South Mountaineer Volume 14, Issue 23

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South Mountaineer
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Volo 14 - No. 23!
APRIL 25, 1972
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Athletic and Convocation Center
In 'New Century Fund9 Drive
Track Team
Shines In
Early Meets
Lehigh trackmen, continuing
the kind of efforts which highlighted their trip to Barbados,
opened the regular season whipping Rochester, 112-33 defending MAC champion Temple,
7&f-67, and St. Joseph's, 76|-37f.
• They followed those triumphs
witn a strong performance in the
1972 Queens-Iona Relays at New
York City.
John Hill of Somerset, N.J.,
successfully defended hisshotput
title and Lehigh's distance
medley team ran a great race
to finish close behind power -
houses Villanova and Penn
Saturday in the Queens-Iona test.
Hill, throwing from a circle
of water, got off a heave of 55
feet, 10| inches, to win the shotput
for  the  second  year  in a row.
The distance medley team took
third in 10:10.1, just 3.3 seconds
behind Villanova and a tenth of
a second off Penn's pace.
Bob Gulash of Easton, Conn.,
led it off with a 1:56.4 half-mile,
Dave Koons of Oreland, Pa.,
turned in a 50-second440, Wayne
Rogers of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,
covered 3/4-mile in 3:08.8 and
Mike Strockbine of Commack,
N.Y., anchored with a 4:14.9
mile.
Lehigh's sprint relay team of
Garry Scheib of Spring Glen, Pa.,
Neil Tarulli of Franklin Lakes,
N.J., Glen Clark of New Shrewsbury, N.J., and Jack Rizzo of
Weston, Mass., placed sixth in
both the 440 and 880 relays with
respective times of 43,8 seconds
and 1:31.8, while the mile relay
team took seventh with a time of
3:22 flat.
More than 50 teams competed
in the event which was run for
the most part on a flooded track.
Rizzo figured in four first
places, and Orrin Meyers of
Lansdale, Pa., turned in two
fine jumping efforts as the Engineers drubbed Rochester.
Rizzo won the 100-and 220-yd
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Tennis Team
Trims Mules
Lehigh's tennis team made
Muhlenberg its first victim, 6-3,
as Bill Dethloff of Flossmoor,
111., and Jerry McClune of Lancaster, Pa., led the way with
singles triumphs and a victory
in the doubles.
The victory followed losses to
East Stroudsburg, Delaware,
Swarthmore and Rider.
ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF ATHLETIC AND CONVOCATION BUILDING
$6,000,000 Building Part
Of $67,000,000 Program
A $67,000,000 development
campaign was officially launched
April 13 at a regular meeting of
the Lehigh University board of
trustees. The 10-year program,
to be divided into two phases,
will be known as the "New
Century Fund." The first phase
will be directed toward raising
$30,000,000 of the goal to meet
the most urgent needs,
Harold S. Mohler, president
and chief executive officer of the
Hershey Foods Corp., Hershey,
Pa., will serve as national chairman of the nationwide campaign.
He is a trustee and alumnus of
Lehigh,
Announcement of the chairman,
goal  and  name of the new fund
raising campaign was made by
M. J. Rathbone, president of the
Lehigh trustees, and by W. D.
Lewis, president of the University. Rathbone, also a Lehigh
alumnus, is retired chairman of
Standard Oil (New Jersey), He
resides in Summit, N.J.
They said: " During the past
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New Basketball Mentor
Tom Pugliese, assistant
varsity basketball coach at Seton
Hall University for the last two
years, has been named head
basketball mentor at Lehigh.
The appointment was announced by Bill Leckonby,
director of athletics at the
university.
Pugliese, 35, succeeds Roy
Heckman who resigned earlier
this month, Heckman, head golf
coach at Lehigh, will remain in
that capacity and also assist with
the basketball program.
The newest Lehigh mentor, a
resident of Springfield, N.J., is
a graduate of Dunellen,N.J.,High
School and Sacramento, Calif.,
State College. At Sacramento he
earned all-star honors in basketball and baseball.
In 1970, as an assistant at
George Washington University,
he helped the GW frosh fashion
a 14-8 record. In 1971 and 1972,
as an aide at Seton Hall, he helped
the frosh to 18-4 and 17-5
seasons.
"Tom Pugliese is an impressive young man with solid playing
and coaching experience," says
Leckonby,      "and     he's    an
extremely effective recruiter.
We feel he'll be a fine addition to
our athletic staff at Lehigh,"
Pugliese has a strong New
Jersey background. Before
moving to Sacramento, Calif.,
State he spent one year at Panzer
College in East Orange. He
coached and taught at Cranford,
N.J., High School, at Bridge-
water-Raritan      East      H.   S.,
TOM PUGLIESE
Martinsville, N.J., and Sayer-
ville, N.J., High School, Parlin,
N.J., before moving into
collegiate ranks at George
Washington.
As an athlete at Dunellen High
he earned four letters in basketball, four in baseball and two in
football. He was Most Valuable
Player and an all-state choice
in basketball and baseball.
At Sacramento State, where he
received his B.A. degree in 1963,
he played two varsity seasons,
captained the team, and was an
all - star choice in the Far
Western Conference at guard.
Prior to that he captained
Sacramento City College.
In 1962 he starred for a
Sacramento State quintet which
reached the finals of the NCAA
college division tournament
before bowing to Mt. St. Mary's
at Evansville, Ind.
He won Sacramento State's
Outstanding Senior Athlete award
in 1963, was elected to the Blue
Key National Honor Fraternity,
was a dean's list student, a
member of the college's athletic
board and vice-president of the
athletic club.
Five Straight
For Engineer
Baseball 9
Five straight triumphs, after
a pair of losses, boosted Lehigh
baseballers well above the .500
mark and strengthened their
rating as contenders for Middle
Atlantic Conference pennant
honors.
The Engineers (5-2) dumped
Colgate, 7-1, St. Joseph's defending MAC champions, 4-3,
Muhlenberg, 6-3, and Gettysburg
twice, 4-2 and 3-0.
John Kraemer, of New Hyde
Park, N.Y., went the route against
Colgate and Gettysburg to pick
up a pair of victories.
Joel Menzzopane of New
Shrewsbury, N.J., turned back
St. Joseph's and John Von Thaden,
of Bordenton, N. J., shut out
Gettysburg. Bruce Ulissi, of
Penns Grove, N.J., worked six
strong innings of relief to get
credit  for  the Muhlenberg win,
Frank Zawatski, slugging
catcher from Bound Brook, N.J.,
continued an early-season batting
burst which finds him at .526
with 11 hits in 19 attempts, and
eight walks.
Coach Stan Schultz's squad
made a belated MAC start, because of frequent rainouts, but
managed   to play a  home  twin
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ST, JOSEPH'S
ab
Mall'ki 3b
Kelly cf
Miller rf
Huns'erif
Sple'er c
Sliv'kllb
Edd'er 2b
Levins ss
Tucker p
Frolo c
LEHIGH
h
0 Dempsey cf
2 Sieger 3b
1 Zawatski c
1 Jaques rf
2 Deschler z
1 Barryrf
0 Rahmes if
2 VanEtten ss
0 Wilsker 2b
0 Strickl'd lb
Menz'pnep
Totals 37    3   9       Totals 28   4   6
z-popped to 1st for Jaques in 8th
ST.JOSEPH'S  000 002 001 — 3
LEHIGH  010 002 lOx—4
E —Eddinger, Menzzopane, RBI—Hunsicker,
Spiecker, Zawatski, Rahmes, Wilsker. 2B—
Hunsicker. 3B--Zawatski. BB—Menzzopane 4,
Tucker 3, Hunsicker 0. SO—Menzzopane 11,
Tucker 0, Hunsicker 0. HO-Menzzopane 9 for
3 runs in 9 innings; Tucker 5 for 4 in 7;
Hunsicker 1 for 0 in 1. WP--Menzzopane
(1-1). LP—Tucker (2-1). U—Michael and
Majczan. Scorer: Steinmann. T—2:00.
Golfers Down
Six Opponents
Six victories in their first
eight dual/triangular starts were
racked   up   by   Lehigh  golfers.
The Engineers downed Muhlenberg, 421-445, Rider, 408-438,
Columbia, 403-407, Swarthmore,
418-442, F&M, 418-446, and St.
Joseph's, 399-418.
Temple turned back Lehigh,
406-408, and Pennsylvania won
by a 383-399 margin.