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Streak puts target on lions’ back
By Emily Kaplan try to psyche themselves up, because I don’t is what no team in the country has “I’m sure everybody wants to be
collegian STAFF WRITER chatting about the opponent know if there’s done since September 2007 that team,” University of North
they’re about to face. even anything beat the Nittany Lions. Carolina coach Joe Sagula said.
A few hours before each But when Colgate travels to Rec that needs to be No. 1-ranked Penn State opens Penn State opens up its schedule
Colgate women’s volleyball game, Hall on Sept. 4to face the three- said,” Baker said. its 2010 campaign with an active against the Tar Heels on Aug. 27 in
there’s a distinct buzz in the Red time defending national champi- “Our girls know 102-match winning streak, the Chapel Hill. “Fbr sure we would
Raiders’ locker ons Penn State, Red Raiders what land of pro- longest current winning streak in love to be that team. But I think
room. The Dlavers coach Ryan Baker is expecting gram they’re any NCAA sport. And every team what we’re more focused on is get
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Scrappers
By Jake Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Tyler Waldron showed once
again Sunday why he was the
Pittsburgh Pirates’ fifth-round
pick this past
June.
His bullpen's
perto
didn’t
either.
Waldron and
three Spikes’
relief pitchers
combined
hold
Mahoning
Valley tfaho.'T
Scrappers to
just three hits en route to a 4-0 win
at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park
Waldron (4-5, 2.89) threw the
first five innings, allowing just two
singles up the middle. He struck
out four and walked just one, fac
ing just two more than the mini
mum number of batters.
“Today all four of my pitches
were working,” Waldron said.
“That’s kind of been the thing the
last few outings. I've only usually
been able to have two or three
pitches, but tonight I was able to
use all four.”
Jhonathan Ramos, a left-hand
ed pitcher and the sole New York-
Penn League All-Star on the State
College (30-31) pitching staff,
entered in the sixth inning and
continued where Waldron left off,
throwing two quick innings of no
hit ball. Ramos, who earned his
second hold of the year Sunday,
improved his ERA to 1.72.
“He’s huge,” Waldron said of
Ramos. “Every single time, I’m
sure I can speak for the whole
entire team, that when Ramos
gets on that mound, he’s going to
throw shutout innings for how
many he’s going to go. We call it
closing the door and it’s always
nice to have a guy like that in the
pen.”
Justin Ennis and Jason
Townsend each pitched a shutout
inning to close out the game. As a
whole, State College pitchers
struck out eight and walked just
one.
The Spikes gave Waldron a
cushion early on, tallying two runs
in the first inning. The scoreboard
read zeros until the seventh, when
State College left fielder Pat Irvine
led off the frame with a solo home
run over the right field wall. The
Spikes added another run that
inning on a wild pitch.
See SPIKES, Page 20.
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Rugby honors former player
By Brandt Gelman
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Penn State men’s rugby team
took the field Saturday with heavy
hearts as it played its first game of the
fall season against its
alumni.
This past June,
Andrew “Schweppe”
passed away. While
playing softball, Schweppe collapsed
from what doctors referred to as a “car-
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something different from his team going at, and they p ose who gets an opportunity to play ting oul iere and competing, noi
silence. know what they the Lions this season seems to necessarily on doing something
“I’m not expecting anyone to want to do.” have one thing in mind: Kill the historic.”
say much before that game What they want to do, of course, streak.
Bob Warming (right) and Andres Casais talk after the Lions 3-1 exhibition win over Hartwick Saturday. The game was Warming's first as head
coach of the Lions after he replaced the 22-year coach of the Lions, Barry Gorman. Warming perviously coached at Creighton.
Players
By Andrew Robinson
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Mark Ftetrow has played soccer
all his life, is a starting centre
back and was named to the All-
Big Ten
Fresh) ' team
reshman
in 2008, but first
year coach Bob
Warming has
managed to
teach the junior a few things he
never knew.
“He’s a really smart guy. A real-
diac event.” He was pronounced dead a
short time after the incident.
Losing a member of its family caused
a lot of mourning within the rugby
team.
“It was very unexpected,” said Joe
Pullara, assistant coach of the rugby
team. “He was a big member of our
family, and we are one big rugby fami
ly.”
Schweppe transferred to Penn
State’s main campus in 1998 and played
three years for the Ruggers.
After his playing career, Schweppe
Pirates make money
despite losing
Don’t feel too sorry for the cel
lar-dwelling Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Pirates made nearly $29.4
million in 2007 and 2008, according
to team financial documents,
years that were part of a streak of
impressed with coach
ly smart guy,” Fetrow said. “He
gives all these pointers and we go
over all these things that I’ve
never learned as a player. I've
been playing my whole life and
I’ve never heard these things, a
lot of body positioning stuff, a lot
of stepping and pressing, little
things that just make your game
that much better.”
Warming, the new head coach
of the Penn State men’s soccer
team, has already earned the
praise and trust of his players.
With the Nittany Lions’ first week
taught world history at State College
Area High School, and played with the
men’s club team, the Happy Valley
Barbarians.
To honor his memory, the Ruggers
had an oak tree planted just outside the
west pitch, where the team holds most
of its games and practices.
“A former coach and alumni has a
tree farm, and thought it would be a
See RUGBY, Page 20.
More coverage on women’s rugby, |
SPORTS, Page 27.
futility that has now reached 18
straight losing seasons. The
team’s ownership also paid its
partners $20.4 million in 2008.
The documents offer a rare
peek inside a team that made
money by getting slightly less than
half its income (about $7O million)
from MLB sources including
revenue sharing, network TV,
major league merchandise sales
and MLB’s website. The team also
held down costs, keeping player
salaries near the bottom of the
National League.
of preseason training and their
first exhibition game under their
belt, Warming also has an idea
where his team can go this sea
son.
Penn State rallied from a one
goal deficit to defeat Hartwick, 3-
1, Saturday night at Jeffrey Field
in Warming’s first game as head
coach of Penn State. After
Saturday’s game, the coach said
he was happy with what he saw
from his players.
“They’re capable of really big
things and a lot of that starts with
in ceremony
Rugby players plant a tree in Keim’s memory.
U.S. holds on to beat
Spain
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim
called for a switch to his trade
mark “Orange” 2-3 zone with the
United States clinging to a one
point lead.
Kevin Durant did the rest,
blocking shots by Ricky Rubio and
Rudy Fernandez in the final sec
onds in the Americans’ 86-85 victo
See VOLLEYBALL. Page 20.
attitude,” Warming said. “Their
attitude is they believe they can
be great and I’m not going to dis
courage that at all because I think
the same thing. But we’ve gotta
keep making progress every
game.”
Senior co-captain Andres
Casais said his first feeling com
ing into camp was enthusiasm,
not just from Warming but also
first-year assistant coach Jason
Mims and assistant Isang Jacob,
who enters his second season.
See SOCCER, Page 20.
Brandt Gelman/Coltegian
ry over Spain on Sunday in a
warmup game for the world cham
pionships.
“Jim Boeheim said, ‘Let’s go
orange,’ ” U.S. head coach Mike
Krzyzewski said. “So we did. It
was his suggestion and our guys
did a good job with that.”
Durant led the United States
with 25 points.
The decision to go to the zone
defense for the last play caught
Spain off-guard after Derrick Rose
put the Americans ahead with two
free throws.