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SOFTBALL:
Lehigh splits with Bucknell
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MEN'S TENNIS: Team competes for league championship 11
STANDINGS:       Complete league standings
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SouthMountaineer
Volume 11, Issue 27
Football
Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
April 22,1998
Abdullah signs with Tampa Bay
One Lehigh football player is getting
a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream.
Running back Rabih Abdullah signed
a two year free agent contract with
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Abdullah said he learned a lot
leading up to the draft.
"It was very exciting for me to talk
to the Buccaneer's staff." Abdullah
said. "It is a once in a lifetime
opportunity."
Abdullah said he knows that he will
have to put up his best effort to
impress the Tampa Bay coaching
staff.
"I have to go there and work as
hard as I can." Abdullah said. " I
appreciate that somebody is giving me
the opportunity to compete at this
level."
MAKING HIS MARK
RABIH ABDULLAH
Lehigh career leader in carries
(672), yards (3,696),   and yards per
game (112).
The two highest single-season
rushing totals with 1,536 in 1995
and 1,225 in 1997
Career best 92 yard run against
Cornell in 1994
Career best 266 yard rushing yards
against Cornell in 1995 with five
touchdowns
Men's Lacrosse
Lehigh returns back to form
Lehigh's men's lacrosse team put up
some big numbers in its 20-6 win over
Virginia Military Institute last week.
The team was returning from back-
to-back losses to Army (14-11) and a
mid-week lossto third-ranked Loyola
in Maryland. As the stretch run begins
with four games left on the schedule,
Lehigh (5-4,2-1 Patriot League) will
look to finish strong and hope for an
Army loss to claim a share of the
Patriot League title.
Remaining on the schedule is a top-
15 Georgetown team that will certainly
have revenge on its mind. Last season,
Lehigh dampered #10 Georgetown's
year with an 11 -10 win in the season
finale at Georgetown.
In this weekend's win over VMI,
Ian MacGilvray, Mark Duncan and
Doug McKerns all notched three goals
in the victory. MacGilvray leads the
team in points with 32 this season and
Duncan leads the team in goals with
21.
Both seniors are amongst the
nation's leaders in their respective
categories and sophomore goalie Todd
Schreiner is among the country's best
in goals against average and save
percentage.
Following the Georgetown game on
April 21, the Mountain Hawks will
take on Villanova at home on April 23,
before hitting the road for league
contests at Colgate on April 25, and
Bucknell on May 2.
Women's Lacrosse
Team preaches community on and off the field
Jessica Schmidt
by Jenn Ranch
Sports Communications Office
As if balancing practice, games and
a school work isn't enough, the
women's lacrosse team somehow
finds time to give
back to the community.
Members of the
team have been
volunteering their
free time to six
different organizations since the
beginning of the
year.
This year's
biggest effort is an
on going effort
throughout the
season. The team
has named the
program, "Common
Goals" and proceeds benefit the
Allentown Girls Club.
The program began in the fall when
the team took the girls to a basketball
game. The girls watched last
Saturday's lacrosse game against Holy
Cross.
"A lot of the girls didn't even know
what lacrosse was," senior Heather
Towner said.
The bulk of the program is based on
the women's team scoring. Pledges
are being made by parents, students,
alumni and anyone who wants to
donate to this good cause for every
goal that is scored by the team.
Heather Towner
For example, if Elizabeth Brodbeck
collects $ 1 from a friend for every
goal she scores and she scores 25,-
she will receive $25 from that donor.
Towner is leading this program
and has sent letter out to family and
friends to encourage them to help
these girls out. She said that the girls
had never seen females play sports in
person and hopes that this experience
will help encourage them to become
athletes.
"It's been a lot of fun," Towner said
"It ties us in with the community. It
gives the girls a chance to expand
their horizons."
This effort will continue until the end
of the season. Donations can be sent
to Jackie Keeley, Taylor Gym, 641
Taylor St. Beth., Pa. 18015. Checks
should be made to Lehigh University.
Earlier this year the team participates in the Broughal Middle School
Book Drive. Organized by senior
Jessica Schmidt, the team collected
over 100 books for a new library at
the Bethlehem school. Letters were
sent out to parents that books for the
third and fourth grade level were
needed.
The school was so overwhelmed by
the support they have placed the name
of the team in the inside cover of the
books.
"We're helping the community
because we're a part of it," Schmidt
said. "It's important that we give back
Patriot League
Offensive Player of the
Week Elizabeth
Brodbeck is one of the
many women's
lacrosse players
involved in community
service efforts
to the community and really get
involved."
The team also raised over $1400
participating in the Lehigh Valley 5K
Breast Cancer run, as well as volunteering at the Victory soup Kitchen.
This event was organized by
Brodbeck who along with a few
teammates made dinner and helped
serve it to those in need. Although the
team only went once, Brodbeck said
they are willing to do it as much as the
Soup Kitchen needs.
"We're there if they need us," she
said.
"It was great as a team to do it
together," she said. "It not only looks
good for our program but we want to
do it. It's a bonding thing."
The lacrosse team also participates
in the Community Outreach by
Athletes who Care about Helping
Program (C.O.A.C.H.) which is an
athletic department service program
that operates in accord with the
National Consortium for Academics
and Sports.
Its goals are to help student-athletes
and their peers make informed decisions about their education, alcohol
and other drug issues, and other
factors which would affect reaching
their full potential.
NOTES: Lehigh defeated Holy
Cross 18-6, Saturday at Goodman
campus. Elizabeth Brodbeck led the
Mountain Hawks with six
goals...Brodbeck won Patriot League
Player of the Week honors for her
effort...The win was Lehigh's third
straight and first Patriot League win of
the season...Senior goalie Carly Lynch
took home Patriot League Defensive
Player of the Week for her 14 save
performance against Holy Cross and
17 save effort against St. Joseph's.