South Mountaineer Volume 34, Issue 18

              Volume 34, Number 18
February 4, 1992
Bethlehem, Pa.
LEHIGHLIGHTS
PENN STATE MATCH "LIVE" —One
of college wrestling's premier attractions.
Penn Suile against Lehigh, will be telecast
live Sunday. February 16 from Grace Hall.
The meel begins at 2:30 p.m. Featuring the
telecast will be WQED (Ch. 13) of Pittsburg
and WITF (Ch. 33) of Harrisburg.
Bethlehem's WLVT (Ch. 39 will show the
match on tape delay a week later. February
23.
THE PRESIDENT & MS. KEELEY —
Lehigh head women's lacrosse and field
hockey coach Jackie Keeley will be in
Washington. D.C.
this Thursday.
February 6 with
her teammates
from the United
Slates' 1989
women's lacrosse
national learn lo
meel President
George Bush as
part of the
n a I i o n w i d c
"Women in Spoils Day." Keeley was a
midfielder on the team which captured llic.
gold medal al the 1989 World Cup lournamcnl
held in Australia. Keeley. who played seven
years for the U.S. national learn, now serves
as an assistant coach for the squad as well
as her duties at Lehigh.
HOOP SHOOT—An all-day HoopShool
Classic, climaxing with finals al halftime
pi'llie Lehigh-Bucknell basketball games at
Stabler Arena, is planned by ihe Bethlehem
YMCA for Saturday, February 22. The
event serves to mark 100 years of basketball,
a YMCA invention. Special prizes, including
tickets to 1992-93 Lehigh games, will be
awarded lo the lop sharpshooters in each of
four age brackets.
CORRECTION —The lime of the Navy
wrelsiing match was improperly printed as
7:00 p.m. in last week's issue. We regret
any inconviences caused bv il. -Ed.
Keeley
INSIDE the Mountaineer
The Streak nags women  3
Indoor track update 3
Winter sports results 4
Patriot League Basketball
tournament & EIWA
Tournament Ticket info 4
HomeCookin'
Current records of Patriot League men's
basketball teams on their home courts:
School
Record at Home
LEHIGH
7-0
Bucknell
6-1
Colgate
3-1
Holy Cross
4-2
Fordham
5-4
Navy
2-6
Lafayette
1-6
Army
1-6
Holy Cross "K"-0'd at Stabler
Engineers extend
home win streak to 7
By MARC GESUALDO '92
South Mountaineer^'riter
At the end of "The Wizard of Oz'\
young Dorothy tries to convince everyone
that there's no place like home.
Right now. the Lehigh Engineers
would be the last to disagree with her.
And while the steel mills of
Bethlehem are a far cry from the cornfields
of Kansas, the fact remains that the
Engineers remained perfect (7-0) at home
this season with an 88-78 victory over
Holy Cross on Saturday afternoon at
Stabler Arena before the third straight
crowd of over 3.000 at the arena (3.424).
The win enabled Lehigh to move
into a first-place tie atop the Patriot
League standings with just about every
other team on the Eastern seaboard.
Besides the Engineers and Crusaders.
Bucknell, Colgate, and Fordham also;
have 5-2 records within the league.
"Today felt like old times, like last
year when we were winning all those
games." said senior forward Bob
Krizansky. who pumped in 25 points to
go along with eight rebounds, nine assists
and three steals. "It has to do with
confidence. We believe no one's going
to beat us here."
Lehigh took a 40-37 lead into the
locker room but scored the first eight
points of the second half to open the gap
to l l points. The Engineer defense was
a big part of the story as Holy Cross shot
just 38 percent from the field (32 percent
in the second half), while piling up 22
turnovers.
"That's the best defense we've had
Jay Hipps skies over Holy Cross' Frank Powell for one of his team-high nine rebounds
in Saturday's win over the Crusaders. -Photo by joe ryan
all year." said Lehigh head coach Dave
Duke. "That was a good win for our
confidence and I think this is going to turn
it around for us."
The Crusaders did manage to cut the
lead to four points at 70-66 with just over
five minutes remaining, but the Engineers
used some timely shooting to thwart the
comeback attempt. In all. Lehigh shot 52
percent from the field and 79 percent
from the foul line in the second half.
"We've got to win eveiything at home
and we've got to take it on the road." said
senior guard Steve Yaniga, who scored a
source: the Patriot League
Young continues record string
Lehigh junior Hassan Young
continued his streak of school records
last Saturday at the Syracuse University
Open, winning the 400-meters in a new
Lehigh record time of :48.72.
Young broke his own record., set
December 7 at Lehigh's Rauch
Fieldhouse, of 49.9.
The co-captain now holds three
Lehigh records, including the 200 and
500-meter marks, all of which he has set
in Lehigh's five indoor competitions
this season. His time at Syracuse also
qualified for the IC4A Championships
to be held March 7-8 at Princeton.
In other action from the 28-team
men's and 26-team women's meet held
in the Carrier Dome without team scoring.
Lehigh's 4X4(X) relay team of Cliff Cutter.
Cleveland McCray. Tom Gilmore and
Young finished third with a time of 3:22.86.
Young overcame a last-leg deficit with a
split time of 48.8 to edge out Rutgers for
the third spot behind Fairleigh Dickinson
and Penn State. Their performance came
despite McCray's being tripped from
behind near the baton exchange. McCray
managed to scramble and pass to Gilmore.
who promptly ran a season-best split of
49.6.
Gilmore and Cutter also ran their
best times of the season to date in the 200-
meter, both finishing in 22.8.
Jon VanOrder finished 4th in the
3000-meter in 7:46.61 followed closely
by teammate Matt Van Lierop. fifth in
7:46.9.
On the women's side. Donna Riley
ran a pair of season-bests in her splits of
the mile relay with 53.5 and 53.3. Donna
Schall recorded her season-best mark in
season-high 10 points. "We can't just expect
things to happen because we did it last year. It
takes work."
The win enabled the Engineers to reach
the .500 mark again, with a 10-10 overall
slate. And while that record isn't exactly what
the preseason prognosticators had in mind,
it's obvious that the intensity level is at a
season-high as the second half of the Patriot
League season begins.
Two other seniors, co-captain Dozie
Mbonu and guard Chuck Penn. made their
presence felt in the victory. Penn scored 19
points while Mbonu poured in 18 to go along
Please see "Stabler streak", Page 2
Wrestlers fall to Navy
By MATT WINKLER
Sports Information Assistant
ANNAPOLIS. Md. — Maybe it was the sea air.
Lehigh traveled to Annapolis Saturday
looking for its second straight upset over a
nationally ranked team in a week. Unfortunately,
the Engineers forgot their firepower and 14th-
ranked Navy sunk Lehigh. 25-9. at Halsey
Fieldhouse.
Often, a team coming off a big victory
tends to look flat in its next outing and the
Engineers held true to that theory. Lehigh (3-8.
2-3 in the EIWA) was coming off a big EIWA
win a week earlier over #14 Army and seemed
poised to have a shot at Navy (9-4. 3-0). who
also recorded impressive victories last week
over Top 25 teams Pittsburgh and West Virginia.
Lehigh and Navy didn't provide as much
Please see "Midshipmen" Page 2