South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 13

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South Mountaineer
Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 12 - No. 13
JANUARY 12, 1970
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Cagers, Wrestlers Impressive
Basketballers
Leading MAC
Western Group
Lehigh's varsity basketball
team, continuing its concentration on important Middle Atlantic
Conference contests, knocked off
Gettysburg and Delaware in its
last two pre-examination games
to take over undisputed possession of first place in the
MAC western section.
Triumphs over G-burg, 64-57,
and the Blue Hens, 77-61, gave
the Engineers a 4-0 record in
loop play. Earlier Coach Roy
Heck man's crew turned back
Bucknell and Rider.
Middle Atlantic conference
playoffs are scheduled for Feb.
27-28 in the Penn Palestra,
Philadelphia, with the first two
teams in each section clashing
for sectional honors and the winners meeting the following night
for the league championship.
Lehigh, Lafayette, Rider and
Delaware are waging a four-team
scramble for western laurels.
Bucknell and Gettysburg, rounding out the six-team loop, are
bringing up the rear. All except
Lehigh have lost at least once
in the league. Rider, whipped
86-76 by Lehigh, recently recorded a stunning victory over
St. Joseph's, favorite in the
eastern section.
The third and fourth MAC victories marked a strong comeback
for Lehigh after the Engineers
lost to Gannon, 90-69, and Catholic University, 78-58, in the Gem
City Tournament at Erie, Pa.,
Dec. 28-29,
Heckman took a badly crippled
squad to Erie with the Etra twins
—Kenny and Rick—and star
guard Johnny Waters staying
home because of illness and/or
injuries, and several members of
the uniformed squad playing
despite minor but handicapping
injuries.
Lehigh, after trailing most
of the first half, rallied behind
Bob Fortune in the final 20 minutes to rap Gettysburg.
The Engineers trailed 33-32at
halftime but ran off six straight
points after intermission to go
ahead to stay.
Fortune, who scored 14 of his
19 points in the second half gave
Lehigh a  34-32 edge and Waters
scored  two   straight baskets to
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Coach's Comment
"I think the team showed tremendous character with those
victories over Gettysburg and
Delaware at a time when we were
all a little low after losing four
times in two tournaments. Our
morale took a licking and you
had to wonder how strong we'd be
once we got back into our regular
schedule." . . . Roy Heckman,
basketball.
BOB     FORTUNE
Skaters 4-0
Lehigh's unbeaten hockey team
scored four goals in a wild final
period at Al-Beth Arena to nip the
North Penn Eagles 6-5 for its
fourth victory.
The Engineers tied 2-2 going
into the last period of play, jumped on top fast as Pete Des Meules
scored his second goal of the
game and Steve Hoerner added
another.
Jim Whiteman tallied for North
Penn but Phil Tredway countered
for Lehigh. Greg Weiler flipped
his second goal of the night past
Lehigh goalie Marty Martijosich
before Paul Guilfoyle scored Lehigh's final point with 6:05 to play.
JACK BENTZ
Iowa State First Foe On Midwestern
Trip; Nine Unbeaten Men Top Roster
Nine mat men undefeated in dual
competition, led by two-time
eastern champion Jack Bentz of
Wayne, Pa., are bidding for
berths in the lineup Lehigh will
feature during its first mid-
western trip Jan. 24-27.
Lehigh, which has won more
team crowns (19) and individual
titles (95) than any team in the
16-member Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assn., swept
past its first three dual rivals
with little difficulty.
Coach Gerry Leeman will send
his team against NCAA champion Iowa State Jan. 24, at Ames,
Iowa, against Mankato State
Jan. 26 at Mankato, Minn., and
against the University of Minnesota Jan. 27 at Minneapolis,
Minn. All meets begin at 7:30
p.m. Central Standard Time.
In dual meets this season the
Engineers whipped defending
Pennsylvania Athletic Conference champion Lock Haven State,
22-12, Cornell University, 31-7,
and defending Atlantic Coast Conference  titlist   Maryland,  31-3.
In addition the Engineers fared well  in     a tournament they
hosted Dec. 19-20 placing four
individual winners and totaling
72 points against five champions
and 83 points for first-place
Oklahoma. East Stroudsburg,
Pa., State was third with one
champ and 36 points.Springfield,
Mass., College placed fourth with
25 points.
Boasting 3-0 marks after the
first three dual tests are Bentz
at 167 pounds, Herb Campbell of
Montclair, N.J., at 150, heavyweight Gary Leinberger ofDrexel
Hill, Pa., Al Nicusanti of Phil-
lipsburg, N.J., at 190, and Jay
Leeman of Riegelsville, Pa.,
at 142.
Steve Shields of Williston Park,
N.Y., 177 pounds, has won twice
and   wrestled   one   draw.   Rich
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Bacastow of Hershey, Pa., 158
pounds, has been victorious twice
in two attempts. Winning their
only bout, each by a fall, have
been 126-pounders Dave Waters
of Farmingdale, N.Y., and Greg
Surenian of Dover, N.J.
Seven Engineers were finalists in their tournament Dec. 19-
20. Dave Icenhower of Drexel
Hill, Pa., 134 pounds, upset Joe
Boone of Oklahoma, 6-4; Bentz
whipped Dennis Brand of Oklahoma, 15-6; Leinberger topped
Dick Schumacher of East
Stroudsburg State, 9-5, and
Shields won over Charlie Shivers
of Oklahoma by default when Shivers injured his jaw in a head-
to-head collison and was unable
to continue. Shields led at the
time, 1-0.
Campbell was beaten by Oklahoma national champion Mike
Grant, 11-2; Bacastow bowed to
Larry Laush of Oklahoma, 8-3,
and Nicusanti lost to Mike Brun-
dage of the Sooners, 9-7.
Icenhower, whose victory over
Boone was a tournament highlight,   has a 1-1-1 dual record.
1969 Was Winning Year For Lehigh
The year 1969 was a winning
one for Lehigh University
athletes.
Twelve varsity squads won 92
contests while losing 67 and playing two ties. Ten freshman teams
totaled 47 victories against 34
losses with four draws.
The overall performance,
covering 1968-69 winter activity
and 1969 spring and fall campaigns, included 139 triumphs,
101 defeats and six ties in
combined varsity and freshman
competition.
In addition the hockey team, a
club sport until the present season and not included in the 1969
survey, finished first in the Mid
dle Atlantic League while
fashioning a   10-and-7    record.
In the third year of all-sports
trophy competition between Lehigh and Lafayette the Engineers
piled up a 9-3 margin to follow
victories over their neighboring
rivals in 1967 and 1968. Since the
series began, with a trophy provided by the student toverni**g
bodies of the traditional rivals,
Lehigh has won 24 times against
the Leopards while losing only
14 events.
Outstanding individual laurels
were gained by Thad Jamula,
an offensive tackle on the football squad who earned a first-
team berth     on the    American
Football Coaches Assn. college
division All-American team, and
wrestler Jack Bentz who had an
undefeated dual meet season
(1968-69) and captured a second
straight eastern championship.
Three deaths cast a shadow on
the year's activities. Veteran
coach and ticket manager Bill
Christian was the victim of a
heart attack following a successful season in which he guided the
varsity tennis team to a 10-2
record. Soccer co-captain-elect
Rick Goat died following a summer automobile accident and Jay
Wiley, retired Bethlehem police
captain and assistant equipment
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Matmen Rout
Maryland 31-3
For Third Win
Falls by Greg Surenian and
Rich Bacastow sparked Lehigh's
undefeated wrestlers to a 31-3
rout of Maryland Dec. 5 in Grace
Hall as the Engineers made their
final appearance before the semester examination recess.
It was a sweet triumph for
Coach Gerry Leeman's crew,
avenging a 15-14 defeat at the
hands of the Atlantic Coast Conference  champions last season.
Surenian, a freshman from
Dover, N. J., made his anxiously-
awaited varsity debut a memorable one as he disposed of
veteran John Baker in 3:09 of
their 126-pound bout. Baker is
one of Maryland's better matmen.
Bacastow, competing at 158,
flattened Henry Griffiths in 3:00
as Lehigh won nine straight bouts
after dropping the 118-pound
opener.
Winning decisions were David
Icenhower   at   134,  Jay Leeman
at 142, Herb Campbell at 150,
Jack Bentz at 167, Steve Shields
at 177, Al Nicusanti at 190 and
Gary   Leinberger,   heavyweight.
Freshman Randy Biggs lost the
first bout of the night, 14-4 to
Gary Mulligan of the Terrapins.
After whipping Lock Haven
State, 22-12, and Cornell, 31-7,
the Engineers added Maryland
to the list to hike their dual mark
to 3-and-0. It was a very impressive performance, topping
Oklahoma's margin over Maryland which was 29-5 early in
December.
Surenian, voted New Jersey's
most outstanding schoolboy
matman last season, was tied 2-2
with Baker when he put the Terrapin veteran on his back with a
double arm tieup and body press.
He had scored a takedown while
giving up two escapes. In his
only previous showing he pinned
a Cornell opponent in a freshman meet.
Bacastow, trailing 2-1 on the
board, rode Griffiths for the first
minute of the second period and
then pinned him with a reverse
chancery and body press.
Of Engineers chalking up decisions, only Icenhower had any
real difficulty as he nipped Tom
Talbert by a 4-3 margin. Leeman
blanked   Bob Belott, 6-0, Camp-
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Coach's Comment
"I'm very pleased so far but
we're heading into some pretty
thick going on our midwestern
trip and that'll be a very real
test for some of our young men.
They've' certainly done well
through our first three meets and
you've got to be happy when you're
3-and-0." . . . Gerry Leeman,
wrestling.