South Mountaineer Volume 36, Issue 04

              Semptimphelter
LEHIGHLIGHTS
AND THE  HONORS CONTINUE—
Lehigh quarterback
Scott
Sempti niplic 11er
continued Lehigh's
recent trend of Patriot
League honors by
being named Patriot
League Offensive
Player of the Week
following his
performance against
Hofstra on Saturday.
Semplimphcller completed 28 of 45 passes
for 39-Q yards  and  a career-high  four
touchdowns and no interceptions in the 31 -
24 Engineer victory, ll marked the third
lime in his career that the Florence. N.J.
native has received the honor
OLD TIMERS AT LEHIGH — The
Lehigh alumni baseball game will take
place Saturday, Sept. 25 al 10 a.m. on the
baseball diamond at the Goodman Campus
(right behind Stabler Center). Come and
sec your favorite old timers in action as
former Lehigh baseball greats take the
field once again. Engineer head coach Skip
Schull/. has promised a fun time for all as
the game will lake place right before the
Lehigh football team's game against
Brown.
MAT MANIA— The Lehigh wrestling
team began practice yesterday and will
field a squad which returns two All-
Americans and four participants in last
year's NCAA Tournament. Also. Center
Mat Magazine ranked Lehigh's recruiting
class as the 13lh best in the nation. Over the
summer this group proved its talent as
Lehigh's five recruits all placed in national
tournaments. Al the Junior National
Freestyle Championships. Bill Clossen
finished second at 220 lbs.. John Leonardis
third al 165 lbs. and Mike Sierra eighth at
105.5 lbs. In the National Folk Style High
School Championships Marc Lpmbardy
finished third al 119 while Scott
Harrington was second al 140.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
Casacio on a roll 2
Cecchini 'catch'ing on 2
Olympic sports roundup 3
LU-Brown at a glance 4
Olympic sports slate 5
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
The Engineers' win over Hofstra on Saturday
was their fourth straight home-opening victory
and fifth in the last six dating back to 1988. A look
at the results since 1988 :
YEAR
OPPONENT
RESULT
1988
CORNELL
W 27-14
1990
FORDHAM
W35-3
1991
DARTMOUTH
W 30-28
1992
FORDHAM
W16-14
1993
HOFSTRA
W31-24
LU grounds Flying Dutchmen
Engineers win home opener, 31-24, behind Semptimphelter
By GLENN HOFMANN
South Mountaineer Editor
Senior quarterback Scott
Semptimphelter (Marketing) showed
why he received so much preseason hype
and publicity last Saturday at Goodman
Stadium. The reason...he's a very good
quarterback. That was made very clear
during the Volunteer Day home opener
as Lehigh beat Hofstra 31-24.
Semptimphelter completed 28-of-
45 passes for 390 yards and a career-high
four touchdown passes. Simply put he
was brilliant in conditions which featured
light rain throughout much of the game
and very slippery field conditions.
"Scott was very focused." head
coach Hank Small commented. "When a
quarterback is focused and has time up
front, it makes all the difference."
"With the protection I was getting
and the receivers getting open, you
couldn't ask for a better day offensively."
Semptimphelter added.
The main target was Dave Cecchini
half. That's when junior Greg
Moore (Psychology) recorded
the first interception of his career
at the Hofstra 36-yard line. Two
plays later Semptimphelter hit
Mark-Lookenbill (Management)
for a three-yard touchdown. The
ensuing two-point conversion
attempt failed, but three plays
later junior Greg Anion
(Architecture) intercepted a
George Beisel pass at the Hofstra
32-yard line. Two passes later
Semptimphelter and Cecchini
hooked up for a 10-yard TD
strike. Once.again the two-point
conversion failed, but the
Engineers had moved out to a
comfortable 18-0 lead.
Defensively. Lehigh
stymied Hofstra's "Run and
Shoot" offense especially iifthe
first half when the Flying
Dutchmen gained only 75 yards
of total offense.  Lehish also
HOFSTRA
LEHIGH
—00
—00
LEH — Dyson 28 FG
LEH-Swartz 19 FG
LEH -- Lookenbill 3 pass from Semptimphelter (pass failed)
LEH -- Cecchini 10 pass from Semptimphelter (pass failed)
HOF - Chrebet 28 pass from Beisel (Olshanski kick)
LEH - Cecchini 9 pass from Semptimphelter (Swartz kick)
HOF -- Olshanski 33 FG
LEH - Klingerman 21 pass from Semptimphelter (kick failed)
HOF - Beisel 1 rush (Olshanski kick)
HOF - Chrebet 9 pass from Beisel (Olshanski kick)
TEAM STATS
First Downs
Rushes-Yards
Yds. Passing
Passes C-A-l
Punts-Avg.
Penalties-Yds.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing — LEH: Stillings 21 -71, Lookenbill 7-30
HOF: Beisel 11-92
Passing — LEH: Semptimphelter 28-45 for 390 yards, 4TD, 0 INT
HOF: Beisel 25-39 for 362 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT
Receiving — LEH: Cecchini 11 -163-2, Lookenbill 6-77-1,
HOF: Chrebet 13-205-2, Morales 4-69
Tackles - LEH: Blunt 7, Jefferson 6, Lawler 4, Amon 4,
HOF: Driver 9, Johnston 9, Ferrentino 8
HOFSTRA
LEHIGh
24
23
26-127
39-115
362
390
25-39-2
28-45-0
2-37.0
5-48.6
5-53
7-75
lineman Ray Powers played despite torn
ligaments in bis right knee earlier in the
week, but still started and played extremely
well...Punter Craig Melograno was No. 5
among all Division I and 1-AA punters heading
into Hofstra game and improved his average
to 47.5 yards against Flying
Dutchmen...Cecchini leads Patriot League
with 5 TD receptions.
Left: Raphael Stillings takes the handoff and picks
up some of his 65 yards.
Bottom: Dave Cecchini gets ready to make one of
his career-high 11 catches.
(Marketing) as he established new career-
highs with 11 receptions for 163 yards to
go along with two touchdown catches.
"We like to take the philosophy that
the defense is always wrong." Cecchini
said. "Anytime we come up to the line of
scrimmage, we're going to call the play
that hits them in the weak spot. We were
able to execute today. That was the big
deal."
While Hofstra rallied from a 31-I0
deficit in the fourth quarter, in truth
Lehigh dominated this game in all phases
for three quarters. At halftime the
Engineers led 18-0 on the scoreboard
and had held the ball for nearly 24 of the
30 minute first half.
Despite holding the vaunted Hofstra
"run and shoot" offense in check Lehigh
led only 6-0 with 3:34 remaining in the
intercepted at least two passes for
the second straight game.
"Lehigh has some great talent
and there were some definite
mismatches." Hofstra head coach
Joe Gardi said after the game. "My
little cornerbacks stayed with their
receivers, but you can't do anything
at the point of attack when their
athletes are better than our athletes."
EXTRA POINTS: Semptimphelter
has now thrown for over 300 yards
six times in his career and became
only the l Ith LU player to throw
four touchdowns in a game...Kicker
Byron Dyson separated his shoulder
in the first quarter and did not play
the rest of the game. Sophomore
Mike Swartz took over...Offensive