I Wednesday, Feb. 17, Winter Olympics Snowboarding, speedskating, Alpine skiing 8 p.m., NBC NCAA Basketball Purdue at Ohio State 6:30 p.m., BTN West Virginia at Providence 7 p.m., FSN Duke at Miami 7 p.m., ESPN Penn State at Northwestern 8:30 p.m., BTN Phoenix at Dallas 9 p.m., ESPN To read full stories: psucollegian.com Skiers on to regionals following solid season One team was unbeaten while another fell one event short heading into regionals Win over Kentucky secures playoff berth A tie by Virginia Tech allowed the Ice Lions to sneak into regionals. Comfort with partner keys hot doubles play The men’s tennis team is off to a 7-0 start in doubles play, its best start since 2006, when it started 11-1 2008 charges yield plea by Phila. man A 20-year-old South Philadelphia man has plead ed guilty to hitting two Missouri women with his car after a 2008 Phillies game, killing one and injuring the other. Twenty-year-old Joseph Genovese Jr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault by vehicle while driv ing under the influence, homi cide by vehicle, and homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence. He faces a max imum term of 13 1 2 to 27 years in prison when he is sen tenced April 13. Authorities said Genovese ran a red light while intoxicat ed and struck St. Louis school teachers Crndy Grassi and Sandra Wacker outside a Phillies-Cardinals game at Citizens Bank Park in July 2008. Janikowski signing is careless expense In typical A 1 Davis fashion, the Raiders made Sebastian Janikowski the richest kicker in NFL history. Seems like a nice chunk of change for a chunky place kicker. With no salary cap expected for the 2010 season, maybe the Raiders are using this to bait prospective free agents to coming to Oakland. For more of our thoughts, and to share yours, visit the MAKE PLAYS blog at psucol leglan.com. Q: How many different NBA teams did Marcus Camby play for before he was traded to the Blazers Tuesday? Monday’s answer: True. The Indiana men’s basketball team has never won the Big Ten tournament. Brandi Personett compel-? two perfect 10s on \aU* ■ Personett By Jake Kaplan COLLEGIAN S' Brandi Personett stood :tt i: foot of the blue vault run « .0 up; face full of determination Tn: ■ si ior had done this so manv times before. With her team cheering _ Personett started her sprint toward the Arms flailing, she approach- .i her destination, put iter h.m down, sprung off the vaui* and pr Rookie Turko time biding By Emily Kaplan COLLEGIAN V, Nick Turko was ahvav his abilities ninth grader even as a s; Dan Mickle, the —: boy's volleyball coach at Red Land ...... High School. remembers Turko as a 14-vear-old when 1 entered the program “He was just, you know, that ‘.\Y. Rut going uc e volleyball star lanky kid, a little bit awkwani a.,:; a. high sciioe' v, an h and wait he came in here and kept olio.; ;• >okie at Pear. mate hasn't exactly eveiyone that he was going to piay been much mn or Turko. But if the at Penn State," Mickle said. "We all freshman middle hitter is short on laughed because we've never hoi wliegiak- exp 'donee, he still isn’t someone play Division I volley;,*.-!. * - fV turko. Page 10. PSU peaking physically before title bouts By Ryan Loy COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITES In recent weeks, members oi 'he Penn State wrestling team nave jogged back to the center of liie eli de and waited for opponents follow ing restarts. As the season wears on, even the little things like that show that the Nittanv Lion wrestlers appear to be gaining strength. Not only have they been beating teams on the scoreboard, several Lion grapplers believe they have been in superior shape. With the postseason approach ing, the Penn State wrestlers are confident they can outlast their opponents because of their condi cementing legacy 1 S n iQ i II ij u power like I'SI ’-'"e years later, with nearly Red Land - utidieal record •n. Turko i. : reshir.an on the Xittanv 1... oV roster ; >:rd- T!ie Back Points biog has 4 JV the latest NWCA USA Today and intermat polls and where Penn State falls: psucollegian.com tioning something they credit to coach Cae! Sanderson. WRESTLING "You're going to get tired, but you're opponent is going to be more tired." sophomore 197-pounder Dave Crowell said. Since Cael has gotten here, it's been a complete 180 as far as guys fighting and con tinuing to pro<s the action." The No. 10 Lions 1 1:j-5-1> have won four-straight dual meets since consecutive road losses to No. 3 Ohio State and No. l lowa. The Penn State’s Cyler Sanderson (top) ties up Michigan State’s Anthony See wrestling. Page 10. Jones in their 157-pound bout Feb. 12 at Rec Hall. in-r ice; u 1 mat and n the air ■meat. just vv' took note g Roc Rail i accolades .cuts tor ti'ie n: :i _,..~ a Above tbe olleg'an psucoilegiarucom 'Chooi. i; ne at a nation- ■eel at Rec Hall. The senior has recorded : Penn State record book. ■Jessica Bastardi thought. "S'Tiously. finally." Personett had done what she and her coaches considered a per tect vault many times before. Yet a "10" had never flashed up on the scoreboard until this Jan. 23 home meet, and then again last Saturday at Pittsburgh. Personett referred to the Jan. 23 achievement as the best moment in her gymnastics career. But before she scored the first two per fect 10s at Penn State since 2003. many things had to happen and See PERSONETT. Page 10. Andrew Beam/Collegian Freshman middle hitter Nick Turko attacks the ball in Penn State's win over Laval on Saturday at Rec Hall. He had 10 kills on .909 hitting in the win. Lions crush Bison After defeating No. 14 Loyola <Md.) Sunday, many question marks lingered on how the IVnn State women's 1 acrosse team would be able to vVOME' handle its stren uous schedule The Nittany Lions were get ting ready for their second game in three Penn State days, and coach Suzanne Isidor wondered if her team would be mentally pre- Bucknell pared for the game. For the mean time. some of those questions were answered as the No. 18 Lions 1 2-0 1 defeated unranked Lesnick Bucknell 15-2 Tuesday in Lewisburg. The Lions extended their dominance of the Bison, improving to 14-0 all-time against the in state rival. The offensive scoring onslaught started when the Lions rattled off 13-straight goals before Bison junior attacker Becca Devine finally answered with her first goal of the season. Ur. >e, Clegs' Junior midfielder Laura Lesnick scored her third and fourth goals of the season within the first three minutes of the game. Soon after, many placers would follow her footsteps. Six Lions scored two goals on the day. while 11 players recorded at least one point in the victory. Isidor described Lesniek as a go-to player. She added the jun ior midfielder is doing more than just scoring goals. She is helping the team in transition and on defense. The Lions had 32 shots on goal, 22 more than the Bison attempted on senior goalie Stephanie Ellis and sophomore goalie Dana Cahill. Ellis was pulled for Cahill after the first half. Leading up to the game. Isidor stressed how important it was to keep focus and ignore a setback against the Bison. "We wanted to ignore the weather and have no excuses." Isidor said. Freshmen attackers Molly Fernandez and Havley Sofarnos continued their strong play, com bining for seven points in their second college game. Fernandez scored her first goal of the sea son early in the first half and added her second goal of the day later in the half. Sofarnos record ed a goal in both halves to stretch her season total to three. Once again, Isidor was not sur prised with her freshmen, saying they are playing with high confi dence and making the most of their time on the field. The Lions will now switch their focus to No. 2 Maryland. "We already started talking about Maryland in the locker room after the game," Isidor said. "We need to clean up some mistakes because Maryland will capitalize on those. We already have two wins under our belt, so we will be ready." To e-mail reporter: gjgso44@psu.edu Thk Daii j Coi.i i (,i \\ By Greg Garcia COUrGiA', S .~~.: ~:
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