South Mountaineer Volume 37, Issue 25

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Contents
Page 13
♦Spring sports updates
and schedules
Page 14
♦ Football: Getting ready
for 1995
♦ Baseball takes two from
Delaware St.
headinj
Page 15
♦ Softball: Feature on
Karen Kascinski
♦ Mens' Soccer: alumni
game a success
♦ Mens Tennis in the PL
tournament
SOUTH
MOUNTAINEER
Volume 37, Issue 25
May 3,1995
Engineers build on record breaking season
Sweep Fordham 3-0, 3-1
By ROB SCHMIDT
South Mountaineer Editor
The Lehigh University softball team
walked off the field after its 3-1 victory
over Fordham in the second game of
Saturday's doubleheader with a 32-10
record, marking the most wins by any
team in school history. The 1993 Patriot
League champion softball team set the
previous mark at 29.
The Engineers have rolled through
their league schedule, suffering only one
loss against nine wins. The only setback
coming to second-place Holy Cross 8-7.
This weekend's games in the Bronx, N.Y.,
were relatively low scoring for a Lehigh
team that entered the week's competition
ranked third nationally in that category,
but the outcome was familiar.
It took Lehigh nine innings to get
their engines running on Saturday afternoon. Both the Engineers and the Rams
were hitless through early innings, and
scoreless heading into the top ofthe ninth.
Designated player Patty Godwin got the
rally started with a single, and rightfielder
Natalie Nestor followed with a bunt single.
Engineer first baseman Jessica Feigley
finished things off with a three-run homer
to give Lehigh the 3-0 win.
Nina Rems went the distance on the
mound, yielding only five hits on the way
to her 13th victory.
The second game went scoreless
through three innings until catcher
Karen Kascinski knocked out a two-run
homer, bringing Godwin in from third
base. Fordham answered with a run of
its own, its first of the series, manufactured by a single and a double.
The run would also be the Rams' last
as Engineer pitcher Jill Lewis wrapped
up her 12th win, allowing only three hits
in addition to the run.
The Engineers played the double-
header without the services ofthe team's,
and the nation's, leading hitter Kim
Miller who was away on an academic
field study. As the team's second leading
hitter, currently batting .398, Godwin
stepped up with four hits, and two runs
scored over the doubleheader.
"Although we didn't really get the
bats going, the team pulled together defensively, and Karen Schaefer stepped it
up playing for Kim (at shortstop)," said
head coach Sue Troyan.
The doubleheader with Army that
was scheduled to wrap up the regular
season on Sunday afternoon was rescheduled for Tuesday. The Patriot League
Tournament begins Friday and continues through Sunday at patriots Park in
Allentown.
As the tourament's first seed, the
Engineers received a bye in
Friday's first round and will play
their first game on Saturday
morning at 8:00.
Freshman Patty Godwin picked up four hits and scored two runs in Saturday's
doubleheader at Fordham. Photo by JOE RYAN
ECAC tourney extends women's
lacrosse season
The Lehigh University women's lacrosse team
has accepted an invitation to play in the annual
Eastern College Athletic Association (ECAC) lacrosse tournament Saturday and Sunday at New
Haven, Conn.
The Engineers, 12-3 and co-champions of the
Patriot League with Lafayette, will participate along
with Georgetown, Colgate and host Yale. They won
18-7 over Colgate earlier in the season and lost to
Georgetown, 15-10.
Junior Jill Altshuler (left) shares the team lead in scoring
with senior Liz Brode. The two Engineer stars also lead the
nation in scoring with 85 points each on the season. Photo
by JOE RYAN
"Since we don't have a championship tournament in our league this is the only opportunity for
post-season play," says coach Jackie Keeley. "We
remember that loss to Georgetown and it would be
exciting to play them again."
The Engineers will get their shot at Georgetown
in the 2:00 game on Saturday afternoon. The
Championship game is set for Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
This is the first time since 1989, and only the
second time since women's lacrosse was added to
the sports program in 1975, that Lehigh has gone
into the ECAC tournament.
Two of the nation's most prolific scorers in
NCAA Div. I ranks, Jill Altshuler and Liz Brode,
spearhead the Engineers' attack. They had identical totals this season, each scoring 64 goals and
adding 21 assists for 85 points.