South Mountaineer Volume 11, Issue 22

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Vol. 11   -   No. 22
APRIL 7, 1969
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THLEHEM, PENNA.
Fortune Led Varsity Cagers
With 453 Pts., 292 Rebounds
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Bob Fortune, of Mechanicville
New York, paced Lehigh's varsity
basketball squad during the
recent season with an 18.8
scoring average and a record
number of rebounds.
The Engineers, coached for the
second season by Roy Heckman,
won seven times in 24 starts.
They were plagued all year by a
lack of height, Fortune being the
biggest man at 6-foot-5 and 225
pounds.
"I was proud of our squad,"
says Heckman, "because with the
kind of schedule we play you
simply can't overcome the
absence of size. We tried to do it
with aggressive, hustling man-
to-man defenses and attempts to
take only good shots. We had
very   few   follow-up   chances."
Lehigh, in addition to meeting
powerful teams within its Middle
Atlantie—Conference including
Temple, faced Pennsylvania,
Army, Colgate, Columbia, Boston
University, Rutgers and New
York University.
Fortune, a junior, scored 453
points in 24 contests and grabbed
292 rebounds to top Lehigh's
seasonal rebound mark of 286
set by Bob Lowman in 1967.
Despite being a marked man in
every outing, as his team's most
consistent rebounder and scorer,
he canned 168 field goals in 338
attempts for a .497 percentage.
He converted 117 of 166 free
throws, for a .704 mark, barely
missing another Engineer
record. The Lehigh seasonal
standard is 119, established by
Norm Brandl in 1960. He tied an
Engineer record with 14 foul
conversions during a 78-76 upset
of Bucknell. Bill LeClere had 14
against Gettysburg in 1956.
Sophomore Johnny Waters, of
Pottsville, Pa., ranked second in
scoring with 332 points and a 14.4
average for 23 contests. Waters,
picked on the scranton
Invitational all-star team during
December, shot .363 from the
floor and, .765 from the foul
stripe.
The Etra twins, Kenny and
Rick, of Great Neck, N.Y., finished third and fourth in scoring.
Ken pumped home 209 points and
Waldron, Roper
Pace LU Golfers
Mike Waldron and Hart Roper
totaled 320 to pace Lehigh
University in the 6th annual Gulf
American Intercollegiate Golf
Tournament at Cape Coral, Fla.,
last week. Captain John MacCrum
followed with a 338 for the
7 2-hole test.
The Engineers, who were in
28th place late in the tournament,
relinquished their bid for team
honors when Maury Sacks and
Rich Reese failed to finish.
Florida took first place.
Rick added 126. Both are
sophomores. Ken had the second
highest shooting average among
the regulars with a .443 mark
from the floor. He also was
second in rebounds, to Fortune,
with 118.
Others to break the century
mark in points were co-captains
Bob Bonow of Westfield, N.J.,
and Pete Albert of Harrison,
N.Y. Bonow notched 101 and
Albert, the team's top foul
shooter with an .820 mark on 32
out of 39 chances, had 100.
Lehigh scored 1,598 points for
a new Engineer standard, topping
a record of 1,506 set one year
ago. The seven victories came
over Susquehanna, Delaware,
Albright, Bucknell, Lafayette,
Franklin and Marshall, and
Rider.
Lehigh RapsDrexel, Rochester
St. Joseph's in First 3 Tests
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STAN   SCHULTZ
Lehigh and Army will resume
an old football rivalry in 1972
when they clash at West Point,
N. Y. The teams last faced each
other in 1911.
Victories over Drexel, 4-0,
St. Joseph's, 6-4, and Rochester,
11-8, added up to an auspicious
start for Lehigh's varsity baseball squad in its third year under
Coach Stan Schultz.
The Engineers, who didn't win
their third game of the 1968
season until more than halfway
through the schedule, looked the
part of a winning club in their
first three appearances.
Sophomores had a big hand in
the early success. Outfielder
Gerry Berger batted .333 in the
leadoff slot and made key defensive plays against Drexel and
St. Joe's. Catcher Rich Revta
did a strong job behind the plate,
third baseman Wayne Laitala was
steady and outfielder Jack Paget
was covering a lot of ground and
hitting the ball.
Fleck To Coach Varsity Soccer Squad
Tom Fleck, Jr., who directed
Lehigh University's freshman
soccer team to a perfect (5-0)
season last Fall, has been named
head coach of the Engineers'
varsity squad effective Sept. 1.
The appointment was
announced by William B.
Leckonby, director of athletics
at Lehigh.
Fleck will replace Gerry
Leeman, veteran wrestling coach
who guided Lehigh varsity
booters to a winning 6-3-2 campaign in 1968. Leeman, after one
year on the job, returns to his
former  post  as   mentor  of the
frosh squad.
The freshmen have an
abbreviated schedule, making it
possible for Leeman to take
charge of his varsity wrestlers
in late Fall. As varsity coach
soccer his return to the grapplers
was delayed.
NOTICE
There will be no issue of
the South Mountaineer next
week. Publication resumes
April 21.
Lacrossemen Jolt Bowdoin,
Lose to Penn; Turner Shines
Tim Turner, an all-conference
attackman, tallied nine goals in
Lehigh's first two lacrosse tests
of the season as the Engineers
routed Bowdoin, 14-5 before
bowing to Penn, 14-2.
Turner scored six times in the
first half against Bowdoin, on the
Saucon Valley Fields, to give
Lehigh a 9-3 advantage at the
intermission.
This game, played in a chilling
rain, found the Engineers scoring
on their first three shots for a 3-0
lead before Bowdoin had a chance
to attack. Bill Repko fired in
No. 1 and later added two more
for a 3-goal afternoon.
Goalie   Chip   Ludlum   starred
Coach's Comment
" Against Bowdoin we looked
like world-beaters. At Penn we
had trouble doing anything right.
A lack of experienced midfielders is causing problems.
It'll take time to get everyone
situated in the right spot."
. . . Jim Scible, lacrosse.
with 23 saves, turning Bowdoin
back on several point-blank tries
as the visitors from Brunswick,
Maine, attempted to stay within
range. One day earlier Bowdoin
had trimmed Lafayette, 9-4.
The Lehigh-Bowdoinbattle was
a rough one with 30 penalties, 16
against the winners, and one team
or the other usually playing
short-handed.
At Philadelphia the Engineers
fell behind 9-0 in the first half
before a pair of goals by Turner
in the third quarter averted a
shutout.
The summaries:
BOWDOIN 12    0     2    —     5
LEHIGH 4    5    4    1     --   14
Bowdoin goals; Fisher 3, Demenkoff,
Ervin. Assists:   Turner 2, Ervin, Jordan.
Lehigh goals; Turner 7, Repko 3, Suhr-
stedt   2,   Zink,  Gill.   Assists;   Souer  3,
Suhrstedt 3, Zink 3, Repko.
LEHIGH 0    0     2    0     —     2
PENN 5    4     2    3     —   14
Lehigh goals; Turner 2. Assists: Suhrstedt 2.
Penn goals: Boeing 4, Gastarini 3, J.
Klein, Hensel, Swanson, 1. Klein, Estes,
Bennett, Bessette. Assists: Bennett 4,
Boeing, 1, Klein, Rosengliok.
Fleck willcontinue as principal
of Lehigh's laboratory school for
elementary and secondary
students. The Centennial School
is part of the University's School
of Education and has a full-accredited curriculum which
emphasizes individualized instruction and unique approaches
to education. He has been
principal of the non-graded, lab
school   at   Lehigh   since   1967.
He was anAll-American inside
left while starring for West
Chester State College soccer
teams. A native of Philadelphia,
Pa., he graduated from West
Chester in 1958 and received a
Master's Degree from Temple
in 1960.
His 1968 Lehigh frosh squad
fashioned its perfect record with
the help of brilliant defense,
allowing only two goals in five
contests. The Little Engineers
blanked Penn, Rutgers and
Lafayette by 1-0 scores, and also
defeated Stevens, 2-1, and Keystone Junior College, 3-1.
Fleck played soccer until last
season, seeing action with the
Philadelphia Uhriks of the
American Pro League for three
years and also playing for the
Phila. German-Hungarians, the
Phoenix Sports Club and the V.E.
Sports Club of Philadelphia.
In addition he was picked to
perform on American all-star
units in meetings against teams
from Israel, Ireland and West
Berlin. He is a Pennsylvania
Interscholastic Athletic Assn.
soccer official and he served as a
volunteer assistant coach at
Abington, Pa., High School.
Scott Beeten, another soph,
established himself as the team's
top late-inning relief pitcher with
finishing performances in all of
the first three games.
Outfielder Tom Brereton, first
baseman Bruce Grim, shortstop
Keith McCrea and pitcher Steve
Rohrbach were leading a
contingent of veterans. Brereton
batted .444 and scored six times,
Grim had a .300 average with
five RBI's, McCrea's leaping
catch saved the day against
Rochester and Rohrbach pitched
two-hit, shutout ball for eight
innings against Drexel.
Second-baseman Charley
Lapihuska, the team captain, and
Craig Hofford, expected to be the
top hurler, were a little off the
mark during the first trio of contests. Hofford worked eight
frames to get the victory over St.
Joe's but he gave up 10 hits and
needed late help from Beeten.
Outfielder Dash Meeks, expected
to be the squad co-captain, didn't
report because of a heavy
academic schedule.
Against Drexel, in the opener,
the Engineers were clinging to a
2-0 advantage in the eighth when
the visitors loaded the bases and
threatened to jump ahead. Berger
ended the frame with a great
catch across the right field foul
line after a long run.
In the St. Joe's contest, which
was the first Middle Atlantic
Conference outing, a quick
retrieve and throw by Berger
cut down a runner at second base
as the Hawks fought from behind
in the late stanzas.
Rochester, trailing 10-8 in the
eighth, filled the bases with two
out. Mike Copanas then lined a
ball toward the alley in left
center only to have McCrea turn
in a sensational leaping stab to
end the inning and the comeback.
Grim was the big man at plate
against Rochester with five RBIs
on two singles, a sacrifice fly
and a home run. The homer,
Lehigh's first of the year, came
with a teammate on base in the
opening inning. He drove a ball
into the football stands in center
field.
Rochester   recovered,   moved
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Coach's Comment
" Winning those first three gave
everyone a lift. Our veterans
played well and the sophomores
were able to help at crucial times.
If our pitching holds up we should
do all right. Our hitting will
improve." . . . Stan Schultz,
baseball.
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