I FRIDAI; MARCH 19, 2010 NCAA Baskejball First round games 12.20 p.m.. 7 p.m.. CBS Philadelphia at New York p.m., CSN Boxing Powell-Latimme (middleweights) 10 p m . ESPN2 To read full stories psucollegian.com Lions' new additions make roster stacked The women's track and field team returns two key pieces frog its cross country team Includmg national champ and Chniplan Aleesha Barber. Niftany Lions, Vandy familiar off the field Somo members of the won - ,en's lacrosse team are good friends with Vanderbilt players. Sophomore Garcia returns from injury The defender returned to practice Tuesday from an ACL tear suftered last spring. Skiers reach summit, raise Penn State flag Tire club traveled to Colorado to ski the Rocky Mountain slopes at Breckenridge. Vail. Arapahoe Basin: and Keystone on a five day trio to the area. Lions still improving, look for turnaround Extra practice time outside helped the Nittany Lions in the if last tournament. Oklahoma St. ends PSU winning streak The Penn State men's tennis team (11-2. 1-0) had its nine game winning streak snapped Thursday night. The Nittany Lions lost to Oklahoma State (6-4, 0-2) 4-1. Junior Eddie Bourchier, who was 10-0 in singles play this year, lost in straight sets, 6-3, 6- Murray St., G'Town highlight first round Oh March Madness You teased us with an over time game between Villanova and Robert Morris. Thrilled us with Murray State's buzzer-beating jumper against Vanderbilt. Frustrated us with Ohio's upset of Georgetown. Favorites Kansas, Kansas State and Kentucky look like solid bets for the Final Four. Exhale. Because there's 16 more games on tap today. And if that's not enough, 16 more over the weekend. Q: Who scored the most points in an NCAA tourna ment game? Thursday's answer: Pat Melnally and Ryan Fitzpatrick, both from Harvard, scored 50 on the Wonderlic. Wrestlers kick off NCAAs By Ryan Loy ' , FAH VVRITEP I' an State wrestlers were on the offensive Thursday as they had a strong showing during the first r!ay of the NCAA championships Four Nit tau Lion wTestlers fin ished undefeated atter two sessions of the tourna ment and, will compete in today's quarterfinal inatchups. ,sociated Press guard Velton Jones (3) dives for 'Pint of Villanova's Scottie Reynolds in their first-round game ` , 11_,P.,A men's basketball tournament in Providence. R.I. Reynolds' Wildcats won in overtime, 93-90, Ft Mm Cal If ) in the second round Saturday . Physical Hofstra knocks out PSU 3y Alex Angert EGi,,,h S i - I,iNETER With !he Lady Lions' first post seasor fi\ e nears chalked up as a foss. coach Coquese IVashir 4 to ftf; , Nth ers, State alma mater 3W.a;ft* and headed to the locker room as lia• ;lone all SC;i'Oli lung How - c this which Hofstra put uu. criti to the Lieu 2009-10 sea son. WE: ningi on's players didn't immediately fol- Penn State low Instead. fresh off a season-end ing 7G-68 Women's National Invitation Tournament opening round loss to Hofstra. the Lions walked one-by-one to the student section and joined hands with the Marissa Gutherz/Collegian guard Alex Bentley reacts to an official's call during Penn IT game against Hofstra on Thursday. Freshman State's WN le six Lion grapplers who competed in the tournament went 5-1 during - Thursday after noon's opening round bout; and followed that with Molinaro an impressive per formance in the round of 16. VRESTLC Senior Dan Vallimont and soph omore Frank Molinaro had 40 The Washington's Post blog grades the Lady Lions' final game of the 2009 iJ ,2ason psucoliegian.com shirtless. chest-painted fans who stuck by the team all season long. For the seniors, it was the last time they would walk off the Bryce Jordan Center hardwood wearing a Penn State jersey But for the team as a whole, it was the book closing on the Lions' dreams of making a run in the WNIT and achieving postseason glory. In a game Penn State was still in reach of until the final minutes, Hofstra used offensive rebound after offensive rebound to pull away and eventually bury the Lions. "No question, they outworked us, particularly on the backboard," Washington said. "It seemed like See WNIT, Page 10. impressive victories to lead the Lions. Vallimont was one of several Molinaro's earlier win. Penn State wrestlers who were Molinaro took a 5-0 lead when he aggressive for the full seven min- used a high crotch shot to secure a utes of their bouts. takedown in the second period. The senior 165-pounder went on With riding time secured in the the attack at the sound of the first third, Molinaro got his third take whistle of his bout and got a take- down of the bout and finished with down just seconds into the first an 8-0 victory period. Vallimont stayed the Penn State 125-pounder Brad aggressor and finished with 4:52 in Pataky set the tone for the Lion riding time while winning by major grapplers in Session 11. when he decision, 9-0. See NCAAS. Pane Senior Casey Rohrbaugh cartwheels during Penn State's meet Feb. 20 Rohrbaugh and the rest of the Lions' seniors will be honored Saturday Emotional seniors set for home finale By Jared Shanker COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Steve Shephard walked over to Allie Southard, telling her to take a few deep breaths. "She gets a lit qe. 0- nal," tie . emotional," coach Shephard WOMEN'S said. Southard was struggling to find the words after she was asked how she would remember her senior season, which is near ing its end. Vallimont's major -decision win matched the domination of Villanova holds off Colonials PROVIDENCE. R.I. - Scottie Reynolds and No. 2-seed Viilanma nearly had their NCAA tourna ment run end in the biggest of upsets. Reynolds responded to his benching with a clutch perform- ance at the foul line in the final minutes of regula tion, and the Wildcats survived a scare from Robert Morris in , a 73-70 overtime victory Thursday Robert Morris in the NCAA tour- nament Coach Jay Wright sat Reynolds at the start of the game to make a "teaching point," and he missed 13 of 15 shots from the floor. But the senior star made seven of eight free throws in the final 3:06 to send the game into overtime, finishing with 20 points. Karon Abraham scored 23 for Robert Morris (23-13). which was on the brink of becoming Chic the fifth No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 and the first since 2001. Abraham let fly a 25-footer in overtime that cut the lead to 71-70 with 10.2 seconds left. but an &- balance 3 at the buzzer was no good. The Colonials left the court to a standing ovation. The Wildcats +.25-7). trying to reach their second-straight Final Four, entered having lost five of seven and were a surprising pick for the No. 2 seed in the South Regional. She paused for more than 30 seconds, bent over clear-eyed before coming back up with tears littered around them. "I'm so screwed," joked Southard, referencing her emo tions will be much worse this weekend. Saturday, the No. 15 Penn State women's gymnastics team faces No. 12 Nebraska at 7 p.m. in Rec Hall. Following the meet, Southard, along with four other seniors Alexandra Brockway, Brandi Personett, Casey See SENIORS. Page 10. GYMNASTICS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN By Dan Gelston ASSOCIATED PRESS Villanova
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