South Mountaineer Volume 26, Issue 20

              Vol. 16 - No. 20
FEBRUARY 28, 1984
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Lehigh, Third In EIWA Meet,
Qualifies Four For Nationals
Santoro, Reilly And Diekel
Win Titles; Yozzo Second
JIM REILLY
RICH SANTORO
PAUL DIEKEL
Women Ready For Playoffs
Shawn Steward and Ellen
Silver led the Lehigh women's
basketball team to a 75-64 victory over Bucknell as the Engineers ended their regular
schedule with a 13-and-8 record,
4-and-4 in the East Coast
Conference.
Steward, of Columbus, OH,
led the scorers with 22 points
and added 10 rebounds and nine
assists. Silver, of Hazlet, NJ,
had 17 points, eight rebounds
and six blocked shots. Patti Cut-
Johnny Engel was Lehigh's
first NCAA mat champion.
ting, of Rockville, MD, contributed 12 points.
The team moves into ECC
playoffs Thursday (March 1) at
Rider.
BUCKNELL
Giansello 1-2-2-4, Huebner 0-2-2-2, Rowland 0-2-2-2, Gates 0-0-0-0, Ladany 3-1-1 -
7, Travisano 1-2-2-4, Meyer 10-4-5-24,
Probst 3-2-4-8, Kirwin 0-4-6-4, Lisevick 3-
1-2-7, Johnson 0-0-0-0, Hume 1-0-0-2,
Farris 0-0-0-0. Totals: 22-20-27—64.
LEHIGH
Cutting 5-2-2-12, Steward 9-4-6-22, Engelbert 1-0-0-2, Radabaugh 0-0-0-0, Bassett
0-1 -3-1, Ryan 0-0-0-0, Baker 1 -1 -2-3, Laydon 1 -0-0-2, Feeley 2-0-3-4, Dantas 0-0-0-
0, Pietsch 2-0-0-4, Austin 3-0-0-6, Arbeiter
1 -0-0-2, Silver 8-1 -7-17. Totals: 33-9-23-
75.
Halftime: Lehigh, 44-37.
PETE YOZZO
There will be no issue of The
South Mountaineer next week.
Publication will resume March
12.
Four Lehigh wrestlers, three
of them crowned EIWA champions last weekend and one of
them a runnerup, will represent
the Engineers in the NCAA
championships March 8-9-10 at
The Meadowlands, East
Rutherford, NJ.
They earned their berths in
the 80th EIWA tournament, held
at the Naval Academy, in which
Lehigh placed third behind
first-place Navy and second-
place Syracuse.
Rich Santoro, of Bethlehem,
PA, won at 126 pounds. Jim
Reilly, of North Wales, PA, took
the 167-pound EIWA title and
Paul Diekel, of Whitehall, NY,
was first at 190. Peter Yozzo, of
Sayville, NY, was second at 142.
Lehigh's only other place-
winner in the EIWAs was Bernie Brown, of Bethlehem, PA,
fourth at heavyweight. The first
three finishers in each weight
class qualify for the Nationals.
Failing to place more than'
five men, including Brown and
the four finalists, was responsible for the Engineers' drop from
first to third place in the EIWA
standings. Last year, en route to
How They Placed In EIWA Test
First three in each weight class, plus three "wild card" coaches' selections, qualify for NCAA Tournament
118
126
134
142
150
158
167
177
190
HWT
CHAMPION
RUNNERUP
THIRD
FOURTH
FIFTH
SIXTH
Dave Crisanti
Princeton
Jim Peters
Navy
Tony Cotroneo
Syracuse
Rob Calabrese
Temple
*Marc Sodano
Wilkes
Rich Berlinghof
Yale
RICH SANTORO
LEHIGH
Dale Mills
Syracuse
Dave Marquis
Navy
*Doug Billig
Wilkes
Bob Arao
Cornell
Larry Kane
Columbia
Craig Dellorso
Navy
Nick King
Yale
Doug Castellari
Temple
Ted Lewis
Wm. & Mary
Brian Crane
Princeton
Chris Greer
Army
John Orr
Princeton
PETER YOZZO
LEHIGH
Dave Gable
F&M
*Don Schleicher
Navy
Mike Parietti
Army
Jack Bailey
Columbia
Pat Welch
Cornell
Ken Lynch
Yale
Kevin Bianchi
Navy
Bill Ehling
Princeton
Ken Taylor
E.Stroudsburg
Chris Kane
Columbia
Chris Aragona
Wm. & Mary
Mike Mankowich
Cornell
Bill White
Syracuse
Tom Jamicky
Wilkes
Tim Szymanski
Navy
Dan Sullivan
Army
JIM REILLY
LEHIGH
Mike DeGenova
Temple
Jim Reich
Navy
Scott O'Neill
Cornell
Bill Lubell
Columbia
Andy Taitel
Pennsylvania
John Zito
Syracuse
Tim Curry
Navy
Marc DeGennaro
F&M
Barry Bausano
Harvard
Ken Griffin
Cornell
Ron Woloweic
Columbia
PAUL DIEKEL
LEHIGH
Kurt Honis
Syracuse
Larry Cox
Temple
Kevin Brooks
Navy
Sean Wallace
Harvard
Mark Correll
Wilkes
Bill Hyman
Temple
Andy Schwab
Syracuse
Matt Boyle
Yale
BERNIE BROWN
LEHIGH
Dan Parietti
Army
Gary Giegerich
. Pennsylvania
the team crown, they placed
eight.
Lehigh wound up with 92
points. Syracuse totaled 95 and
the title-winning middies from
Navy, although forced to settle
for only one champion, placed
nine while accumulating 1WA.
Reilly, Lehigh's most impressive performer in the two-day
test, took the Fletcher award for
most career EIWA points and
the Sheridan award for most
falls in the least time, two in
5:35. Somehow he missed out in
the Outstanding Wrestler voting
to 142-pound winner John Orr of
EIWA TV Sunday
WLVT, Ch. 39 of the Lehigh
Valley, will telecast the final
round of the EIWA tournament
Sunday (Mar. 4) at 11 a.m.
♦Selected by EIWA coaches as "wild card" entry into NCAA Tournament.
Princeton despite his two falls,
a 13-11 victory over Navy star
Jim Reich in the semis and a 9-1
triumph over Mike DeGenova of
Temple in the finals.
The edge over Reich came in
the tourney's top bout, for
Lehigh spectators, as he
mauled the Middie star in the
third period to overcome a 7-2
deficit.
It was a disappointing weekend for coach Thad Turner and
his squad, finishing behind two
teams which they recently had
defeated in dual meets. It
started badly, with 158-pounder
Tom Toggas of York, PA, withdrawn by the Engineers at the
last minute because of a skin
infection, and it didn't get a
whole lot better.
Damian Butler, 118-pounder
from Cincinnati, OH, didn't
make weight Saturday. Brian
Yates, 134-pounder from
Clarksboro, NJ, seeded No. 1 in
his division, was upset in the
quarterfinals and again in the
first round of consolations.
Toggas, after receiving clearance from a physician at Annapolis, and from Naval Academy
doctors, to compete, was lifted
following a phone call from a
Bethlehem physician who
received test results Friday and
contacted Turner at the field
house.
Santoro, competing despite a
pinched nerve in his shoulder
which restricted his efforts, gutted his way through a very
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