sports Lions manage to burn Bonnies By TONY SMITH Collegian Sports Writer At one point, the men's basketball team appeared on its way to a relatively easy victory over Atlan tic 10 opponent St. Bonaventure Saturday afternoon. With 4:56 re maining in the game, the Lions were ahead of the Bonnies by 11 points (63-52). But the complexion of the game changed quickly. Thirty-nine seconds later, Penn State was only ahead by five points (63-58), and it had only taken two shots by the Bonnies to narrow the gap. While the Lions (9-4 overall, 3-0 in conference play) were able to pull out a 71-67 victory, the significance of the Atlantic 10's three-point shot became evident to the 3,004 fans in Rec Hall, riot to mention the coaches and players involved. And the same three-point shot could be a factor when the Lions face another Atlantic 10 opponent,. Duquesne, at 8 tonight in the Pitts burgh Civic Arena. Penn State Head Coach Dick Harter expressed displeasure with the 19-foot, 9-inch distance for the conference's three-point shot. "I think the three-point shot is ridiculous," Harter said. "I think we're in a little too close with it. Weren't a couple of them pretty close? And then the others were way downtown; you deserve those. I think (if it were) out another foot and-a-half, it would be really good." It was the first time this season that St. Bonaventure (7-4 overall, 0- 1 in conference play) has played with three-point rules, and the Bon flies responded by hitting five of eight three-point shots in the second half (they took no three-point shots in the first half). Four of these baskets were made in the last five minutes of the game. The reasoning behind taking all of those 20 and 25-footers'in the second half was obvious the Bonnies were in danger of losing big, and trailed by as many as 15 points at some stages. Nevertheless, St. Bonaventure Head Coach .Thn O'Brien was not entirely satisfied with the way his team utilized the three-point shot, especially toward the end of the game, when Penn State had only a four-point lead, 67-63. "We became impatient," O'Brien said. "You've heard the expression, 'lf you live by the sword, you die by it.' And I thought that there was about 1:20, 1:30 to go; we're back in the game, it's a four-point game you don't need to be taking three ady hoopsters shine in Connecticut victory By GREG LODER Collegian Sports Writer After the women's basketball team destroyed the University of Connecticut 98-58 Saturday night at Rec Hall, Penn State Head Coach Rene Portland got her first good night of sleep in a long time. No, it wasn't that the Lady Lions broke any massive losing streak against Connecticut to allow Port land to sleep easy Saturday evening. Penn State had been winning. The only problem was that after each win, Portland's had more and more nightmares. In the Lady Lions' last five games, which included one loss, each victo ry was unimpressive. Penn State often looked lackluster even in winning. And after last year's best-ever season, accompanied by the fact that Portland was able to return almost her whole starting lineup this year with great expectations, there was reason for the Lady Lions' Coach to toss and turn every night. But the win on Saturday night against the Lady Huskies was the best sleeping pill anyone could have given Portland. The Lady Lions may have put together their best 90 min utes of the season, and found it very hard to do anything wrong against a Connecticut team which had one of the biggest front lines Penn State may see all season. "I am relieved," Portland said after the game. "It was mind bog gling. We couldn't play the game we were playing before. "You could understand why I had trouble sleeping at night and had a tough time coming into the office." After making numerous unsuc cessful adjustments in the last five games, Portland may have finally r pinpointed what was going wrong. "I think the problem was every ! one , s attitude," she said. "The play , ers were not believing in themselves and we couldn't be positive all the time. Penn State's Dwight Gibson (11), with backup from teammate Rich Fetter (44), charges past St. Bonaventure defenders In Saturday's game at Rec Hall. The Lions surpassed the Bonnies, 71.67. • pointers. I thought we took a couple of bad attempts." Maybe so. But in fact, it was a three-point shot by 6-2 guard Mark Jones which had narrowed a five point lead (65-60) to two (65-63) with 1:51 remaining. "(The three-point shots) helped us," O'Brien said. "But if you're going to count on that to win games I'm not sure that's what the answer is." St. Bonaventure was led by 6-4 guard/forward Mike Sheehey, who came off the bench to score 21 points, nine of which werg on three point shots. Sheehey scored on three of his five three-point attempts. Jones, a 1982 Associated Press honorable mention All-American, had 15 points, and was one-of-two on three-pointers. Freshman Alex Agudio had 15 points to lead the Lions, while Mike Lang and David Griffin had 13 points and Rich Fetter added 12. Craig Collins (eight points) took the only three-point shots for the Lions and hit both of them. In contrast to Harter, Lang said he was satisfied with the distance of the three-point shot in the Atlantic "We had to reevauluate the coach ing staff and we may have expected too much too soon." Portland even made changes in her practices to solve her insomnia and the team's problems. "I think the players were getting drilled out in practice," Portland said, "so we began to scrimmage almost 80 percent of the practices, which 'really benefited the younger kids." But even though the younger kids Lady cager leaders fulfill role By JOHN SEVERANCE Collegian Sports Writer After some early season attitude problems and some lackadaisical play, the four seniors on the women's basketball team are finally accepting their roles as the leaders of the Lady Lions. . These roles were evident Saturday night at Rec Hall as the seniors led Penn State to an easy 98-58 romp over Connecticut. First there was center Cheryl Ellison, who for the past couple games has carried the Lady Lions in scoring. Saturday night, she was at her usual best as she led a balanced Penn State attack with 17 points and she grabbed eight rebounds in only 26 minutes. "We've had some problems early on this year," Ellison said, "but I think we're gradually coming along. Tonight we should have gone in there and crushed them and we did." One thing that had to please Head Coach Rene Port land was the shooting of her senior forward Louise Leimkuhler. Leimkuhler was coming off a horrendous shooting night against Fairfield last Wednesday night, where she went two for 11 from the field. She also missed a couple of open layups. But Saturday night Leimkuhler showed her last year's shooting touch as she hit seven for 10 from the field and ended up with 16 points. Leimkuhler also helped out tremendously on defense as she helped Ellison, Kahadeejah Herbert, and Lor raine McGirt control the Lady Huskies' huge front line. "We knew they were tall and so we just worked on positioning ourselves for the rebounds," Leimkuhler said. -"Things are starting to come along and we are starting to play better as a team." Although senior point guard Annie Troyan only "I think it (19 feet 9 inches) is pretty good for college," Lang said. "It's a rarity when a team will make as many as they (the Bon nies) did tonight. They were big time shots for them to make, but if they had missed, they would have gotten blown out." One of these big-time shots was made with only three seconds left in the game. Just as fans were begin ning to leave Rec Hall, Sheehey's three-pointer cut a seemingly com manding 70-64 Penn State lead to 70- 67. A time out by St. Bonaventure with two seconds left kept many fans anxiously sitting in their seats, knowing that one more three-point er would send the game into over time. It was not to be. The Bonnies had to foul Lang after he caught the inbounds pass, and Lang hit a free throw to put the game out of reach. Penn State can up its conference record to 4-0 with a win over Du quesne tonight. The Dukes are 3-5 overall, but could pose a bigger problem than their record indi cates. may have been the one's benefiting, it was the seniors in the Connecticut game which helped Portland to sleep. Cheryl Ellison (17 points), Louise Leimkuhler (16 points), Carol Wal derman (16 points) and playmaking guard Annie Troyan took control of the game late in' the first half by getting the ball inside, then put the game away in the second half with full-court pressure which befuddled the Lady Huskies. scored four points Saturday night, she is the catalyst for the fastbreaking Lady Lions as Troyan was cred ited with eight assists. Earlier this season, the Lady Lions were having problems executing on offense and making the big play on defense. But Saturday night, the Lady Lions showed they still have the defense of last year. Led by Troyan's four steals, the Lady Lions were credited with 16 steals and they forced an amazing 38 turnovers. Finally there was senior guard and All-American candidate Carol Walderman. Earlier this season she was burning opposing defenses for more than 20 points a game. Then teams starting playing special defenses on Walderman which really seemed to frustrate her. On Saturday night, the Lady Huskies did not play any of those special defenses and Walderman, burned Con necticut for 16 points. "Mentally this was our best game of the year and it was a total team effort," Walderman said. A total team effort is what Portland has been looking for all year. She has been worrying about her team and has been losing sleep over it. She has said over and over that this is the best team she's ever coached at Penn State. "I've been putting a lot of pressure on my seniors to get their act together," Portland said. " We've been such good friends over the years and I think the seniors felt that we were being too down on them. We've been trying to get everything out in the open. "So I think our problem all year has been attitude. After this game, I think we've cured a lot of our attitude problems." Portland and the rest of her pride of Lady Lions will try to further alleviate their problems when they travel to Syracuse to take on the tough Orangewomen tomorrow. While Duquesne has not beaten any big-name teams this year, it cannot be accused of playing a soft schedule. Its five losses include setbacks to Nevada-Las Vegas, Maryland and Kentucky in Decem ber. But the Dukes bounced back a week ago with an impressive 68-59 victory over Robert Morris, an Na tional Collegiate Athletic. Associa tion tournament team last year. Joey Myers, a 6-8 senior scored 19 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to lead Duquesne. "I think they (the [hikes) are really coming along," Harter said. "I think Jim Satalin is a superb coach, and they've - had a , week to get ready for us. It'll be absolutely as tough as this one." CAGER CORNER: Lang has now scored in double figures in 12 con secutive games . . . Brian Dean has not played in the Lions' last two games, largely for academic rea sons. Harter said he will not see action against Duquesne . . . In last year's meeting, the Lions beat the Dukes, 74-69. Walderman, Penn State's leading scorer averaging 14.8 points a game but is coming off a scoring slum, after the game said that although it may not have been the team's best performance of the year, one aspect of their play was the strongest all season. ( "It was the best game mentally all season," Walderman said. "We were all together and adjusted to their defense. One. of the problems Please see LADY LIONS, Page 13 Grapplers by strong By ANDRIJA SILICH Collegian Sports Writer In a match that was as frustrat ing for the 5,026 Rec Hall fans as it was for the Penn State wrestling team and coaching staff, the lowa State Cyclones defeated the Lions 31-12 Friday night at Rec Hall. Coach Rich Lorenzo said a wres tling match is not just one sporting event, but instead consists of 10 individual battles. And when you wrestle against a team like lowa State, each one of those battles is like a national championship game. Although the team score was one-sided, many of the individual matches were so close they could have possibly gorie,either way. lowa State, suffering from inju ries in its 118 pound weight class, was forced to forfeit the first match and Penn State was out to an early 6-0 lead. With Scott Lynch out of the line up due to a torn cartilage in his rib cage, and his backup, Scott Webster, still suffering from head aches resulting from the blow to the head he received in the Mis souri match on Monday night, Lorenzo let Carl DeStefanis wres tle at 126. DeStefanis, Penn State's regu lar 118-pounder, was available to wrestle because of the Cyclones' forfeit at 118. Going into the match DeStefanis had a flawless 20-0-0. record. But his opponent Kevin Darkus, a junior from Erie, was the second-ranked 118-pounder in the country last year, and since moving up to the 126 pound weight class, owned a record of 16-1-0. In the early part of the match Darkus had control over DeStefa nis and held a 5-2 lead early in the second period. But DeStefanis started wrestling his type of quick, aggressive, go-get-'em type of of fense and took a 7-6 lead with one minute left in the match. In the last 20 seconds, however, Darkus had DeStefanis on his back. With two seconds remaining on the clock, and the score tied at 7-7, Darkus was awarded two points for a takedown and two back points and won the match 11- 7. It was to be just the beginning of a very frustrating night for Penn State, and Lorenzo knew how DeS tefanis must have felt. "For Carl, that match was like getting beat in overtime or double overtime of the national Lady Llon guard Annie Troyan (center) sinks a basket to register two points scored In Saturday's game against Connecticut at Rec Hall. Penn State bombarded the Lady Huskies with offense, crushing them 98.58. The Daily Collegian Monday, Jan. 10 grounded Cyclones championship match," Lorenzo said. "He was an underdog going into it, but still did an excellent job and almost beat him." One of the bright spots for Penn State was in the 134 pound match when senior Bill Marino jumped ' out to an early lead and eventually pinned lowa State's Stewart Car-. ter at 4:50 into the match. Carter owned an impressive 13-3 record before the match, but Marino wrestled one of his best matches ' ever and seemed to have little trouble enroute to the victory. Marino said he felt good in the match and that it was probably one of his best of the season. "He was good," Marino said, "and really strong. But that was one of my better matches." Marino said the key to the Cy clones' victory was that they slowed the Lions down and forced them •to wrestle their kind of match. "They were really good and aggressive," Marino said. "They were slowing us down, and keep ing us at bay. We were kind of slow on our feet in most of our matches." At 142 pounds Bob Bury lost another heartbreaker, 6-3, Cy clone Randy Conrad. . Bury was on the defensive most of the time, which probably cost him the match. Lorenzo said Bury was tough, but still not fully recovered from his injury. "(Bury) is still nqt where he was in early December," Lorenzo said. At 150 pounds Penn State's Eric Childs faced Nate Carr, a senior from Erie, and a two-time All- American with a 16-0-0 record this year. Carr slowed down the tempo of the match and Childs was un able to score any offensive points. As a result Carr won the match 12- 7. With Penn State holding on to a 12-9 lead, regular 150-pounder Chris Bevalacqua stepped into the 158 match and faced •off against lowa State's Murray Crews. Crews held a 7-6 lead going into the third period and with an offensive spurt at the end of the match pulled out a 17-8 victory. "I was pleased with Bev," Lo renzo said "(Crews) was just a little bigger and a' little stronger. But Bev didn't lose because he was laying back, he went right out there trying to win." Please see MATMEN, Page 11 Matmen frustrated with loss Continued from Page 10. Bevalacqua said the 8-pound weight difference was noticeable. "He was strong," Bevalacqua said, "and he kept good position. I just couldn't get under his arms." Perhaps the most frustrating match for Penn State came at 167 'said Lorenzo, when Eric Brugel lost to Jim Lord 9-5. • "He wrestled . Lord's match;" Lo renzo said. "He got frustrated and never got into his own type of match." Lorenzo said Brugel has been on a rollercoaster all year long and can imagine just how frustrating the loss ; was for him. "If he wasn't really giving 100 percent maybe I wouldn't feel as bad for him," Lorenzo said, "but he is one devoted young , man and he has done ; all the things necessary to be success ; ful." 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At 190 pounds Mike Mann (17-0-0) pinned Penn State's Steve Smith at 4:43, and lowa State was suddenly ahead 25-12. The match that was close at one time then looked like a rout. Wayne Cole finished fhe scoring for the Cyclones and ended the , frustra tion for Penn State by. pinning Birch Hall at the 2:47 mark of the first period. After the match, Lorenzo said that he felt the key to the Cyclone's victo ry was the fact that they slowed Penn State's wrestlers down and made them wrestle the lowa State type of match. "They controled us out there," Lo- ................ 1 renzo said. "To win you have to wrestle your own kind of match and we didn't do that too much." Lorenzo said the two teams have different styles. Penn State likes to go out aggressively and show a lot of movement, whereas the Cyclones try 'to grab hold of your wrists or hands right from the start and practice a controled type wrestling." Lorenzo said although the Lions fell into the lowa State game plan, he thought his wrestlers fought well. But the frustration and the disap pointment that the wrestlers them selves felt was obviously shared by Lorenzo. "I'd be lying to you if I said we're not frustrated," Lorenzo said. "We knew this would be a great opportuni ty, but we didn't want to just go out and wrestle them. We wanted to go out and upset them." Lion wrestler Steve Smith tries to takedown an lowa State opponent in a 190. pound match Friday night at Rec Hall. The Cyclones burled Penn State, 31.12. Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Studen 1 I XI I <Li I CI FREE DEVELOP * pay for pnnts only on color print film 135, 110, 126 only (must bring this coupon) u I 0 I Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Students Welcome Back Studeni The Year of the Lion! A colorful souvenir magazine of the Penn State . 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