-V 14 I MONDAY, March 21, 2005 |jj£MEirS LACROSSE BPSU falls to Stony In many ways, the win was a sigh of relief for Stony Brook’s program because it was its first win against a It was weird for Lars Tiffany to look ranked opponent since 2001. across the field on Saturday and try to It was also the team’s first ever win ■- come to grips with the fact that he was against the Nittany Lions (2-3, 0-1, now coaching against players who he’d ECAC.) .. spent the last four years recruiting. Though it’s still early in the season, ■>;' “It was the hardest game emotionally Stony Brook has given up double-digit ■* that I’ve ever had to coach. It wasn’t goals only once this year. And in this easy,” Tiffany said. low-scoring affair, goaltending made the On Saturday, Tiffany’s No. 20 Stony difference. Brook Seawolves held off the No. 19 Stony Brook goaltender Brendan Penn State men’s lacrosse team in a Callahan had five saves in the opening " -tight 7-5 victory in New York. 15 minutes to keep the Seawolves down By Slrage Yassin COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | suyll4@psu.edu %-MEN’S TENNIS Penn State gets victory in tune up for Big Ten By Dan Wlnklebleck COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | dpwl4o@psu.edu Go big or go home. That could be the motto for the No. 70 Penn State men’s tennis team because of its recent play. The Nit tany Lions (11-3, 0-2 Big Ten) have been either blowing out opponents, having won their last seven matches with shutouts, or being beaten soundly by two tough 7 Big Ten opponents. The Lions went big on Friday, defeating Penn State Duquesne 7-0 at the Blair Racquet Club in 0 Altoona. In their final non-conference match v of the season, the Lions Duquesne were impressive, sweeping toe doubles to start things off. The No. 1 duo of Mal colm Scatliffe and Mark Barry took %down Paul Clough and Rodrigo Lacayo, 8-1. That match did give toe young team its first real brush with toe adversity of a key injury, as Scatliffe iqjured his shoulder during a serve late in toe match. Not want ing to take any chances during sin gles, Scatliffe sat out of his No. 2 sin- gles spot, and toe entire lineup moved up a spot. All of the players , .stepped up and won their matches in ‘ sets, a display of toe team’s ' "prowess at singles. “Our singles continues to be a ; strength,” Bortner said. “We’ve done ! some good things there, and we’re ; still improving but we’ve got to get better at the doubles, which is still . not up to par with our singles.” The shift in the lineup set the , stage for freshman Chris Sherman, ■ the talented doubles player, to see ; some action at No. 6 singles. The freshman took care of business, beat - ing Rob Ojeda, 6-1,6-0. “In the Big Ten there are situa tions where different guys need to 'step in,” Bortner said. “You need seven or eight guys who can play in order to be competitive.” Wrestling From Page 10. a lot of leverage. He gets in on those shots on most people and bring them in and scramble.” Davis, a redshirt freshman, wrestled and won later Friday night against No. 12 seed Wynn Michalak of Central Michigan, 6-5, setting a date for a sev enth-place match Saturday morning. Bradley’s loss to Glynn and Davis’ to vjtosholt started a series of five consecu tive losses for the Lions. The stretch Eliminated senior Adam Smith at 125- *pounds, sophomore Nate Galloway at '157, and junior Joel Edwards at heavy weight. Lacrosse From Page 10. Shari Maslin hit the post with a shot that would have sealed the deal for the Lions. With the score still tied at the end of two overtime periods, the game headed into sudden death. The third overtime was the charm for the Lions, as Chambers fed Burke in front of the net for the game clinching goal. • Though the two teams won 15 draws ! each, Chambers and freshman Jessie Lieb : controlled the most important faceoffs at •the start of the three overtimes, which :Gymnastics warmups. She hit her head with her leg and fell on her neck and developed a hematoma Fmm Pa do m on her le & K affected her during the meet, ■ ° ' as she fell off the beam and also on bars. It ; Allen also won the Ann Carr award on isn’t expected to be a long-term problem. -Senior Night. At the end of the night, seniors Kate s The Lions finished on what Clark says is Stopper and Allen were honored for their “‘pretty much eveiyone’s favorite event,” time at Penn State. Both were presented ;the floor exercise. Even though it wasn’t the with a blanket and a handshake from Penn ihigh score of the night, it might have been State president Graham Spanier. Jthe best event. The top five spots in the Penn State will now begin its postseason all went to Penn State. Clark scored a play as it has Big Ten Championships and •9.875 to finish No. 1. She was followed by Northeast Regionals. Uzelac, Jennifer Orlando, Pirkl and Hoover. “We just need to stay the course,” Shep- They scored a team total of 48.925. hard said. “The goal is to keep everyone Hoover was injured during pre-meet healthy and focused.” MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Penn State’s Dan O’Dell (left) sets Nate Meerstein as Matt Proper looks on WEIGHTLIFTING Strength coach provides glimpse into Penn State program By Jon Stewart FOR THE COLLEGIAN Many people wonder what kind of workouts Penn State sports teams use. For those fans, Paul Harrison offers some insight. Harrison, head strength and conditioning coach at Penn State, is in charge of every team sport’s strength and conditioning program, with the exception of football. His workout has often been compared to the HIT (high intensity training) work out, which consists of doing an overall body workout, with one set per exer cise, each done until the athlete can’t complete any more repetitions. Harrison, however, said that com Smith, a three-time NCAA qualifier, graduates in a month a half with no All- America medals, failing to reach his col legiate goal. He lost Thursday night to No. 1 seed Sam Hazewinkel of Okla homa, and in the consolation round Fri day morning to No. 8 Bobby Lowe of Minnesota. Galloway, while defeating No. 7 Matt Lebe, Paul Bjorlo and No. 4 Muzaffar Abdurakhmanov, lost to No. 10 Brian Smith and unseeded Brandon Becker. Believing the referee was counting for him rather than against him, Edwards lost in the second period of the opening round on a defensive pin and found himself prematurely in the consolation rounds. He couldn’t work his way back. Saturday saw more success than Fri allowed the Lions to out-shoot the Tigers 5- 1 in the extra sessions. The final draw con trol in sudden death proved to be decisive as it allowed the Lions to play for the last shot of the game. With the victory Saturday, the Lions have now defeated three of the four teams that made it to last season’s Final Four Van derbilt, Virginia and Princeton and have seemed to prove that last season’s 6-11 campaign, which left them short of the NCAA tournament, is a distant memory. “We’re only six games into the season. We have a lot of other games to play,” Isidor said. “But we’re a different team than we were last year. That’s for sure.” SPORTS Broo one goal after toe first period. shots hit toe goal post, negating oppor- knew he had to keep his team, and In only his first year as tumties for toe Lions to score. maybe more importantly, himself 7 head coach of Stony Brook, The Lions had their chances in this focused. Tiffany is still very familiar one and took a 5-4 lead into the fourth “We all know it’s just a game, not a c . _ with the type of game that quarter, but the Seawolves scored three civil war out there,” Tiffany said. Many Brook Penn State is capable of unanswered goals, including two extra- He did, however, exchange pleas -5 playing. He said he man goals from Jason Cappadora and antries with Penn State coach Glenn respected toe athleticism Chris Tacey, to close out toe game. Thiel. of toe Lions, knowing he’d Nate Whitaker extended his scoring Over toe Christmas holiday he came PannCfefe have to play a lot of zone to streak to 32 games with an assist to back to State College to spend some renn oaie have a chance. John Eremus, who finished the game time with Thiel at his home And a little luck always with two goals. “My experience at PSU was great. I helps, too. Tiffany said he really didn’t converse owe a lot to Glenn Thiel,” Tiffany said. llttany recalled about five times dur- with the Lion players being out there “He gave me a lot of opportunities to mg Saturday s game when Penn State was already emotional to begin with. He grow as a coach ”he said parison is unfair. He said that the HIT weightlifting program gets a bad repu tation, and that his workouts can include multiple sets per exercise. Like a HIT program, however, Penn State’s workouts are brief but extremely intense. “Some coaches feel that just by being in the weight room lifting, their athletes will become better,” Harrison said. “We feel that the strength that an athlete gets from lifting just gives them the potential for better performance. We would rather they lift hard when the get into the weight room than lift for a long time.” Another hot topic that Harrison talks about is plyometrics. Plyometric train day. Bradley defeated No. 3 TVavis Pas coe, 14-10 in sudden death overtime. “He [wrestled] a very gutsy perform ance against somebody who’s been ranked ahead of him his whole wrestling career,” Penn State coach Troy Sunderland said. “To go out and win it after being down two takedowns right away says a lot about him sucking it up and overcoming adversity.” In his seventh-place match minutes later, Davis rode Ryan Flaherty of Wis consin to a 5-0 victory. Just a week ago, Flaherty pinned Davis at the Big Ten Championships. “He made a lot of good adjustments from the last match he had with Flaher ty and listened to all the things we told him when we said he had to be ready to Swimming From Page 10. which were seventh fastest in the country. Juniors Amberle Biedermann and Sarah Haupt, and senior Deirdre Dlugonski are also All-Americans for swimming in the medley relays. Relays were a strength for the team, as the Lions scored points in all five. In addition to the medley Baseball From Page 10. Delaware cut the deficit to one run in the fifth inning, but the Lions bounced right back by scoring eight consecutive runs. Yesterday’s game was fairly simi lar. Tied at 1-1 heading into the bot tom of the fifth, catcher Aaron Greenfield led off the inning, and it initially looked as if he hit a home run. However, the officials ruled the ball bounced off the top of the fence, coming back into play. So, instead of a home run, Greenfield had to settle for a triple. former asst coach Lions prove prowess as season winds down By Mark Parzych and Adam Michael COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS | mrplB4@psu.edu The Penn State men’s volleyball team taught a lesson in punishment this weekend at Rec Hall. The No. 4 Nittany Lions (19-3) again proved that they are the best team in the East with overwhelming 3-0 victo ries against Mercyhurst (30-23, 30-17, 30-16) and Ball State (30-15, 30-20, 30- 22). Mercyhurst (7-9) and Ball State (10- 11) felt toe wrath of a team set on anni hilating anyone that stands in its way. “There’s a ruthless efficiency about us right now that I really like,” Penn State coach Mark Pavlik said. “As long as our passing holds up, we’re going to be awfully tough to score points on.” After losing to No. 2 UCLA last week, the Lions have a renewed sense of determination and intensity with eight regular season matches remaining. Now that toe California trip is out of the way, the Lions’ eyes are set on the NCAA tournament in May. Penn State is looking to play more passionately for toe rest of the season to prove to toe West Coast powerhouses that toe Lions will not go down without a fight. “Teams that we know we should beat, we’re not just beating them, we’re ! S' an destroying them,” setter Dan O’Dell said Nikki Sanner/Ci ing is usually thought of as a kind of jumping activity that is designed to enhance speed and explosiveness. Many of these plyometric drills are unnecessary, Harrison said. “Any footwork or agility drill is inher ently plyometric,” he said. “Even run ning is a plyometric movement.” Harrison said that the workout will often vary depending on the sport for which an athlete is training. He said that all athletes use all their muscles when they perform, so it is important that every muscle is worked regardless of sport. However, sports have their own unique injury areas, places that are more likely to develop and injury because of the specific movements go and how he had to wrestle the match,” Sunderland said. “He did a great job making adjustments and doing what you need to do to take the oppo nent out of the match.” The key, Davis said, was avoiding one of Flaherty's key moves. “He got frustrated because he thought he was going to pin me again,” Davis said. “[That] headlock is some thing you can get caught in once, you can get caught in twice, but if you’re smart enough, you won’t get caught a third time.” On being seventh, Davis was pleased but not thrilled. “Seventh, it’s not first, it’s not even third,” Davis said. “But it’s better than eighth.” relays, the team of Dlugonski, Individually, Haupt is an All- Haupt, sophomore Lauren Preyss American in the 100-yard back mid senior Lauren Semchyshen fin- stroke, finishing 11th in 54.01 sec ished 15th in the 200-yard freestyle onds. The distance group yielded relay. Dlugonski, Preyss, Sem- three All-America honors, with Mor chyshen and senior Jennifer Eberst ris finishing 15th in the 500-yard finished 13th in the 400-yard freestyle and 13th in the 1,650-yard freestyle relay, setting a school freestyle. record with the time of 3:21.86. Hawley took home 12th in the Preyss and sophomores Claire 1,650 freestyle, and diver Alison Ric- Hawley, Margy Keefe and Erin Mor- cobono earned her All-America ris took 15th place in the 800-yard honor for finishing 16th in the 3- event. meter event with a score of 460.15. On the next play, Greenfield was thrown out at home on a fielder’s choice. A 1-4-3 double play later, the inning was over and the Lions had nothing to show for the leadoff triple. “If you stay aggressive, be smart about it and stay focused and con centrated at your own at-bat, good things will happen,” Wine said of the team’s mentality. Luckily for Penn State, the bats came alive in the sixth frame. The Lions recorded four straight singles to drive in a run, as Clint Euiy later doubled off the right-cen ter field fence to send in another two runs making the score 4-1 and THE DAILY COLLEGIAN EIVA Player of the Week Matt Proper played a stellar match against Ball State, leading the Lions with 15 kills and a season-high nine digs. Co-captain Nate Meerstein and Proper each recorded a match-high seven blocks as the Lions outblocked the Lakers and Cardinals 11-2.5 and 14.5-4, respectively. The Lions’ victory against the Cardi nals appeared effortless in comparison to their last meeting in 3 January. Two months ago, Penn State showed up in Muncie, Ind., as a team Penn state suffering from fatigue after a season-opening trip to Hawaii and an ml overnight road trip. The _ .. Lions came away victori- Dall State ous in a five-game show- down, but they weren’t pleased. This time, the tables were turned. Ball State returned from Hawaii this week and the relentless Lions took no mercy. According to Proper, it was payback time. Penn State executed its offense precisely, hitting 0.600 against the Lakers and 0.448 against the Cardi nals. The Lions defense held both teams to less than 10 percent hitting. “We’ve got guys that understand that the true measure of a great player is how well you can make the people around you play,” Pavlik said. “And when it’s all said and done, we block pretty damn well.” that sport requires. To combat this, Harrison often adds extra sets of exer cises that focus on these specific areas. Some might look at the Penn State strength and conditioning workouts and conclude that the system is outdat ed or inefficient. This is inaccurate, Harrison said. He said that most peo ple forget that ultimately, all that strength in the weight room does not directly apply to an athlete unless that athlete is a power lifter. “We approach strength training as a supplement to enhance athletic per formance not as a substitute for it,” he said. “The strength gained in the weight room is only useful if the athlete can apply it to their sport.” Bradley got a second chance at Glynn. Combining a sluggish perform ance with a knee injury, which he sus tained in the quarterfinal match, Bradley struggled and lost, 9-3. He was also forced on his back, giving up the near fall, the first time that hap pened all year. “Glynn had his number this week end,” Sunderland said. “That’s the way it worked out. He had a better week end.” Sunderland planned on reinforcing the strength of Bradley’s season when ever he got to speak to him. “I want to let him know that he has nothing to be ashamed of and that he left it all out on the mat,” Sunderland said. effectively putting the game out of reach. And while the offense played uncharacteristically well, the pitch ing staff continued its consistent performance. Sean Stidfole struck out a career high 11 batters, as Penn State fin ished with 28 total strikeouts during the three-game stretch. The Lions never trailed during the weekend, and they’re currently above .500 for the first time this sea son. “To tell you the truth, I wasn’t real sure of our record going into this weekend,” Wine said. “That’s one of our strengths. We’re taking it one game at a time.”
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