South Mountaineer Volume 37, Issue 27

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Contents
Page 11
♦Wrestling's new
recruiting class
♦Engineers on the All-
Patriot League teams
SOUTH
Lacrosse Teams Net Patriot
League Honors
Mens' head coach John McCloskey was voted Coach-
of-the-Year. His players Matt Sweetman and Scott
Youmans were selected Offensive and Defensive
Player-of-the-Year respectively.
On the womens' side, Liz Brode captured Offensive Player-of-the-Year honors.
A list of all of Lehigh's Patriot League spring
honorees is on page 13.
MOUNTAINEER
Volume 37, Issue 27
May 17,1995
Engineers one run
away from the NCAA's
Hofstra takes play-in series with 4-3 win on
Friday afternoon
Natalie Nestor is one of five seniors who wrapped up their Lehigh careers this
weekend. The Engineers will also miss the services of Nina Rems, Karen Kascinski,
Christie Berta, and Janice Riley next season. Photos by JOE RYAN
- For a recap of Thrusday's play-in series games,
please page 11.
By M1CHELE MOUNT
Lehigh Sports Information
All good things must come to an end.
Unfortunately for the Lehigh University
women's softball team, their best-season
ever came to a close Friday afternoon in
West Hempstead, N.Y., with a 4-3 loss to
#21 Hofstra University in the deciding
game ofthe NCAA play-in series.
After dropping the first game 10-2 on
Thursday afternoon, the Engineers
bounced back to defeat the Flying
Dutchwomen 8-4, forcing Friday's show-
down.
A showdown it was. Lehigh jumped
out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the third
inning, sparked by Amanda Wessner's
lead off single. After Karen Schaefer's
sacrifice bunt put Wessner on second,
Kim Miller followed with a single to put
the runners on first and third. Jessica
Feigley then blooped a single to center
field, scoring Wessner. Karen Kascinski
followed with a sacrifice fly to right field
which plated Miller.
Nina Rems pitched three hitless innings before Hofstra's Diane Hobin led off
the fourth with a double to left field.
Robyn Tresize knocked in her teammate
for the Dutchwomen's first run.
The Engineers responded with another run in the top of the fifth inning.
Schaefer led off with a single and advanced to third on two wild pitches. Feigley
grounded to second and Schaefer beat
the throw home.
Hofstra shattered the Brown and
White's dream of going to their first NCAA
tournament in the bottom of the fifth by
scoringthree runs. With one out, Danielle
Tetro singled but was out at second on
Melissa Friedline's fielder's choice to
Rems, the pitcher. Megan Scharf doubled
and Friedline scored. The Dutchwomen
tied the game with Hobin's line-drive
single to left field which scored Scharf.
Chris Aigotti's RBI single was the game-
winning hit.
Lehigh was unable to respond with
another run. Stacy Jackson, Hofstra's
ace, retired the last eight Engineers she
faced. She struck out four batters and
gave up as many hits.
Although the loss hit the Engineers
hard emotionally, they have everything
to be proud of. Their record of 38-12 is the
best record in the history of Lehigh athletics.
"I feel bad for the seniors because
they have worked hard and done so much
for the program and now it's over," said
Head Coach Sue Troyan. "This was a
huge stepping stone for us and the underclassmen will build on this. I have no
doubt that our underclassmen will get
back here again. We won't stop here."
We look forward to seeing the Engineers back in this situation next year.
Five wrestling recruits to build on 1994-95 season
By TERRY LARIMER
The Morning Call
Greg Strobel wouldn't mind at all if a pipeline
can be developed between the wrestling room at
Nazareth High and the one he'll soon be running at
Lehigh University.
"I like that," Strobel said yesterday when asked
if he intends to continue to lure Nazareth's state
champions to South Mountain. "That's a good
thing."
Last year Lehigh talked PIAA champion Dan
Tashner into transforming himself from a Blue
Eagle into an Engineer. This year Nazareth's
Travis Doto, another state titlist, has decided to
take his act a few miles down Nazareth Pike.
Ray Nunamaker is obviously doing a job," Strobel
said of the veteran Nazareth coach, who has built
powerhouse teams year after year, but has sent
very few wrestlers to Lehigh until recently.
Lehigh is hoping that will change now that
Lehigh is offering full scholarships for wrestlers.
And Strobel said he wouldn't mind tapping into the
lode of talent at other local high schools as well.
Doto is one of five key recruits Lehigh landed
and Strobel, who won't join Lehigh's staff officially
until next month, gave full credit to his predecessor, Bob Latessa for putting the group together.
Latessa, who was Lehigh's interim head coach
last season and who has been offered the post of
assistant head coach, hasn't decided yet whether
he'll remain at Lehigh. But Strobel said he worked
on the recruiting class like he intended to stay.
"Bob was essential, no question about it," Strobel
said. "He knows all the (NCAA recruiting) rules
and he knows all the systems at Lehigh. All I had
to do was be friendly."
Strobel, who is the head coach at the Team
Foxcatcher in suburban Philadelphia, said he met
four ofthe five recruits and talked to the other one
on the phone, but has never seen any of them
wrestle. But he also said he's not worried. "Bob
knows wrestling," he commented.
Doto is the lone state champion in the group,
but that's not necessarily what impressed Strobel
about him. "No. 1 is his attitude," Strobel said.
"He's a dedicated kid with very high goals."
Doto, who Strobel said could wrestle anywhere
from 142 to 158 pounds, won his state title at 145.
And Strobel said as good as he is, he thinks Doto,
who has never done any freestyle wrestling as so
many others do in the off season, can get much
better. "He can be a whole lot better," Strobel said.
Joining Doto in Lehigh's incoming freshman
class will be three-time New Jersey state place
winner Todd Palmisano of Brick Memorial, who
» see WRESTLE, pg. 11.