Coach Jerry Sheska's Warriors rallied from a slow start to win their fifth straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference men's soccer title. The team lost its first two conference games to West Chester and Millersville, but with their backs to the wall, the players rallied to post five wins and a tie in their last six PSAC games to qualify for the post-season playoffs.

The Warriors played West Chester again in the semi-finals and they took charge from the start, scoring three goals in the first 30 minutes on goals by Tom Mustac, Joey Piscopo and Kamar Samuels en route to a 4-1 victory. Brad Konawalik added an insurance goal in the final minutes. The win sent the ESU booters to first-place California, Pa. for the championship contest. The team had battled to a 1-1 tie the previous week. This time, the game was tied, 1-1, when Ahmet Kose slotted a shot into the lower right corner of the goal with 7:20 to give ESU a 2-1 victory and its ninth PSAC title in ten years. Kamar Samuels assisted. Kose, named the game's outstanding player, also had an assist on Mustac's first-half goal.

With the victory, the Warriors clinched their fifth straight NCAA Division II tournament appearance. They traveled to Dowling College for a rematch of their 2000 tournament game, won by ESU, 1-1, 3-2 on penalty kicks. The Lions got a measure of revenge, winning, 2-0, with two goals in the final 17 minutes. Still ESU finished with a 16-5-1 record, its 19th straight winning season under Sheska, and placed 15th in the final NCAA Division II national poll.

Stellar sweeper back Sean Stewart was selected on the National Soccer Coaches Association Division II All-America second team. He became the school's 25th All-America player. The junior from St. Elizabeth, Jamaica headed an ESU defense which allowed only 21 goals in 21 games. Stewart was joined by Mustac, the leading scorer with 14 goals and eight assists, midfielder Mike Lotocki (eight goals, six assists) and goalie Jason Land (0.94 goals per game) on the All-PSAC first team. Outside back Kurt Nusshag and stopper back Kamar Samuels both made the second team. Stewart, Mustac, Land and Samuels were All-Regional picks.

Lotocki had been named the outstanding offensive player and Stewart the top defensive player in the 15th Kiwanis-ESU Soccer Classic. Other late-season starters were midfielders Chris Pinto, Joey Piscopo and Eric Kolar, back John Sunshine.