South Mountaineer Volume 25, Issue 22

              Vol. 25 — No. 22
APRIL 6, 1983
BETHLEHEM, PA
SRD Dinner Scheduled May 5
Early Drills
Start For
Gridders
Twenty-six lettermen are
among 80 players participating
in spring football practice at
Lehigh.
The Engineers are preparing
for their 100th season next fall.
They played their first game
Oct. 25, 1884, against Lafayette.
This has become college football's most-played series. In the
early years the neighboring
rivals met twice, or even three
times, a year. Next Nov. 19
they'll clash at Bethlehem for
the 118th time.
John Whitehead, moving
toward his eighth season as
head coach and 17th year at
Lehigh, is in charge of drills at
the Saucon Fields athletic complex.The Engineers have 20
workouts scheduled Mondays
through Fridays from 4:40 p.m.
until 6 p.m. during April.
The group of 26 lettermen on
the spring roster includes 12
from last year's offensive platoon and 14 from the defensive
squad.
The offensive dozen includes
tight end Jeff Hunt of Nazareth,
Pa., split ends Jim Davidson of
Selinsgrove, Pa., and Richie
Benn of Short Hills, N.J., tackles Jim Thompson of Lansdale,
Pa., and Terry Bollinger of Harrisburg, Pa., center Dave
Whitehead of Bethlehem, Pa.
Also quarterbacks Marty
Horn of Short Hills, N.J., and
Tony Semler of Allentown, Pa.,
halfbacks Dominic LaSelva of
Pottsville, Pa., Jim Ancel of
Baltimore, Md., and Peter
Schreck of West Lawn, Pa., and
fullback Doug Ertz of West
Lawn, Pa.
Returning defensive letter-
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KEVIN KOPP
MUFFET McGRAW
BOB SHAPS
3 New Spring Sports Coaches
Three new head coaches—
Muffet McGraw, Kevin Kopp
and Bob Shaps—are directing
teams this season in Lehigh's
spring sports program.
McGraw succeeds Maureen
Frederick with the softball
squad, Kopp follows Brad
Wyckoff with the men's tennis
team and Shaps is the replacement for Jeff Tipping in men's
lacrosse. All three of the former
mentors resigned.
Shaps played on three
national championship lacrosse
teams at Hobart College, while
lettering four years, and his
coach was Dave Urick who
served as coach in the world
games.
McGraw was an assistant
basketball and head softball
coach at St. Joseph's, in Philadelphia, before coming to the
Engineers. Last winter she was
named East Coast Conference
basketball coach-of-the-year in
the women's division.
Kopp was an outstanding
member of Lehigh tennis
teams. He and Shaps are graduate students.
Five other spring head
coaches return including Stan
Schultz (baseball), Karen
Adams (women's tennis), Judy
Baxter (women's lacrosse),
WillTrexler (men's tennis) and
John Covert (track and field).
Frosh Hurler Wins 2 Games
Brian Gara, a 6-3, 215-pound
freshman righthander from
Cazenovia, N.Y., posted a pair
of victories in early-season
competition as Lehigh's baseball team won three times in its
first eight starts.
One of the triumphs was a real
eye-opener as the Engineers
shocked Armstrong State, 8-5,
snapping a 23-game winning
streak held by the Savannah,
Ga., collegians.
Earlier, on their spring vacation training trip to Georgia
Southern   in   Statesboro,   the
Basketball Squad Honored
Members of the Lehigh men's
basketball squad, and their
coaches, were honored at the
3rd annual Friends of Lehigh
Basketball dinner in The
Bethlehem Club.
Joseph Workman presided as
master of ceremonies. Dr.
Stuart K. Webster, chairman of
the Department of Accounting
and Law at the University, and
head coach Brian Hill were
speakers.
Five senior members on the
squad—Brian Collins, Rick
Kamin, Fred Ketcho, Tom Pauley and Dave Andreychik, the
latter unable to attend the
dinner —received special
awards.
Other awards went to Kamin
(unsung hero), Bill Boesch (out-
standig newcomer), Paul Wick
man (most improved) and
Ketcho (most valuable player).
The Sixth Man award, to an
alumnus and/or friend, went to
Greg Falkenbach. The Lehigh
rebound record-holder was a
broadcaster during games last
winter and chairman of post-
game "fast-break" receptions
held at Stabler Center.
Hill introduced members of
the squad along with assistant
coaches Sal Mentesana and
Fred Hill, his nephew. The election of captains for 1983-84 was
delayed pending early practice
sessions when four starting
positions will be up for grabs.
The Engineers, 10-16 during
the campaign, beat arch-rival
Lafayette twice in three
meetings.
Engineers had dropped both
ends of a doubleheader to Armstrong, 8-5 and 7-6.
Gara's first victory had come
over Wittenberg College, on the
Georgia Southern diamond, 13-
6. Lehigh also lost a wild one to
the host Eagles, 15-14, and 7-1
decision to Navy on the way
south.
In their first East Coast Conference action, a twin bill at
Lehigh 100 000 000   1  6 2
Navy  240 000 10x   7 8 2
WP—Michael. LP—Pacicco.
Wittenberg 000 030 120   6 10 3
Lehigh 002 211  16x    13 13 1
WP—Gara. LP—Pheasant. HR—Lehigh:
Zlock 2, Brinley, Fegely. Wittenberg:
Scharfe.
Lehigh  002 000 3   5   9 1
Armstrong   125 000 x   8 113
WP —Bachmann. LP —Mark. HR —
Armstrong: Thomson, Whiddon.
Lehigh  000 000 60   6   9 0
Armstrong 010 230 01    7 10 1
WP—Ogleby. LP—Patten. HR—Lehigh:
Brinley.
Lehigh 200 320 430 0    14 19 4
Ga.Southern ..126 113 000 1 15 18 1
WP—McDowell. LP—Spieth. HR—Lehigh:
Onorato 2, Fegley. Southern: Balcomb,
Abner.
Lehigh  010 402 010   8 13 1
Armstrong 300 000 020   5    8 4
WP—Gara. LP—Meeks.
Lehigh   050 000 0   5   9 2
Rider 600 132 x   12 10 1
WP—Keymer. LP—Armeny. HR—Rider:
Tozzi, Mahler.
Lehign  000 210  i    4/0
Rider  030 000 0   3 6 1
WP—Mark. LP—Brooks. HR—Lehigh:
Massa, Coryell.
Trenton, N.J., the Engineers
dropped a 12-5 verdict to Rider
but came back with a 4-3 edge in
the nightcap for a split.
Coach Stan Schultz's squad
hit the ball hard in the early
going collecting 10 homers in
eight appearances. Mark Zlock
of Newtown, Pa., Ross Brinley
of New Cumberland, Pa., Scott
Fegely of Allentown, Pa., and
Jeff Onorato of Paramus, N.J.,
had two round-trippers apiece.
Bill Massa of Pequannock,
N. J., and Mike Coryell of Tren-
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New Format
For Annual
Sports Fete
Lehigh is preparing for its
first All-Sports Dinner which
will be a feature event on Student Recognition Day Thursday, May 5, at the Stabler
Athletic and Convocation
Center.
Players and coaches representing all 22 varsity sports,
along with selected campus
leaders in other fields, are being
invited. In past years a special
dinner, covering fall sports, was
held following the season and
others were feted in the spring.
Dr. Peter Likins, Lehigh president, and Kyle Rote Jr., latest
"Champion for a Better America" as selected by the J.G. Wilson Corporation, will be
featured speakers. Likins, a
recent addition to the "Career
Corner'' in the college wrestling
Hall of Fame at Stillwater,
Okla., was an outstanding
wrestler at Stanford.
Rote holds a record-breaking
three ABC-TV Superstar titles.
He devotes much time to guidance and fund-raising activities for youth organizations, is a
national TV and radio sports
commentator, and vice president for the Memphis, Tenn.,
American Indoor Soccer Team
where he and his family reside.
The expanded Student Recognition Day banquet will begin
with a 6 p.m. reception in the
main entrance lobby at Stabler
Center, followed by dinner at 7
p.m., and efforts are being
made to have as many parents
of athletes as possible join their
sons and/or daughters for the
event.
The cost is $15 per ticket and
persons wishing to attend are
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Santoro, Reilly Co-Captains
Rich Santoro and Jim Reilly,
will be co-captains of the 1983-84
Lehigh University wrestling
team.
They were elected at the
annual Lewis Wrestling Dinner
at the Saucon Valley Country
Club hosted by Richard B.
(Dick) Lewis of Madison, N.J.,
an EIWA champion with the
Engineers of 1928.
Santoro, an EIWA title-
winner last season and a two-
time All-American, had a 17-6
record during 1982-83 competition at 126 pounds. Reilly, an
EIWA champ in 1980 and also a
two-time All-American, was 14-
6-1 at 167 pounds. They are
juniors.
Lewis presided as master of
ceremonies!! at   the   dinner.
Among the speakers were Dr.
Peter Likins, Lehigh president;
Bill Leckonby, director of
athletics; Thad Turner, head
coach; Tom Hutchinson, associate coach, and Gerry Leeman,
head coach from 1953 through
1970.
Santoro and Reilly were two
of a dozen lettermen honored.
The others were Bernie Brown
of Bethlehem, Bob Weaver and
Jeff Turner of Easton, NCAA
champion Darryl Burley, Pete
Schuyler, Frank Koos, Roy Lobdell, Jeff Newman, Dave Patterson and manager Jeff Rex.
Burley, Newman, Schuyler,
Turner, Weaver and Rex are
seniors. Mike Richman, an
assistant manager this season,
was chosen head manager for
the 1983-84 campaign.