SPORTS
8J Friday, Nov. 5, 2010
lions shutout Indiana, ad
By Joe Mclntyre
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The final score was different,
but the final result was the same
The No. 8
Nittany Lions —=-
field hockey team FIELD
advanced to the HOCKEY
second round of
th
le Big Ten tour
nament Thursday afternoon,
defeating Indiana for the second
time this season, this time 4-0, in
Evanston, 111.
Freshmen
shine in match
By Brandt Gelman
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Redshirt freshman David Taylor’s pre-match warm
up routine alone would be enough to scare away an
opponent.
While his teammates sank back into their chairs to
watch last night’s intrasquad match at Rec Hall, Taylor
began by putting in his headphones and zoning out.
And as if the subsequent body weight squats and
pushups were not enough, Taylor ran laps around the
gym in order to get warmed up ordinary only by his
standards.
“I think that my conditioning is my greatest asset,”
Taylor said. “I like to push the pace so I can wear down
my opponent and get my technique going.”
Taylor had his technique going last night as he
pinned his opponent, redshirt freshman Jim Vollrath,
4:14 into the match. Penn State coach Cael Sanderson
said Taylor and Vollrath, who wrestled at 157 pounds
Thursday, had wrestled before in what was a close
match. After his performance last night, Sanderson
said Taylor has wrapped up his starting spot at 157
pounds.
Taylor said he has been working on getting out to
faster starts in his matches during the offseason.
“One of my problems is making sure when the whis
tle blows I’m ready to go out there,” Taylor said. “A lot
of times in my career I give up early points and have to
come back So if I can push the pace in the beginning it
will be really hard on my opponents.”
Sanderson said he was impressed with the way his
team, and Taylor in particular, really went after their
opponents. He said that it starts in practice; if the team
can come out fast in practice, the intensity will trans
late into real match situations.
Redshirt sophomore Justin Ortega said he felt
Taylor was one wrestler who stood out in the
intrasquad match.
Chloe Elmer/Colfegian
Andrew Alton (blue) and Kyle Moran go to the floor.
Men to open season
Tre Bowman prepares to pass.
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TRIVIA
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The Lions are set to face off
against Michigan today at 2 p.m., a
team the Lions lost to 2-0 earlier
this season.
Coach Char Morett watched
Michigan’s 2-0 win over lowa
Thursday and said she was
impressed by how the Wolverines
attacked the Hawkeyes.
Morett acknowledged if the
Lions want to beat Michigan and
advance to the championship,
they’re going to need to play even
better than they did Thursday.
“I think it’s going to be really
See FRESHMEN, Page 10.
Freshman Tar an Buie is far from nervous
Excited, ecstatic and anxious yes. But nerves
are the last thing he is feeling heading into Sunday.
Buie, like the rest of his team-
mates, is eagerly waiting to open up _
the season against East MEN'S
Stroudsburg at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at BASKETBALL
the Bryce Jordan Center after
weeks of practicing and scrimmag
ing against each other.
For the more experienced Nittany Lions, Sunday
represents one final tune-up before the season
starts. For Buie and the other freshmen, it will be
the first chance to play in front of the Penn State
faithful.
But for the entire team, Sunday will simply be a
breath of fresh air a chance to play against some
body not wearing a Penn State practice jersey.
“We’re just ready to go,” sophomore Tim Frazier
See MEN. Page 10.
Enter the Pick ’Em
Despite entering Sunday with a three
way tie, the Collegian’s NFL Pick ’Em con
test now has one person alone in front.
After a 10-3 week, assistant sports editor
Paul Casella has taken a one-game lead
over Nittany Lion Find President Jim
Regan.
Sports Copy Desk Chief Bill Landis
made his triumphant return to the Pick
’Em with an 8-5 showing last week.
Last week’s student contestant, Pete
Lagasse, went a mediocre 6-7. To top
Pete’s record from last week and bring the
students record back to respectability,
send the answer to today’s trivia question
to Paul Cassella at plcso32@psu.edu.
important for us to make sure we
get in our positions early,” Morett
said. “And that we
understand who
we’re marking
and shut them *”1?“
down that way We p en n State
really need to take
advantage of the
counterattack Jt
again like we did
[Thursday].’’ Indiana
When the Lions
faced Michigan at the end of
September, they had just come off
Chloe Elmer CTlietmir
Ed Ruth (top) grapples with Michael Lorenzo during Thursday’s intrasquad dual meet. Ruth earned a 16-1 tech fall.
Ruth
By Mike Still
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Just seconds before Ed Ruth took to
the mat for his 174-pound bout against
senior Michael
Lorenzo in the Penn
State wrestling team’s WRESTLING
Intra-Squad match last
night at Rec Hall, the
redshirt freshman had to take a phone
call.
With the pressure of competing
against his teammate already on his
mind, there was someone Ruth had to
talk to first his girlfriend.
Ruth didn’t specify what he and his
girlfriend talked about before his
By Alex Angert
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
impresses with win
match, but whatever she said it worked,
as Ruth dominated in front of a crowd of
nearly 3,000.
“I was just staying on [Lorenzo] and
going straight at him,” Ruth said. “I
want to come at him so fast and so hard
that he won’t believe that he stayed up
with me. Hopefully that’s what I’ll do
with all my opponents.”
After going up 8-0 on Lorenzo after
the first period, Ruth went on to defeat
his teammate by way of a 16-1 technical
fall just 4:13 into the match.
The redshirt freshman used his
aggressive style to his advantage and
persistently pursued Lorenzo the
entire match.
“I've said this a few times about
Tyler Sizemore/Collegian
Julia Trogele shoots at practice.
Oberto to retire
Portland Tfrail Blazers center Fabricio
Oberto has abruptly retired because of a
previously diagnosed cardiac condition that
caused heart palpitations.
Oberto, in his sixth NBA year, was signed
by the Blazers a day before the start of the
season to help the Blazers while centers
Joel Przybilla and Greg Oden heal from
knee surgeries.
Oberto experienced dizziness in
Portland’s game against Milwaukee on
Nov. 2.
He said Thursday he wanted to put his
health and family in front of basketball.
The Blazers also announced Thursday
that rookie guard Elliot Williams would
have surgery to repair a dislocated right
patella.
their first Big Ten win and Morett
said they didn’t come out with the
kind of intensity needed to win a
conference game.
But the Lions have an opportu
nity to atone for their regular sea
son defeat and exact a little
revenge today against the
Wolverines.
“I hope that for our team, this is
a game where we want to get
back” Morett said. “They have an
opportunity to redeem them
selves. When we played them in
[September] we just didn’t come
Lady Lions
eager to play
The Penn State Lady Lions may not have a 20-
point scorer on this season’s 11-player roster.
However, Penn State coach Coquese
Washington thinks she has a clus
ter of players who could rack up
double-digit points in any given
game
“For us, it’s going to be about
the team and the balance,”
Washington said at her weekly press conference
on Riesday. “We might not have somebody who
has 28 points and 12 rebounds, but we re going to
have a bunch of people all hovering around the
same spot.
“But that’s what’s going to make us a danger
ous team.”
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out with a great competitive mind
set. And we hope that we bring
that [today].”
Just as she did in the team's
first matchup with Indiana, for
ward Lauren Purvis got the Lions
on the board first Thursday.
The freshman’s goal came five
yards out off a deflection in front of
the cage.
Sophomore Kelsey Amy also
added a goal, in addition to two
penalty stroke goals from Jess
Longstreth, giving her six stroke
See TOURNAMENT. Page 10.
[Ruth], but he doesn’t get tired, he gets
warmed up,” coach Cael Sanderson
said.
“The longer the match goes, the bet
ter he’s gonna feel.”
Ruth the No. 1 recruit in his weight
class his senior year at Susquehanna
Township high school delivered as
he was expected to.
It was a different story in the 132-
pound matchup, however, as two evenly
matched grapplers battled it out for the
top spot on the depth chart.
Redshirt sophomore Bryan Pearsall,
a 3-23 finisher in 2010, took to the mat
against true freshman Sam Sherlock.
In a tense battle, Pearsall grinded out
See RUTH. Page 10.
By Jake Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
OUR THOU'.;;*
Sid almost got fight right
Kudos to Sidney Crosby for almost stick
ing up for his teammate Kris Letang.
In the Penguins loss to Dallas
Wednesday night, Crosby squared off with
6-foot Stars’ defensemen Matt Niskanen.
To be fair, Crosby impressed with his
pugilistic abilities.
But he fought the wrong person.
Crosby said postgame that he dropped
the gloves with Niskanen as a response to
Stars’ captain Brendan Morrow fighting
Letang. Morrow had three slashing penal
ties and was a pest all night, but Crosby's
fighting Niskanen doesn’t prove anything.
Morrow would have been the justified
opponent. Maybe next time, Sid.
WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL
See WOMEN. Page 10.