South Mountaineer Volume 34, Issue 12

              Volume 34, Number 12
November 19, 1991
Bethlehem, Pa.
LEHIGHLIGHTS
LU BACK IN TOP 20 — Lehigh wrestling
is back in the Amateur Wrestling News' Top
20 Coaches Poll again, corning in at 17th in
the magazine's preseason listing. Lehigh
senior 190-pounder Matt Ruppel, who will
return to action for the first time since last
December, is listed second on AWN's
rankings of the 190-lb. class. Senior Soloman
Fleckman is listed as a wrestler to watch at
167 lbs.
SWIMMERS FALL — Lehigh lost a
pairof closely contested swim/dive meets to
Patriot League opponent Colgate Saturday
at Lehigh's Jacobs Pool, as the Engineer
men fell to the Red Raiders 128-113 and the
women lost 130-113. The men lost despite
five first place winners: Aaron Burda in the
200 freestyle. Hunter Simpson in the 50
freestyle, Eric Fauerbach in the 200
backstroke. Matt Goodrich in the 500 freestyle
and the team of Burda. Simpson. Andy
Jones and Vince Tsai in the 400 medley
relay. For the women, co-captain Jill Roddin
won the 200 fly. Cathy O'Connor the 1000
freestyle and the team of Megan Eves. Colleen
O'Dcll. Daryl Smith and Marjorie Humm
captured first in the 4,00, freestyle.relay.
FAR FROM AVERAGE —The Lehigh
campus is bracing for a weekend of giant
proportions, at least from an athletic
perspective. Thursday evening, beginning
at 7:30. the annual intrasquad Wrestlc-Offs
lake center stage al Stabler Center. Friday
night the men's and women's basketball
teams kick off their seasons wilh a
doubleheader at Stabler Center. The women
tip-off against Princeton at 5:15 followed by
the men at 7:30 versus Harvard. The men's
end will be telecast by Allcntown's WFMZ-
TV 69. Following the basketball action, a
bonfire/pep rally is planned to begin the
celebration for the 127th Lehigh-Lafayette
football game Saturday al 1:00. That game
will also be shown on Channel 69.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
Seniors super for 8-2 LU  2
The 127th Meeting  3
Lehigh-Lafayette on TV's
across the U.S.A 3
Women's Basketball preview 4
Men's Basketball preview 5
Football stats & results  2
Lehigh rolls over Bucknell 41-13
as Kempa's four TD's break mark
Engineers go 8-2;
anticipation for
Lafayette grows
By STEVE MEST
South Mountaineer Editor
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Lehigh head coach
Hank Small said his team had all three
phases of its game — offense, defense
and special teams — working Saturday
afternoon against Patriot League foe
Bucknell. but he was wrong.
The Engineers really had fourphases
of the game on their side if you add the
Bucknell offense, which allowed one
touchdown by the Lehigh defense and
turned the ball over three times while
giving four different quarterbacks — all
with basically the same result — a shot
at a revival.
The anemic Bison offense did nearly
as much for Lehigh as the Engineers did
for themselves and the predictable
outcome was a 41-13 Lehigh win, its
eighth of the 1991 season and a good
tonic following last week's upset loss at
Colgate and heading into next Saturday's
season-ending game with archrival
Lafayette.
Lehigh got four touchdown passes
from senior quarterback Glenn Kempa,
giving him 30 on the year and breaking
Todd Brunner's school record of 26
touchdown passes in a season. Kempa,
who was named the Patriot League's
Offensive Player of the Week for his
efforts, found senior flanker Horace Hamm
and junior tailback Mark Lookenbill for
scores twice each. Senior linebacker Lee
Picariello led the defensive effort with
15 tackles, the ninth time in ten games he
had 12 or more tackles, and a sack.
Lehigh is 8-2 for the first time since
1983.
Quarterback Glenn Kempa added to his list of
accomplishments Saturday as his four touchdown
passes broke the Lehigh single-season mark and
earned him Patriot League Player of the Week honors.
Lehigh took a 21-0 lead in the second
quarter behind a Larry Arico five-yard
run, an 18-yard scoring pass to Hamm and
Tommy Clark's 41-yard return of an errant
pass from Bucknell freshman quarterback
Travis Kopp.
Bucknell countered with its only two
scores of the game before the half, the first
a 14-yard pass from Kopp to Whitey
Berardinelli, who caught eight balls for
149 yards, and a Brian Henesey two-yard
run with time expiring in the half.
Sandwiched between those scores, though,
was a two-yard touchdown pass from
Kempa to Lookenbill, and Lehigh took a
28-13 halftime edge.
The second half was one of pure
frustration for Bucknell, as it was never
able to mount a serious scoring threat
while allowing two more scores. Kempa
hit Hamm at 3:22 of the third quarter to
cap a 14-play, 5:28 drive, then Lookenbill
with 9:49 left in the game for a two-yard
score set up by an interception and return
by junior linebacker Mike Yadush.
Everyone on the Lehigh side admitted
the easy win was especially timely after
last week's unexpected loss to Colgate.
A shot of confidence was just what Lehigh
needed to begin preparations for the
Lafayette game.
"We felt we had something to prove
today," Kempa said afterward.
"Especially after last week and going
into next week against Lafayette. We
needed to rebuild our confidence and
get back on track for next week."
"We played well in all three phases of
the game," said Small. "It (the blowout
win) was what we needed. We wanted to
come out of this game feeling good
about things."
Especially gratifying for Lehigh was
the defensive effort, which had caused
concern in previous weeks.
"A lot of people questioned us," Clark
said of he and his defensive cohorts.
"They said we weren't the same defense that
played earlier in the season. So we wanted to
come out and prove it."
Next week, they have their final chance to
make a statement.
LU GRID NOTES: Kempa now has 30 TD
passes on the year with a game left...Kempa's
260 completions and 3,289 yards on the year
put him in position to surpass Todd Brunner's
single-season records of 273 completions and
3,519 yards. Horace Hamm, who caught seven
balls for 97 yards Saturday, now has 68 receptions
on the year, fourth best in Lehigh history...with
five catches against the Bison, Rich Clark moved
into second place in career receptions with 156.
THE UNPARALLELED RIVARLY
LEHIGH vs. LAFAYETTE
No schools have met in football games as many
times as Lehigh and Lafayette, which play
Saturday for the 127th time, A look at some of
the other long-running rivalries:
School                      Meetings
1.       LEHIGH-LAFAYETTE          127
2.       Harvard-Yale                    108
3.       Texas-Texas A&M          98
4.       Stanford-California         94
5.       Army-Navy                    92
6.       Ohio St.-Michigan         88
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BUC — Berardinelli 14 pass from Kopp (Gierasch kick)
LEH — Lookenbill 2 pass from Kempa (Begelman kick)
BUC — Henesey 2 run (kick failed)
LEH — Hamm 3 pass from Kempa (Begelman kick)
BUC — Lookenbill 3 pass from Kempa (kick blocked)
TEAM STATS
First downs
Rushes-Net Yds
Yds. Passing
Passes C-A-l
Fumbles-lost
Punts-Avg.
Penalties-Yds.
Time of Possession
INDIVIDUAL STATS
Rushing LEH - Arico 19-74; Menet 6-51
BUCK - Henesey 19-63; McElvene 11-27
Passing LEH - Kempa 24-37-292-4
BUCK - Kopp 16-31-241-1; Glus 3-7-20
Receiving LEH - Hamm 7-97-2; Clark 5-67; Cristino 2-
38; McCarthy 1-25; LaFeir2-22; Menet 3-18; Lookenbill
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BUCK - Berardinelli 8-149-1; Gamer 1-32;
Walsh 2-28; Mesaros 4-24; Pape 2-24; McElvene 3-21
Leading tacklers LEH - Picariello 15; Jefferson 10
BUCK - Spatafore 11; Noll 9
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