South Mountaineer Volume 34, Issue 08

              Volume 34, Number 8
LEHIGHLIGHTS
SEASON TICKETS ON SALE - Lehigh is
now offering five ticket plans for the 1991-92
basketball season, three for regular season
action and two for the 1992 Patriot League
tournament at Stabler Center. Individual game
tickets will be $6. For more information,
contact the ticket office at (215) 7LU-GAME
or write to Athletic Ticket Office, Taylor
Gym 38, Bethlehem, PA, 18105.
LEHIGH CAGE PRACTICE TIP-OFF —
Lehigh's mens and womens basketball teams
official ly began the 1991 -92 season with a bit
more hoopla than usual last Tuesday morning.
Up to a dozen local media were on hand to
witness the9 a.m. men's and 11 a.m. women's
opener. Preseason expectations for the men's
team are especially high, as a number of
national publications have tabbed the Engineers
as favorites in the Patriot League race and a
berth in the 1992 NCAA Tournament. The
schedule for both squads opens Friday,
November 22 — the night before the Lehigh-
Lafayette football game — with a doubleheader
at Stabler Center, as the women take on
Princeton at 5:15 p.m. and the men follow
against Harvard at 7:30.
BIG SHOES — If Lehigh senior golfer
Mike McGovern ever has a problem Coach
Kelly Gutshall can't help him with, he has a
source for tips not many golfers can compete
with - his older brother Jim, who currently is
135th on the Professional Golfers' Association
Tour money list. Jim, 26, spent some time on
the Florida mini-tours and the South African
Tour with other aspiring professionals such
as 1991 PGA champion John Daly before
qualifying for the Ben Hogan Tour, the minor
league of the PGA Tour, in 1990. That year he
became the Hogan Tour's second-leading
money-winner and gained an automatic 1991
PGA Tour card. His best finishes thus far
were 10th place at the Bob Hope Classic and
15th at the Canon Greater Hartford Open.
Mike, incidentally, isn't too shabby himself
- the Oradell, NJ native is currently Lehigh's
second-ranked golfer with a 79.1 fall average.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
Kempa LU's heart & soul  2
Holy Cross previews  1-2
Stein helps LU to new heights
in men's soccer 3
Fall sports results 3-4
Football stats & schedule 4
Patriot League Power
There are just nine unbeaten, untied teams
remaining in all of Division I football, two of whom
are Patriot League members Lehigh & Holy Cross,
who meet Saturday. A look at this select group:
Horida Stale
7-0
Nevada
7-U
LEHIGH
6-0
Holy Cross
6-0
Miami
6-0
Washington
6-0
North Carolina St.
6-0
Princeton
5-0
Fresno State
5-0
Lehigh survives a minor Quake
Engineers need fourth-quarter rally to stay unbeaten
By STEVE MEST
South Mountaineer Editor
Even the public address announcer
was guilty of doing it.
"So-and-so on the tackle for Holy
Cross," he said midway through the
second quarter.
Whoops.
Whether Lehigh overlooked
Saturday's opponent...aah...oh, yeah,
Penn — or not, the Engineers almost
omitted themselves from the ranks of the
I-AA unbeaten and the Top 20.
What they were able to do was snap
out of their first-three-quarters sleepwalk
in time to score three touchdowns in five
minutes of the fourth and salvage a 28-17
win from what was their most
lackadaisical performance of 1991.
Perhaps the man Lehigh has to thank
most for the victory wasn't even wearing
brown — he was Penn reserve cornerback
Mike Turner, who was called for roughing
Lehigh punter Craig Melograno with
12:47 left in the game and Penn up 17-6.
The personal foul gave Lehigh the ball
back after sacks and penalties had driven
the Engineers back to their own eight
yard-line and a fourth and 38 situation.
Turner's miscue had the effect of a bucket
-Photo by Joe Ryan
Lehigh junior cornerback Mike Wetzel's 60-yard
interception return for a touchdown beat Penn
and earned him Patriot League Defensive Player-
of-the-Week honors.
of cold water dumped over the heads of the
Lehigh players.
Lehigh quarterback Glenn Kempa came
in and promptly directed a drive, starting
on his own 25, that took just eight plays to
reach the Penn endzone and give Lehigh a
Lehigh-Holy Cross matchup a
showdown for Patriot crown?
By STEVE MEST
South Mountaineer Editor
It has come to the point where it is
nearly a given.
In the six years Patriot League
football has existed, the Crusaders of
Holy Cross have been knocked off their
throne as league champions only once, in
1988 by Lafayette. The dominance of
Holy Cross in the Patriot League - and,
truly, on the East Coast - has been the
stuff of legends and made Holy Cross
seem almost untouchable.
1991 has brought few changes in the
standard viewpoint - at least from the top
of the mountain near Worcester,
Massachusetts.
In Bethlehem, PA, though, the feeling
is quite different. Many feel that this year
may be the year Lehigh beats Holy Cross
and wins the Patriot League title - the
summit for Lehigh football since Patriot
League teams cannot participate in
postseason play. Lehigh and the
Crusaders are one-two in the league in
total offense, scoring, passing offense,
scoring defense and plus/minus turnover
ratio.
"It has got to be one of the most
important games ever for Lehigh," said
WGPA-radio    broadcaster    Mick
Moninghoff. Moninghoff has done play-
by-play for WGPA the past two seasons
and has lived in the Lehigh Valley nearly
all his life. "It's probably on par with a Pitt-
Penn State game."
Lehigh and Holy Cross have met six
times since the formation of the Patriot
League and not once have the Engineers
been able to solve the Holy Cross puzzle,
going 0-5-1. Last season, Lehigh took a
22-21 lead into the fourth quarter before
two Crusader touchdowns Jeft Lehigh
frustrated again, 34-22. Again, Holy Cross
wound up as league champs.
The Lehigh Valley isn't the only place
where people have taken one glance at the
schedule and circled one date — Oct. 26.
"I can't speak for the coaches or the
players, but in my mind it's the biggest
game of the year," said Worcester Gazette
& Telegraph Holy Cross beat writer Bill
Doyle. "It's the only game of the year
going in that I thought Holy Cross could
lose."
Doyle said that he feels Holy Cross,
in its last year of scholarship players, is
more vulnerable this year than any in
recent memory.
"They're barely beating teams they're
used to killing," Doyle said. "They're
definitely not as dominant as they were.
Holy Cross is not an unbeatable team."
ray of hope. Kempa completed seven of nine
passes for all 75 yards, including the 13-yard
scoring toss to tailback Larry Arico. Suddenly,
when minutes before the game was in the hands
of the Quakers it was now Penn 17, Lehigh 14
with 9:24 left and Penn's balloon appeared as
if it was deflating.
On the ensuing Penn possession, the crowd
of 10,523 rose to its feet when Penn was faced
with a third and nine. Quarterback Fitz
McKinnon rolled right, looking for receiver
Mike Baker in the flat. But Lehigh cornerback
Mike Wetzel stepped in front of Baker, picked
off the pass and raced 60 yards down the Lehigh
sideline for the score that brought Lehigh and
the crowd back from the dead. Lehigh 21, Penn
17, 6:06 left.
The final gift from the Quakers was courtesy
of formerly unflappable tailback Sundiata Rush,
who churned out 132 yards on the ground on the
day, as he coughed up the ball on Penn's very
first play after the kickoff, and Lehigh safety
Manuel Torres scooped it up. Lehigh ball on the
Penn 30.
Kempa came in and made quick work of the
now-flat Penn defense, and four plays later
Horace Hamm was on the receiving end of a 5-
yard touchdown pass from Kempa. Lehigh 28,
Penn 17, 4:43 left.
The Penn balloon was punctured; the Quakers
limped off the field, stunned. A little more than
five minutes earlier, they had led 17-6 and it
seemed as though they would win their first
game of the season. On the Lehigh sideline, the
jubilation was unrestrained.
"There was a lot of emotion in the lockeroom
at halftime," Kempa said, "but we were not
about to let a team come in and beat us on our
field. We are determined not to let this slip
away."
Please see '6-0'. page 2
LEHIGH
Penn
0        0
17       0
22 —     28
0 —     17
LEH — Bird 35 FG
LEH — Bird 32 FG
PENN — Mathews 2 run (Lazarus kick)
PENN — McKinnon 3 run (Lazarus kick)
PENN — Tokarczyk 37 FG
LEH — Arico 13 pass from Kempa (Cecchini pass
from Kempa)
LEH — Wetzel 60 INT return (Bird kick)
LEH — Hamm 5 pass from Kempa (Bird kick)
TEAM STATS
First downs
Rushes-Net Yds
Yds. Passing
Passes C-A-l
Fumbles-lost
Punts-Avg.
Penalties-Yds.
LEH
27
32-76
297
26-46-2
-1-1
3-40.0
3-53
PENN
25
52-250
141
15-30-2
2-1
5-39.0
10-101
INDIVIDUAL STATS
Rushing LEH — Arico 19-101; Lookenbill 3-20;
PENN — Rush 27-132; Rushing 3-22; Mott
12-54; McKinnon 8-39-1; Mathews 2-3-1
Passing LEH — Kempa 26-46-297; 2 TD, 2 INT;
PENN - McKinnon 15-27-141
Receiving LEH — Hamm 8-90-1; Arico 6-61-1;
Cristino 4-48; Clark 2-47; Menet 3-23; McCarthy 2-15;
Cecchini 1-13
PENN — Young 6-65; Baker 4-28
Leading tacklers LEH- Haynes 9; Ciperski/Yadush 8;
Beesmer/Picariello/Hillis 7
PENN - Kopcha 10; Walsh 8