South Mountaineer Volume 33, Issue 14

              Volume 33, Number 14
Bethlehem, Pa.
Petzold named
All-American;
Harker wins
academic honors
Keith Petzold
Lehigh University offensive tackle Keith Petzold
(Farmingdale, N.Y.) has been
selected on the American
Football Coaches Association
(Kodak) All-American 1-AA
first team.
In other honors, Lehigh's
Shon Harker was named to
the District III CoSIDA/GTE
all-academic team and is the
Patriot League foorball
Scholar-Athlete award winner
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of Bucknell were the only Patriot League stars selected.
Petzoid'sblocking wasakey factor as Lehigh led
the Patriot League in passing (316.9 yards per game);
second nationally in 1-AA), and total offense (454.8
ypg: fourth nationally). The Engineers were third in
Patriot League rushing (137.9ypg) and scoring (29.9
points per game).
The team, coached by Hank Small, finished with
a 7-4 record, its best since 1983.
Petzold was one of four interior linemen chosen
on the offensive team along with Joe Valerio of
Pennsylvania, DeRhon Robinson of The Citadel and
Reggie White of William & Mary. Other choices
were wide receivers Kasey Dunn of Idaho and Jake
 . Reed of Gram bling, tight end
a Eric Ihnat of Marshall and
center Steve Duggan of
Funrtan.
Hie backfield included
quarterback DeAndre Smith
of Southwest Missouri and
running backs Joe Campbell
of Middle Tennessee and
Reggie Rivers of Southwest
Texas.
The defensive first team,
in addition of Augsberger, consisted of linemen Erik
Helgeson of Boise State, Tony Hill of Tennessee
Chattanooga, Tony Bowens of Youngstown State
and Mike Davis of North Texas; linebackers Kelly
Blount of Eastern Kentucky and Kevin Kendrick of
Furman, and defensive backs Bernard Ellison of
Nevada, Claude Pettaway of Maine, Kevin Smith of
Rhode Island and Eupton Jackson of James Madi-
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Shon Harker
son.
Brian Mitchell of Northern Iowa was the
placekicker and Pumpy Tudors of Tennessee Chattanooga the punter.
Only one Patriot League football player is named
the Scholar-Athlete award winner. Harker is ranked
fifth in his class and is a mechanical engineering
major. He is the creator of SHARK, a computer
program use in football scouting.
Hume hits 1,000 points as
women's hoops heats up
By THERESA KELLY
South Mountaineer Editor
Led by Sandy Hume and a host of freshmen and
sophomores, the Lehigh women's basketball team is 5-
3 after playing eight games in 15 days to open the
season.
Hume became the fifth player to score 1,000 career
points for Lehigh with her 20th point Thursday, December 6, against Mount Saint Mary's. Her efforts earned
her Patriot League Player of the Week honors.
For Hume (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), who missed
most of two full seasons with a knee injury, it was an
important milestone.
"It's important to me," she said after the game,
which Lehigh won 69-62. "After my freshman year, I
thought I could do it, but in my sophomore year, I was
just working to be able to play again."
Hume needed 134 points coming into the season,
and she reached that after seven games. She leads the
Engineers in scoring (18.9 ppg.) and rebounding (9.0
rpg-)-
But Hume isn 't a one-woman gang. The play of the
Lehigh underclassmen has been a key to Lehigh's success early in the season.
"If you had told me we'd be 5-3 going into break,
I'd be pleased," said Lehigh head coach Jocelyn Beck.
"We've brought a lot of new people in, and our sophomores didn't get to play that much last season, but
they've played well, and keep getting better."
Forward Michelle Meako (Albion, Pa.) leads the
way among the freshmen, with a 6.4 ppg. average and 60
percent shooting from the field. Meako's moment came
against Penn, when she hit a 17-foot jumper with five
seconds to play to give Lehigh a two-point lead (56-54)
and a win.
Jennifer Gorak is averaging 4.3 ppg. in 12 minutes
per game, and it was her hot shooting from mid-distance
that kept Lehigh in the game against Yale, but the
Engineers eventually lost 64-52. Yet another freshman,
Judy Dennin, earned a starting spot in the first three
games for Lehigh.
Two sophomores, with big shoes to fill with the
departures of Sherie Androlewicz and Jeanne Mooney,
have stepped right in. Point guard Hope Pellicane (Bound
Brook?N.J.) is combining a scoring threat with her ball-
handling duties. She is averaging 7.5 points and 4.5
assists per game, and leads the team in steals with 19.
Forward Tara Gould (Philadelphia, Pa.) is second
on the team in scoring with an 8.6 ppg average, shooting
50 percent from the field including a,five-of-five game
against Long Island.
Lehigh opened the season with a 70-60 win over
defending Ivy League champion dartmouth, but dropped
the next game to Ivy challenger Brown 67-59. Then
came a 66-58 win over Hofstra before the Engineers
took to the road against Penn.
The road to Connecticut was tougher than the road
at Penn. The Engineers lost to Yale 64-52, then played
tough in a loss to Connecticut 81-75. In both games,
Lehigh comebacks were thwarted by timely opponent
baskets.
"We're getting better the more we play," Beck
said. "Yale was tough, we didn't play well, but Central
Sandy Hume at the line for her 1,000th point
photo by KEITH RAPAPORT
Connecticut was tougher because we played so hard
and lost."
The schedule so far has seen Lehigh face the Ivy
League favorite, brown, the Northeast Conference
favorite, Mount Saint Mary's, and the east Coast
Conference favorite, Central Connecticut.
But what about the Patriot League, which begins
basketball competition this season?
"It's going to be a war," Beck says.
Army was atop the non-conference standings
with a 4-1 record, followed by Colgate at 3-1, heading
into the weekend, but Holy Cross (4-2) and Fordham
(3-3) are expected to be the teams to beat.
The Engineers take a two-game winning streak
into the break. Now they'll concentrate on final exams
and the semester break before heading to the Wagner
Tournament on December 28. They'll face either
Northeastern in the first round, and either Wagner or
Siena in the second.
HOOP SCOOP: Lehigh's Sandy Hume was
named Patriot League Player of the Week. She averaged 17 points per game for the week, leading Lehigh
in scoring in all four games. She had 20 points, 10
rebounds and eight assists against Central Connecticut.