Brown and White

              the brown and white lehigh university rivalry tuesday february 19 1991 special edition jay hipps who scored a career-high 27 points at colgate the candy man averages 1 1 5 points per game and is the team's top free throw shooter at a 78 percent clip another junior guard steve yaniga has see engineers page 7 steals per game and junior co-captain dozie mbonu 16.9 points and 8.2 rebounds per game to complement his stellar 5 8 9 shooting percentage from the field lately however lehigh has been getting contributions from other key players besides the two co-captains witness junior forward opponent the engineers are well aware of it it's a big rivalry so you can't take them lightly perm said we have to force the tempo because they aren't as deep as we are it's going to be a tough game for us added junior forward and co-captain bob krizansky no matter what the records are lehigh-lafayette is always an exciting game head coach dave duke would probably appreciate more games like the one against colgate though the engineers trailed 58 57 with 15 minutes remaining they went on a 15-4 run over the next five minutes to grab a 10-point lead the red raiders never got back into the game and at one point head coach jack bruen pulled his whole starting five in favor of the bench warmers yet krizansky and the rest of the engineers know that there's no quit in the leopards and that makes it all the more important for lehigh to establish author ity early we need to get some quick spurts dominate the boards and get out to an early lead krizansky said we're in our gym this time and our crowd should really help as it did against fordham the engineers will need the usual offen sive and defensive prowess of krizansky 16.3 points 6.7 rebounds 4.3 assists 2.4 leopards in no-lose situation lehigh lafayette meet for 173rd time by marc gesualdo brown & white sports writer when we last left stabler arena we were treated to the following sights and sounds - a lehigh and patriot league-record crowd of 5 1 23 screaming fans trying to bring down the house as lehigh battled first-place fordham - posters of models and various other paraphernalia being unraveled to distract fordham players when they went to the foul line - plenty of action from the x and z comers as the engineer faithful kept track of their heroes points bob krizansky and dozie mbonu in this case all night long - a furious lehigh rally which saw the engineers erase a nine-point deficit with three minutes left to tic the game with just 13 ticks left on the clock yes it was the perfect setting for the engineers to pull off the upset and complete yet another fairy-tale ending but fordham's jean prioleau was the author of this script and he preferred to pen a horror story for le high priloeau's off-balance three-point bank shot at the buzzer gave the rams the 76-73 victory and left a tear in the eye of bethlehem 10 days have since passed and the lehigh basketball front has been relatively quiet the engineers did find time to travel to upstate new york last wednesday night and cruise to a 100-81 victory over the colgate red raiders the victory moved lehigh to 7-2 in the patriot league and 15-9 overall yet since the stunning loss to the rams stabler arena has been quiet save for the women's hoop sters victory over marist on saturday night so tomorrow night when the lafayette leopards pay their annual visit to lehigh stabler arena will be ready to rock and roll again and there's a good chance that the leopards might not be singing along in tune lehigh keys to victory ml play an up-tempo game 2 control bruce stankavage 3 get good bench production the season an 86-78 win over colgate on saturday night surely the leopards would like nothing better than to shake up lehigh's tenuous grasp on second place in the patriot league no doubt about it both teams will be fired up for this one lafayette's leone knows his kids will be ready to play leone said like any great rivalry be it the celtics-lakers browns-steelers or lehigh lafayette you're always excited to play regardless of the records in fact coach leone thinks this game could be just the jumpstart that his squad needs he said it helps when you're down like we are now to have a big game to get excited about for their part lehigh knows it will have its hands full with this edition of the leop see f pards page 7 lehigh supporter seven of their nine patriot league defeats have been by ten points or less and last week lafayette was bitten by the last second shot bug so what retort lehigh fans who witnessed fordham's jean prioleau's demoralizing buzzer beater at lafayette keys to victory kbig game for stanjkavage 2 offensive rebounding 3 control tempo stablei well fans it happened to lafayette too twice in back to back losses to holy cross and army last second shots squelched leopard hopes for an elusive conference victory all is not lost in easton lafayette is coming off their only conference victory of when these two teams met in easton last month the leopards jumped out to an early 32-20 lead thanks to a 1 7-point first hal f from senior guard bruce stankavage but the engineers rode the stellar play of super sub chuck perm in the second half to a 76-69 victory junior guard perm did it on both ends scoring 11 of his team-high 16 points and making all four of his steals in the second half as the engineers were able to pull away and while lafayette is struggling this season with just one patriot league win to its credit the leopards are an ever-dangerous by craig albert brown and white sports writer on paper it looks like a mismatch red hot lehigh winners of eight of their last 10 streaking towards the upcoming patriot league tournament lafayette with only one con ference victory looking for something posi tive to take out of an otherwise disastrous season common sense tells us the engineers will win but since when did common sense have anything to do with college basketball throw out the records ignore the statistics this is lchigh-lafayctte lafayette coach john leone would proba bly be the first to tell you that his squad has not played good basketball this season no gigantic insight there in fact at times the leopards have been downright awful but in their defense the ' pards have been victimized by a string of bad luck that could receive sympathy from even the staunchest lehigh hopes for another record crowd when the pards visit stabler center photos by joe ryan