South Mountaineer Volume 31, Issue 10

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Volume 31, Number 10
November8, 1988
Bethlehem, Pa.
Soccer team registers new victory mark
By ADAM FENTON
Sports Information Intern
The soccer team will have to wait until the East
Coast Conference Tournament to get its first victory
over Lafayette in five years.
The Leopards ended the teams' hopes of a win
before the tournament by shutting down the Brown and
White 3-0 in a very rough and physical game last
Wednesday. Lafayette are the defending ECC champs.
The defeat also broke Lehigh's nine game unbeaten
streak and was the first regular season home defeat in
two years for head coach John McCloskey's squad.
The squad redeemed itself versus Siena on Saturday with a 5-0 shutout victory that pushed Lehigh past
an 11 game win mark that hasn't been overcome in 72
years of soccer history.
The 1988 version of the Brown and White are now
the winningest team in the history of the school.
On the surface, Wednesday's game was much more
important to Lafayette than to Lehigh. The Brown and
White had already clinched the regular season conference championship, owned the No. 1 seed in the
upcoming conference tournament and the home field
advantage throughout the tournament.
The Leopard's, meanwhile, needed Wednesday's
win to clinch second place in the conference and the
second seed in the tournament.
Lafayette came out playing as if they needed the
win more than Lehigh.
Just 1:45 into the contest, Lafayette junior forward
Shinya Takada let go with a shot from the left side from
30 yards out. A strong wind moved the ball around and it
flew over goaltender Leon Kassabian's head into the
upper right side of the net.
That goal stunned Lehigh.
Junior backup goalie Scott Evans described it this
way.
"The kid hit a career shot," Evans said. "Our heads
went down right away. It was such a shocking blow. You
never expect something like that to happen. We just
became disarrayed after that and it took us a long time to
get back in the flow of the game."
Lafayette kept up the pressure and just 13 minutes
later Takada passed the ball downfield to sophomore
Marten Lerner who snuck behind the Lehigh defense.
Lerner took the ball and faked a shot at Kassabian who
rushed out of the net and dove to block the shot. Lerner
then dribbled aroundliim and kicked the ball into the
empty net to give Lafayette a 2-0 lead.
That was how the half ended. Leopards 2, Lehigh 0.
The second half was a very hotly contested as Lehigh
tried to get back into the game. The best scoring opportunity for the Brown and White came just eight minutes into
the half.
Senior forward Chris Cameron had the ball in the
middle of the Lafayette penalty box and the Leopard
goalie was out of position. The goalie grabbed Cameron's
See SOCCER page 3
Weekly roundup
Delaware captures
ECC field hockey title
Lynn Iannotta pumped in an overtime goal at
2:34 off an assist from Joanne Dobson Sunday to
make the University of Delaware the 1988 East
Coast Conference field hockey champions.
The Blue Hens defeated upstart Rider for the
championship held at Lehigh.
Rider had much to boast about, however.
Seeded No. 6, the team knocked off No. 4 Lehigh,
2-0 in the first round of competition, then downed
defending ECC champs, and No. 2 seed. Lafayette,
2-1.
In the final game. Rider's defense was steadfast
as goalie Sarah Hilliard stopped 22 shots and held
Delaware scoreless through two periods. Delaware
goalie Caroline Maloney had seven saves.
In the semi-finals Delaware shutout Bucknell, 2-
0 with goals by Cassie Vogt and Megan Mulqueen
to advance to the finals.
The big game came when No. 6 seed Rider
eliminated No. 2 seed and 1987 ECC champs Lafayette, 2-1.
A last second breakaway goal by Colleen Haller
at 32:46 sealed Rider's chances for a shot at the
championship versus Delaware. Carla DiBenedetto
scored first for Rider off an assist by Haller at
17:50. Lafayette's Stacey Shelley then scored the
See ROUND UP page 3
Bucknell wins
in 35-32 upset
By MEGAN CULHANE
South Mountaineer Editor
Accu-Weather may have predicted Saturday's
precipitation, but no one could have foreseen that
Bucknell (2-6 prior to last weekend) would pour
ahead 35-32 to clinch last Saturday's game and crush
Lehigh's hopes of a No. 1 spot in the Colonial
League.
But while Lehigh's fate was being sealed in its
own Goodman Stadium, the Leopards were also
suffering rejection as Ivy League chart-topper, Penn,
romped to a 31 -17 victory - it was only the second
Lafayette loss this season.
If anything could lift Lehigh's spirits now, it
would be to win the war across town with Lafayette.
That battle will be fought for the 124th time on Nov.
19th.
For awhile, last Saturday seemed like it could
have been a deja vu of the 27-22 Towson State,
come-from-behind contest. But Bucknell's Dennis
Barnes had something different in mind as he took a
fourth quarter, two-yard pass from quarterback Scott
Auchenbach for the score that cemented the game for
the Bison.
See FOOTBALL page 2
Photography by YOUNG HONG
Senior tailback Lee Blum tries to escape a Bucknell defender. Blum scored his first touchdown of the
season during Saturday's game as Lehigh lost to the Bison for the first time since 1978.