South Mountaineer Volume 11, Issue 20

              Published by the Alumni'Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 11-No. 20
March 10,1969
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Wrestlers, Swimmers Sparkle
Bentz, Shields Score Falls
As Pitt Topples, 25-12
Falls by Jack Bentz and Steve
Shields paced Lehigh matmen to
a stunning 25-12 rout of
Pittsburgh last Saturday and gave
the Engineers (6-4-1) their 24th
consecutive winning season, 17 of
them under present coach Gerry
Leeman.
Some 3,200 spectators watched
in Grace Hall as the pins
shattered a close meet and gave
Lehigh an unbeatable 21-8 spread
with only two bouts remaining.
Bentz completed a perfect dual
campaign (11-0-0) with a fall in
7;03 over Buddy Morris at 167
pounds. Shields followed with a
36-second pin over Ron Leven-
dowski at 177. Pitt, facing the
Engineers after an impressive
16-16 draw at Penn State,
finished the dual campaign 3-6-1.
Next stop for the Brown and
White is Princeton this weekend
(March 14-15) for the annual
Eastern Intercollegiate
Wrestling Assn. championship
tournament. There will be afternoon and evening sessions Friday
and Saturday.
Lehigh and Pitt are expected
to join Penn State and Army as
chief   contenders    as  Navy,
Coach's Comment
"The meet was a lot closer
than that 25-12 score indicates.
We came from behind in several
of those key bouts. It was a good
team effort and it puts us in the
right frame of mind for the
weekend tournament at
Princeton.". . . Gerry Leeman,
wrestling.
undefeated for the year, attempts
to retain team honors won last
March.
Dave Waters (123), Tom Muir
(15 2) and Rich Bacastow (160)
gained decisions for the
Engineers against the Panthers
who could capture only two of the
10 bouts. There were three
draws.
One of the stalemates came
as unbeaten heavyweights Gary
Leinberger of Lehigh and Ralph
Cindrich fought to a 1-1 tie.
Leinberger (4-0-1) escaped in
the second period and Cindrich
(7-0-2) duplicated that feat in the
third. Cindrich also has a draw
this season with EIWA heavyweight champion Mark Kane of
Navy.
Waters, subbing for Dick
Meyer who was sidelined with a
sprained ankle, opened the
scoring for Lehigh with an 8-3
victory over Tom Grant. The
Engineer sophomore came from
behind, after being taken down,
to pile up a decisive margin and
gain his second victory in three
tries. He had an escape, takedown, reverse, predicament and
time.
Muir was Lehigh's next winner,
5-4 over Buddy Morris, in
another uphill struggle. Morris
led 2-0 and 4-2 before Muir
sliced the deficit to4-3 beginning
the final period. The Lehigh
senior rode out the last three
minutes, picking up two time
points to get the nod.
Bacastow picked up a sizeable
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PETE  HARDING
LU Retains
Frosh Rule
Eastern College Athletic
Conference representatives last
week voted, 74-68, to permit
the use of freshmen inall varsity
sports except football, basketball and hockey effective next
September.
Bill Leckonby, Lehigh's
director of athletics, voted
against the move and said the
outcome would have no immediate
effect on Lehigh policies.
"Most of our regular
opponents," he said, "also were
against using freshmen. We're
going to review the situation
very carefully before making any
change. It's a permissive piece
of legislation, not a mandatory
one."
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Harding, Dillman Triumph
In MAC Championship Test
Lehigh picked up four
championships last weekend in
the annual Middle Atlantic
Conference swimming championships at Bucknell.
Pete Harding was a double
winner, retaining 100-yard
breaststroke laurels won a year
ago, and adding the 200 breast-
stroke.
Tom Dillman took the
one-meter dive.
Coach Roy Nichols' strong 400-
medley relay quartet won first
place in that event with a 3:46.4
which is anew conference, Lehigh
and Bucknell pool record.
Harding, Frank Warner, Rick
Astleford and Wayne Martin make
up the medley team.
The Engineers accumulated 66
points for a third-place finish
behind Bucknell, 148, and
LaSalle, 91. Temple was fourth
followed, in order, by St.
Josephs', American, Lafayette,
Delaware and Gettysburg.
Harding's winning time of
2;17.5 in the 200 breaststroke is
a  conference and Lehigh mark.
Lehigh placed swimmers inall
but one event during Saturday's
competition. Warner took second
in the 200 backstroke and established his second school mark in
2:04.9. He had lowered Lehigh's
standard in the 100-yard backstroke on Thursday to :55.9, a
time qualifying him for the NCAA
championships at Indiana.
The Engineer 400-yard
freestyle relay team of Martin,
Astleford, Steve VanSciver and
Warner tied for third in 3:20.3,
another University record. In the
lead-off lap of the event Martin
tied   the   school   mark  of :49.9.
The final Lehigh place-winner
for the day was Astleford with a
fifth in the 100-yard freestyle in
:50.5. LaSalle's Don Strunk garnered his second win and MAC
record in :42.7.
Other MAC marks were set by
Temple's Jim Whelan in the
1,560-yard freestyle (mile) in
17:30.2, and by Bill Ciakley of
St. Joseph's in the 200-vard
backstroke in 2:02.4.
Bucknell and LaSalle repeated
Coach's Comment
"We aimed for the MACs all
season long because we knew our
team had some excellent individuals although lacking the depth
to win many dual meets. The work
paid off.". . . Roy Nichols,
swimming.
in their finish in the competition,
but for Lehigh — the real
surprise in the MAC this year —
it was a jump from a sixth-place
finish a year ago.
The Engineers picked up four
first places and set MAC standards in the 400-yard medley
relay the first day and Saturday
in   the   200-yard   breaststroke.
The 10 swimmers and one diver
whom Nichols entered in the
championships set eight Lehigh
marks in three days.
Rifle Team
Places Fourth
Lehigh University riflemen,
12-2 on the season, placed fourth
last weekend in NRA sectional
competition at Annapolis, Md.,
with 1,132 points. Navy was on
top with 1,181 and other Navy
teams   took   second   and  third.
Coach Henry Levin's Lehigh
sharpshooters claimed fourth
followed by Delaware, Penn State,
Harrisburg Poly and George
Washington.
Cotton Bowen's 290 paced
Lehigh's four-man team. John
Meincke had 289, Karl Bell 279
and Jim Redcay 274.
In the individual competition
Meincke led Lehigh with 289.
Bowen had 288 and earned a medal
as the No. 1 ROTC marksman in
the meet. Bell's 282 was No. 2
among the ROTC entries. Redcay
had 281 followed by Jim Leonard
and John Tiffert, each 275, and
Dan Breene, 272.
Haas First
In NY Run
Steve Haas won the mile witha
time of 4;24 as Lehigh finished
fifth with 16 points in the 13th
annual Union College Invitational
Track Meet Saturday at
Schenectady, N.Y.
Cortland State, N.Y. captured
the team title with 35 points followed closely by Amherst with
33 1/2. Springfield and RPI tied
for  third  with  19  tallies each.
Other Engineers who placed
were Al Banes, fifth in the pole
vault; Jack Doney, runnerup in
the high jump, and Haas and Bob
Dietrich second and fourth,
respectively, inthe two-mile run.
JACK BENTZ of Lehigh controls Marty Poel during victory over
Pittsburgh., Bentz scored a fall in 7:03 to finish perfect (11-0-0)
dual campaign. Lehigh battered the Panthers, 25-12, for the Brown
and White's 24th consecutive winning season.