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A brief look at the world of sports
Scores -
NHL
Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 1
New Jersey 4, Winnipeg 1
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 1
St. Louis at Dallas(n)
Los Angeles at Vancouver(n)
Boston at San Jose(n)
pchedules
PSU
Friday
Men's Soccer
PSU vs. Army at Jeffery Field, 7:00
p.m.
Women's Soccer
PSU at Michigan State, 1:00 p.m.
Womens Tennis
PSU at the ITA Team Tournament
Saturday
Football
PSU at Purdue in Lafayette, Ind.,
12:00 (ESPN)
Women’s Tennis
PSU at the ITA Team Tournament
Sunday
Women’s Soccer
PSU at Michigan State, 3:00 p.m.
Men’s Soccer
PSU at Ohio State, 2:00 p.m.
Women's Tennis
PSU at the ITA Team Tournament
NHL
Anaheim at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
Colorado at Washington, 8:00 p.m,
Edmonton at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Ottawa at Florida, 7:30 p.m.
Baseball (AL)
Seattle at Cleveland, 8:07 p.m,
Baseball (NL)
Cincinnati at Toronto, 8:07 p.m
-In brief
Straw may end up
behind bars for trip
1 NEW YORK— Darryl Straw
berry’s impromptu visit to a
nightclub this week
could land him behind bars for
violation of the six-month house
'arrest sentence handed down at
his income tax trial.
! “We’ve turned the case over to
the probation department,”
Deputy U.S. Attorney Shirah
Neiman said Thursday. The New
York Yankees outfielder stopped
inside a Manhattan nightclub
Monday night without permis
sion from his probation officer.
; Strawberry was sentenced
April 24 to six months house
arrest following his guilty plea to
ja tax evasion charge. But the
night after the Yankees lost their
playoff series to the Seattle
Mariners, he stopped inside the
China Club to visit some team
mates, said his agent, Bill Good-
Stein.
, Strawberry returned to the
jnajor leagues with the Yankees
this season after serving a 60-
day suspension for drug use.
; He plans to play winter ball in
Puerto Rico when his house
arrest ends the end of this
pionth.
Chang gets win in
Tokyo over Hlasek
! TOKYO — Top seed Michael
Chang turned in another quick
victory in the $1 million Seiko
Super tennis tournament Thurs
day, beating Jakob Hlasek of
Switzerland to advance to the
Quarterfinals.
• Chang beat Hlasek 6-1, 6-3 in
£6 minutes.
I “A shade on the heavy
Side of the middle of the
road. They won’t be as
long as Arkansas, but
they will be longer than
Indiana.”
Steve Fisher
| University of Michigan men's
; basketball coach on the length of
• his team’s shorts.
Compiled from Collegian staff and
wire reports.
Lions try to get out of Big Ten basement
By ROB AMEN
Collegian Sports Writer
Three tattoos ornament Jon Wit
man’s body one for every year
since he arrived at Penn State. One
is a panther and another a tiger. It
is the other and the one he plans
to get that might figure into this
weekend.
On Witman’s right arm is what
he calls a dream catcher, a tattoo
that filters out the bad dreams and
keeps the good ones. The fourth
one he has yet to don, a Mandella,
is an Indian good luck charm. Both
may come in handy tomorrow
when the No. 20 Nittany Lions (3-2,
0-2 in the Big Ten) invade West
Lafayette, Ind. for a 12:30 p.m.
kickoff at Ross-Ade Stadium with
Purdue (2-2-1, 0-1-1).
What could be considered a
major surprise heading into the
contest Saturday is the Big Ten
standings. Usual doormat North
western sits atop the conference at
2-0 while Penn State, a preseason
favorite for the title, dwells at the
bottom winless.
With national title hopes long
gone and Rose Bowl dreams a
recent memory, the Lions face the
question of where to go from here.
With a struggling offense and
inconsistent defense, as well as a
schedule that sees Michigan at
home and an away trip to a much
improved Wildcat squad, nothing
should come easy for Penn State.
“We’re still focused,” linebacker
Gerald Filardi said. “We just got to
take things one game at a time and
win our last six.”
But that is not the most enviable
task, even for a team led by Joe
Paterno. The Lions lost for the first
time since a snow-blown 24-6
defeat at Ohio State two years ago,
failed to fill Beaver Stadium last
week and enter the game tomorrow
as the team without the best run
ning back on the field.
That honor belongs to Purdue
fullback Mike Alstott. The 6-foot-2,
240-pound Heisman Trophy candi
date has accumulated 620 yards
this year and became the school’s
all-time leading touchdown rusher
against Ball State on Sept. 30.
“He’s a great player,” Paterno
said. “He does everything well. He
can run the football, catch the foot
ball, and when they tell him to
throw the football, he can do that
too.”
Penn State’s Dirk Ayers works on his short game during practice
Wednesday. The Lions are hosting the Northern Intercollegiate.
Dunn lands first eager recruit
By DAVID COMER
Collegian Sports Writer
The first recruit of the Jerry
Dunn era has verbally committed
to Penn State.
Carl Jackson, a 6-foot-8, 240-
pound forward from Wilde Lake
High in Columbia, Md., who
describes himself as a “banger,”
will sign with the Lions during the
early signing period starting Nov.
9.
More than 110 Division I schools
contacted Jackson, and after nar
rowing his choices to Penn State,
Providence,' Virginia Tech, DePaul
and James Madison, he decided the
Lions offered the best situation for
him.
Sports
Penn State’s Bob Stephenson (80) and Jeff Hartings (50) make some season. The Nittany Lions are looking for their first Big Ten win
running room for Bobby Engram (10) against Penn State earlier this tomorrow against Purdue.
Alstott may be the Boilermakers’
main scoring threat, but while Pur
due averages 32.4 points and 456.8
yards per game, it gives up nearly
as many 24.8 points per game.
“We’re just putting ourselves in
predicaments where we can’t make
plays,” Purdue Coach Jim Colletto
said. “We got to make sure we get
people lined up in the right places.”
But sometimes that does not
even help. Just ask the Penn State
defense. It held Ohio State on two
different possessions in the fourth
quarter last week but the Lion
offense sputtered, not picking up a
first down either time it got the
ball back. It gave the Buckeye
offense good field position with a
little over three minutes to play,
setting up the game-winning drive.
“It was a little frustrating,”
“We felt it was a great move for
me,” said Jackson, who is planning
to major in either business or engi
neering. “I liked the alumni situa
tion there. It will give me a great
chance to get a job after gradua
tion.”
Jackson averaged 14 points per
game last season, but his coach
Paul Ellis said Jackson made his
biggest impact defensively. His
12.4 rebounds and five blocked
Penn Sta^r^^urdue
■ Where: Ross-Ade Staduim . A
When: 12:30 p.m., Saturday
Collegian Prediction:
Penn State, 43-24
defensive end Terry Killens said, Many, though, are focusing on
“but if you keep dwelling on that it the fullbacks. The usually non-exis
will affect you into your next tent position has gained much
game. All the frustration is gone, attention this weekend with Alstott
We’ve pretty much forgotten about and Lions Witman and Brian Milne.
Ohio State. All that woulda, coulda, With Alstott gaining national
shoulda is over and it’s time to recognition, along with the Lion
focus on Purdue.” duo being named as possibly the
Linksters host tourney
By CRAIG YETSKO
Collegian Sports Writer
After tournaments in Rocky
Mountain and Wolverine country,
the Penn State men’s golf team
will not have to travel anywhere
this weekend as they play in the
friendly confines of Happy Val
ley.
The Lions will be hosting the
Northern Intercollegiate tomor
row and Sunday at the Blue
Course. Tomorrow, the 36-hole
round will begin at 8:30 a.m. and
the round of 18 on Sunday will
start at 8 a.m.
There will be 18 teams partici
pating in the tournament, includ
ing nine from the Big Ten. Lion
Coach Greg Nye said there is an
abundance of quality among the
teams.
“The teams that will be playing
in the Northern Intercollegiate
will be the best field of teams to
grace the Blue Course,” he said.
He said Ohio State is ranked in
the top ten nationally and is the
favorite coming into the tourna
ment. The Buckeyes lost to Min
nesota at the Northern Intercolle
giate last year at Michigan State
by one stroke. Nye said a player
to watch is Buckeye Chris Woll
man, who is one of the top five
amateurs in the country and
recently won the U.S. Public
Links tournament.
Nye said the tournament is a
as Nittany Lions head coach
shots per game led Howard Coun
ty, located between Washington,
D.C., and Baltimore.
“He’s an extremely big kid,”
Ellis said. “My needs are obviously
different on the high school level,
and he played with his back to the
bucket for me.”
During the summer, Jackson
played with an Amateur Athletic
Union (AAU) team from Baltimore
to improve his game and prepare
for his senior season of basketball.
He said playing against the high
level of competition the AAU
offers helped a “great deal.”
“It helped increase my aggres
siveness,” Jackson said. “And I got
to play against players from a dif
ferent area.”
Collegian Graphic/Matthew Zitelli
preview to the May champi
onships at the Blue Course and is
weighed the heaviest in NCAA
qualifications. “It’s a big deal,” he
said.
Since the Lions have had three
weeks to prepare for the tourna
ment, staying focused and work
ing on their game was important.
Senior Dirk Ayers said the team
has gone over its game plan and
worked on fine-tuning its game
the past few weeks. Ayers said
the team is looking forward to
this weekend.
“Everyone’s excited and we
hope to do well,” he said.
Earlier this week, Nye said his
team’s work ethic should pick up.
“I’m looking for practices to be
more intense,” he said.
The Lions will have a mix of
experience and first-timers in the
starting lineup. Seniors Adam
Decker and Ayers and junior
Brad Kittsley are familiar faces
in the lineup while juniors Tony
DeMarco and Brian Gillespie will
be making their first collegiate
start.
“It will be interesting to see
how they do this weekend,” Nye
said, adding that he hopes to see
some flair out of the four and five
positions.
Decker said he has been polish
ing his game this week. He added
that the team has not changed
anything in its preparation for the
tournament.
Jackson, who said rebounding
and playing defense are his
strengths, wants to improve the
range on his jump shot, which is
now about 12-15 feet. While Jack
son will be playing in the Big Ten
and in the new Bryce Jordan Cen
ter, he said those factors “didn’t
have much to do” with his decision.
Penn State may sign another
player during the early period.
Tim Wells, a 6-foot-7 forward
from Carver High in Winston-
Salem, N.C., is also considering
Penn State, according to the Win
ston-Salem Journal.
Wells, a player with excellent
athletic ability and quickness, has
narrowed his choices to Penn State
and North Carolina State.
Friday, Oct. 13, 1995
nation’s best platoon at the posi
tion, many consider this a battle of
the fullbacks.
But Witman said he is not wor
ried about the recognition sur
rounding the three fullbacks.
“I’m not really thinking about
that,” Witman said. “I hope he has a
good game but I hope we have a
better game. We have to do what
we have to do and hopefully the
defense does it’s job.
“We have to hold on to the ball,”
Witman added. “They have a very
good offense. We have to use up
the clock this week.”
That, however, may be the game
plan for both teams. And with both
Penn State and Purdue possessing
quality running games, the team
that has the ball last might come
out on top.
Stickwomen
ready for OSU
By DEIDRE STALLINGS
Collegian Sports Writer
The Lady Lion field hockey team
has many things going for it enter
ing its Sunday matchup against
Ohio State.
The Lady Lions are playing at
home.
They’re on a five game winning
streak.
They lead their overall series
against Ohio State 15-1-2.
But most importantly, they have
already defeated the Lady Buck
eyes this year by a score of 4-1.
While it seems the Lady Lions
have a great deal in their favor,
Lady Lions Coach Char Morett said
they are doing anything but looking
past Ohio State. Although Penn
State is well prepared for the con
test after a full week of practice,
Morett acknowledged that Ohio
State was plagued in their last con
test by injuries. She added that this
team has many assets, including
Dawn Pederson a first team Big
Ten player on the forward line.
“They are still a very dangerous
team,” she said. “We played really
well against them at Ohio State. We
don’t take any team in the Big Ten
lightly.”
Last year Penn State was in a
very similar position playing Ohio
State. The Lady Lions went to Ohio
State for their first matchup and
came home with a 1-0 overtime
win. But then the Lady Buckeyes
answered right back by coming to
Penn State and defeating the Lady
Lions 4-1.
But regardless of the history,
Penn State is planning to use the
momentum they have gained from
their past five wins to take down
Ohio State, sophomore Julie
Spealler said.
“Right now our confidence is up.
Everyone is working together and
everyone is supporting one anoth
er,” she said. “We have beat them
before so that helps. We know we
can win.”
Although the Lady Lions had a
comfortable lead in the first win,
Lady Buckeyes Coach Karen
Weaver said she is expecting an
even matchup.
“Ohio State and Penn State have
been a good rivalry over the
years,” she said. “I think in this
conference anyone can beat anyone
on any given day.”