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Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
April 14,1999
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Lehigh-Navy
The Mountain Hawks broke a
three-game losing streak on Saturday as it defeated Patriot
League favorite Navy 4-3 in the
first game of the doubleheader.
Junior pitcher Chris Frey (2-1)
notched his second win of the
season. Sunday's doubleheader
match-up was postponed until
Monday afternoon, where the
Mids improved its league record
after .a two game sweep
over the Mountain
Hawks. Lehigh managed
just two runs on the day
compared to Navy'sl2.
Lehigh returns to the
field on Thursday against
Marist at 3 p.m. on the
Goodman Campus. The
team travels to Easton
on Saturday for a Patriot
League doubleheader
against Lafayette (3-18,
0-8). Sunday's double-
header is scheduled for
Saturday's Results
Game 1 vs. Navy
Score by innings: R H  E
LU    000 030 1 4   7   2
Navy 010 110 0 3   7   2
LU Pitcher: Frey (W2-1)
Navy Pitcher: Trent (L 1-2)
Game 2 vs. Navv
Score by innings: R H  E
LU     200 100 0 3 10 3
Navy 145 000 1 11112
LU Pitcher: Willard (L 2-3)
Navy Pitcher: Deafenvaugh (W 5-0)
Monday's Results
Game 3 vs. Navy
Score by innings: R H  E
LU    000 010 0 1    6 2
Navy 100 040 0 5   9 3
LU Pitcher: Gehrt (L 1-3)
Navy Pitcher: Abshire (W 2-1)
Game 4 vs. Navv
Score by innings: R H  E
LU    000 100 0 1   0 4
Navy 001 501 0 7   6   0
LU Pitcher: Cerminaro (L 0-3)
Navy Pitcher: Kozink (W 3-6)
Men's Lacrosse
The Lehigh lacrosse team snapped
#18 nationally-ranked Army's 16-
game Patriot League winning streak
with a 13-9 road win over the Cadets
on last Saturday. With the win, Lehigh
takes over first place in the league
with a perfect 3-0 record. The Mountain Hawks' victory was the team's
first-ever over Army since the league's
inception in 1991. The 13 point offensive attack was the most points
scored by Lehigh this season. While
the Cadets outshot the Brown and
White 49-35, this was the first time
this season that the Mountain Hawk
squad was led in scoring by four individuals including Christian Castellani,
Tim McWilliams, Scott Reynolds and
John Fowler, who each netted two
goals. On the defense, junior goalie
Todd Schreiner earned his third
consectutive Patriot League Player-
of-the-Week honor. The Bala Cynwyd,
PA native made 25 saves in the Lehigh
victory and posted a .735 save percentage. Since March 27, the Mountain Hawks have won four consecutive games including a win over league
foe Bucknell (8-3), Holy Cross (11-
7), Mount Saint Mary's (12-4) and
Army (13-9). Lehigh returns to the
turf on Saturday at the Virginia Military Institute at 1 p.m. The Mountain
Hawks' next league game pits Lehigh
against arch-rival Lafayette on next
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. on the
Goodman Campus.
Congratulations to Lehigh Hall of Fame recipients
The Lehigh University Athletics
Parternship will host the Seventh Annual
Induction Banquet and Ceremony for the
newest members of the Lehigh Univeristy
Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 8.
The event will be held in Rathbone Hall (Asa
Packer Campus) at 6:30 p.m. A reception will
be hosted in the Penske Hall of Fame in Taylor Gym at 5 p.m.
Being inducted into the Hall of Fame this
year are Murray H. Goodman '48, Dr. William C. Hittinger '44, Walter R. Okeson 1896
and Philip Rauch '33.
The cost for the event is $40 per person or
$75 per couple. For more information and reservations, please contact the Athletics Partnership Office at (610) 758-4301by April 30.
Ken White
Lehigh head coach Greg Strobel will help lead the U.S. Olympic team to gold.
LU's Strobel named tri-head
coach for the 'OO Olympics
USA Wrestling has selected
Lehigh University's Greg Strobel,
Oklahoma's John Smith, and
retired Dan Gable, the winner of
more NCAA team titles than any
other coach as tri-head coaches
for the 2000 U.S. Olympic
freestyle wrestling team.
The other finalist candidates
for the freestyle Olympic coaching positions were Mark Manning of Cedar Falls, Iowa and Joe
Seay of Perry, Okla. Each of the
candidates were interviewed by
the Freestyle Coach Selection
Committee by teleconference in
late March.
USA Wrestling's selections
must be formally approved by the
U.S. Olympic Committee's International Games Preparation
Committee.
The coaches of the 2000 Olympic team will also serve as the
co-head coaches for the 1999 U.S.
Freestyle World Team, which will
compete in Ankara, Turkey, on
October 8-11.
Strobel served as the assistant coach of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team, which claimed five
medals, including three individual champions. He was the
head coach of the 1994 U.S. Goodwill Games team, which featured
two individual gold medalists.
He was a co-coach of the 1997
U.S. World Cup team that won
the team title and made history
by winning every bout in the gold-
medal match against Russia. He
was assistant coach of the 1995
U.S. World team, which claimed
the World team title and featured four champions.   Strobel
also served as head coach for the
1997 U.S. Junior World team.
He is currently the head coach
at Lehigh one of the traditional
Eastern wrestling powers. He
worked as the head coach of the
national champion Team
Foxcatcher club for a number of
years. He served nine years as
National Teams Director for
USA Wrestling. Strobel was
also an assistant coach at Oregon
State Univ. He was a talented
freestyle wrestler, and won two
NCAA titles for Oregon State.
Strobel originally hails from
Scapoose, Ore.
Smith served as the head
coach of the 1998 U.S. Freestyle
World team, which placed third
in the World Championships,
held in Tehran, Iran. He was also
the head coach of the 1998 U.S.
Goodwill Games team, which
captured the team title and featured three individual gold medalists. He was a co-coach of the
1997 U.S. World Cup team that
won the team title and made history by winning every bout in the
gold-medal match against Russia.
Smith is currently the head
coach at Oklahoma State Univ.,
one of the most successful Division I wrestling programs in history.
He led the Cowboys to the
1994 NCAA team title and second place at the 1998 NCAA
Championships. As an athlete,
Smith was considered by many
the best freestyle wrestler in
U.S. history. He claimed gold
medals at the 1988 and 1992
Olympic Games, and won four
World gold medals (1987, 1989,
1990, 1991). His six straight
World-level titles is unprecedented. He also won titles at
the Pan American Games, Goodwill Games and World Cup.
Smith was a two-time NCAA
champion for Oklahoma State,
and originally hails from Del
City, Okla.
Gable served as the head
coach of the 1980 and 1984 U.S.
Olympic freestyle wrestling
teams. The 1980 team was unable to participate in the Moscow Olympics due to the U.S.
boycott of the Games. The 1984
U.S. Olympic team dominated
the Games, winning seven gold
medals and two silver medals.
Gable also served as the head
coach of five U.S. World teams
(1977-79, 1983 and 1994). He
coached 10 U.S. World Cup
teams, as well as the 1986 U.S.
Goodwill Games team.
He is considered the mo it successful college coach of all time,
setting numerous career records
as the head coach for the University of Iowa. His Iowa teams won
15 NCAA team titles during his
21-year career, including a consecutive nine in a row from 1976-
86. Gable retired from college
coaching after winning the 1997
NCAA team title, with a record
number of team points.
Gable was a 1972 Olympic
gold medalist and 1971 World
champion as an athlete, as well
as a two-time NCAA champion
for Iowa State. Gable originally
hails from Waterloo, Iowa.
Lehigh-Holy Cross
The Mountain Hawks went 3-1 over
the weekend against preseason favorite Holy Cross. With the victories,
Lehigh improves 15-17,7-3 and steals
the league's #1 spot from the Crusaders. Freshman Stephanie Howell
pitched a shutout in the second game
of the doubleheader on Saturday as
the Mountain Hawks ran over the
Crusaders 11-0. Holy Cross managed five hits and racked up two errors on the afternoon. Junior
secondbaseman Jessica Roche
knocked in three RBI's for the
victorious Lehigh squad. On [~~
Sunday, the team played in raw |
conditions but pulled off a perfect sweep over the Purple and I
White. In the second game of
the day, the Lehigh defense
held strong and Holy Cross |
was only able to score one run.
Leftfielder Bonnie Hoffman and
designated hitter Stephanie
Howell led the team with two
RBI's apiece. The Mountain
Hawks travel to Lewisburg, PA
on Saturday for a league
doubleheader against Bucknell
beginning at 1 p.m. On Sunday,
the doubleheader is scheduled |
to start at noon.
Game 1 vs. Holy Cross
Score by innings: R H E
LU  000 000 000 0    5 4
HC  000 000 001 12 1
LU Pitcher: Dawson (L 5-6)
HC Pitcher: Grosch (W 10-4)
Game 2 vs. Holy Cross
Score by innings: R H   E
LU  216 2- 11 12   0
HC 000 0- 0 5    2
LU Pitcher: Howell (W 5-6)
HC Pitcher: McCarthy (L 2-7)
Game 3 vs. Holy Cross
Score by innings: R H   E
LU  000 000 11- 2   6   1
HC  000 000 10- 13   1
LU Pitcher: Deia (W 4-2)
HC Pitcher: Grosch (L 10-5)
Game 4 vs. Holy Cross
Score by innings: R H   E
LU 041 002 - 7    8    3
HC 010 000 0 1     3    3
LU Pitcher: Dawson (W 6-6)
HC Pitcher: McCarthy (L 2-8)
Swimming & Diving
Senior co-captain Taryn Filo was selected as the Patriot League's
Women's Swimming and Diving
Scholar-Athlete of the Year. An Environmental Science Major with a 3.36
grade point average, she finished second in both the one and three meters
diving competition at the league championships. Filo earned Lehigh's second best one-meter performance with
237.15 points at Holy Cross on November 18,1997. She also is a member of the Dean's List, COACH (Community Outreach by Athletes Who
Care About Helping) and the 1997-98
Winter-Spring Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. In order to be eligible for the Scholar-Athlete award, a
student athlete must be at least a
sophomore and carry a cumulative
GPA of 3.20 or better.
Women's Lacrosse
The Lehigh lacrosse team went 0-2
over the weekend as it loses a heart-
breaker to league foe Bucknell 8-9 at
the Goodman Campus on last Saturday and was dealt a rotten hand at #6
nationally-ranked Penn State on last
Sunday as the Nittany Lions defeated
Lehigh 23-6. In the latest Patriot
League Poll (4-12-99) the Mountain
Hawks (1-2) are tied with Holy Cross
(1-2) for the third spot in the league
race, and Colgate (3-0) and Lafayette
(3-0) are each tied for the top spot. The
Mountain Hawks will face off against
Holy Cross on Saturday at noon in
Worcester and will return to the Lehigh
Valley on April 20 against Lafavette at
3:30 p.m. in Easton.