Quality field to bid for AIAW lax title
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series
previewing the 1981 Association for Intercolle
giate Athletics for Women national lacrosse
championships.
By JEFF SCHULER
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Take eight women's lacrosse teams with a
, combined record of 91-22-1, that are all ranked in
the Top 10 in the country, and add four players
,who have scored more than 50 goals this year.
-And what do you get? .
"A very strong field, indeed," said Penn State
-.coach Gillian Rattray of the first Association for
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Division I
national championships,'which will be held start
ing tomorrow at Jeffrey Field.
The Lady Lions, winners of last three United
States Women's Lacrosse Association Division I
;championships, enter tomorrow's quarterfinal
matchup with Maryland as the tourney favorite.
'But they will by no means have an easy time
winning their fourth straight national title.
"This is going to be a really tough tourna
ment," Rattray said. "That's evident by us play
ing Maryland a team we beat (in the title
,game) for the last two championships in the
first round.
"We may have a very difficult bracket. If we
beat Maryland, we would then have to play the
winner of the Harvard-James Madison game just
to get to the finals."
Harvard, the Northeastern champion which is
Islanders 'frusttate..North-Stars
By BARRY WILNER
AP Sports. Writer
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) The
New York Islanders got shorthanded
goals from Bryan Trottier and And
ers Kallur, setting an NHL playoff
record for scoring at a manpoiver
disadvantage, and blitzed the Min
nesota North Stars 6-3 last-night in
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals.
The defending champion Islanders
thoroughly frustrated the young
North Stars, especially when Minnl
sota held a manpower advantage.
Trottier who has scored at least
one point in 21 striight ..01iyoff
games, including 14 this year.
scored New York's eighth short
handed tally of the postseason at
14:38 of the opening period to break
the mark the Islanders set last year.
Bob Bourne was caught spearing
Minnesota defenseman Brad Max
well, and referee Andy Van Helle-
Mond handed him a five-minute
major. Minnesota was unable to
penetrate the Islanders zone, and
rookie Billy Carroll broke loose on
left wing before feeding Trottier for
a short tap past Minnesota goalie
Gilles Meloche.
Forty-seven seconds later, Kallur
got his second goal of the night.
Trottier took the puck from North
Stars defenseman Goodie Roberts
and fed Kallur for a short backhand
shot.
Kallur, a speedy wing from Swe
den who missed last year's playoffs
with a separated shoulder, opened
the scoring with a defection of Dave
Langevin's long slap shot 2:54 into
the game.
Carroll made it 4-0 at 9:58 of the
second session, knocking in the re
bound of Duane Sutter's shot.
Kent-Erik Andersson scored Min
nesota's first goal at 13:04 of the
Celtics get fast break in gear,
nt past Rockets, 109-80
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By ALEX SACHARE
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON (AP) Robert Parish and
Cedric Maxwell led a furious ,first-quar
ter Boston burst as the Celtics got their
running game going early and breezed to
a 109-80• victory over the Houston Rockets
last night to take a 3-2 lead in the NBA
championship series.
The Celtics will try to wrap up their
14th NBA title in Houston tomorrow
night. If the Rockets win that one, the
best-of-seven playoff finals would be de
cided here Sunday afternoon.
Boston's running game had been close
ly checked by the Rockets in the first four
games of the series. But midway through
the first quarter of Game 5, the Celtics
finally got their fast break in high gear
and raced away from Houston with a
dazzling 19-1 surge.
Larry Bird started it off by hitting a 12-
foot jumper that gave Boston a 15-14 lead
with 6:02 left in the first period.
Nate Archibald then sank a 16-foot
jumper, and Maxwell scored on a spin
ning layup before Houston center Moses
Malone sank a free throw.
Bird set up Chris Ford for a fastbreak
layup, and then Parish, the Celtics' 7-foot
center, took over. He scored eight con
secutive points and blocked a shot by
Houston's Bill Willoughby to set up a.
three-point play by Maxwell.
ranked third nationally, is the only unbeaten team
in the tournament at 17-0. The Crimson compiled
a 6-0 record against Top 10 teams, including road
wins over N 0.2 Ursinus (10-9), N 0.4 Temple (12-5)
and No.B Penn (7-6). Then they won the Northeast
title with wins over N 0.9 Rhode Island (12-2) and
N 0.6 Massachusetts (9-4).
Harvard, which lost to Penn State in the
quarterfinals last year, also boast. 4 two of the top
four scorers in the country in sophomore Fances
ca Den Hartog and Mauren Finn.
Den Hartog tallied a school-record 77 goals (4.5
per game) and 26 assists and is averaging six
points per game, second in thenation to the Lady
Lions' Candy Finn. Mauren Finn has 59 goals and
90 points, good for fourth in the country. Altogeth
er, the Crimson has outscored its opponents 197-67
this season.
"Harvard is a darkhorse as far as we're
concerned," Rattray said. "They did well on their
Eastern tour earlier this year, and we know
they're a force to be reckoned with".
James Madison, the Southern champion
ranked seventh, is coming off of its best season
ever at 11-2. Both of the losses were to the
Dutchess' potential second-round opponents,
Penn State (18-8) and Maryland (16-5). Since the
loss to Maryland, James Madison has run off
seven wins in a row, including a 9-8 win over
William & Mary in the Virginia regional
championship.
The Duchesses have three players with 20 or
Minnesota North Star goalie Gilles Meloche turns back a shot by New York Islander Bob Nystro‘no23) in the first period of
last night's opening game of the Stanley Cup finals as the Islanders skated to a 6-3 victory in Uniondale, N.Y..
second period, sending his own re
bound past Islanders' goalie •Billy
Smith.
Wayne Merrick added two third
period goals for the Islanders, while
Steve Payne and Dino Ciccarelli
connected for the North Stars. Mer
rick made it 5-1 only 58 seconds into
the third period, pouncing on the
puck after it took a flukey bounce off
That gave Boston a 32-15 lead with 1:23
left in the opening period.
The Celtics, who were‘ahead 34-19 after
the first quarter, widened their advan
tage to 59-37 at halftime. Maxwell had 16
points in the first half and Parish 14,
while Malone scored 13 for the Rockets.
Houston had just one field goal in the
last 7:40 of the second quarter and was
held without a basket for the first 4:26 of
the third period, by which time Boston
held a 69-42 advantage.
The Celtics biggest lead after that was
29 pdints, and Houston came no closer
than 22 points in the fourth quarter.
Maxwell led the Celtics with 28 points,
his career playoff high. Parish finished
with 18, while Malone led the Rockets
with 20.
Calvin Murphy, Houston's explosive
reserve guard, suffered an injured left
shoulder late in the second quarter and
sat out the second half.
Houston's futility was exemplified by
several plays during the third quarter.
Robert Reid missed a stuff shot; Wil
loughby lost control of the dribble while
ahead of the field; Willoughby later
missed a dunk attempt, and reserve
Allen Leavell shot the ball over the
backboard while driving toward the bas
ket.
None of those plays really mattered in
the outcome, which was decided by Bos-
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the end boards and tapping it past
Meloche.
Merrick's other goal was a replay
of Kallur's first tally as he deflected
another Langevin shot through Me
loche.
Payne's power-play goal tied him
with the Islanders' Mike Bossy for
the playoff lead with 13 goals.
ton's 19-1 burst in the first quarter.
Neither team played particularly well
in the second half, but the Celtics didn't
have to, and the Rockets were too far
back for it to make any difference.
Bird, who led the Celtics with .a 21.2
scoring average during the regular sea
son but had been held to just 53 points in
the first four games of this series, scored
just 12 points.
But the Celtics didn't need his scoring,
and his rebounding and passing were key
factors in Boston's successful running
game.
The game was a physical one, as ex
pected, but referees Earl Strom and Paul
Mihalak never let it get out of control.
Strom was working his 200th,playoff
game, the most among active NBA'refer
ees.
Boston beat Houston by a lopsided 94-71
score in Game 3, only to have the Rockets
bounce back to tie the series with a 91-86
victory Sunday.
When the series resumes tomorrow
night in Houston, it will be up to the
Rockets to try and bounce back once
again.
If they don't, the Celtics will succeed
the Los Angeles Lakers as NBA cham
pions for their first title since 1976, end
ing the Rockets' Cinderella hopes for
their first championship ever.
more goals goals Sue Peacock (28), Cara
Eisenberg (24) and Sally Cramer (22) and have
outscored opponents 132-88 this year.
In the lower bracket, N 0.4 Temple plays N 0.6
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The defeat was the first for the
surprising North Stars in a series
opener in these playoffs.
After finishing ninth in the regular
season —the Islanders were first
overall —the North Stars won on the
road in the first games of their
matchups with Boston, Buffalo and
Calgary.
Houston Rockets' center Moses Malone is sandwiched by Boston's Larry Bird (left) and Robert Parrish in a battle for a
rebound as the Celtics rolled to a 109-80 victory last night at the Boston Garden.
UMads, and N 0.9 Rhode Island plays N 0.2 Ursi
nus.
Temple, which had to beat No.B Penn, 8-7, for
an invitation to the playoffs, finished third at the
Mid-Atlantic regional tournament and has a 10-6
record. The Owls were pounded by Penn State in .
regular season play (17-4) but dropped a cloSe 5-4
overtime decision to the Lady Lions in the region
al tournament.
Seniors Kathie Daley (43 goals, 20 assists) and
Mindy Jacobs • (41 goals, 19 assists) key the
offense, but a major reason for the Owls success
has been a defense that has .allowed only three
opponents to score in double-figures (Harvard;
and Ursinus, 12, and Penn State, 17).
Massachusetts, 8-3-1 this season and national
runners-up to Penn State in 1979, lost to Harvard
9-4 in the Northeast championship but earlier
dropped a close 6-5 decison to the Crimson. Junior
Margie Anderson leads the team with 40 goals. _
Rhode Island beat Yale 6-5 in overtime in the
Northeastern consolations after the Elis s had
beaten the WRams 4-2 in the'regular season. The
WRams are 9-4 this year, with losses to Harvard
(13-3 and 12-2), UMass (8-7) and Yale. Junior
Mary Jane Cole leads the WRam attack with 29
goals. '
The WRams will have their hands full with
Ursinus, ranked second nationally and the only
team to beat the Lady. Lions this year 11-10 in
the season finale. But Penn State reversed that
outcome with a 15-9 win in the Mid-Atlantic
Niekro two-hits Pirates;
A's suffer first road loss
ATLANTA (AP) Veteran knuckleballer Phil Niekro said last night, "I
really didn't know I could pitch until I warmed up."
He did pitch, however, and recorded the 40th shutout and 235th victory of his
major league career. The 42-year-old veteran hurled a two-hitter as the Atlanta ,
Braves. downed the Pittsburgh Pirates for the 'llth consecutive time, 2-0.
Niekro's concern about being able to pitch stemmed from an a6cident at his
home Saturday when he was mowing his lawn. Niekro touched the muffler on his
power lawnmower with the index finger of his right hand.
"It did not affect my knuckleball, but the blister touched the ball on my
fastball," Niekro said. "I really didn't know hoW long I could go before it broke open.
But it never did."
Niekro said he threw about 90 percent knuckleballs for his sixth consecutive
victory over the Pirates. '
"I was just fortunate enough to get the knuckleball over," he said, "and when
Ido that, I can get them to swing at some bad pitches, and they did.'!: E•
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.It,came in the fifth inning when Dale Murphy was trapped between third and
home in a rundown and backed onto the edge of the infield grass to avoid a tag by
Pittsburgh catcher Tony Pena.
Plate umpire Steve Fields gave a safe ruling on the missed tag, and Murphy
raced to the plate to break the scoreless tie.
Murphy opened the inning with a double off Pittsburgh's Eddie Solomon, 2-2,
and took third when Glenn Hubbard beat out a bunt toward third. Mu6hy moved
toward the plate on a grounder by Bruce Benedict.
Atlanta added a run in the sixth when Claudell Washington singled and then
raced from first to third on a sacrifice by Biff Pocoroba. Washington scared on a wild
pitch by Solomon.
Niekro, 2-1, never allowed a runner past second base in pitching his 40th
career shutout. He walked three, struck out five and yielded only singles to Phil
Garner in the second and Pena in the fifth.
The Yankees made the most of their five hits, four of them for extra bases,
including a home run by Bobby Murcer, and tagged Oakland with its first road loss of
the season last night in New York.
Loser Rick Langford, 4-3, surrendered two hits in the fourth inning. Murcer
opened the inning by walloping Langford's first pitch into the upper deck in right field ,
for his second home run of the season.
Langford then walked Dave Winfield. An infield out and a fly ball advanced
Winfield to third, and Graig Nettles drilled a single, his first hit of the season with a
runner in scoring position, on a 3-0 pitch.
Langford did not allow another hit until the eighth when the YinkeeS scored
two more runs 'on Johnny Oates' double, Willie Randolph'g, triple and a'double by
Winfield that hit the base of the wall in left-center on the fly at the 430-foot sign.
New York starter Ron Guidry;,4-2, spaced six hits and blanked the A's until
the eighth, when they scored on Dave McKay's leadoff double and a one-out single by
Rickey Henderson.
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championship. Ursinus' other tWo;losses were to
Harvard (10-9) and Maryland (7-2).
The Bears (14-3) feature high-scoting Sue
Morley (60 goals third in the ountiy) and
Margaret Tomlinson (49 goals, 17 a sists).
/ "This is probably the strongest field of the past
four years," said Lady Lion co-c4ptain Lynn
? Thompson, a veteran of three iyitional
championships. "The Northeast and t e South are
both improving, and all four teams from this
region are strong."
The power is still in the Mid-Atla tic region
with Penn State, Ursinus and Maryland. And not'
so coincidentally, the favorites the Ildy Lions
and Ursinbs are from that region.
"It would probafily be an upset if someone'
from this' region doesn't win," Lady Liotf , Sandy
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Ticknor said. "We've been hearing that Harvard ,
is real tough, but we haven't seen them."
Division II and 111 will also crown champions
this' weekend, with all the action on Lady',Lion!
, Top-seeded Lehigh (10-4), Delawak. (10-2),
Loyola (11-3), Richmond (13-5), Colgate (11-1),
Plymouth State (9-1), . Ithaca (8-1) and Boston ,
College (8-6) are the eight entries in the Division
H race.
The Division 111 champion will come from top-,
seeded. Trenton State (9-4-1), Franklin & Marshall'
(9-4), Gettysburg (6-2), St Lawrence (8-1), Long-:
wood (9-3-1), Wheaton (8-3), Bridgewater (7-5-2):
or Denison (6-4). .
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By DEAN LONGO
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
When the women's tennis team takes to the
court against Dartmouth to begin playing for the
EAIAW crown at 9 a.m. today at Yale, it will be
taking part in one of the strongest five=day tourna
ments in the country.
Perennial Ivy League powerhouses Princeton
and Yale will top the competition that will also
include Pennsylvania and Syracuse. Both Yale
and the Lady Orange were able to beat the third
seeded Lady Lions during the season.
"We didn't play well when we were up (against
Yale)," Penn State coach Candy Royer said.
"The team thought (Yale) was so strong we would
get blown away. We went out there as the under
dogs, and we played down to that level of expecta
tion.
"Now we are concentrating and playing more
confidently when we're ahead. I hope we can
continue to do that at regionals."
The six teams will be competing for only one
berth instead of the usual two the region has for
nationals. The extra berths have been given to the
Far West regions this year so they can get their
strong representation into the nationals.
"It's going to make it tougher to get to nation
als this year," Penn State's seventh-seeded sin
gles player Cherie Dow said. "We're going to
have to be tougher. We can't worry about (the
number of berths). We are going to have to go out
and do our best."
The tournament is composed of two catego
ries: the , team championship in which. Pend
State finished second to Princeton last year to
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for one berth to nationals
earn its first trip ever to nationals and the
individual championships.
Penn State qualified three individuals for
nationals last year. In singles, Dow placed sec
ond, and Carol Daniels was sixth. And in doubles,
the freshman team of Sue Whiteside and 'Dow
finished second.
"(Dow and Daniels) have a shot at being No.l
or N 0.2 in the region," Royer said. "If they play
well, they have the capabilities to be the top
players in the region."
Also This year, the number of individual berths
from the region to the AIAWs has been reduced
from six to two singles slots. The Lady Lions'
second-seeded doubles team of Daniels Anne
Beasley and third-seeded team of Whiteside
Dow will be fighting for the one doubles place.
"This is what I've been waiting for all year,"
Daniels said. "I'm going to play each match as
intense as I can. If I play as best I can, I'm going
to win.
"Since I played so much singles in Middle
-States, it took away from my doubles; I don't feel
as strong in my doubles. But I'm confident we'll
do well. Anne (Beasley) and I haven't lost a
match since last fall."
Although its confidence has been running high,
the team's health has been at a low since playing
Michigan last week. Daniels, Whiteside and N 0.6
singles player Zenia Matkiwsky have been nurs
ing colds all week; Liz Campbell, filling in for the
injured Donna Dißenzo at N 0.3 doubles, pulled a
ham String; and Whiteside sprained her ankle
during practice Monday.
Neither Campbell's nor Whiteside's injuries
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are serious, and Royer said both should be ab
play.
Royer said Penn State should finish among the
top three in the region, along with Princeton and
Yale. Earlier in the year, Yale beat Princeton 6-3,
but the Lady Tigers are still considered the top
team.
"Princeton is always the team to beat," Beas
ley said. "Princeton is the better team. I feel they
are stronger even though they lost."
The Lady Lions will rely on their strong suit
the doubles teams to upset the higher-seeded
teams in the competition. Royer will use her usual
lineup of Daniels-Beasley at first doubles, White
side-Dow at second doubles, and Matkiwsky-
Campbell at third doubles.
"We will be very tough in doubles," Dow said,
"They're not going to be able to beat us in
doubles."
MATCH POINTS Maryland, a team that con
sistently gives the Lady Lions trouble, will not be
participating because its coach, Sylvia Feldman,
reportedly does not believe her team has a chance
to win the tournament. . .The winner of the Penn
State-Dartmouth matchup plays top-seeded
Princeton tomorrow. . .Valentina Garcia quit the
team for personal reasons and will be transfer
ring to Georgetown next year.
Matkiwsky, a freshman, is the only Penn State
player who has not played in the regional tourna
ment before. . . The team championships are
today and tommorrow, and the individual
championships are Friday through Sunday.