South Mountaineer Volume 27, Issue 21

              Yozzo, Diekel 3rd; L U 9th
Vol. 27—No. 21
March 20, 1985
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Cagers Win America' s Heart
Wrestlers
InToplO
Led by AU-Americans Paul
Diekel (Whitehall, N.Y.) and
Peter Yozzo (Sayville, N.Y.),
who wrestled back for third-
place finishes, Lehigh marched
to a ninth-place showing in the
55th NCAA wrestling championships March 14-16 at The Myriad
in Oklahoma City.
Both wrestlers attained third
place with gritty triumphs over
foes to whom they had lost
earlier.
Diekel, seeded No. 4, pinned
Maine's Jim Durfee and decisi-
oned Northwestern's Regis
Durbin, the No. 9 seed, in the
preliminary rounds before losing a controversial decision, 4-4,
1-1, criteria, to Koln Knight of
Augustana (S.D.) in the
quarter-finals.
Diekel had no problem in his
next match with Knight, defeating him by 9-2 in the consolation
final for third place. On the way
to the match he downed Miami's
Mark Coleman, Weber State's
Ryan Western and Missouri's
Mark Cody.
Yozzo avenged two losses
after being made the victim of
revenge. After handling Ron'
Cantini of Michigan State and
Dave Zahoranski of Cleveland
State, Yozzo, seeded No. 6, was
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Lehigh Performances
BRIAN YATES—134
Mike Catania, (Syracuse) j(D-15 L^
PETER YOZZO—$2 (3rd)
Ron Cantini, (Michigan St.)  8-3"W
Dave Zahoranski, (Cleveland St.).. 7-4 W
John Orr, (Princeton) 2-11 L
(Consolations)
Chris Humphreys, (Brig Young) ... 4-2 W
Scott Wiggens, (Stanford) 8-6 W
Lew Sondgeroth, (No. Iowa) ..!.. 12-9 W
Kevin Dresser, (Iowa) 12-9 W
C.J. MEARS—150
Larry Disimone, (Trenton St.) 4-6 L
TOM TOGGAS—158
Kraig Walker, (S.Jose St.)..A 1:02 W
Glenn Lanham, (Tennessee) 2-3 L
PAUL DIEKEL—190 (3rd)
Jim Durfee, (Maine)  2:02 W
Regis Durbin, (N'western) 7-5 W
Koln Knight, (Augustana, S.D.) 4-4
 1 -1, crit L
(Consolations)
Mark Coleman, (Miami) 7-2 W
Ryan Western, (Weber St.) 11 -2 W
Mark Cody, (Missouri) 8-4 W
Koln Knight, (Augustana, S.D.) .... 9-2 W
(B&W Photo by ADAM SEVEL)
DAREN QUEENAN (12) goes up against college basketball's best
player, Patrick Ewing (33).
Spring Grid Begins Monday
The Lehigh football team,
under Head Coach John Whitehead, will begin spring drills
Monday, March 25, in preparation for Lehigh's 102nd season of
football.
The Engineers will open the
1985 campaign Sept. 14 at Taylor Stadium against Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
The 11-game slate includes
other homes games against
Connecticut, Rhode Island, William and Mary and Lafayette.
The Engineers will travel to
Princeton, Colgate, New Hamp
shire, Delaware, West Chester
and Bucknell. Note that the
West Chester game, originally
scheduled as a home contest,
will be played on the road.
The drills, to be interrupted
by Easter vacation, will wrap
up May 3.
Among the 30 letterwinners
expected to report are Lehigh's
four All-Americans, split end
RennieBenn (ShortHills, N.J.),
nose guard Wes Walton (Clos-
ter, N.J.), quarterback Marty
Horn (Short Hills, N.J.) and
center Dave Whitehead
(Bethlehem, Pa.)
Team Gains Media Spotlight
In Clash With No. 1 Hoyas
There are so many stories
within the story that it would
take a mighty lengthy piece—a
team diary, say, or a scrapbook
fat with clippings—to tell the
tale of the Lehigh basketball
team's first appearance in the
NCAA championship tournament.
Matched against the No. 1
team in the country, Georgetown, the Engineers gained the
attention and the admiration of
an entire nation.
It made Cinderella look like a
fairy tale. No.. .it made Cinderella look like something that
happens every day.
A crowd of 9338 and a nationwide ESPN television audience
watched Lehigh outscore Georgetown, 32-29, in the second half
to emerge from what had been
seen as the biggest mismatch
since David and Goliath just 25
points down.
Was it respectable, that 25-
point margin? Oh my, yes. The
Hartford Civic Center crowd
was impressed by Lehigh's
second-half poise, as were a
legion of writers and broadcasters delighted with the notion
that a team of articulate non-
scholarship players—young
men who play because they love
to play—could perform on and
off the court in such a pressure-
cooker and emerge, as a New
York Times headline put it, "with
pride intact."
All in all, the team and the university were quite literally in
the very focus of the national
spotlight.
It was everybody's favorite
pre-tournament story, including Sports Illustrated, which sent
writer Alexander Wolff and photographer Heinz Kluetmeier
along with the team, to record
from the inside the experiences
of Head Coach Tom Schneider
and his charges. Wolff and
Kluetmeier were as team
members, always there, noting
and shooting, and enjoyed their
time with the team, as the team
enjoyed having them there.
As for the game, this was not a
contest that the Hoyas, defending national champions and prohibitive favorites to repeat,
could afford to lose. And surely
they did not.
But just as surely, Lehigh was
the winner.
Mike Polaha (Allentown, Pa.)
showed the world what the East
Coast Conference already
knew. The ECC tournament's
most valuable player scored 20
points against the Hoyas, playing with poise all the way and
shooting 6-for-10 from the field
in the second half.
Daren Queenan (Norristown,
Pa.) shot 9-for-10 from the line
and grabbed seven rebounds.
Don Henderson (North Huntingdon, Pa.) handled the unenviable (hey, unbelievable, really)
task of matching up with
Patrick Ewing with guts. Henderson didn't have much to show
for it, if you don't think four
points, a season worth of experience, and a lifetime of proud
memories is much.
There are more names—
everybody played and everybody was part of this team's most
important game in history. Not
important because it was a
chance to advance in the tournament. Odds had been quoted at
100,000 to 1 against Lehigh going
all the way. And those odds were
probably right.
Important because of whole
picture. The exposure for the
university. The exposure for a
hard-working group of coaches
and players. The pride of
Lehigh was affirmed before the
world.
The game was part of it. The
way the team members handled
themselves was part of it. The
East Coast Conference champions strode through the land of
the giants with heads unbowed,
with pride intact.
Georgetown 68, Lehigh 43
Lehigh: Daren Queenan 2-9-13, Paul Wickman 0-0-0, Don Henderson 2-0-4, Mike
Androlewicz 1-0-2, Mike Polaha 9-2-20,
Tim Russell 0-0-0, Ken Greene 0-0-0, Sea-
mus Dowling 0-0-0, Vernon Doswell 0-0-0,
Bill Cheslock 0-2-2. Ron Gregory 0-0-0.
Gregory Martin 0-2-2, Erick Bronner 0-0-0,
Victor McKay 0-0-0, Joe McGarvey 0-0-0.
Totals 14-15-43
Georgetown: Bill Martin 3-4-10, Reggie Williams 7-0-14, Patrick Ewing3-5-11, Michael
Jackson 4-2-10, David Wingate 6-2-14,
Perry McDonald 2-1-5, Horace Broadnax
0-0-0, Ralph Dalton 1-0-2, Grady Mateen
0-0-0, Kevin Floyd 0-0-0, Ronnie Highsmith
0-2-2, Tyrone Lockhart 0-0-0. Totals: 26-
16-68.