sports Don Coryell resigns from Chargers post By DENNIS GEORGATOS AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO Saying he made up his mind after the Chargers’ seventh straight loss, San Diego Head Coach Don Coryell resigned yesterday and was replaced by AI Saunders. Chargers owner Alex Spanos said the resignation was unsolicited and came as a surprise. , “I feel a change would be beneficial to the Chargers,” Coryell said in a prepared statement. “I made up my mind (to resign) after the Philadel phia game, but Mr. Spanos was out of the city and I wanted to tell him in person.” The Chargers lost to the Eagles in Philadelphia, 23-7, last Sunday. Their only victory was a season-opening 50- 28 decision over Miami. “I had made a commitment to stay with the staff (throught 198 G),” said Spanos, who accepted Coryell’s resig nation during a 20-minute meeting at the Chargers’ stadium offices. “I’d say at this point we have to look at what’s going to happen from today on. I don’t like losing. I want to win. I think we all want to win. My fans want to win and I’m going to continue to do whatever it takes to win, and if Don felt this was the best thing for us, then God bless him.” Spanos said he anticipated no fur ther changes this year in the team’s administrative and coaching staff. Saunders, 39, said his association with Coryell over the past three and one half years would help him in assuming his first NFL head coach ing assignment. “Don Coryell has one of the great est passing minds in the history of football,” Saunders said. “I’ve really been privileged... to have the oppor tunity to learn from Don over the years.” Saunders said he told the players of Coryell’s resignation at a closed-door meeting before yesterday afternoon’s practice. “The reaction among the players was surprise, just like it was for all of us. As we talked about it, we felt like Hensler irreplaceable for lady spikers By MARK S. McWHIRTER Collegian Sports Writer When you think about the success the women’s volleyball team is enjoying thus far in 1986, you can’t help but single out a few major contributors to the clause. Some names you may come up with are Vida Kernich, Bessy Ramirez, Lisa Leap, Judy McDounough and Izetta Phillips. But of all the key players, one that stands above the rest is senior Ellen Hensler. Head Coach Russ Rose said after this season, Hensler will not be easily replaced. “Ellen Hensler is an elite volleyball player,” Rose said. “She is mentally tough to a degree that she can outperform people with perhaps more talent. “She is the only player out east this year who has been given the option of training with the national team,” he continued. “And if that is what she wants to pursue, I wouldn’t put it past her.” Last season, Hensler was selected as a All- America honorable mention player and was invited to train with the U: S. National team the last three years. She was selected as a first team member of the All Atlantic-10 Conference team in 1984 and 1985 and was named the Most Valu able Player of the 1985 A-10 Championship Tour nament. In addition, Hensler was the only Eastern player to be recognized on the Asics Tiger team in 1985 as well as being sleeted to nine all-tourna ment teams during the season. And the list goes on. Hensler’s volleyball career began when she was in seventh grade. But by the time she entered high school, her skills were well-refined. As a midddle hitter for Norwin High School in North Huntington, Hensler led the Knights to three consecutive state championships. In fact, Norwin amassed an incredible 90-1 record during Hensler’s tenure. Sharon Watson, Norwin’s volleyball coach, said it was Hensler’s athletic ability that sepa rated her from the rest. “Ellen is an outstanding athlete,” Watson said. “And it didn’t matter what sport she chose to pursue in college (basketball or volleyball), I knew she would have been quite successful in either one.” Hensler’s basketball career at Norwin was equally illustrious as she scored more than 1,000 points during her three-year career. When she arrived at Penn State, Rose v moved Hensler to the right side hitting slot, where she spent the year. Coming into her sophomore season, Rose made another adjustment and shifted Hensler to the setter position. In that role, she quickly made a name for herself among Division I volleyball programs and has been since justly rewarded. Hensler said she was pleased with Rose’s decision to move her to setter because of the higher calibre of players at the collegiate level. “I don’t think I would be as effective of a hitter as I was in high school,” Hensler said. “The players are so much taller and the blocks are better in college.” In volleyball, the setter is equivalent to the pitcher in baseball, the player who controls the (T-y .VY Hr. Don Coryell we had to go onward and upward,” Saunders said. “We are 1-7 right now and we’ve got to turn it around.” The architect of the Chargers’ fabled offense, Coryell, 62, was in his ninth season with the Chargers. The team is off to its worst start since 1975, when it opened with 11 straight losses. This year’s start was also the worst for Coryell in 29 years of coach ing on the collegiate and professional levels. Saunders joined the Chargers as a receivers coach in 1983. He was pro moted to assistant head coach at the end of the 1985 season and was often described as Coryell’s heir apparent. Coryell is the only coach to win more than 100 games on both the collegiate and professional levels. In 14 years as an NFL head coach at St. Louis and San Diego, Coryell was 114- 88, including playoff games. His colle giate coaching record in three sea sons at Whittier and 12 seasons at San Diego State University, ending in 1972, was 127-24-3. Under Coryell, the Chargers ad vanced to the playoffs four straight years beginning in 1979 but have had problems winning in recent years. San Diego has not had a winning year since the strike-shortened 1982 sea son, when the Chargers were 6-3. Last year, Coryell came within one game of getting fired. His job was saved when San Diego finished 8-8. tempo of the game. And Hensler is quick to point out that setting can be the difference between a good team and a bad one. “First of all, it’s very important to have a good pass,” she said. “The setter can then make it easy or difficult for the hitter, having one block or two in front of them. “If I’m in the front row and I jump-set the ball, then one blocker will go up with me and if Bessy (Ramirez) drives, the hitter will have only one block in front of her.” The Lady Lions’ 1986 campaign for a bid to the NCAA tournament is nearing an end. Winning the A-10 Conference would give the team an automatic bid and Hensler is well aware of what it will take to accomplish that. Stickwomen rally, edge Tigers 2-0 By ROBERT WILLIAMS Collegian Sports Writer The No. 6 field hockey team ended 70 minutes of scoreless frustration as it notched two goals in the first overtime period yesterday afternoon to upend unranked Princeton 2-0 at Lady Lion Field. Junior forward Diane Schleicher tallied the game-winning goal with just over two minutes gone in the extra stanza. The Allentown native broke the 0-0 deadlock when she received a beautiful feed from senior midfielder Mary McCarthy, had all day to tee-up the ball about 20 yards from the Tiger goal, and slapped a shot that bounced off Princeton net minder Angela Tucci into the goal. “I moved her in at right wing,” Head Coach Gillian Rattray said of Schleicher. “She has the ability when she has got the freedom. She has a good stick and it was a nice shot.” “They were getting us on the offside trap all day,” Schleicher added. “Mary just put the ball behind them. I was right there and I hit it in.” The offside trap to which Schleicher referred was employed by Princeton (5-0-2) to stymie the Penn State (14-3-2) offense. The. trap not only kept the Lady Lions off the scoreboard during regulation, but the frustrating tactic also kept Penn State on its heels. “They were constantly playing the offside trap,” Rattray said. “They had six people across the field absolutely flat. R’s the most frustrating thing because it holds your timing, it holds the flow of your game.” “They pull out so that they’re even with the 25 (yard line),” McCarthy said. “If any of our players cut behind the 25 before the ball gets there, they’re offside. We knew they were going to do it, but it still caused us a lot of problems.” Despite the trap, the Lady Lions dominated play in the first half, as they outshot the Tigers 25-2. However, many of Penn State’s shots weren’t of the high-percentage variety. In fact, in its last two games, the squad has outshot its oppostion 74-10, but it has connected on only five of those shots. “I get concerned when we take the shots from outside and waste them on the goalie, which we were doing in the first half,” Rattray said. “(The players) were so happy that they were there in front of the goal and they weren’t offsides, that what they did was take the shot from outside when they could have gone in with it more. We could have penetrated more.” The Lady Lions were in front of the goal a lot Ellen Hensler “We have to win the conference,” she said. “We might be able to get an at-large bid, but I’d rather go into the tournament as the A-10 champs.” No matter how far the team goes in post-season play, one painfully realistic fact Rose has to deal with is that after this season, Hensler is gone. And, with the option of continuing her volleyball career on the international level, Hensler also has a tough decision to make in the near future. Rose says that no matter what Hensler decides, he is confident of her chances at success. “Ellen is a great all-around player,” Rose said. “I wouldn’t bet against her. “If I were going to start an international team, she would be my first pick.” Penn State’s Stacia Palaynuk, right, battles two Princeton opponents for possession of a loose ball yesterday at Lady Lion Field. The Lady Lions were held in check by the Tigers for all of regulation play, but rallied to score two goals in overtime for a 2-0 win. less frequently in the second half, as-Princeton came on and began to apply some pressure of its own. Penn State only outshot the Tigers by the tune of 5-4 in the period. McCarthy said that the Lady Lions’ inability to capitalize on its many opportunities may have helped spark the Tigers. “We really started out slow today,” she said. “I think the more we let them feel good, the better they got. “I think that made them feel a lot better about themselves. It frustrated us and it made them feel a lot better.” But Princeton’s bid for its first win ever against Penn State (the Lady Lions lead the series 8-0) would fall just short, as Penn State finally came to life in the overtime period. After Schleicher’s game-winning goal, sopho- Collegian File Driesell reassigned; but deal still lucrative By GORDON BEARD AP Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Lefty Driesell lost his job as basketball coach at the University of Maryland yesterday, but retained much of his lucrative contract while becoming an assistant athletic director. Under a renegotiated deal, Driesell will be guaranteed at least $136,000 by the university for each of the next four years, and $86,000 for the re maining four years, provided he stays at the university. Driesell also will keep his summer basketball camp on campus, which reportedly earned him about $70,000 annually in recent years. Driesell stepped aside under pres sure from an administration reacting to the furor which followed the co caine-induced death of All-America Len Bias on June 19 and criticism of Maryland’s academic standards for basketball players. Chancellor John B. Slaughter praised Driesell for successes during his 17 years as coach, but said that in the best interest of the athletic pro gram, “a change of leadership is required.” He denied that Driesell was a scapegoat. Slaughter several times said he took full responsibility for problems that have occurred, but in answer to a question during a sometimes hostile news conference, he added, “I have no intention of resigning.” “I should have had more insight into that situation at the time,” Slaughter said, referring to drug and academic problems within the bas ketball program. Driesell, who spoke to reporters before Slaughter, read a terse statement and declined to accept any questions. “It is obvious,” said the 54-year-old coach, who was accompanied by his wife and two of his daughters, “that the administration wants to make a coaching change and I do not want to coach if I am not wanted.” When Driesell left Cole Field House, where he recorded many of his 348 victories, he was cheered by several hundred students. Driesell, one of only 17 coaches with at least 10 years in Division I with 500 victories, came under fire from seve ral sources after Bias died. Prince George’s Couhty State’s At torney Arthur A. Marshall Jr. tried unsuccessfully to have the coach in dicted for obstruction of justice, say ing he tried to have Bias’ dormitory room cleared of drugs after first round draft pick of the Boston Celtics collapsed. The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 30, 1986 more midfielder Tami Worley connected on a penalty stroke at 3:57 of overtime to increase the winning margin to 2-0. Worley has now made three of six penalty strokes this season. One of the most impressive facets of the game was Penn State’s ability to come through when the game was on the line. It is this ability that has allowed the Lady Lions to compile a 2-1-2 over time record this year. “We have a lot of character on the team,” McCarthy said. “A lot of times we’ve come back. You can never put us out of a game no matter how many goals we’re down or if the score is tied like it was today.” The Lady Lions are now 7-0-1 at Lady Lion Field this season, where they have outscored their oppostion 23-3. Marshall also charged that Driesell had placed more emphasis on win ning than academics. A university task force appointed by Slaughter also was critical of the basketball program. After remaining silent for 14 weeks, Driesell took the offensive last month when he defended his program and said, “I’m not apologizing for any thing we’ve done.” Under the financial arrangement, Slaughter said, Driesell will continue to be paid his salary of $85,800. In addition, the university guar anteed him $50,000 annually for the next four years for university-ar ranged television appearances. Driesell did not retain a shoe en dorsement contract, signed just be fore Bias’ death and said to be worth $lOO,OOO. The chancellor said Driesell never sought a buy-out of his con tract. Slaughter said Driesell would be free to accept a coaching job else where, but that the contract would be broken if he leaves. Driesell’s summer camp arrange ment caused an immediate reaction from one athletic department mem ber, who wondered if it would inter fere with the signing of a new coach. Slaughter said a new coach, either interim or permanent, would be an nounced before the start of practice on Saturday. Ron Bradley, a Driesell assistant for five years, is regarded as a possi ble choice as interim coach siiice he knows the players and the system. ilph Oswald Lefty Driesell Clemens, Carter lead AP All-Star team By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens and catcher Gary Carter of the World Series champion New York Mets lead the 1986 Associated Press All-Star team announced yesterday. Also picked were first baseman Don Mattingly of the New York Yan kees, second baseman Steve Sax of the Los Angeles Dodgers, third base man Mike Schmidt of the Philadel phia Phillies and shortstop Tony Fernandez of the Toronto Blue Jays. Jim Rice of the Red Sox was chosen as the left fielder, Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins was picked as the center fielder and Jesse Barfield of Toronto as the right fielder. . Joining Clemens as pitchers were left-handeci starter Fernando Valen zuela of Los Angeles and reliever Dave Righetti of the Yankees. Houston’s Hal Lanier was chosen earlier as manager of the year. Ballotting was done prior to the postseason, with voters naming one player at each position. Clemens, 24, was the most domi nant pitcher in baseball this season, leading the majors with a 24-4 record and helping the Red Sox into the World Series. He started the season with a 14-0 record and went to top the American League with a 2.48 earned run average. Houston’s Mike Scott was second to Clemens with four votes. ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©O©©©©©®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® i Peimßnua § % CHEERLEADING S © TRYOUT INFORMATION SESSION © €) All Those Interested In Trying Out To Be A Penn State © .© Cheerleader or Mike-Person Are Encouraged To Attend © © WHEN: TONIGHT 8 p.m. © © WHERE: 214 Boucke Building © e Be Part Of The Excitement! © © •© ©©©©©©©©©©©©QQ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© I™ —- 1 FREE 16 oz. 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Mattingly, the 1985 AL Most Valu able Player, was second in the ma jors with a .352 average and hit 31 homers with 113 RBI. Mattingly, 25, led baseball with 238 hits and 53. doubles, both all-time Yankee re cords, and his .573 slugging percent age also was best in the majors. He got 91 votes and Houston’s Glenn 237-7314 Expires 11/1/86 Open: 11 AM for Lunch Till 2 AM at Night FRI.-SAT. Till 3 AM A $5.00 deposit is all it takes. We’ll work with you to design an Easy ' 'fif ' budget Gary Carter Davis was far back with three. Sax had his best all-around year. His .332 average was second in the NL, he stole 40 bases and he com mitted just 16 errors, his lowest total for a full season. He got 51 votes and Houston’s Bill Doran was runnerup at 14. Schmidt, 37, enjoyed one of his finest years. He led the NL with 37 home runs and 119 RBI and batted .290. Schmidt, a nine-time All-Star, made only eight errors. He got 83 votes and finished ahead of major league batting champion Wade Boggs of Boston, who got 15. Fernandez, 24, continued to develop as one the most exciting young play ers in baseball. He batted .310 with 10 homers and 65 RBI, stole 25 bases and was flashy in the field while not missing a game. Fernandez got 61 votes with Baltimore’s Cal Ripken receiving 18. Rice made an effort to hit for high er average this year and it worked as he batted .324 with 20 home runs and 110 RBI. Rice got 47 votes with George Bell of Toronto runnerup at 28. Cleveland’s Joe Carter, who led the majors with 121 RBI, got three votes as a left fielder and seven as right fielder. Puckett, 25, had one of the most productive seasons in the majors. The Twins’ leadoff hitter batted .328 with 31 homers and 96 RBI, stole 20 bases and was among the outfielders in assists. Shirts, Sweaters & Jeans S"*. 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Maher is entered in the nationally-televised New York City Marathon, which will begin Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Maher has been training for this race since last June when his application was accepted. This in itself was no easy feat. Since there are no qualification times or other requirements to enter the race, a large number of people apply, meaning applications must be in by May with the majority of the acceptances made by lottery. Now that he is entered, Maher’s major concern is a good starting place. “Because of the masses of hu manity in the race,” he said “if you’re in the back it can take up to five or six minutes just to reach the starting line and the rest of the 1 • Men’s ■ - >- -- _ _ '* Compare 14" to 29" • Crewneck Sweaters 9 57 - engineered strips - rugby strips • McGregor Vest Sweaters • Dress Shirts by Wrangler • Bassett Hooded Fleece Sweat Jackets • Nike Nylon Wind Jackets • Bassett Hooded Fleece Zip Jackets • Michael Page Stripe Oxford Shirt • ' *• < , f WM W S' ’tb _ The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 30, 1!)8G —11 race is spent making up time.” Moreover, Maher says that the first few miles of the race are spent trying to run at one’s own pace, and break away from the crowds, so a good starting place is a definite advantage. Although he is not expecting to place, he said, “I am not compet ing to win. I’m going for time.” Maher has trained diligently for the past four months. 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