South Mountaineer Volume 28, Issue 17

              Yozzo Downs No. 1 Gibbons
Vol. 28 — No. 17
FEBRUARY 4, 1986
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Matmen Slam Army, Terps
Brown's Clutch 5-4 Win
Is Key Against Maryland
B &
FRESHMAN RICK HARTMAN working hard en route to an 11-4 decision over Maryland's Dave
Orris as referee Fred Richardson looks on.
Cagers Tied for Second Place
By JOHN MISSIMER "85
If basketball games were won
or lost on just the basis of how
much a team has heart, the men
cagers would probably be
undefeated.
Unfortunately for first-year
head coach Fran McCaffery's
troops winning basketball
games takes a little more than a
lot of guts, as they have dropped
three-out-of their last four
games to fall to 11-8 overall and
4-3 in the ECC.
McCaffery's legion did manage to pull out an 85-75 victory
over Bucknell in a battle for
first place in "the East Coast
Conference, but then they
dropped a tough 77-74 game to
Hofstra in Stabler Center. Prior
to the Bucknell game, the team
dropped one-point decisions to
Delaware and Richer.
Both Bucknell and Lehigh
entered the game with 3-2 ECC
records. This game \»as to be all
Lehigh's however, as the Engineers shot out to an early lead,
and then rode the-crest of 21-
point performances of sophomores Bill Russell (East
Patchogue, N.Y.) and Daren
Queenan (Norristown, Pa.).
Senior co-captain Mike
Androlewicz (Turnersville,
Pa.) also turned in a fine performance with 20 points.
The night belonged to Russell
however, as he hit 7-of-10 field
goals, and 7-of-9 from the charity stripe to net his career-high
of 21. In addition, Russell hauled
a few ticks on the clock rolled in
and out of the basket. Had Dos-
well's shot fallen, it would have
given the Engineers a 76-75
lead. Instead, Hofstra's Luke
Murphy canned two free throws
with one second left to make the
final, 77-74.
Lehigh was out-rebounded by
Hofstra, 17-4, in the first half,
when the Flying Dutchmen built
a 45-31 lead. They increased
their lead to 60-39, before the
Brown & White started to whittle away.
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By JOHN MISSIMER '85
The idea behind wrestling
Iowa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St.
and Penn State in a 10-day
period wasn't to pick up four
easy wins, but to expose
Lehigh's grapplers to the type of
competition that they will face
when it comes time for the
EIWA and NCAA tournaments.
That philosophy has started to
pay dividends, as the team has
put together back-to-back victories over Army and the University of Maryland,
Against Army, the matmen
had little trouble in disposing of
the Cadets, 31-12, but against
the Terrapins, senior heavyweight Bernie Brown (Bethlehem, Pa.) had to pull out a
victory over Tom Reese to
secure the win.
With a near-capacity crowd in
Grace Hall chanting "Bernie,
Bernie, Bernie!," Brown
escaped in the third period and
then benefited from a stalling
warning to take a 5-3 lead.
Brown also yielded a stalling
point, but managed to hold off
Reese down the stretch to
emerge on top, 5-4. With the victory Brown improved his seasonal record to 13-3, while Reese
lost only his fifth bout in 26
outings.
The Engineers started off
with a bang as 118-pounder Rick
Hartman (Lakewood, Ohio) and
126-pound Mike Price (Blooms-
bury, N:J.) both defeated their
opponents.
Hartman, a freshman with a
13-11 record, came close to picking up bonus points in an 11-4
decision over Dave Orris, while
Price, who has been bothered by
a nagging back injury for the
last two weeks dumped Troy
Lawrence, 12-6.
Junior Jim Frick (Columbia,
N.J.) wrestled at 134 pounds
despite being hampered by a
knee injury. Frick was able to
get in on some nice single leg
attempts on Danny Bottiger,
but Bottiger held Frick off and
went on to post an 8-2 win.
Head coach Thad Turner
decided to wrestle senior Wes
Schantz (Allentown, Pa.) at 142
pounds and move Peter Yozzo
(Sayville, N.Y.) and C.J. Mears
up a weight because of a neck
injury to 158-pounder Chad Watkins (Ocean. N.J.)
Schantz looked impressive
during his first three minutes of
varsity action, as he caught
Maryland's Dante Desiderio in
a five-point move, but the Terrapin wrestler recovered in the
second period to stack Schantz
up and pin him at 4: 01.
Yozzo didn't mind being up a
weight class, as he had very little problem in making quick
work of Joe Schwab. Schwab
was caught off guard in the first
period for a couple of five-point
moves, and eventually succumbed by a technical fall at
4:35.
On the other hand, Mears
seemed to have problems
adjusting to the weight difference, as he drew with Phil
Brown, 3-3.
Maryland picked up wins at
167 and 177 as Curt Scovel decisioned Kerry Ritrievi (Levit-
town. Pa.). 8-0, and Steve
Peperak down Eyvind Boyesen
(Kempton, Pa.), 7-1. to take an
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Yozzo Wins in East-West Classic
TIM RUSSELL
in 12 rebounds.
The Hofstra loss was probably the toughest one to take,
because the cagers came from
21 points down in the second half
to almost pull out a victory.
Senior Vernon Doswell's
(Somerset, N.J.) shot with just
Junior All-American Peter
Yozzo stunned defending NCAA
champion Joe Gibbons of Iowa
State, 15-10, in the annual East-
West All-Star wrestling classic
in Stillwater. Oklahoma.
Yozzo.    currently    ranked
fourth by the Amateur \f resiling
News behind Gibbons. Kevin
Dresser of Iowa, and Jim Jordan of Wisconsin, scored a big
five-point move early on to stun
Gibbons. Yozzo continued to
wrestle hard the remainder of
the way. as Gibbons never
really could close the gap.
Assistant coach Tom Hutchinson, who accompanied Yozzo on
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