South Mountaineer Volume 32, Issue 22

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Volume 32, Number 22
March 7,1990
Bethlehem, Pa.
Lehigh advances to ECC final
Two close wins
highlight weekend
By TOM JAMES
South Mountaineer
Lehigh held off a tough Drexel ballclub Saturday
night, then won a free-throw shooting duel with Bucknell
Sunday afternoon to advance to Tuesday's East Coast Conference championship game at Towson State.
The game marks the second time in three years Lehigh
will face Towson in the finale. This year, the Tigers are 17-II
12.
The heroes both days were senior guard Scott Layer
(Hatboro, Pa.) and sophomore forward Bob Krizansky
(Hazleton, Pa.). Layer hit the winning shot in the waning
seconds against Drexel and Krizansky scored 45 points over
the two games.
Sunday. Krizansky had 24. including 15 in the first
half, in guiding the Engineers (18-11) over Bucknell 73-67
in the semifinals. Senior center Tom Martin (Holland, Pa.)
tallied 10 and led the Brown and White with 11 rebounds,
and Layer handed.out a career-high 10 assists while scoring
just two points—free throws with 28 seconds left that gave
LU what proved to be an uncatchable four-point edge.
Meanwhile, Bucknell senior guard Mike Joseph, the
number-one free-throw shooter in the country (93.2
percent), missed the front end of a penalty situation with 18
seconds left and his team six points behind.
Senior Mike O'Hara (Springfield, Pa.) sandwiched two
pairs of free throws around the Joseph miss to help seal the
win.
Free throws made a big difference all day long. The
Bison (15-14), fourth in the nation as a team (77.1 percent),
shot just 60 percent on the afternoon, 54.5 percent in the
second half. They missed three of their last five one-and-
one situations and ruined their hopes of repeating as ECC
champions.
Lehigh, meanwhile, flicked in 25 of 30 (83.3 percent)
foul tries: Krizansky was 9-11 and junior guard Mike
Bob Krizansky scored 45 points in Lehigh's first two ECC
tournament games, and was named to the ECC First
Team. Photography by JOE RYAN
O'Hara 8-9. O'Hara finished with 14. Dozie Mbonu (Philadelphia, Pa.), who had nine points and six boards, nailed two
bonus throws with 6:50 left to give LU their 15th lead of the
day, 60-59; they neither trailed or were even again.
After Jay Hipp* (Alexandria, Va.) and Bison senior
forward Greg Leggett each sank two throws, Engineer senior
reserve guard Peter Rudman (Highland Park, 111.) tossed in a
25-foot right-wing bomb to sink Bucknell four points deep
with 4:56 left and give Lehigh breathing room it couldn't
find most of the weekend.
Saturday night, Layer hit a jumper driving along the left
baseline with four seconds left to give the Engineers a 76-75
quarterfinal win over Drexel.
Lehigh got 21 points from Krizansky, a career-high 18
from Rudman including three of LU's six treys, and a lot of
gift-wrapped points from Drexel in a 76-75 quarterfinal
victory.
Drexel, led by 17 points from back-up junior forward
Art Clark and senior guard Todd Lehmann's 16, went ahead
75-74 on two free throws by Clarence Armstrong with : 11 to
go.   After Lehigh called timeout. Layer dribbled down the
left sideline. In the left corner, he cut to the basket and let go
a 12-footer, falling forward, that sliced through the net and
gave Engineers the win.
Krizansky, again registered a 15-point first half, seven
coming in a 16-4 run over the last 6:30 that lifted the
Engineers into a 38-38 halftime tie. He also gave out all four
of his assists in the first 20 minutes.
The Dragons turned the ball over 10 times in the first
half to just three for Lehigh. That negated a 22-12 rebounding edge (10-2 offensive) and kept a hot-shooting Engineer
squad (57.1 percent and eight of their last 11) in the game.
Oh, there was Rudman. too. He swished seven of 10
shots on the night, and his perimeter exploits made an
impact. His three with 10:50 left gave Lehigh a 59-58 lead
and triigered an 8-1 streak (the,Engineers stayed in front
until the final minute). Another Rudman bomb, from the left
corner at the 8:34 mark, capped the run and made it 64-59.
HOOP SCOOP: Lehigh's game with Towson was to
be broadcast live by ESPN, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The
game was one of 23 championship contests the all-sports
network was to broadcast this week. If Lehigh advances to
the NCAA tournament, it will be the Engineers' third trip in
six seasons. Coach Dave Duke was named ECC Coach of
the Year while Krizansky was named to the first-team all
star squad. Mbonu was tabbed to the second team.
Delaware ends Lehigh season with 69-63 win
Bv MARC GESUALDO
South Mountaineer
They say all good things come to an
end and that Mt home in a terrible way
for the women's basketball team on
Sunday night.
After an 81-63 victory over Rider
on Thursday in the opening round, of the
East Coast Conference post-season
tournament, the second-seeded Engineers lost a 69-63 decision to Delaware
at the Towson Center, ending the team's
hopes of an ECC championship.
Lehigh suffered from poor.
shooting—to the tune of 5-28 for 21.4
percent in the first half and 30.2 percent
for the game. Delaware outrebounded
Lehigh 56-31 as three Blue Hen players
reached double figures in that category
led by Sharon Wisler's 16.
The game also marked the end of the
careers of Jeanne Mooney (Collingswood,
N.J.) and Sherie Androlewicz (Turnersville,
N.J.) in Lehigh uniforms. Though they led the
team with 17 points apiece, it was a harsh end
for the seniors-Mooney was just 3 of 11 from
the field while Sherie A. made good on just six
of 22 shots.
"We didn't get into our game at all
today," Androlewicz said. "We kept our
hopes up and we didn't throw in the towel but
things just didn't work out."
The Engineers did indeed make a game
out of what seemed to be a blowout.' Lehigh
trailed by 18 points at the half. Delaware then
extended the lead to 50-27 with 14:08 left in
the game and appeared to have things wrapped
up.
But Lehigh went on a 20-8 run to reduce
the deficit to 58-47 with over eight minutes to
go. After Delaware built the lead back up to
13 points with 3:23 to go, Lehigh went on a
10-2 run to get it down to 68-63 with :21
seconds left.
Androlewicz then stole the ball with 15
seconds to go, but Mooney missed a subsequent three-pointer and the game was history.
"It's a disappointing way to end the
season," said head coach Jocelyn Beck.
' 'We're very proud of them and we really
reversed from last year."
Beck certainly did an impressive job in
her first year as coach and she feels the team
has a lot to look forward to despite the
graduation of Mooney and Androlewicz.
"We're gonna keep it going into next
year," Beck said. "We'll have good leader-
INSIDE
Sherie
Androlewicz,
Lehigh's all-
time leader in
scoring and
assists, was
named East
Coast
Conference
"Player of the
Year."
see page 3
ship with Sandy (Hume), Jen
(Siemaszko), Wendy (Taylor), and Lori
(Lynch) so we' re in good shape."  ■
In winning the contest Delaware
advanced to its second straight ECC
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