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Lady spikers* home is on the road
Tonight's match to be played at Iroquois High School
by Steven R. Smith
Collegian Staff Writer
The women's volleyball team
has had a tough road schedule this
year.
The lady spikers have traveled
to SUNY-Cortland, Buffalo
State, and Allegheny College all
in the first week of play. So you
would expect them to be excited
about their first home match
tonight.
They are excited, but they
aren't home.
The lady spikers were told last
week that problems with the gym
floor in Erie Hall had arisen
making it necessary for them to
play their first home match in the
Iroquois High School gym.
"It's disappointing that our
gym isn't finished yet, we were
looking forward to a home crowd.
It's like home really isn't home,"
says freshman spiker Chrissy
Whiteman.
Lady netters lose third in a row
_ photo by Mike Schell
I lie return: Nicole Anderson prepares for a backhand return in a home
match against Grove City College.
by Robert Kitchen
Collegian Staff Writer
The women's tennis team
suffered their third loss in a
row on September 13th to
Grove City, 9-0. No lady
netter took a match past the
second set.
Melissa Clark, the teams
number two seed, was absent
from the match due to illness.
This caused the lower seeded
players to play a higher seed,
putting the Lady Lions at a
disadvantage.
The home match against
Geneva College on
September 13 was cancelled
because of rain. Geneva
showed up for the match, but
decided not to play because of
the poor weather conditions.
The women had hoped to
initiate the new Erie Hall floor
with some of the kills and spikes
that lifted them over Buffalo
State and Carnegie Mellon last
week. Unfortunately the floor
seems to have buckled under it's
own weight.
One woman who has not
buckled under the weight of being
a starter is Chris Whiteman. She
put the spike into the spikers this
weekend by putting away 49
percent of her shots against CMU
in route to a 13-15, 15-1, 15-7
team win.
"We learned to play as a team
last week," says freshman Alexis
Pasteur. "We’re playing a lot of
matches and we practice together
all the time. We're living
together so we're learning to
work together."
Working together is just what
Coach Jan Wilson wants out of
her team.
"There are a lot of good
The match has not been
rescheduled.
Coach Dan Gallegos
"The losses aren't a
reflection of our
playing ability . All of
us are giving 100
percent . The future
looks bright"
-Karen M^jor
commented on his squad's
recent losses.
He said that Behrend plays
a tough schedule, including
NCAA Division I teams that
mc generally, stronger than
The Collegian
individuals here with a good
amount of talent, so it took a
week for them to learn how to
work as a unit. They've got their
games together now, the
Carnegie win was what they
needed to get them rolling," said
Wilson.
The CMU match got the
women rolling, but the win took
its toll when one of their young
starters, Lori Connick, suffered a
tom calf muscle. Connick had a
50 percent kill ratio against
CMU before the injury took her
out of play.
The Lady Lions are hoping to
continue rolling as they face John
Carroll (6 pm) and Thiel College
(8 pm).
"Were going to miss Lori on
Thursday night, both of our
opponents are teams to be
reckoned with. John Carroll is
always at the top of their
division," said Wilson
NCAA Division 111 teams like
Behrend.
Division I teams can give
scholarships to players and
thus can recruit much better
trained players, something
that Behrend cannot do.
Despite the decisive loss to
Grove City, Gallegos is
looking forward to the latter
part of the schedule. He says
the team will rack up wins
against teams that are on the
same level as Behrend.
"We should do real well
after Canisius (on Tuesday),"
said die first year coach.
The outlook of team
members reflects thepositive
attitude of their coach. **
'Katherine Rozumny said,
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Sports
photo by Mike Schell
The kill: Chris Whiteman rises up for a spike
in last Saturday's tournament at Allegheny
College while teammates Alexis Pasteur (left)
and Pam Allshouse look on.
Baseball opener rained out
The weather man decided to
put a damper on the start of the
men's baseball season.
The Lions were scheduled to
play Jamestown Community
College last Saturday, but the
rain started and never stopped,
causing the game to be cancelled.
Head Coach Greg Guilliams
will hopefully get a chance to see
his team play this Saturday in the
Edinboro Tournament. The
tourney starts with the Lions
taking on the Lakers of
Mercyhurst at 2 pm. If they
should win, the Lions will play
the winner of the Edinboro-
Gannon game.
The tournament gives
This week's sports schedule
Men's Golf A
Volleyball H
Tennis
Soccer
Baseball
Tuesday
Baseball A Edinboro*
Tennis A Fredonia
Volleyball A Case Western
Wednesday
Men's Golf A Allegheny
Soccer H Allegheny
Thursday
Tennis A Thiel College
Volleyball A SUNY-Fredonia
Thursday, September 20,1990
Guilliams a chance to evaluate
his players in a game situation.
The rookie coach says that he
will pay particular attention to
his pitching staff.
"How well or how poorly we
play this weekend will depend on
how well we pitch," said the
baseball skipper. "Pitching is the
key. It's 80 percent of baseball.”
Guilliams will have plenty of
pitchers to watch. The mound
crew includes Darren Wotus,
Matt Polison, Scott Franz, Alex
Horweth, Trevor Johnson, Chris
Kolovosky, and Jim Gordon.
Today
Mercyhurst
Thiel College
John Carroll
Friday
Buffalo State
Saturday
St. John Fisher
Monday
Edinboro*
♦Tournament
- Sue Cepicka
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