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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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fielders Jesse Barfield (88) and George Bell (84), Chicago
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Bret Saberhagen, the Cy Young Award winner, (45)
completed the top 10.
Mattingly batted .324 with 35 home runs as the Yankees
finished second in the AL East behind Toronto. He led the
major leagues with 48 doubles the first AL player to do
that in successive seasons since Tris Speaker did it four
straight years, 1920-23. His 370 total bases and 86 extra
base hits also led the AL and his .995 fielding percentage
was the best in the league at his position.
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 ”
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certainly warrant winning the award. I remember how
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