South Mountaineer Volume 39, Issue 25

              PATRIOT LEAGUE RESULTS
Frank McDermott scored a hat trick to lead
Lehigh to a 16-13 win over Colgate to
secure second place in the Patriot League.
Vince Geppi added two goals and two
assists for the Mountain Hawks.
FOOTBALL: LU closes spring training with intrasquad game, 7
BASEBALL: Coach Sean Leary's team exceeded expectations, 7
Lehigh will host the Patriot League track championships this weekend
South Mountaineer
Volume 10, Issue 25
Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
April 30, 1997
Cogswell takes fourth at Penn Relays
The Lehigh sophomore bolted to an early lead and       cogsweii paced Tennessee's \~Sports Round- Up
hung on to post a career best in the 3,000 meters
by Bruce Buratti
The Express-Times
Lehigh's Ellen Cogswell goes out
hard in practically every race she
enters.
She didn't divert from that
pattern Thursday night in the
collegiate women's 3,000 meters at
the 103rd running of the Penn
Relays.
Cogswell led the first six laps of
the eight-lap race on the all-weather
Franklin Field track before dropping into fourth. Her career-best
time of 9 minutes and 49.45 seconds
came against a field that included
runners from some of the higher-
profile Division I programs in the U.S.
"I tried to run the exact opposite
of what I usually do, but I couldn't
help it," said Cogswell, a sophomore
who cut nearly 10 seconds off her
previous best. "I went right out to
the front again."
Joe Ryan
Ellen Cogswell placed among some
of the best college racers in the U.S.
Cogswell paced Tennessee's
Kristen Ritter and Rachel Rieke of
Northern Arizona for most of the
race until Rieke surged into the lead
with about 800 meters to go.
Rieke won in 9:42.35 with Ivana
Skladana of South Carolina (9:45.42)
second and Ritter (9:45.60) third.
The reigning 3,000 and 5,000-
meter Patriot League champion,
Cogswell is expected to defend her
titles in both events at the conference meet at Lehigh this weekend.
The Lehigh quartet of freshman
Tara Santoroski of Northampton,
Kelly Lyons, Stephanie Nelson and
Karen Doris placed second in their
section of the women's 4x400 relay
in 4:06.44
Amanda Sage of Lehigh was 24th
in the shot put (36-5). Teammate Jen
Wawrzonek was 29th in the hammer
throw (136-2).
Lehigh finished second in its
section of the 4x100 relays. The
team included Megan Gayer, Karen
Doris, Eleni Androilatos and Allison
Sheniak.
As Lehigh's spring sports
season enters the final stretch the
Mountain Hawks have assured
themselves of another successful
year on the court and field.
The women's lacrosse team
recovered from a 17-6 loss to
Lafayette to beat Drexel 11-7. The
Mountain Hawks then dropped a
game to Duke 14-5, evening their
record at 7-7. Lehigh will play
Delaware on the road and West
Chester at home before possibly
entering the ECAC tourney.
The men's lacrosse team takes
a two-game win streak into its
game with Providence Wednesday
on Goodman campus. They close
the regular season on the road
against Georgetown on Saturday.
The men's tennis team took
fifth place at the Patriot League
Tennis Team Championship by
beating Lafayette 4-0. They will
travel to Drexel for the season
finale.
SOFTBALL
Bison stampede to Patriot League
title, end Lehigh's four-year reign
Joe Ryan
Coach Fran Troyan coached a new
starting infield this season.
by Keith Groller
The Morning Call
If, indeed, the Patriot League
Softball Tournament will no longer
be held at Patriots Park as rumors
suggest, then both Bucknell and
Colgate got a good, long look at the
southAllentown diamond Sunday.
In fact, the two teams played like
they never wanted to leave.
Bucknell won the league crown with
an amazing 4-1,19-inning victory
over Colgate.
In the lengthy process, Bucknell
ended Lehigh's four-year reign as
Patriot League champs.
The top-seeded Mountain Hawks
were eliminated by Colgate 5-0 in the
day's first game. The Red Raiders
then extended the double-elimination
tourney to the limit by beating the
Bison 5-2 in the first game of the
championship series.
After Melaine Kulis blanked
Lehigh 1-0 on Saturday, Bucknell
thought it would see Lehigh again.
But the Bison will have to wait until
next spring to see the Brown and
White since Colgate made quick work
of Lehigh in Game 1.
Tara McGoff stopped the defending
champs on a seven-hitter, while five
Engineer errors led to five unearned
Raider runs.
"It really burns right now and it's
disappointing that we weren't able to
come out and play to the level that
everybody's used to," said Lehigh
head coach Fran Troyan after his
team finished up at 21-18.
"But the Lehigh Valley should rest
assured that Lehigh softball will
remain one of the top programs on
the East Coast. We've got to do some
things to improve as a program, but
we've got to remember that we lost
our entire starting infield from last
year. And they were four all-league
players who had been together for
four years."
Amanda Wessner, an Allen grad
making her final collegiate appearance had three hits out of the lead-
off spot. The Mountain Hawks put
the first two runners on base in three
separate innings, but could not
score.
Lehigh went 1-2 in the tourney,
scoring just three runs in the three
games. Lehigh went the final 15
innings without scoring.
"There were a lot of 'ifs' but when
you don't execute, you don't win,"
Troyan said. "We hit the ball fairly
hard at times, but right at people.
Two weeks ago, when we were
playing well, those balls were finding
the gaps. You can't win when you
can't score and we didn't play very
well defensively."
Besides Wessner, Lehigh said
good-bye to seniors Jen Viglietta and
Pennridge grad Karen Schaefer.
"We wanted to win this again
obviously," Troyan said. "But it's
probably a good thing for the league
that somebody else will be representing the Patriot League in the
play-in series [with the Ivy League
champion]. We'll be rooting for
them."