South Mountaineer Volume 24, Issue 14

              Published by the Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 24 — No. 14
JANUARY 12, 1982
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Cagers Place 2nd In Fairfield
[        MAY     5    1982
Tourney; Wfceitlers Lose, Tie
Alumni Plan
Fete Jan. 23
Lehigh Alumni Clubs of
Northern New Jersey and
Philadelphia are planning a
dinner at 6 p.m. in the University Center prior to the Lehigh-
Penn State wrestling meet Jan.
23. There will be a reception at 5
p.m. with a cash bar. Cost of the
dinner is $10 and cost of the
dinner and a reserved seat at
the wrestling is $15.50. The meet
starts at 8 p.m. in Stabler
Center.
Reservations are being
handled on a first-come, first-
served basis. Northern New
Jersey Club members may contact Bill DeVinney, 35 Florie
Farm Rd., Mendham, N.J.,
07945, phone 201-543-6298, with
checks payable to the sponsoring club.
Philadelphia Club members
may contact Al Sigmaster, 406
Devon State Rd., Devon, Pa.
19333, phone 688-1274, with
checks payable to the sponsoring club.
Navy Tickets
Advance tickets to the Lehigh
wrestling match at Navy Feb.
13 are available by sending $3
per ticket (payable to Lehigh
University) to the Athletic
Ticket Office, Taylor Gym-38,
Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pa. 18015. Please add.50 for postage and handling.
The varsity match begins at 2
p.m. with J.V. wrestling slated
for noon.
EIWA Tickets
Lehigh wrestling season
ticket-holders are reminded to
send in for their EIWA Tournament tickets, or pick them up at
Taylor Gym, by Jan. 15. If not
claimed they will be put on sale
that date.
(Photo by JOE RYAN)
COLEM KILRAIN of Lehigh controls Pat McKay, of Michigan, during 22-3 superior decision at Stabler Center. Two days later he came
back with a fall over Bob Hackbart, of Wisconsin, for his sixth
victory in six bouts.
Matmen Lose To Michigan
20-19, Tie Wisconsin 18-18
Lightweights Tom Husted
(126) and Pete Schuyler (134),
and 190-pounder Colin Kilrain,
were Lehigh's only double
winners last week as the Engineer matmen bowed 20-19 to
Michigan and battled Wisconsin
to an 18-18 draw at Stabler
Center.
The team now embarks upon
a gruelling road trip, with stops
at Northern Iowa, Iowa State,
the University of Iowa, and
Pittsburgh, with a l-l-l dual
record.The next home meet is
Jan. 23 against Penn State.
Kilrain, team captain and one
of the nation's best in the heavier weights,  made  a  valiant
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effort to give the Engineers a
pair of victories. The senior 190-
pounder scored a superior decision over Pat McKay of
Michigan, 22-3, to give his team
a 19-14 lead going into the final
bout, and a 4:14 fall over Bob
Hackbart of Wisconsin to provide an 18-15 advantage after
nine bouts.
Heavyweights Eric Klasson
of Michigan and Mike Euker of
Wisconsin were too much for
Pat Brown of the Engineers,
however, and neither lead stood
up. Brown, after being disqualified against Michigan at 6:51 for
stalling, bowed 3-1 two days
later to Euker.
Heavyweight wasn't the only
trouble spot in the Lehigh
lineup, however, as Coach Thad
Turner is quick to point out
while taking some ofthe responsibility off his heavyweight's
back. "You win, lose or tie as a
team," he says. "The biggest
guy just happens to wrestle
last."
In Lehigh's case the middle
portion ofthe lineup must share
as much of the blame as any one
individual. Only Tommy Bold
(150) put any points on the board
as he battled two very strong
visitors. He drew 2-2 with Mark
Pearson of Michigan and then
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Blue's 27-Pt. Night Brings
Victory Over Mar 1st Five
Charlie Blue's 27-point performance led Lehigh's basketball
team to a 70-68 victory over
Marist College in the first round
of the Bankers Tournament at
Fairfield, Conn., and the Engineers pushed favored Fairfield
to the limit in the tourney title
final before bowing, 67-66.
The triumph over Marist, of
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., followed a
57-56 edge over Susquehanna at
Stabler Center and gave the
Engineers a 5-game winning
streak to take into the championship contest.
Coach Brian Hill's young,
rebuilt squad.has fared well in
the early going and will take a
6-and-4 record into the balance
of its schedule which includes 14
East Coast Conference contests
and one non-league test.
Marist, which took Drexel
into overtime before losing in its
final outing before the tournament at Fairfield, couldn't handle the Brown and White with
Blue, of East Orange, N.J.,
pumping in his 27 tallies.
Lehigh led 44-36 at halftime
and built this to a 65-48 margin
with 7:22 remaining before
Marist staged a surge of its own.
The New York staters pulled to
within two, with eight seconds
left and had an opportunity to tie
only to have Tom Chance, a
Lehigh freshman from the
Bronx, N.Y., reject a shot at the
CHARLIE BLUE
. . .27-point night
buzzer   to   safeguard   the
triumph.
Host Fairfield, an overtime
loser to Princeton before moving into the tournament, had to
fight for its life in the final minutes as Lehigh came up with the
strong stretch drive cutting a
sizeable deficit to one point at
65-64 in the last minute.
Brian Collins, of Manville,
N.J., had two big foul conversions in this final push, Robert
Bell of Washington, D.C., added
a jumper and Blue stuck in a
rebound with 43 seconds
remaining. Two Fairfield free
throws interrupted the drive,
for a 67-64 advantage, before
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Brian Collins, of Lehigh,
Honored By Conference
Brian Collins, Lehigh junior
center from Manville, N. J., was
chosen East Coast Conference
western division basketball
player-of-the-week earlier this
month.
Gordon Austin, of American
University, was the ECC east
division player-of-the-week and
Olof Jonsson, a native of
Sweden playing for Hofstra,
was rookie-of-the-week.
Collins, Most Valuable Player
of the Albright Invitational in
Reading, Pa., led Lehigh to victories over Dartmouth, 46-41,
and host Albright, 68-62, as he
totalled 25 points (7 of 11 from
the field and 11 of 13 free
throws), 16 rebounds, two
assists, two blocks and two
steals.
Brian kept up his fine play
with eight points, 10 rebounds,
BRIAN COLLINS
. . .honored by ECC
two assists and three blocks in
the Engineers' 72-55 non-
conference win over Lycoming.