South Mountaineer Volume 26, Issue 21

              Vol. 16 - No. 21
MARCH 13, 1984
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Spring Sports Now Under Way
Lehigh Matmen 15th In NCAA
Santoro (5), Diekel (6) Gain
1984 All-America Status
Publishers
Teams On Southern Trips;
Message   J    Men's Tennis Tops Towson
Senior Rich Santoro and
sophomore Paul Diekel won All-
America honors as Lehigh
placed 15th in last week's 54th
NCAA Wrestling Championships, held at the Meadowlands
Arena, East Rutherford, N.J.
Santoro (Bethlehem, Pa.)
placed fifth at 126. It was the
third time the co-captain has
made Ail-American. Santoro,
the 1983 and 1984 EIWA champion, ends his Lehigh career
with an overall  mark of 60-19.
Diekel (Whitehall, N.Y.) fin
ished sixth at 190, earning All-
America honors for the first
time. Diekel recorded Lehigh's
only pin of the tourney, decking
Weber State's Ryan Western at
6:10 in the first round. Diekel
also suffered Lehigh's only fall,
to Nebraska's Bill Scherr, the
No. 1 seed and eventual champion, at 4:59 of their quarterfinal bout.
Iowa,   with   123.75   points,
notched   its   seventh   straight
national   title,   despite   losing
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LU Tourney Performances
RICH SANTORO-126 (5th)
Johnson (LSU) 10-5W
Morgan (Missouri) 8-5W
Foldesy (Cleve.St) 8-6W
McFarland (Michigan) . 4-19L
(Consolations)
Loomis (CS-Bkrsfld) 4-6L
Johnson (LSU) 11-7W
PETER YOZZO-142
Goodpaster (Port.St)  .... 9-6W
Giura (Wisconsin)  3-4L
JIM REILLY-167
McQuaide (Mass.) 14-2W
McCarthy (Indiana St)... 3-2W
Sargis (Mich.St) 12-3W
Carver (Fresno St)  6-9L
(Consolations)
Brugel (Penn St) 2-2,2-5L
PAUL DIEKEL-190 (6th)
Western (Weber St) 6:10W
McFadden (Bloomsburg) 7-3W
Scherr (Nebraska) 4:59L
(Consolations)
Giles (Boston Univ.) 3-2W
Blazeff (Mich.St)  6-9L
Beichner (Clarion) 3-4L
EIWA TV April 1
WITF, Channel 33 in Harris-
burg, will show the EIWA
tournament April 1 at 2 p.m.
Next Issue
There will be no issue of The
South Mountaineer next week.
Publication resumes April 9.
Dennis Diehl, assistant
executive director of the
Lehigh Alumni Assn.,
which publishes The South
Mountaineer, announces
that beginning with next
September's issues all
subscriptions will be
handled on a paid basis
only.
Previously alumni have
been able to receive the
paper free, through
second-class mailing, or
first-class mailing if they
wished to pay that cost.
Less than satisfactory
second-class postal service and a need to offset
some of the publication
costs were cited among
reasons for the change.
The Alumni Association's Board of Directors now will offer a
subscription rate of $10 for
one year, or $27 for a
three-year period. Forms
to subscribe will appear in
the issues of May 7 and
May 14, last of the 1983-84
series.
No renewals will be
accepted by phone but
questions regarding subscriptions may be phoned
to Diehl at 861-3136, area
code 215.
U.S.A. vs. Bulgaria April 3
Coca-Cola of the Lehigh Valley
has announced it will sponsor
the Coca-Cola Olympic Challenge Match between a USA
wrestling team and the Bulgarian Olympic team at 8 p.m. Apr.
3 in Stabler Center.
Richard Strain, president of
the Lehigh Valley-based bottling company says: "We are
committed to supporting our
local Olympic hopefuls by providing them with the best international competition prior to
the final trials." The Bulgarian
team has seven reigning medalists from the 1983 world
championships.
"In fact," he adds, "the preliminary match Apr. 3 at 6 p.m.
between Lehigh Valley and New
Jersey junior freestyle teams
also will be a good one featuring
many of the best high school
wrestling stars from the Valley
and nearby New Jersey area."
Headliners in the main event
will be Easton native Bobby
Weaver, 1979 World Cup champion (105.5) and former Lehigh
teammate Darryl Burley, a 1979
and 1983 NCAA champion. Mark
Lieberman, another ex-Lehigh
champion and an ABC radio network commenter for the '84
Games, believes both are top
candidates to make the Olympic
Team and win gold medals.
"Weaver is clearly a favorite
to make the U.S. team," he
says, "because Bobby has
defeated the reigning gold
medalist from the Soviet
Union." Lieberman also adds
while Burley is in the most competitive weight class in the U.S.,
Olympic Coach Dan Gable
believes Burley has great potential for international success
because of an important victory
over '83 World champion Victor
Alexeev of the Soviet Union.
Coca-Cola of the Lehigh Valley will distribute complimentary student tickets to the
Olympic Challenge Match.
They will be mailed to wrestlers
throughout the Lehigh Valley to
ensure that they will be able to
see this outstanding pre-
Olympic matchup.
In addition to Weaver and
Burley, other U.S. Team
members include former
Lehigh All-Americans Pete
Schuyler and Colin Kilrain in
addition to current Lehigh
wrestlers Rich Santoro, Jim
Reilly and Paul Diekel.
This week marks the beginning of the spring season, with
several teams already
under way.
The baseball team, coming
off an 18-12 campaign, dropped
its first two contests, to Armstrong State College of Savannah, Ga., by scores of 14-9 and
8-6. The diamond squad belted
five home runs in the twin bill,
including a grand slam and a
solo shot by sophomore Mark
Zlock (Newton, Pa.) in game
two. The team will complete a
10-game southern swing March
19 at Navy.
Also on spring trips are the
following squads: golf (in North
Carolina); men's tennis (one
match at Towson State, followed by five in Virginia);
women's tennis (three matches
in Florida); and track (in Bermuda). Men's tennis downed
Towson, 6-3.
Men's lacrosse opens its campaign March 14 at Salisbury
(Md.) State, while the women's
squad hosts Towson State
March 24. The Softball team
debuts in a home contest March
20 against Muhlenberg.
Women's Basketball 13-9
Lehigh's women's basketball
team completed a winning season on a disappointing note,
bowing 77-73 to American in the
first round of the East Coast
Conference playoffs. The squad
had a 13-and-9 record, 4-and-5in
the league.
Against American the Engineers fell far behind, rallied to
tie at 45-45, then lost as center
Ellen Silver of Hazlet, N.J., and
guard Patti Cutting of Rock-
ville, Md. ran into foul trouble.
The Eagles regained control of
the game and nailed down the
victory as Silver, after sitting
out eight minutes, fouled out
with four minutes left and Cutting followed two minutes later.
Shawn Steward of Columbus,
Oh., and Liz Feeley of Worcester, Ma., paced Lehigh with 16
points apiece and Cathryn Laydon, of Hamden, Ct, added 15.
The lineups:
LEHIGH
Feeley 8-0-0-16, Pietsch 1-4-4-6, Silver
3-3-4-9, Cutting 1-5-8-7, Steward 6-4-4-
16, Austin 1-0-0-2, Laydon 6-3-4-15,
Arbeiter 0-0-0-0, Ryan 0-0-0-0, Engelbert 1-0-0-2. TOTALS: 27-19-24-73.
AMERICAN
Smith 11-3-6-25, Hughes 7-2-5-16, Her-
shey 1-2-2-4, Diller 4-1-2-9, Thornton 5-5-
8-15, Rosenthal 2-0-0-4, Wilson 1-2-2-4,
Riley 0-0-0-0. Totals 31-15-25-77.
Halftime: American, 39-27.
Steward ECC All-Star
Shawn Steward of
Columbus, OH, an East
Coast Conference women's basketball all-star
last season as a freshman,
repeated this year.
She was chosen for the
second time after leading
Lehigh in field goals (138),
field goals attempted
(272), free throws made
(62), total points (338),
assists (111) and points
per game (15.3).
Ellen Silver, sophomore
center from Hazlet, NJ,
was the team pacesetter
in field goal percentage
(.560), free throws
attempted (91), rebounds
(222) and blocked shots
(86).
Freshman Amy Austin
of Nashville, TN, led in
free throw percentage
(.794), and Liz Feeley, a
sophomore from Worcester, MA, was first in steals
with 81.
SHAWN STEWARD