l l_The Daily Collegian Friday, Nov. 22, 1985
It's do or die weekend
for 29-3 lady spikers
By STACEY JACOBSON
Collegian Staff Writer
Although the women’s volleyball
team has compiled an Eastern
best 29-3 record, one loss this
weekend at the Atlantic 10 Confer
ence Championships in West Vir
ginia could end it all.
In this single elimination tourna
ment, the Lady Lions aren’t sched
uled to compete until 1 p.m.
tomorrow. Both Penn State and
the Lady Rams from Rhode Island
drew a bye on the first round of the
tournament. The Lady Lions will
play the winner of the George
Washington-Temple match, and
the Rams will meqt the victor
between West Virginia and Rutg
ers.
“I can’t help but think George
Washington is going to beat
Temple and West Virginia will
beat Rutgers,” Head Coach Russ
Rose said.
Rose is concerned with one
game at a time. He places some
extra ejnphasis on the Rhode Is
land game because the Rams beat
them in September and are consid
ered a fine volleyball team. He
maintains his strategy that the
Lady Lions should only be con
cerned with their own game, the
interior structure of their team.
“ The game of volleyball is such
that success or failure is based
primarily on what you do on your
side of the net,” said Rose. “Last
week against Eastern Kentucky
(one of Penn State’s three loses)
we played very poorly on our side
of the net. I don’t think Eastern
Kentucky played better than we
did and by no means are they
better than we are. They just
Grapplers begin quest for
By TODD SHERMAN and CHRISTINE
BORN
Collegian Sports Writers
Three returning All-Americans, a
pre-season No. 3 national ranking
and confidence and enthusiasm could
combine to bring the 1986 wrestling
team its first national championship
since 1953.
Last year, the Lions finished sev
enth at the National Collegiate Athlet
ic Association championships after
compiling a 10-6 dual meet record.
They also won the Eastern Wrestling
League Championship for the fourth
straight year.
The road to the national
championships will not be an easy
one. Penn State’s schedule calls for
seven dual meets with Top 10 teams,
as ranked in the Amateur Wrestling
News pre-season poll.
The Nittany Lions kick off the sea
son by splitting their tea'm into two
squads for two tournaments this
weekend. Penn State will compete in
the East Stroudsburg Open tomorrow
and the Bloomsburg Invitational on
Sunday.
Head Coach Rich Lorenzo said if
his team has one weakness, it is that
his young team is unproven.
“We have a lot of young kids in the
lineup,” Lorenzo said. “We have a
good nucleus of three or four guys
that have proven themselves. We
have a couple of youngsters and some
transfers that are capable of being
excellent, but have yet to prove that
•All-American status. We want to be
the number one team in the United
States this year but we don’t have on
paper the proven credentials to be the
number one team. So that comes into
attitude, hard work, dedication, and
leers seek 1 st win over Dearborn
By TIM EYSTER
Collegian Sports Writer
The ice hockey team will face what could well be its
biggest challenge of the season this weekend when it
meets a fine Michigan-Dearborn team at 9:15 tonight
and 3:30 tomorrow in the ice pavilion.
Michigan-Dearborn is an independent varsity team
which primarily has National Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation Division I teams on its schedule. The Wolves
have a 5-5 record this season, but that slate includes
two wins over ice hockey power Notre jDame. As a
member of the National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics, the Wolves finished second twice and third
once in the last five years and were 8-9 against Division
I teams last season.
Add all this to the fact that the Lions have never
beaten Michigan-Dearborn in seven meetings, and one
can see that Penn State has quite a task on its hands
this weekend. Last year, the Wolves beat Penn State 3-
1 and 10-1 at Dearborn, and in the first loss, the Lions
were hurt by two disallowed goals that would have tied '
the score.
“They’ve got a solid team, and they’ve got depth on
the bench,” Head Coach Jon Shellington said of this
year’s Michigan-Dearborn squad. “Their first line’s
better than their second, second’s better than their
third, but they’re not that much better. They’re all
good lines. There’s not much of a difference between
any of them, so you’ve got to have depth to play against
them.
“You’ve got to have intensity all the time. You let up
one second, and they’re going to be on you.”
Irt order to beat Michigan-Dearborn, every member
of the Lion squad is going to have to make a concen
trated effort, Shellington said.
“Everybody’s going to have to be thinking and
reacting quickly every second that they’re on the ice,”
happened to make less mistakes in
the match.”
' Although Penn State is ranked
No. 1 in the tournament due to its
5-0 conference record, the Lady
Lions feel no excess pressure.
They've been No. 1 the entire sea
son.
“We just want to go to the tour
nament and play consistent com
petitive volleyball and show the
other Atlantic-10 teams that we
are No. 1,” senior team captain
Lisa Chidester said.
Chidester says the team doesn’t
like to put extra pressure on them
selves by thinking of their No. 1
status. .
“If we go in there with the idea
that we are better than they are
and we do have to play good vol
leyball to beat these teams. I think
that’s what we have to be most
concerned with right now,”
Chidester said.
Rose says his players don’t view
their ranking as anything new.
“We’ve been the top team in the
eastern part of the U.S for the past
seven consecutive years,” Rose
said. “I don’t think they look at
this tournament, being seated
No. 1 as different then any other
time you take the floor against
people that want to beat them.”
The biggest challenge for this
weekend, according to assistant
Coach Lori Barberich, is to beat
Rhode Island. The Rams pose the
largest threat to the Lady Lions.
“Beating Rhode Island has been
on everybody’s mind all week,”
Barberich said. “They still beat us
earlier in the year even though we
beat them at Rec Hall. We played
almost a flawless match at Rec
hall.”
Jim Martin (top) is in control of Mike McNally at wrestle-offs last Sunday at Rec Hall. Both Martin, who won the starting
spot at 118-pounds, and McNally will see action this weekend as the wrestling team opens its season at the Bloomsburg
Invitational and the East Stroudsburg Open.
proving themselves,
breaks, like being
healthy.”
Tri-Captain Greg Elinsky said this
year’s team is strong in every weight
class.
“If everyone stays healthy, we
should have a super team,” Elinsky
said. “There will be matches to watch
in every weight class.”
he said. “You can’t afford to make any mistakes
because they’re the type of team that if you make a
mistake, they will captitalize on it.
“We’ve got to continue to concentrate on moving the
puck quickly,” he added. “You get in against a fast
team like Dearborn, and anybody standing around and
holding on to the puck, thinking about what to do with
it, they’re going to be in trouble.”
Including last year’s losses, Michigan-Dearborn’s
last four victories over Penn State have been on the
Wolves’ home ice; however, this weekend’s games will
be played at the ice pavilion, where Penn State has
been dominant over the years.
The Lions posted a 13-1-1 record at home last season,
and their only loss on their home ice this season was a
4-3 sudden death overtime loss to St. Bonaventure
Nov. 13. They also beat visiting Niagara College 7-2
and 8-6 Oct. 18 and 19, respectively.
The home-ice advantage should help Penn State this
weekend, but right wing Greg Powers said the Lions
would have to play their best games of the year to beat
Michigan-Dearborn.
“They’re big, they’re quick and they’re physical,” he
said. “We’re going to have to be physical. We’re going
to have to back check a lot, harder than we have in the
other games. We’re going to have to go out and hit
them right away. ”
Lion defenseman John Holland said the Lions consid
er Michigan-Dearborn a Division I-caliber team. He
added that the Wolves would be the best team Penn
State will play all season, but cautioned that they
should not take the Lions lightly.
“If they think that they’re going to come in here and
blow us away, they’ve got another thing coming,” he
said. “Games like this bring out the best in our hockey
team. The best players on our hockey team will come
through.”
Lady cagers begin
By ROB BIERTEMPFEL
Collegian Sports Writer
The end of the 1984-85 basketball
season meant the end of the Kahadee
jah Herbert era for the Lady Lions.
Tonight, however, a new era begins.
The Lady Lions enter the 1985-86
season without Herbert, last season’s
star center who graduated, and with
out Assistant Coach Bob Foley, who
accepted the position of head coach at
Providence in July. >
For the Lady Lions, the time to
start a new quest for the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
championship is 8:30 tonight against
Providence in the second game of the
annual Lady Lion Classic. Western
Michigan takes on Minnesota on the
first contest at 6:30 p.m.
The game represents a test of the
team’s abilities as well as the first
presentation of the “new” Lady Lions
a team that will rely more on
balance and speed than the contribu
tions of a single player.
Head Coach Rene Portland will
start Suzie McConnell and Vanessa
Paynter at guard, Joanie O’Brien and
Vicki Link at forward, and newcomer
Pia Edvinsson at center.
Portland said she plans to keep the
starting fiye in the game for as long
as possible to allow them to jell as a
unit, but stresses that the Lady Lions
have depth at every position.
“If we need to go to a quicker
offense, I can pull Pia and Joanie out
and substitute with Lisa Faloon and
Bethany Collins,” she said.
Portland said she hopes to develop
a strong inside game, with McConnell
(who averaged 9.7 assists per game
last season) and Paynter (who aver
aged 1.9) feeding the ball in to the
taller shooters.
However, Portland noted that she
would not altogether abandon the
offensive strategy that proved so
sucessful last season: the Lady Lions’
This is how those weight classes
shape up at this time.
At the 118-pound weight class,
freshman Jim Martin, who
redshirted last year, is the top man
for now. Sophomore Mike McNally is
ranked behind Martin.
And a lot of
able to stay
At 126, junior Keith Maurer is the
starter but will probably drop to 118.
Freshman Matt Gerhard, a medical
lightning-quick transition game led
by McConnell.
“When you go 27-5 with a certain
offense, you don’t just trash it,” Port
land said.
McConnell enjoys her position as
quarterback of the running game.
“I like the responsibility of scoring
and getting the ball to people,”- she
said. “If I don’t run, the team won’t
run.”
Something Portland hopes to estab
lish tonight and maintain for the rest
of the season is consistent play.
“That’s something that we didn’t
do last year,” she said. “We seemed
to slack off for the first five minutes
of a half and let the other team get
back in it.”
She said the team has the depth and
experience necessary to win, but still
needs to acquire a “killer instinct”
the desire to do whatever it takes to
win the game.
“I have not been able to see that yet
(in practice),” she said.
While Portland hopes the team
gains the drive to win at all costs
tonight, the Lady Lions will also have
to deal with feelings of nostalgia as
Providence Head Coach Bob Foley
makes his first visit to Rec Hall as an
opposing coach. McConnell said she
has mixed feelings about playing
against Foley.
“I’m looking forward to seeing
him, but it’s going to be weird,” she
said.
Portland said that she, too, is
looking forward to seeing her former
assistant again “but when the gun
goes off, it’s business as usual.”
LldN NOTES: The Lady Lions
defeated Providence last year 110-63
... the Lady Lions were 12-0 at Rec
Hall last season; a win tonight would
extend their home-game win streak
to i 7 . . . the championship game is
slated for 6 p.m., Saturday and the
consolation match is set for 8 p.m . . .
this is Portland’s sixth season as head
coach.
NCAA crown tomorrow
Collegian Photo / Howard Small
redshirt last year, is a four-time
Pennsylvania state champion. Sopho
more Ken Chertow posted a 26-14
record last year at 118 but is recov
ering from elbow surgery and may
redshirt this season.
Louisiana State University transfer
Joe Hadge won the right to the 134-
pound weight class by defeating Tim
Flynn in the wrestle-offs Nov. 10.
Swim Women at home tomorrow
By JIM SAUNDERS
Collegian Sports Writer
After three consecutive wins on the
road, the women’s swimming and
diving team hosts Bucknell and Syra
cuse at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow to open
its home season.
Although the Lady Lions are cur
rently undefeated, other than their
first victory, an 80-49 defeat of
George Washington, those wins did
not come easily. They captured their
second and third wins (at the presti
gious Cincinnati Bearcat Invitational
and Clarion) by a combined total of
only 17 points.
It took fine performances by divers
Betsy Spiegel and Beth Fahey to
prevent the Lady Lions from tying
Division II Clarion.
Penn State experienced little diffi
culty with Syracuse last season,
soundly defeating them 93-47. Howev
er, the 1984 squad also built large
margins of victory against Clarion
and George Washingtpn.
The Lady Lions will be meeting
Bucknell for the first time.
“We don’t know too much about
Bucknell,” said Tri-captain Kristin
Whitner of the Division II team, “but
I’m sure that they'll be ready for us.”
Whitner, a freestyle sprinter,
doesn’t expect the Lady Lions to have
much trouble tomorrow, though.
“Syracuse has some good individu
als and we know that they’re resting
for us,” said the Allentown senior,
4 new era' tonight
Veteran forward Vicki Link (shooting) goes up for a shot in last Friday’s Blue-
White game at Rec Hall. Link is one of five Lady Lion starters who will take the
floor against Providence at 8:30 tonight in the first round of the Lady Lion
Classic.
Flynn, a junior and 30-7-1 at 126
pounds in 1985, is dropping to 126 and
challenging Maurer for the starting
spot.
At 142 pounds sophomore Rob Me
loy is the No. 1 man right now, but
junior Glenn Koser and last year’s
starter Gary Kaschak (15-12) will
pressure Meloy for that top spot.
Kaschak is student teaching now and
is not quite ready for. the season,
Lorenzo said.
The 150-pound slot belongs to Koser
until Tri-captain and two-time All-
American Chris Bevilacqua is back
at full strength from a back injury.
Bevilacqua was 26-5 last year and
placed fourth in the country at nation
als. When Bevilacqua returns, Koser
will drop to 142.
Elinsky placed second at nationals
in 1984 and had a 28-5 overall record.
The two-time All-American has the
spot at 158 and is ranked No. 1 in the
country in the Amateur Wrestling
News pre-season poll. Elinsky will
wrestle at 167 in a few tournaments at
the beginning of the season but will
drop to 158 for dual meets.
. At 167 pounds Tri-captain Eric Bru
gel is back after redshirting last year
to concentrate on a change of major.
Behind Brugel is junior Mike Seckler,
who would be ranked first except for
a shoulder injury. Sophomore Mark
Sidorick, and Duane Peoples, a trans
fer from Oklahoma State, are two
others that may see mat time at this
weight. Peoples, however, has an
injured knee that may require sur
gery.
Dan Mayo returns as the No. 1 man
at 177 pounds after redshirting last
year because of a severe ankle in
jury, which cut short a promising
freshman season. Mayo was 17-6-1
“but I think that our depth will help
us pull it through.”
Penn State’s depth has been an
important factor in each of its . first
three victories that they have won by
consistently placing individuals sec
ond and third in the events which they
failed to win. According to Krimmel,
this depth was not developed totally
by design.
“With some of the injuries that
we’ve had, we’ve been forced to de
velop depth,” he said. “We’ve put
some people into really tough situa-
Swimmen thinking 'orange'
By MARY DEWEES
Collegian Sports Writer
Orange. It’s a word that’s been
circulating a lot around here lately,
ever since the football team ensured
its No. 1 ranking in the polls. Well the
men’s swimming and diving team is
now thinking ‘orange’ too, as they
prepare themselves to take on Syra
cuse at 7:00 tonight at the McCoy
Natatorium.
The Orangemen are coming off of a
big meet Wednesday against St. Bo
naventure, in which several of their
swimmers shaved for faster times.
This will give them a slight advan
tage over the Lion swimmers in to
night’s meet.
However, Penn State will also have
an advantage since the Syracuse
team boasts a small roster of only
Collegian Photo I Scoll Wllkerson
before the injury in 1984.
At 190 pounds sophomore Andy Voit
may return after an 18-18 rookie
season. Voit may sit out the season to
gain experience and physical maturi
ty, and will make a decision after the
East Stroudsburg Open this weekend.
If Voit reshirts then senior Jan John
son will probably take the starting
spot.
In the heavyweight classification,
freshman Jeff Ellis, freshman Grag
Haladay, and sophomore John Place
are in contention for the top spot.
Place is trying to return from a knee
injury suffered while playing varsity
football.
Lorenzo said that this lineup is not
carved in granite.
“That lineup will change from time
to time,” Lorenzo said. “There is no
way you can ever go through a season
with 10 guys. We will probably end up
wrestling as many as 15-20 men on
varsity.”
Lorenzo said his team has an ad
vantage because of its attitude.
“They are young, but they are
hungry,” he said. “They want to be
national champs. We have more indi
viduals on the same wavelength than
we have ever had before. We have
more guys, even second and third
team guys that are committing them
selves, and believing that we can be
the best team in the country this year,
and the following year.
“So much of this game is mental.
You need execution, and confidence,
and attitude and a little bit of arro
gance.
“We have a bunch of aggressive,
hard-nosed kids who are dedicated
and who have put a lot of work into
it.”
tions and they’ve come through for
us.”
Krimmel has been happy with his
team’s attitude this week.
"They’ve been working real hard
(in practice),” he said. “It’s a big
weekend and there will be a lot of
family and friends at the meet.”
Whitner, who will team with se
niors Christine Reidel and Janeen
Leeshock, along with freshman Kris
ten Elias in the meet’s opening event,
the 200-yard medley relay, agreed.
about 10 swimmers and three divers.
But Coach Peter Brown said that it is
quality and not quantity that will
count in the meet.
“They don’t have a very big team,
but each person they have, for the
most part, they make them count,”
he said. “It’s not like they have jiny
dead weight, so to speak.”
“Last year we beat them really
pretty easily, but this year it’s going
to be a 'different story,” he said.
Freshman Craig Dies, who was a
member of the winning 800-yd free
style relay team at last weekend’s
Cincinnati Bearcat Invitational, said
that Syracuse’s shaved swimmers
will definitely have an edge. But Dies
also said that Penn State’s depth will
give them an advantage over the
small visiting team.
Fencers to face big challenge at Open
By MIKE HOOVER
Collegian Sports Writer
The men’s fencing team will face
its biggest challenge of the season as
the squad hosts the Garret Penn State
Open this weekend.
The Lions are expected to be one of
the favorites in this talent-rich com
petition as 45 colleges are scheduled
to be represented.
Visiting universities such as tradi
tional fencing powerhouses Notre
Dame, North Carolina and Illinois
are a few of the many contenders that
will pose problems for a Lion team.
The Irish, in particular, who finished
second at the National Collegiate
Athletic Association Championships
last season, appear to be the team to
beat.
Although the fencers turned in a
strong season-opening performance
in the Temple Open, the opposition in
this two day competition will be even
stronger.
“This is one of the strongest colle
giate tournaments,” Head Coach
Emmanuil Kaidanov said. "Our main
objective is to gain experience. We
have 12 freshmen. Our task is to get
them in as many bouts as possible.
They are used to junior and high
school competition. At the Open they
will experience stronger and differ
ent styles.”
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“The whole team needs to do much
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Lady fencers face tough test
By BRIAN McMAHON
Collegian Sports Writer
This weekend, an injured but determined women’s
fencing team will take on some of the strongest competi
tion in the country when the Garret Penn State Open
begins here tomorrow morning.
“The competition will be extremely strong,” Coach
Emmanuil Kaidanov said. “We will have almost all of the
strongest fencers in the country here.”
Kaidanov said the Open will be “a preparation period”
for the team, and added that its goals remain the same as
those of the Temple Open three weeks ago: to gain
experience and get a look at the competition. >
Lack of experience and several key injuries have
plagued the Lady Lions since before the Temple Open, but
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“They’re a very mature group,” said Assistant Coach
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“I’m very pleased with the climate surrounding the
team,” Kaidanov said. “They have a lot of spirit, and I
think that gives them an advantage when they’re compet
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Newman, who described his duties of assistant coach as
“having to deal with the psychological aspect of the
competition,” said that the fencers have “to be aware of
their opponents style ... to come into position with a
definite plan of action, but with the ability to change their
attention spontaneously as the bout develops.”
Newman said he thinks the Lady Lions are developing
these abilities very well while at Penn State, and no one
demonstrates them any better than Captain Sue Page.
“She has the capability to develop into any level fencer
she wants to,” Newman said of Page, who still wears a
bandage over her left knee, a mute reminder of the two
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