South Mountaineer Volume 27, Issue 19

              Vol. 27 - No. 19
FEBRUARY 26. 1985
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Queenan Is ECC' s Top Scorer
Women To Host Playoff Game
The Engineer men's basketball team will host Drexel Wed-      » mm
nesday night at Stabler Center      1
in its final tune-up for the 1985
East Coast Conference Championship tournament,  set for
March 2, 3 and 4 at Towson      H
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The Engineers,  6-7 in ECC      M. j&mr
play and 9-17 overall, dropped |||
close games to Delaware and
Towson State before regrouping
for an 80-75 win at Hofstra.
Bucknell, the ECC regular-
season titleist, downed Lehigh,
75-58, Monday night at Lewis-
burg's Davis Gym.
Daren Queenan (Norristown,
Pa.) paced a balanced Lehigh
attack in the Hofstra game, netting 20 points and adding seven
rebounds. Four other Engineers
scored in double figures, led by
Mike Polaha (Allentown, Pa.)
■ii.   ,/. J   t.t r* ,-r.i_M (B&W Photo by ADAM SEVEL)
with 16 and Ken Greene (Phil-
lipsburg, N.J.)  with 14. Paul CAPTAIN PAUL DIEKEL (right) lies exhausted after pinning Temple's Tom Kane. Diekel, 19-1,
Wickman (Somerset, N.J.) and will lead Lehigh into the 81st EIWA tournament at Franklin and Marshall.
Don  Henderson   (Huntingdon,
2£i»js!°—-     Matmen Ready for 81 st EIWA
Queenan scored 24 points and /
had 10 rebounds at Bucknell. „    , „. ,   , „\.   ..
The freshman, a leading candi- m Paul Diekel, Peter Yozzo and
date  for  rookie  of the  year Jom  To^as  are„ amon^ *e
honors,   is   the   league's   top favorites as Lehigh prepares for
scorer   (17.6)    and   second- the 81at EIWA championships
leading rebounder (8.1). *Jarch.* and 3 at Franklm and
Lehigh  currently occupies Marshall,
fifth place in the conference XI 9ffa.n   Diekel   (Whitehall,
standing in a tie with Rider. £.Y )   and  Yozzo   (Sayville,
Bucknell   (10-4)   leads,:? while N.Y.) have 19-1 records, while
Lafayette,   Delaware  and To^as }^;  Pa)   1S close
Drexel all have 7-6 marks. Hof- be^nd at 18"5-1-    . ,.   .   t lon
 0>-^_ Diekel was rated first at 190
&* and Toggas first at 158 by the
Men's ecc standing EIWA's coaches in their "mid-
zutaKV^V)"::::::::::::: ™t season- POn released Feb. 9.
Delaware (12-14) 7-6 Yozzo was ranked No. 2 at 142,
Drexel (9-17) 7-6 behind 1984 Eastern champion
5. lehigh (9-17) 6-7 Jonn 0rr of Princeton.
Rider (12-14) P 6-7
7. Hofstra (13-13)  5-8 Each member of the trio was
8. Towson St. (7-19) 5-9 successful in both the Syracuse
and   Temple   meets,   but  the
stra (5-8) and Towson State (5- Engineers fell to the Orange-
9) bring up the rear. men, 27-20, and the Owls, 21-20,
The tournament seeding pic- to cojfnplete a 5-9 dual-meet sea-
ture  is  still  unclear pending son, only the third losing season
Wednesday night's games. In in the last 63 years of Lehigh
addition   to   Lehigh-Drexel, wrestling.
Lafayette will host Delaware Heavyweight Bernie Brown
and Rider will host Hofstra. (Bethlehem, Pa.) had the unen-
„r  ,           ,               ....   .. viable task of facing two of the
Wednesdays game will be the nation,g          neavy weights in
final home game for Lehigh s successive  meets>  bowi      t0
senior captain Paul Wickman s         se>s And   Schwab  12.2
(Somerset    N.J. ,   who   has and Tempie's Bill Hyman, 4-2.
worked hard for four years to Biwn finighed the       lar gea_
help forge the kind of break- gQn witfl a mark of 14_?
through season Lehigh men s
basketball has had in 1984-85.
Wickman has seen small
crowds at Stabler and he has,
this season, seen some screaming throngs. According to Head
Coach Tom Schneider, Wick-
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bouts in the Navy, Syracuse and
Temple meets.
Brian Yates (Clarksboro,
N.J.) downed Temple's Barry
Sergeant, 18-11, to complete a
6-7 regular season. He will wrestle at 134 for the Engineers.
Chris Mears (North Canton,
Ohio), who missed the Syracuse
and Temple meets with an
injury to the ligaments in his
right knee, will be back to battle
at 150. Mears compiled a 12-7
record this season.
Kerry Ritrievi (Levittown,
Pa.) notched a 3-2-1 mark at 167
after returning . from a
semester-long bout with mononucleosis. Ritrievi dropped a
tough 2-1 decision to Temple's
Meet in Grace Hall
Neil Alton in his last outing.
Dave Garner (Lititz, Pa.) is
Lehigh's entry at 177. Garner is
4-15-3.
Last year's EIWA champion, Diekel has recorded a 37-5
mark in his two years at Lehigh.
In his last five bouts Diekel,
rated No. 3 in the latest National
Mat News and No. 4 in the Amateur Wrestling News, has
recorded three pins and two
technical falls.
Yozzo is ranked No. 7 in both
national wrestling publications.
Yozzo, 37-8-1 in his two seasons
wearing the Brown and White,
has taken full advantage of the
technical fall innovation, posting eight short decisions, including five in his last six bouts.
The Lehigh women's basketball team will host Rider College Thursday, Feb. 28, in a
quarter-final round game of the
East Coast Conference championship tournament.
The contest is slated for
Grace Hall at 7 p.m. General
admission tickets are $2 for
adults and $1 for students. The
title tilt will tap off at 2 p.m.
Sunday.
Lehigh wrapped up the regular season with a 73-57 win at
Hofstra Saturday. The Engineers won a school-record 18
games against seven defeats
and are seeded No. 3 in the conference with a 10-4 league mark,
their best record in the three
seasons of conference play.
Rider is 5-9 in the conference
and 9-18 overall. The Broncs are
seeded No. 6.
Lehigh swept the season series against Rider with a 64-62
win at home Jan. 9 and a 60-55
Women's Final ECC Standing
1. Lafayette-(21-6)  13-1
2. Delaware (18-8)  11-3
3. LEHIGH (18-7)   10-4
Towson St. (16-11)   10-4
5. Drexel (14-11) 5-9
Rider (9-18) 5-9
7. Bucknell (4-21)   1-13
Hofstra (3-24)  1-13
come-from-behind triumph
Feb. 2 at Lawrenceville, N.J.
In other ECC quarter-final
games Thursday night, No. 1
seed Lafayette (13-1 ECC, 21-6
overall) will host No. 8 Bucknell
(1-13, 4-21); No. 2 Delaware (11-
3, 18-8) will host No. 7 Hofstra
(1-13, 3-24); and No. 4 Towson
State (10-4,16-11) will host No. 5
Drexel (5-9, 14-11).
Semi-final games and the conference championship will be
held at Delaware, Saturday and
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U.S. vs. Japan Dual Slated Mar. 26
Lehigh will send out Andy
Schantz (Allentown, Pa.) at 118.
Schantz, 1-11, recorded his only
win of the year against Cornell's
Larry Nesser. Mike Price
(Bloomsbury, N.J.) will wrestle
at 126. Price, 6-8, dropped tough
The Lehigh Wrestling Club
will sponsor the third annual
international freestyle challenge match, featuring teams
from the U.S. and Japan, Tuesday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in
Grace Hall.
The U.S. team will feature
Darryl Burley, two-time NCAA
champion for Lehigh and now a
graduate assistant coach for the
Engineers. Current wrestlers
Paul Diekel and Peter Yozzo
are slated to represent the U.S.,
in addition to other Lehigh
wrestlers and Eastern freestyle
experts.
The U.S. team will be coached
by Bobby Weaver, the 1983
Lehigh graduate who captured
a gold medal at the 1984 summer
Olympic Games, and Tom Hutchinson, Lehigh's assistant
wrestling coach.
The Japanese team will be
that country's entry in the
World Cup of International
Wrestling   competition,   sche
duled for Toledo, Ohio, March
29-31.
A preliminary match at 5 p.m.
will pit a junior freestyle team
from Eastern Pennsylvania
against the New Jersey state
junior freestyle squad.
Ticket Prices are as follows:
$6.00 for a reserved seat, $3.00
for general admission, $1.00 for
students.
For ticket information call
the Lehigh athletic ticket office,
861-4305.