South Mountaineer Volume 21, Issue 21

              Griffin Sets Lehigh Basketball Mark
Vol. 21 — No. 21
FEBRUARY 28, 1979
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Lieberman's Sweep Spearheads
Drive To ETW4 Championship
BILL GRIFFIN
RIDER—Paige 0, Speakman 4, Weise 0,
Madaio 1, Flaherty 2, Andrews 0, Baptiste
33, Posner 26, Hatcher 2, Higgins 7, Kelley
12. Totals: 36-15-24—87.
LEHIGH—Griffin 28, Purcell 6, Epstein 0,
Unger 6, Blue 7, Vandemark 26, Finley 2,
Hanks 6, Riley 5. Totals: 32-21-27—85.
Halftime: Rider, 44-36.
Collects 1,3 T 6
Career Points
Bill Griffin pumped in 57 points
in his final three games as
Lehigh cagers completed their
season, to become the highest
scorer in Engineer history.
The senior co-captain, from
Scotch Plains, N.J., finished his
four-year career with 1,316
points.
Charlie Brown held the old
record of 1,311 established from
1974 through 1977.
Griffin went over the top in the
first round of the East Coast
Conference playoffs at West
Chester as he netted 14 points. In
earlier games during the week he
had 28 against Rider and 15 in a
regularly-scheduled test at West
Chester.
Lehigh dropped all three starts,
87-85 to Rider at Grace Hall, 64-59
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MARK LIEBERMAN
How They Placed In EIWA Test
FIRST THREE IN EACH WEIGHT CLASS QUALIFY FOR NCAA TOURNAMENT AT IOWA  STATE
118
126
134
142
150
158
167
177
190
HWT
CHAMPION
RUNNERUP
THIRD
FOURTH
FIFTH
SIXTH
Gene Mills
Syracuse
STEVE BASTIANELLI
LEHIGH
Mitch Vance
Temple
Mark Palzer
Army
Steve McKenna
Columbia
Andy Velez
Yale
Greg Shoemaker
E. Stroudsburg
Bryan Billig
Wilkes
Doug Heimbach
Navy
Sam Edwards
Cornell
Leigh Tonai
Yale
Tom Coleman
Army
DARRYL BURLEY
LEHIGH
Brian Brown
F&M
Mark DeMeo
Syracuse
Steve Cifonelli
Temple
Jim Grabler
Rutgers
George Miller
Navy
Doug Pa rise
Temple
Steve Traylor
Yale
Casper Tortella
Wilkes
Gene Nighman
Cornell
DENIS REED
LEHIGH
Tony Surage
Rutgers
Larry Kihlstadius
Navy
Brian Surage
Rutgers
Allen Washington
Yale
GREG CUNNINGHAM
LEHIGH
Steve Leslie
Colgate
Carl Forsythe
Columbia
Mark Densberger
Wilkes
Doug Oliver
Rutgers
Paul Supchak
Navy
Joe Bellucci
Colgate
Joe Chester
Syracuse
Paul Morina
Temple
Jim Vargo
E. Stroudsburg
Tony Mantella
Temple
Brian Rodgers
Navy
Jack Moses
Yale
JEFF TURNER
LEHIGH
Denny Jacobs
Jacobs
MARK LIEBERMAN
LEHIGH
Keith Ely
Princeton
Bart Cook
Wilkes
Carmel Morina
Temple
Mike Ponzo
Syracuse
Craig Belunes
Rutgers
MIKE BROWN
LEHIGH
Joe Cooper
Yale
Ed Meyers
Navy
+Craig Blackman
F&M
Steve Rosa
Syracuse
Rick Smith
Wilkes
Dan House
Wilkes
Jay Craddock
Columbia
Nick Mygas
Navy
+ BILL AMELIO
LEHIGH
Mike Rotunda
Syracuse
Craig Beling
Harvard
Shatters Records;
Burley, Brown Win
Mark Lieberman, already the most celebrated
matman in Lehigh history, left the EIWA tournament scene a shambles last weekend while
leading the Engineers to a record 22nd team
championship in Jadwin Gym on the Princeton
campus.
Remarkable Mark's weekend at a glance-
He became the first man since 1908 to win four
EIWA titles. George Dole of Yale did the trick 71
years ago during the first four years of the tournament and no one had equalled that achievement;
He became the first man to sweep all three EIWA
tourney major individual awards, being voted Most
Outstanding Wrestler, taking the Sheridan Trophy
for most falls with four in as many appearances and
the Fletcher Trophy for most points accumulated
for his team in EIWA tourney tests with a record
total of 89. The 177-pound NCAA champ also was the
first to win the Sheridan Trophy more than once,
having taken it first in 1975. This year he was on the
mat only 9:48 to win four times;
He became the top pinner in Lehigh history with a
total of 40 in four years, topping a
mark of 37 set by NCAA two-time
champion Eddie Eichelberger in
three seasons during which he
had a 55-3-1 record. Mark is 80-6
with four of those losses coming
as a freshman and he has won his
last 42 bouts in a row;
He became Lehigh's No. 1
pinner in EIWA history with a
dozen falls in tournament bouts
while posting a 16-0 mark. He
shared the old record of eight
with Eichelberger and another
NCAA champ, Kirk Pendleton.
His 16 tourney victories ties a
Lehigh standard set by Don
McCorkel who was 16-2 in tournament competition.
No wonder the 1979 event will
be referred to as the Lieberman
Easterns.
While all this was going on the
remainder of the Lehigh team
was faring well, too, with 190-
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-l-Craig Blackman of F&M, selected by coaches as EIWA "wild card" entry into NCAA Tournament.
-r-Bill Amelio of Lehigh, qualifies for NCAA Tournament following withdrawal of Navy's Nick
Mygas.
EIWA ON TV
Many of the 85 public
television stations, which
have been featuring Lehigh
wrestling this season in 16
states, the Virgin Islands
and the District of
Columbia, will show the
title round of the EIWA
tournament in March or
April. Check your local
educational TV outlet, or
program listings, for date
and time.