Tired of frustration! After a loss to Minnesota women’s volleyball looks tc rebound, Page 14, 10 I WEDNESDAY, Oct 22, 2003 jtt Sowers/Collegian Senior forward Timarie Legel breaks away from a Bucknel! defender. The No. 8 Nittany Lions shutout Bucknell 2-0 last night. Field hockey records shutout By Wade Malcolm COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | wrml26@psu.edu When it first happened, it was mere minutes into the game. After making a sliding save on a series of shots by the Penn State field hockey team, Bucknell goalkeeper Liz Jordan picked herself off the ground and got ready for more. And more is exactly what she got. Despite a valiant effort by Jordan that saw her stop 26 of Penn State’s 28 shots, the No. 8 Nittany Lions (13-3,3-1) beat an overmatched Bison (8-5, 4-1) squad 2-0 last night at Bigler Field. The Lions’ second goal was scored with less than a minute to go in the game. Karin Grap rebounded a Heather Conroy shot off of a penalty corner. Soccer looking to solve slump By Dan Good COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | dsgls6@psu.edu Near the end of yesterday’s practice, Gorman, expelling mild profanity Penn State men’s soccer coach Barry yesterday in frustration, has questioned Gorman drove a mini-tractor onto the the intensity of his players during the practice field. Attached to the vehicle current four-game losing streak that was a cart, which contained a garbage removed Penn State from among the can full of Miracle-Gro. The Nittany Big Ten’s finest. Lions filled orange cones with the sub- An example of what Gorman would stance and spread it over divots, in consider a lack of urgency came during order to promote grass growth in yesterday’s up-and-down practice, patches of dirt. After missing his target and . »„ Much like its battered practice field, kicking the ball out of bounds, ' , Penn State (6-7,1-3 Big Ten) has shown defender Paul Omekanda was DeChellis calls for success, players to follow behind By Jonathan Fodi and Derek Levarse COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS jpfl6s@psu.edu, dml26B@psu.edu There is a new coach of the Penn State men’s basketball team. There is a new staff and new players. But more than that, there is a new attitude. The team seems to have put last year behind it as if it is playing on a clean slate and coach Ed DeChellis is the reason. DeChellis, a Penn State alum and for mer assistant coach under Bruce Parkhill and Jerry Dunn, has returned to State College after a seven-year tenure at East Tennessee State. Since turning a cellar-dwelling Buccaneers’ program into a conference powerhouse, DeChellis is looking to make the same impact at his alma mater. THE bottom line Scoreboard HELD HOCKEY Penn State 2, Bucknell 0 Until that point, Bucknell still had a chance to win and they had Jordan to thank Twenty-six is a lot of saves. “I kind of black out when I'm playing. Nothing really stands out,” Jordan said when asked if any of her many saves Field Hockey stuck out in her Penn State 2, Bucknell 0 "It’s kind of a job to be a target." And there's no other time when a goalkeeper is more of a target than on a penalty comer which Penn State attempted 16 times. Both of Penn State’s goals were the result of penalty corners the first scored by junior midfielder Michele Rigby when she followed up a series of shots at Jordan. Not that Penn State field hockey coach Charlene Morett is signs of wear and tear as of late, most recently on Sunday in its 4 3 loss against Michigan State. DeChellis pulled no punches at his inaugural press conference, saying with determination that his team has lofty goals for the long term. “When you haven’t been very suc cessful, your expectation level may not be what I perceive it to be," DeChellis said. “Every opportunity we have, we talk about our goals as a team." Those goals include Big Ten champi onships and NCAA tournament berths. While some would consider these goals unrealistic, DeChellis believes that it is the mindset that his team needs to have. “I think that if you don’t think you can get there,” DeChellis said, “Why should anyone else think you can get there?” That attitude may be the most impor tant addition to the team. When forward Jan Jagla met his new coach, he made See DECHELLIS, Page 16. Today’s schedule VOLLEYBALL . Penn State vs. Ohio State at 7, tonight at Rec Hall Games to watch MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Florida Marlins vs. N.Y. Yankees, 8, tonight at Pro completely satisfied with the team’s performance. “We played with intensity, but we got a little careless inside 25 yards,” she said. "We knew [Bucknell’s goalkeeper] was strong. But, we thought, with the caliber of people we have shooting, we could adjust to that. We didn’t pick up loose rebounds.” The Lions will need to sure those areas up as they prepare to face per haps the most critical stretch of their schedule. In the next two weeks, Penn State will face No. 6 Michigan State and No. 5 Michigan. Morett said that given the Lions’ per formance last night they will have to focus on comer execution and keeping the field spread before facing the two Big Ten power houses from the Great Lake State. switched in posi tion with David Gray. Omekanda, S’ unhappy with • JT the tempo- rary demo tion, sulked and began walking slow- J|Bi § Iv. Penn State assis- j/f tant coach Marlon ' Leßlanc promptly removed him from W the drill due to his See SOCCER. Pape 16. Penn State head men’s basketball coach talks optimistically about the upcoming season during yesterday’s press conference. Player Stadium on Fox. Roger Clemens looks to pitch the Yankees past the Marlins one final time. In their own words ' * “I'm not sure they really knew what Patemo still deciding on QB By Robert Spruck COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | rjs336@psu.edu Zack Mills stood on the sideline wearing a head set for most of the last three games. That might all change on Saturday. Penn State football coach Joe Pater no refused to state the name of whom he would start against lowa this Satur day. He also wouldn’t say if he would play both Mills and backup Michael Robin son. “I don’t spend nights worrying about it,” Paterno said. “We’ll wait and see how it plays out.” Robinson has started for the Nittany Lions against both Purdue and Wis consin, as Mills was out with a sprained knee. Patemo said that Mills hasn’t prac ticed much during the team’s off week But he practiced Monday and expects him to practice the rest of the week Paterno said Mills isn’t quite at 100 percent yet, but he should be by the time Penn State leaves for lowa. “He looked like a 100 percent for the first time yesterday,” Patemo said. “He went through a couple tough drills.” Robinson is coming off the Purdue game 10 days ago when he struggled finding receivers and completed 10-of -32 passes. His lackluster effort came seven days after Robinson threw for 379 yards, in his first career start. Linebacker Deryck Toles said that he didn’t know who was going to start, but that it wasn’t going to be him. “I play defense,” he said. Back on the field Patemo said that freshman running Johnson drove drunk, that’s what’s important By Jeff Frantz There was an episode of the short-lived sit com Sports Night which followed a fictitious cable sports network where the show’s leading characters had to debate how to cover a news storyinvoiving MY OPINION reporters. Without hashing out the entire plot, the climax of the episode came when Danny, one of the anchors of the Sports Center knockoff, shot down the rationale behind proceeding with the biggest interview in network history simply because it was the wrong thing to do. His line: “Don’t use that last part. I believed you up until that last part.” Well, yesterday Joe Patemo addressed Tony Johnson’s Friday morning DUI arrest in much the way he’s addressed everything during his 52 year coaching career By emphasiz ing the development of young men over wins and losses. back Austin Scott practiced Monday. Paterno was waiting to see how the tailback was going to react to the work out. The 76-year-old said that Scott would be in the mix against lowa after not making the trip to West Lafayette, as he was suffering from mononucleo sis. But Patemo continues to support senior running back Ricky Upton. “Upton isn’t flashy,” Patemo said. “But when he gets in there he gets the job done.” thought he might be a little bit short-handed at running back and moved Donnie Johnson from wide receiver back to tailback, where he started the season. Johnson is currently splitting time between both running back and wide receiver. Patemo said that move was made as Scott could have been out three or four weeks. Ahead no longer Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden tied Paterno with 338 wins, with the Seminoles victory over Vir ginia Saturday night, 19-14. “I have a doll in my room,” Patemo said laughing. “I stick daggers in it.” But in reality, Patemo has the utmost respect for him saying, “Bobby Bowden is one heck of a guy.” He stressed that while he was dis appointed in Johnson’s actions, he believes Tony is a good kid. He said he’d probably have to suspend him a game or two to send a message to Johnson’s teammates that drinking and staying out late midweek were unacceptable. Patemo went farther, pointing out how much the Johnson family, includ ing Larry Johnson Sr., his defensive line coach, and Lany Johnson Jr., Tony’s older brother and last year’s Heisman trophy finalist, have done for Penn State and the State College com munity as a whole. But then Patemo made a misstep with his rhetoric. He said, “obviously it will get blown out of proportion because he is a foot- See COLUMN: FRANIZ, Page 14. It’s never late enough in the sea son for Big Ten football coaches to make a prediction. While the first Bold Championship Series standings, released yesterday, have four Big Ten teams in the top 15 Ohio State is ranked sixth, Purdue is eighth, Michigan State is 13th and lowa is the last team in at 15 veiy few coaches were willing to make a guess as to their team’s post-season destination. “I don’t take a look at that stuff too much,” said Michigan State football coach John L. Smith. “If we can be the strongest conference in the coun- See BCS, Page 16. to expect with a new coach and a new staff. But I think the players have responded well.” Ed DeCheills Penn State basketball coach INSIDE NCAA football .12 W. basketball.. 16 Swimming 16 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN In Scott’s absence against Purdue, fel low freshman Tony Hunt carried the load, rushing nine times for 47 yards. Moving again With Scott’s ill- mm* inn Cmfnnw Tell us all you want about how good of a kid he is... but let’s not make this out to be a guy caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. BCS standings show Big Ten high quality By Steve Swart COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | shsl4B@psu.edu Patemo
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