sports Fazio, Panthers lament missed opportunities By CHRIS UNDSLEY Collegian Sports Writer After crushing Penn Stale 31-11 last year to conclude its season at 3-7-1, Pitt, with 41 letterman returning, had high expectations looking ahead to 1985. And after beating Purdue 31-30 to open their season, the Panthers ap peared to be on their way. But then came a tough 10-7 loss at the hands of Ohio State in Columbus, a 29-22 setback to Boston College in a game they led 22-21 late in the fourth quarter, and a 10-10 tie at West Vir ginia, games Pitt Head Coach Foge Fazio said his team needed to win to get rolling. “We thought we got off on the right foot against Purdue,” Fazio said. “But we had an opportunity to beat Ohio Stat,e and we didn’t, and we had an opportunity to beat Boston College and we didn't, and we tied West Virginia, and I think that says it in a nutshell. We needed to have gotten another win or two out of those first three or four games.” Problems for the Panthers were just beginning, however, as injuries, along with an inefficient kicking game and a lack of depth at tailback all played a role in keeping them down. The Panthers lost tailbacks A.B Cager squads prepare Gagers hoping new parts fit well ,# ' ■ ■-*( . .J " ri w : " ■&' jgf M\[ k ■ ... jr /rit?' J> &> i&U ■ (ks4^ ™%d ' * PPI Penn State’s Paul Murphy, left, guards teammate Bruce Blake during Saturday’s Blue-White Game at Rec Hall. Head Coach Bruce Parkhill hopes his young squad will steadily improve as it gains experience throughout the season. By CHRIS LODER Collegian Sports Writer The auto mechanic inspects the damage to the old DeSoto. The mechanic, with the name Parkhill emblazoned on his oily shirt, must order new parts for a .car that appears to be on its final mile. Due to old age, the car has run out of steam. A new shipment of parts has arrived, but they have never been tested. The mechanic bites his lip as he drills one into place. He hopes the car will run smoothly. New parts. That is what Men’s Basketball Coach Bruce Parkhill has to deal with this season. After finishing 8-19 and losing its leading scorer a year ago, the team must start over from scratch. With seven freshmen, three soph omores, no seniors and three walk ons on the squad, Parkhill faces an uphill battle. Still, the third-year coach is relying on his young squad to mature quickly. “Our young players are having a real positive effect on our pro gram,” Parkhill said recently. Leading the kiddie corps is fresh man Tom Hovasse, a 6-7 '/■> forward from Widefield, Colo. Hovasse was the Colorado Player of the Year last season and was an honorable mention candidate on the USA To day All-America team. Rounding out the pack are guards Brain Allen, 6-2 - native of Reston, Va., and Mike Collins, 6-3, from Leavenworth, Kan.; for wards Bruce Blake, a 6-5 forward from Easton, Md., and Ed Fogell, a 6-B*2 center from Hatboro, Pa. Fogell, however, may be out most of the season with a bad back he injured over the summer. Fogell was in a wheelchair behind one of the baskets in last Saturday’s Blue- White game. Collins and Allen played well last Saturday, when both led the White over the Blue in the annual Blue- White game. Collins scored 17 Brown and Eugene Napoleon, who quit the team in the middle of the season, and that, along with the inju ries, forced Fazio to go with many inexperienced players. “We just had one tailback (Charles Gladman) the last two games,” Fazio said, “and especially when we lost to Navy and Syracuse, we just weren’t a very healthy football team. We played a lot of young people, and that can explain it. The teams that stay healthy and get some momentum are going to win games for you, and unfortunately for us we didn’t have that opportunity.” For the players, the team’s 5-4-1 record going into Saturday night's matchup with the Lions has been hard to accept. Before last year, the Panthers had not lost more than three games in a season since their 8-4 mark in 1978, and defensive tackle Bob Buczkowski said the way Pitt has lost has been especially hard to take. “It’s come down to a matter of a few points here and there between the first seven games and we could have been undefeated,” Buczkowski said. “It’s really frustrating to look back on it. I think it was a matter of some bad breaks happening to us. “We won the first game of the year, then we went to Ohio State and we lost by three points, and I really felt that points while Allen dished out a game-high six assists. “Of course we have a lot of improving to do, and one of the reasons is because we are so young. All the freshmen have to keep picking stuff up and get used to playing college basketball,” Col lins said. In addition, the Lions have added three walk-ons to the club. They are: 6-4 forward Wes Jones, 6-1 guard Paul Madison and 6-0 guard Christian Appleman. Penn State returns seven letter winners from last year’s squad. They include tri-captains Carl Ch rabascz, who averaged 9.1 points and 5.2 rebounds last season; Tony Ward, the top assist man for the Lions with 106; and Kip DeWitt, who played sparingly in 1984-85. Centers Jim Newcomer and Bill Pollock, forward Mike Peapos and guard Paul Murphy round out the Lions. The Lions will change course this season and run more than they have in recent seasons. Instead of a half-court offense, Parkhill hopes to install the transition game. Ward, who will quarterback the Lion attack, said the running style is more to his liking. “I’m looking forward to it, that’s really my game,” Ward said. “I’m looking to get the ball up the court and get it to the nearest guy for a layup, before the defense sets up.” Parkhill said the Lions will run at every opportunity, adding that Ward is the leader. “We’re going to run when we can. We’re very good in tran sition,” Parkhill said. “Tony is capable of pushing it up the floor.” One of the weak spots for the Lions is rebounding. Last season, Penn State finished seventh in re bounding and second to last in defense in the Atlantic 10 Confer ence. Chrabascz said the team hopes to improve on those num bers. “In the Blue-White game, the we should have won that game. And the next thing you know we just can’t capitalize. We get inside the 20, we can’t score, we fumble the ball, we miss field goals, and that hurt us a lot this year.” Pitt quarterback John Congemi, who’s completed 113 of 223 passes for 1,302 yards and six touchdowns, said he’s done his best, but the problems are beyond his control. “We lost a lot of games by a couple of points,” Congemi said. “We didn’t make a kick when we needed to or make the big catch when we needed to, and I think that was the only thing that held us back. “It’s been frustrating. We didn’t get the breaks when we needed to, and I’ve been doing everything I can, but sometimes that’s not enough.” One area giving Congemi. and the rest of the Panthers little support has been the kicking game. Placekickers Pat Viancourt and Mark Brasco have struggled through out the season, combining to make good on only 5-of-16 field goal at tempts, Or less than 33 per cent. Penn State’s Massimo Manca, on the other hand, has hit 20-of-25 for 80 percent, and Fazio said his kicking game has been a continuing problem all season. “I’ve also been disappointed in our kicking game,” Fazio said. flpegpp f|-j; ; Jlffa "m rli Collegian team that won still let up 17 offen sive rebounds,” the junior from Ware, Mass., said. “We can’t do that.” Parkhill said rebounding is one of the areas where the Lions must improve. “I don't think we’re where we need to be on the boards,” he said. “It’s typical this time of year we have a lot of mental breakdowns, like blocking out, that really need to become second nature. We’ve had some problems with that the whole preseason.” Penn State has finished near the bottom of the Atlantic 10 since the league started three years ago. After bowing out in the first round of each .conference postseason tournament, the Lions have not had much success against Atlantic 10 foes. Parkhill would like to see more competitiveness on the part of his team. “I’d be happy if we could be competitive,” he said. “If we can be competitive and have a shot to win a game, then things will take care of themselves. ” The Lions hope to get off to a fast start, but face murky waters right from the start. December is a crit ical month for the Lions. After opening up with Lock Haven next Saturday at Rec Hall, Penn State faces two Top 20 teams within a week: Navy on Dec. 4 in Annapolis, Md., and Oklahoma on Dec. 8 in Norman, Okla. Two losses at the beginning of the season could mentally demoralize a young squad, but Chrabascz said facing the two powers could have a positive effect on the team. “With a young team, it could be tough because that could be two losses right away, but then again, if we come out and beat one of those teams that could really give us a lot of confidence in future play,” he said. “People on the team are mature enough, though, that if we do have a hard time, we’ll be able to handle it.” F-ti WML ' to start new season Lady cagers looking for an encore By MATT HERB Collegian Sports Writer It took only 40 minutes on a far away court in Norfolk, Va., last season for the women’s basketball team’s dream of making the Final Four to die. But it took only sec onds for another one to rise from the ashes. For 18 minutes of that semifinal contest with Ohio State they played the kind of lightning-quick, fast break basketball that had carried them through the regular season with a 27-4 record. And in another 22 minutes it was all gone. Ohio State 81, Penn State 78. Moments after the game, before the sweat had dried from the faces of the players, freshman guard Suzie McConnell was asked when she would start preparing for the Lady Lions’ 1985-86 season. “Tomorrow,” she said. Slowly, over the course of eight months, the dream has been nursed back to maturity. It hasn’t been easy. Losses of key players have hindered the Lady Lions as they’ve attempted to regroup from that defeat. When they make their 1985-86 debut against Providence Friday night it will be without their lead ing scorer from last season, center Kahadeejah Herbert, who was lost to graduation. It will be without forward Lorraine McGirt who av eraged 10.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per game and who will be concen trating on academics this year. It will be without the confidence of the AP pollsters who have dropped Penn State to 13th in the country. Fortunately for Portland, it will not be without McConnell. Though only a sophomore, Mc- Connell has already written her name throughout the'"Penn State record books. Her 9.7 assists per game last season set a new Penn State record. Her 12.6 points per .rt f. ~`z Suzie McConnell, right, dribbles past teammate Patti Longenecker during Friday night’s Blue-White Game at Rec Hall. This year, the women’s basketball team will be looking to duplicate last season’s performance when It advanced to the NCAA playoffs. Foge Fazio game average was second only to Herbert. As for awards, she was named the Atlantic 10 Conference’s rookie of the year, as well as the conference tournament’s MVP among others. Still, McConnell is noted these days more for the expectations surrounding her than the past ac complishments. She’s already been voted a preseason All-American by Street and Smith magazine. And with Herbert gone, Portland ex pects a few of that 18 points per game average to be made up with the sure hand of the 5-3 point guard. “I like the responsibility of scor ing and getting the ball to people to score,” McConnell said. “I think if I have that responsibility, I work harder to do it. If I relied on some one else to do it, I might not work as hard.... I think the offense will be spread out more so that I can go to any one of four players on the court.” At the No. 2 guard position will be 5-9 junior Vanessa Paynter. McConnell may have spent a good portion of last season tossing the ball inside to Herbert, but Portland said that this year the same sort of relationship has developed be tween her two starting guards. “Vanessa in the past few weeks has been the person who has been there for Suzie,” Portland said. “She’s a fine No. 2 guard for her and she’s really started to read Suzie very very well so that when Suzie’s in trouble, Vanessa has always filled in the right spot.” If there is a major source of concern on the team it is at center, where the tremors caused by Her bert’s departure are still being felt. And the one who’s been shaken most by them has been Pia Edvins son, a 6-4 center from Umea, Swe den. Edvinsson comes to Penn State with seven years of interna tional experience behind her, and the general concensus seems to be Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985 Collegian Photo/Jeff Bustraan The Daily Collegian Leyland Bugs' new skipper By ALAN ROBINSON AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) - Jim Leyland, a Chicago White Sox coach who calls his style “ag gressive and unpredictable,” was hired yesterday as the Pittsburgh Pirates’ new manager, complet ing the club’s new ownership and management team. The 40-year-old Leyland spent 11 years as a minor league man ager in the Detroit Tigers’ orga nization and replaces Chuck Tanner, who was fired Oct. 7 after the Pirates’ second consec utive last-place finish in the Na tional League East. “I’m a hard worker but I’m not a miracle worker,” Leyland said. “We will have to have patience. We have a lot of good players, but they’re young players. When a guy punches out four times some night, the key will be to not lose patience.” Please see Leyland, page 13 that the more physical game she played in Europe will rub off on the team. “We’ll be much more physical,” Portland says, “and I think that physical part may put her on the bench next to me quicker than she wants to be because the NCAA officials are going to call every thing.” Even so, Portland believes that with 6-3 sophomore Bethany Col lins coming off the bench, the Lady Lions have the depth to risk Ed vinsson’s bruising style of play. In the meantime, they will be concen trating on easing her into the intri cacies of the NCAA where the ball is smaller, and the officiating more vigilent. Rounding out the starting five are forwards Joanie O’Brien and Vicki Link. With a pair of bulky braces pro tecting her knees, O’Brien is the team’s poster child according to Portland. She spent the better part of the off-season recovering from arthroscopic surgery to repair car tilage on the inside of her right knee. The other was in a brace all last year. “I’m not really having iny prob lems with them,” O’Brien said earlier in the preseason. “The big gest thing I’m having a problem with is getting used to playing again. Link, meanwhile, has impressed Portland with her rebounding, cru cial to the Lady Lions’ fast break offense. She also figures in Penn State’s plans to run a three post offense occassionally along with Edvinsson and Collins. With size, speed, and power in the middle, the Lady Lions seem to have all the tools neccessary to do whatever they want. And Portland is open to some experementation, but the bot tom line is that Penn State will live or die by what they do best, guard oriented fast-paced offense. Collegian Photo/Jeff Buslraan Leyland Continued from Page 12. “We have acquired one of the brightest young talents in base ball,” said incoming Pirates President Malcolm “Mac” Prine. “He has a one-year contract, but we think he’s going to be around for a long, long time.” Leyland, the White Sox’ third base coach for four years, inher its a team whose 57-104 record last season was the worst in ma jor league baseball. “I’m not only going to have to earn the respect of the fans and the press, I’m going to have to earn the respect of my players,” Leyland said. “I’m not going to push myself on anybody. I’m going to teach and throw batting practice and have some fun with The Geosciences Club presents Dr. G.C. Ulmer Professor of Geochemistry, Temple University speaking on Geologic Overview of Nuclear Waste Management 541 Deike, 7:30 pm Thursday, November 21 Refreshments will be served. ROBS my players. I’m not a dictator.” Leyland began his managerial career at the age of 26 and man aged three pennant-winning clubs, including Evansville’s 1979 Class AAA American Association champions. Among the current major league players he man aged in the minors are Kirk Gib son and Lou Whittaker. “Jim was everything we were looking for,” said Syd Thrift, named 12 days ago as the Pirates’ new general manager. “He re lates well to all age groups, espe cially the younger players. He is a capable teacher, has four re cent years of experience on the major league level and has been successful at every level as a minor league manager.” Prine said the Pirates’ new ownership, a 13-member public private coalition, didn’t consider the hiring of a big name manager as a prerequisite for success ei ther on the field or at the boxof fice. “In football, you never see the good, experienced coaches Chuck Noll, Tom Landry, Joe Gibbs jumping from team to team. Most of them were success ful assistant coaches who became successful head coaches,” he said. “You can prepare yourself to be a good manager in a lot of ways, and Jim has.” “I don’t always do things by the book,” Leyland said. “I want to be aggressive, but aggressive with common sense. r— 1 I The Sisters and Pledges of Pi Beta Phi proudly announce our 1985 Arrowmen: Thom Finn Sam Stiller Keith Radecic A 1 Vieceli I^^^^^VVe^LoveYoun^^^l The Daily Collegian Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985—13 Yanks' Mattingly named MVP By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK First baseman Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees, who led the major leagues with 145 runs batted in this year, yesterday was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player by the Base ball Writers Association of America. Mattingly received 23 first-place votes and five seconds for a total of 367 points in balloting by a 28-writer panel, two voters from each of the 14 league cities. Third baseman George Brett of the Kansas City Royals finished second with five firsts, 20 seconds and three thirds for 274 points. Mattingly and Brett were the only players named on all 28 ballots. Points are awarded on the basis of 14 for a first-place vote, nine for second, eight for third, etc. Outfielder Rickey Henderson of the Yankees was third with 174 points, followed by Boston third baseman Wade Boggs, the batting champion, with 159 and first baseman Eddie Murray of Baltimore with 130. Pitcher Donnie Moore of California (96), Toronto out fielders Jesse Barfield (88) and George Bell (84), Chicago outfielder Harold Baines (49) and Kansas City pitcher recusancy. TThere are multitudes of job-seekers out there. They have qualifications. They have resumes. How can you stand out in such a competitive market? Well, we aren’t going to tell you that it will be easy, but one way to help you get your head above that sea of sameness is to make your resume a statement of your individuality. 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His 211 hits, second best in the AL, made Mattingly the first Yankees’ player to have consecutive 200-hit seasons since Joe DiMaggio in 1936-37 and the total was the highest for a Yankee since Red Rolfe had 213 in 1939. “There’s nothing more I could have done this year,” Mattingly said. “The numbers kind of pile up on you. You look up three-quarters of the way through the season and you see what you’ve done. You don’t want to let it end. “I think there’s a lot of room for improvement. It may not show numbers-wise. To me, I don’t walk enough when I should ” Brett saluted Mattingly’s victory. “Don is an outstand ing player who had an MVP year,” he said. “His stats certainly warrant winning the award. 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