I Tuesdayday, Sept. 21, 2010 leers From Page 8. but he’s also the type of kid that the guys on the team respect,” Balboni said. “He does all the things you want in a guy because he gives 110 percent all the time. He's the type of guy kids want to emulate on the ice and off and it’s tough to find that mix.” Daley said the decision came closer to the start of the season Secondary From Page 8. That form is a dynamic one. Bradley's unit is starting to rotate from base to nickel more often, and on Saturday, Bradley used subs on multiple occasions after rarely doing so in the first two weeks. As for why the secondary •improved against Kent State, recording its first two intercep tions of the season, Bradley noted the pressure the coaching staff put on the players to succeed in both coverage and tackling. "I don't think they had a choice,” Bradley said. Safety Drew Astorino, who started 12 games last season was relegated to the bench aside from nickel situations after he missed a couple tackles early. Bradley removed cornerback Stephon Morris for part of a series when he didn't think Morris gave a good enough effort on a missed tackle. Andrew Dailey filled in at safety when Astorino was out, and Bradley said he was impressed with the junior 's performance. For Dailey, it was his first game with significant playing time since arriving in Happy Valley. Massaro From Page 8. game when it happened and remembered feeling uneasy when seeing former linebacker Sean Lee and Johnson talking to Massaro after the injury occurred. Gionta said the mental strain of such a serious injury is something a player can only fathom once he actually goes through it, but Massaro, who also wrestled in high school, was always mentally tough. The coach's initial concern over the injury led him to call Johnson and linebackers coach Ron Vanderlinden the next day. But Gionta puts the injury in the past Lord From Page 8. Track and Field junior champi onships. But with only a couple of weeks to rest before training for the 2010 cross country season, Lord fell behind in training, which she believes led to her lowest-career finish at the Sept. 11 Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational. "Taking those two weeks off, I felt like I started from the very beginning," Lord said, “I had only been running 30 minutes a day, a lot less miles than I had been doing before that. I feel like I start ed so low below everyone else at the meet. I had a month to train, where everyone else had three months." And although Lord has had a hard time rebounding from the summer, Ridder Lord’s room mate freshman year has posted two top-four finishes, despite a very similar summer. Lord said she and Ridder are very different athletes, which explains how reducing summer training affected the pair different ly- “Brooklyne is just a natural run ner. You give that girl shoes and Happy Hoar 10-midnight [53.45 Burgers 6-10pn^ (814) 237-0490 128 E. College Ave. www.darkhorsetavern.com “I’m the outspoken leader.” Tim O’Brien icers forward than in past years because there were so many quality options. “We have so many guys on this team who can wear a letter on the team this year,” Daley said. “It was a dose call I think for every one.” - "I had a pretty good sense,” Dailey said of getting time, evert in Bradley’s base defense. “But you gotta have a sense every game no matter what, because you’re always one play away from getting in.” Dailey said he wasn’t sure if he would play as often next week, saying, “We’ll see how the evalua tion goes.” Joe Patemo said overall, the secondary made progress but still has plenty of room to improve. “There are some kids that obvi ously made some plays we finally got a couple interceptions,” Patemo said. “We just have to anticipate a couple things better, make some things happen for ourselves, and then we’ll start to be a better foot- v ball team.” . Freshman cornerback Derrick Thomas had one of. Those two picks and played cornerback in the nickel package. Morris, who played with Thomas at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Md., said he was impressed with Thomas’ perform ance Saturday and expects to see more of him as the season pro gresses. Junior cornerback D’Anton Lynn noted the interception, now, as does Massaro. “Every day just thought about football,” Massaro said, “worked toward getting back, worked toward helping this team be sue-; cessfuL” Team co-captain Ollie Ogbu said Massaro’s recovery made it seem like no injury ever took place. In Massaro’s first Penn State start this past Saturday against Kent State, he was a dis ruption in the Golden Flashes backfield. On two consecutive plays in the first quarter, Massaro broke the line of scrimmage on rushing plays. The first time, he tackled Kent State’s Spencer Keith but not before the Golden Flashes quar terback pitched the ball to running she can run fast; Last year was my first whole year running, so my body is still like, ‘What are you doing?’ ” Lord said. “Brooklyne is a runner, she knows what she needs to do to be good, and I’m still learning. I tried to catch up in August before I came into presea son, but I feel like I overdid it with so much running at one time, that now I have it, I feel like I get it, then I hit a wall” Before collegiate running, Lord, a native of Media, spent her time playing varsity lacrosse, field hockey and swimming at Penncrest High School, though she had never run a cross country season until she got to Penn State. Because she came into her first season physically fit from other sports, Lord succeeded on the track. But Lord said that is also the reason she wasn’t able to maintain her level of fitness this summer. “People might think I’m just naturally talented, but the only reason I was good at running last year is because I put so much work into swimming and lacrosse, it made me a good runner,” Lord said. “Taking so much time off with everything that went on [this sum mer] and having only a month to SPORTS Stejnour said the group of Polidor and his fellow assistants all bring different leadership qual ities to the team, which will guide it to being successful. “I’m probably more of the out spoken, Outgoing leader,” O’Brien said. “I’m a team guy and if any thing goes wrong I know guys can count on me to take care of some thing on the ice of off the ice what ever it may be.” To e-mail reporter acbSls2@psu.edu where Thomas readjusted in mid afrafter a deflection and tiptoed his feet inbounds just before half time, as an athletic play he sees almost every day from Thomas in practice. He said making a play in a key situation should lead to more playing time for Thomas in the coming weeks. . : - The secondary isn’t , very debp, but that didn’t stop Bradley from getting some lesser- known play ers significant time on Saturday, frith tiie nickel package, Morris ahd Thomas play corner on the outside, while Lynn, who had the other interception, generally cov ers the slot receiver, a position he says he is ‘very comfortable at.’ Heading into Saturday’s game, the Lions stressed the need for a -takeaway and the need to improve on the opposing team’s 76 percent completion percentage against the Penn State defense. Hat led to the style and the rotation, which frill most likely continue in the coming weeks. “I wasn’t happy about that,- nobody on defense was happy about that,” Morris said. “We just tried to mix it up, and confuse the quarterback a little bit.’.’ To e-mail reporter: ajcs23B@psu.edu back Jacquise Terry on an optioh ' play. The next snap, he hit Terry for a five-yard loss. \ “He’s running with his body,” Ogbu said, “using it as if he was never hurt and not playing anx ious or hesitant.” Massaro didn’t put too much stock into his first start. For the redshirt sophomore, Saturday was just another day on the job. With coaches planning on rotat ing the defensive linemen to Stay fresh, Massaro’s role should stay the same. Because of it, his inten sity and speed should remain fully visible on the defensive line. “Just looking forward to things to come,” Massaro said. To e-mail reporter b|msl46@psu.edu'- train for it really just took a toll on everything.” . Lord said because of her long summer, her 12th-place finish at the Spiked Shoe Invitational was disappointing, but not unexpected. But what Lord said is in her favor is that she faced a setback before. After her freshman cross coun try campaign, Lord won the Bfoe- White intrasquad meet, going home for her December break determined to carry her success into track season. Lord ran an hour each day, leading to being in the best shape of her life. But once Lord returned to cam pus in early January, there was a sudden difference in her ability to perform as she had been. “The workouts started to get reaUy hard for me, even just run ning 30 minutes was getting hard,” Lord said. “Even walking up stairs, I’d have to stop and break I was so exhausted.” , Lord found out days later she Had contracted mononucleosis, and had to stop running until she recovered. 7 Initially told she would be out as little as one week, Lord said a week turned into two, and before finally returning, she had been out twqmonths —returning a full sea- Phils top Braves By Rob Maaddi ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PHILADELPHIA - Cole Hamels had another outstand ing outing, and the Philadelphia Phillies took advantage of an ==- error by Jason Heyward to beat th< AtL the janta Braves 3-1 on Monday night, increasing their Phi!ade * hia games. The two-time NL champion Phillies won Atlanta their eighth straight game and improved to 42-15 since July 21, when they traded the Braves by seven games. Hamels (12-10) allowed one run and six hits, striking out six in eight innings to win his fifth straight start a career-best. Brad Lidge finished for his 24th save in 29 chances. Brandon Beachy (0-1) gave up three runs one earned and four hits in 4 1-3 innings in his major league debut. He was a late fill-in for Jair Jurijens, who is still nursing a sore right knee. The 24-year-old right-hander was at the Braves' instructional Braga From Page 8. doing that and helping the team this fall.” Lions coach Bob Wanning is happy with the way the seniors, including Braga, have handled this season, not letting the pres sure affect their play negatively. During the team’s media day in August, Braga said he wished he had another year at Penn State to which Warming laughed and said, “So do I.” “They’re deter mined to embrace it and take advantage of it and leave a great legacy,” Warming said of the sen iors. “They’re just going out and playing really hard.” Braga isn’t the only Lion at top of a national list. Junior forward Corey Hertzog’s 17 total points, split between his seven goals, worth two points each, and three assists, are best in the country and his goal total is first in the Big Ten. son later for outdoor track “At the time, I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ ” Lord said. “U was] ready to go, everything was coming easy. They told me I had mono and I was devastated.” After finally returning, Lord was able to provide a spark in the steeplechase a 3,000-meter race with hurdles winning her first race at Bucknell, and making it all the way to the USATF junior championships by the season’s end. Lord tied her two setbacks together, saying her ability to over come mono has improved her out look on getting back to her old form. But Lord said she never even felt like she regained her form after her illness during indoor track “Last winter when I got sick I took two months off, and I didn’t get to run at all, so I lost all my base. I had been running 60 miles a week” Lord said. “Since I missed that and came into out door track and did the steeple chase, I never really got back to where I was.” Ridder said Lord being relative ly new to the sport is why she has had a hard time rebounding from running deep into the summer. “For everybody else, we’ve been The Daily Collegian league program in Florida when he got the call to join the team. A crowd of 45,256 was the 118th straight sellout at Citizens Bank Park. A fan wearing a red spandex costume and mask ran onto the field and briefly eluded security guards during the sev enth inning before Braves left fielder Matt Diaz helped tackle him. The Phillies adjusted their rotation so their three aces would pitch this series. Next up are Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt. Hamels did his job. The 2008 World Series MVP is pitching better than he did when he led Philadelphia to its second cham pionship two years ago. Despite a slew of injuries this season, the Phillies are primed to win their fourth straight divi sion title and are trying to become the first NL team in 66 years to capture three consecu tive pennants. The Braves went ahead 1-0 in the second on McCanns RBI double. Derrek Lee singled and scored on McCann's shot off the scoreboard in right. Hamels has an 0.49 ERA in his last five starts, and a career-low 2.93 ERA this season. Hamels would have a better record with some more run support . While Hertzog is clearly the Lions go-to scorer, Braga has assisted six of the junior's seven tallies. Hertzog said earlier in the season he doesn't pay much attention to awards and just wants to focus on the team's suc cess. After netting his first goal, Braga hopes his scoring touch keeps up. but he's not going to shy away from setting up his teammates either. And while the defenders may not be on the receiving end of many Braga assists, they're more than happy to give the Brazilian senior the ball anytime he comes open. "As a defender whenever we come out with the ball we look to play Matheus because he's so successful and he’s so creative on the ball.” Fetrow said. "He's just helping out the team in every game and we love giving him the ball.” To e-mail reporter: adrso79@psu.edu running since seventh grade," Ridder said. "I think it's just a challenge for her to understand that it's pretty rough on your body for an entire year since you haven't [run]. I think a lot of it is mental for her, and it's harder on her because she’s never run before." Lord admitted she is concerned about getting back though she has noticed results already. “I’ve already seen it start to happen, and I feel like I'm going to peak at a good time I still have two months," Lord said. "If I keep consistent, it will come. I just have to let it happen and not worry about it so much, because I do worry about it a lot.” But while many athletes have to work back to the top. coach Beth Alford-Sullivan said if anyone can do it, it is Lord. “Nicole’s going to be a player when it matters at the end of the season. This is one of the toughest athletes I've ever met." Alford- Sullivan said. “As long as she stays patient with herself, she’s only going to get better, and she'll be there when it matters in October and November.” To e-mail reporter: zefsoos@psu.edu
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