South Mountaineer Volume 41, Issue 11

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Volume 12, Issue 11
Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
November 10,1998
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I Men's Soccer
Andrew Mittendorf, senior forward from Somers, NY, was
named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year for
the second consecutive year.
Mittendorf is the league's all-
Jtime leading scorer with 42
[.goals and 20 assists for 104
1 points. The All-American candidate broke the league's
single-game scoring record
with four goals in a game
against Manhattan in September. He is a three-time All-Patriot League Team member.
' With Mittendorf in the starting
lineup, Lehigh has won 32 games over
the past three seasons. He currently
ranks fifth in the nation in scoring and
first in goals per game.
All-League First Team
AndrewMittendorf-Sr. Forward
Kevin Jackson-Jr. Forward
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All-League Second Team
GusZangrilli-Sr. Midfielder
Scott Regina-Jr. Defender
Mike Carberry-Sr. Goal Keeper
G. Zangrilli
M. Carberry
Women's Soccer All-
League Second Team
Natalie Ciampa-Jr. Forward
N. Ciampa
Lehigh dominates Colgate in
the league showdown 41-22
Tuesday
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Senior receiver Deron Braswell goes for the score.
Joe Ryan
For a team that lost 61-28
to Colgate on the road last
year, the Lehigh football
team was sure Saturday's meeting at home against the Red
Raiders would be different.
"This week of practice was
unbelievable," Lehigh head
coach Kevin Higgins said. "I
never saw a group of guys who
were more confident. They were
extremely loose. They believed
they can be successful, and they
believed they were well-prepared."
"And I also think last year's
game provided motivation."
Lehigh spotted Colgate 14
points in the first nine minutes
and then ran off 35 unanswered
points to shred the defending
Patriot League champion 41-22
before 13,432 fans at Goodman
Stadium.
The inspiring win improves
Lehigh to 9-0 overall-matching
the record posted by the unbeaten 1950 team-and enables
them to take control of the Patriot League race.
Lehigh, ranked 22nd in Division I-AA, is 4-0 and can clinch
a share of its third league title
with a win over Bucknell on Saturday. Colgate (6-3) dropped to
3-1 and is tied for second with
Lafayette. The loss also snapped
Colgate's nine-game league winning streak.
Lehigh played with the pride
and poise of of a championship
team, despite its rocky start.
Colgate's Jesse Boyd intercepted Phil Stambaugh's third
pass of the game and returned
it 70 yards for a touchdown.
Lehigh's frustration mounted
two minutes later when
Stambaugh's pass intended for
Kody Fedorcha was low and
bounced off a Colgate rusher and
into the arms of Brandon Tinson
at the Lehigh 38.
Four plays later, fullback Tim
Lavoie barreled into the end zone
for a 14-0 lead.
"After the way we started out
I figured something good had to
happen; it reminded me a lot of
last year's Lafayette game," said
Stambaugh, recalling Lehigh's
comeback from a 21-0 deficit
against the Leopards at
Goodman Stadium.
But that's what happened
again. Stambaugh tried to connect with Fedorcha on a slant
pattern. Colgate nose tackle Neil
Gomez, dropping back into pass
coverage, nearly separated
Fedorcha from his life. The ball
flew up in the air and Boyd
snatched his second interception.
"Colgate not getting up three
scores was huge," Higgins said,
"because we could still mix up
the run and pass."
Which is what Lehigh did on
its first possession of the second
quarter. Lehigh put together a
15-play, 80-yard drive with fullback Brett Snyder scoring on a
4-yard pass from Stambaugh.
Defensive end Nick Martucci
tipped a Vena pass into the
hands of linebacker Brendan
Moore, who returned it thel9.
Four plays later, halfback Ron
Jean follwed Snyder through the
right guard for a 4-yard score.
Jaron Taaffe's PAT made it 14-
14 with 4:41 left until halftime,
which suddenly couldn't come
soon enough for the Red Raiders.
Lehigh's front four began teeing off on Vena, who was repeatedly flushed from the pocket.
"We told the guys before the
game that if Vena scrambled, we
wanted to make him go to the
outside and not up the middle,"
Lehigh's defensive line coach
Donnie Roberts said.
A holding penalty set the Red
Raiders back 10 yards to their
25; Bryant Appling blitzed to
drop Vena for a 7-yard loss, and
defensive end Brian Wolovich
swarmed Vena for another 3-
yard loss.
"We ran some twists and were
able to get in clean on him on
some of the rollouts," Wolovich
said.
By pushing the Red Raiders
back toward their end zone,
Lehigh got the ball back at its 47
with 2:31 to go. Brian Baker
rushed for 13 yards and Deron
Braswell caught a 10-yarder to
the Colgate 30.
Two plays later, Stambaugh
threw a short hitch pattern to
Braswell. The ball actually traveled backward, enabling
Braswell to step back and throw
long to Fedorcha, who scooted
behind Colgate's Tinson for the
30-yard TD.
Lehigh went to the hitch pattern often in the first half and
that set up Braswell's scoring
toss.
"He has a real nice touch on
the pass," Stambaugh said of his
latest QB rival. "I'm happy for
Deron. You don't expect him to
make that play."
Martucci and Wolovich finished out the half by sacking
Vena. The offense took it from
there, studding the second-half
kickoff into the end zone with a
13-play, 75-yard march.
Jean scored on an 11-yard
dash around the left end. Baker
went out with a foot injury midway through the drive after
catching an 8-yard pass. Jean
was up to the task the rest of the
way, with an assist from Snyder,
who came into the game with
just three carries for 18 yards.
Lehigh didn't need Jean and
Snyder just yet to chew up the
clock. Colgate halfback Randall
Joseph fumbled at his 46 and
Sam Brinley recovered for
Lehigh. Stambaugh immediately
went up top and made the 46-
yard scoring strike to Braswell
look easy.
With 8:06 still to play in the
third quarter, Lehigh was leading 35-14.
"Those two long touchdowns
hurt us, especially the one after
the turnover," Colgate coach
Dick Biddle said.
A 56-yard kickoff return by
Phil Bowmanand a 15-yard face
mask penalty on Lehigh kicker
Matt Andrade, putting the ball
at the Lehigh 18, provided the
Red Raider with a glimmer of
hope. On fourth down from the
14, Vena zipped a pass to all-
league WR Corey Hill on a slant
pattern for the score. Vena
scrambled for the two-point conversion, cutting the deficit to 35-
22.
Lehigh went three-and-out on
offense, and Colgate mounted its
best drive of the game. But after
earning a first down at Lehigh's
7, the Red Raiders managed just
three yards on three plays. On
fourth down, Biddle eschewed
the chip shot field goal and opted
for six points.
"I felt like we needed a touchdown at that point and not the
field goal," Biddle said. That's
the way we've been playing for
three years."
-Cory Blake-Express Times
Lehigh                  1
Drexel                  3
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Friday
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Vollevball (18-13)
Lehigh                  3
Delaware State   0
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Lehigh                  3
Lafayette              0
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Saturday
Football (9-0)
Lehigh                 41
Colgate                22
Men's Swimming/Diving (2-0)
Lehigh                 146
Fordham              91
Women's Swimming/Diving (2-0)
Lehigh                  149
Fordham              88
Vollevball (20-13)
Lehigh                 3
Long Island         0
Lehigh                  3
Rider                    2
Men's Soccer (13-4-1)
Lehigh                  2
Colgate                1
Men's Basketball (1-0)
Lehigh                  96
Team Fokus         86
Sunday
Men's Soccer (13-5-1)
Lehigh 0
Lafayette 2
Friday, November 13-
Women's    Basketball   vs.
Belarussia (under 22 National I
Team), 5:30 pm
Men's Basketball vs. Vermont,
7:30 pm
Saturday, November 14-
Football vs. Bucknell, 12:30 pm|
Men's and Women's
Swimming at Colgate, 2 pm
Volleyball at George Mason,
7 pm
Men's and Women's Cross1
Country: District II at Annapolis, MD
Field Hockey All-
League First Team
Kelly Harkins-Sr. Defender
Anita Ketty-Sr. Forward
K. Harkins
A. Ketty