Colle^ Edinboro State College Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16412 Office Telephone: Area Code 814 734-1671, Ext 245 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EDIITtOIlO CCKPLETES WII'ININGEST SPOLTS YEAREdinb< ro State's 1969-70 sports season proved to be the vjinnin^est year in the Fightin'> Sec ts'' athletic history as athletes in nine varsity sports cornl ined their efforts to produce an overall slate vof 63 wins, 49 losses and one tie. The seamen win-loss record established an all-tirae high percentage of 56.2 while 53 new marks were placed in the Sects^ record books. Tennis paced the leaders with an 11-1 season slate and registered a 91.7 percentage. The Sect netmen finished 11th nationally in the lh\lA meet in Kansas City, Ic. after capturing the HAIi* District IG title and placed third in the Pennsylvania Conference meet. The ilank l.ariotti-coached crew also won the ESC .uadrangular Tourney and placed second in the ESC Invitational Tourn­ ament. Seven of the Sects'* varsity sports completed their schedules with .500 or better season records. Coach i^red Carols grapplers were 9-4 (69.2), Coach Doug IJatts' cross country team, in its first year, finished 6-3 (66.7) while bis tracksters were 3-2 (60.0) and Coach Jim IcDonald^s cagers racked up a 13-9 (59.1) ledger markin'? eight straight years in which the Clan has never exper­ ienced a losing season on the hardwoods. i Baseball under tbe guidance of new head coach, Guy Conti, had its win* ningest season as the diamondmen posted an ll-£ (57*9) ledger. Bill i.cDonald’s gridders broke even for the carapaign as football had its best year since 1961 with a 4-4-1 (50.0) nzark. hounding out the slate were Jin IcDonald^s golfers who were 5-10 and George Shliapeno''s first year soccer men with a 1-C record against s(^e stern ccmretition. Fowling, trapshootin’ and weight lifting which are net yet listed as var­ sity sports also came away with scjme outstanding finishes. The lighting Scot trapshooting team won the Easter regional Shooting Chanpionship against such teams as Yale and harvard, and then placed fourth in the nation at Iowa City, Iowa. The weight lifters were nudged by Lichigan State for the U.S. title in the Collegiate height and Power Lifting Championships x^hile the bowling team captured the District 16 championship. The Scot athletic teams also had respectable finishes in Pennsylvania Conference action and over 25 athletes received special recognition by associa­ tions other than the College. -30- Edinboro State College Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16412 Office Telephone: Area Code 814 734-1671, Ext 245 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (1) HMS: Record 11-0 1969-70 ALL SPORTS REVIEW Pet. 91.7 Team Honors 3rd Place Pennsylvania Conference, NAIA List. 18 Champions, NAIA 11th Place Nationally, ESC Invitational 2nd Place, ESC Quadrangular 1st Place Individual Honors *Ted Robison - Senior Athlete of the Year, Pennsylvania Conference Rimnerup (No. 1 Singles), NAIA List. 18 Champion (No. 1 Singles), NAIA Dist. 18 Runnerup (No. 1 Doubles) Bill Dopierala - Peruivsylvania Conference State Champion (No. 4 Singles), Pennsylvania Conference Runnerup (No, 2 Doubles), NAIA Dist. 18 Champion (No. 4 Singles), NAIA Dist. 18 Champion (No. 2 Doubles) Pi*ank Bova - Pennsylvania Conference Runnerup (No. 2 Doubles), NAIA Dist. 18 Champion (No. 2 Doubles) Doug Yurchey- Pennsylvania Conference Runneinip (No. 5 Singles), NAIA Dist. 18 Champion (No. 5 Singles) Tom Ruggeri - NAIA Dist. 18 Runnerup (No. 6 Singles), NAIA Dist, 18 Runnerup (No. 3 Doubles) Pete Manolis - NAIA Dist. 18 Runnerup (No. 3 Doubles) All members listed competed in the NAIA tourney in Kansas City, Mo. in which no ESC team member went further than the third round, but finished 11th in the nation. (2) WRESTLING; Record 9-4 Pet. 69.2 Team Honors 8th Place Pennsylvania Conference, NAIA 40th Place Nationally, 2nd Place Ashland Invitational Individual Honors *Lairy Harrington - Pennsylvania Conference Runnerup at 118, NAIA National Meet First Roimd Winner, ESC Most Valuable Wrestler, 3rd at Ashland Invitational Dale Hrach - Pennsylvania Conference 4th Place at 150, 4th at Ashland Invitational Leo Sheridan - 2nd at Ashland Invitational (126) Dave Clard - 1st at Ashland Invitational (134) Denny Menold - 4th at Ashland Invitational (142) Bob Bender - 2nd at Ashland Invitational (158) Mike Payer - 2nd atAshland Invitational (177) Tom Liebel - 3rd at A.shland Invitational (190) (3) Cross Country £ Record 6-3 Pci; 66,7 Team Honors Pennsylvania Conference 5th Place, NAIA Dist. 18 6th Place 3rd at Malone Invitational Individual Honors Dave Antagnoli - NAIA Dist* 18 1st Place, 2nd at Malone Invitational, 3rd Place Pennsylvania Conference, ^nd at NAIA National Meet, Undefeated in Dual Meets, ESC course record 20:11,5 Dale Bldwell - 8th Place Pennsylvania Conference (4) Track: Record 3-2 Pet, 60,0 Team Honors 6th in Pennsylvania Conference, 3rd in NAIA District 18, 10th in Western Frontier' Relays at Buffalo State Individual. Honors Dave Antognoli - Most Outstanding Track Man, Pennsylvania Conference 2-mlle Champion, NAIA Dist, 18 3-mlle Champion, ESC record in 1-mile (4^28,1), ESC record in 2-mile (9?3B,3)^ FSC record in 3-mlle (14:34.2) *Sld Booker - Most Valuable Track Man, Pennsylvania Conference Champion in High Jump, Pennsylvania Conference 6th Place in High Hurdles, NAIA Dist, 18 2nd in High Jump, NAIA Dist, 18 3rd in High Hurdles, ESC High Jump Record (6*7") Rick Arpin - Pennsylvania Conference 4th in 880 Run, NAIA Dist, 18 880 Champion, ESC 880 record (l:55.5) John Gillette - Pennsylvania Conference 4th in Shot Put, NAIA Dist, 18 Discus Champion Dale Bidwell - Pennsylvania Conference 4th in 2-mile, NAIA Dist, 18 4th in 3-niile Dale Genger - Pennsylvania Conference 5th in 440, NAIA Dist. 18 4th in 440, ESC 440 record (50.8) Kim Rensel - NAIA Dist. 18 6th in Long Jump Bill Sweet - NAIA Dist. 18 4th in Pole Vault, ESC Pole Vault Record (13* ) Bill Nesgoda - Pennsylvania Conference 6th in 440 Dan Tandy - Pennsylvania Conference 6th in Mile Run, NAIA Dist. 18 5th in Mile Run Chuck Lally - NAIA Dist. 18 4th in High Jump, NAIA Dist 18 5th in Pole Vault Rick Gleischner - NAIA Dist. 18 5th Place in Javelin Other ESC Track Records Mile Relay - 3:26.2 (Pilewski, Nesgoda, Genger, Arpin) Sprint Medley - 3:3S.3 (Nesgoda, Genger, Carroll, Arpin) Two Mile Relay - 8:32.3 (Emser, Tandy, Plakidas, Bidwell) Distance Medley - 11:17.0 (Pilewski, Emser, Tandy, Bidwell) (5) Basketball: Record 13-9 Pet. 59*1 Team Honors 2nd Place in Pennsylvania Conference West, Dist. 18 NAIA Runnerup Individual Honors Art Dickinson - Second Team NAIA Distric 18, First Team Pennsylvania Conference W., Pittsburgh Press All District Second Team Jim Prokell - Second Team NAIA District 18, First Team Pennsylvania Conference W., Pittsburgh Press All District Third Team Dave Khowlton - First Team Pennsylvania Conference W., ESC record in Assists (174 in one season) ESC record Assists in one game (19 vs Grove City) *Ered Riley - Associated Press College All-State Team (6) Baseball: Record 11-8 Pet. ^.9 Team Honors Winningest Season in School* s History, Established 7 New Team Records Individual Honors Jerry Mifsud - Pennsylvania Conference First Team, Tri-State Coaches Associa­ tion All-Star Team (North Squad), Most Valuable Player Award Tri-State Coaches All-Star Game, Established 7 New ESC Baseball Records NAIA 26th Place in Batting (.417) Chris Getz - Pennsylvania Conference Honorable Mention, ESC Pitching Record (5 idns) A1 Runyan - Tied ESC Triples Record (3) (7) Footballs Record 4-4-1 Pet, 50,0 Team Honors 3rd in Pennsylvania Conference West, Established 6 New Team Records Individual Honors A1 Raines - NAIA All-Americal Honorable Mention, First Team Pennsylvania Conference, First Team NAIA District 1S, Pittsburgh Press All-District First Team, Established 9 New ESC rushing and scoring records while tying another Gary Sisko - NAIA District 18 Honorable Mention Second Team Pennsylvania Conference, ESC record Most tackles in one game (13) Ebby Hollins - First Team NAIA District 18 Steve Hamm - Honorable Mention NAIA District 18 *Tom Rockwell - ESC Records; Most Field Goals in one season (5)5 Most FG* s in one game (3) > Most FG’s in one quarter (3) Dan Ditullio - ESC Records; Most interceptions in one game (4) 9 Most tackles in one-half game (9) Dennis Creehan - ESC Record Longest Interception Return for TD (71 yds.) (8) Golf; Record 5-10 Pet, 33.0 Team Honors 6th in Pennsylvania Conference * Individual Honors Bill Bonner - Pennsylvania Conference 6th Place (9) Soccer; Record 1-9 Pet, 11,1 First Year Varsity Sport Individual Honors *Jim Romani szyn listed in the 1970 Volume of Outstanding College Athletes of America EDINBORO STATE COLLEGE 1969-70 SPORTS REVIEW SPORT ■ W-L-T PCT. CONFERENCE PLACE Tennis 11-1-0 91.7 3rd PI. Tie PCj NAIA Dist, 18 Champion NAIA 11th PI. Nation^ 9-4r-0 69.2 Wrestling Cross Country 6-3-0 8th in PC; NAIA 40th PI. National 66.7 5th in PC; 6th in Dist. 18 NAIA LETTERS 8 10 7 CAPTAIN(S) COACH Ted Robison Hanh Mariotti Larry Harrington Dennis Men old Fred Caro Dale Bidwell John Plahidas Doug Watts . • 3-2-0 60.0 6th in PC; 3rd in NAIA Dist. 18 16 Dale Genger Doug Watts Bashetball 13-9-0 59.1 2nd in PC West; Dist. 18 NAIA Runnerup 10 Ray Overholt Jim McDonald Baseball 11-8-0 57.9 (Winningest Season) 19 Jim Sullivan Ray Overholt Guy Conti John Ballard Steve Hamm Tom Machey feill McDonald Bill Bonner John Cox Jim McDonald Trach Football• Golf Soccer ^ 4—4-1 5-10-0 1-9-0 63-49^1 50.0 3rd in PC West 6th in PC 33.0 • (First Year Varsity Sport) 11.1 35 7 16 ——— 56.2 SENIOR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR — Ted Robison Non Varsity Sports Bowling - NAIA List. 18 Champions Trapshooting - Eastern Regional Trap and Sheet Shooting Championsj 4th PI. in National Collegiate Trap and Sheet Shooting Championships *Winningest Sports Season in Edinboro State College’s Athletic History ^ George Shimpeno ^ 'Weightlifting — 2nd PI, in U. 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