself. But the duo was quiet
What their defense played was a zone, in the second half, Thompson only get
one which Rattray said she figures the ting an assist.
Lady Lions will see plenty of in the "They 'played tighter on me in the
future. second half," Thompson said. "I was
"Unfortunately, I think we will see it a setting her (Finn) up in front in the first
lot," she said. "We're a fast team and a
passing team, and that's how you beat half, and they tried to force me outside or
behind."
that style of play. It's a shame, because
You lose some of the finesse that you have Defensively, the Lady Lions could have
_when you play man-to-man." taken the afternoon off, as the Rockets
Zone or not, the Rockets joined the list managed only 13 shots on goal. But they
of teams that couldn't stop the Lady Lion did beat Alisa Logan three times with low
duo of Thompson and Candy Finn. Finn shots, including one with 21 seconds left.
Defense not that lax,
just cold and untested
By 808 GROVE tough for the pair as was concentrating
Daily Collegian Sports Writer on the game.
It's like the difference between being "You should be able to (concentrate),
sent to battle on the front line and being but it's difficult sometimes," Ticknor
assigned to wash the general's car and said. "We played better when they came
having to drive it to the' front once a at us."
week. Which was not too often the Lady
Slippery Rock women's lacrosse goalie Rockets managed just 13 shots on the
Debbie Talbot was called to the front Penn State goal.
yesterday afternoon at Lady Lion Field, By the time Slippery Rock's Janice
where she spent considerable time and Wright scored her team's only goal of the
energy dodging 66 exploding shells in the second half with just 21 seconds left, it
guise of Lady Lion shots. was evident the Lady Lions' concentra-
Penn State women's lacrosse goalie tion was off a bit.
Alisa Logan and defenseman Sandy Tick- "Not one of their goals should have
nor, on the other hand, spent most of the gone in," Rattray said. "That last goal
day behind the wheel of Lady Lion coach was a lack of concentration that occurred
Gillian Rattray's national championship at the end of a game that wasn't exciting
express, witnessing the battle. • I saw it coming."
Though the three were on the field the Logan agreed with her coach.
entire game, Logan and Ticknor spent "The result of all that standing around
more time watching Penn State's 10-3 was three bad goals," she said. "They
victory than playing in it, thanks to the came when I stopped concentrating.
Lady Lions' ability to control the ball. "But when you play on this team,
Neither were really excited about the (standing around) is something you ex
game, the majority of which was played pect."
in Slippery Rock's half of the field. Especially when the Lady Lions play
"I dislike a game like that," Ticknor Slippery Rock, Rattray said.
said. "At times, I was just hoping I'd get "It's tough to get excited for a game
a chance to run I was cold." like this it's not helping our lacrosse
Indeed, keeping warm was probably as program to play a game like this."
NCAA, I don't want to weaken our position. That's
not fair to the athletes.
"Someone said to me, 'What will you do if all
schools in field hockey go NCAA?' Well I'm not
going to kill my chances of good competition for a
team that we worked so hard to get to the top that
I'm going to stand out there for the principle of the
thing and say, 'OK. I'm AIAW. We have no one to
play but I'm AIAW.' It's a tough one."
Even though their coaches do not agree upon
the same championship structure, both Rattray
and Portland will be allowed to have their teams
compete in the championships of their choosing
next year, provided that the athletic department
agrees.
When the NCAA voted in January to admit
women into its governing structure for the first
time in its 75-year history, it gave coaches four
years to experiment with their individual sports
before their entire institution must make a com-
That composure and intensity will be a
must if Penn State hopes to win tonight.
If not, the Lions may soon be inquiring
about their own insurance policy.
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mitment. May 1 is , the determination date for next
year's AIAW championships.
After the four-year interim period, however,
an institution must decide whether it will go
completely AIAW, completely NCAA or combine
AIAW rules and regulations with a choice of going
to either AIAW or NCAA championships. The
latter option would give teams for which the
NCAA offers no championships an opportunity to
compete for postseason honors.
Volleyball coach Russell Rose, named to the
National Intercollegiate Athletic Association Di
vision I women's volleyball committee to help
develop NCAA championships for 1981, said he
sees the interim period as an opportunity for
coaches to weigh the costs and benefits of going
NCAA in their respective sports before making a
commitment.
"The thing is for each coach to figure out what
is best for his program in the future," he said,
Ahmet Ozcam (right) will lead the men's volleyball team when Penn State hosts Pittsburgh at 7 tonight in Rec Hall.
Penn State's Lynn Thompson (23) and Laurie Hoke (15) scuffle with Slippery Rock goalie Debbie Talbot for a loose ball
during the Lady Lions' 10-3 romp yesterday at Lady Lion Field.
. .
"and not try to make quick decisions. And I'm
looking at it from the standpoint where I think my
program may be at its best next season, so I feel
that right now I am interested in going NCAA.
"I train my athletes to be the top team in the
region, and if we achieve our goal and are the top
team in the region, there's a greater opportunity
to compete NCAA. That's based primarily on the
fact that the majority of the top teams are coming
from the West Coast in various sports, and most
schools in volleyball on the West Coast have gone
NCAA."
Gary Schwartz, coach of the cross country,
indoor and outdoor track teams, however, does
not find the NCAA as enticing as Rose. He is in a
similar situation as Rattray in that he favors the
AIAW, primarily because the NCAA is not offer
ing indoor track championships, but realizes he
may be forced to go NCAA-based on other institu
tions' decisions.
"It's a big disadvantage that they're (NCAA)
not offering indoor track championships,7:
Schwartz said, "because in thg part of the con*
try we are very much involved in indoor track. ~0
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"But I would say, from mY standpoint, n;',
talking with a lot of other coaches in my sport ; 4 „
that most of them are leaning toward the NCAA%
And we need to be concerned with 'where tliki
competition is going to go because we've got 4.
very good program."
Fencing coach Beth Alphin, who has guidesl,';
the defending national champion Lady Lions t&"
two national titles, is also siding with Rattray ark ,
Schwartz, but for yet different reasons.
"I am deeply concerned because the NCAt:,
puts little emphasis on non-revenue producing:
sports," Alphin said, "so in the sport itself it's
going to hurt us because I don't think the NCAA,
can handle two nationals in the sport of fencing',
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Tuesday, April 14 8
Conn saddened
by Louis death
• , I
PITTSBURGH (AP), Former
light heavyweight champion Billy.
Conn said he was saddened by his
visit nine days ago With I \ former $'
heavyweight champion' ; Joe Louis,
who died Sunday. . •
"I knew it mild be the lasE,tir-
`I knew it won. ie last, time 14
would see him," the Pittsburgh resi
dent said. "He understood you, but I
he couldn't speak. He was cobfined
to a bed and had a nurse there: It,
was sad," the 62-year-old fOrmer ,
fighter said.
Forty years ago, Conn met Louis
at the Polo Grounds in the first of
two unsuccessful challeng4 ; s for the
heayyweight title.
"I hurt him in the 12th \round,"
Conn recalled. "But I didn'tsten to '
the guys in my corner. 'You /an win:,
on points in three more roundO,' they
told me. 3 7
"But I wanted to knock hireout, /
and I made a mistake. Instead of y
trying to outbox him, I tried to
outslug him. He was too big add too ; 1
strong and he hit me with 'every-
thing, about 25 real good shots.?
"He knocked me down, and', the
referee stopped it," Conn said. The
referee should have let him kill file, I I
was that stupid." I ;
The two fought again in ) 1 , 446 at
Yankee Stadium. Louis won by a I
knockout in the eighth round.
"Joe was the best of all time. He'
was great," Conn said. "HO did 1
everything the right way, air he
didn't make many mistakes.
"Boxing didn't take its toll on Joe. ;
No one ever was around long enough
to hit him that often. Old age caught ;
him, that's all."
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Court, foes explode on netmen
By MARIA MARTINO
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The men's tennis team had one bang
up of a weekend at Kent State.
Besides having to play three difficult
teams, the Lions had to deal with an
explosion that destroyed one court and
could have killed two players.
"A Kent State player was playing
against a man from Miami," Lion coach
Holmes Cathrall said, "when we heard
this terrific explosion. It was one heck of
a boom. A manhole cover was covered
with the tennis court material when
suddenly it just blew a big hole in the
court.
"It was unbelievable. It blew up three
or four pieces of court that were 15 or 20
feet in diameter. They called in the
emergency crew, but the boys who were
playing were lucky.
"They were changing sides and tow
eling down at the time of the explosion,"
he said. "If they had been on the court,
they could have been killed. It shook
everyone up."
An electrical overload supposedly
caused the accident, Cathrall said.
% The explosion wasn't the only thing
that shook the Lions up. Once again they
couldn't overcome their aversion to play
ibg on the road, as they lost two of three
Matches, beating only their host, Kent
;
"Our !milli problem," Penn State's
Tom 13ckhd.rd said, "is that we can't
seem tojwin i the close matches."
Kalarnazoo, which has reigned as
Michigan state champions from 1970-1974
and 1976-1980, slipped by the Lions 5-4 in a
match that could have gone either way.
"For our loss to Kalamazoo, I have to
Lijame myself partly," Cathrall said,
'fbecauie I replaced Jeff Factor in the
lineup with Don Lowry. A lineup change
can bei confusing to the other players
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Lowry lost to Kalamazoo's Dave Hige
don in singles competition and then
paired with Bill Schillings in doubles to
lose to the team of Chris Burns and Mike
Riley.
Burns, last year's NCAA Division 111
champion, also beat Schillings in singles
action 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
"It was the same story against Miami
of Ohio, except they were a little tough
er," Beckhard said, "But if we had
played Miami at home, we would have
won. We start losing confidence when
we're away."
Miami, which has won the Mid-Ameri
can Conference championship every
year since 1974, blew out the Lions 6 1 / 2 -
2 1 / 2 . Lion Jeff Factor split sets with
Lady Lions record
By DEAN LONGO
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
The women's tennis team went to the University of
Maryland this weekend with hdpes of coming home with a
strong regional victory. Those hopes were dashed, however, as
Maryland won, 7-2.
The Lady Lions could only salvage one singles victory over
the Lady Terps when freshman Zenia Matkiwsky beat
Maryland's Davis 6-1, 6-0 and one doubles win as Carole Daniels
and Anne Beasley won 6-4, 6-2. Although Penn State did not fare
well score-wise, Lady Lion coach Candy Royer said she felt the
team played well.
"We didn't play badly," Royer said. "We just didn't adjust
to the indoor conditions as well as we should have.
"We have the potential to be a great team. This is the kind of
match we need to adjust to and win if we want td be that great
team."
The team's greatest problem came with the no-advantage
scoring system. Penn State lost a majority of the "sudden
death" points it needed to win. The no-ad system awards the
victory to the winner of a single point after a tie has been
Miami's Steve Issleib 6-7, 7-5, 6-1 to
account for the 1 / 1 2. points.
Kent State then fell to Penn State 7-1 in
the only Lion victory of the long, windy
weekend.
"The top two players in Kent State's
lineup are pretty good," Beckhard said,
"but the bottom half is kind of weak. The
other teams were pretty solid, though."
The Lions, who have had trouble play
ing outdoors, were rained out after three
quarters of the Miami match and were
forced to finish inside. Immediately after
the Miami match, they played Kent State
in what proved to be a very quick match.
"Our doubles are really getting bad
right now," Beckhard said. "Coach
thinks we're not being aggressive
enough, that we're letting them make all
the plays. That could be true. But Bill
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Co-captain Carole Zajac agreed with Royer.
"We didn't adjust to the situation as well as they did," Zajac
said. "They played better than we did that day. We did not think
they would be that good, but they were a lot tougher than we
expected. We made too many errors at the wrong time."
Penn State's Anne Beasley, a transfer from Maryland, said
she thought Maryland would be as tough as it was because of its
new committment in the women's program.
"The past couple of years they hadn't recruited," Beasley
said. "This year they got five new recruits nobody has seen.
Any time you can do that and they are good, they are going to
give you trouble.
Beasley also said the team was playing on a surface that it
was not used to, but added that the surface really didn't make
that much difference. She said that the Lady' Terps had to
adjust just as much as Penn State and it should not have made
such an impact on the outcome of the match.
"The match showed us that we have a lot of work to do in
order to do well at regionals," Beasley said. "We'll have to
come back against them in order to do well at regionals."
(Pilardi, his doubles partner) and I were
getting aggressive in the second match,
and we played really well."
Because the Miami match lasted so
long and Schillings needed until 10:30
p.m. to beat Kent State's Tony Bebo in
three sets, the Lions skipped the No.l
doubles competition against Kent State,
winning both N 0.2 and N 0.3 doubles.
"I kept those guys working hard,"
Cathrall said. "It was a very disappoint
ing weekend:"
The Lions will again take their game
on the road, if it doesn't rain, at 3 p.m.
today to meet Bucknell.
"They're not a perennial powerhouse,"
Cathrall said, "but they're a good team.
They're just in the Mid-Atlantic Confer
ence and Bloomsburg's won that title the
past few years."
loss
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Lions' Coles out
with broken bone
A broken bone has ended the The first-place finish enabled the
spring drills of Penn State tailback club to be the reserve (second)
Joel Coles. championship school of the 22 Re-
Coles, a junior from Pittsburgh, gion 5 (Maryland, Delaware, New
said he suffered a fracture to the Jersey and Pennsylvania) teams.
fifth metatarsal of his left foot dur- Centenary, which placed third at
ing drills last Wednesday and will be Ga i ther s burgh, won the
sidelined for four to six weeks. A championship. Penn State also had
cast was not necessary, he said. an individual champion as Clark
was the high point champion west
• ern rider in the region.
Sports briefs The club will host its own meet
and the final International Horse
Show Association meet of the season
this Saturday.
Coles was third on the team in
rushing last year with 406 yards on Basketball recruits
75. carries, including a team-high 151
yards, against North Carolina State. Tom McCluskey, a 6-7 sophomore
He is listed second at tailback on the forward from Saddleback Commu
spring depth chart behind junior pity College in California, has signed
Curt Warner. a national letter of intent to play
with the men's basketball team.
Equestrian wins McCluskey, who averaged 17
points this past season at Sad-
The equestrian club had six indi- dleback, will have two years of eligi
vidual championships to capture bility remaining. He is a former
high point college honors at a meet teammate of Kevin Magee, the sec
of 18 schools hosted by Maryland at ond-leading scorer in the country
Gaithersburgh, Md., over the week- last season from the University of
end. California-Irvine.
Penn State riders capturing first McCluskey is coach Dick Harter's
place honors included: Lynne Bow- second signee thus far. Last week,
ers, open horsmanship over fences; Hart& landed a prospective point
Tammy Clark, advance stock seat guard in 6-1 Dwight Gibson of Union
equitation; Collene Hosey and Sara dale, N.Y.
Shute, open horsemanship on the Gibson, who had narrowed his
flat; Renee Nodine, novice horse- choices to Penn State and Syracuse,
manship on the flat; and Cathy averaged 22 points and eight assists
Riemer, beginner stock seat equita- a game last season for Uniondale
tion. High School.
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