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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4 2016

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Schedule
PENN STATE
No events scheduled.
SCHOLASTIC
SCHEDULE, 6B

Announcements
BELLEFONTE TEENER
LEAGUE
The Bellefonte VFW
Teener League will be
holding registrations for
the 2016 baseball season
from Feb. 9-11 at the Bellefonte Sports Academy
(formerly Hecla Park Skating Rink) from 6-8 p.m.
Any player ages 13-16 is
welcome to sign up. If you
have any questions, contact
Tom Menges at mengests@gmail.com or call
814-883-9313.

ABBY DREY adrey@centredaily.com

Field hockey players gather around Mini Kifolo on Wednesday as she signed to play field
hockey at Susquehanna University.

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On Television
College basketball
7 p.m. Ohio State at Wisconsin
ESPN
7 p.m. Texas A&M at Vanderbilt ESPN2
7 p.m. Tulsa at Temple ESPNU
7 p.m. William and Mary at
Northeastern TCN
8 p.m. South Florida at Cincinnati CBSSN
8 p.m. UCF at Tulane ESPNEWS
9 p.m. Minnesota at Northwestern BTN
9 p.m. UConn at Memphis
ESPN2
9 p.m. Murray State at Southeast Missouri State ESPNU
9 p.m. Colorado at Oregon FS1
11 p.m. Utah at Oregon State
ESPN2
11 p.m. Portland at Pepperdine
ESPNU
Golf
11 a.m. LPGA Tour, Coates Golf
Championship GOLF
3 p.m. PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open GOLF
NBA
8 p.m. New York at Detroit
TNT
10:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at New
Orleans TNT
NHL
7:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at
Washington NBCSN
8 p.m. Philadelphia at Nashville
CSN
10 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles NBCSN
Womens college basketball
7 p.m. Iowa at Indiana BTN
7 p.m. Kentucky at South
Carolina SEC
9 p.m. Mississippi State at LSU
SEC

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Sports Central with Cory Giger
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Keystone Sports Beat with Brian
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Penn State Coaches Show with
Patrick Chambers 6 p.m.
WQWK 1450
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Bowl preview show) 10 p.m.
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BIG DAY
teams.
Ive always been growing up seeing myself on the
team, Fedkina said. I did
get a few letters from
smaller schools, but Ive
wanted to go to a big
school. Penn State was
perfect.
Daman, whose father
played football at Penn
State, also played football
at State College, but wanted to pursue the sport he
loved the most.
Track has always been
my No. 1, Daman said. I
just wanted to continue it
at Penn State.
Another Little Lion who
considered Penn State was
punter Brett Graham. Also

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PSU
said assistant coach and
recruiting coordinator
Terry Smith. That was a
little bit creative because it
was ahead of the game. No
one had done it.
What the program did
was find a loophole, and
then run it by compliance.
Smith wont say who
thought of the loophole,
but indications point to
receivers coach Josh Gattis
(as did Smith, halfway,
before pulling his hand
back).
Smith looked down at the
table and a small grin crept
over his face as he remembered the borderline-hysterics each fan base went
into via social media.
Its illegal, they cant do
that! Smith mimicked the
outcry.
Through the rules, if a
kid applies to us and gets
accepted into school, and
pays his initiation fee or
whatever the application
fee is, he goes into what is
called paid accept, said
Smith. In that phase, we
are then allowed to promote the kid and talk about
the kid.
There was also some
thought that there might be
a penalty, since the loophole seemed to imply that
if a prospect participated in
the above process and
didnt sign with that school,
a secondary violation

a productive tight end,

Graham thought about
walking on at Penn State,
or attending a Division II
school like Shippensburg,
Bloomsburg or Slippery
Rock, where he could play
as a tight end while still
punting.
Instead, he signed to play
for Connecticut.
It was a recent decision.
Graham took his official
visit at UConn on Jan. 22,
and came away impressed
with the facilities, coaches
and players.
He admitted the transition to just punting will be
a difficult one. Its tough
because Im used to playing every position I could,
Graham said.
But hes excited for the
challenge, and was thankful for those in attendance
his family joined by a

couple of Penn State players, punter/kicker Chris

Gulla and longsnapper
Tyler Yazujian.
Ive known them for
two years, Graham said of
Gulla and Yazujian. Just
kicking and punting over
the summer, getting some
long snaps, I feel like
theyve helped me a lot.
While Graham sat at the
table, Fedkina, already
having her turn at the ceremony, stood in the back,
chatting with friend Haley
Crawford.
Crawford, who committed to playing soccer at
James Madison, had a few
schools in mind, including
Navy, Penn State, St. Francis and Princeton. But
Crawford, who scored 64
goals over her high school
career, felt comfortable
with her soon-to-be team-

would be reported against

the responsible program.
Smith said in Hills case,
despite Hill eventually
signing with Michigan,
there would be no penalty.
Weve had enough
issues the last few years,
we dont want any more,
Smith remarked drily.
The Class
Penn State addressed
some of its most important
needs with the 2016 class
the offensive line (which
continues to be a work in
progress), the defensive
line (which bid farewell to
three of the teams best
players, NFL prospects
Austin Johnson, Anthony
Zettel and Carl Nassib),
and the specialists (for
which Penn State hadnt
signed anyone on scholarship since the fallout from
the sanctions hit).
The team also signed a
couple of flashy players
who will make an instant
impact the most notable
of whom is the nations No.
1 running back and Pittsburgh product, Miles Sanders.

High School).
McGovern is tall for a
center, at 6-foot-4, but
plenty big enough, at 312
pounds. Franklin said
McGovern tested extremely well in Penn States
camp, too even better
than anticipated.
Hes still baby-faced,
(but) he can run. He can
jump, Franklin said.
The fact that he graduated and came to campus is
going to give him a chance.
Its hard to play on the
O-line as a freshman, but
the fact that hes here six
months early and hes
already a big, physical,
strong guy and very, very
intelligent, it gives him a
shot.
Franklin also said he
could see the 6-foot-4,
285-pound Menet playing
any of the five spots along
the line.
Menets a guy that I
think has the athletic ability to play tackle, has the
intelligence to play center,
has the power to play
guard, he said.

OFFENSIVE LINE
Two players who will
likely immediately be a
contributing presence on
Penn States offensive line
(and will more than likely
see their share of minutes
in the fall) are early enrollee Connor McGovern
(Larksville, Lake-Lehman
High School) and signee
Michal Menet (Reading,
Exeter Township Senior

DEFENSIVE TACKLE
Once Penn State realized
its defensive line was in
serious danger of going
from the best, most experienced unit on the team to
one missing its three key
players and a fourth sub in
defensive end Tarow Barney, the staff decided
(against norm) to pick up
two junior college transfers
as well as a few young
signees.

mates and coaches at

James Madison.
You werent just a number on the team, Crawford
said. They check up on
you every day, and overall,
just really nice.
Comfort in their eventual
situation was key for other
student-athletes, as well.
Caroline Friberg, entering her final season having
already topped 125 goals
for her career, will play for
Drexel womens lacrosse
next year, due in large part
to one major factor.
I like the city atmosphere, Friberg said. I
looked at a lot of city
schools, but I love how
close Philly is and how I
was familiar with it.
Meanwhile, Alex Milligan feels his position at
North Carolina is an advantageous one.
Milligan, this years
Class AAA District 6 cross
country champion, was
originally verbally committed to Wake Forest, but an
email from the Tar Heels
out of nowhere changed
things.
Ive always been a fan
of North Carolina, so I had
to consider it, Milligan
said.
He committed to North
Carolina on Jan. 18, one
week after visiting.
Milligan noted that the
current team has zero
freshmen, and that hes
joined by six other incoming runners in his distance
something he looks forward to.
The team seemed very
welcoming to freshmen,
Milligan said. I thought

thatd be good to have a lot

of guys my age to work
with.
Other State College athletes recognized Wednesday include: Kyla Irwin
(UConn, womens basketball); Lauren Kelly (Mount
Union or East Stroudsburg,
womens lacrosse); Will
Harvey (Widener, mens
lacrosse); Mini Kifolo (Susquehanna, field hockey);
Hannah Shields (Delaware
State, softball); Nathan
King (U.S. Air Force Academy, football); Mark Weakland (The Citadel, football); Jon Seighman (Lehigh, football); Gabe Manyak (Bloomsburg, football);
Alec Aspray (Shippensburg,
football); Doug Swoboda
(St. Francis, football); Isaac
Plutzer (Washington University, St. Louis, mens
soccer); Kyle Moerschbacher (St. Francis, mens
soccer); Chris Adams (University of Pennsylvania,
baseball); Bailey Ishler
(U.S. Air Force Academy,
baseball); Brandon Raquet
(College of William and
Mary, baseball); Evan
Moerschbacher (Washington and Jefferson, baseball); Lauren Anderson
(Misericordia, womens
soccer); David Rovansek
(Washington College,
swimming); Seth Erdley
(St. Bonaventure, swimming); Fiona Vashaw (Vermont, swimming); Grace
Tothero (Shippensburg,
swimming); Jack Etter
(Indiana, swimming);
Megan Klaus (Saint Anselm, ice hockey).

The idea is that the JuCo

transfers will be gameready for two of the three
vacancies, thus allowing
the younger talent to put on
weight and develop.
Nassaus Tyrell Chavis,
the No. 3 JuCo product
nationally at his position
according to 247Sports, is
one of those transfers.
I would say we had
identified Tyrell very early
on in the process, said
Franklin. Again, just like I
said with the O-line, it is
difficult to play on the
D-line as a freshman, although were going to probably have to have a few
guys do that. So being able
to get a guy who is older,
more mature, hes about
6-4, hes about 300
pounds, right in that ballpark right now being able
to get an older guy like that
on board with us was significant, no doubt about it.
Lackawanna Community
College product Brenon
Thrift was also added to
the class, a bit of a
Wednesday morning surprise.
The freshmen include
very athletic promising
prospects in Shaka Toney
and Shane Simmons, the
latter was the second verbal of the class and incredibly important in the
intra-peer recruiting process. Both will get brought
into camp as defensive
ends, and once they are
comfortable there the options of shifting them inside or into the second tier

will be explored, according

to Smith.
SPECIALISTS
Penn State finally has
both a kicker and a punter
on scholarship, which was
absolutely crucial to the
success of the class.
Kicker Alex Barbir signed
with Penn State after flipping from Rutgers last
week, and punter Blake
Gillikin signed as well.
As you guys know, as
well as we do, you could
probably make an argument over the last two
years that maybe four
games could come out
differently if we could have
been a little more consistent on special teams in
terms of swinging field
position and things like
that, said Franklin. So
having two guys come in
that weve seen kick in
person have been very,
very successful at camps
that theyve gone to have
been very successful at
games.
Barbir is already a favorite with fans on social
media, while Franklin said
he thinks Gillikin is one of
the best punters in the
nation. However, the head
coach also added the two
will have to compete with
Daniel Pasquariello, Joey
Julius and Tyler Davis
the specialists currently on
the roster.
Jourdan Rodrigue:
814-231-4629,
@JourdanRodrigue

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