South Mountaineer Volume 36, Issue 11

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Volume 36, Number 11
November 16, 1993
Bethlehem, Pa.
LEHIGHLIGHTS
ALLTHE HONORS
— Lehigh head
vol ley bal l coach Jack
Casteel was named
Patriot League
Coach of the Year
for guiding the
Engineers lo a 21-1.4
overall finish and the
league championship.
In addiiion.junior
Kclly Kramer was
named lo ihc All-
League First Team.
Kramer led the
Engineers wilh 386
kills during ihc
regular season and led
the league in kill
average. Senior
middle blocker
Nicole Miller.
meanwhile. was
named to the All-
League Second
Team. Miller led
Lehigh wilh 140
blocks during the
regular season and led
the league in block
averanc.
Kelly Kramer
m
Nicole Miller
HOT  TICKETS —
Tickets are still on sale lor Monday's NCAA
Division I Cross Country Championships.
Tickets arc $5.00 per person and include
admission to ihc men's I0K and women's
5K championship races as well as parking.
Tickets can be purchased til Lehigh's Taylor
Gym ticket office from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
For more information call 7LU-GAME.
WINTER OPENERS - The Lehigh
wrestling icam will hold its annual Wrcsilc-
OITs on Wednesday night at 7:30 at Grace
Hall. Also, ihc Lehigh men's basketball
. team opens its season on Thursday night at
7:30 wilh an exhibition game against the
Russian Select learn. For a preview of the
,1993-94 Engineers, see page 3.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
PL volleyball review 2
Basketball previews 3
LEHIGH-LAFAYETTE
Where to see it 4
Rules/policies 4
A capsule look 5
DID YOU KNOW?
Lehigh and Lafayette
will meet this Saturday for
the 129th time, making it
the most-played rivalry in
college football. The next
four are:
2.) Harvard-Yale 110
3.) Texas-Texas A&M-100
4.) Cal-Stanford   96
5.) Army-Navy    94
Volleyball wins Patriot League championship....see page 2
A showdown of infinite meaning
By GLENN HOFMANN
Sports Information Director
Never before has a Lehigh-Lafayette
game meant so much. That is a statement
which certainly will draw great debate.
But from a Patriot League standpoint
Saturday's 129th meeting at sold out
Goodman Stadium has an added
importance.
To the victor goes a Patriot League
Championship. If Lafayette wins they
are champions for the second straight
year by themselves. If Lehigh wins they
are at worst co-champions with Bucknell.
Should the Bison lose at Colgate then the
Engineers would be solo champions.
Up until two weeks ago Lehigh had
to be considered the favorite. But then
came the 32-27 loss to Bucknell. Now
it's the Leopards (4-0 Patriot League)
who many feel have the upper hand.
Lafayette has the No. I ranked
defense in the Patriot League while
Lehitih boasts of the No. I Patriot offense.
Scott Semptimphelter threw for a school record 480 yards last
in last year's battle against Lafayette. Photo by Joe Ryan
"Ever since I've been here we've been
able to score on Lafayette."' senior wide
receiver Dave Cecchini said. "Last year we
scored, but were unable to score in the red
zone (inside the 20-yard line). I think that
may be the-key to the game — how well we
execute inside their 20-yard line."
That proved to be the demise against
Bucknell two weeks ago when three times
Lehigh was inside the Bison 20-yard line yet
could only manage six points.
Defensively, head coach Hank Small
said Lehigh must rise to the occasion.
"Our defense has to play well." Small
explained. "We talked at the beginning of the
year about winning a championship because
of the defense. It hasn't happened yet. but if
you stay with your premise that defense wins
championships then ours has to step up."
One of the players who Small will be
counting on is senior linebacker Lance
Haynes.
"We feel if we stop Erik Marsh then we
will have gone a long way in stopping
Lafayette." Haynes said.
"I can still remember him
running all over the place
last year. He's a great back
and we need to do a better
job of controlling him this
year."
Marsh is already
the all-time rusher in
Lafayette history and is
averaging 122 yards per
game. 12th best in the
NCAA. Junior quarterback
Mike Talerico took over
for Jason Camevale when
Carnevale was injured in
the sixth game of the
season.
Lafayette's top
receiver is All American
candidate Craig Roubinek.
who is sixth in the league
in receiving and averages
3.4 catches per game.
Seniorlinebacker
Netfa Slaughter has six
sacks and averages over 10
tackles pergame. Lafayette
is ranked 13th nationally
in defense, seventh in
stopping the run, but 45th
against the pass.
Lehigh-Lafayette: By the numbers
A look at how
the Engineers and Leopards stack up statistic
ally through Week 10:
OFFENSE
PPG
RUSH YDS/G
PASS YDS/G
LAFAYETTE
25.6
166.3
202.4
LEHIGH
27.0
89.0
320.2
DEFENSE
PPG
RUSH YDS/G
PASS YDS/G
LAFAYETTE
17.5
| T!   ->
170.3
LEHIGH
32.2
227.6
239.5
That is where Lehigh will have to
capitalize. With legitimate All American
candidates Scott Semptimphelter and
Cecchini. "Air Lehigh" may have to strike
early and often.
Lehigh is 4-0 at home this season and
has won two of the last three games against
the Leopards. And for the senior players this
is the game of their life.
"I think it is." Cecchini said. "You always
say that you approach every game the same,
but in the back of your mind you're always
thinking about Lafayette, especially after
last year."
"Winning this game makes or breaks
your season." Haynes said. "It means even
more to me since it's the last game of my
career."
Idaho   vandalizes
Engineers, 77-14
Lehigh will still be playing for a Patriot
League championship this Saturday in
Bethlehem against archrival Lafayette, but
the Engineers didn't do a whole lot to prove
they're adequately prepared.
The Engineers traveled to Moscow,
Idaho on Saturday for a meeting with the
11 th-ranked Idaho Vandals and came home
on the short end of a 77-14 blowout.
It was the sixth-worst defeat in Lehigh's
110-year history and it marked the second-
most points ever allowed by an Engineer
football team.
And the normal ly-potent Lehigh offense
was shut down by an Idaho defensive front
that flashed a lot of speed and power.
"It's hard to do anything when you
can't do anything up front." said Lehigh
head coach Hank Small. "They
overwhelmed us up front. We had trouble
protecting Scott (Semptimpheltei\) and when
they knew the pass was coming, they really
brought it"
Idaho, a scholarship school which was
actually the #l-ranked Division I-AA team
after six weeks, scored touchdowns on all
eight of its first-half possessions, en route to a
56-7 halftime lead.
The only Lehigh scores of the game came
on a 29-yard run by Brian Klingerman in the
seeondquarterand a one-yard plunge by Raphael
Stillings in the third quarter.
Dave Cecchini became Lehigh's single-
season receiving leader with nine catches for
128 yards, giving him 79 catches for ihe season.
'Semptimphelter completed 19 of 34 passes
for 245 yards and. more importantly, left the
game in the third quarter in good health for ihe
Lafayette game.
Small said the entire team is physically
healthy forthe Leopards, save for a few humps
and bruises.
"Our pride is banged up more than
anythina." Small said.