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FIELD HOCKEY Syracuse tops PSU in NCAA quarterfinals Great goalkeepers are often cited as the key to postseason success, and Penn State ran into one in the quar- terfinals of the NCAA tournament. Syracuse's Leann Stiver thwarted the fourth-seeded Nittany Lions, as the Orange escaped University Park with a 5-2 victory Nov. 11 and advanced to the Final Four. The Lions, ranked No. 3 in the NFHCA poll, ended their season with an 18-4 record and a 5-1 mark in the Big Ten. "Syracuse's goalie was awesome," Penn State coach Charlene Morett said. "I thought she was the differ- ence in the game, really. I think that Syracuse is a good team, and their kids played very, very hard. It was an awesome second half. We had all of that momentum going, and then they were able to come back. … We had some great chances at the beginning of the game, and you have to score on those." Junior Whitney Reddig scored both of Penn State's goals, with seniors Kelsey Amy and Hannah Allison pro- viding the assists. Goalkeeper Ayla Halus tallied 12 saves. "For the seniors, I just want to thank them for all of their years and the effort that they gave. I thought that Hannah played exceptionally well today. She was a great leader on the field, as was Ayla. Kelsey had some great chances, too. But they have been a great group of seniors." The Lions outshot the Orange, 25- 20, and held a 15-7 penalty corner advantage. But Stiver made 13 stops to give her squad the victory. Penn State entered the tournament having won the Big Ten regular-sea- son and tournament championships. Morett was named the league's Coach of the Year, while Amy was its Offen- sive Player of the Year and Brittany Grzywacz its Defensive Player of the Year. Before facing Syracuse, the Li- ons defeated Albany, 2-1, in an NCAA first-round matchup. PRATO CONTINUED FROM 43 nothing in the 267-page report to support this inflammatory charge, except for a couple of nebulous re- marks by unidentified interviewees. Thirty former past chairs of the Faculty Senate, from various aca- demic backgrounds and disciplines, felt so strongly about all these cul- ture accusations that they issued an angry public defense and criti- cism of both the Freeh report and NCAA sanctions. "Not only are these assertions about the Penn State cul- HINKEY CONTINUED FROM 40 Hinkey's football career. He started refereeing NFL and colleges games in 1934 and did it for the next 20 years, while also working for the government. He was district chief of the Philadel- phia IRS and loan officer for the Small Business Administration until his retirement in 1968. He also was an amateur actor-director in his spare time, and it was while appearing in "The Odd Couple" outside Philadelphia in the summer of 1975 that Haines did something that would one day put a photograph of Babe Ruth in the Penn State All-Sports Museum. Hinkey was bragging to a young child actor that he had once pinch- hit for Babe Ruth in the World Series, a harmless little exaggeration by a proud old man trying to impress a starry-eyed kid. Haines said he would give the kid a photo to prove it and later provided a photo of himself ture unproven," they wrote, "we de- clare them to be false. As faculty members with a cumulative tenure at Penn State in the hundred years, and as former Faculty Senate chairs with intimate knowledge of the Uni- versity stretching back decades, these assertions do not describe the culture with which we are so very familiar. … And we have taken pride in an institutional culture that val- ues honesty, decency, integrity, and fairness." Too bad there wasn't more honesty from Freeh and Emmert. with the Babe. That kid, Loren Tobia, went on to become a TV news executive in Syra- cuse, N.Y., and he told this writer about the photo. And that is how a copy of that photo of Babe Ruth and Hinkey Haines came to be prominently displayed in the baseball case of the museum. "He was quite a character, and a real nice man," said Tobia, now a top salesman for State Col- lege-based AccuWeather. "We all thought he was full of bluster." No, he was one of Penn State's greatest but least-known athletes who, for a short time, was a football superstar and the inspiration for this poem, written in 1926 by an anony- mous sportswriter: Oh Hinkey Haines, oh Hinkey Haines! The New York Giants' football brains. He never loses, always gains. Oh Hinkey Haines, oh Hinkey Haines!

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