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Tailback Andre Castiglioni (Jr., Reading, Pa./Muhlenberg) gained 128 yards on 21 carries and scored the winning touchdown on a three-yard run with 8:21 remaining as the Warriors opened their Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division football season by beating defending champion West Chester, 12-6, at Farrell Stadium.

The win was the second straight for the Warriors and the second straight week in which Castiglioni tallied the winning touchdown. He had a 25-yard run for the final TD with 1:05 left in a 37-33 opening win at Clarion. He now has 282 yards on 47 carries and is averaging 6.0 per carry and 141 yards per game.

Behind 6-0, the Warriors scored their two touchdowns within a minute and 40 seconds of the fourth quarter, both on 41-yard drive following West Chester turnovers.

Safety Pat Good (So., Brogue, Pa./Red Lion) set up the first TD by making an interception and returning it 29 yards. Quarterback Jeremy Palm (Jr., West Lawn, Pa./Wilson) took his team in to score in eight plays with the payoff, a two-yard pass to wide receiver Larry Harrison (Jr., Philadelphia, Pa./Cardinal Dougherty) 10:01 remaining.

On the ensuing kickoff, ESU's Mike Bemis (So., Mont Clare, Pa./Spring Ford) hit the Clarion returner and caused a fumble which Blaec Saeger (So., Palm, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) recovered to give the Warriors possession again.

This time, it took only four plays to score with Palm hitting wide receiver Mike Patrick (Sr., East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg) on a 25-yard pass play, fullback A.J. Oliveri (So., Pittston, Pa./Pittston) carrying five yards and then Castiglioni taking it the rest of the way on an eight-yard run and the game-winning three-yarder.

Three offensive linemen, tackle Dan Bratton (Jr., Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) and guards Shepard Alston (Sr., Newark, N.J./Malcomb X Shabazz) and Jim Sodano (Jr., Madison, N.J./Bayley-Ellard) all made the 80 percent club in the film evaluations for their blocking.

Linebackers Kevin Nagle (Grad., Effort, Pa./Pleasant Valley) and Rich Butcofski (Sr., Shavertown, Pa./Dallas) led the ESU defense with 11 tackles apiece. Nagle leads the conference in tackles for the third straight year now with 30 in two games.

End Adam DeAngelo (So., East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg) made a win-clinching sack on fourth down on West Chester's last series from the ESU 40-yard line. Cornerback Mike Glover (Fr., Tabernacle, N.J./Shawnee) had a key pass break-up on second down during the same series.

The ESU men's soccer team improved its record to 3-0-1 and extended its regular-season unbeaten streak to 16 straight games by beating Centenary, 4-0, and Felician, 4-1, last week.

Jorge Chapoy (So., Monclova, Mexico/Pequea Valley, Pa.) scored goals in both games and now leads the team with three goals and one assists for seven points. Kurt Nusshag (Jr., Media, Pa./Penncrest) also scored in each game.

Jason Land (Jr., Carney's Point, N.J./St. James) and Conor Fry (Sr., Landisville, Pa./ Hempfield) have alternated games at goalie. Neither had to make a save during the week with Fry getting the shutout against Centenary and Land the win against Felician.

The Warriors will play LIU-Southampton Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in a first round game of the 14th annual Kiwanis-ESU Soccer Classic. It will be a rematch of last year's NCAA Division II Tournament game, won by the Colonials, 2-1, in triple overtime. LIU-Southampton also was the last team to win a regular-season game over ESU with a 2-0 decision early season. The tournament pairings are as follows:

Saturday - Gannon vs. Bloomfield, 12 Noon; ESU vs. LIU-Southampton, 2:30

Sunday - Gannon vs. LIU-Southampton, 1 p.m.; ESU vs. Bloomfield, 3:30

The tournament champion will be determined by points with three points for a win and one point for a win. The tie-breakers in order will be goal differential, most goals scored, least goals allowed and a coin clip.

Justina Woolf (Jr., Womelsdorf, Pa./Tulpehocken), the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's leading scorer two years ago, is back in top scoring form after missing last season because of an injury. Woolf scored a goal in a 3-1 win over LIU-Southampton and then had an goal and assist in a 3-0 victory over Felician last week.

Gwen Gemberling (So., Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) scored the team's other two goals against LIU-Southampton and now has three for the season. Crystal Kistler (Jr., Walnutport, Pa./Northampton) and Kim Kotoff (Jr., Old Bridge, N.J./St. John Vianney) also scored against Felician.

Liz Guinup (Sr., Washingtonville, N.Y.,/John Burke Catholic) got credited for the shutout against Felician, playing 54 minutes and making three saves.

Kristy DiVenanzio (So., Limerick, Pa./Methacton) scored a 'hat trick' and added an assist as the ESU field hockey team scored its most one-sided win in 11 years by trouncing previously-unbeaten UMass-Lowell, 9-0. It was the biggest victory margin since the 1989 team beat Marywood, 10-1. UMass-Lowell came into the game with a 4-0 record.

Kate Dideon (Jr., Lancaster, Pa./Living Word Academy) and Mardelle Swoyer (Jr., Jonestown, Pa./Northern Lebanon) each scored two goals and had an assist. Steph Hippman (Fr., New Buffalo, Pa.,/Susquenita) had a pair of assists.

Earlier in the week, the Warriors dropped one-goal games to Muhlenberg, 3-2, and Houghton, 2-1, in overtime.

April Mellott (So., Dover, Pa./Spring Grove), last year's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Rookie of the Year, got her sophomore season off to a blazing start in the Bryant Women's Volleyball Classic.

Mellott was named to the All-Tournament team after hitting .436 and making 89 kills in four matches. She averaged 4.94 kills per game. She also had 40 digs and seven service aces. She led the team to a 3-0 victory over Assumption with 16 kills in 24 attempts and only one error for a .625 hitting mark.

Andi Myers (So., Mount Wolf, Pa./Northeastern) was second on the team with 51 kills and tied Chrissy Tweed (Sr., Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown) for the most digs with 45. Setter Ashleigh Reinert (Sr., Dover, Pa./Dover) made 160 assists for an average of 8.9 per game.

The Warriors also dropped three 3-2 decisions to host Bryant, New York Tech and St. Anselm.

Mike Webster (Jr., Reading, Pa./Exeter) finished 31st of 92 finishers to lead the ESU men in the Lafayette Cross Country Invitational. He was timed in 28:18 for 5 miles.

Mike Loenser (Fr., South Plainfield, N.J./South Plainfield) was the second on the team in 42nd place with a time of 28:56. Rounding out the top five were Mark Donio (Jr., Millington, N.J./Watchung Hills) 59th, 29:43; Jared Sparks (Fr., Pottstown, Pa./Piux X) 60th, 29:50, and Mike Browne (Fr., Brodheadsville, Pa./Pleasant Valley) 71st, 30:14.

Christel Hibbard (So., Springville, Pa./Elk Lake) made a strong showing in the season-opening Lafayette Cross Country Invitational by placing tenth of 110 finishers with a 6,000-meter time of 22:26.

The Warriors' other top finishers were Erin Coyne (Fr., Freehold, N.J./Freehold Twp.) 58th, 24:38; Hollie Smith (So., Elizabethtown, Pa./Donegal) 86th, 26:19; Nova Tindall (Jr., Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) 87th, 26:24, and Katie Peterson (Sr., Centereach, N.Y./Centereach) 89th, 26:31.