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in what has been a tough sea-son for the former standout. He gave up no earned runs on two hits in just an inning of work.

The Quakers (12-19, 1-11 Ivy) will take the momentum from yesterday’s victory into tomorrow and Sunday when they play archrival Princeton (13-14, 5-7) in two doublehead-ers. The Tigers are currently tied for first in the Gehrig Di-vision — despite the losing Ivy record — while the Quakers are in last place.

Even though Penn has per-formed poorly so far in Ivy League play, a good record against Princeton this week-end will put the Quakers in de-cent position in the division.

“Princeton has a very tal-ented lineup,” Cole said. “They have power, so you got to keep them in the ballpark.”

Probably the greatest issue for Penn this season has been letting up at one critical point in a game. The Red and Blue have blown multiple late leads this year — including against Cornell last weekend — and have been prone to allowing big innings.

“We have to put together a complete game in all aspects,” senior captain Jeff Cellucci said. “That includes hitting,

pitching and fielding over nine innings.”

“We haven’t finished games out this season,” Cole added. “It happens, but we got to stop it; there’s been too many.”

The Quakers’ pitching has also struggled this season. The team’s combined earned run average is at 6.97.

However, the Quakers now seem to have a possible fu-ture ace in freshman Chris McNulty. McNulty recorded the Quakers’ lone Ivy League w in aga inst Cor nel l last weekend after pitching nine strong innings and yielding only three earned runs on six hits.

“Chris McNulty has really come on, and that kid is getting better each time he comes on,” Cole said. “He’ll probably see some time on the mound this weekend; there’s no question about it.”

An added variable this week-end will be the Penn-Princeton rivalry, which every so often delivers unpredictable re-sults.

“Obv iously, a l l the Iv y League games are important, and that’s what we play for,” Cellucci said. “But we turn it up another notch when we play Princeton.”

BASEBALL from page 12

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games of really controlling the pace,” Andrzejewski said.

But they will have a tough time against the men from Col-lege Park, Md. The Terps sport a stout 7.49 goals against average.

Add to that Maryland’s pro-pensity for starting games off quickly — they have out-scored opponents 36-16 in the first quarter this season — and the Red and Blue might be in trouble.

“[Senior midfield Dan] Groot is as talented as any middie in the country,” Voelker said. “The other two middies are super, super athletic.”

And at attack, sophomore Grant Catalino has amassed an impressive 22 goals and 17 assists in the Terrapins’ 12 games thus far.

This could be a serious prob-lem for the Quakers.

They may have a hard time coming back from an early defi-

cit if attackmen Alex Weber and Morgan Griff don’t explode like they did against the Bears (they had a combined five goals and one assist).

Compared to Catalino, An-drzejewski has 17 goals and six assists.

That does not seem like a ter-rible contrast, until a look at the Terps’ roster reveals not one

but five other players aside from Catalino with at least 11 goals of their own. And two of them have 17, matching Andrzejewski.

Voelker understands the sort of depth that Maryland brings to the field.

“I mean, they got a lot of guys,” Voelker said. “[Catali-no’s] got a lot of points, but they have a bunch of other guys that

have some points.”And he knows just what this

means for his team.“We have our work cut out for

us on both ends of the field,” he said. “[Maryland has] some big guys on the defensive end, some really big guys at the attack.”

But if the Quakers continue to embrace the role of spoiler, anything can happen.

M. LAX from page 12

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— which Penn edged, 7-6, last Saturday — crushed the Bears, 16-1, March 28. In addition, with a 10-5 win over the Tigers Wednesday, the Quakers have already clinched the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in May.

Recent history is also on Penn’s side. The situation leading up to the Brown match has been identical in each of the last two years: Penn entered at 6-0 in the Ivy League with a chance to clinch. In both games Penn dominated, winning 12-4 in 2007 and 12-5 in 2008. In fact, Penn last lost to Brown in 2003 and is 21-9 all-time against the Bears.

But even though the game looks like it’s in the bag, the Red and Blue do not want to underestimate their competi-tion. And after the Princeton game, the team hopes to tight-en up offensively.

“Princeton pressured us out a lot,” coach Karin Brower said. “We struggled getting open a little bit. We got back checked a little bit. With the pressure we turned the ball over a bit more than I’d like, but luckily our defense came up with it.”

Brower especially wants

her team to be more aggres-sive within the offensive third, where she saw her team miss scoring opportunities against Princeton.

“We’re not always going to get those breaks down there — where they throw the ball away or they don’t make a great pass and we get the ball,” she said.

As the end of Ivy League play approaches, the Quak-ers are anticipating facing No. 1 Northwestern a week from tomorrow in Evanston, Ill. The Wildcats (14-0) beat the Red and Blue in the NCAA championship game last year.

But the Quakers do not want to get too far ahead of themselves.

With the long anticipated NCAA tournament on the ho-rizon, Brower wants to make sure her team doesn’t let the Brown contest become a trap game.

Looking ahead to North-western “ is always a con-cern,” she said. “We’ve got to go and do what we need to do on Saturday and it’s on grass, which is never easy. We’ve got to stay focused on what we’re doing.”

Ultimately, as Brower has stressed to her team, the chance to go undefeated in conference play should be enough of an impetus to play with urgency.

“I said to them, ‘We don’t want to share this with any-one.’”

— Sports Editor Zach Klitz-man contributed reporting to this article.

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Brower wants fewer turnovers

few points away from having at least two more Ivy wins,” DeVore said.

Though the team’s first five Ivy matches may not have gone as scripted — Penn only won its match at home against Dartmouth last Friday — the Red and Blue have a chance to end on a high note with two teams with Ivy title as-pirations on deck.

First up for the Quakers is a trip to New York to match up with the Lions, whom DeVore proclaimed “the favorite” to win the league. Columbia — currently tied for first in the league with Brown — is led by Romanian senior Bogdan Borta at No. 1 and Jon Wong, the only sophomore named first team All-Ivy last year, at No. 2.

“Their talent level is I think the best in the league,” DeVore said. “They’re going to be — to put it mildly — up for the match, because we could play spoiler.”

Since Penn has already proven that it can beat Cor-nell — the Quakers defeated the Big Red 4-3 at the ECAC Championships Feb. 14 — it is Friday’s matchup that is cir-cled on the team’s calendar.

“Beating Columbia at Co-lumbia would be a huge deal,

regardless of where we’re going to finish in the confer-ence,” DeVore said.

A road victory at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center would certainly be a highlight of what has been a frustrating ending to Boym’s career. The team’s lone senior continues to battle a shoulder injury that allowed him to play only three matches last spring.

“He’s a shadow of his for-mer self,” his coach said. “I’d say he’s probably 50 percent of his capacity of what he was two years ago,” when he was first team All-Ivy.

“It’s been probably one of the toughest things I ever went through,” Boym admitted. “One of the big-gest challenges is to get out there … and know that I’m not competing at my highest level — the level I used to be competing at.”

Through the pain, the team-first Boym realizes how far he’s come this past year.

“A year ago I could barely finish one match in the Ivy League,” the Marlboro, N.J., native said. “Now I’m going to finish all the matches.”

The former Ivy League Rookie of the Year’s emo-tions will surely be running high during his final weekend of Ivy matches.

“I really don’t believe it; it feels like I’m going to be here next year and the year after,” Boym said. “It’s tough to swallow for now, but I’ll worry about it afterward instead of thinking about it now. It’s probably better for the team.”

M. TENNIS from page 12

M. Tennis looks to be spoiler in NY

field and they hit home runs on that little, tiny field,” King said. “Our field is bigger, which will provide more of a challenge for them hitting wise.”

(The Tigers average .81 homers per game, second in the league.)

The Red and Blue might also benefit from the unex-pected rest that came this week when their Tuesday dou-bleheader against Villanova was canceled due to rain.

“This time of year the week-end road games can be tiring,” King said. “We’ve been able to practice over the last couple of days and … refocus.”

“I think it was good for us

to get a break,” agreed junior Keiko Uraguchi. “Being away for two weeks is tiring … so having Tuesday off was really good for us. I think energy is going to be key.”

Luckily for Penn, Princeton is coming off a road split at Rutgers yesterday.

If Penn wants to take this Ancient Eight showdown, it will need improvement in more than one aspect of play. The team allowed Cornell to score 36 times in last weekend’s two doubleheaders and has only put 18 of its own runs on the board in the last six games.

Still, many different players have helped contribute offen-sively, which suggests that all the components of a winning team are present. Perhaps the only thing missing is that elusive formula for consistent success.

“We just have to go out as hard as we can,” Uraguchi said. “It’s … going to be who shows up to play to win on Sat-urday.”

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Road-weary Quakers glad to be home

Last chance for Penn to avoid last place

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This is the last chance for the women’s tennis team.

As the Quakers close their 2009 season with matches against Columbia and Cornell this weekend, the Quakers will try to avoid a winless Ivy League season, in sole senior and team captain Lauren Sadaka’s last weekend wear-ing the red and blue.

“We’re hoping to end the season on a high note since we’ve struggled a little bit up to this point,” interim coach Sarah Schiffman said. “The team, more than anything, re-ally wants to bring in a victory for Lauren. She’s had such a great year.”

Both teammates and fans will be able to honor Sadaka at the Quakers’ Senior Day match today against the Lions at 2 p.m. on Lott Courts. But Sadaka’s final career match will be tomorrow in Ithaca, N.Y., when the Quakers take on sixth-place Cornell (6-12, 2-3 Ivy).

Fortunately for the Quak-ers, today’s matchup will give the Red and Blue (1-14, 0-5) a great chance to finally get a league win: Columbia is tied for seventh with Penn in the Ivy rankings with an identical 0-5 league mark (though they

do have a better 4-13 overall record).

One spot where Penn has been consistent in Ivy play is at the No. 3 doubles spot. Sadaka and freshman Emily Wolf have yet to lose a doubles match against an Ancient Eight team.

“The two of us have really high intensity on every single

point and great focus,” Wolf said. “We coordinate and com-municate well, and I think that’s how we have our suc-cess.”

Wolf also attributes the duo’s perfect record to their “mixed” attack.

“She has a really consistent game, and I have a really big serve and aggressive game,”

Wolf said. And Sadaka’s consistency is

rubbing off on Wolf.“She’s taught me how to play

under pressure,” Wolf said. “She’s an amazing leader. We’ve had a tough year, and she’s been positive throughout and really trying to keep us to-gether.”

The Quakers believe their chances of clinching wins in both matches this weekend are good.

“I think our team has come up on the short [end of the stick] in a couple matches,” Schiffman said. “Hopefully we’ve learned from that and are able to turn it around.”

As for Sadaka, she just can’t believe the end is so near.

“I would just tell my team not to take for granted any match that they play,” she said. “I’d love to pass on my spirit on the court and my de-termination. I really give it my all when I play, and I’d love to see the other players come back next year with that same passion.”

“We’re ready to lay it all out on the line — no regrets,” Schiffman added. “Win or lose.”

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Lauren Sadaka, the Quakers’ only senior, will play the last matches of her career against Columbia and Cornell this weekend.

W. Tennis wants to give Sadaka a final victory to remember

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Anna Puglisi has batted .125 this season, which is indicative of the Quakers’ overall struggles at the plate in 2009.

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Penn feeling blue in ’08-09 year in review

Looking back on the 2008-09 Penn sports year, this wasn’t exactly one to

remember.Despite a strong start, things

seemed to go downhill as the year progressed. In the fall, M. Soccer won the Ivy League, while Football, Field Hockey and Volleyball finished third. In the winter, M. Fencing went un-defeated, while only two other teams came in the top half of the Ivies (W. Squash and Wres-tling). Finally, this spring saw W. Lax go 7-0 but M. Golf was the only other squad to finish in the top of the League.

Overall, Penn teams had a combined record of 196-185-8, 86-90-3 Ivy, which equals a .513 overall and .489 Ivy winning percentage. If you take away the three Ivy champs, that winning percentage drops significantly — .460 and .440, respectively.

Today the DP announced its All-Penn selections. Let’s take a closer look at the picks, as well as some other highlights and lowlights of the year.

Men’s Team of the Year: Soccer. This honor came down to Soccer and Fencing, the two men’s teams that won Ivy titles. The fencers did have a better record (17-0 versus soccer’s 11-3-4), but their success is nothing new, as they finished seventh at the NCAA Tournament both last year and this year. Soccer, meanwhile, had only won one Ivy title since 1980 (2002).

Men’s Player of the Year: Soccer GK Drew Healy. Healy had without a doubt the most impressive individual accomplishment of any Penn athlete this year with his sev-en-straight shutouts to start the season — a Penn record.

Honorable mention: Soc-cer M Alex Grendi; Hoops PG Zack Rosen.

Women’s Player of the Year: Squash No. 1 Kristin Lange. While lax was the best women’s team by far this year, no single player necessarily

stood out. Instead, we went with Lange, the junior squash star who was Ivy Player of the Year and finished second in the national individual tournament for the third consecutive year.

Honorable Mention: Hoops F Carrie Biemer.

Men’s Coach of the Year: Dave Micahnik (Fencing). Just like male P.O.Y., this award came down to fencing and soc-cer. While Rudy Fuller did lead the soccer team to its second title in 28 years, Micahnik coached men’s fencing to an undefeated season, while also coaching a successful women’s team. And because the Hall of Famer announced his retire-ment April 20, consider this a lifetime achievement award.

Women’s Coach of the Year: Karin Brower (Lax). Brower didn’t really have any competition for this award, but it’s important to note that the Quakers lost seven senior start-ers from last year’s national runner-up squad, yet started out 2009 with a program-record 13-game winning streak. If nothing else, that shows that Brower’s player development and recruiting efforts have suc-cessfully paid off.

Game of the Year: The M. Soccer game against Harvard that clinched the Ivy League title was one for the ages. In a classic defen-sive struggle, the game was 0-0 at the end of regulation. Five minutes into OT Loukas Tasigianis emerged as the hero, scoring on a one-on-one breakaway to give Penn a share of the Ivy title.

Honorable Mention: W. Lax’s 7-6 overtime win vs. Dartmouth, Football’s 24-21 loss vs. Harvard that ended when Penn threw an inter-ception in the end zone.

Play of the Year: Kevin Egee’s buzzer-beater at Co-lumbia was incredible even if it was in a meaningless game. With just 1.9 seconds left and Penn down by two, Egee nailed a 35-footer off an

in-bounds pass to beat the Li-ons — and his younger brother Steve, a freshman on Colum-bia’s team. It was an exciting finish toward the end of what was otherwise a disappointing season (see below).

Honorable Mention: Tasi-gianis’ overtime goal, W. Lax attack Becca Edwards’ OT goal versus Dartmouth.

Best non-Penn sports sto-ry: The Phillies’ 2008 World Series championship beats out Villanova’s Final Four run in a close race because it end-ed the 25-year streak without a major professional champion-ship for Philadelphia.

Biggest women’s disap-pointment: Soccer. Darren Ambrose’s squad won the Ivy League title in 2007 with a 13-4-1, 6-1 Ivy record. With every single player returning for the 2008 season, the Quakers had high hopes of repeating. But for whatever reason, Penn just couldn’t get it going, as a dis-

appointing 2-1 double overtime loss to rival Princeton capped off an 8-6-3, 2-3-2 Ivy season.

Honorable mention: W. Tennis.

Biggest men’s disappoint-ment: Hoops. Unlike W. Soccer, Penn was not favored to win the M. Hoops Ivy title. But almost all preseason publications predicted Penn would come in second or third. Yet the Quak-ers ended up going 10-18, 6-8 Ivy — their first losing Ancient Eight season since 1990-91. In addition, the team got swept by Dartmouth for the first time since 1959 and lost two Ivy home games in one weekend for the first time since 1968. By the end of the year coach Glen Miller was glued to the hot seat.

Honorable mention: Base-ball, M. Tennis.

Zach Klitzman is a junior history major from Bethesda, Md., and is Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. His e-mail address is [email protected].

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Anna Aagenes

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Hicham LaalejTennis

Tiffany Cheung

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Ali DeLucaLacrosse

Rollie PeterkinWrestling

DominikaFranciskowicz

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Brett Rendina

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Emily SzelestLacrosse

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less than ten seconds into the first contest between Brown and Siena. Immediately the other team counterattacked and scored off a rebound.

Within a couple of minutes, both sides had racked up more points than in whole matches of the international test rugby series that just wrapped in Britain.

I’ll roll with this, I thought.Soon, my selective memory

of high school gym class kicked in, and I began to get a grip on the rules.

I was particularly impressed with the 35-second scoring limit. I’d forgotten just how fast basketball is, and that rule made the tournament so excit-

ing for me. Although football has its

four-down rule to theoretically stop the game from stagnat-ing, those four downs can take a while to play out. No such problem in basketball, where the swift counterattacking contrasts favorably with the five-minute “Yay, we got an interception!” celebrations that so annoy me in football games.

Sitting behind one of the benches in every game taught me another lesson: basketball coaches get real mad real quick.

The Siena coach was under-standably annoyed when his side failed to get an early lead against Brown, but he contin-ued to rant and swear at his players even once his squad had established the clear lead.

While the whole of the Dela-ware coaching staff was like that in the next match, first prize in the beetroot imperson-ation contest goes to former Penn coach Fran Dunphy of

Temple. I don’t envy my hoops beat colleagues after listening to those guys all night.

I was impressed by the high score of the first game, (Siena won, 99-79) but my favorite match by far was the tense nar-rative of Delaware vs. Virginia Tech.

It was a close match throughout, with Delaware constantly trailing but by little enough to keep the game inter-esting. Time after time, Dela-ware’s Blue Hens caught up only to miss a crucial shot and let the Hokies increase their lead. Eventually, to the delight of its supporters, Delaware finally went ahead — for all of five seconds.

In a thrilling climax straight out of a bad sports movie, the Blue Hens forced a tie in the last minute — only to get clob-bered in overtime.

I also have to thank Temple and St. John’s for teaching me what bad basketball looks like.

Temple was the only team

to bring cheerleaders and its mean-looking mascot to the Classic. Although they may have inspired Temple’s large crowd, even their gymnastics couldn’t rally the players.

The teams slogged away for an hour and a half, both sides missing multitudes of shots.

The former basketball ref-eree I was sitting next to was clearly mad at what a mess the teams were making of his beloved sport. Anticlimactic though it was, the game was certainly educational.

I guess I had a rounded ex-perience at the Philly Classic: a high-scoring game, a great story and a complete mess. I enjoyed my college basketball debut, and I’ll be back to the Palestra for sure.

STUART MILNE is a junior interna-tional relations major and an ex-change student from St Andrews, Scotland. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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“One thing I have been em-phasizing,” said Eiter, “is wres-tling the full seven minutes.”

And sophomore Mark Rappo (125) wrestled to the bitter end, as he defeated his Michi-gan opponent in the last two seconds of the match, 3-2.

Rappo and junior Zack Kem-merer (141) both earned a 2-0 record on Saturday.

“We want to win as a team,” Eiter said, “and if each indi-vidual takes care of their own

business, then the team score will take care of itself.”

Micah Burak did just that. The freshman 197-pounder defeated his Sacred Heart and Appalachian State opponents, but lost to Michigan junior An-thony Biondo, 1-0, who ranked 14th in his weight class.

“If we [got] scored on, we made them work for it,” Eiter said.

That hard work paid off, as Penn proved to be the dominant force over Sacred Heart, defeat-ing the Pioneers in all but the 157 and 285 weightclasses.

A similar scenario arose against Appalachian State. The Mountaineers won at 133 and 157, but Penn was able to crush the competition in all the other weightclasses. Once again, Rappo led the Quak-ers by defeating Tony Gravely,

19-5.Against Michigan there was

more of a problem. Rappo, Kemmerer, Giffin and Gabe Burak were the only Penn wrestlers to emerge victorious, while Penn was defeated in the remaining weightclasses.

Perhaps lack of experience was a factor. Freshman Troy Hernandez (149) and junior Jake Hunter (157) were forced to fill the void left by three top senior wrestlers who were arrested Nov. 16 for alleged aggravated assault. Eiter, however, is looking to move forward with his squad.

“No one is going to feel sorry for those three kids, myself or the team,” Eiter said. “When it comes right down to it, when we walk out on that mat, some-one has got to get their hand raised.”

WRESTLING from page 10

Rappo’s match goes to the wire

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Senior captain Scott Giffin (right) was undefeated this weekend. He led the Quakers to a 2-1 finish at the Northeast Duals where the squad topped Sacred Heart and Appalachian State but suffered a close loss to Michigan.

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After the Red and Blue dropped their first set to Army, 25-18, they seemed to be headed for another early Tourney exit. But things changed as soon as the teams switched sides for the second set.

“Well, the momentum did change,” Carr said after the match. “What I’ve been saying all season long, about our being able to respond, has made us into a winning team.”

The Quakers hit .313 as a team over the next three sets, all of which they won. They leapt out to an 11-5 lead in the second set, and went on to win it 25-20 .

“When our heads go down, we just pick them up and go to the next level,” Carr added. “We don’t let a misstep affect us into the next set or the next game.”

Penn dominated the third and fourth sets, winning them by scores of 25-18 and 25-16, re-spectively.

Ivy League Player of the Year Elizabeth Semmens lived up to her title, hitting .308 with 22 kills and 14 digs . Junior Madison Wojciechowski led the defense as usual, with a match-high 28 digs.

“I was thinking after that first

game — we didn’t want to come all the way to Penn State and lose,” Wojciechowski said. “We wanted to win. That’s what we were working for all season.”

Yet the Quakers weren’t as fortunate Saturday night against the Tournament’s top seed Penn State who entered the match with a 33-0 record and a 97-game winning streak.

The defending national champions, Penn State swept all three sets to win the second-round match — but not without a fight.

The Quakers, however, held a 19-16 lead in the first set be-fore eventually dropping it 25-20 . They’d lose the next two sets, 25-17 and 25-16 , in competitive fashion, punctuating a bitter-sweet ending to their historic season.

There was one bright spot, however, as junior setter Megan Tryon broke the school record for assists in a season with her 30 in the match , bringing her season total to 1,328 .

“I’m proud of everything these ladies did in approach-ing the whole season,” Carr told Penn Athletics, “especially the tough matches like this one.”

Even Penn State coach Russ Rose was moved by Penn’s play.

“They were doing what you’d expect a team to do in a situa-tion where they have nothing to lose,” Rose told Penn Athletics . “They played hard, they kept their heads up, and I respect that and admire it.”

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In what may prove to be the most rigorous weekend of the season — the women’s squash team played back-to-back games against top Ivy compe-tition — Penn proved that it can play with anyone.

For the fourth year in a row, the Quakers will head into winter break undefeated after beating Yale and Brown .

In the first game of the week-end, Penn defeated the talented Bulldogs at almost every posi-tion, 8-1.

While Penn was confident in the win, the score was the most surprising factor.

“The result was a lot more decisive than a lot of people thought and we were really pleased with that,” senior Christina Matthias said of the victory over Yale (2-2, 0-2) .

The most highly antici-pated matchup was between Yale junior Logan Greer and Penn star Kristen Lange, who have battled in tight five-game matches the last two years.

Yet the match was anticli-mactic, as Lange easily dis-patched Greer 3-0 .

The Quakers’ only loss came at No. 2. Freshman Nabilla Arif-fin put up a tough fight in a five-game battle but was edged 3-2 by Yale senior Alia Aziz . Ariffin had an initial 2-1 advantage but came up short in the final two games, 13-11 and 11-8 .

The Red and Blue (4-0) car-ried their momentum from the day before and swept Brown (0-3, 0-3) 9-0 yesterday with 3-0 wins in every position .

“I think if anything there was

an emotional high that comes after a big win and they carried that straight through,” coach Jack Wyant said.

Ariffin bounced back from a tough loss the day before to defeat No. 2 sophomore Nikoo Fadaifard in one of the quickest matches of the afternoon.

“Nebilla is a classy player,” Wyant said.

Most impressive, however, is that the sweep came without seniors Sydney Scott and Britt Hebden , who did not play due to minor injuries. Wyant was confident enough in his rookies to let them finish the game.

And the Quakers proved that their youth is an asset, not a weakness.

“It’s definitely not a sur-prise that we’re doing so well,” Matthias said. “It might have been a question in some minds because we came in with five freshmen, but they’ve just been amazing and [have] really come through.”

Wyant, for his part, is any-thing but concerned with his team’s inexperience.

“This is the most talented team I’ve ever coached and we have the opportunity to do real-ly well this year,” Wyant said.

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The Penn wrestling team may have found a new rival in No. 17 Missouri , as the Quak-ers are surely sick of a Tigers squad that they faced multiple times yesterday.

Penn traveled west to Happy Valley yesterday to compete in the Penn State Open to face off against a multitude of na-tionally ranked teams which also included Virginia (18) and Penn State (13) .

But for the most notable Penn wrestlers, it was bouts against Missouri that sealed their fates.

The highlight of the Open for the Red and Blue was junior Bryan Ortenzio’s domination of

the 133-pound weight class. He defeated University City rival, Drexel’s Frank Cimato , in the semifinals, and then clinched the championship by pinning Mizzou’s Nathan McCormick right at the four-minute mark in the finals.

“Ortenzio had a nice tourna-ment,” Penn coach Rob Eiter said. “He got a nice win under his belt, and he made some real good adjustments.”

Also starring for the Quak-ers was junior Zack Kemmer-er , who finished second in the highly competitive 141-pound weight class . He won five bouts before finally falling to Mizzou’s Todd Schavrien —

who is No. 18 in the nation — in the championship.

“Zach Kemmerer really stood out well in a very crowd-ed, very tough weight class, which was one of the toughest weights in the tournament,” Ortenzio said. “I think he avenged some of his earlier losses [of the season] as well.”

Another grappler to note was junior captain and third-place finisher Scott Giffin , who lost a heartbreaker to No. 15 Dorian Henderson — yet another Tigers wrestler. Fel-low junior Gabriel Burak took home sixth place after losing in the consolation championship in the 165-pound weight class.

The rest of the bouts were a little tougher for the Red and Blue. The squad was some-what shorthanded for the tour-nament, as injuries prevented Penn from even featuring a

wrestler in the 149-pound and 285-pound weight classes.

Many other divisions were headlined by freshmen, who went a combined 3-8 on the day. All three wins were come-backs.

“Some less experienced wrestlers tend to wrestle bet-ter and harder when they’re down a couple points,” Ei-ter said. “For some reason a light clicks on in their head. So we’re trying to start that way instead of waiting until we need a takedown.”

After holding its own against nationally ranked competi-tion, Penn thinks its national standing will only improve.

“If we can keep our focus up and keep our training level intense, I think that were go-ing to keep wrestling well and ultimately make some noise nationally,” Ortenzio said.

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Time changes a lot of things. Perspect ive on a basketbal l season is one thing that t ime can cer-tainly change.

That seems to be t he case for USC coach Dar-rin Horn. Horn met with the media on Tuesday for a roundtable discussion of his f irst season with the Gamecocks, a season that went much bet ter t han expected but fi nished with disappointment.

Carolina was picked to fi nish fi fth in the SEC East, but the Gamecocks posted a record strong enough to tie for the top of the eastern half of the conference. That record, however, was not good enough to get USC into the NCA A Tourna-ment. Once Carolina got wind that it wouldn’t be in the NCAA, disappointment seemed to take over as the Gamecocks made a f irst-round exit in the NIT.

However, a week later Horn is looking back on his fi rst season in Columbia with a positive attitude.

“I think we made a lot of progress,” Horn said. “Whether it’s win total or how we played. Again, from day one and to every day forward regardless of what

point we’re at and what we’re talking about, it’s al-ways going to be about the program for us.”

The Gamecocks made a huge step forward program-wise as t he Gamecocks mustered double-digit SEC wins for only the third time. Behind victory came sup-port from Carolina fans of all ages, but especially from the USC student body. Horn acknowledged the student support and its importance to the future of the USC basketball program.

“We talked about want-ing to make a home court advantage at the Colonial Life A rena, and I don’t think there’s any question that happened,” Horn said. “That ’s a cred it to our fans, especially our student fans.”

Horn only allowed for a short time of ref lection before talk quickly turned to the 2009-2010 season. While the Gamecocks will lose key players in graduat-ing seniors Zam Fredrick a n d B r a n d e n C o n r a d , there will be much of this season’s roster intact when play resumes in November. USC will be thanking its lucky stars when it returns so much experience to the court in a game that rarely sees players stay until their senior seasons.

“I think experience plays a big role, experience in how we’re going to do things, experiencing some success on the court,” Horn said.

“Knowing that you can do it and a big part of that is knowing how to handle it if you do have some.”

Overall, Horn had a posi-tive attitude about this past season and recognized that there was much learning and improvement to be done. Nonetheless, he ad-mitted he would have been surprised with this result when he took the Carolina job last April.

Horn also discussed ju-nior guard Devan Downey’s future at the press confer-ence, saying only that he was responsible for “doing what’s best for Devan.” At this point the only thing that is clear is that Downey’s future is uncertain.

USC freshman A lshon Jeffery may be doing double time. Jeffery was recruited by USC coach Steve Spur-rier to play football but also expressed interest in play-ing basketball. Horn said that he had discussed the possibilities with Jeffery but the decision on whether or not the young athlete could play would ultimately be up to Spurrier.

USC assistant coach Scott Cher r y was an nou nced Wednesday as t he head coach of High Point Uni-versity and is leaving USC after one season at Carolina and two seasons as an as-sistant to Horn.

Horn wraps up fi rst seasonCoach discusses team’s play, preparation for

upcoming year

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USC coach Darrin Horn watches from the sidelines during his fi rst season as a coach at USC. The Gamecocks fi nished the year with a fi rst round loss in the NIT.

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Cox grades Carolina on last seasonAssistant sports editor ranks USC’s play during Horn’s inaugural year

Chris CoxASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

When just looking at the numbers, the South Carolina men’s basketball team was extremely pro-fi cient from an offensive standpoint. The Game-cocks fi nished the season second in the league in points per game, with an average 78.2 points per contest . The only team to finish higher than them was Tennessee — who swept the season series with Carolina . Individu-ally, point guard Devan Downey f inished third in the league in points per game with 19.8, while sen ior Z a m Fred r ick f inished in tenth place . However, USC never tru-ly ran a specific offense, as much of the scoring output seemed to come from Downey or Fredrick driving the lane, creating one-on-one matchups and ultimately shooting the ball or dishing it out on the wing. That ended up costing the Gamecocks, as Downey connected on just 10 of his fi nal 34 attempts, or 29 percent, during USC’s last two games — both of which were losses .

While the offense seemed to be the strong point for USC this past season, de-fense looked to be its Achil-les heel. Carolina gave up an average of 71.3 points per contest this season, good for just ninth place in the con-ference . The Gamecocks’ transition defense seemed to be the focal point of the problem and was prominent-ly brought into the spotlight in USC’s first loss to Ten-nessee. However, much of the transition problems lay with the style of defense head coach Darrin Horn plays — an aggressive, trapping defense. That seemed to be a high-risk, high-reward style, as USC wound up in first place in the league in steals. Downey led that charge, as he recorded 89 steals on the season — also tops in the conference. Nick Calathes of Florida wound up in second, but finished with 21 fewer steals than Carolina’s star guard. The Gamecocks also became a shot-blocking force as the season progressed. Led by sophomore forward S a m M u l d r o w , w h o s e highlight reel came during a seven-block performance against Kentucky, USC fi n-ished fourth in the league in blocked shots per game .

I f any t h ing cou ld be pointed to as the Game-cocks’ strength, it was their perimeter play. Downey and Fredrick were the focal point of Carolina’s season, as the two guards led their team to a 21-win season, including 10 victories in conference play . The two finished in the top ten in the league in scoring, and Downey led the team in points per game, steals and assists . The two continually willed their team to victory, as Downey nipped Ken-tucky in Rupp Arena with his drive and score with 3.2 seconds left, allowing Carolina to escape by one. Fredrick one-upped him, as his layup with 5.1 seconds left helped USC beat Baylor by one on the road while his time-expiring layup against Florida put the senior in the national spotlight for a week. But it wasn’t just the Downey and Fredrick show, as reserve guard Brandis Raley-Ross won the South-eastern Conference’s Sixth Man Award by averaging seven points per contest off the bench. Evka Bani-ulis also contributed, as he connected on just under 50 percent of his 3-point attempts.

While the outside game proved vital to Carolina’s success, its inside game was part of its downfall. USC fi n-ished second-to-last or dead last in the league in all three rebounding categories — of-fensive rebounding, defensive rebounding and rebounding margin. In addition, no inte-rior player for USC fi nished in the top 30 in the league in scoring. Despite the ugly numbers, sophomore Mike Holmes looked to be the biggest bright spot for the Gamecocks this season. He finished sixth in the SEC in rebounding, averaged double-digits in scoring and helped beat both Florida with his quarterback pass and Alabama with his time-expiring tip-in. Forward Sam Muldrow was impressive down the stretch. Despite not playing until midway through the season following a suspension and a nagging elbow injury, the sophomore was still able to collect 33 blocks — only four fewer than Holmes and fellow teammate Dominique Archie. However, Holmes’ and Mul-drow’s performances weren’t enough to help USC down the stretch. Had they been able to be a force alongside their out-standing guards, USC might have been able to advance very far in the coveted NCAA Tournament.

Fa n s o f a l l s p or t s , whether they are advocates for collegiate, professional or even high school teams, follow the same mentality with their favorite clubs: “What have you done for me lately?” The fact of the matter is South Carolina dropped four of its final fi ve contests of the season. The Gamecocks struggled with both their inside game and their defense. However, USC fans must not forget what took place over the f irst four months of the season. Carolina won 20 or more games for the fi rst time since the 2005-2006 season , which was also the last time they reached the postseason. It was the fi rst time since 2003 that the team won those 20 victo-ries entirely in the regular season. Carolina captured a share of the SEC East title for the fi rst time since 1997 and fi nished with a winning record in the league for the fi rst time since 1998. What Horn did with his team was amazing and in any other sport at USC, a share of a division title would earn an “A” ranking. But Horn can accomplish so much more at this school and with this program and, hopefully for Gamecock fans, the best is yet to come.

Team USA should play with pride

MLB stars have no dedication to country, it

shows at WBCThree days ago the World

Baseball Classic came to an end as Japan defeated Korea in extra innings to claim its second consecutive title in only two years of the contest’s existence. The fi -nale concluded in the United States, a country who asserts the fact that baseball is its national pastime, though Team USA was nowhere to be found in the champion-ship. They were bounced by Japan in the semifi nals as the Americans failed to post an above-.500 record in the tournament for the second straight time.

All throughout the classic it was obvious that Team USA didn’t want anything to do with this tournament.

T h e M L B is one of the premier base-ball leagues in the world, though when it comes time to show pride in your coun-t r y, no one b o t he r s t o participate.

Stars such a s M a r k

Teixeira and Ryan Howard didn’t feel the need to play and represent America. No-name pitchers like Joel Han-rahan and LaTroy Hawkins were on the roster , while reigning Cy Young Award winners Tim Lincecum and Cliff Lee weren’t.

Meanwhile, all the other counties were well repre-sented. MLB stars such as David Ortiz, Miguel Tejada and Jose Reyes all played for the Dominican Republic . Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka were the main reasons Japan was able to win it all again.

Basically what it comes down to is that owners don’t want their players getting injured right before the season starts. Also, the de-sire to win the fairly young international tournament isn’t very high. Most MLB players would rather win the World Series than be champions of the world.

Granted, the timing of the WBC couldn’t be any worse for Team USA. Spring training has begun for all MLB teams, as everyone is preparing to start the season. Nonetheless, teams play 162 games during the course of the season , so there is plenty of time to make up a poor start to the season.

The turnout for the US in the tournament truly is a shame. Baseball has been a sport that has transcended American culture for years, and it’s embarrassing that we can’t win at our own sport.

In the upcoming future, players in America need to realize the importance of playing for your country, as this will make sports in the U.S. so much reward-ing for everyone. Money is a nice thing to play for, but to get the most out of sports, one should strive to play for something more than that.

SCOTT WAGGONERSecond-year print journalism student

needed to be in early child-hood and what was avail-able.”

Barber also said the law-suit is being appealed and they are waiting for the Su-preme Court to make a rul-ing on the appeal. Former state Supreme Court Justice Ernest Fenning supports the Goodbye Minimally Adequate campaign.

Barber said if one quarter of the population of this state sends a message to the General Assembly, it should get their attention that public education needs to be the number one focus of this state. She said people can also get involved with PTO, join a committee or mentor a child.

“Once the million signa-tures are obtained, then the campaign would present it to the legislature and they would propose legislation to put this question on the ballot in 2010,” Barber said. “Hopefully, the General

Assembly would support that and then it would come down to the people who need to support high quality education for our children or not.”

Feril lo said the court case brought by the 36 rural school districts is now before the South Carolina Supreme Court awaiting a fi nal decision.

“The whole cou nt r y needs to wake up to the crisis in America’s educa-tion,” Ferillo said. “We are slipping in our standing in the world and our economy depends entirely on a cre-ative, educated workforce, one that has been schooled in math, science, technol-ogy and foreign languages. I think the Obama Admin-istration gets it, and I think we’ll see more leadership and initiatives from the fed-eral government now that we have more enlightened leadership in Washington.”

The Mass Communica-tions and Information Stud-ies College hosts its sixth a n nua l I- Com m Week . There are a variety of events throughout the week to pro-mote “how information and communication are essential to understanding the crisis at hand and the path beyond,” according to sc.edu.

Cocky Award for Best Super Bowl Commercial

9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Capstone Auditorium Cocky will present the

award to USC alumni Chicago art director John Baker and copywriter Jeff

Oswald.

Taylor/Tomlin Award for Investigative Journalism

11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Capstone Auditorium

The LISSA Symposium — Writing and Talking

Your Way into a Job1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Davis College, room 112 The Library and Infor-

mation Science Student Association presents USC’s

Career Center program manager Anne Orange to

discuss resume writing and interviewing for librarians.

The Political Power of Online Video 2 to 3:15 p.m.

Coliseum, room 3001 Kate Albright-Hanna, a

journalist turned Emmy-winning documentary

fi lmmaker, joined Obama’s media team in 2007. She

will discuss her experiences with journalism, politics and business, as well as

the importance of visual storytelling.

“Cause Marketing” presentation by Gloria

Rosanio of CIGNA Corporate Communica-

tions. 2 to 3:15 p.m.

Law School Auditorium An insurance company

hopes to educate students on health care. It is composed

of three courses: “Back to the Basics,” explaining health insurance; “What’s

Your Plan,” outlining health care plans and “Take Action Now,” studying the Democratic and Republican

parties’ health care plat-forms. The curriculum on

the Web site is also available on Facebook, fl ickr.com,

YouTube and iTunes pod-casts.

— Information from http://www.sc.edu/cmcis/news/

archive/icomm09/— Compiled by News Editor

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T he Ca rol i n a men’s soccer team is heads to Orlando this weekend to face the Central Florida Knights. After a loss to the N.C. State Wolfpack, the team is looking to bounce back and get a win against their fi rst Conference USA opponent of the season.

T h i s e n t r a n c e i n t o conference play means that the opponents just got a much tougher edge. For the Gamecocks, it is going to be even more c omp et i t i ve t h i s ye a r because of a new playoff system that Conference U S A i s i n t r o d u c i n g . I nstead of e ight teams making it to the conference tournament, now only four teams will qualify.

Coming off two losses to NC State and Davidson, the Gamecocks are looking to put those games behind t hem a nd prepa re for their match in Orlando. Carolina stands undefeated against UCF and has three ties with the team.

UCF had a losing season last year and current ly has a 3-3-2 record, but it boasts a much st ronger offensive effort than last year. Th is season, t he team has already scored as many goals as it did in two-thirds of last year’s season.

The Knights are also entering a long streak of in-conference play and are coming from an off week. They have already played one conference game and lost to the conference leader, Memphis. For the nine games lef t in the season, Carol ina on ly

has two non-Conference opponents.

Central Florida’s points leader is freshman Nicholas Keown-Robson, who has given the Knights three goals and three assist s. They currently lead the conference in corner kicks with 117.

I n t h e c o n f e r e n c e , Carolina leads with the most shutouts, at four, but also is tied with the highest number of goals scored

against at eight. Junior Sam Arthur is second in the conference in shots with 25.

The game wi l l beg in on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. C a ro l i n a’s ne x t home match w i l l be ag a i n s t Furman next Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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Two games into its conference schedule, the South Carolina women’s soccer team is still showing that this is no ordinary year. Coming off a 1-0 victory over Kentucky, the Gamecocks sit at 10-0-0 going into tomorrow’s match at Mississippi. After Sunday’s win over the Wildcats, Carolina fi nally broke into the nation’s top 10 rankings, coming in at No. 7 in the Soccer America poll and No. 8 in the NSCAA poll. This marks the highest it has been ranked in the history of the program. It’s also one of two teams that has won all of their its up to this point.

“It’s very rewarding,” coach Shelley Smith said. “Earning national respect has been something we’ve wanted, and it’s great for the team to receive the recognition it deserves.”

Through Carol ina’s f i rst 10 games, goalkeeper Mollie Patton has been one of the team’s most notable contributors. Earning her eighth shutout in Sunday’s game, Patton set the school record for shutouts in a season.

“Mollie’s been outstanding this season,” Smith said. “She’s made some key saves that have made a big difference for us.”

Along with her record-breaking shutout total, Patton leads the nation with a 0.104 goals against average, having allowed only two goals all season.

“Having Mollie in the goal has helped our defense play well,” Smith said. “It makes the defense more confi dent knowing they can count on her and as a result makes the entire team better.”

Another noteworthy performer has been sophomore Kayla Grimsley. Leading the way on offense, Grimsley has notched a team-leading 16 points, scoring seven goals and two assists so far.

“Kayla’s been a difference-maker on offense,” Smith said. “She plays with a lot of confi dence and has been a great threat for us near the goal.”

Grimsley set a Gamecock record this season for consecutive games with a point by scoring in the team’s first nine matches. Her streak came to an end Sunday

against Kentucky.“The attention she draws on the field opens lots of

opportunities for others,” Smith said. “When she didn’t score Sunday, she created lots of chances for others to score. She’s a big reason for the number of goals we’ve scored this season.”

Tomorrow’s match at Ole Miss proves to be another challenge for the Gamecocks. With a 7-2-1 record, the Rebels won’t be prepared to go down easily.

“Our focus will be on what we’ve done well,” Smith said. “We’ll have a long drive to overcome, but we’ve got to be prepared to play like we’re coming out of our own locker room.”

Kickoff is at 8 p.m. in Oxford, Miss. Carolina will also play at Mississippi State on Sunday afternoon.

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Women’s soccer looks to stay unbeatenGamecocks look to maintain perfect

record on Western division road trip in Mississippi


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Sophomore forward Kayla Grimsley (4) has been a major part of USC’s 10-0-0 start with seven goals and 16 points on the season.

After some close matches this past weekend, the South Carolina volleyball team hopes to improve on it s SEC con ference record w it h t wo more conference matches.

Currently at 2-2, the Gamecocks head into another weekend homestand with a match Friday night against Tennessee and a Sunday matinee against Kentucky.

“You’re always happy when you get the split in this conference,” coach Ben Somera said. “But at some point, we’re going to have to do more than that and win both games.”

Last Friday, the Gamecocks lost a tough match to Alabama despite dominating performances in the second and third sets. South Carolina also had a better hitting percentage (.290-.231) and won the ace (8-7) and dig (58-53) categories, while Alabama won the kills (63-58), assists (61-53) and blocks (8.0-6.0).

“You’ve got to give Alabama credit,” Somera said. “They played the points that mattered better.”

On Sunday, the Gamecocks evened out the conference record with a win over Mississippi State in front of 621 fans and a television audience. The team’s seniors led the way, as Meredith Moorhead posted a season-best 17 kills, libero Sarah Cline had 15 digs and senior setter Bridget Denson-Dorman had 42 assists. Juniors Megan Laughlin and Hannah Lawing

each added nine kills. Somera felt the team actually played

better in its loss to Alabama, though. “The most impor t ant t h ing i sn’t

necessarily a win but how we compete. Learning to compete as a unit, no matter who is in that unit with Ivana [Kujundzic] being out,” Somera said. “It will come down to how well we communicate, hustle and how disciplined we are.”

Senior Ivana Kujundzic injured her ankle at the Mizuno Invitational II back in the beginning of September and is still not able to play. Kujundzic was the squad’s only preseason All-SEC selection and has led the Gamecocks in kills for the past two years.

One of the major storylines of the weekend will be the match-up between Sarah Cline and Kentucky libero BriAnne Sauer. Bot h have been named SEC Defensive Player of the Week. Cline was named the week of Sept. 14, while Sauer was just honored this past Monday.

The Wildcats are undefeated in the league at 3-0, while Tennessee comes in at 2-1 in the SEC.

“Tennessee is a good team; they’ve been to the tournament,” Somera said. “Kentucky, I think, is in posit ion to compete for a conference championship. Being competitive in these matches would mean something.”

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“ Fo r g e t i t J a k e , i t ’s Chinatown.” So ended fi lm director Roman Polanski’s 19 74 s a g a o f p o l i t i c a l corrupt ion and despa ir, “Chinatown.” This quote, so seminally cited on the list of great movie endings, work s not on ly a s t he epitome of the crushed soul of Jack Nicholson’s world-weary private eye, but as a summation of the fi lm’s now-notorious Polish director.

When Roman Polanski made “Rosemary’s Baby” in 1968, it cemented his status as an international sensation with an original vision that fi t perfectly into the rapidly changing landscape of world cinema.

F r o m h i s O s c a r nomination for Best Foreign Film for his 1962 feature “Knife in the Water,” he was cited as a distinct voice in the Polish New Wave and welcomed by the rising faces of a new Hollywood establishment. His early fi lms reveled in visual distortion a n d e x p e r i m e n t a t i o n , u n i t e d a r o u n d a n uncompromisingly bleak look inside our fatal fl aws.

His 1965 fi lm “Repulsion” is as dark an exploration of individual psychosis as any on f i lm, perhaps owing muc h to h i s ow n d a rk scars. As a child, Polanski watched his mother dragged

to the gas chambers during t he Holocaust , e scaped Auschwitz concentrat ion camp and survived in the Krakow ghetto.

Po l a n s k i ’s l u c k o n l y worsened in 1969, when members of the Manson family brutally murdered his wife, actress Sharon Tate , in their California home. His fi lms are understandably organized around violence, death and mental suffocation. These ghosts, it seems, have never stopped following him.

An artist who has spent mos t of h i s l i f e e it her working out his demons or being absorbed by more, the story of Polanski is as tragic as one of his fi lms.

For many, Polanski’s 1977 charge of statutory rape of a minor was the inevitable explosion of a ticking bomb. While the facts of the case now seem entangled in a web of contradictions, the director’s Sept. 27 arrest in Zurich after thirty years as a fugitive living in France only serves as a reminder of his complicated life, so professionally successful w h i l e s o p e r s o n a l l y devastating.

This ar t icle is not an apology for Polanski’s crime. To sort out the complexities of t hat leg a l quag m i re r e q u i r e s a f a r d e e p e r understanding of the judicial system than th is author possesses.

But it seems necessary

now, perhaps more than ever, to try and understand the context of Polanski as a tragic figure. To think of him arrested for his decades-old crime at the age of 76 as he arrived in Switzerland to be honored at a retrospective of his work seems drenched in the kind of painful irony pervasive in his work.

Imagining him sitting in his cell in Zurich, awaiting possible extradition to the Un ited St ates , poss ibly fac ing ja i l t ime for t he remainder of his life, one has to wonder if Polanski realizes what he has become. For J.J. Gittes, the private investigator of “Chinatown,” the t itular locat ion is as much an abstract concept as a concrete reality, a place that holds his tortured soul captive. Roman Polanski’s life has now been consumed by his own Chinatown.

He is trapped in a vortex so similar to one of his fi lms. He is a tortured soul undone by his own demons, trying to escape a past he can’t come to grips with, only to be defeated in the end. Maybe Polanski realizes that his life now imitates his art, even though his art was a way to sort out his demons in the fi rst place.

“ Fo r g e t i t J a k e , i t ’s Chinatown.” The irony is that it’s impossible to forget. It’s impossible to forget one’s past , one’s cr imes, one’s demons. If Polanski’s films – and more importantly, his life - suggest anything, it’s that these things have the potent ial to consume us. That’s Entertainment.

Foreign cinema comes stateside

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Roman Polanski arrives at a fi lm festival in Marrakech.

Ari Folman , now actor, writer and director, relates his horrifying experiences of the Lebanese war during the 80s through captivating animation. An Israeli citizen barely 18 years old, Folman signs up for the military to best serve his country. Like many young soldiers, Folman has no idea what he’s getting himself into. Years down the road, he has no memory of his experiences in the war, except for a recurring dream in which he and his comrades emerge from water, naked and bloody. Folman does a superb job in choosing animation to tell his story. Many of the scenes are dream sequences and the animation suits it well. It’s gritty, honest and saddening. If you favor war movies, then this is the fi lm for you.

★ ★ ★ ★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩

Shot in the Republic of China, this semi-historical fi lm tells the story of the young and infamous Genghis Khan. The fi lm opens with Temüjin with a nine-year-old boy, on a quest with his father to select a bride. But along the way he meets a girl named Börte, who wants to be chosen. Temüjin promises to return to her after fi ve years. Along the trip, his father is poisoned and dies. Temüjin faces starvation, humiliation and slavery, but the little conqueror overcomes all and grows to become one of the fi ercest warriors in the history of the world. The visuals are breathtaking, but the treasure here lies in the cast and acting. Instead of becoming just another Hollywood epic, it transcends the cliché and creates a real heart-wrenching drama. The second piece of the trilogy, “The Great Khan” is set to hit theaters 2010.

★ ★ ★ ★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩

“Mongol”“Waltz with Bashir”

The curvaceous and stunningly beautiful Monica Belluci stars in this French fi lm. The lonely and homely François cursed with a faint heart wins several million in the lottery and approaches Daniela, an Italian prostitute, with an offer she can’t refuse — to live with him till he goes broke. All seems perfect until Daniela’s possessive pimp and husband, Charly, enters the picture. But through François’s kindness, respect and gentle ways, Daniela falls in love with him. Like most French fi lms, it’s a little strange, quirky and sometimes diffi cult to interpret the humor. But nevertheless, there are charmingly humorous moments throughout the fi lm. Belluci lights up the screen and takes on the role of the whore with delicate grace. Except for the outrageously confusing last twenty minutes of the fi lm, it’s an utter delight.

★ ★ ★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩

“Treeless Mountain”, a Korean fi lm, focuses attention on two young girls, Jin and Bin. After their mother runs out of resources, she leaves her daughters with their shady, cruel and negligent aunt. Before their mother leaves, she promises them that each time they listen to their aunt, they’ll receive a coin. The only thing keeping the girls going is the hope that when the piggy bank fi lls, she’ll return. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions and heartbreak as we watch the struggle of two small children under the ages of ten try to fi gure out the world around them. The cinematography is poor, fl at and there’s no real Hollywood glamour in this low-budget fi lm, but the acting done by girls of such tender ages compensates for this fact and carries us though the fi lm through their eyes. Get out the tissues, this one’s a tearjerker.

★ ★ ★ ★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩

“Treeless Mountain”“How much do you love me?”

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“(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” by Weezer

This song doesn’t even sound like Weezer on f irst listen, but it merits your time not just out of respect for their lovable albums, “Blue A lbum,” and “Pinkerton,” but because it’s a catchy, pop acoustic guitar piece, heavy on drums and sweet lyrics. Though there’s no telling how the rest of their album will be, as usual, Weezer’s single

will bring a smile (think “Beverly Hills” but with an 80s romantic feel).

“I Want You to Keep Everything” by These United

StatesSticking to the indie rock

archet ype of borderl ine-nasally delivered lyrics and some understated g u itar pedal effects, These United St ate s has a W i lco-l i ke twinge and occasionally lets their Bob Dylan inf luence show through. Fact-paced guitar will keep you moving ever so slightly, like it or not.

“I Don’t Wanna Be Your Friend” by The Taj Motel TrioThis regional ska favorite will remind you why the genre

that mixes brass, punk and reggae is amazing. The song tells how at the end of a relat ionship, sometimes “let’s be friends” just doesn’t cut it. The song’s trumpet keeps it upbeat, but Ben Sanders’ vocals will no doubt get you riled up about the woes of heartbreak.

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