Thursday, February 7, 1991
In the spolight: Head Coach Fred Paulsen prepares to present Senior Rick
Demski with a basketball for becoming Behrend's all-time scoring leader.
Rick Demski secures his place
Behrend's all-time record book
Becomes scoring, field goal percentage leader
ETIIST
The Collegian
Number 44.
For the past four years
Behrend has counted on number
44 to help it win games and,
perhaps more importantly,
provide the leadership to hold a
series of diverse teams together.
In fact, number 44 is the
foundation that Behrend
basketball has been built on. He's
a player so concrete, so solid,
that he makes the interior of the
court his own.
That player is Rick Demski.
On January 8, at an away
game against Grove City
°Oleg°, Demski caught the ball
on the rebound and put it back up
to sink a basket that put him into
Behrend's record books.
Demski became the all-time
leading scorer and all-time leader
in field goal percentages in
13ehrend history.
The record was previously
held by Glenn McKinney with a
grand total of 1276 points.
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Demski had 17 points in the
Grove City game to put him up
over the top.
"I really never thought about
it until after the game,"
commented the Erie native, "You
get caught up in it."
While the final figures aren't
in yet, some hoop followers
speculate Demski has cleared the
old mark by 40 points.
He wasn't recognized for his
accomplishment until Behrend
came back home to play SUNY-
Fredonia on January 17. Before
the tip-off, Demski was awarded a
game ball that, at the completion
of the season will be marked with
the total points accumulated over
his four year carter.
Demski is still shooting
around 50%, with an impressive
average of rebounds hovering
around 7.8 per game.
The 6'S" senior will graduate
next December from the School
of Business. After college
Demski plans on getting into
coaching. He said he would prefer
to start coaching younger kids
The Collegian
and perhaps sometime in the
future, coach a little more
experienced players. "I like
working with kids: he adds.
Demski is by no means
inexperienced in the fine art of
coaching. For the past three
summers, he has coached at
Niagara University in Niagara
Falls, Canada, teaching
basketball to hearing impaired
children. "They're fun to work
with." said Demski.
Before graduation and any
coaching plans, Demski still has
to finish the last five games of
the season.
"I'm very optimistic, I think
we can do it (win the team's five
remaining games)," commented
Demski.
When the top scorer of all
time in Behrend College history
was asked if he had any other
personal goals to achieve. he
!wiled. "To go out a winner."
It doesn't seem likely that
Rick Demski could go out as
anything else.
Lions edge
Elmira by two
Clinch second-straight road win
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The Collegian
The Behrend men's basketball
team is definitely off the roller
coaster and on the right track after
a spectacular, nerve-racking win
against Elmira on Saturday.
The basketball train has taken
the Lions to two consecutive
wins on the road.
Behrend came from behind to
win against Elmira by a slim
margin of two points, 67-65.
The Lions were down by•l2
points with ten minutes left in
regulation time, but battled back
to a deadlock with less than a
minute to go. There were only 50
seconds left when Junior Rick
Clark sunk a free throw to put
Behrend up by one, 64-63.
The Lions kept the lead in the
final seconds to nail the win.
"It was a great defensive effort
at the end," said Head Coach Fred
Paulsen.
This physical game saw
Paulsen receive a technical foul
for arguing with an official over
the ejection of Chris Morrow.
The freshman guard was ejected
for fighting.
Morrow got into a slight
shoving match with an Elmira
guard when a second Elmira
player took a swing at Morrow
and an official ejected the Elmira
instigator. Following that, a
second official threw Morrow out
for the confrontation.
Due to NCAA regulations,
Morrow is not permitted to
participate in the game following
an ejection by a registered
official.
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Also unable to play is injured
Freshman Don Plyler. Plyler has
a possible stress fracture which
will not be confirmed until
Friday.
According to Paulsen, he is
determined to stay on the
winning track for the remainder
of the season. He plans on
continuing to concentrate on
tough defensive play and hard
work.
"I don't think anybody realizes
how hard this team works,"
commented Paulsen.
The coach realizes that it will
be defense that wins the games
for his team.
"Our defense starts with
Randy Baughman. When he plays
well against the guards on the
front, we play much better
defense."
With a demanding coach
pounding the word "defense" into
the team daily, it would not be
difficult to forget about the other
side of the game, offense. But the
Lions haven't.
"Offensively, we are shooting
better than we did earlier in the
year," commented Paulsen on his
team's performance. "We are over
achievers."
This is evidently true due to
the Lions record being better this
year than what it was at the same
Point I4st year in the season.
Paulsen is optimistic that the
combination of accurate shooting
and tough defense will help the
Lions win their remaining five
games and finish up with a
winning year.
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