South Mountaineer Volume 24, Issue 13

              Teams 206-145-5 In 1980-81
Vol. 24 — No. 13
JANUARY 5, 1982
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Cagers Captur^Tourney Title
MAY    5    1982
Burley Erict&Midlands Jinx
Basketball, Baseball
Make Significant Gains
Lehigh athletic teams
cracked the 200-victory mark
during 1980-81 competition with
14 of 22 varsity squads producing winning records, two finishing at .500 and only six losing
more times than they won.
The overall total showed 206
triumphs, 145 defeats and five
ties for a .587 percentage. This
was an improvement on the
1979-80 performance of 178-157-8
and .531.
Men's basketball and baseball were chiefly responsible for
the better record. The cagers,
5-20 one year earlier, came in
with a 14-12 mark during their
first winning season in 13 years.
Baseball had a 14-13-1 record
against a 5-18 finish in 1980.
Lehigh basketball fans
toasted a squad which posted
more victories in 1981 than any
Engineer quintet since 1917.
The Little Miracle of Stabler
Center, accomplished under the
direction of head coach Brian
Hill, lifted the Engineers up
among the contenders for
turnabout-of-the-year honors.
Sixty-four years ago the 1917
Engineers were 15-4, under
coach Roy Geary, and that's the
Lehigh record for most basketball victories in a single season.
The high water mark for triumphs since that time, until
1981, was 13 and that winning
campaign in 1968 found the
Engineers with a 12-11 total
under coach Roy Heckman.
Women's athletics also
helped in the climb, totaling 74-
53-4 in 1980-81 against 63-53-4 one
year earlier. Four of the
women's seven varsity squads
were winners, two were losers
and one was even. Volleyball
(23-11)  was the "winningest"
team on campus by a wide
margin.
Women swimmers, who finished the seasbn at 6-4, broke
nearly every women's team
record for the school.
The top record^reaker was
senior Sue Andrews, of Bethlehem, who set six individual
marks and teamed up with others for three relay^ records.
Rifle, coached1 toy Ron Pre-
vost, posted a perfect 8-0 mark
for the highest ' winning
percentage.
Other winners included
women's tennis (12-1), indoor
track (7-1), men's swimming (8-
2), golf (14-5), football (8-3),
men's tennis (13:5), wrestling
(10-4), women's lacrosse (12-5),
outdoor track (7-3), women's
volleyball (23-11), women's
swimming, men's basketall (14-
12) and baseball (14-13-1).
Ice hockey (9-9) and women's
field hockey (8-8-4) were at the
.500 level while squash (7-9),
women's softball (4-6), soccer
(6-10), women's basketball (7-
15) and men's lacrosse (3-10)
followed.
Individually the top performers came out ofthe intramural and recreation program as
Andy Okada (112) and John
Young (190) won National College Boxing Association championships at Reno, Nev.
Karen Talbert, an outstanding member of the volleyball
team, was acclaimed "Women
Collegiate Athlete of the Year"
by the Philadelphia Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women.
Women's lacrosse, coached
by Judy Turner, compiled a 12-5
mark and placed second nationally in Div. 2. The team defeated
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Wrestling On Television
Upcoming delayed Lehigh
wrestling telecasts, originated
by WLVT-TV, Channel 39 of the
Lehigh Valley:
Lehigh vs Michigan: Jan. 10,
WLVT (11 a.m.); Jan. 10,
WITF, Ch. 33 of Hershey, Pa.
(lLa.m.); Jan. 10, WQEX, Ch.
16 of Pittsburgh, Pa. (8 p.m.)
and Jan. 23, WLIW, Ch. 21 of
Garden City, Long Island (1
p.m.).
Lehigh vs Wisconsin: Jan. 17,
WLVT (1 p.m.); Jan. 17, WITF
of Hershey (10:30 a.m.); Jan.
17, WQEX of Pittsburgh (8
p.m.); Jan. 30, WLIW of Garden
City (lp.m.).
Verification of times and
dates is suggested.
LU Wrestler
Tops Lewis;
Weaver Wins
Darryl Burley became the
first Lehigh undergraduate to
win a championship in the prestigious Midlands Tournament
Dec. 30 as he nipped long-time
rival Randy Lewis of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club with a takedown in the last second of their
134-pound final, 8-7.
Another holiday championship was taken by 118-pounder
Bob Weaver as he finished first
at his weight in the Wilkes Open.
He beat Tom Dursee of the New
York A.C. in the finals, 5-3, also
Dec. 30.
Burley, of Pemberton, N.J., is
a former NCAA champion sitting out the current collegiate
campaign. He expects to return
to the Engineer lineup in 1982-83
after a year of concentrating on
freestyle competition. In the
Midlands semifinals he
defeated Keith Mourlam, unattached, 7-5.
Weaver, of Easton, Pa.,
pinned Joe Spinazzola of Missouri in 3:39 during the semifinals at Wilkes. Roy Lobdell
(158), of Deposit, N.Y., Benjy
Dudek (177) of Kittaning, Pa.,
and Jeff Turner (190) of Easton,
Pa., all won in the semis but lost
in the finals. Heavyweight Pat
Brown, of Bethlehem, Pa.,
reached the semis before losing.
Three Lehigh wrestlers failed to
participate as scheduled at
Wilkes. Tom Husted rested an
injured knee, Tommy Bold was
ill and Bernie Brown didn't
compete.
Burley's victory snapped a
long Midlands jinx for Lehigh
stars, none of whom had been
able to go all the way in that
tournament. Tihamer Toth-
Fejel won a championship but
this was after he had graduated.
Colin Kilrain, expected to wrestle, was sick. Rich Santoro (126)
finished sixth and Pete Schuyler
(134) failed to place.
Alumni Dinner
Lehigh Home Club, and the
Central Pennsylvania Lehigh
Club, are sponsoring a dinner
following the Lehigh-Wisconsin
wrestling meet Saturday, Jan.
9.
THE SOUTH
MOUNTAINEER
Editor—Joe Whritenour
THE SOUTH MOUNTAINEER (USPS438-550) is published
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January and February, three times
in September, twice in December,
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The South Mountaineer is
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PUBLIC INFORMATION, Sam Connor, '49, director.
An alumnus may receive The
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Tickets Available
At Taylor Gym
Reserved seats for the East-
West All-Star Wrestling Classic
Mon., Feb. 1, at Stabler Center
are available at $6 each.
Checks, payable to Lehigh
Univ., should be sent to the
Athletic Ticket Office. The
match begins at 7:30 p.m.
A dinner in honor of the East-
West participants will be hosted
in Rathbone Hall Sunday, Jan.
31, the evening before the Classic. The public is invited to
attend by sending checks of
$12.50 each (payable to Lehigh
Univ.) to the Wrestling Office,
Taylor Gym-38, Lehigh Univ.,
Bethlehem, Pa. 18015.
The prime rib dinner will be
served at 6:30 p.m. with an open
bar reception available at 5:30
p.m. The East team will be
coached by former Lehigh captain David Icenhower '71, now
head coach at Trenton State, the
defending NCAA Division III
team champions.
Lehigh-Navy
TixOnSale
Advance tickets to the Lehigh
wrestling match at Navy Feb.
13 are available by sending $3
per ticket (payable to Lehigh
University) to the Athletic
Ticket Office, Taylor Gym-38,
Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pa. 18015. Please add .50 for postage and handling.
The varsity match begins at 2
p.m. with J.V. wrestling slated
for noon.
Ketcho, Blue,
Collins Lead
Engineer 5
Fred Ketcho, Charlie Blue
and Brian Collins, only letter-
men on the squad, paced the
Lehigh men's basketball team
to victories in its last three
starts including a championship
in the Albright Invitational at
Reading, Pa.
In the Albright Invitational,
as Lehigh took its first tourney
title since the 1975-76 season
when the Engineers took the
Kiwanis Classic at Roanoke,
Va., the trio led the way to victories over Dartmouth, 46-41, and
Albright, 68-62.
Upon returning home coach
Brian Hill's squad laced Lycoming, 72-55. In one other contest,
since the last issue of The South
Mountaineer, the Engineers led
Navy at halftime before bowing, 74-62.
Ketcho, with 39 points in the
three-game winning streak,
extended a free throw conversion string through his last 22
attempts and has made 27 of 28
in seven contests to rank among
the national leaders in that category. The senior guard, from
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DARTMOUTH
Jones 2-0-0-4, Stewart 2-0-2-4, Anderson
5-0-0-10, Edwards 5-1-2-11, Saunders 1-
0-0-2, Burke4-2-2-10. Totals: 19-3-6—41.
LEHIGH
Blue 1-1-3-3, Collins 3-3-4-9, Moran 1-0-
0-2,   Pauley   1-0-1-2,   Ketcho  4-8-8-16,
Howard 2-0-0-4, Chance 3-0-0-6, Kamin
1-2-2-4. Totals: 16-14-18—46.
Halftime: Dartmouth, 28-20.
LEHIGH
Blue 9-3-4-21, Collins 4-8-9-16, Moran 1-
0-1-2, Pauley 5-5-5-15, Ketcho 6-0-0-12.
Howard 0-0-0-0, Kamin 0-0-0-0, Bell 0-0-
0-0, Chance 2-2-2-2. Totals: 25-18-21—
68.
ALBRIGHT
Yoh 1-0-0-2, Stech 5-1-3-11, Duney 4-0-0-
8,   Carey  6-1-2-13,   Bricker   5-1-2-11,
Campbell   1-2-2-4,  Washko  6-1-1-13.
Totals 28-6-10—62.
Halftime: 31-31 tie.
Officials: Silvester and Pollock.
LEHIGH
Blue 6-0-0-12, Collins 4-0-0-8, Moran 4-2-
2-10, Pauley 0-8-8-8, Ketcho 3-5-5-11,
Howard 3-0-0-06, Bell 1-0-0-2, Belson 0-
0-0-0, Andreychik 0-0-0-0, Chance 2-2-3-
6, White 2-0-0-4, Wickman 0-5-6-5.
Totals: 25-22-24-72.
LYCOMING
Vadinsky 3-1-2-7, Groziski 2-0-0-4, Kush
5-5-7-15, Barron 5-0-0-10, Duignam 2-0-
0-4, Clary 0-0-0-0, Hanna 1-2-2-4, Jobson
0-0-0-0, Doyle 0-0-0-0, Balakonis 2-3-4-7,
Tuoni 2-0-0-4. Totals: 22-11-15—55.
Halftime: Lehigh, 34-23.
Officials: Kranis and Hartshorn.