South Mountaineer Volume 41, Issue 24

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Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
March 24,1999
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Lehigh-Manhattan
The Lehigh baseball team
dropped three games over the
weekend as the Mountain-
Hawks fall to 3-11 on the season. On Saturday, Lehigh travelled to Manhattan for two
games. Lehigh fell to the Jaspers
18-3 in the first game. Junior
pitcher Kevin Post received his
third loss on the year. In the second game, Lehigh put up
a good fight but eventually lost 5-4. Sophomore
pitcher James Young recorded his second loss of
I the season.
| Lehigh-Wagner
On Sunday, the Mountain
Hawks hosted Wagner at
the Goodman Campus.
Lehigh fell 3-10 in the
first game and the second
game was cancelled due
to rain and will not be rescheduled. Junior pitcher
Phil Stambaugh received his second loss this
year. The Mountain
Hawks return to the diamond on Saturday to open its'
Patriot League season against
Bucknell. The squad will host
the Bison in a doubleheader on
Saturday and Sunday beginning
at noon on both days on the
Goodman Campus.
Saturday's Results
Game 1 vs. Manhattan
Score by innings:   R H   E
LU 000 000 3        3   8     3
MU 020 6 (10)0    18 14   0
LU Pitcher: Post (1-3)
MU Pitcher: Adams (3-0)
Game 2 vs. Manhattan
Score by innings:   R H   E
LU 010300 0        4   7     2
MU 000 201 2        5   11   0
LU Pitcher: Young (1-2)
MU Pitcher: Foley (3-1)
Game 1 vs. Wagner
Score by innings:   R H   E
LU 000 102 0        3   6   4
WU 000 280 0       10 14   3
LU Pitcher: Stambaugh (0-2)
MU Pitcher: Lucas (1-1)
Game 2 vs. Wagner
cancelled due to rain
Lehigh-Penn State
The Lehigh men's team fell
16-10 to #12 nationally-ranked
Penn State at State College, PA
on Sunday afternoon. At the end
of the first quarter, the Nittany
Lions led the way 6-2.
The Mountain Hawks
managed to out score
Penn State 6-4 in the second and third quarters
and tie the game at eight
points apiece. In the
fourth period, the
Nittany Lions proved too
tough for the Mountain
Hawks as it outscored
Lehigh 6-2 and notched
the victory. Lehigh was
led in scoring by Tim
McWilliams and Hernan
Zapata, who both netted
two goals each. The
Mountain Hawks' goalie
Todd Schreiner had 21
saves during the game.
With the loss, Lehigh
falls to 1-3 on the season.
The team opens its' Patriot
League season against foe
Bucknell on Saturday at 2 p.m.
at Goodman Campus.
Senior tri-captian John Van Doren takes fifth at NCAA tournament.
Grapplers named All-Americans
Joe Ryan
A tough Saturday afternoon
among the nation's elite did little
to diminish the superb effort by
Lehigh's three captains, who
claimed one fifth and two sixths,
to give the school its fifth Top 20
team finish in the '90s and (unofficially) our 46th in the 69th Annual NCAA Championships. The
Brown & White finished in 19th
place, with Pennsylvania unofficially Uth and Harvard 20th.
John Van Doren, who likes to
finish tournaments on a winning
note, scored a dominant 10-3 consolations final bout at 184 over
Indiana's Victor Sveda.
Van Doren scored two
takedowns in both the first and
third periods, adding 1:14 riding
time against the Hoosier. Sveda
enjoyed his own remarkable run,
with a Big 10 third place and 42-
5 season mark going into his bout
with Van Doren, with his prior
tourney losses to Nebraska's
Brad Vering.
For the Somerville senior, it
capped an incredible three year
run since his 12-15 freshman
year, as the only Lehigh wrestler
in years to complete four years
eligibility in four years. Since '96,
John finished with a 96-19 record
(.835 W-L) and NCAA third and
fifth place medals. His 35-4
record this year is the 2nd best
win-lost percentage (.897) in the
1990's for Lehigh, behind only
Matt Ruppel's 37-0-1.
Ryan Bernholz and Chris
Ayres each finished sixth, as
Bernholz lost 5-3 to Penn's
Brett Matter, for fifth, after dropping a 5-3 bout to Adam
Tirapelle. Bernholz finishes the
year 37-9, with his 72 career wins
a new Lehigh mark for the first
two years.
Ayres lost 4-3 to Brian Snyder
of Nebraska and Easton High
School, before his 2-1 loss on
riding time to #2 seed Chad Kraft
of Minnesota. Ironically, the fathers of Matter and Snyder
wrestled for Penn State. Ayres
finishes 31-10, creating the first
Lehigh trio ever to win 30 bouts
in the same season.
-Denny Diehl'70
Lehigh Trivia Records
and Recollections:
How often has a Lehigh team with
threeor more qualifiers gone to nationals and enjoyed a 100% return
rate in All-Americans? The best rates
in Lehigh history: 1980 (6-for-8 for
75%); 1965
(4-6 for '67%); 1956 (2-3 for 67%);
1992 (2-3);  and 1966 (4-7 for 57%).
This was the most Lehigh All-
Americans since 1983 and the most
for the EIWA since 1981 (also 8). The
last year the league had more was
1976 (9).
Penn (3 All-Americans) and
Harvard (2) had more than 1 All-
American for the first time.
Lehigh maintained its third place
standing behind only Oklahoma &
Oklahoma State with a remarkable
string of having at least 1 All-American in 42 of the last 46 years.
Eight EIWA ALL-AMERICANS
(most since 1981)
141 lbs: (2-time All-American)
#7 DUSTIN DeNUNZIO, Harvard 8-
2 over Derek Jenkins, Rider
then lost 5-3 to #10 seed Tony
DeAnda, Nebraska Consolations
WBF 4:28 over Gross, Cal Poly
3-2 over Perryman, Arizona St
6-3 over #8 seed Perry, Illinois
WBF 1:09 over #5 Damion Logan,
Michigan 4-3 t.b. in overtime over #2
seed Chris Marshall next (stall point
while riding in 30 second tiebreaker
period; Marshall had received stall
point with 0:03 left in regulation to
reach overtime and I ost 4-3 to #1
seed Mark Angle, Clarion St to claim
fourth place.
149 lbs  (All-American):
#5 seed BRETT MATTER, Penn
WBF 2:50 over Carter, Bloom
4-1 over Ryan Shapert, Edinboro
8-0 over Eric Schmiesing, Hofstra lost
7-2 to #1 seed T.J. Williams, Iowa
(semi-finals) Consolations
Lost 3-1 to #2 seed Reggie Wright,
Okla St 5-3 over Ryan Bernholz,
Lehigh to claim fifth place.
149 lbs (All-American)
11 seed RYAN BERNHOLZ, Lehigh
9-4 over Jeff Bucher, Ohio St
lost 11-2 to #6 seed Tony Davis, UNI
Consolations
6-3 over Dusty Coufal, Wisconsin
7-2 over #3 seed Oscar Wood, Oregon State 7-2 over Eric Schmiesing,
,Hofstra 14-3 over #4 seed Troy Marr,
Minnesota lost 7-3 to #7 seed Adam
Tirapelle, Illinois lost 5-3 to #5 seed
Matter, Penn to claim 6th place.
157 lbs (All-American) #11 CHRIS
AYRES, Lehigh 6-1 over Daryl Christian, Oregon 7-6 over #6 seed Jamie
Heidt, Iowa lost 5-3 to #3 Clint Musser,
Penn St, quarters (who reached the
finals, beating #2 Kraft, Minn) Consolations 5-1 over Boozer, Edinboro
6-5 over Weiner, Stanford lost 4-3 to
#5 Brian Snyder, Nebraska next, who
lost 1 -0 to #1 seed Casey Cunningham
lost 2-1 to #2 Kraft, Minnesota, whose
only loss was 2-1 tie breaker to
Musser in semi-finals.
165 lbs (All-American):
#7 JOEY KILLAR, Harvard
3-0 over   Drew Pariano, Northwestern   5-2   over   #10   seed   Rick
Springman, Penn lost 12-11 to #1 seed
Kirk White, Boise, St (quarterfinals)
Consolations 3-1 over Sean Morgan,
Oregon 3-1   over #6 seed  Mark
Samples, Edinboro lost 7-4 to Steve
Blackford, Arizona St lost 8-2 to #3
seed Don Pritzlaff, Wisconsin to claim
sixth place.
184 lbs: (two-time All-American)
#4 seed JOHN VAN DOREN, Lehigh
WBTF 19-4 over Josh Heffernan,
Ohio U 10-1 over Tom Grossman,
Oklahoma lost 3-2 to #5 seed Brad
Vering, Nebraska-quarterfinals
Consolations 7-0 over #6 seed Casey
Strand, Arizona St 6-3 over Andy
Hrovat, Michigan lost 9-5 to #3 seed
Vertus Jones, WVU 10-3 over #12
seed Victor Sveda, Indiana to claim
sixth place.
197 lbs: (All-American)
#2 seed Andrei Rodzianko, Penn
7-0 over Josh Schroeder, American
WBF 1:40 meet Jameel Abdullah, Boston lost 5-4 #7 Nick Muzashvili, Mich
St (TD in last 5 sec)-quarterfinals
Consolations 11-1 major decision over
Fenstermaker, Virginia 3-1  over
Neider, Northwestern WBF over #5
seed Chris Vike, C. Michigan (trailing
7-3 at the time of the throw)
lost 3-1 to Muzashvili, Michigan State,
to claim fourtth place.
285 lbs (All-American):
#10 Bandele Adeniyi-Bada, Penn
4-2 over over Can McGee, Cal Poly
lost 2-1 to #7 seed Derek Deiporto, S.
Rock Consolations 13-6 over Garay,
Boston     College,     14-6     over
Lingamfelter, Brown 6-3 over Kenny,
North Carolina lost 6-2 to Ornsdorff,
Oreg.   St   next  decision   Derek
Deiporto, Slippery Rock (Slippery
Rock's 1st All-American since 1983),
to claim eigth place for Pennsylvania..
Lehigh Invitational
The Lehigh softball team hosted
DelaWare, Villanova and St.
Joe's in the first-ever Lehigh Invitational at Patriot's Park in
Allentown on Saturday and Sunday. The Mountain Hawks went
winless over the weekend. The
Wildcats of Villanova took the
..tournament as it shutout St.
Joe's 8-0 in the championship
game. Lehigh and Delaware were slated to play inP
a consolation game, but it |
was cancelled due to rain.
The Lehigh (4-9) squad will I
return to the field onl
Wednesday against Rider I
at 2:30 p.m. on thel
Goodman Campus. Thel
team will kick off Patriot I
League action on Saturday I
at Colgate. The teams are I
scheduled for one game on |
Saturday at 1 p.m. and another on Sunday at 11 a.m |
in Hamilton, NY.
Tournament Results
Day 1 Sat. March 20
l»Si
Lehigh
1
St. Joe's
10
Delaware
2
Villanova
5
Lehigh
0
Delaware
3
Villanova
3
St. Jose's
3
Lehigh
2
Villanova
10
St. Joe's 2
Delaware
20
Dav 2 Sun.
March 21
Lehigh
6
Villanova
14
Delaware
5
St. Joe's 6
ChamDionshiD Game
St. Joe's 0
Villanova
8
Lehigh-St. Joe's
The Mountain Hawks improved to
2-2 on the year, and Emily Stearns
was named Patriot League Player of
the Week for her performance over
the weekend. On Sunday, Lehigh defeated St. Joe's on the Goodman
Campus. The Mount-ain Hawks
outscored the Hawks 8-3 in the first
and scored eight more goals in the
second period to give Lehigh the win.
Lehigh was led in scoring by
sophomoreEmily Stearns,,
who netted a career high nine
goals. Junior Christina
Eberhart had four assists for |
the Mountain Hawks. On Saturday, the team hosted #161
nationally ranked Boston. In
the first half of action, Boston
-outscored Lehigh 7-5 and
never looked back as it added
10 more goals in the second
half of play. Lehigh junior goalie
Victoria Griffing had 27 saves
for the Mountain Hawks but]
proved not to be enough as]
Boston outshot Lehigh 46-20. |
Stearns led the way in scoring as she notched five goals I
for Lehigh. The lacrosse team |
opens its' Patriot League season against preseason]
league favorite Colgate. The
game is slated for 1 p.m. on |
the Goodman Campus.