The Daily Collegian Lions top ESU By Emily Kaplan and Jared Shanker COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS Coach Ed DeChellis said his team played like the L," was about to explode in their hands. In the Penn State men’s bas ketball team's 66-52 exhibition win over East Stroudsburg Sunday at the Bryce Jordan Center, DeChellis said the Nittany Lions were playing at “superspeed." Everyone who got the ball wanted to get rid of it or shoot it. And the coach wasn’t happy about Perm “It was just like gear down, slow East Stroudr-Eu dow n , DeChellis said. "We didn’t run any of our offense. We were just running around." Sunday's game was Penn State’s final tune-up before its regular season kicks off this Friday when it hosts Lehigh at the BJC. But according to DeChellis, the exhibition wasn't much of a tune-up at all at least offen sively speaking. "We were not very smooth," DeChellis said. "I tried to play everybody the first half. I think we did. I think that was part of it, but we just didn’t make any shots.” Penn State trailed the Division II Warriors at halftime, 26-21. Talor Battle tallied 12 points in the first half, accounting for nearly 50 percent of Penn State's scoring. No other Lion scored more than four points and, as a team, Penn State shot just 30 percent from the floor. The Lions picked things up in See BASKETBALL Page 12. Ketsey Moms/Collegian Talor Battle goes for a layup dur ing the Lions exhibition win over East Stroudsburg Sunday. Hopes still alive after loss By Joe Mclntyre COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER It's not over yet. Although the No. 8 Penn State field hockey team lost in heart breaking fashion. 4-3, m overtime to No. 10 Michigan in the second round of the Big Ten tournament, the team’s aspirations of making the NCAA tournament are far from gone. SPORTS ON Pittsburgh at Cincinnati 8:30 p.m., ESPN TRIVIA Q: Who won NASCAR’s 2009 race at Phoenix, the sight of next weekend’s piv otal race? Friday’s answer: Sidney Crosby has amassed 365 penalty minutes in his six NHL seasons. Ali Schaefer (center) scores the game-winning goal in Penn State’s 1-0 overtime victory over Michigan Sunday at Jeffrey Field OT winner captures title By Andrew Robinson COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Time was slipping away. Only 17 seconds separated the Penn State women’s soccer team from a tie that would nd iak of end its strei 01 consecutive Big Ten titles at 12. All the Nittany Lions needed was one final effort. Off a touch from freshman Taylor Schram, Ali Schaefer pro vided the dramatic goal. The junior midfielder scored Offense comes alive in blowout By Jake Kaplan COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Coquese Washington wasn’t surprised when she looked down at the score sheet during her post-game press confer- ence and saw the balanced scoring offense showed. Five different Lady Lions scored in double digits and eight of the nine who played scored at least five points, leading Penn State to a 91-58 blowout win With none of the Lions’ five losses this season coming from a team outside of the top-10 in average comput er rating (ACR), the Lions (14-5,5- Si - 3 Big Ten) find themselves in a good position to make the tourna ment. -IpcV. - The only losses the Lions have on their schedule have come against No. 5 Ohio Rugby takes championship The Penn State Lady Ruggers have won back-to-back national championships; but after their move to the Easter Pennsylvania Rugby Union for the fall season, they had to prove their worth in their new league. One season was all they needed, as the Lady Ruggers cruised to the EPRU cham pionship with a 53-6 dismantling of West Chester. Penn State brought a 6-0 record into the EPRU tournament, where they met Princeton for a semi-final match. Making quick work of the outmatched Princeton squad, the Lady Ruggers won 55- 11. For more, check psucollegian.com LUCKY 13 her first goal of the season to give Penn State (10-8-1, 8-2-0 Big Ten) a 1-0 double overtime win over Michigan (10-4-4, 5-3-2) Sunday after noon at Jeffrey Field. As soon as the ball bounced into the net and stopped in the back, the team celebrated its 13th straight title, a Big Ten record for any women’s sport. See TITLE, Page 12. against Gannon (Pa.) in an exhi bition game Sunday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center. “I’m not sur prised,” Penn State coach Coquese Washington said post-game of the balanced scoring. “I think we’ve got a lot of people that can make baskets and the emphasis for us offen sively has been, with everybody. See BLOWOUT, Page 12. State, No. 4 Connecticut, No. 3 Virginia and two against Michigan. Even the Lions' exhibi tion loss came against a top-tier team, No. 1 Maryland. Coach Char Morett feels that had the Lions made the final of the Big Ten tournament to face top-seeded Ohio State, they would have had put themselves in a safer position going into Hiesday’s NCAA tournament seeding announcement. But although the Lions didn't See LOSS. Page 12. Gameday will air from OSU ESPN’s popular College Game Day Built by the Home Depot program, with host Chris Fowler and analysts Lee Oorso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard, will orig inate from the Penn State-Ohio State clash on Saturday, Nov. 13 in Columbus, Ohio. The Nittany Lions will one of the partici pating teams at Game Day’s location for the second time this season. The program also originated from the Penn State-Alabama game in Tuscaloosa on Sept. 11. College Game Day begins every Saturday at 9 a.m. on ESPNU and moves to ESPN from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ET. The Game Day crew will be on ESPN and ABC with other live segments throughout the day. The public is invited to attend the pro gram. Late win sums up season By Alex Angert COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER against Michigan an offensively challenged squad the Lions need- Walt Disney himself couldn't a wal against to share the con have scripted this one better. ferenee title with Ohio State. Two games behind the And just Bke the season as a Buckeyes hi the Big Ten standings whole - the t 0 f, 0 three weeks ago, the Penn State’s See SEASON ’ Pa 9 e 12 women’s soccer team’s chances at winning its 13th straight confer ence championship looked slim until it received a miracle from the soccer Gods Courtesy of Crawford Architects A proposed drawing of the arena that would hold 5,600 spectators. Architect named, visuals released By Anthony Barton COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The Committee on the Finance and Physical Plant announced at Friday's Board of Trustees meet- ing that Crawford Architects of Kansas City, Mo., along with contribu tions from the firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson out of Wilkes- Barre, have been awarded the contract to create the architec tural designs for the new hockey arena. The proposal is for a 200,000- square foot multi-purpose ice arena, including two sheets of ice Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 I That opportunity came Sunday The Lions find out if their season will continue in the NCAA Tournament today: psucollegian.com and accommodation for 5,600 spectators. Thursday, the Board of Trustees' Architectural Selection Committee saw formal pres entations from three finalists before deciding on Crawford Architects. "They have a very strong design team, " said Associate Athletic Director for Ice Arena Operations Joe Battista. “We were very impressed that they had thought through all of the dif ferent amenities. Not just with the building but the landscape, how it’s going to be oriented in See ARCHITECT, Page 12. For coverage of the leers’ weekend sweep. | SPORTS, Page 10. Hamlin leads close Chase Denny Hamlin took control of the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup lead on Sunday in dramatic fashion, winning the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Hamlin’s No. 11 car now leads four-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson by 33 points and third place Kevin Harvick by 59 with only two races remaining in the Chase. Don’t count Johnson and Harvick out just yet, though. Both are more experi enced drivers than Hamlin, and especially in Johnson’s case, are used to driving in pressure situations. Hamlin’s win was a good step toward proving he has the guts to handle the intensity But we need to see more, izabeth Murphy Collegian
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