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Preseason training camp is just around the corner for Lehigh, and it’s a mere 42 days until the Mountain Hawks’ season opener vs. Central Connecticut State.
At no. 42, we find senior LB John Mahoney as our highlighted Lehigh football athlete in today’s countdown.
Last season, there was little drama on the defensive side of the ball going into the spring season.
With all-Patriot League names like DT Sajjad Chagani, DE Tom Bianchi, LB Billy Boyko and CB Bryan Andrews on the roster, you knew that the squad was more in a mode to “tweak” rather than to “retool”.
This season sees not only these three position leaders graduate, but plenty more, making the defense much less experiences, and a much larger area of competition, than last season.
“The defense needs to get better,” head coach Andy Coen said in this week’s release. “They didn’t perform very well in our last scrimmage and our coaches have challenged them. We haven’t had a lot of live tackling because we’re in a tailback situation. Last week we got more into it, we scrimmaged, and we didn’t tackle very well. We have to improve upon that.”
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(Photo Credit: Donna Fisher/The Morning Call) The TV broadcast team of Mike Zambelli and Mike Yadush sounded out the alarm early in Saturday's game.After the Mountain Hawks had jumped to a 7-0 lead and smashed the Monmouth offense in the mouth in t…
