SPORTS
8 I FRIDAY N0v.19 2010
Lions to rely on
post against Stags
By Alex Angert
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Thirty seconds into Tuesday's game,
Penn State was a perfect 1-for-1 from
beyond the arc after D.J. Jackson sunk a 3-
point shot on the Lions' first possession
By the end of the game,
the Lions shot another 20
3-point attempts and didn't
make a single one.
Yet, while Penn State's
outside shot didn't work,
its inside game led by Jackson and Jeff
Brooks filled the void and provided the
Lions with enough offense to get the win.
Photo Illustration by Heather Schmelzlen Collegian
The Penn State women's volleyball seniors will play thier final regular season home match tonight at Rec Hall against Northwestern.
Seniors to play final home match
By Jake Kaplan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
There has been at least three
constants in each of the last
three national
c ampions ips ---
the Penn State WOMEN'S
women's volley- VOLLEYBALL
ball team has
__
won Blair
Brown, Alyssa D'Errico and
Arielle Wilson.
Tonight. that trio of senior co
captains, along with seniors
Cathy Quilico, Fatima Balza and
Jessica Ullrich, will play their
Wrestlers
ready for
tourney
By Brandt Gelman
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Penn State wrestling
team will face a tough test this
weekend as it
ears
Binghamton,
N.Y. to partici
pate in the 2010
Sprawl and Brawl duals
The Nittany Lions will have
three consecutive dual matches
on Sunday against West Virginia
WRESTLING
TH .!LINEUP
SPORTS ON TV
NCAA Basketball
Penn State vs Fairfield
7:30 p.m., BTN
TRIVIA
Q: How many times have two players
that wore the same number won the Cy
Young Award in the same season?
Thursday's Answer: Major League
Baseball last extended its playoff format
in 1995.
If you go
Men's Basketball vs Fairfield
7:30 tonight
Bryce Jordan Center
MEN'S
BASKETBALL
At 7:30 tonight at the Bryce Jordan
Center, the Lions will take on Fairfield with
hopes their post offense will continue to
carry the team if their shooting remains
cold.
"Coach preaches getting the ball inside
See STAGS. Page 10.
last regular season home match.
The No. 7 Nittany Lions host
Northwestern at 7 at Rec Hall on
senior night.
During their careers, in which
Penn State has set all kinds of
records and strung together all
sorts of winning streaks, the cur
rent senior class has helped
amass a record of 134-6, includ
ing 74-3 in the Big Ten and a
monumental 109-match winning
streak.
This season, the Lions are 24-4
and 13-3 in the conference, and
instead of thinking about the
senior night festivities, the sen
Jake Kemerer (right) wrestles in Penn State's win over Lehigh
(2-1), Harvard (0-0) and No. 24 since the 2007-08 season when
Rutgers (2-0). After opening its the team started 6-0.
season with two convincing vic- Penn State will open the tour
tories, No. 6 Penn State will look nament with a match against
to improve to 5-0, which would Harvard at 11:30 a.m., followed
mark its best start to a season See WRESTLERS, Page 10.
QUICK HITS
Gymnasts to scrimmage
The Penn State women's gymnastics
team is going to get a reality check on
Tuesday, but it's up to them whether it's
good or bad. The team is holding an
intrasquad meet on Tuesday, and it's
going to put up its top six gymnasts on
each of the four events and have them
compete for scores. The intrasquad will be
the team's last practice before they take
five days off for a shortened break.
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gymnastics team:
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Talor Battle (12) goes for a layup against St. Joe's
iors are trying to focus solely on
tonight's match against the
Wildcats. Especially because
there is a very good chance this
will not be the seniors' last time
playing at Rec Hall, as Penn
State is hosting the NCAA
Regional semifinals and finals in
December.
"Just focus on [tonight's!
match, - said Wilson, a multiple
time All-American middle hitter.
"It's not about senior night. It's
not like it's our last match ever.
Just focusing on what we need to
control."
Brown, an opposite hitter.
Ice Lions take on Rowan
The No. 10 Penn State Ice Lions (6-4-2)
will take on the No. 13 Rowan Profs at 9:15
tonight at home in the Greenberg Ice
Pavilion. The Ice Lions finally return
home after five games over three weeks
on the road, winning only two of those five.
After losing both games to the Ohio
State Buckeyes last weekend, the Ice
Lions know tonight's game is a must-win.
Sophomore goalie Ryan DeMuth said it
is definitely not an easy win for the team,
in fact it will be tough, but the team is
ready to play.
To wad the rest of Lauren
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Lions preparations:
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echoed similar sentiments
"It seems like yesterday I was
a freshman," Brown said. "It
goes by really fast, but right now
we're just focused on the
match."
The current senior class has
fluctuated in number throughout
the years. D'Errico and Wilson
are the only two original mem
bers of the class on the team.
Brown joined their class after
redshirting her freshman year in
2006. Quilico came in 2008 after
transferring from Boston
College, while Balza and Ullrich
See SENIORS. Page 10 .
Forgue to sit out in
matchup with ODU
By Mike Still
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Brian Forgue is the type of
player that will do absolutely
anything he can to help his team
win, including
sacrificing him
self if it means
giving his team-
The sopho
more defender did just that in
the 53rd minute of the Big Ten
men's soccer championship on
Nov. 14 against Michigan.
As Penn State keeper
Brendan Birmingham came out
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Lady
Lions
IAnA
in OT
It took 37 minutes of play, but
the Lady Lions' defense finally
showed up.
Down eight points to Oakland
with 3:15 left in
the second half,
the Penn State .V(J'''`s'
women's bas
ketball team
held the Golden
Grizzlies to one
point as it ral-
lied to force
overtime.
Once the
extra session
started, the
Lady Lions
took over and Oakland
defeated
Oakland 96-89
at The O'Rena in Rochester,
Mich., Thursday night. Aside
from the lockdown defending,
freshman guard Maggie Lucas
came up huge for Penn State
(3-0) down the stretch.
Lucas scored eight of the
Lady Lions last ten points in
the second half, including a
driving, twisting layup along
the baseline that tied the game
with nine seconds left. At the
end of regulation, an animated
Lucas made her way over to
Penn State's bench to fire up
the visiting fans.
While the Lady Lions scored
above 90 points for the third
game in a row, the fact they
gave up 89 didn't sit well.
"I'll just be blatantly honest,
our transition defense was
abominable today," assistant
coach Kia Damon told the Penn
State Sports Network.
"Oakland got in the lane as
much as they wanted, just driv
ing right past us. We can't give
up 89-90 points every game and
expect to win.,'
Freshman forward Ariel
Edwards contributed her best
game as a Lady Lion, scoring
16 points and pulling down
three rebounds. Despite not
starting, Edwards played
extensively in the second half
and overtime, contributing to
defensive surge at the end of
regulation
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of the net to pressure an oncom
ing Michigan offensive attack,
the Wolverines' Alex Wood sent
a shot toward
the Nittany
Lions' vacant
net,
With no other
option, Forgue
threw himself in
front of the shot,
receiving a red
card on the play Forgue
for a handball in
the box.
MEN'S
SOCCER
"Unfortunately, I'd love to be
out there, but I took a chance
See FORGUE, Page 10.
OUR THOUGHTS
Pirates spoof fails
It's pretty hard to write something that
makes you look more incompetent than
the Pittsburgh Pirates, but Sports
Illustrated's Jeff Pearlman succeeded
recently when he wrote a column mocking
the club. In his piece titled "What's ahead
for Clint Hurdle? A look into the Pirates'
future" Pearlman made exaggerated pre
dictions of how the first year of new Pirate
manager Hurdle's career in Pittsburgh
might look. Pinny? Sure.
Only one problem: Pearlman scheduled
many of his farcical 2011 events for dates
that have already passed in 2010. Nice try,
Jeff, but next time you rip the Bucs, try not
to screw up yourself.
By Andrew Robinson
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
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Penn State
See OVERTIME. Page 10