South Mountaineer Volume 18, Issue 16

              Vol. 18 — No. 16
JANUARY 27, 1976
BETHLEHEM, PA.
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Wrestlers Regain Winning Stride
1975 Winning Year (148-105-6)
12 LU Teams
Topped .500
Twelve of 20 varsity athletic
teams posted winning records for
Lehigh during 1975 as the
Engineers piled up 148 victories
against 105 losses and six
stalemates.
Lehigh stars gained national
and sectional honors topped by
wrestlers Mike Frick and Mike
Lieberman, and football ace Joe
Sterrett.
These individual and team
achievements shared attention
last year with the informal
opening of a mammoth new field
house in the Saucon Valley Fields
athletic complex.
Only in the annual All-Sports
Trophy warfare, against neighboring rival Lafayette, did the
Engineers fall just a bit short of
their objective.
They didn't win the cup
outright, as has been their
custom, but they did share it with
the Leopards.
This award, set up by the
student governing bodies in 1967,
goes to the school winning the
most regularly-scheduled varsity
dual events between Lehigh and
Lafayette from fall through the
spring seasons.
Lehigh and Lafayette tied
during 1974-75 competition,  6-6.
The Engineers took football,
cross country, swimming, golf,
lacrosse and tennis decisions
while bowing to the Leopards in
basketball (twice), track,
baseball (twice) and soccer.
Lehigh has won this trophy
seven times while sharing it in
1971 and 1975. Lafayette still is
looking for its first winning year
in the cup competition.
Results in women's varsity
events between Lehigh and
Lafayette aren't counted in the
standings because the trophy
scoring doesn't include them and
it would take action by the
student governing bodies to incorporate such a change. Neither
school had coed undergraduates
when the trophy was established.
If a change in the scoring is
advocated Lehigh quite possibly
also will ask for a modification in
the ground rules concerning
basketball and baseball where
the teams regularly clash twice a
season. One-half point per victory
in those sports, instead of one,
might be suggested.
During nine years of All-Sports
Trophy action Lehigh has built up
a commanding lead over
Lafayette, 66-42.
Mike Lieberman, Frick and
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MIKE FRICK of Lehigh struggles to hoist Terry Reese of N.C. State in
their 158-pound bout. Frick, the defending NCAA 134-pound champ,
won 9-3.
Cagers Lose Three;
Green Top Scorer
Lehigh's basketball team
moves into its East Coast Conference schedule this week
hoping to snap a 4-game losing
streak.
The Engineers (6-7) bowed to
nationally-ranked Rutgers, 102-
87, Drexel, 69-53, and Scranton,
84-60, in their most-recent tests.
A knee injury to Charley Brown
of Morristown, N. J., against
Holy Cross, kept him out of the
Rutgers game. He played briefly
against Drexel and came back as
a substitute against Scranton to
score 15 points.
Ray Green, a sophomore from
Washington, D. C, played well in
all three contests and took over
the team scoring lead with 145
points. He's also the rebound
pace-setter with 129.
Coach   Brian   Hill's   squad
played  its  best  game  against
Rutgers, before 2,500 Grace Hall
fans, piling up 56 points during a
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BASKETBALL SCORING,
REBOUND LEADERS
G   Fg   Fp   Tp   Avg Reb
Green 13    50   45    145      11.1 129
Milligan 12    57    25    139      11.5 62
Brown   12    59    19    137      11.4 76
Clifford  13    59    19    137      10.5 38
Griffin 13    41    43    125        9.6 21
Belfieid 13    19    16      54        4.1 18
Brandenburg... 13   17   14     48       3,6 89
RAY GREEN
RUTGERS
Sellers 8-1-3—17, Dabney 9-2-4—20, Bailey
11-1-3—23, Jordan 8-0-0—16, Copeland 4-2-4—
10, Anderson 5-1-3—11, Hefele 0-1-2—1,
Conlin 0-0-0—0, Palko 0-0-0—0, Kleinbaum 0-
2-2—2, Scherer 1-0-0—2. Totals: 46-10-21—
102.
LEHIGH
Milligan 9-3-5—21, Green 93-4—21, Griffin
2-2-4—6, Clifford 12-2-2—26, Brandenburg 3-0-
0—6, Belfieid 0 1-2—1, Kistler 0-00—0,
Packer 30-0—6. Totals: 38-11-17—87.
Halftime:  Rutgers 56-31.
Officials: Sylvester and Honzo.
LEHIGH
Kobylenski 0-2-2—2, Clifford 2-12—5,
Packer 1-0-1—2, Belfieid 2-0-2—4, Green 9-5-
7—23, Milligan 2-2-3—6, Griffin 3-2-2—8,'
Brandenburg 1-1-1—3, Brown 0-0-0—0.
Totals:  20-13—20—53.
DREXEL
Barnes 2-0-0—4, James 4-5-6—13, Betley 2-
3-5—7, Conahan 2-0-0—4, Kernan 2-0-0—4,
White 1-1-2—3, Weldon 7-0-1—14, Romanczuk
2-0-3—4, Stephens 7-2-2—16. Totals: 29-11-
19—69.
North Carolina St., Yale,
Bucknell Defeated; Frick
Whips Eli Champion, 8-3
Shaking off a string of five
straight losses, most ever for a
Lehigh wrestling team, the
Engineers regained stride last
week with impressive triumphs
over Yale and Bucknell, both by
31-10 margins, and North
Carolina State, 26-9.
Coach Thad Turner's grapplers
hiked their seasonal mark to 8-5
in their quest for a 24th consecutive winning campaign.
Mike Frick of Hamburg, N.J.,
Don McCorkel of Hershey, Pa.,
Nils Deacon of Howell, N. J., Mike
Newbern of Virginia Beach, Va.,
and Lance Leonhardt won three
bouts apiece in the sweep.
Tihamer Toth-Fejel of
Cupertino, Calif., and Armin
Vaihinger of Doylestown, Pa.,
each won twice in two tries and
Guy Talarico of Nutley, N.J.,
broke into the win column with
two triumphs in three chances.
Toth-Fejel, most pleasant
surprise of the 1975-76 season,
leads the Engineers with a 12-0
record. McCorkel is 12-1, losing
only to national champion Larry
Bielenberg of Oregon State, 2-0.
Frick had the week's biggest
victory when he drubbed Jim
Bennett of Yale at 150 pounds, 8-3,
in a highly-ballyhooed clash of
defending NCAA champions.
Frick won last year at 134 and
Bennett at 142.
The Lehigh co-captain went all
the way up to 158 to dispose of
North Carolina State's Terry
Reese, 9-3, while also winning at
142 by a fall over Rick Strouse of
Bucknell.
Newbern, a national prep
school champion at 158 last year
for Blair Academy, entered
Lehigh last Tuesday and won
bouts Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday.
The Frick-Bennett bout, an
exceedingly rare match-up of
defending NCAA title-holders,
was the big attraction Saturday
and 3,000 were on hand for the
afternoon Lehigh-Yale meet.
They saw their favorite take
charge with an escape and
takedown, after a scoreless
opening period, to win decisively.
Bennett, on the defensive
throughout, never was in the
bout.
McCorkel, with a pair of falls,
raised his pin total to seven and
needs only two more for a new
Lehigh dual  meet record.   Ed
Eichelberger    flattened eight
opponents   in   1956   and John
Illengwarth equalled that mark
in 1964.
LEHIGH 26, N. CAROLINA STATE 9
118 — Gib Fink, NC St., pinned Dave
O'Brien in 3:10.
126 — Lance Leonhardt, Lehigh, dec. Mike
Zito, 11-2.
134 — Clay Fink, NC St., dec. Bob Sloand,
11-10.
142 — Tihamer Toth-Fejel, Lehigh, dec.
Jay Martin, 10-5.
150 — Armin Vaihinger, Lehigh, dec. Joey
Whitehouse, 7-1.
158 — Mike Frick, Lehigh, dec. Terry
Reese, 9-3.
167 — Nils Deacon, Lehigh, dec. Buzz
Castner, 10-4.
177 — Mike Newbern, Lehigh, dec. Lee
Guzzo, 13-6.
190 — Guy Talarico, Lehigh, dec. Sam
Catstano, 7-4.
Hwt — Don McCorkel, Lehigh, dec. Lynn
Morris, 10-1.
Referee — Pascal Perri.
LEHIGH 31, BUCKNELL 10
118 — Larry Means (B) dec. Steve Turgeon
7-3.
126— Lance Leonhardt (L) dec. Eric Rea
10-4.
134 — Tom Scotton ( B) dec. Bob Sloand 9-8.
142 —Mike Frick (L) pinned Rick Strouse
in 3:43.
150 — Armin Vahinger (L) dec. Joe
McGinley 12-1.
158 — Ed Schmauch (B) dec. Mark
Stauffer 16-7.
167 — Nils Deacon (L) dec. Bill Cressler
19-7.
177 — Mike Newbern (L) dec. Eric Much-
more 13-7.
190 — Guy Tallarico (L) dec. Fran Fatool
14-4.
Hwt — Don McCorkel (L) pinned Harry
Gray in 1:13.
Referee: Ray Oliver.
Attendance. 2,100.
LEHIGH 31, YALE 10
118 — Leigh Tonai (Y) dec. Dave O'Brien
7-4.
126 — Lance Leonhardt (L) dec. Craig
Davis 6-4.
134— Bob Sloand (L) pinned Henry Rinder
in 4:07.
142 — Tihamer Toth-Fejel (L) pinned
Bruce Clark in 2:36.
150 —Mike Frick (L) dec. Jim Bennett 8-3.
158 — Marty Schwartz (Y) dec. Jeff Duke
9-7.
167 — Nils Deacon (L) dec. Matt D'an-
nunzio 11-3.
177 — Mike Newbern (L) dec. Jack Moses
19-13.
190— Neal Brendel (Y) dec. Guy Tallarico
10-1.
Hwt — Don McCorkel (L) pinned Sam
Teeple in 3:19.
Referee: Vince Zuaro.
—WRESTLING RECORDS—
W      L      T      F
Toth-Fejel  12 0 0 1
Lieberman 6 0 0 0
Frick 6 0 1 2
Newbern 3 0 0 0
McCorkel 12 1 0 7
Willard 4 1 0 2
Leonhardt 6 2 1 0
Vaihinger 6 2 0 0
Duke  4 2 0 0
Deacon 6 6 0 0
Sloand 4 9 0 1
Talarico 2 5 0 0
O'Brien 0 2 0 0
Amelio  0 3 0 0
Stauffer  0 5 0 0
Turgeon  0 7 0 0
Brown 0 7 0 0
Forfeits 4
Totals    72    56      2      13