South Mountaineer Volume 42, Issue 11

              '99 Fall Schedules
and Results:
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Volume 13, Issue 10
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Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
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November 16,1999
Tickets Anyone?
In a joint announcement made
on Wednesday, November 10,
Lehigh and Lafayette officials
announced that the 135"' meeting between the two schools in
college football's most played
rivalry has been sold out. This
marks the earliest date that the
game has been'sold out since
1993.
Lehigh students who have al-
i -ady submitted ticket applica-
t ons will be receiving their tickets early this week. While the
exact attendance of the game
will not be announced until next
game, the sell-out ensures that
Lehigh will play before at least
10,000 fans for each of its five
home games this season. Lehigh
will also draw over 12,000 fans
in a season for the second time
in school history and first time
at Goodman Stadium. The all-
time seasonal attendance record
for Lehigh came in 1985 when
the school averaged 12,260 fans
at Taylor Stadium.
Tune In
'i he 135th meeting of college
football's most-played rivalry
\,ill be televised in the Lehigh
Valley and surrounding areas on
WFMZ-Channel 69. Continuing
a long-standing tradition of the
Lehigh and Lafayette alumni
associations, the contest will
also be televised live at restaurants and clubs across the nation. Contact the LUAA at (610)
758-3155 for more information.
For those fans with satellite
capabilities, the coordinates are
as follows:
KU Band
BS 6, Transponder 8
Lehigh is No. 4 Seed
lor the third straight year under head coach Patrick Nicholas the Lehigh volleyball team
has qualified for the Patriot
League Tournament. Lehigh
ended its regular season in
grand fashion on Friday night at
Grace Hall with an easy 3-0 win
over Lafayette. The win improved Lehigh's record to 14-11,
8-4 in the Patriot League.
The Mountain Hawks will be
seeded fourth in the league tournament and go up against top-
seeded Navy this Saturday (11/
20). The Mids are the top seed
in the tournament and will host
the single-elimination event on
Saturday and Sunday. Second-
seeded Colgate will take on
third-seeded Army in the other
match.
While some may consider
1 ehigh'sdraw unfortunate, keep
i i mind that the Mountain
Lawks beat Navy twice during
Lie regular season.
"1 think it's going to be ex-
I "emely interesting," head coach
1 atrick Nicholas said. "By beating them twice this season including once on their home court
1 think we will have some confidence playing them. At the same
time it's very hard to beat a
team three times in one year. In
the two previous games we really played well and made a
minimum amount of'errors, plus
we controlled their big hitters."
Lehigh will come into the
game as the least experienced of
the four teams with three fresh-
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Lehigh senior running back Ronald Jean broke
the Patriot League's single-game total offense *
record while collecting 370 yards against
Bucknell.
Lehigh/Lafayette Weekend
Friday, Nov. 19 (Away events in italics)
Men's and Women's Swimming & Divi
ng vs.
Lafayette (at Taylor Pool)
7:00
Men's Basketball vs. Yale (at Stabler)
7:00
Women's Basketball at Yale
7:30
Saturday, Nov. 20
Football vs. Lafayette (at Goodman)
12:30
Lehigh at Navy (Patriot League Volleyball
Championships)
TBD
Sunday, Nov. 21
Wrestling vs. Penn State (at Stabler)
1:00
NCAA I-AA Football Selection Show
1:00
Women's Basketball vs. Stony Brook
4:00
Lehigh vs. Colgate or Army (Patriot League
Volleyball Championships)
TBD
Lehigh is Back on Track
After Colgate derailed the
Lehigh train last weekend, the
16u' ranked Mountain Hawks
got back on track and steam
rolled the Bison of Bucknell in
a 48-27 victory on Saturday af-.
ternoon in Lewisburg, PA.
Lehigh improved to 9-1 on the
season and 4-1 in the Patriot
League in front of 3,849 fans at
Christy Mathewson Stadium.
Lehigh did not get off to a
good start. Bucknell was able
to move the ball early and capitalize on a fumble by Phil
Stambaugh in the first quarter. The Bison actually led the
Mountain Hawks 14-3 in the
first quarter before the "Ronald
Jean Show" began for Lehigh.
Senior Ronald Jean was determined to improve on his sub-par
performance from a week ago.
He struck first on special teams.
After Bucknell's Jason Marrow
went in for a touchdown on a 2-
yard run, Jean took the ensuing
kickoff 95-yards for a score to
put Lehigh within four points
going into the second quarter.
Lehigh struck again early in
the second quarter as Jean just
kept on running. This time he
scored on a 9-yard touchdown
run that put the Mountain
Hawks up 17-14. Jean and Marrow would continue to exchange
touchdowns as Jason Marrow
went in for his second touchdown of the game, this time on
a 1-yard run. Jean* followed
with a 40-yard pass reception
from Phil Stambaugh to put
Lehigh up 24-20 at the half.
Marrow stuck first in the second half on a 2-yard run with
9:09 left in the third quarter to
put Bucknell up 27-24. Jean
would not be outdone. He put
Lehigh back on top with a 2-yard
run of his own with 3:45 left in
the third quarter. Bucknell
would then begin to make the
first of two costly mistakes late
in the game. On fourth down,
the Bison attempted a fake punt
that backfired on them giving
Lehigh excellent field position.
Please see BACK, Page 7
Game Summary (vs. Bucknell)
L-Moore 37-yard Interception return {Taaffe kick)
L-Jean 4-yard run (Taaffe kick)
10
14
10
14
-48
14
6
7
0
-27
Lehigh
Bucknell
Scoring Summary
L-Taaffe 38-yard field goal
B-Palko 18-yard pass from McDowell (Lundberg kick)
B-Marrow 2-yard run (Lundberg kick)
L-Jean 95-yard kickoff return (Taaffe kick)
L-Jean 9-yard run (Taaffe kick)
B-Marrow 1 -yard run (kick blocked)
L-Jean 4-yard pass from Stambaugh (Taaffe kick)
B-Marrow 2-yard run (Lundberg kick)
L-Jean 2-yard run (Taaffe kick)
L-Taaffe 44-yard field goal
Team Stats
Lehigh
Buckne
21
First Downs
17
124
Rushing
180
263
Passing
96
387
Total Yards
276
27:26
Possession
32:34
Lehigh Leaders:
Rushing: Jean 105 3 TD, B. Snyder 26, Pleasant 19
Passing: Stambaugh 20-30-263 1 TD 2 INT
Receiving: fedorcha 6-44, Endier 5-82, Jean 3-73 1 TD
Tackles: Young 11 (t for loss), Salvaterra 11 (1 fortoss), Moore
9,1 INT, Andrews 8 (1 for loss)
Front (l-r): Mike Drozd '46, Ed Howells '34, George Stutz '22, Milt Hutt '34, Lee Barthold '50. Back (l-r): Jack Blake
'52, Charles Sandwick, Jr. '50, Bob Reber'41, Jim Bridgman '50, Bill Abbott '54, Bob Shurts '48, Jim Niemeyer'43,
Frank Roberts '42, James Hood 50, Pete Facchiano 45, Richard Yeager, Sr. '59, Ted Franck '47, Mark Parseghian
49, Kit Diefenderfer '44, Sam Croll, Jr. '45
50-Game
Club
If you will be
attending
your 50th
Lehigh-
Lafayette
game on November 20 or
are reasonably
sure that you
have already
seen 50
games, the
Alumni Association is looking for you!
Contact- the
LUAA at (610)
758-3155 for
more information of the 50-
Game Club.
Season On with
Wrestle-Offs
The 1999-2000 wrestling season
was thrown into action with the
annual wrestle-offs held in historic Grace Hall last Tuesday,
November 9, 1999.
While solid victories were
had by Bruce Kelly (125),
Dave Esposito (149), Travis
Doto (165), Mark Dufresne
(174), Robert Rohn (184), and
Shawn Laughlin (Hwt.), bouts
at 141 and 157 brought the
Lehigh wrestling fanatics to
their feet.
Transfer Matt Goldstein
(141) and sophomore Troy
Minarovic were deadlocked at
0-0 through the first period. It
wasn't until late in the second
that Goldstein was able to take
a 1-0 lead, eventually overcoming a Minarovic comeback, ending the match with & tough 4-2
win.
The 157 pound bout proved
to be the match-up of the night
as All-American Ryan
Bernholtz and local phenom
Chris Vitale went head-to-head
through three periods of regulation and an overtime period.
Tied at 1-1 at the end of the
third, Bernholtz was able to
close it out halfway through the
overtime period, taking the victory by a final score of 5-1.
The 17th ranked Mountain
Hawks open the season on Sunday, November 21st as they host
number 18 Penn State in Stabler Arena at 1:00 p.m.
WRESTLE-OFFS SUMMARY
125-Bruce Kelly def. Mario Stuart (14-3)
133-no match (injury)
141-Matt Goldstein def. Troy Minarovic (4-
2)
149-Dave Esposito def. Aaron Paterson (13-
3)
157-Ryan Bernholtz def. Chris Vitale (5-1)
165-Travis Doto def. Greg Chirieleison (Pin,
1"per.)
174-Mark Dufresne def. David Bautis (Pin,
2nd per.)
184-Robert Rohn def. James Moore (12-5)
197-no match (injury)
HWT-Shawn Laughlin def. John Hyde (Pin,
1"per.)
Patriot League Football
Standings
League
Overall
Colgate
4-1
9-1
Lehigh
4-1
9-1
Towson
4-2
7-4
Bucknell
2-3
6-4
Lafayette
2-3
4-6
Holy Cross
2-3
3-7
Fordham
0-5
0-10
Teams Exhibit Talent
Lehigh opened up the doors of
Stabler Arena for the first time
this season as the men's and
women's basketball teams
played exhibition games against
the USBDL All-Stars and the
Slovakian team on Friday night.
The women started off the
evening with 76-56 win over the
Roto Banska team from
Slovakia. Lehigh saw five seniors in double figures including
center Alexis Bevington with
12 points and 8 rebounds.
Maureen Trigo, Christina
Henry, Danielle Baldwin, and
Kelly Collins all added ten
points in the victory.
Perhaps the most impressive
part of the men's game was that
the Mountain Hawks were all
Please see HOOPS, Page 7