12 I MONDAY, OCT. 11 , 2010
Rays fight back, tie ALDS
By Stephen Hawkins
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Evan
Longoria is still limping. Now he's
also hitting, and the Tampa Bay
Rays are headed
home, one victory
from an improba-
MOB
ble comeback .
Longoria snapped out of his
postseason slump with a homer
and two doubles, Carlos Pena
scored twice with a pair of extra
base hits of his own and Tampa
Shutout
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Through the first 20 minutes of
the game, the Lions starters were
a little too eager to pull the trigger
at times as Penn State rattled off
seven shots before lowa tallied its
first.
However, a substitution by
Walsh to bring in Bri Garcia and
Megan Monroig helped calm
things down. Then it was only a
matter of minutes before Penn
State took the lead.
With just more than 25 minutes
gone by in the first half and Penn
State controlling the tempo of the
game, Garcia made eye contact
with Christine Nairn on a corner
kick.
Nairn crossed the ball in front of
the net as Garcia emerged from
the crowd, and after freeing her
self from the defense, the reserve
midfielder headed the ball right
into the net for the first goal of the
game.
That was my first collegiate
goal ever so it definitely was a
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sloppy things we did last weekend
I think it was pretty beneficial."
Coach Scott Balboni said the
team paid attention to having good
power plays and shutting down
the opposing team's man advan
tage. Balboni said his team
focused on taking advantage on
special teams and the effort paid
off with two short-handed goals
from senior forward Chris
Pronchik and a power-play goal
from junior forward Chris Cerutti.
Pronchik added his team-best
third and fourth goals of the sea-
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great help with yelling at me and
keeping my head up so all good
words to my teammates."
The Spartans opened the scoring
on a 19-yard laser from Brent
Rosendall, who appeared to be off
sides, but no call was made. Overall,
the Lions didn't play up to their stan
dards in the first half and knew it
going into the break.
Hertzog and senior midfielder
Matheus Braga, the team's top play
makers were the biggest culprits but
responded strongly in the second half.
Braga struck a volley past Spartans
keeper Avery Steinlage in the 67th
minute, which Hertzog said turned
the game around.
"The first half was really bad, we
couldn't connect passes. I think that I
didn't get one single pass right in the
first half," Braga said.
"We had a conversation in the tent
and the team just picked their heads
up and we got back into it in the sec
ond half."
Bay escaped elimination again
with a 5-2 victory Sunday over the
Texas Rangers to force a deciding
Game 5 in the AL division series.
"We've really battled to get back
to' even," Longoria said. 'And I
think we have a lot of confidence
going home, and being able to fin
ish the series in our home ball
park"
To do that they'll have to beat
Cliff Lee who matched a postsea
son best with 10 strikeouts in a 5-1
series-opening victory. The Rays
lost the two games at Tropicana
great, great feeling," Garcia said.
"It's something that you want to
be able to say, you scored for Penn
State. And having done it now, it's
just a great feeling."
"Knowing it was a goal that
gave your team the confidence
they needed to keep going on, it
was just awesome."
After that goal, it was smooth
sailing for the Lions as Walsh con
tinued to sub players in and out to
give her team fresh legs.
The entire game, Penn State
dominated the attack finishing
with 25 shots, 12 on goal and
right before halftime, the team got
its second goal on a shot by sopho
more Julie Hubbard, another
bench player, from about 18 yards
out.
"We were a little impatient in
the first half," Walsh said. "I was
proud of the way they adjusted in
the second half and we did a better
job and showed more confidence
to keep the ball."
Behind a flurry of short passes
and simple play, the Lions contin
ued to utilize their depth to control
the game through the second half.
son on his two short-handed
opportunities.
Senior goaltender Teddy Hume
and sophomore goaltender Dan
Ivanir, who relieved Hume mid
way through the game, combined
to save 16 shots from the Dragons'
offense for the shutout.
On the other hand, the leers
fired off a barrage of 59 shots
toward Dragon goaltenders'
Adam Birmingham and Marteen
Naeff.
Balboni said getting off to a hot
start was the most important fac
tor in the game.
"I thinkit was crucial that we
didn't let them stick aroundi"
Balboni said. "We were able to
"The team just picked
their heads up and we
got back into it."
In pre-game warm-ups, senior co
captain Drew Cost suffered an injury
that caused him to miss the game.
Lions coach Bob Warming said Cost's
injury took a lot of energy out of his
team, but Braga's strike lifted the
spirits on the field and sideline.
Tactically, the Lions changed for
mations in the second half, which put
Braga closer to the forwards and jun
ior Mackenzie Arment in the middle.
Warming felt Arment's move was a
key to Hertzog and Braga's resur
gence.
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"His energy and speed in there
drew a lot more attention away from
Matheus and away from Corey,"
Warming said.
"Now they're looking all the time,
when you see a little bit of speed next
to you it always catches your eye and
SPORTS
Field before winning twice in
Texas to push a division series to a
fifth game for the first time since
the Los Angeles Angels beat the
New York Yankees in 2005.
"I still want to believe there is a
home-field advantage and hope
fully that's going to show up,"
manager Joe Maddon said. "The
extra game at home, I have been
talking about it all along."
If the Rays win they will join the
2001 Yankees as the only teams to
lose the first two games at home
and still win a five-game series.
In the 80th minute, a goal by
Tani Costa, who assisted the pre
vious score, sealed the victory for
Penn State and ensured the Lions
would come away with its second
road win of the weekend.
And while it was the bench play
ers who helped propel Penn State
to victory on Sunday, it was its
starters that carried the load
against Northwestern Friday.
Nairn had two goals, Hayley
Brock added an assist and Dani
Toney caused fits for the Wildcats
backline.
With the Lions set to play anoth
er two games this upcoming week
end, the team's depth helped give
them confidence going forward
into the Big Ten season.
"When you go into someone
else's home stadium, it's definitely
a lot harder," Garcia said. "But the
fact that we came out with two big
wins, we're definitely setting the
tone now. And we're telling the
rest of the Big Ten teams to watch
out because Penn State is corn
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trap them and we did a good job of
putting pucks onto the net."
Now, , the Icers will turn their
attention to preparing for
Central Oklahoma (0-6) the
squad that knocked off Balboni's
team in the second round of last
season's ACHA national tourna
ment.
"In the back of our mind we
know they knocked us out,"
O'Brien said. "We are going to be
extra motivated and focused for
the game. We aren't going to take
anything lightly and we are going
to try and take things up one
step."
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I thought 'Kenzie helped those two."
After rotating forwards all half,
Warming called in freshman Jordan
Tyler to finish the job. The brusing for
ward took over with his size, strength
and deceptive speed and opened up
space that led to Hertzog's winner.
Braga fed Hertzog after making
one of his trademark runs into the
corner, cutting around defenders then
feeding a low ball to Hertzog. The jun
ior took a touch then buried the ball in
the left corner of the net, before set
ting off for the bleachers.
Despite a bad show for the first 45
minutes, Warming's experience has
told him to stick with his playmakers.
Sunday, his patience was rewarded.
"That's going to happen with your
attacking players and the thing with
those kind of guys is you just have to
be patient and have some faith and
believe if you leave them on long
enough it's going to happen,"
Warming said. "The players just got to
keep their confidence up and you tell
them to keep getting after it but, 'do
better.' "
Matheus Braga
senior midfielder
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midfielder Matheus Braga,
found open space at the top of
the penalty area and hit a beau
tiful left-footed strike past the
Spartans' Avery Steinlage.
Braga, who also picked up ,his
team-high 11th assist in the
game, ignited the entire team
with his game-tying goal.
"It's unbelievable how good he
is and what he can do for the
team," defender Matt
Smallwood said of Braga. "He
opens things up, gets us going,
makes passes, gets into plays
and he's feisty"
Braga's brilliance was evident
once again in the 84th minute.
After beating his defender down
the sideline, Braga found
Hertzog in front of the net, who
made a shifty move to create
more room for himself, and
buried the eventual game-win
ner in the back right corner of
the net. In a second half in which
they unloaded 16 shots, the frus
tration of waiting for a goal
began to settle in for the Lions.
"It was the greatest feeling in
the world," Hertzog said of final
ly taking the lead. "When you
miss opportunities, it just sucks
and when you finally put the one
Arena
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the university wants in the
building. Battista, Spanier and
the Pegulas have traveled to
different hockey rinks around
the United States to help decide
what they want in the arena.
"We'll go through this list with
the architects to make sure they
know exactly where we want to
be," Battista said. "How many
club seats we want, how many
suites we want, how many differ
ent locker rooms we want and so
on."
One feature Battista said he
wants in the arena is the imple
mentation of the USA Cross Ice
youth hockey program. in which
dividers come across the ice,
dividing it into thirds. It would
allow for an expanded youth
hockey league, with six teams
playing at one time.
While nothing has been offi
cially decided, Battista said the
most important thing to him is
making sure it's a multi-use
facility.
"To me, we have to make this
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"You have to play
with passion."
Bob Warming
men's soccer coach
in, you can miss three or four,
but when you make that one it
just feels great."
However, the offense refused
to give up and kept the pressure
on. Confident that their aggres
sive play would finally pay off,
the Lions kept letting the shots
fly.
"When you shoot, something's
gonna happen," Braga said.
After a first half in which his
team had little energy, Warming
was proud of the way his team
turned things around the second
half. The Lions' rallying back
from a goal down speaks to their
ability to come together, find a
solution, and make the most of
the tactical change.
"We can put 10 cones out there
in those spots, and it's not gonna
win the game even if those are
the right places to be," Warming
said.
"You have to play with energy
and passion and want to get to
the goal, and those guys did a
great job of that."
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"The enthusiasm is
unbelievable."
Graham Spanler
Penn State President
thing pay for itself," Battista
said. "So we have to have
enough locker rooms to be able
to host a lot of tournaments. We
want to be able to have lockers
for public use and areas for
youth and high school area pro
grams to store their equipment.
We want the intramural players
to have a place."
The plan for the arena has
been set in motion because of
the Pegula's Sept. 17 donation.
Spanier said the effect of the
announcement has been felt
with the near-capacity crowd at
the leers' first game.
am always so impressed
with the turnout that we have
here for hockey at Penn State,"
Spanier said. "The enthusiasm
is unbelievable, and it's really
been elevated a lot with this new
gift."
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