Summer 1989 - Lock Haven University

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8 UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS Six Wrestlers Qualify for NCAA National Championships - Lloyd Finishes Second in the Nation at 177 It was another succe sful year for Coach Neil W. Turner's wrestlers who finished 11-6, second in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Confere nce, fourth in the Eastern Wr stling League, 16th in the NCAA Division I championships and saw senior Bradley L. Lloyd fi nish national runner-up. Ll yd, of Red Lion, Pennsyl ania, came in second to O klah oma State Un iversity's Chris Ba rnes when Barnes scored a takedown during the overtime period. But what a career for Lloyd - a three-time NCAA placewinner at seventh, third and seco nd, who fjnished with a record of 146-25-2 for the most Bald Eagle wins ever' Turner will fin d next year's team a young one with the graduates including Lloyd, 118-pounder Craig L. Corbin of Steelton, Pennsylvania (116-35-lt 126-pounder Jeffrey T. Husick of Saxton, Pennsylvania (107-55-2), 150-pounder Thane N . Turner of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania (80-77-2), 158-pounder John A. Barrett of Kettering, Ohio (92-65-2), and 142-pounder Anthony Melfi of Bohemia, New York (24-46-2). TIle Bald Eagles sent six wrestlers to the NCAA Division I championships including, left to right, Craig L. Corbin, Jeffrey T. Husick, Michael W. Lingenfelter, Thane N. TlIrner, Jeffrey R. Karam and Bradley L. Lloyd. Lingenfelter and Karam will return to wrestle this fall. The season concluded with the annual banquet where four alurnill were inducted into the University Wrestling Hall of Fame. They included Harold " Ringie" Smith, supervisor of the first team in 1939, W. Max Bossert, faculty advisor to the team between 1940 and 1941, Robert W. Craig, undefeated in 1952 and 1953, and Michael L. Moore, two-time conference champion, two-time Eastern Wrestling League winner and fifth-place finisher in the NCAA championships for 1978. Governor Robert P. Casey, at the far right, presents Tibor Kobolak the Kelly Cup to recognize his achievements in the sity student with the Kelly Cup. "Tibi" attributed his love of the sport to his father, a furniture craftsman. 1988 Keystone State Games. To the left "As you know, soccer is the most are parellts Erno a"d Katalin Kobolak of Medfo rd, New Jersey. popular European sport ." "My dad was my first coach and KOBOLAK NAMED started me playing the game by kicking rags, " he noted. Kobolak returns this fall as a leading TOP ATHLETE IN force on the Bald Eagle soccer team. He '88 KEYSTONE made both the 1987 and 1988 Penn STATE GAMES sylvania State Athletic Conference Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey presented the fourth annual Kelly Cup - the Commonwealth's highest recognition awarded to a Pennsylvania athlete participating in the Keystone State Games - to Tibor Kobolak, a Lock Haven University student. A junior maj oring in health science, Kobolak entered the 1988 Keystone State Games soccer competition in the open division and went on to make five of the 10 goals scored on the gold Born in Hungary, he is the son of Erno and Katalin Kobolak of Medford, New Jersey . Casey made the presentation in April 1989 in the state capital rotunda, announcing the 1989 games before a crowd of athletes, officials of the games, state legislators, University representatives including Bald Eagle soccer coach Lenny Long, the media and more. Kobolak and his parents were recognized by the governor in his reteams and was named a 1988 PSAC Team Regional All-American. He plans to graduate in May 1990 and continue his education by attend ing graduate school to study physical therapy or physiology. Established in 1985, the Kelly Cup honors the late Olympic medalist John B. Kelly, Jr. , a Philadelphia civic and culhlral leader who died that year. Over 13,000 athletes from across Pennsylvania participated in the 31 sports involved in the Keystone State medal team. marks before he presented the Univer- Games last summer.
Junior Kristille M. Wiberg, of PirIe GrOlle, PellllsyfvUI/ia, goes for tlte floop alld is fouled ill tile big match-lip w it" 8loomsl11lrg. Wow...what a year l The Bald Eagle men's basketball team won more games than ever before, 23, made the Penn ylva nia State Athletic Conference (PSAC) semifinals and NCAA Division II Eastern Regio nal and broughL home an array of post-season awards. For rookie coach ave Blank and his team, the highly successful season seems a prelude to more of the same since only guards Ant hony W. Bacon, a Pottsville, Pennsylva nia, native, and Timothy D. Glass, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, will be lost Lo graduation. The Bald EagJes won 17 of their first 18 games, losing only to Gannon College, 79-73, in the finals of the Gary Miller Classic at Gannon. Along the way, they climbed as high as fifth in the nation in the NCAA's Division II poll. Moving into PSAC play, the team went 8-4, good for second place, and was paired against Millersville - the Eastern Division champion - in the tournament's first round at Millersville. The Marauders prevailed, 90-85, UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS both the women's and men's basketball teams sported their winningest seasons ever providing the crowds with some SUUUPER HOOPS!!!! and did so again in a rematch in the first round of the NCAA Regional, 97-84, again at Millersville. Lock Haven came back to win its second NCAA tournament game by beating Philadelphia Textile 82-78 in a consolation contest. Bacon shattered all assist records for a single game, 15, for a season, 219, and a career high, 452 - surpassing the previous leader, Robert M . Horodyski, '82. Glass, the other co-captain, averaged 12.4 points per game. Junior Dean W. Kriebel, of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, fi nished the year with 1,124 career pOints. He'll shoot for alum Douglas LeGette's career record of 1,496 next season. Kriebel 9 Senior Timothy D. Glass averaged 12.4 points per game.
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