South Mountaineer Volume 28, Issue 04

              Vol. 28—No. 4
OCTOBER 7, 1985
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Engineers Downed By Colgate
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(B&W photo by RICH SIMON)
COLGATE QUARTERBACK Tom Burgess (12) rolls out against the Engineer rush headed by
Michael Petersen (49) and Matt Cichocki (48).
Varsity Sports Week
Booters Scare Unbeaten Knights
Rutgers came to Bethlehem
this week undefeated and
ranked ninth in the nation in the
most recent college soccer poll.
Rutgers left with its record
and ranking intact, but not
before receiving a serious
threat from the Engineer booters, as the Scarlet Knights
needed a late goal off a direct
free kick to avoid an upset and
escape with a 2-1 victory.
Lehigh Head Coach John
McCloskey's strategy of ball
control with two sweepers
worked nearly to perfection as
the Engineers held Rutgers
scoreless in the first half.
Rutgers went ahead midway
through the second half, but
Lehigh freshman pheffom Eric
Frary (MedforcVLakes,%.J.;p
tied the contest less than two
minutes later. «rary leads the
club in scoring with four goals in
eight contests.
The two teams battled until
the 81:18 mark when Peter^
Vermes made a perfect free
kick from 15 yards, over the
wall of Engineer defenders and
into the net over me hands fife
sophomore goalie Eric Sejourne
(Boca Raton, Fla.), but just
under the crossbar.
After dropping a 3-0 decision
to Princeton, the field hockey
team came alive to record victories over Davis & Elkins and
William & Mary-
Sophomore Linda Harkrader
(Brielle, N.J.) tallied the only
goal in the victory against Davis
& Elkins. Harkrader was assisted   by   junior   Cheryl   Miller
(Cherry Hill, N.J.) Senior Patti
Lee (Cranford.N.J.) excelled in
the nets, posting her third
shutout.
Against William & Mary the
stickers jumped to an early lead
on goals by Miller and senior
Mary Weiner (Cherry Hill,
N.J.). Miller's goal came off a
long corner hit by Jennifer
McElwreath (Pompton Plains,
N.J.), while Weiner's goal was
set up by Miller.
The Indians battled back,
forcing the contest into overtime. Weiner returned the favor
for Miller as she hit a perfect
corner to Miller for the winning
goal. The stickers improved to
5-4.
The women's tennis team continued winning with victories
over Lafayette and Villanova,
but ran into a buzzsaw in the
form of Penn State. The Nittany
Lions sent the netters reeling,
8-1.
The volleyball team continued to struggle, losing to Villanova and Towson State.
The injury-plagued men's
cross country team was shut out
by Bucknell, 15-50, and lost to St.
Joseph's, 17-45, in a triangular
meet run on Lehigh's 5,000
meter course.
Junior co-captain Ed Kehoe
(Mahopac, N.Y.) was the Engineers' top finisher, placing 14th
overall.
Meanwhile, the women harries under the direction of Mark
Will-Weber were also shut out
by the Bison, 15-50, and lost to
St. Joseph's, 17-46. Senior Susan
Kotek (York, Pa.) was Lehigh's
top runner, placing 13th.
Gibney to Head EIWA
Director of Athletics Dick
Gibney has been voted president^ the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association.
The election was made at the
recent meeting of member
schools of the ECAC.
Gibney's first move as president of the EIWA was to insure
that the annual EIWA championship tournament will be
held at Lehigh every other year
through the year 2000. Lehigh
will host the tourney in "even"
years, beginning this spring,
Feb. 28 and March 1, when the
Engineers will defend the title
they captured last year at
Franklin & Marshall.
Gibney was also voted to the
executive committee of the
IC4A, which oversees cross
country and track and field
championships under the auspices of the ECAC, the nation's
largest athletic conference.
Gibney is also one of three
directors of athletics of Eastern
colleges serving on the NCAA
Division 1-AA football committee.
Red Raiders Run Streak
To Five With 32-14 Win
By JOHN MISSIMER '85
Colgate added another chapter to a continuing story of gridiron domination, downing the
Engineers, 32-14, before 5,000 at
Andy Kerr Stadium, Hamilton,
N.Y.
The win was the Raiders' fifth
straight over the Engineers,
who have not beaten Colgate
since 1978. Colgate moved to 3-1,
while the Engineers dropped to
2-2.
The first half saw Lehigh's
defense perform bravely, while
the offense seemed incapable of
sharp execution.
On its first possession, Colgate marched to the Engineer
7-yard line. All-American nose
guard Wes Walton (Closter,
N.J.) came up with the necessary big play, sacking Raider
quarterback Tom Burgess back
on the 18 and forcing 'Gate to
settle for a 35-yard field goal.
Lehigh put together an 11-
play drive, to the Colgate 30, but
sophomore tailback Sean Pitzer
(Dallastown, Pa.) fumbled on
third-and-one after picking up
enough yardage for a first
down.
Early in the second frame,
Mike Powers booted his second
Raider field goal to put Colgate
up, 6-0. Here again the Lehigh
defense forced the Raiders to
settle for three points, holding
Colgate to just four yards after
facing first-and-goal at the
Lehigh 10.
Lehigh threw away its next
possession when  quarterback
Marty Horn's (Short Hills, N.J.)
third-down pass was picked off
and returned to the Lehigh 19.
Yet a third time, however, did
the Engineer defense hold yielding just seven yards, and forcing Colgate to go for three
points. Powers made it 9-0.
Lehigh's next possession
resulted in a Colgate safety, as
punter Steve Banco (West
Lawn, Pa.) saw the long snap
sail over his head and into the
end zone. Banco scrambled to
fall on the loose ball, narrowly
beating Mike Todisco, the man
who recovered Pitzer's fumble
and picked off Horn's pass, to
the pigskin.
Strong safety Matt Cichocki
(East Greenville, Pa.) recovered a Colgate fumble at the
Lehigh 43, giving the Engineers
the ball and good field position,
but a 19-yard Horn-to-Rennie
Benn (Short Hills, N.J.) pass
was all the offense the Brown
and White could muster.
The defense stopped Colgate
at the Engineer 15, holding talented Raider tailback Kenny
Gamble to one yard on fourth-
and-three. Lehigh could do
nothing with the ball, and
punted.
The Raiders' Dave Reed
made a 34-yard return to the
Lehigh 16, and this time Colgate
was not to be denied, scoring in
two plays and making the count
18-0 at halftime.
Colgate took the second-half
kickoff and drove 61 yards for
its   second   touchdown,   with
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Colgate 32, Lehigh 14
LEHIGH 0      0      0    14    —14
Colgate 3    15    14     0    —32
Attendance: 5,000
C—Powers 35 FG, 11:02 left first.
C-Powers 23 FG. 13:48 left, second.
C—Powers 29 FG,10:47 left second.
C—Safety, 9:10 left second.
C—Crowell 11 run (Powers kick), 2:02 left
second.
C—Gamble 1 run (Powers kick). 11:50 left
third.
C—Gamble 13 run (Powers kick). 1:29 left
third.
L—Benn 17 pass from Horn (Pass tailed).
14:49 left fourth
L—Benn 18 pass from Horn (Melton pass
from Horn). 0:03 left fourth.
L C
First Downs  19 24
by rush     4 12
by pass  14 9
by penalty     1 3
Rushing Attempts 32 52
Net Yds. Rushing    43 211
Net Yds. Passing 306 242
Passes Attemped 42 25
Passes Completed 26 14
Had Intercepted     1 0
Total Plays     8 77
Total Net Yards 349 453
Return Yards    0 60
Fumbles     1 3
Fumbles Lost      1 1
Penalties    3 5
Penalty Yards 25 50
Punts     4 2
Avg. Distance    33.8     34.0
Possession Time     27:53     32:07
Sacks by    2-22'     3-23
OFFENSIVE LEADERS
Rushing                       att   net    avg td
Lehigh
Blum     17        45        2 6 0
Colgate
Gamble      22       93       4.2 2
Chubb     10        57       5.7 0
Passing              att   com   int   yds td
Lehigh
Horn 42    26         1    306 2
Colgate
Burgress  21    11          0   200 0
Hulbert    4     3         0     42 0
Receiving                    no   yds   avg td
Lehigh
Benn 7    105    15.0 2
Miller  7     85    12.1 0
Colgate
Brown 4    113   28.2 0
Stenglein  4     40    10.0 0