South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 16

              Cagers Shoot For   MAC Crown
Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh 'University Alumni Association
Vol. 12 - No. 16
FEBRUARY 16, 1970
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Wrestlers Trample Army, 30-5
Engineer Quintet Has 6-1
Loop Mark; 3 Games Left
Shaking off a 3-game losing
streak with a victory over
Gettysburg, 7 2-63, Lehigh University cagers were poised this
week for a bid to clinch first
place in the western section of the
Middle Atlantic Conference university division.
Coach Roy Heckman's team,
11-10 overall and 6-1 in the
league, has crucial road tests
scheduled at Lafayette on Wednesday, Feb. 18, and Delaware on
Saturday, Feb. 21.
The tenth, and final, loop attraction is slated for Tuesday
night, Feb. 24, in Grace Hall
when Lafayette comes to town
for a second meeting with the
Engineers.
Big Bob Fortune led the way
against Gettysburg with 25 points
and 18 rebounds as the Engineers
bounced back following losses
at N.Y.U., 89-72, and Rider,
65-61.
Fortune was also the point
pace-setter against Rider, with
17, while Johnny Waters led the
team  against     N.Y.U.  with  19.
The setback at Trenton, N.J.,
to Rider, was Lehigh's first in
conference play following five
victories. The Engineers battled
back from a 20-8 deficit tomove
out front in the second half,only
to fall back again and find the
score deadlocked at 55 with five
minutes remaining. Rider sank
10 free throws to conclude its
scoring.
Against Gettysburg the Engineers also needed a come«
from-behind effort, after falling
behind by nine points in the first
half, to prevail. The Lehigh quintet took charge after the intermission and Gettysburg tumbled
to its eighth loop loss in eight
tries. Water helped with 16 points
and Scott Beeten and Ken Etra
each had 11.
Against N.Y.U., in New York,
the Engineers suffered a cold
spell during the first half and
never could recover. Twice they
cut the Violets' lead to 12 points,
after   halftime,   but   each  time
N.Y.U. managed to wage a successful counter-move.
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Varsity Skaters
Shut Out MIT
Lehigh's skaters blanked
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4-0 for their sixth win of
the season.
Scoring for Lehigh were Bruce
Frail, Don Brockway, Bill
Tredway and Amy Jarmak.
Engineers with assists were Paul
Guilfoyle, Steve Horner, Doug
Paige, Bill McCarty and Tredway.
Lehigh goalie Marty Matijasick
made 15 saves and MIT goalie
Ken Lord made 29.
The summary:
Lehigh 1     2    1--4
MIT 0    0    0--0
Lehigh goals: Frail, Brockway, Tredway, Jarmak. Assists: Guilfoyle, Horner,
Paige, MfCarty, Tredway.
MAC Basketball.
Western Section
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L
P. C
Lehigh         6
1
.857
Lafayette    5
2
.714
Rider           6
3
.667
Delaware    3
4
.428
Bucknell     3
5
.375
Gettysburg 0
8
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REMAINING GAMES
Web., Feb. 18— Lehigh
at Lafayette, 8 p.m., Gettysburg at Delaware.
Fri., Feb. 20—Rider at
Bucknell.
Sat., Feb. 21 — Lehigh
at Delaware, 8 p.m., Lafayette      at     Gettysburg.
Tues., Feb. 24--Lafayette at Lehigh, 8 p.m.,
Delaware at Bucknell.
Bentz, Bacastow Score Falls
In Cadet Rout; Frosh Win
Jersey Alumni
Planning Dinner
Members of the Lehigh Alumni
Club of Northern New Jersey are
planning a special dinner in the
University faculty dining room
Saturday, Feb. 21, before attending a wrestling meet between
Lehigh and Penn State.
There will be a reception at
5 p.m. followed by dinner at
5:30.
Rich Bacastow and Jack Bentz
chipped in with falls last Saturday, and heavyweight Gary
Leinberger remained undefeated
and untied, as Lehigh wrestlers
battered Army before 3,400 fans
at Grace Hall, 30-5.
In a preliminary meet the
Engineer frosh turned back
Army's Plebes, 19-14. It was
only the second loss for the
Cadets in eight meets. ,
Coach Gerry Leeman's varsity, at home following five meets
on the road, recovered fully from
a setback at the Naval Academy
to make Army its seventh victim
in nine appearances.
The surprisingly-easy victory
clinched the 18th consecutive
winning season for Lehigh's
grapplers.
grapplers. They have four meets
remaining.
It set the stage for a climactic
collision in Grace Hall Saturday
night (Feb. 21) when Penn State,
conqueror of Navy last weekend,
imvades the Lehigh campus.
WLVT, Channel 39 of the
Bethlehem-Allentown area, and
WFIL, Channel 6 of Philadelphia,
Steele Runs 4:12 Mile
Tim Steele, Lehigh's MAC
cross country champion, turned
in the fastest mile in Engineer
track history during a triangular
test against West Chester and
East   Stroudsburg in the  ESSC
Coach's Comment
"Against Army we looked like
a pretty strong club and we all
know there can't be any kind of a
letdown with Penn State coming
into Grace Hall. I think we'll be
ready for them. We always seem
to do our best against that kind
of opposition, especially at
home.". . . Gerry Leeman,
wrestling.
Swimmers Dunk 2 Rivals
Frank Warner, Bob Sine and
Pete Harding led Lehigh
swimmers to victories over
Columbia, 6 2-37, and Gettysburg,
6 2-32, bringing the seasonal
record to five triumphs against
three defeats.
Engineer freshmen defeated
the   same   opponents,  Columbia
66-25 and Gettysburg 54-44.
In the Columbia meet Warner
was on two winning relay teams
and won the 200 backstroke. Sine
anchored the 400 freestyle relay
team and took the 200 freestyle.
Harding  set  a  pool   mark at
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fieldhouse.   He  finished first in
4:12.0.
Another individual winner for
the Lehigh squad was John Hill
with a shot put effort of 50 feet,
4 3/4 inches. It was a fieldhouse
Shot put—1. Hill (L); 2. Pavelic (WC);
3. Derwin (L); 4. Jaros (WC). Distance:
50 ft., 4 3/4 in. (fieldhouse record).
Pole vault—1. nalton (WC); 2. Rohrbach
(L); 3. Harris (L). Height: 12 ft., 2 in.
(fieldhouse record).
High jump—1. Dalton (WC); 2. Hery
(WC); 3. Rogers (ES); 4. Boney (L).
Height;   6   ft.,   8 in. (fieldhouse record).
70 high hurdles--1. Lehman (WC); 2.
Rogers (ES); 3. Rauenzahn (ES); Time:
0:08.9 (fieldhouse record).
Mile—1. Steele (L); 2. Lerch (WC);
3. Strockbine (L); 4. Zinn (WC). Time:
4:12.0 (fieldhouse record).
1,000—1. Shank (WC); 2. Grube (WC);
3. Carney (L); 4. Weikert (ES). Time:
2:17.8.
60--1. Kizer (ES); 2. Oakes (WC);
3. Krouse (WC); 4. Summa (L). Time:
0:6.4.
600--1. Ahouse (ES); 2. Gulash (L);
3. Smith (WC); 4. Weiler (WC). Time:
1:12.8 (fieldhouse record).
300--1. Kiser (ES); 2. Oakes (WC);
3. Krouse (WC); 4. Summa (L). Time:
0:31.9 (fieldhouse record).
2-mile—1. Lerch (WC); 2. Nicholas
(L); 3. Stouffler (WC); 4. Norchi (ES).
Time: 9:26.8 (fieldhouse record).
2-mile relay--l. West Chester (Zinn,
McDonnel, Grube, Shank). 2. Lehigh.
Time: 8:00.9.
Mile relay—1. ESSC (Rogers, Weikert,
Morrissy, Ahouse). 2. West Chester,
Time: 3:27.9 (fieldhouse record).
mark.
West Chester won the meet with
62 points against 33 for Lehigh
and   29   for   East  Stroudsburg.
Coach's Comment
" We're at the most important
part of our schedule and we'll
need strong efforts from everyone over the next few games.
Naturally we hope to control the
boards and that puts special loads
on Bob Fortune and Greg
Falkenbach. They've been equal
to the task so far.1'. . . Roy
Heckman, basketball.
will tape the meet for showing
Sunday (Feb. 22) evening.
Bacastow and Bentz clinched
the Army meet with their falls,
giving the Engineers a 21-5
margin with three bouts remaining. Bacastow flattened Bob
Powers in 7:42 at 158 pounds and
Bentz, looking the part of a two-
time EIWA champion, disposed
of Jerry Williams in 1:56 of
their 167-pound clash.
Victorious via decisions were
126-pounder Dick Meyer, 6-3
over Scott Patten; 134-pounder
Dave Icenhower, 13-6 over Mike
Mullady; 150-pounder Herb
Campbell, 3-0 over Bill McBeth;
177-pounder Steve Shields, 11-3
over Ray Ritacco; 190-pounder
Scott Christie, 4-1 over Joe
Ferraro, and Leinberger at
heavyweight, 13-5 over Kurt
Meyer.
Lehigh's other two points were
provided by 142-pounder Jay
Leeman as he struck back in the
final seconds of a thrilling bout to
reverse Bill James of the Cadets
and get a well deserved draw,
10-10.
Army's only winner, 118-
pounder Larry Baltezore, came
from behind in the final period to
down Ricky Mitzner, 8-5.
Engineer lightweights, who had
fallen behind 16-0 at Navy, redeemed themselves against
Army. They gave the team an
8-5 advantage after the first four
bouts and Lehigh won every
additional test.
Lee man's Big Four of Bentz
(8-1), Campbell (8-1), Leinberger (9-0) and Shields (6-1-2)
had little difficulty. Only
Campbell, who always seems to
draw tough opposition, was
threatened. McBeth, the Army
captain, rode the star sophomore
the entire third period but
Campbell prevailed with a near-
fall in the second.
Leinberger,     meeting a man
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Wrestling Fans To Gather
The Lehigh Home Club and the
Penn state Club of Northampton
County are sponsoring a joint
alumni meeting at Hotel Bethlehem Friday, Feb. 20, the night
before the annual Lehigh-Penn
State wrestling meet.
The get-together will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the Candlelight
Room. Coaches Gerry Leeman
and Mike Caruso of Lehigh and
Bill Koll and Rich Lorenzo of
Penn  State     will  discuss     this
year's teams and their freshman
prospects. Movies of last year's
Eastern Tournament will be
shown.
Reservations may be made by
contacting either Lee Barthold
of The Lehigh Home Club at
694-5857 or Ted Hardy of The
Penn State Club at 694-5481. All
alumni, wives, and friends of
wrestling in the Lehigh Valley
are invited.