sports Stickwomen end regular season with OT win Awk By ROBERT WILLIAMS Collegian Sports Writer This season is Head Coach Gillian Rattray's 13th at the helm of the field hockey team. But numerous over times, lengthy road trips, and 13 dates with Top 20 opponents may be taking more out of Rattray this year than did her first through twelfth seasons combined. The Lady Lions (16-3-2) were in volved in their seLenth overtime game (and third in a row) in 21 contests yesterday, as they closed out their regular season with a 3-2 victory over host West Chester. "It was a very fast game," Rattray said of the 174th win of her Penn State tenure. "The ball moved up and down the field a lot. It was intense. "West Chester played well," she added. "They came at us hard." But the Rams' effort fell just short, as sophomore forward Tracey Neave salvaged the victory for the Lady Lions when she notched her 16th goal of the season with 8:54 gone in the first overtime period. Senior forward Stacia Palahnuk assisted the tally, which was Neave's fourth game-win ning goal of the season. Heading into the contest, Penn State and West Chester were ranked No. 7 and No. 8, respectively, and the closeness of yesterday's encounter proved that the NCAA coaches hit the nail on the head when they voted these two squads side-by-side in the poll. Besides yesterday's game, the Lady Lions have had numerous other encounters with highly-rated teams this season. Penn State has battled ,six . teams that are currently in the Top 10, and the squad has managed a 3-2-1 record in these contests. Senior midfielder Mary McCarthy got the Lady Lions' sixth such contest off to a good start yesterday when she Lagers crushed, but Parkhill optimistic Penn State freshman Rodney Henderson, right, lifts the ball past a Marathon Oil defender to the hoop in action last night at Rec Hall. The Lions lost the exhibition game 95-77. The Lions, playing after just three weeks of practice, were rusty at times, but Head Coach Bruce Parkhill said that was to be expected. The team returns to action for the Blue• White Game in two weeks. luzzolino not worried about transition By MARK BRENNAN Collegian Sports Writer Mike luzzolino's collegiate basketball career got off to a less than spectacular start last night, but the 6-0, 160 pound freshman guard on the men's basketball team is not too worried. At Altoona High School he was a Converse All- American, a first team all-Pennsylvania player and had a list of other honors and accomplish ments as long as his name, But when luzzolino entered the Lions' exhibi tion game against Marathon Oil last night with about five minutes left in the first half, he got a quick taste of what college basketball is all about. He was beaten for an easy layup on the his first defensive assignment. A couple of minutes later, luzzolino had his first shot, a double clutch •~: ;' Penn State's Mary McCarthy moves the ball downfield as two Princeton scored two goals yesterday to help seal a 3.2 Penn State victory over No. 8 West defenders give chase in a game earlier this season at Lady Lion Field. McCarthy, Chester. It was the final regular season game for the No. 7 Lady Lions. scored her sixth goal of the season at the 6:01 mark of the first half. Junior forward Diane Schleicher assisted the tally; which was the result of .a direct corner hit. "Mary McCarthy played a good game," Rattray said. "Besides hav jumper eight feet from the basket, rejected Welcome to college, Mike With six seconds left in the half, though, luzzolino showed some of the stuff that made him an All American in high school. Dribbling the ball the length of the court while lime was winding down, he calmly hit a jumper from the top of the key with one second left to draw the Lions to within two points of the Oilers at the half. luzzolino said the bucket helped him after the two early miscues. "It was my first college basket, what can I say," luzzolino said. "It helped me out a little bit. It was not really a set play, it just happened that nobody picked me up and it went in." He finished with four points and four assists in limited action, but Head Coach Bruce Parkhill said being thrown into a game situation with only ing her two goals, Mary defended Tracey Griesbaum (West Chester's leading scorer) very well. She held her scoreless." The Rams would knot the score before halftime, as Karen Sponseler evened the score 1-1 at the 24:12 mark By MARK ASHENFELTER Collegian Sports Writer Even though the 95-77 setback the men's basketball team suf fered last night looked bad, Head Coach Bruce Parkhill wasn't dis couraged. Parkhill knew he was taking a risk when he scheduled Marathon Oil, a touring amateur squad, for the team's preseason opener in Rec Hall, but he decided it was worth it. The Lions looked sharp at times in the first half, but grew ragged as the game wore on. With just under three weeks of practice un der their belts, Parkhill knew he couldn't expect much. "We're not even in game shape, let alone have any timing down," Parkhill said. "Like I said going in, we're not looking at this as a game, we're looking at it as a season to let guys break up presea son and see what we have to work on." Parkhill saw a lot of things his team still needs work on, but he wasn't discouraged with the game. The Lions only had their first scrimmage on Saturday and their lack of conditioning. caught up to them after trailing just 50-47 at the half. Penn State shot 68 percent in the opening stanza, but hit on just eight of 25 attempts (32 percent) over the final 20 minutes. Part of the Lions' problem was a lack on continuity but that was by de sign. With 16 players on the roster, Parkhill vowed he would get them all playing time and he did. This led to constant shuffling that Park hill said made things difficult for his players. "I think there were some things that we did pretty well that I was pleased with," Parkhill said. "And obviously there were a lot of breakdowns. But like I said we weren't even in shape to play a game yet. ". . .But it was really good for of the half The back-and-forth play continued in the second stanza. McCarthy made the score 2-1 just under 10 minutes into the second half on an unassisted blast from outside the circle. West Chester, however, once again tied the us, I was really apprehensive when we scheduled a game at this time. . . . Nbw I'm really glad we did, I might try to do it in the future. I think even though we weren't ready for a game it was good for the kids." Playing with just one man-to man offense and one zone offense implemented, the Lions still hung tough after a shaky start. Former Lion Craig Collins hit on two three point jumpers and scored 13 of the Oilers' first 19 points. Penn State trailed 38-28 with 6:43 remaining until Brian Allen took over. The sophomore guard took con trol of the game, scoring the Lions' next 12 points and closing the gap to 42-40 with 3:23 left. Allen, who injured his knee last week, shot nine of 11 on the evening on his way to 18 points. Allen was pleased with the tea m's effort and said better things are around the corner. "Things will come with time, it's only the third week of practice, so nobody is meshing yet," Allen said. "But I was impressed with how we looked coming out at the beginning." Penn State also received re spectable performances from d trio of big men, Carl Chrabascz, Jim Newcomer and redshirt fresh man Ed Fogell. Chrabascz ended with 12 points, Newcomer with nine and Fogell with eight. Penn State outrebounded Marathon, 34- 32. The Oilers were led by Collins' 24 points on nine of 15 shooting. Milt Wagner, the former Louis ville Cardinal star and a second round pick in the NBA draft, ended with 16 while Bud Greer and Kevin Sprewer added 15 apiece. With two weeks of practice re maining before the Blue-White game (Nov. 22) Parkhill said he's pleased with his club's progress. "I think (we've come around) pretty well," Parkhill said. "I think we're getting to a point where the guys realize what they have to do. ~ three weeks of collegiate practice is tough on all freshmen. "Mike's gonna be fine, there is no question about it," Parkhill said. "We felt that, as with all of the freshmen, that it was a really tough situation for them tonight, to be out there with people in the stands an playing against really good players and not even being comfortable with our system yet." But playing on big courts in front of a lot of fans is nothing new for luzzolino. At Altoona, his team played one of the toughest schedules in the state and traveled to play in towns from Erie to Philadelphia. luzzolino said the hardest thing is the adjust ment of not playing all of the time. "I'm not nervous when I play anymore," luzzolino said. "I've been doing this for a long time." • -; - 1- , • ~• score less than four minutes later But the Lady Lions increased their its previous nine games, all of which overtime record to 4-1-2 when Neave were Rams victories .. . the victory tallied the game-winner with 1:06 upped Penn State's away mark to 8-3- remaining in the first overtime. 1 . . . the Lady Lions end the regular The contest was a fitting culmina- season riding a 24-game home unde tion to the regular season, because as feated streak . Flyer Steve Zezel falls at the feet of Devil Steve Richmond Flyers crush Devils; Penguins tie Canucks Lemieux has at least one point in each of Pittsburgh's 13 games and PHILADELPHIA Tim Kerr has scored goals in seven consecutive scored two second-period power-play games. goals to lead the Philadelphia Flyers Pittsburgh tied rthe game on a to a 7-1 victory over the New Jersey power play at 6:15 of the second Devils in an NHL contest last night. period. Moe Mantha took a pass from The win was the Flyers' third Terry Ruskowski, held the puck, then straight and their 10-2 record is the shot into the open net after pulling league's best. The Flyers are 8-0 at goalie Wendell Young out of the home. crease. By The Associated Press The loss dropped the Devils to 6-6. Philadelphia took a 2-1 lead in the Jets 6, Nordiques 3 second period when Kerr received a QUEBEC Winnipeg defenseman pass from Brian Propp in the slot and Jim Kyte's first goal of the season at fired a 20-foot wrist shot that de- 6:11 of the third period spoiled a fleeted off New Jersey goaltender comeback by the Quebec Nordiques Alain Chevrier's stick and behind him and lifted the Jets to a 6-3 victory in on a power play at 5:05. _ NHL action last night. Kerr scored again on a power play Kyte took a pass from teammate with one minute remaining in the Andrew Mcßain just inside the Que period when he took a pass from Ilkka bec blue line and blasted a 35-foot Sinisalo in the slot and slid a low shot slapshot under Nordiques goalie Clint from 25 feet out past Chevrier. Malarchuk's glove to break a 3-3 tie. Derrick Smith gave the Flyers a 4-1 It was Quebec's first loss of the lead 1:33 into the third period when he season on home ice. took a pass from Scott Mellanby at Dale Hawerchuk had two goals and the right of the net and redirected the Gilles Hamel added a pair 13 seconds puck past Chevrier. apart late in the final period to clinch • the game for the Jets. Paul Mac Lean Canucks 2, PENGUINS 2 and Doug Smail had Winnipeg's other PITTSBURGH Mario Lemieux goals. scored his 17th NHL goal midway through the third period to give the Islanders 7. Capitals 1 Pittsburgh Penguins a 2-2 tie with the UNIONDALE, N.Y. Pat LaFon- Vancouver Canucks last night. thine and Mike Bossy scored two Lemieux took a pass from Dan goals apiece, leading the New York Frawley, fought off a check from Islanders to a 7-1 NHL victory over defenseman Dave Richter and the struggling Washington Capitals pumped the shot into the upper right last night. corner to take the league lead in LaFontaine's first goal of the night, goals. Dino Ciccarelli of the idle Min- on a power play, triggered a three nesota North Stars is second with 16. goal first period for the Islanders. The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1986 were many of this year's games, yesterday's battle was on the road, went to overtime, and was against a Top 10 opponent. Besides taking a third of its games to overtime and playing over half of its contests against Top 20 opponents, Penn State has hit the road for 12 of its 21 games. `lt was a very fast game. The ball moved up and,down the field a lot. It was intense. West Chester played well.• They came at us hard.' Gillian Rattray, head coach The Lady Lions' schedule should prove advantageous, however, when Penn State begins its quest for its third NCAA Field Hockey National Championship under Rattray. The 12- team field will be chosen this Sunday, and the Lady Lions area shoe-in to be selected. If they are, they will begin Rattray's eighth trip to post-season play on Nov., 15 at a site to be deter mined. LADY LION NOTES: The three goals scored by the Lady Lions yes terday equaled the number of goals that West Chester had surrendered in AP Laser Photo sports briefs McNamara AL Manager of the Year BOSTON (AP) John McNamara, who guided the Boston Red Sox from a fifth-place finish in 1985 to within one strike of the 1986 world championship, was rewarded yesterday with the American League Manager of the Year award. The self-effacing leader of the surprising Red Sox beat Bobby Valentine of the Texas Rangers by a single first-place vote in the balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of Ameri ca. Lemieux NHL player of the Month NEW YORK (AP) Mario Lemieux of the Pitsburgh Penguins, who scored a league-high 15 goals and added 14 assists in 11 games, yesterday was named the NHL Player of the Month for October. Lemieux, whose performance highlighted the Penguins' best start, 8-3-0, since Pittsburgh joined the NHL in 1967-68, edged Edmonton Oilers center Wayne Gretzky, Dino Ciccarelli of the Minnesota North Stars and Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Ron Hextall. Pena, Rhoden could be traded PITTSBURGH (AP) Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager Syd Thrift said he wants to make a trade to improve his last-place team and hasn't ruled out packaging pitcher Rick Rhoden and catcher Tony Pena in the same deal. "Let's say I hope to make a deal," said Thrift, who has made only two minor deals since replacing interim general manager Joe L. Brown last November. _ . Pena, a three-time All-Star Game catcher, will be on the final year of his current contract in 1987 and can become a free agent at the end of the season. Rhoden, 15-12 in 1986, asked to be traded before the 1986 season but later said he would be willing to remain with the Pirates if they renegotiated his contract. Rhoden's contract also expires after the 1987 season. Harrison lends skill, enthusiasm to booters By STACEY JACOBSON Collegian Sports Writer The date is Oct. 31 and the place is Jeffrey Field. It is 28 minutes into the second half of the Penn State vs. Temple soccer game and the score is 1-1. The Lions had scored first but their point was quickly matched three minutes later by the Owls. Theoretically, the game is 0-0 once more, as time is running out and the score is tied. Enter Penn State's Niall (pro nounced Nigh-al) Harrison. Harrison, a native of Ireland, picks• up the ball at midfield gaining posse sion from a defender. He jets down the middle of the field taking on and beating another defender. His drive continues to barely five feet outside the goal mouth, where the goalie comes out to greet him. Harrison toes the ball around the keeper and into the net. The score goes.to 2-1 in the lions' favor, and it remains that way for the rest of the game, giving the Lions their 10th win. "Niall's goal was of • the highest .quality," Assistant Coach Barry Gor man said. "He kept his head while other players might have been tempt ed to shoot from farther out instead of dribbling in." Who is this small but effective Irishman? Harrrison, a 5-5 senior, hails from Sligo, which is in the Northwest part of Southern Ireland, close to the Northern border. While in Ireland, he played for the Surnmerhill College team, along with his current teammate Paul Moylan. In 1981 he was a member of the Irish International under-18 team that won the European championship over No therm Ireland. Following his high school career, Harrison was planning to go to Amer ica, but not to Pend State. "I was suppose to go to the Univer sity of South Florida (USF), and their scholarship that they offered me fell through at the end of May in 1983," Harrison said. "I have an uncle in Philadelphia and he told me about the schools in this area so I wrote to them $lO SPECIAL PERM SALE 1 Shampoo, Cut, Blow - All PERMS I . Dry and One ONLY FREE TANNING $ 3 0 SESSION at ga/kFaittipe Reg. S4O-545 159 South:Gooier St. State College 4411,41.mtt ;'. ..* *vim '1?A:LOTI, e4 } g — N; .'4494P MF* M ' f+44/ Penn State's Niall Harrison, right, races upheld with the ball past a Seaton Hall defender in a game earlier this season at Jeffrey Field. Harrison, a senior from Sligo, Ireland, may not lead the Lions in scoring this season, but he still leads his teammates by example. and Penn State was the only one I heard from." "I talked to Coach (Walter) Bahr on the phone and he had someone scout me. I took my SATs in Ireland and before I knew it I was over here. I love it here, I've had a great time." USF's loss is definitely Penn State's gain. Harrison has been a starter in the right forward position for three years and this year he has been a starting midfielder. He has amassed two goals and three assists during the current campaign and holds the 10th position on the Lions' all-time scoring list. "As a player, Niall is quick and deceptive with the ball," Gorman said. "He's a competitor and he doesn't like to lose. He wants to play well and win with style and creative soccer. We like to get him the ball." 2374609 Lions not looking at bowl picture —yet By CHRIS LODER Collegian Sports Writer And from placekicker Massimo MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Amidst Manca: "It's always in the back of the throng of reporters who gathered our minds, but we've still got three outside the Penn State lockerroom games to go and we'll find out in a Saturday night after the Lions' 19-0 couple of weeks." win over West Virginia, there stood a Indeed, it is a question that is dapper television reporter eager to beginning to dominate every Penn find out the answer to a normally safe State press conference: "Are you question. thinking about a bowl game?" His mission was fairly simple: to "Where do you want to play?" find out from Penn State Head Coach Yet it is a question the players and Joe Paterno and the No. 2 Lions what Paterno would not like to address they feel about a possible bowl show- until the evening of Nov. 22, a few down.with No. 1 Miami. _ _ hours 'after the Lions play their final The reporter perhaps didn't know regular season game against Pitt. that asking a bowl question at this "We're thinking about Maryland, stage of the season with three because that's who we have to play in games left is like asking Sen. order to get to a bowl," said guar- Edward M. Kennedy about Chappa- terback John Shaffer. "If we lose to quidick. It's about as taboo as a Maryland, and we lose to Notre Dame voodoo doll. and we lose to Pitt, there won't be a In typical fashion, Paterno re- bowl in the country interested in us. sponded: "No, it isn't time to think "You have to go into these games about it. It's not time at all. The only running scared. And if you don't go thing we have to think about is into a game thinking that there's a Maryland." possibility that you might lose a game Not to be outdone, the reporter if you don't play the best game you continued to press the question to can, then you may very well lose a every player he interviewed, and like football game." the domino effect, he heard the same Still, it's an issue the Lions cannot response with each one he met. totally ignore. Following Penn State's From hero Marques Henderson: 23-3 win over Alabama last Saturday "If we lose one, that takes away in Tuscaloosa, talk of a Miami-Penn everything we've worked for." State bowl games has plastered From cornerback Duffy Cobbs: "If sports pages throughout the country. Harrison feels an important role as that it over flows to the team, they a senior on the team is to help some of look to him as a leader even though he the younger players. One of his major doesn't say very much. At the same contributions to the Lions is enthu- time he is a senior player, he's a good siasm, both in practice as well as in player and he knows the game" Moy games. lan said. "He criticizes when it is "I'm a little more involved in the necessary, but he won't put anybody game and with the people this year. down." I'm a senior and I'm playing midfield All his coaches and teamates are in as opposed to wing. We've got a lot of agreemant that Harrison's personali freshmen and you need to talk to ty is effervescent. them, help them out," he said. "I "He is chirpy and always bubbling think really all the senior, experi- with something to say," Gorman enced players are leaders. I look at said. myself as a bit of a leader. In midfield Harrison will be at Penn State for I'm more into the game. I try to keep one more year after this one although the team encouraged, tell them to he will not play soccer. He is getting a keep their heads up." degree in physical education and A unique aspect of Harrison's lead- hopes to. eventually coach the sport. ership role is the manner in which he He would like to stay and work in doles out criticism. 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