South Mountaineer Volume 32, Issue 20

              Volume 32, Number 20
February 21, 1990
Bethlehem, Pa.
Lehigh cagers grab first place
Win over Lafayette gives Lehigh lead in ECC
3y TOM JAMES
bouth Mountaineer
Lehigh's super soph forwards Dozie Mbonu and
Bob Krizansky led the way again as the Engineers
downed Lafayette 69-65 Saturday night before 4,830
at Stabler Arena and claimed first place in the East
Coast Conference.
Krizansky (Hazleton, Pa.), on the heels of a career-high 32-point performance that landed him ECC
Player-of-the-Week honors, scored 10 points and had
13 rebounds, tying another career best, and gave out
six assists. Mbonu (Philadelphia, Pa.) scored 17 points
and had 11 rebounds.
Senior point guard Scott Layer (Hatboro, Pa.) had
four assists and tied assistant coach Mike Polaha's
Lehigh career record of 426.
The 4,830 spectators, the largest on-campus
crowd to ever watch an ECC game, witnessed Lehigh
win its seventh game against four defeats and assume
sole possesion of the conference lead.
This the latest Lehigh has ever held the conference lead in any season. Also, the triumph was the
Engineers' 15th overall. Only Lehigh's 1988 NCAA
Tournament squad won more games (21).
Senior center Tom Martin (Holland, Pa.) contributed 11 points and six boards to the Engineer cause.
Lehigh came back after trailing 10-3 at the start to
go up 32-29 at the half. Mbonu had 10 points,
including four in a 9-2 spurt that tied the game at 12
with 12:38 left in the first half. Krizansky went to the
intermission with eight points.
The reserves claimed the second half for themselves. Navy transfer Neil Fenton (Latrobe, Pa.) had
four of his six assists in the first half, but scored all
eight of his points in the second. Sophomore forward
Jerome Hipps (Alexandria, Va.), who had registered
three consecutive career-high scoring performances,
tallied seven straight points and highlighted an 18-4
run that gave the Engineers their biggest lead. 57-42,
with 8:14 left.
Hipps has earned the plaudits of Lehigh head
coach Dave Duke.
See MEN S BASKETBALL page 2
Forward Dozie Mbonu goes in for two
of his game-high 17 points in Lehigh's
69-65 victory over Lafayette at Stabler
Center. Mbonu pulled down 11
rebounds, second only to teammate
Bob Krizansky's 13, to maintain his
conference lead in that category.
Photography by YOUNG HONG
Lehigh women clinch
home playoff opener
By MARC GESUALDO
South Mountaineer
As the East Coast Conference tournament approaches, Lehigh's women's basketball team has
to be pleased with its situation heading into the
final 10 days of the season.
Last Saturday night at Stabler Arena, the
Engineers ran past Lafayette, 72-53, and clinched a
home playoff game on March 1 in the process.
The win completed another 2-0 week for Lehigh,
following the team's 76-63 victory over Delaware
Wednesday night.
The Engineers raised their record to 17-7
overall and 9-2 in the ECC, good enough for sole
possession of second place in the conference. The
Engineers' 17 wins is tied for the third most
victories in Lehigh history.
The Lafayette game started out much like the
Inside:
first meeting between the two teams.
The Leopards got out to a 12-6 lead
against a sluggish Engineer team, and
Head Coach Jocelyn Beck quickly called an early
timeout.
"We talked about making defensive adjustments and
getting a little more aggressive," Beck said. "I didn't
want us getting down by as much as we did in our first
game against them." (Lafayette led by as much as 17
points in the first half of that game).
The timeout proved to be vital for Lehigh, and a
Sherie Androlewicz (Turnersville, NJ.) three-pointer
several minutes later tied the score at 18. The Engineers
then closed the half on an 18-8 run to grab a 10-point lead
at halftime.
"We were still stern with the team at halftime,
though," Beck said. "We know that Lafayette's a good
team and that they're capable of coming back just like we
Segei Beloglazov,
right, former Soviet
wrestling great and
new Lehigh
assistant coach,
watches his first
American collegiate
meet along with his
two children. Lehigh
coach Tom Hutchinson is at left.
See page 3 for
Penn State dual
meet story and
feature on
Beloglazov's
arrival.
Photography by YOUNG HONG
did in the first game."
The Engineers, however, ended any thoughts
of a Leopard comeback by opening the second half
on a 16-2 run to blow the game open at 52-28.
Lafayette could get no closer than 16 points the rest
of the way.
Sandy Hume (Whitehouse Station, NJ.) tied
her career high for points by scoring 25 and pulled
down a game-high 11 rebounds. She added 10
points and 10 rebounds in the Delaware game to
help her earn East Coast Conference Player of the
Week honors.
Though the bulk of the scoring came from the
seniors, Lehigh received strong performances from
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