South Mountaineer Volume 23, Issue 13

              Vol. 23 — No. 13
DECEMBER 16, 1980
BETHLEHEM, PA.
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I        DEC 1980 J
E. Ky. Edges Lehigh Gridders
Champions Rally To Fashion
23-20 1-AA Playoff Victory
Eastern Kentucky, the
defending 1-AA national football champion, rallied last Saturday to turn back a stubborn
Lehigh eleven, 23-20, before
11,500 spectators at Taylor
Stadium.
It was a 1-AA semifinal round
playoff encounter. In the other
half of the bracket Boise State
upset Grambling, 14-9. Boise (9-
3) and Eastern (10-2) meet for
the 1980 national title Saturday
at Sacramento, Calif.
Lehigh, which bowed to Eastern in the 1979 championship
game at Orlando, Fla., 30-7, and
hadn't lost since, couldn't
escape a second loss at the
hands of the Colonels although
this time the Engineers were in
the game every minute of the
way.
Quarterback Larry Michalski, of Pittsburgh, Pa., put
Lehigh on the scoreboard first
with a 5-yard scoring pass to
tight  end  Paul  Anastasio  of
Camp Hill, Pa., ending a 33-
yard drive set up by Keith Con-
ley's interception and a 15-yard
penalty against Eastern. Conley, of Rockville, Md., picked off
the pass on Eastern's third play
from scrimmage.
Short pickups by halfbacks
Jim Evanko of Nazareth, Pa.,
and Joe Rabuck of Philadelphia, Pa., and fullback Bob
Romeo of New Providence N. J.,
moved the Engineers to a third-
and-goal, at the 5, and Anastasio
broke free in the end zone to
grab Michalski's aerial. Ted
Iobst, of Emmaus, Pa., added
the extra point and Lehigh was
out front early, 7-0.
Before the quarter ended
Eastern staged a 68-yard TD
drive of its own, with Alvin
Miller plunging the final yard,
but missed the extra point and
Lehigh remained ahead, 7-6.
Early in the second stanza an
11-yard sack by defensive end
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Power's Late Goal Shocks
Hofstra, 68-67, At Stabler
MIKE POWER
Sharpshooter
Mike Power, of Doylestown,
Pa., swished a25-footer through
the net with one second left to
play 12/9 giving Lehigh's basketball a 68-67 victory over Hofstra at the Stabler Athletic and
Convocation Center.
It also gave the Engineers a
gaudy 4-and-l record, their best
start in many years, and may
have laid the groundwork for
the team's most successful
campaign since the 1976-77
season.
This was a playbook triumph
for Coach Brian Hill's cagers
who took the ball out of bounds
with 34 seconds to play, trailing
67-66, and worked all but a couple of those seconds off the clock
before Power cut loose with his
game-winning looper.
It came just three days after a
surprising 55-53 upset of Navy,
at Annapolis, Md., and it proved
that victory over the Middies
was no fluke. Earlier the Engi
neers had defeated Lebanon
Valley, 89-60, and Moravian, 52-
49, while losing at Temple, 97-62.
The Navy and Hofstra conquests were doubly important to
the Engineers because they followed the 35-point setback to
Temple.
"Our players simply shook off
that loss," says Hill, "andcame
up with the finest back-to-back
pair of victories we've had in a
long time. It was very encouraging to all of us."
Following a holiday break
Lehigh returns to action with
successive home dates against
Lycoming (Jan. 3), Albright
(Jan. 7), Colgate (Jan. 10) and
Drexel Jan. 14).
Prior to Power's game-
winning shot against Hofstra
the Engineers had seen a first
half 9-point lead disappear and
turn into a 7-point deficit late in
the second. Lionel Harvey, a
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Game At A Glance
Kilrain, Burley Shine
LEHIGH 7 6   0 7—20
E. Ky  .6 7 10 0—23
L—Anastasio 5 pass from
Michalski. Iobst kick.
E—Miller 1 run. Kick missed.
L—FG Iobst 47.
L—FG Iobst 38.
E—Miller 1 run. Flores kick.
E—FG Flores 40.
E—Braxton 21 run. Flores
kick.
L—Rogusky 10 pass from
Michalski. Iobst kick.
Leh EKU
First downs  15 22
Net yds. rushing  88 195
Net. yds. passing  156 129
Total yards 244 324
Passses attempted 27 17
Passes completed  12 8
Had intercepted    0 1
Punts    6 7
Yards 224 245
Avg. distance 37 35
Fumbles    1 o
Fumbles lost     l 0
Penalties    3 9
Yds. penalized  15 73
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing
att net avg td
Braxton, E 20 84 4.2 1
Miller, E 14 79 5.6 2
Evanko, L 10 43 4.3 0
Rabuck, L 11 32 2.9 0
Romeo, L    8 29 3.6 0
Passing        att com int yd td
Michalski, L ...27 12   0 156   2
Isaacs, E 17   8   1 129   0
Receiving cgt yds td
Rogusky, L 6   96   1
Bird, E 3   61   0
Booze, E 3   48   0
Yeager, L 2   38   0
Anastasio, L 2   16   1
LEHIGH PLAYOFF SQUAD
(48-man NCAA limit)
Offense: Split ends-Yeager, Whalen.
Tight ends—Anastasio, Rogusky, Nikles.
Tackles—Greene, Scheuer, Palsgrove.
Guards —Miksiewicz, Fath, Garris.
Centers—Sitar, Morgan. Quarterbacks—
Michalski, Rambo. Halfbacks—Evanko,
Rabuck, Godbolt, Plucinsky, Tulskie.
Fullbacks—Romeo, Manion, Ahsler.
Defense: Ends—Crowe, J. Kowalonek,
Nielsen, Witte. Tackles—Szablowski, Titus,
Becker Sturn. Linebackers—Dorrow, Mercuri, Rarig, Iobst, Shigo, Rosen, Standorf.
Backs—D'Annibale, Marck, Conley, Macellara, Tuohey, Mills, Smith, O'Sullivan,
Verost, Ryan.
Colin Kilrain of Braintree,
Mass., and Darryl Burley of
Pemberton, N.J., gave Lehigh
wrestling fans a large consolation offering 12/8 as the Engineers were beaten by defending
national champion Iowa before
4,500 spectators at Stabler Center, 41-5.
Each of the Lehigh co-
captains faced a defending
NCAA title-winner. Kilrain
upset 177-pound king Ed Banach, 9-5, while Burley battled to
a 6-6 draw with Randy Lewis at
134.
Bobby Weaver, at 118, also
gave Lehigh fans reason to
cheer although he was outlasted
by Barry Davis of the Hawkeyes
in a 14-11 thriller. The little
Olympian, from Easton, Pa.,
simply didn't have enough
"horse" to fight off Davis in the
latter stages of the bout.
Otherwise Coach Dan Gable's
impressive visitors had little
difficulty wrapping up their
fifth dual meet triumph in five
outings while Lehigh, an earlier
victor over Wilkes, 24-18,
dropped to 1-1.
Burley, defeated by Lewis in
the 1980 NCAA finals, and twice
in other meetings, appeared
doomed once again as he trailed
5-2 in the third period. He reversed, however, yielded an
intentional escape with 36
seconds left and then bulled
Lewis to the mat for a takedown
and kept him there.
Kilrain, beaten by Banach in
118—Barry Davis, Iowa, dec. Bob Weaver,
14-11.
126—Mark Trizzino, Iowa, pinned Tom
Sloand in 1:26.
134—Darryl Burley. Lehigh, and Randy
Lewis drew, 6-6.
142—Lenny Zalesky, Iowa, pinned Frank
Vresies in 3:30.
150—Scott Trizzino, Iowa, dec. Tom Bold,
21-6.
158—Jim Zalesky, Iowa, dec. Benjy Dudek.
9-4.
167—Mike DeAna, Iowa, dec. Jim Reilly,
18-6.
177—Colin Kilrain, Lehigh, dec. Ed Banach, 9-5.
190—Pete Bush, Iowa, dec. Tom Hensler,
26-4.
Uhl—Lou Banach, Iowa, pinned Drew
Keiser in 0:20.
Referee—Mark Piven.
the 1980 NCAA semi-finals after
running up a big lead before
being shaken up and injured
during a fierce exchange, and
also the loser in a dual meet
encounter, came from behind
this time to knock off the
national champ.
With the score 5-5 in the third
period Banach was penalized a
point for stalling. Kilrain, leading 6-5, then muscled his rival to
the mat late in the bout, picked
up a time point and has his win.
He rode out the last 20 seconds
as every fan at Stabler stood
and roared and the final buzzer
resulted in a tremendous
ovation.
Davis, some seven or eight
pounds heavier than Weaver,
used this advantage to its fullest
extent in rallying from a 9-8
deficit in the final chapter to get
the decision.
None of Lehigh's other
grapplers, including unbeaten
Jim Reilly of North Wales, Pa.,
an EIWA champ up a weight at
167, could seriously threaten.