2000-2001 - Number 18 Contact: Pete Nevins, Christina Cracolici

The Warriors will battle perennial Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division basketball power Bloomsburg in a 6 and 8 p.m. doubleheader Saturday in the Koehler Fieldhouse.

Last Week's Results: *Cheyney (A) 75-72W, Clarion (H) 89-91L, Lock Haven (H) 50-67L

Juwan Justice (Jr., Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic) smashed the school record with ten 3-pointers and scored 34 points in leading the Warriors to a 75-72 win at Cheyney in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division opening game. He made eight 3-pointers on 12 attempts in the first half and two of eight in the second half. He broke the school single-game mark of eight 3-pointers set by teammate R.C. Kehoe (Sr., Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic) against West Chester last year.

Justice's 10 'threes' tied for third highest in PSAC history behind the 12 made by both Brent Kincaid of California against Slippery Rock in 1995 and Damian Blair against Cheyney,also in 1995. The 20 attempts were tied for the second most ever in the conference behind David Cruse of Clarion who took 21 'threes' against Mt. St. Mary in 1991.

Justice also had a big game in a 91-89 loss to Clarion, scoring 29 points, including four 3-pointers. He cooled off, however, as did the rest of the Warriors in a 67-50 defeat to Lock Haven, managing only nine points, still the team high. For the week, he scored 72 points and made 15 3-pointers.

Kehoe was at his best against his former Clarion teammates with 21 points on 8 for 11 shooting from the floor including five 3-pointers in eight tries. He also fed off seven assists. He had tallied 16 points against Cheyney and had eight assists.

Guard Wayne Bishop (Fr., Philadelphia, Pa./Bishop McDevitt) matched his season scoring high against Clarion with 14 points on 5 for 7 shooting with two 3-pointers.

Mike Newhard (Fr., Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) soared over the bar at 6-8 to win the high jump at the John Covert Classic at Lehigh. Mark Stinson (So., Wescosville, Pa./Emmaus) set a school record in the 60-meter dash trials with a time of 7.17, but did not place in the top three..

The Warriors only had a few competitors entered in the meet as school doesn't resume until Jan. 22.

Forward Pam Helt (Jr., Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna) achieved two double-doubles and almost had a third in an outstanding week as the Warriors won one of three games.

Entering the week, Helt had tallied only 16 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in 11 games. Then suddenly given a chance to play regularly, the 5-11 forward tallied a career-high 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds in a 75-55 win over Cheyney. She then bettered that with 20 points and 13 rebounds in a 72-52 loss to Clarion, making 12 of 13 foul shots. She finished the week with 12 points and 12 boards in a 63-59 defeat to Lock Haven. Overall, she scored 51 points and pulled down 34 rebounds in the three contests.

Forward Michele Pilenza (Jr., Delran, N.J./Delran) also scored in double figures in three straight games with 16 points against Cheyney, 13 against Clarion and a career-high 20 against Lock Haven. She made 12 of 15 free throws in the Lock Haven contest.

Forward Kelly Hutchison (Sr., Reading, Pa./Exeter) extended her double-figure scoring

streak to eight straight games with 15 points on 7 for 12 shooting against Cheyney. The streak ended, however, when she had leave the Clarion game because of illness and played only seven minutes, scoring one point. She came back the next day to tally 11 points in the Lock Haven game.

Brad Kleckner (141, Jr., Pottsville, Pa./Pottsville) scored an upset victory, but the Warriors bowed to Rutgers, 27-12, in their only dual match last week.

Kleckner stunned Tom Wysocki, 13-9, in sudden death victory with a takedown and two-point near fall. Wysocki had won the 141-pound title at the Millersville Belles Tournament the previous weekend and came into the match with a 15-4 record.

The ESU junior rallied from an early deficit and took the lead with a takedown in the fnal seconds of the second period. Wysocki escaped in the third period to tie the match and send it into overtime. Kleckner raised his record to 9-7.

Other ESU winners were Kevin Rake (133, So., Mountainhome, Pa./Pocono Mountain)

and Matt Dudeck (157, Sr., Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty). Rake pinned Jon Rodriquez in 3:16 to raise his record to 9-8 with three pins. Dudeck defeated Chris Madia, 6-2, and is now 9-9.

Heather Clouser (Jr., Wyomissing, Pa./Wyomissing Area) won three events, led off a winning relay team and turned in three team season-best times as the Warriors raised their record to 4-1 with a 157-101 victory over Montclair State.

Clouser captured the 100-yard backstroke in 1:03.45 and the 200 back in 2:15.39, the Warriors' best times of the year, and was first in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 11:22.54.

She also swam a team-best 29.95 opening 50-yard backstroke leg in combining with Mikaela Thorne (Fr., Elkins Park, Pa./Cheltenham), Jamie Miller (Jr., Northampton, Pa./Northampton) and Erin Kowalik (Sr., Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion) on a 200-yard medley team which was first in 1:55.80.

Miller had the team's top times of the season in winning the 100-yard butterfly in 1:00.80 and the 200 butterfly in 2:16.91. She also had the meet's top time in the 200 individual medley at 2:18.32, but she was swimming exhibition.

Kowalik was a double winner in the 100 freestyle, 55.59, and the 200 freestyle, 2:01.67. Other ESU winners wree Thorne in the 100 breaststroke, 1:12.06, and Karen Scott (So., Berwick, Pa./Berwick) in the 50 freestyle, 25.60.

The Warriors' team of Kowalik, Jen Gallagher (Sr., Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), Donna Gebhard (Sr., Spring City, Pa./Owen J. Roberts) and Scott won the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:58.04.

Cheryl Griffin (Sr., Walden, N.Y./Valley Central) won the 200-meter dash in 26.09 for the Warriors' lone victory in the John Covert Classic at Lehigh. She also was second in the 60-meter dash in 7.97.

The Warriors won the 4 x 400-meter relay in 4:09.49 with a team of Jenn Eye (So., Aristies, Pa./North Schuylkill), 62.7; Griffin, 61.6; Brooke Garman (Jr., Boiling Springs, Pa./Boiling Springs), 65.4, and Shavanna Ross (Sr., Center Valley, Pa./William Allen), 59.7.

Ross was second in the high jump at 5-2 and third in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.53 and set a school record in the trials of 9.45. Fitz was runner-up in the triple jump at 35-5 1/4.