South Mountaineer Volume 37, Issue 05

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Contents
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♦ Olympic sports update
♦ Lehigh quarterback Bob
♦ Volleyball: The Becahi
and schedules
Aylsworth
Connection
♦ Football by the numbers
♦ Olympic Sports Week in
♦Athletic Partnership:
♦ Patriot League football
Review
10th Annual Golf and
scores and standings
Tennis outing
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♦ Women's Tennis:
League tournament
preview
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MOUNTAINEER
Volume 37, Issue 05
October 4, 1994
Rabih Abdullah was named Patriot League Rookie
of the Week for the second time. Photo by JOE RYAN
QUOTEBOARD
*"Penalties obviously killed us again as did turnovers. We're not a good enough team to overcome
them. We have a lot of young players on offense
especially and we need io eliminate the mistakes.."
- Lehigh head coach Kevin Higgins
* "We knew they had an outstanding offense. Their
line is very good and so is their running game."
- Higgins
*"Ithought bur defense was on the field too much.
Except ford couple of big plays they played well,
especially in the first half."
- Higgins
*"Ihisis really frustrating. Our biggest opponent
right now is ourselves.."
- Senior defensive hack Jason Mack.
* "We weren'tdisciplinedenough.Acoupleof missed
assignments and missed tackles gave them momentum. "
- Junior defensive back Michael Blunt.
* "The touchdown run wasjust a counter play and
the gUys opened a big hole for me.."
- Sophomore running back Rabih
Abdullah.
*"We knew what they were doing defensively. We
just didn't come through at the end."
- Junior quarterback Bob Aylsworth
YALE SATELLITE INFORMATION
Saturday's game at Yale will be televised locally
in the Lehigh Valley by WFMZ-TV (channel 69).
The game will also be on satellite. Call the sports
information office at (610) 758-3174 for satellite
coordinate information.
Golf team improves at Patriots
Lehigh's golf team fmishedfourthin the Patriot
LeaguechampionshipshostedbyColgateUniversityat
Seven Oaks GolfClub. TheEngineers improvedfour
notches from their eighthplaceleaguefinishlastseason.
Lehigh also boasts twoAll-League golfers in
sophomores Henry D'Alberto andRockyMorriswho
placed seventh andtenthrespectively.
FINALTEAMSCORES
LEfflGITFTMSHERS
Army
930
(alphabetical)
Navy
944
HenryD'Alberto
236
Bucknell
945
JoeGuterl
243
Lehigh
956
KtrrtKurimsky
249
Colgate
963
Rocky Morris
238
HolyCross
1038
KyleSmith
261
Lafayette
1054
KyleYerk
241
Fcrdham
1074
Sophomore Henry D'Alberto. Photo by JOE RYAN
Football gives one away to Cornell
By GLENN HOFMANN
Sports Information Director
Lehigh's21-171oss to Cornell was really quite
simpletofigureout. TheEngineers committed 12
penalties andturned the ball overfive times. Cornell had
onefumble andfourpenalties.
SoforthesecondstraightweektheBrown&White
wereleftscratehingtheir heads as theywalked offthe
field. Thedifference this week as compared to the week
before is tb^tagainstColumbiatheEngineerswere
prettymuchoutplayed.Thesamecannotbesaidforthe
Cornell game.Lehighrecorded20firstdowns compared
to 10 for the Big Red. The Engineers threw for 283 yards
compared to 23 for Cornell and Lehigh held the ball for
over 31minutes compared to 28 forthe Big Red.
ButasheadcoachKevin Higgins has saidsince
trainingcamp, this squad isn't good enough to win if
they make mistakes. Against Cornell the mistakeswere
plentiful and attimes very ugly. Anditdidn'ttakelong.
On only the third play ofthe game the Engineers
turned the ball over on a botched shotgun snap. Cornell
recoveredattheEngineer2yardlineand scored on the
ensuingplaytotakea7-01ead.  -
ToI^mgh'scredititcameback.Thisteamthrough-
outthe mistakes the lasttwoweekshas shown an
impressive ability to continuously giveatop-notch effort
and to come back when adversity strikes.
Laterinthe quarter, promisingsophomore Rabih
Abdullah raced 92 yardsforatouchdown to tie the
contest at 7. The run was the longest against Cornell in
schoolhistory andshowedtheflashiness and speed that
Abdullah, who gained a career-high 149 yards, has.
RightbeforehalftimeJuniorquarterbackBob
Aylsworth got going as he executed a perfect 12 play 79
yard touchdown drive in the final 2:00. Aylsworth
completed eight of 10 passes in the drive culminating
withaone-yard flick to MarkLaFeirwithfour seconds
left.
Lehigh wentintothelockerroom with all of the
momentum and a 14-7 lead. You had to figure the
Engineerswereingreatshape. After all they committed
10 penalties in the first half and yet were up by a
touchdown. Thatwouldnotbethecase
In the secondhalf the Cornell ground game got
going, and quickly.
After a40yardkickoffreturn, CorneU'sfirstplay
from scrimmage resulted ina50yard touchdown run.
The Big Redweretiedat 14 thanks to scores on their
firstoffensiveplayineachhalf.
AbduUahfumbledtheensuingkickoffbutthe
Lehighdefense, whichplayedwell all day,held. Still
Cornell was beginningto win thefield advantage battle.
On Lehigh'snext series anAylsworth pass was
intercepted atthe Lehigh 45 andfourplays later, Chuck
Levitt ran fiveyards to give Cornella21-141ead.
Lehighmarchedrightbackdown thefield, butthe
drive stalled at the Cornell five yard line. Mike Swartz
kicked a 23-yard field goal and the Cornell lead was
onlyfour, 21-17 withstill over aquarterremaining.
Unfortunatelythe Engineer offense couldgetno
closer than the Cornell 46 yard line the rest ofthe way.
So after four games Lehighis 2-1-1. At the begin-
ningof the season most people probably would have
beenhappy with that record. Nowhowever, after seeing
the four games the players feel theycould easily be 4-0.
This team is playing as hard as any in recent
memory andprobablyhasalittlemoretalentthanpeople
expected.
Nowifthey can eliminate the mistakes wins will
once again cometheirway.