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Women's ByDAVEBROWN Assistant Sports Editor The Penn State women aoccer dub yesterday charged ttie Unlveraity with sex discrimination in an official Title IX com- plaint filed a formal complaint with the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education which is a federal agency in Philadelphia" said coach Tim Conley charge the University has violated the dvil rights of the women athletes at the University and the basis of it is sex discrimination based on Title IX which prohibits sex discrimination in any federally assisted The soccer club found out this week it had been rejected for vanity status for the second time in two yean which was the reason for the complaint according to Conley Athletic Director Joe Paterno said the only reason the women were denied vanity status was lack of like to be able to give them varsity Paterno told The Times last night just have that kind of money in the procesa of reviewing the entire athletic program It will be hard to maintain the programs we have now When thinking aboirt retrenchment difficult to think about adding another sport talked with our legal counsels and I told Dr (John) Oswald (University president) that probably have a Title IX complaint We thought about it very seriously We want it but with the situation in now we have to be responsible to the financial end a way of life and well have to take the results but we wish we knew what the decision The Civil Rights Office reportedly win inform the dub within 15 days if the complaint is within its jurisdiction clearly seems to be according to what told Conley said The office will have 105 days to complete its investigation and make a ruling If the ruling is in favor of the soccer club the University would have 90 days to voluntarily comply with the ruling that is to give the dub varsity status know Joe in a difficult position with the Corley said we have nowhere dse to go I think the there and I think clearly sexist going to hurt file athletic department and going to hurt us I coach any longer for free We have adequate medical protection or facilities We keep paying our own way were trying to avoid this It was our last recourse We really thought the University would think that soccer was a fully developed sport We fed confident about the grounds to the complaint but we like to The women's soccer club was the only non-varsity team to compete in the East Regional two years ago but the AIAW the governing body to sports has announced that no dub teams will be allowed to compete in regionals or nationals in the 1861 season committed to women's athletics and giving equal Paterno said 100 percent committed don't know of any other school which has SI varsity sports 15 of them and one coed When you look at what we've done to our programs it's tough to think not in compliance really wish we could help them a peat bunch of kids and doing a good Penn State women have eight national championships with three titles in lacrosse two in gymnastics and one each in field hockey bowling and fencing The 1973 Title IX legislation has been interpreted in a number of ways by various legal bodies interpretation based on past cases is that if a school offers soccer then it must offer soccer providing the women have a and a desire to day intercollegiate soccer'' (Title DC) is hazy at best but I think we have mine than legitimate grounds to our said Conley a former assistant to Lion coach Walt Bahr Conley who earned his PhD in American literature last year at Penn State works on the Shakespeare World Bibliography at Pattee Library The club began in 1977 and has made great strides under leadership the last two years The club compiled an 4 record last year against a schedule dotted with varsity teams and it finished eighth in the East in 1979 mmmmm The Centre Daily Times Saturday March 14 1981 Page 13 NCAA Tournament: Lion Matmen 7th some hard times and he given up but he got behind and tough to play catch-up against a tough wrestler like Lorenzo said Hanrahan impressive in his quarterfinal win over defending champ Matt Reiss of North Carolina State never got started against DeAnna in the semis made a mistake he shot with his arm out got and put on his back and that was it" Lorenzo said was a tough round for us Iowa with five men in finals and a few more alive in the consolations has all but clinched the team title Coach Dan Gable's Hawkey es are going to their fourth straight NCAA crown Entering this consolation action (3rd 5th and 7th (daces) Iowa had 11775 points followed by Oklahoma with 7825 Iowa State 6525 Oklahoma State 4550 Lehigh 30 Syracuse 2550 Penn State 2525 Central Michigan 2425 North Carolina 22 and Auburn 2175 Penn State had another fine session in the afternoon quarter-finals Against the top-seeded Burley Lion Junior Bury fell behind 51 in the middle period before escaping and coming up with a double-leg takedown of his own to make it 6-4 heading into the final three minutes Burley escaped early and notched a takedown to make it 54 and all but wrap up the triumph Bury though give up He escaped and scored a late takedown but the Engineer had a 2:26 time advantage for al57win Fritz beat Oklahoma State's Kenny Monday with the same weapons been using since the EWL Tournament confidence and slick takedown moves Against the fourth-seeded Cowboy Fritz came up with the initial takedown and took a 51 lead into the second period Fritz then escaped and was awarded a false-start point (one of four Monday was stuck with) for a 51 lead A neat Fritz duck-under and another false tart point made it 7-1 going into the last period Monday finished hard putting eight pants on the board but third takedown of the bout with 1:40 remaining all but clinched his trip to the semis Hanrahan came out against the defending 167 dump Matt Reiss of By DENNIS GILDEA Times Sports Writer PRINCETON Fta the first time since Jerry White did it in 1977 Penn State advanced two wrestlers to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament but like White against Mark -Johnson both Lions lost to Big Ten foes Before a nearcapacity crowd at Jadwin Gym last night Lenny Zalesky the top seed at 142 dedsioned Penn State's Bennie Fritz 254 At 167 Lion John Hanrahan never had a chance to get started against another Big Ten champ from Iowa Mike DeAnna DeAnna pancaked Hanrahan and got the fall in just 43 seconds Both Fritz and Hanrahan will go in the consolation wrestle-back today -and they are assured of at least placing Another Penn Stater assured of placing is freshman heavyweight Steve Setter Setter was beaten in the quarter-finals by Iowa's Lou Banach 12-5 Late last night Setter beat Mike Howe of Northern Michigan 6-5 Earlier in the evening Setter took his first consy match 52 over Clarion's Curt Olson Setter pinned Olson in the EWL finals Another Lion quarterfinalist Bob Bury at 154 was beaten thaw by Darryl Burley 157 and then was eliminated in the eveing's consy round by San Jose's Ed Baza 8-5 proud of all four guys" said State coach Rich Lorenzo came down here hoping to get a few breaks and wrestle with intensity and come away with a few All-Americans We certainly accomplished that" The Lions the third-place team in the Eastern Wrestling League became the Cinderella team of the Nationals Depending upon the outcome of the consy bouts the Lions have a good shot of finishing fairly well up in the top 10 In the 142-pound semis Zalesky countered a Fritz duck-under in the first period and came up with die takedown Zalesky put six more points on the board in the second period to an 51 lead and Fritz had to get desperate score sounds bad and disappointed but he was aggressive and gave up a lot of points going after said his brother and State assistant coach John Fritz who won an NCAA title here six years ago I'm proud of him In his last seven matches he has wrestled harder than he ever has in his life had North Carolina State by way of Bethlehem Liberty and hit a quick five-point move Reiss escaped but the Lion junior took him down again to build a 7-1 lead after one Hanrahan escaped in the second period and won the match with a reversal and two back prints in the final minute to his 156 verdict Against third-seeded heavyweight Lou Banach Setter ran into too much horse The Lion freshman had four of his own shots countered by Banach and turned into takedowns en route to a 155 win Setter hit a single in the second period to his lone takedown which made it 3-2 for the Hawk but Banach -out-muscled the Lion the rest of the way BACK POINTS Astounding fact number one Syracuse's Gene Mills (118) beat NC State's Chris Wentz in an NCAA semi by an outrageous 354 that Included 5:15 riding time advantage Mills has 107 falls in collegiate competition which is one more than the record by Wondrous Wade Schalles but which may not be an NCAA record because some of them occurred in freestyle competition Mills has 62 pins while competing in intercollegiate meets for Syracuse The 134 finalists are Lehigh's Darryl Burley and Iowa Jim Gibbons and Burley beat Gibbons in the dual meet 156 The finalists at 150 top-seeded Nate Carr of Iowa State by way of Erie Tech and second-seeded Scott Trizzino of Iowa share absolutely no love for each other Trizzino contends that Carr clawed his back during their dual-meet match in Iowa City and he went into the tourney hoping to get Carr in the finals Lock Haven ll5pounder Mike Millward was eliminated from consy action by virtue of a 7-5 loss to Northern Illinois' Mark Verr Another ex-BEA grappler Dave Hagg of Army at 167 took his first consy match 156 over Tom Jones of Maryland but then he was eliminated by Auburn's Jamie Milkovich 11-1 1 The EWL scored a big win in the 177 semis when fifth-seeded Charlie Heller of Clarion scored a last-minute takedown to top first-seeded Colin Kilrain of Lehigh 53 In consolation pairings today Setter will draw Steve (Dr Death) Williams of Oklahoma Hanrahan will meet Milkovich and Fritz will face Iowa State's Dave Brown State High's Scott Piter gets up after decking Bradford's Dave Skaggs BEA Goes 4-for-4 in AAA Regional Tournament By SPIKE LUKENS Times Staff Writer It was a night of vindication for Bald Eagle Area mixed emotions for Philips burg -Osceola and State College and an to Belief on te in the quarter-final round of the Central Northwestern Class AAA regional tournament at Altoona last night The Eagles who won the Central Wrestling Conference but finished a distant fourth in the District 6 tourney last week went four-to-four last night including an upset win by Sang Lee (145) and a wild victory by Tim Snook (155) Gary Proctor (119) and Jeff Horton (heavyweight) were also easy winners to Dick Eagles Meanwhile P-0 shook off a shaky start which included an upset loss by previously unbeaten 112-pounder Rob Albright to place four wrestlers in semifinals Earl Snyder (96) Todd Myers (126) Tom Hartshome 1145) and heavyweight Jim Dickson were the Mountie winners State High coming off a strong showing in the District 6 tourney suffered close losses by Norm Fedon (119) and Guy Amato (128) en route to a three-to-seven effort Soph Scott Pifer (105) senior Scott Gnatt (155) and defending state champion Eric Brugei 167) were State High's victors lone wrestler 112-pounder Tom Workman lost a close decision to once-beaten Ron Holman of Erie Academy to fall into the consolation round The semifinals and consolations will begin today at 1 pm while the consolation finals will start at 7 pm BEA provided two of the biggest bouts of the night as Lee upended Erie Tech's Solomon Carr 52 thanks to a third-period takedown while Snook put an end to the craziest bout of the session by pinning Somerset's John Walker at the Snook trailed 52 after one period fell behind 2512 and closed back to within 2516 before finally putting Walker away with 38 seconds remaining Snook (21-7) will meet State High's Gnatt in the semis today Gnatt who was pinned by Snook in the district semifinals last week used a four-point move in the last 10 seconds to upend Harborcreek's Scott Hall 9-6 BEA's other victors were Proctor (22-4) who trounced Oil Jim Coogan 151 and Horton (21-5) who pinned Meadville's Jeff Althoff at the 3:27 mark Proctor will meet St Kevin Cowan (16-5) a pin winner over Meadville's 33-bout winner Mike Polland last night while Horton will tangle with Punxsutawney's Steve i Yasolsky (21-4-1) who pinned Hickory's Rob Foulkrod last night in the semis P-O which placed third in the districts last week started slowly before coming on strong At 98 Snyder needed a takedown with five seconds remaining to edge Randy Richards 51 but Mike Butterworth and Albright suffered back-to-back losses Butterworth lost a 7-3 verdict to Erie Eric Borgia while Albright who was 250 entering the tourney was pinned by George Ciotti 43 seconds into the second period at 105 Albright was ahead 50 when Ciotti tossed him to the mat for the fall Myers came up with another exciting Mountie win by reversing Clearfield's Tom Denver with three seconds left for a 5-3 win at 126 and Hartshome pulled a big surprise by upending Oil City's Mark Rish 5-3 at 145 Dickson completed the strong P-0 finish by edging Erie James Sherrod a District 10 champ by a 4-2 score In semis Snyder (250) will meet Clearfield's Mark Plubell (22-2) Myers (14-7) will face Erie Tech's Michael Carr (252) Hartshome (157) will battle Hollidaysburg's Alex Johns (17-4-1) and Dickson (252) will have his long-awaited bout with Todd Benson (23-0) State round got off to a fast start when Pifer pinned Bradford's Dave Skaggs 41 seconds into the second period but tough losses by Fedon (53 to defending regional champ Terry Wrestling Invades the Ivies ceton black eyes and NCAA wrestling pairing sheets outnumbered wire-rimmed spectacles and scholarly tomee Three wrestlers scheduled to go in quarterfinals failed to make weight Dave Allen of Iowa State the fourth seed at 177 John Selmoi of Nebraska the fourth seed at 134 and Joe Attych of LSU the ninth seed at 190 did not make weight and had to forfeit Penn State's John Hanrahan required seven stitches to close a cut in his jaw that he suffered in his Thursday evening win over LSU's Jeff Parker Nassau Street in Princeton is lined on one side by the gray Gothic buildings of Princeton Univereity and on the other by the small specialty shops that abound in this Ivy League town Yesterday dawned sunny and springlike a balmy breeze Mowing off the Jersey flatlands but the Nassau Street scene had a decidedly different look to it Side-by-side with the tweedy regulars walked groups of burly men wearing black and orange satin jackets and black Oklahoma State or Iowa stetsons Every now and then one of than would lean in the direction of the street and send a spray of brown tobacco juice flying in the wind Yesterday over breakfast in Prin- About 6000 fans turned out for Thursday session and 7000 were on hand to yesterday's quarters The majority of the fans are sporting their Lehigh brown while both Iowa and Iowa State are well represented Nevertheless when an Iowa or Iowa State wrestler is knocked off the crowd's roar fills Jadwin Gym After Thursday afternoon's session when all four Penn Staters advanced Lion assistant Bill Vrilrath quipped "We could quit and go home now and still be ahead of what we did last glides See results page 16 Class AA Regionals Blazer Johnson Win see BEA page 14 Bob Blazer and Todd Johnson of Penns Valley combined for three wins last night and advanced to semifinal round of the Central Northwestern Regional Class AA Wrestling Tournament at Clarion State College Blazer wrestling at 96 won via a default over Steve Greer of Fairview last night in the third period Blazer was ahead at the time by 50 His opponent this afternoon will be Scott Mearkle of Everett who entered the tourney with a 250 record Mearkle pinned Brad Prechtl of Ridgway in the first period to reach the semis Blazer had a bye in the preliminary round did a nice said Coach Rich Kepler of the Rams hit that head roll in the first 15 seconds and picked up four points Bobby reversed' in the second period" Johnson pinned Eric Hammond of Brookville in the second period of overtime to reach the quarter-finals It was 53 after regulation and 6-0 when the junior heavyweight scored the fall "It was 52 and Todd gave up the escape with nine seconds left to force it into said Kepler "But our conditioning has been so superior that we didn't mind the overtime We have confidence in both wrestlers" Then came biggest victory of his career He pinned Scott Ash of Bedford the top seed in the first period of overtime Johnson drew Mike Roseberry of Ft LeBoeuf this afternoon unbelievable" said Kepler escaped with three seconds to go to force the match into overtime He tried 12 stand ups I counted He tried the 12th one with 30 seconds left Ash was penalized one point for stalling to make it 55 Then Todd escaped It was a 96-pound standup It was so fast I even see it the overtime Todd went out and shot a double The guy Just fell and Todd pinned him He's a 6-4 255 pounder What a victory Johnson moved out to a 4-0 lead in the first period but two escapes and two takedowns gave Ash a 54 lead with one period left Other District 6 wrestlers to advance to the semifinals included Ron Wilson of Bdlwood-Antis at 126 John Myers of Chief Logan at 126 Bruce Wallace of Tyrone at 155 Mark Woodring of Tyrone at 185 Greg Wykoff of Huntingdon at 167 Greg Eppley of Forest Hills at 155 and Jeff Yahner of Cambira Heights at 145 are piru i-- Referee Tom Muir looks closely as Erie Prep's Eric Borgia racks up back points against P-O's Mike Butterworth 4.