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September 21,1999
Mighty Marta
Lehigh senior
outside hitter
Marta
Mielcarz was
named the Patriot League
D efensi ve
Player of the
Week for the
week of September 14, 1999. The Mountain
Hawk captain's hustle led the
team to victories over Rider and
Towson.
Mielcarz recorded 61 digs for a
hefty average of 5.08 per game. She
is among the Patriot League leaders with a 4.09 dig average.
Milecarz missed last season due
to a torn ACL injury. She attended
the Shipley School and is a native
of Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Anyone Have Tickets?
Lehigh has sold out of its ticket allotment for the Princeton football
game scheduled to be played this
Saturday (Sept. 25) at Princeton
University and the contest at the
University of Delaware on October
16. Tickets, however can still be
purchased by calling each school's
ticket office directly. The Princeton
ticket office number is: (609) 258-
3538. The Delaware ticket office
number is: (302)831-2257.
Pre-game® Princeton
The Lehigh Alumni Association is
hosting a pre-game tailgate prior to
the Princeton game from 4:30-6:30
p.m. under the Lehigh tent next to
the stadium on Fitzrandolph Road.
Cost is $5.00 for faculty/staff.
The non-staff member price is
$10.00 in advance per adult or
$15.00 at the door. The cost for children aged 7-16 is $5.00. Parking is
available in adjacent lots at $4.00
per car payable at the gate. No parking area is reserved for Lehigh fans
only.
Soccer Hawks Soar
to Regional Ranking
The Lehigh University men's soccer team is ranked second in the
National Soccer Coaches' Association of America (NSCAA) Mid-
Atlantic Region in a poll released
this past Monday. The Mountain
Hawks are 3-2-1 this season thanks
to a 1-0 win over #24 ranked Richmond, a 1-0 win over Princeton and
a 2-1 victory over Syracuse. Lehigh
has lost to nationally-ranked North
Carolina and regionally-ranked
UNC Greensboro.
Under Head Coach Dean
Koski, Lehigh has now accumulated a 36-17-6 record over the last
t.iree years, best in the Patriot
League.
"I think this is a credit to the
university and the athletics department," head coach Koski said.
"Any way that we can promote the
university and athletics through this
ranking is tremendous. It's also a
credit to all of our past players as
well as our current players who
have worked very hard to make our
program a successful one every
year."
Penn State is ranked first in the
Mid-Atlantic Region, which includes teams from Pennsylvania,
Delaware and New Jersey. Rutgers
is ranked third and Seton Hall
fourth.
Hawks Feast on Brethren
Lehigh scored on its first
possession and its second
possession and its third
possession and its fourth possession and, well you get the idea.
Seventeenth-ranked Lehigh extended its regular-season winning
streak to 14 games by defeating
the Monmouth Hawks, 56-10, before 10,477 fans on Saturday afternoon at Lehigh's Goodman Stadium. This victory was Lehigh's
eighth straight triumph at home.
The Mountain Hawks jumped
out to an early 7-0 lead on a two
yard run by senior fullback
Brett Snyder with 9:57 remaining in the first quarter. Lehigh
then tacked on three more touchdowns before Monmouth managed to kick a field goal with 5:21
to go in the first half. Lehigh
took a 35-3 lead into the locker
room at halftime.
"I told our guys before the
game our first priority was how
we would play in the first eight
minutes of the game because
that would show what kind of
character and, mental toughness
we have." said Lehigh Head
Coach Kevin Higgins.
The second half didn't prove to
be any better for Monmouth.
Lehigh tacked on two more touchdowns and one in the fourth quarter to take a 56-3 lead. Monmouth
added a late touchdown with 2:55
to go in the game to make the final
score 56-10.
Lehigh was led by Walter
Payton Award candidate, senior
quarterback Phil Stambaugh who
was 15 of 18 for 191 yards and three
touchdowns. The 191 yards propelled Stambaugh into second place
for Lehigh's career passing yards
record. Stambaugh played in the
first half and one series in the third
quarter. His main target was se-
Brett Snyder'00
nior  Kody  Fedorcha  who
caught 4 passes for 60 yards and
two touchdowns. The Mountain
Hawk ground attack was led by
senior tailback Ronald Jean
Photo by Rob Upton
with 19 carries for 110 yards and
1 touchdown. Senior fullback
Brett Snyder also rushed for 43
yards on 9 carries and scored 2
See "Football,"page 7
Game Summary (vs. Monmouth)
M-Smitft 3 yard run (Mandeli kick)
Monmouth                  0       3      0        7         -10
Lehigh                           21      14     14        7           -56
Monmouth
10              First Downs
Lehigh
30
Scoring Summary
L-B. Snyder 2 yard run (Taaife kick)
L-Fedorcha 32 yard pass from Stambaugh (Taaffe kick)
112           Rushing
84             Passing
196           Total Yards
26:52        Possession
351
203
554
33:08
L-B. Snyder 1 yard run (Taaffe kick)
L-Fedorcha 8 yard pass from Stambaugh (Taaffe kick)
M-Mandell23yardFG
L-Jean 9 yard run (Taaffe kick)
L-Moore 15 yard pass from Stambaugh (Taaffe kick)
L-Burcher 8 yard run (Taaffe kick)
L-Hall 4 yard run (Taaffe kick)
Lehigh Leaders:
Rushing: Jean 19-110 1 TD, Moore 1-17, Hail 4-55, B. Snyder
9-53 2TD
Passing: Stambaugh 15-18-191,3 TD
Receiving: Fedorcha 4-60,2 TD, Endler 4-48, Peltzer 2-46, Moore
2-23, 1 TD
Lehigh Football on
Radio
All Lehigh football games are carried live on WKAP (1470 AM) in
the Lehigh Valley and surrounding communities. Long-time
WAEB news director Matt Kerr
serves as play-by-play analyst and
former Lehigh quarterback Marty
Horn provides color commentary.
Lehigh football is the highest
rated Saturday afternoon program
on AM radio in the Lehigh Valley, topping both Penn State and
Notre Dame.
Lehigh Snorts on TV
WFMZ sports director Jeff Fisher
hosts the Lehigh Sports Magazine,
a weekly highlight show televised
on Mondays at 8:30 p.m. The
weekly show features all 23 varsity
sports.
Lehigh Football on
WFMZ
Lehigh and WFMZ-TV, channel
69, have teamed up for the 12th
consecutive year to bring you
Lehigh sports. WFMZ-TV reaches
4.1 million viewers in the Lehigh
Valley, Philadelphia, northwest
New Jersey and Reading, areas.
The award-winning football
broadcasts feature the popular team
of Rich Lerner, anchor with the
Golf Channel, and former Lehigh
and NFL quarterback Kim
McQuilken.
WFMZ will televise the Sept. 25
contest at Princeton; the Nov. 6
contest at Colgate; and the Nov. 20
contest .against Lafayette. Check
the 1999 football schedule on the
previous page for game times.
Lehigh on the Web
Lehigh football games and weekly
Sports Magazine shows are available on your home computer, cour-
tesy of Broadcast.com. Link
through Lehigh's web site at:
www.lehigh.edu/~inspo or
www.broadcast.com.
com
Lehigh Football on SETV
Service Electric Cable Television in
the Lehigh Valley will televise four
Lehigh home football contests, including the September 18 game ver-
sus Monmouth; the October 2
game versus Columbia; the October 23 game versus Holy Cross; and
the October 30 contest against
Towson
Battle the Best
What do the University of North
Carolina, the University of Tennessee, the University of Michigan,
Penn State University and the University of Kansas all have in common?
Top 25 men's basketball or football programs? Campus enrollment
of 20,000 or greater? National
reputations for academic and athletics excellence? All factual statements, but not what we're looking
for.
Actually, the NCAA Division I
monoliths listed above all found
themselves competing against
Lehigh University this past weekend. The overachieving Mountain
Hawks, who coincidentally boast a
Top 25 football program and a national reputation for academic and
athletics excellence as well, sparred
with these and other elite programs
in one of the most aggressive weekend scheduling feats in school history.
Both the men's soccer team and
volleyball team had to battle Hurricane Floyd en route to play their
nationally-ranked opponents, with
Floyd gaining a decisive victory.
The 27th-ranked men's soccer team
cancelled its flight to North Carolina on Thursday, but departed on
■ Friday for a weekend of play
against 24th-ranked University of
North Carolina and regionally-
ranked UNC Greensboro.
The volleyball team traveled to
Knoxville, Tennessee to get a firsthand look at SEC competition as
they faced the Lady Volunteers in the first round of
the Ibyota Invitational on
Friday. The University of
Kansas  and  Eastern
Michigan University also
participated.
The Lehigh men's and
women's cross country
teams, off to a combined
7-1 start on the young 1999
season, competed in the
21st Annual Spiked Shoe
Invitational at Penn State,
against the host Nittany
Lions and and a 20-team
field which included na-
tionally-ranked
Georgetown and Michigan. The men's golf team participated in the Georgetown Hoya Invitational at the Lansdowne Conference Resort in Leesburg, Virginia.
Never ones to shy from top-
notch competition, Lehigh University teams annually challenge themselves against the nation's top athletic and academic institutions.
More of the same is expected this
winter, as evidenced by a quick look
at the 1999-2000 tentative wrestling
and men's and women's basketball
schedules. Lehigh's nationally-
ranked wrestling team boasts a
schedule dotted with national title
contenders, including a November
21 home date with rival Penn State.
The men's basketball will spar with
Penn State, Pepperdine and the
University of San Diego this season and the women's basketball
team faces Tulane and West Virginia.
To see how these teams fared
against the formidable opponents, please see page seven.
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