South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 11

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Soit th Mo u n taineer
Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh Universiiy Alumni Association
Vol. 12 - No. 11
DECEMBER 8, 1969
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Wrestlers  Trounce Lock Haven
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JACK BENTZ of Lehigh controls Don Connelly during their 177-pound match
as the Engineers whipped Lock Haven in Grace Hall, 22-12. The two-time Eastern Assn0 champion pinned his rival in the third period for his 15th straight dual
meet triumph.
Cagers Outscore Bucknell
Captain Bob Fortune paced
Lehigh's basketball team to a
75-66 triumph over Bucknell for
its initial win of the season after
losses to Army, 74-61, and Temple, 73-70.
Coach Roy Heckman's squad
returns to action at Colgate Wednesday (Dec. 10) before making
an anxiously-awaited home debut
Saturday (Dec. 13) night in Grace
Hall against Washington and Lee.
Fortune, with 25 points at
Bucknell, increased his team-
leading total to 54 for the first
three games. He has 22 field goals
and 10 foul conversions.
Playmaking guard Johnny Waters is second with 42 markers on
nine field goals and 24 of 28 free
throws. Another guard, Scott
Beeten, is third with 15 field goals
and one foul for 31 tallies„
Bucknell Victory
Fortune scored 19 points in the
second half as Lehigh came from
behind to knock off Bucknell in
the Middle Atlantic Conference
opener for the Engineers.
Bucknell matched baskets with
Lehigh much of the first half, and
pulled away to a 30-26 halftime
lead on a pair of quick baskets by
Bob McKernan.
Lehigh began to cut into the
slim lead, however, and went
ahead to stay 40-39 with 12 min^
utes to play.
The Engineers built a 63-48
lead with five minutes to go, but
Bucknell applied a fullcourt press
and scored 11 points in succession to trim the margin to63-59.
That was as close as it got,
however, as Waters and Rick Etra
started hitting on foul shots to
pull out the victory.
Fortune received big assists
from Waters, who had 15 points
on three field goals and nine fouls,
Mike Drew with 13 points and
Beeten with 10-
Fortune and Greg Falkenbach
gave Lehigh control of the boards
as the Engineers outrebounded
the Bisons 51-35. Falkenbach was
particularly   impressive   in the
Mermen Break Records
In First Meet of Year
Sophomores Bob Sine and Phil
Hogan set two school records
Saturday as Lehigh dropped a
5 2-48 decision to Colgate's
swimmers.
Sine was first in the 1,000-yard
freestyle in a time of 11:14,
more than a minute better than
the old Engineer record. He also
was first in the 500-yard
freestyle flat in 5:25 to set
another Engineer mark.
Hogan was first in the 50-yard
freestyle to set a school standard
of 22.1 and finished the first leg
of the 400-yard freestyle relay in
49.4 for a university 100-yard
freestyle record.
Despite his fine performance
in this last event of the meet,
Colgate still won in a time of
3:24.2 and in so doing gained
enough points to make its season
debut a success.
Pete Harding was also a
double winner for the Engineers,
in  their   season   opener,  as  he
was first in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:28.4 and swam the
second leg of Lehigh's winning
400-yard medley relay.
COLGATE 52, LEHIGH 48
400-Medley Relay—1. Lehigh (Warner,
Harding, Hogan, Van Sciver). Ti me: 3:57.2.
1000-Freestvle--1. Sine (L); 2. Ross
(C); 3. Latta (C). Time: 11:14.0 (Lehigh
record).
200-Freestyle--l. Gush (C); 2. Lloyd
(C);   3. Martin (L). Time: 1:51.7.
r>0-Freestvle--l. Hogan (L); 2. Van
Sciver (L): 3. Keogh (C). Time: 22.1
(Lehigh record).
200-Individual   Medley—1.   Bayuk   (C);
2. De ma rest (C); 3. Thomas (L). Time:
2:11.0.
1-Meter Dive—Dillman (L). Points:
104.G.
200-Butterflv--l. Bayuk (C); 2. Nagy
(L); 3. Latta (C). Time: 2:12.4.
100-Freestyle--1. Reinz (C); 2. Sultzer
(L); 3. Llovd (C). Time: 5 2.4.
200-Backstroke — l. Gush(C); 2. Warner
(L); 3. Morris (L). Time: 2:06.8.
500-Freestyle—1. Sine (L); 2. Ross (C);
3. Demarest (C). Time: 5j25.0 (Lehigh
record).
200-Breaststroke--1. Harding (L); 2.
Marchetto (C); 3. Thomas (L). Time:
2:28.4.
400-Freestyle Relay Coleate (Keoah,
Reinz,   Demarest,   Gush).   Time:   3:24.2.
second half and ended the game
with 13   rebounds.
McKernan had 15 points for
Bucknell and was tops in rebounds
with 11. Jim Wherry was the Bison high scorer with 20 points.
In the shooting department,
Bucknell was 26-60 for 43 per
cent. Lehigh was better as it made
27 of 61 for 44 percent.
In the freshman game Larry
Lloyd scored with 20 seconds left
to give the Little Engineers a
72-71 edge.
Loss at Te mple
Lehigh put everything on one
shot with one second remaining
in a 71-70 contest and came away
the loser at Temple.
The Engineers pulled to within
one point with 16 seconds remaining and froze the ball for the final
shot.
Fortune's attempt failed, and
Temple's Tom Wieczerak was
fouled under the basket as the
buzzer sounded. He sank both
his shots from the line.
Both teams played an even contest for the first eight minutes
as the score see-sawed back and
forth. Temple finally began to
out rebound the Engineers and
break their defense as the Owls
gained a 15-point lead, 44-29, at
the half.
The Engineers battled back
behind the strong shooting of
Beeten and Fortune and the rebounding of Falkenbach. Beeten
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Strong Rally
Turns Back
PACChamps
Falls by senior co-captain Jack
Bentz, and sophomore Herb
Campbell, sparked Lehigh to an
auspicious 1969-70 wrestling
debut last Saturday before 3,450
spectators in Grace Hall.
The Engineers whipped Lock
Haven State College, 22-12,
handing the defending Pennsylvania Athletic Conference
champions their first loss in two
years.
Lock Haven, a longtime power
in small-college mat circles,
swept the first three bouts before
Lehigh turned the tide and won
handily.
Despite the absence of injured
lettermen Dave Waters, Rich
Bacastow, Scott Christie and Art
Rutzen the Engineers fielded a
lineup which won six of the 10
bouts and added four bonus points
on the pair of pins.
15th Straight Win
Bentz, chalking up his 15th
straight dual meet triumph, disposed of Don Connelly at 6:42
of their 177-pound bout to give
Lehigh its first lead of the night,
16-12.
Campbell, in his first varsity
bout, stunned Craig Sholl of the
Bald Eagles with a fall in 3:35
after overcoming a 4-0 deficit at
150 pounds. This sliced Lock
Haven's big early advantage
to 9-8.
Winning decisions for the
Engineers were Jay Leeman at
142, Steve Shields at 167, Al
Nicusanti at 190 and Gary
Leinberger, heavyweight.
Leeman's triumph, 2-1 over
Paul Brodmerkel, was on time
advantage after the matmen had
traded escapes. It was an
impressive victory and it came
when the fired-up visitors,
already ahead 9-0, were threatening to pile up an insurmountable margin.
Once Jay applied the brakes
to Lock Haven's early rush the
Engineers took charge.
Penalized for Stalling
Campbell, after being taken
down and yielding an early
predicament, reversed near the
end of the initial period and again
at the start of the second. He
added a predicament of his own,
gave up a reverse as the score
reached 6-6, then escaped and
took Sholl to the mat for the first
time. He gained a reverse half
nelson and pressed his rival's
shoulders to the mat as the overflow   crowd   stood  and  roared.
Shields defeated Bill Rhodes,
4-3, in a bout which found the
Lock Haven junior being penalized a point for stalling and
another for refusing to properly
assume the down position at the
start of the final period. There
had been several false starts in
the bout and referee Art McCall
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