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Orioles leave Erie
by John Musser
Collegian Sports Editor
Professional baseball in Erie is
gone.
In case you missed it,
Baltimore Orioles General
Manager Roland Hemond
announced that they have
terminated their player contract
with Erie. The reason? The
clubhouse, which was actually
the locker facilities at Roosevelt
school, just wasn't fancy enough
for the ritzy Orioles organization.
This is what Erie Orioles Acting
General Manager R.J. Zonna
received over the fax machine last
week as one of the main reasons
for the termination of the
contract.
Most likely, though, the real
reason was probably the one
given by Baltimore's public
relations man Rick Vaughn.
According to Vaughn, the Orioles
; wanted their Class A ballclub
playing a longer season than the
.one played in the New York-Penn
league. The NY-P plays only a
70-game season, and the Orioles
want their A team playing in a
140-game league.
The O's certainly couldn't
claim that the city of Eric wasn't
supporting the team. Over
56,000 fans squeezed into
Ainsworth field this year to
watch a team that spent almost
all of the summer in the NY-P
dirty clothes hamper.
Is this the end of pro baseball
in Erie? If Erie club owners Bill
McKee and John Wendel have
anything to say about it, baseball
may return to Ainsworth as soon
as next summer. Mckee and
Wendel are presently exploring
three possibilities: affiliation
with another Major League
ballclub, running the team
independitly with no affiliations,
or run the team as a co-op with
players coming from several
Major League teams.
Whatever they end up doing,
lets hope that Mckee and Wendel
are successful in keeping the
national pastime in Erie.
• Does anyone remember Al
Campanis, former vice president
of baseball operations for the L.A
Dodgers? If you're an aspiring
black Major League manager,
you probably remember Big Al
and what he said a couple
summers back about blacks not
having the right tools to manage
a baseball team to a pennant
winning season.
After looking at the standings
of the American League East on
Monday morning, I found it very
interesting that the Toronto Blue
Jays and the Baltimore Orioles
were perched atop the division by
no less than seven and four and a
half games respectivley over the
next closest team. With less than
a dozen games left to play, the
race most likely will be won be
one of these two teams. The Jays
and Orioles just happen to be
managed by black managers Cito
Gaston and Frank Robinson,
respectively. I wonder how Al
would explain that.
• Ever notice how most people
in the sports world refer to some
managers, at least those that are
black, as black managers. Just in
case you don't see how silly this
is, trying reading the beginning
of this next sentence. "Jim
Leyland, white manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates,...."
• With all due respect to
Pittsburgh fans, which
Pittsburgh doesn't seem to get
much of anymore, the Steelers
really, really suck. But then,
that's just one man's opinion.
• After two weeks, some
people think that the Browns are
looking a lot like a
championship team. Not to put a
damper on things, but the season
is only two weeks old, and the
combined record of Cleveland
opponents is a less- than-mighty
0-4. Expect to find out more
about Bernie and the boys when
they play their first real game
next Monday night in Cincinnati,
a club that also has something to
prove.
• Do you think we really need
the World League of American
Football? I didn't think so either.
• Still think Philly quarterback
Randall Cunningham isn't a
complete quarterback? Not only
did Cunningham have the big
numbers (34 completions, 46
attemps, five TD passes, one
interception and 447 passing
yards), but he also had the poise
to hold his team together after the
Redskins jumped all over the
Eagles for a quick 20 points. The
Eagles cameback to win on the
s!:ength of six Washington
tin - hovers and a Cunningham TD
pass with 52 seconds left in the
gar.!e.
All of this happened after
Cunningham worked out a five
year extension on his multi
million megabuck contract.
50m..."; % - ty forgot to tell him he
to earn it all in !me
day.
• I think we can all feel better
about ourselves now that Penn
state has gotten its first wia
under its beit against Temple, a
team that features a
Behrend soccer
team wins its first
game of the young
season
Lions shut out
Vincent College
The Behrend men's soccer team
had to use their heads, in addition
to overcoming a lot of obstacles,
before they could chalk up their
first win of 1989.
The Lions first taste of victory
came last Saturday in a 1-0 road
victory against St. Vincent
College, who came into the game
with a 2-2 record. Head Coach
Herb Lauffer felt Behrend could
have easily made the game a
blowout.
"We really dominated the first
half and could easily have been
up by two or three goals. Their
goalie played well, but a couple
of shots caught the posts, or we
might have walked off the field
with a lead."
The Lions continued to apply
pressure in the second half,
eventually cracking St. Vincent
for the game-winning score.
Senior Ken Crumb scored on a
header off of a perfect pass from
sophomore Mathew Gallagher's
corner kick.
"This St. Vincent squad was
better than Elmira and at least as
good as Allegheny," said Lauffer,
mentioning teams that narrowly
defeated Behrend. "Hopefully, this
proves we can win a tight,
defensive struggle."
Sophomore netminder Ken
Granholm stopped six shots,
including four in the second half
to preserve the shutout.
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The Lions managed nine shots
on goal for the game, with senior
midfielder Tom Kerr leading the
way with four.
On September 13, Behrend lost
a double overtime heartbreaker to
SUN Y-Fredon ia , 3 -0.
Junior goalie Chris Hahn saved
six shots in regulation, including
three big ones in the first eight
minutes.
In overtime, Fredonia
bombarded Hahn with seven
shots, scoring three goals. Brian
Charles scored the game-winner
for the visitors at 10:26 of the
first overtime period, when he
blasted a corner kick pass off the
crossbar. Charles added a second
"Hopefully, this
proves that we can
win a tight,
defensive struggle."
-Herb Lauffer
Soccer Coach
the final goal with 1:26
remaining in the second
overtime
The Lions will be looking for
their first home win when
Geneva College visits Behrend
today at 4:00.
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GROWTH
St.
Behrend
coach
named to
national
academic
committee
For the third time in the
past four years, Behrend Head
Basketball Coach Doug
Zimmerman has been
selected to serve on a
national committee on
academics.
Zimmerman, in his
seventh year at Behrend, will
serve on the committee
which is a body of The
National Association of
Basketball Coaches (NABC).
The NABC president,
Clarence Gaines of Winston-
Salem State University,
made the appointment of
Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is recognized
locally, regionally, and
nationally for his
outstanding commitment to
athletics. In his ten years of
collegiate head coaching,
four at Slippery Rock and
six at Behrend, Zimmerman
has graduated over 95 percent
of his student-athletes.
"Doug Zimmerman has
been steadfast in his efforts
to bring not only talented
athletes into our program,
but also students committed
to earning a degree,"
comments Athletic Director
Herb Lauffer. "I am pleased
that the NABC has once
again recognized Doug for
his interests in developing
young minds as well as
bodies."