South Mountaineer Volume 35, Issue 26

              LEHIGHLIGHTS
TOP PATRIOTS — Aside from the
Palriol League honors received by ihe
softball learn which which were announced
in the last issue of ihe Mountaincr, Lehigh
also placed members from ihe baseball and
women's lacrosse learn on all-star squads.
Junior third baseman Jon Lehberger was
named lo the All-Patriot League First
Team while a pair of freshmen, designated
hitler Joe Gorla and utility player Brian
Yost were second team selections.
Lehberger led the squad in average (.330).
home runs (3). RBI's (22). runs (17) and
stolen bases (14). Gorla balled .300 in 27
games while Yost hit at a .253 clip.On the
women's lacrosse scene, sophomore
midfielder Liz Brode and junior attack
Jennifer George were All-Patriot League
choices while freshman attack Jill Altshuler
was named Rookie of the Year. Altshuler
led ihc league wilh 44 goals and added 10
assists while Brode lied her for the team
lead in scoring (41 goals. 13 assists). George
recorded a 25-goal. six-assist season.
SCHOLAR-ATHLETE   HONORS  -
Senior men's tennis star Ryan Gelrod has
been named one of the Patriot League's
finest scholar-athletes for the third straight
year. Gelrod. a senior from Upper Dublin
High School who took the #1 singles title
April 25 in the league's annual
championships hosted by Lehigh, is a
finance major with a 3.74 grade point
average on a 4.0 scale. He's one of only
eight men and women named scholar-
athletes this spring by the league. One was
chosen for each sport. He had a 17-3 singles
record and an 11 -4 doubles mark.
AN ACE IN THE HOLE— Lehigh head
golf coach Kelly Gutshall went out to play
a round last week and came back wilh lucky
#7-his seventh career hole-in-one. Gutshall
fired the ace on the 16th hole of the Indian
Valley Country Club, using an eight iron.
Il marked the third time that he's recorded
a holc-in-onc on that particular hole. His
others came on the fourth and 11 th at Indian
Valley and ihc fourth and I6lh al ihe
Bethlehem Steel Club.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
Softball at ECAC's 2
Basketball recruits 2
Banquet honors LU athletes.. 3
LU wrestlers at nationals 4
Spring sports statistics 4
A STRONG FINISH
This year's Patriot League Presidents' Cup
wentto Bucknell, but Lehigh ended up finishing
third overall in the competition. A look at thefinal
standings:
SCHOOL                        POINTS
Bucknell
98
Army   :,.;,,:
91.5
LEHIGH
86.5
Colgate
86.5
Lafayette
83
Fordham
65
Navy
56
Holy Cross
54.5
Another successful spring scrimmage
White downs Brown, 21-6, in annual preseason football battle
By MARC GESUALDO
South Mountaineer Editor
With picture-perfect
weather and an enthusiastic
crowd at last Saturday's
Brown and White spring
football game, the only other
thing you could have asked
for was a couple of big plays
to please the spectators.
Mission accomplished.
The White squad, riding
the wave of impressive
performances on both side of
the ball, rolled to a 21-6
victory over the Brown as
the Engineers prepped for
what should be an exciting
1993 season.
In an added twist to this
year's game, local media
members Gary Blockus (Tlie
Morning Call) and Corky
Blake (The Express-Times)
served as captains of the
squads and participated in a
player draft a couple of days
before the game.
Sounds like fun, right?
. The only problem was
neither of them was afforded
the services of starting QB
Scott Semptimphelter or
tailback Mark Lookenbill.
Semptimphelter is nursing a broken right
hand while Lookenbill isn't quite 100
percent recovered from the torn ACL
that sidelined him most of last season.
Nonetheless, Blockus picked out his
Brown squad while Blake put together
the White team, and the general
consensus was that Blockus's Brown
looked like the stronger team.
But there was still a game to be
played.
After the Brown grabbed a 3-0 lead
on Byron Dyson's 32-yard field goal
midway through the first quarter, the
White squad set the tone for the rest of
the game with some second-quarter
fireworks.
Faced with a fourth-and-15 from its
own 47-yard line, the White team turned
to offensive line coach Fred Mariani,
who was calling the offensive plays.
He didn't disappoint.
Sophomore quarterback Larry Khan
dropped back and unleashed a bomb to
wide receiverTim Kennedy that resulted
in a 53-yard touchdown and a 7-3 lead
for White.
It turned out to be all the points the
team would need as the defense held
tough the rest of the way and came up
with a big play of its own later on in the
quarter.
Dyson's25-yardfieldgoal narrowed
rthe White lead to 7-6 before Jason Mack,
WHITE
BROWN
Kevin Jefferson led all defenders with seven tackles.
a junior-to-be from nearby Southern Lehigh
High School, came up with the defense's
contribution to "Big Play Saturday."
Mack -intercepted Jim Guzzo's pass in
the flat and it was clear sailing the rest of the
way as he romped 65 yards forthe touchdown
and a 14-6 White lead with 2:25 remaining
in the first half.
Mack also wound up leading the White
squad with four
tackles on the
afternoon as he
makes his bid for
a starting strong
safety spot after
missing most of
the 1992
campaign with a
broken thumb.
"The way
you saw Jason
Mack play today
is the way he's
played all
spring," said
Lehigh head
coach Hank
Small. "He gives
his all whenever
he's out on the
field."
The squads
swapped goose
esss in the third
quarter before the White put
the icing on the cake in the
final period.
This time it was sophomore
running back Jason Harris
scampering into the end zone
from 19 yards out for the
final score of the game. Harris
came through with an eye-
opening performance of his
own, finishing with 58 yards
on just eight carries.
"Overall it seemed like
they (the Browns) had a better
team," Mack said. "But that
just gave us more incentive
to go out and play hard."
And while the scrimmage
is only an early indicator of
how the 1993 squad will fare,
the Engineers served notice
that they might be right on
track to prove the Patriot
Leauge's coaches right. In a
preseason poll, the head men
from around the league
tabbed Lehigh to finish first.
"This is a good opportunity
for us to get a look at a lot of
players," Small said.
"Obviously you can't judge a
whole lot from one intrasquad
game, but it was nice to see
guys come up with big efforts
on both sides of the ball."
-Photo by Joe Ryan And |f ^ trend contjnues
once the autumn leaves blow into Goodman
Stadium, the Lehigh Engineers may just do
some justice to those preseason predictions.
EXTRA POINTS: Engineers have five
games on the 1993 home schedule...Hofstra
is the home opener on Sept. 18. Then it's
Brown (Sept. 25), Cornell (Oct. 2), Holy
Cross (Oct. 30) and Lafeyette (Nov. 20)...A1I
home games are scheduled for 1:00.
—21
—6
B — Dyson 32 FG
W—- Kennedy 53 pass from Khan (Dyson kick)
B —Dyson 25 FG
W'.— Mack 65 interception return (Dyson kick)
W— Harris 19 rush (Dyson kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATS
Rushing:
White - Harris 8-58-1, Stillings 11-29, Khan 3-28
Brown - Davis 11-27, Wylie 2-13
Passing:
White - Khan 11-15-134 (1 TD, O INT)
Brown - Guzzo 8-23-89 (0 TD, 2 INT), Cecchini 1-1-51
Receiving:
While - Ekslrom 3-35, Rubin 3-18, Mastropierro 2-15, Kennedy 1-53-1
Brown - LaFeir 3-48, Bulz 2-59, Cecchini 1-11
Tackles:
While - McDonald 4, Mack 4, Haynes 3, Torhazin 3
Brown - Jefferson 7. Plotsko 4. Buscema 4; Widder 4. Amon 4