Field hockey's Miller takes heat from Philly fans

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on October 31, 2009 9:08 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Of the 19 girls on the field hockey team, only two come from outside Pennsylvania. One is Jen Miller of North Caldwell, NJ, who has found herself on the outside as she passionately cheers for her Yankees amongst a team of "Philly girls."

Playful banter and jabs have been fired at the senior defender, but she is confident in the Bronx Bombers.

"They were all joking around with me 'Oh Phillies are gonna win' I was like 'You wait!' " She said, "and they were saying how [they] won the first game and I was like 'We just want to give you one.' "

Despite being one of the lone non-Pennsylvanians, Miller has an ally in Gina Bartolacci. The senior forward was raised near Philly, yet is a Yankee fan after her father, who is from Northeast PA.

The Yankee faithful have found themselves not only opponents of their own teammates, but even their head coach.

Char Morett, who is from Philadelphia, is passionately cheering on her Phightin' Phils, not just for her fandom, but for some personal reasons. Morett's ex-husband is an employee with the Yankees, and she said she "really want the Phillies to win, even more so" than usual. The coach is confident in the Phillies and expects two wins at home. She is also hoping to get tickets to tomorrow's game, and is happy with the choice to start Joe Blanton.

And she admitted the team has been giving Jen "Jersey" Miller a hard time.

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Dave Miniaci is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports chief. He has previously been sports night chief and a sports copy editor. He has also covered men's rugby, men's track and field and field hockey. He is from New Jersey and is a big Devils fan and proud of both, and he doesn't care if you hold that against him.


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Adam Clark is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports editor. He previously covered fraternity and sorority life, crime and courts and was the Collegian's summer 2009 news/sports editor. His favorite athlete died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 and his favorite football team is coming off the worst six-year stretch in NFL history. He does hold it against Dave Miniaci that he's from New Jersey.


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Dan Rorabaugh is a senior majoring in sports journalism and minoring in English. He is the sports copy desk chief, and was previously a reporter for the men's rugby, men's cross country, men's volleyball, women's soccer, women's basketball and men's lacrosse teams. Last year, the impossible dream happened - one of his favorite teams, the Phillies, won a championship. Now if only the Eagles could catch some of that magic, he might be able to actually find peace with sports.


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Michael Oplinger is a junior majoring in media studies and political science and the Collegian's assistant sports copy desk chief. He previously covered the men's tennis and men's volleyball teams. Even though he enjoyed the Phillies' World Series victory, he misses the days of Jose Mesa and David Bell.


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Eddie Gentile is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in history. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's tennis team, the Lady Icers and the Penn State baseball team. Gentile is your stereotypical Philly fan - he considers every game a loss until they actually win... and even then he'll probably still be moaning. Go birds.


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David Rung is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in kinesiology. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's swimming team and the men's rugby team. Rung isn't as die hard about pro sports as his sports staff brethren from Philly and Pittsburgh, but he does take pride in being a Red Sox fan before the bandwagon started.