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Another home game, another overtime thriller. The Warriors played their third overtime game at home this season, bowing to Shippensburg, 17-14. Earlier, they had beaten Shepherd, 35-28, and lost to Millersville, 33-26, both in overtime. The fourth home game also went down to the wire with Kutztown edging ESU, 17-16.

Saturday's game was decided when Shippensburg's Craig Lough booted a 33-yard field goal on the first possession of overtime. The Warriors called on Mike Berry (Sr., Clarks Summit, Pa./Miami-Southridge, Fla.) for a game-tying 35-yard field goal, but the center snap was low and Berry's kick never got any height and was blocked.

The Red Raiders had taken a 14-0 lead early in the fourth quarter when the Warriors stormed back to tie the game. A 45-yard pass from quarterback Geoff Brobst (Jr., Fern Dale, Pa./Hazleton Area) to wide receiver Mike Patrick (Sr., East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg) ignited the first drive going and then tailback Andre Castiglioni (Jr., Reading, Pa./Muhlenberg) scored the team's first touchdown on a 19-yard run.

On the ensuing kickoff, linebacker Jason Zinn (Sr., Hanover, Pa./South Western) hit the returner, causing a fumble which teammate Pat Good (So., Brogue, Pa./Red Lion) recovered on the SU 49-yard line. Castgiolioni put the team into scoring range with a 38-yard run and fullback Jason Wimmer (So., Quakertown, Pa./Palisades) took it across from the one.

Castiglioni finished with 152 yards on 30 carries which was his fifth 100-yard game of the season, tying a school record set by Pete Radocha in 1976 and matched by Stewart Ford in 1997 and Andre Myers in 1998. The ESU junior now has a season total of 996 yards and is range of the school single-season record of 1,109 yards set by Ford in 1997.

Tackle Dan Bratton (Jr., Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) was the team's most effective offensive lineman, scoring 86 percent in the film evaluations.

The ESU defense held Shippensburg to a single touchdown on a 43-yard pass. The Red Raiders' other score came when they recovered an ESU fumbled lateral in the end zone.

Linebacker Kevin Nagle (Gr., Effort, Pa./Pleasant Valley) hit double-digit tackles for the seventh time in eight games with 11, including eight first-hits and one tackle for loss. He also scored a team-high 89 percent in the film evaluations.

Cornerback Jeremy Brown (So., Centreville, Va./Centreville) made ten tackles with two for losses and also had an interception. End Adam DeAngelo (So., East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg) made two sacks, giving him a team-high eight for the season. Zinn had an interception and a sack and tackle David Dean (Fr., Long Valley, N.J./West Morris) made an interception on a pass deflected by end Rich Kane (So., Dunmore, Pa./Dunmore).

The Warriors ended their regular season on a high note by routing Longwood, 4-0, with four different players scoring. The four goals increased the team's season scoring record to 62 goals (3.3 per game). The Warriors have been shut out only once in 19 contests.

Earlier in the week, the team bowed to Bloomsburg, 4-2, in a battle for a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoff berth. The Warriors led, 1-0 and later 2-1, in the first half on two goals by Mardelle Swoyer (Jr., Jonestown, Pa./Northern Lebanon), but the Huskies rallied with one goal late in the first half and two goals in the first six minutes of the second half.

Against Longwood, Michelle Butkus (Jr., Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone), Kristy DiVenzanio (So., Limerick, Pa./Methacton), Shannon McCracken (So., Collegeville, Pa./Methacton) and Jess Anders (Jr., Telford, Pa./Christopher Dock) all scored goals and Rachel Miller (Jr., Tunkhannock, Pa./Tunkhannock) had an assist.

Goalie Kelly Wagner (So., Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown) made 12 saves to post her eighth shutout of the season and fifth in the last seven games. Kelly Derby (Sr., Ilion, N.Y./Mohawk Central) had a defensive save.

The Warriors are hoping for a bid to the ECAC Division II Field Hockey Tournament which will be played Nov. 4-5 at a site to be announced.

Jennifer Amos (So., Reading, Pa./Exeter) scored the winning goal with 2:33 gone in a second overtime period to give the Warriors a 2-1 victory over Shippensburg on Super Soccer Sunday. Tabby Reed (Sr., Reading, Pa./Muhlenberg) chipped in a shot from 20 yards out which the goalie just touched with her fingertips. Amos moved in and hit the loose ball with her body into the nets. It was her first goal of the season.

Christina Bonomini (Sr., Blauvelt, N.Y./Albertus Magnus) scored the other ESU goal off an assist from Tiffanie Savacool (So. Yardville, N.J./Hamilton West).

Angela Scolaro (Sr., Freehold, N.J./Science/Tech) made four saves over 107 minutes in the victory. Earlier in the week, Scolaro also had four saves in a 1-0 loss to West Chester.

Forward Jorge Chapoy (So., Montclova, Mexico/Pequea Valley, Pa.) scored five goals as ESU men's soccer team downed West Chester, 3-0, and Shippensburg, 6-1, to clinch the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference regular-season title.

The Warriors, 7-0 in the conference, will play host to the PSAC Championship Game Sunday, Nov. 5th at 1 p.m. at Eiler-Martin Stadium. The opponent will be either Lock Haven or California, which will meet in the semi-finals Nov. 1.

Chapoy scored two goals within less than a minute early in the second half to break a scoreless tie and carry the team to victory over West Chester. He then had a 'hat trick' against Shippensburg, his second of the season, with two goals in the first half and one in the second.

He has a season total of 17 goals and eight assists.

Joey Piscopo (So., Spotswood, N.J./Sportswood) scored the other goal against West Chester while Tom Mustac (Jr., West Milford, N.J./Clifton), Ahmet Kose (Jr., North Brunswick, N.J./North Brunswick) and Mike Lotocki (So., Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) had goals in the Shippensburg game. Troy Grubb (So., Annville, Pa./Northern Lebanon) had a pair of assists against the Red Raiders

Goalie Jason Land (Jr., Carneys Point, N.J./St. James) made six saves to post the shutout against West Chester, his fourth in a row and sixth of the season.

The Warriors lost to three opponents in a four-team meet at West Chester. Danielle Centurione (Sr., Ringwood, N.J./Lakeland Regional) was the team's top finisher, placing 16th of 48 finishers in a 2.5-mile time of 17:03.

ESU's Stacie Gallagher (So., Mount Carmel, Pa./Mount Carmel) was 20th in 17:23, Kelly Curry (Fr., Pittston, Pa./Pittston) 26th in 17:55 and Melissa Werner (So., Reading, Pa./Exeter) 28th in 17:59.

The team's All-Conference runner Christel Hibbard (Jr., Springville, Pa./Elk Lake) was rested for this week's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships at Lock Haven. She was 11th in the PSAC meet last year.

The Warriors won three of four matches last week and clinched a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoff berth. They swept three-time PSAC champion Millersville, 3-0, to raise their conference record to 7-0 and guarantee the team a spot in the PSAC Final Four Nov. 10-11 on the court of the Western Division champion, either Lock Haven or Edinboro.

Outside hitter April Mellott (So., Dover, Pa./Spring Grove) had another big week with 45 kills in 102 attempts with only six errors for a .382 hitting average. She added five service aces, 33 digs and five blocks, four of them solo.

Middle blocker Sarah Brown (Fr., Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove) hit .417 for the week for 23 kills on 48 swings and three error. She also made eight solo blocks. Andi Myers (So., Mount Wolf, Pa./Northeastern) had 35 kills and a .333 hitting average along with a team-best 45 digs.

Setter Ashleigh Reinert (Sr., Dover, Pa./Dover) made 99 assists in 11 games while defensive specialist Laurie Weisbrod (Sr., Fair Lawn, N.J./Fair Lawn) had four service aces and 30 digs.

The ESU men's cross country team beat Moravian and Muhlenberg, but lost to host West Chester in a four-team meet.

The Warriors had two runners in the top ten of the 43-man field in Mark Donio (Jr., Millington, N.J./Watchung Hills) ninth in a three-mile time of 16:54 and Jared Sparks (Fr., Pottstown, Pa./St. Pius X) tenth in 16:57.

Other top ESU finishers were Jeff Callan (Sr., Glenside, Pa./Bishop McDevitt) 13th, 17:14; Tom Jackson (Fr., Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) 14th, 17:15, and Aaron Roderick (Fr., Slatington, Pa./Northern Lehigh) 15th, 17:17, and Keith Davis (Fr., Tamaqua, Pa./Tamaqua) 17th, 17:20.

Coach Joe Koch rested his three top runners, Darryl Brown (Fr., Kennett Square/Kennett), Mike Webster (So., Reading, Pa./Exeter) and Brent Trentowski (Sr., Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem) for this Saturday's Pennsyvlania State Athletic Conference Championships at Lock Haven.