South Mountaineer Volume 37, Issue 26

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Contents
Page 9
♦Spring sports updates
and schedules
Page 10
♦ Student-Athletes
honored in banquet
♦ Baseball surprises
league
Page 11
♦ Football: Brown and
White game
♦ Track & Field: silver
lining to season
♦ Lacrosse teams wrap
up season
SOUTH
MOUNTAINEER
Volume 37, Issue 26
May 10,1995
Rems charges Engineers to three-peat
Third time's a charm as
Lehigh sweeps through
field of seven
By MICHELE MOUNT
Lehigh Sports Information
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Lehigh University
softball team captured its third consecutive Patriot
League crown with a 6-2 victory at Patriot's Park in
Allentown.
The Engineers had a much easier time winning
the 1995 title than it had in previous years. In 1993
and '94, the Brown and White had to win three
games on Championship Sunday, this year they
won three games- period. Lehigh defeated Army,
8-0, and Holy Cross, 8-2, on Saturday, and beat
Army again in the championship game on Sunday.
"It might not have been as thrilling as it was the
last couple of years when we had to win three on the
last day coming through the loser's bracket, but I'll
take it," said Lehigh head coach Sue Troyan.
The Engineers provided a touch of suspense in
Sunday's game when shortstop Kim Miller and
center fielder Amanda Wessner collided while chasing down a bloop hit by Army's lead-off hitter Dana
Orvis in the top of the first inning. The Lady
Knights capitalized pn the Engineers' miscue by
scoring two runs on three hits. For the first time in
the tournament, the Brown and White were faced
with a come from behina situation.
"I felt great. I didn't w"ant to lose the last game,"
said Lehigh pitcher and co-captain, Nina Rems.
"We had no doubt about coming back. We have a
very strong team.   If we started panicking, then
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things would have gone downhill, but we had confidence and knew we were going to win. Today's
game was no different than any other game."
Rather than one big inning, the Engineers
chipped away at Army inning-by-inning. The Engineers scored one run in the third, fourth and fifth
innings and added three insurance runs in the
sixth.
It was fitting that Rems scored the winning run
as the 1995 Patriot League Pitcher-of-the-Year was
also the tournament MVP. Rems, (16-5), allowed
two runs and eight hits while striking out two Lady
Knights in the championship game. She was on the
mound in the Engineers' first round game against
Army where she gave up just three hits and registered her seventh shutout of the season.
Lehigh's season is not over. On Thursday, they
travel to West Hempstead, N.Y., to face Hofstra
University, winners of the North Atlantic Conference. The winner of the best-of-three series will
advance to the NCAA regionals.
Coach Troyan is excited about the Hofstra
series.
"This is a great way for the seniors to go out.
But we're not done yet. If there's a year we can
sneak up on someone and get to the NCAAs, this is
the year. In the past, we were just happy to be
there, now things are different, although Hofstra
has a great program."
With a record of 37-10 and eight all-league
players, you could bet the Engineers have a great
shot at advancing to the tournament.
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Nina Rems (above left) was selected the tournament's most valuable player, while some Engineer faithful showed their appreciation of the Lehigh softball legacy with this banner that
hung on the outfield fence during the tournament. Photos by JOE RYAN