10 The Daily Collegian , , 1.14,;,47 Sid e 44*1;14 `I nes I A brief look at the world of sports NHL Los Angeles 3, Winnipeg 4 Anaheim 2, Colorado 3 Montreal 4, San Jose 7 NBA Indiana 122, Boston 119 OT Phoenix 87, Utah 110 New York 96, L.A. Lakers 114 Detroit 93, Sacramento 78 NHL Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 8:30 p.m. Edmonton at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m NBA Miami at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Portland at Indiana, 7:30 p.m. - Charlotte at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Phildelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Toronto at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Washington at Denver, 9 p.m. San Antonio vs L.A. Clippers at Ana heim, Calif., 10:30 p.m. Nicholson, Potthoff named All-Big Ten Lady Lion All-American candi dates Tina Nicholson and Angie Potthoff were selected First Team All-Big Ten for the second consecutive year. For Nicholson, it was the third year in a row she has been named to the first team. Thus, she became only the eighth play er in conference history, and first from Penn State, to be named first team three times. The two Lady Lions were joined on first team by confer ence Player-of-the-Year Katie Smith (Ohio State), Tangela Smith (Iowa) and Barbe Franke (Wisconsin). The media's first team featured Potthoff, Franke, Katie Smith, Stacey Lovelace (Purdue) and Ashley Berggren (Illinois). Nicholson was a second team choice. Lisicky slated for academic honor Lion sophomore guard Pete Lisciky has been named to the GTE District 2 All-Academic Basketball Team. Lisicky has a 3.27 GPA as a business adminstration major. He nows becomes a finalist for the GTE Academic All-American Team to be announced March 12. The remainder of the district's recipients were Terquin Mott (Coppin State), Alexander Koul (George Washington), Darryl Franklin (American University) and Alex Kohnen (Navy). Penn State was represented on the first-team the last two years by John Amaechi, who won the Academic All-American of the Year honor in 1995. Red Cross benefits from hoops fans Fans attending Penn State's two basketball games at the Bryce Jordan Center last week donated more than $1,400 for flood victims of PennsylVania. The crowd donated a total of $1,430.90 to the American Red Cross to assist victims of last month's flooding. Quote of 4 the [lair ,„ 4 "I'm intrigued by all the possibilities. The only people who won't benefit are the players on oppos ing teams who will have to try to block or tackle him." Bobby Hammond Coach of the WLAF's London Monarchs after his team signed William 'The Refrigerator' Perry to a contract. Compiled from Collegian staff and wire reports. Lou Henson soon-to-be-former Mini coach Lady legend's last shot lacking By GEOFF MOSHER Collegian Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio After Penn State sneaked out with a 72- 69 victory over Ohio State, senior Buckeye super-guard Katie Smith took about an hour or so to sign autographs. Sikh is the Michael Jordan of the Big 'Pen. conference, possibly of the NCAA. She gets about as many demands for autiigraphs, hugs, etc. as Jordan, excpitshe doesn't quite have the same cal. In her last college game, Smith wanted to go out with a bang. But instead, she went out with a brick. Smith misfired on her last three point attempt that would have sent the game into overtime, revived her team and ignited the St. John Arena faithful. "Some go, some don't," Lady Buckeye coach Nancy Darsch said. Actually, many didn't go for Smith. After scoring the game's first five points on a three pointer and a 10-footer from the left side, the shots got ugly. She only hit one of her next five shots, finish ing the first half with eight points on 3-of-7 shooting. In the second half, Smith was en frio, She continued to be off the mark, held scoreless until the 7:44 mark. She finished with 20 points, eight coming from the charity stripe. She shot 5-of-17 from the floor, including 2-of-10 from behind the arc. Not very Jordanesque. But for some reason, the Lady Lions have been somewhat of a nemesis for the legend. The Lady Buckeyes fell to the Lady Lions in Penn State's home opener on Dec. 28 in Rec Hall. Smith only mus tered 13 points. Lady Lion coach Rene Portland said Smith's pres ence psyches up the team. "I just think Katie brings the best out of everyone," Portland said. "When you are told to play Katie Smith, you know that you are the best defensive player that I have." In 1993, Smith kept defenses on their toes. She was named as the conference's Freshman of the Year, averaging 18 points, shoot ing 50.4 percent from the field Donna Adler leads the pack on the 3000 meter race during a meet earlier this year. The Lady Lions shot up the conference charts to a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships this past weekend. Sports Henson leaves mark on Illinois By DAVID COMER Collegian Sports Writer When a 24-year-old Lou Henson was hired in 1956 to coach the junior varsity basketball team at Las Cruces High School in New Mexico, his goals were simple. He wanted to someday become a head coach at the high school level, which he accomplished before the 1958-59 season when Las Cruces named him varsity coach, and then maybe win a state title. "When I started coaching I wanted to get a high school job and win a state title in maybe 40 years there," Henson said. He got that state crown in 1959, won another the next year and a third straight New Mexico championship the following campaign. In his four seasons with Las Cruces' varsity squad, he won 103 games and lost 16. Ohio State's Katie Smith tries to block Lady Lion Stacey Brewer during the Dec. 28, 1995, contest in Rec Hall. Smith was named Big Ten Player-of-the-Year to cap her senior campaign for the Buckeyes. and 80.8 from the free throw line. She became the first freshman to be named All-America since Cheryl Miller. As a sophomore, Smith aver aged 22 points per game and fin ished second in the conference in rebounds (6.1 rpg), assists (87), "We had to develop that program, and I did," said Henson, the coach at Illinois since 1975, who announced Saturday that he will retire after this season. "Winning those state titles stick out as one of the things I really cherish." The 64-year-old Henson has been coaching basketball for the last four decades, but follow ing the Illini's 91-86 defeat of lowa on Saturday, he said this season would be his last. He's won high school titles, led two different schools to the Final Four and captured a Big Ten title. Henson's 17-9 Illinois squad this season will need a strong finish, most likely three wins in its final four games, to give the coach his 17th NCAA tournament appearance. His first date at the dance came in 1967, when he led a New Mexico State team, known as the "Miracle Midgets" because they started a 6-foot-5 center and two 6-foot-1 forwards, to the tournament. New Mexico State was no different than Las steals (32), field goal percentage sixth in steals (169). She's now the (.493), free throw percentage conference's all-time leading (.819) and three-point field goal scorer. On the men's all-time Big percentage (.378). Ten list she places third behind Smith is the Lady Buckeyes' Indiana's Calbert Cheaney and all-time leading scorer (2,451 Michigan State's Shawn Respert. points), seventh leading rebound- But against Penn State, she has er (672), third in assists (415), and n't placed at all. Trackwomen climb Big Ten ladder to 4th By JORDAN HYMAN Collegian Sports Writer The Lady Lion women's track team obviously has taken a liking to the game leapfrog, as it hurdled over six Big Ten schools to capture fourth place at the Big Ten Indoor Championship this past weekend in Madison, Wis. The team wrapped up the compe tition with 39 points, a 22-point step up from last year's last place fin ish. Illinois walked away with the championship for the second straight year with 129 points. They were followed by host Wisconsin in second (111 points), and Michigan in third (48.5 points). The Lady Lions were impressive in their always strong distance events. Freshman Donna Fidler sparkled in her 3000 and 5000 meter races. She claimed third place in the 5000 meter with a time of 16:51.5, and snagged fourth in the 3000 meter coming in at 9:46.86. Fidler said she did not even dream of such a good performance. The team's strong hold in the mile run continued to shine through with junior Erin St. John taking third place with a time of 4:49.26, and her teammate Kim McGreevy on her heels at 4:50.28. Sophomore Erica Bosler wrote another chapter on her storybook Collegian Photo/Shawn Knapp season, taking home second in the 600 meter dash with a time of 1:32.57. She was also strong in the 400 meter dash, placing sixth. The Lady Lions kept their legs churning by grabbing a third place finish in the distance medley relay led by a team of St. John, McGreevy, Bosler, and senior Sue Huelster. Huelster put forth a good effort in her other event the 800 meter run. She snared fifth place at 2:12.42, only four seconds off the lead. Other highlighted performances were by junior Kim Hicks and freshman Sheraie Darby. Hicks finished fifth in the shot put with a top throw of 14.23 meters. "We're ecstatic. I think every body did well," Hicks said. "Even though everyone may not have placed, we still took fourth place." Darby shined in the 55-meter hurdles, placing sixth with a time of :08.49, and said there was room for improvement. "I still felt there were a few things I could have changed in my race," Darby said. Fidler said the team competed and finished beyond anyone's expectations. "We were hoping if we ran really well we'd be top five," Fidler said. "But we ran above our best." Tuesday, Feb. 27, 1996 Cruces High and Hardins-Simmons, where Hen son got his first college coaching job. He rebuilt all of those programs. At Hardins-Simmons, Henson transformed a losing team into a 20-game winner in only his second of four seasons there. From Hardins- Simons in Abiline, Texas, Henson went to New Mexico State and inherited a mess. The Aggies won four games and gave up the most points of any team in the country the year before Henson arrived. It didn't take Henson long to change that, as he led New Mexico State to the NCAA tournament his first season with the Aggies. He led the Aggies to the NCAAs five times in his nine seasons at New Mexico State, which included a trip to the 1970 Final Four. "If it had not been for UCLA, we had three teams that had chances (to win the NCAA tour- Please see HENSON, Page 18. Trackmen finish last in Big Ten By DAVID SCOPINICH Collegian Sports Writer Different year, same results The 86th Big Ten Conference men's indoor track and field cham pionships ended, well, in boring fashion. Wisconsin absolutely dom inated the rest of field, beating sec ond-place Ohio State by 45 points on its way to a second consecutive title. Penn State suffered from a bad case of deja vu, finishing in last place for the second consecutive year. "You've gotta go with what you got and if that's not enough on a given day, then that's that," Lion coach Harry Groves said. Lion James Cook provides a bright spot in the heptathalon The Lions were hampered by several sicknesses and nagging injuries, but Groves said those things come with the territory. "They aren't excuses, it's part of what the damn sport is about," he said. Wisconsin finished with a stag gering 123 points in the meet. Bad ger coach Ed Nuttycombe cited his team's balance as the key to victo ry. "These things go in cycles, and we're at the pinnacle of our cycle," Nuttycombe said. "We have a lot of depth and that's what separates us from the rest." Groves explained that talent was not the only factor in Wisconsin's victory. "You've gotta have a stacked team," he said. "You not only have to be good, but you have to be healthy." The two-day meet was not entire ly without highlights for Penn State. Jamie Cook finished second overall in the heptathlon, a gruel ing two-day, seven-event competi tion. "James Cook really did a nice job and all of the heptathletes really stepped up to the competition," Nuttycombe said. Cook, who is arguably the best all-around athlete at Penn State, was very pleased about his perfor mance. "I picked a good weekend to have a good meet. The competi tion was better than I expected," Cook said. He said he takes a simple approach to the heptathlon. "I just always try to take it one event at a time," he said. "Once you get some good marks, you just loosen up and let it happen." In track and field, if an athlete who is counted to perform at a cer tain level does not meet expecta tions, it hurts the team's chances for victory. Many Wisconsin ath letes met or exceeded expectations while some of the key athletes for Penn State did not reach their potential. "In track and field, you can't hide poor performances," Groves said. One of the more disappointing performances for Penn State, according to Groves, was Stephen Pina's long jump effort of 24-1 1/2. Pina, who has jumped considerably further than that already this sea son, picked up a fourth-place fin ish. Senior co-captain David Kriz placed fourth in the high jump with a leap of 6-11 3/4. Kriz barely missed the next jump which would have moved him into first or sec ond place. "Kriz had a good day," Groves said. "The (high jumpers) were all jumping well today." Page 12
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