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Quarterback Jeremy Palm (Sr., West Lawn, Pa./Wilson) threw four touchdown passes, all in the first half, and safety Jeremy Brown (Sr., Centreville, Va.,/Centreville) intercepted two passes and returned one for a touchdown as the Warriors match their biggest victory margin ever against Millersville in a 42-10 win.

Palm completed 17 of 33 passes for 239 yards, including going 12 for 19 for 200 yards in the first half. He combined on scoring passes of 7 and 24 yards to wide receiver Justin Kondikoff (So., Nazareth, Pa./Nazareth), 32 yards to wide receiver John Jeffries (So. Central Square, N.Y./Paul V. Moore) and 14 yards on a shovel pass to tailback Greg Vaughn (So., Madison, N.J./Madison).

Vaughn also scored a second touchdown on a 14-yard run and was the team’s leading ground-gainer with 99 yards on 21 carries. He replaced starter Andre Castiglioni (Sr., Reading, Pa./Muhlenberg), who left the game after the first quarter because of a minor leg injury.

Brown picked off his fourth and fifth passes of the season and returned one 23 yards for a touchdown, his second TD runback. The ESU defense held Millersville to only 188 yards, 77 rushing and 111 passing and forced four turnovers. Linebackers Ryan Vermillion (So., Elverson, Pa./Owen J. Roberts) and Brian Holkovic (Sr., Mitchell, Neb./Mitchell) both had fumble recoveries which led to ESU touchdowns.

Craig Mahon (Jr., Nottingham, Pa./Oxford), a first-time starter, was the team’s leading pass-catcher with eight receptions for 110 yards. Kondikoff had three catches for 38 yards and Jeffries two for 41 yards.

Matt Yanocha (Fr., Pottstown, Pa./Owen J. Roberts) took over at tailback midway through the fourth quarter and gained 67 yards on 11 carries.

Stellar senior guard Jim Sodano (Sr., Madison, N.J./Bayley-Ellard) made the team’s 80 percent club for his blocking for the fourth straight week with an 86 percent mark. Greg Munch (So., Flushing, N.Y./Francis Lewis), the team’s other guard, also made the club with an 80 percent efficiency rating.

Punter Adam Hostetter (Sr., Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion) boomed three punts for 156 yards for a 52-yard average to improve his conference-leading average to 44.0 yards per punt.

Kicker Mike Berry (Sr., Clarks Summit, Pa./Southridge, Fla.) converted all six extra points.

The ESU booters scored a ‘must win’ over nationally-ranked Lock Haven, 2-1, Saturday after suffering a second straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference loss, bowing to Millersville, 3-1, earlier in the week.

With their backs to the wall in the conference, the Warriors, the conference champions the last four years and eight of the last nine, rallied from a 1-0 deficit for the victory over the Bald Eagles, ranked fifth in last week’s NCAA Division II national poll. They are now 1-2 in the league with five games remaining. The top three teams will make the conference playoffs.

Ahmet Kose (Sr., North Brunswick, N.J./North Brunswick) scored the tying goal after a pass from Chris Pinto (Sr., Glen Ridge, N.J./St. Benedict’s). Tom Mustac (Sr., West Milford, N.J./Clifton) then put in the game-winning goal with Kose credited with an assist.

Joey Piscopo (Jr., Spotswood, N.J./Spotswood) scored the team’s only goal against Millersville off a pass from Mustac. That tied the score at 1-1 early in the game, but the Marauders, although out-shot, 22-11, scored two goals for the victory.

Forward Justina Woolf (Sr., Womelsdorf, Pa./Tulpehocken) booted in her

fourth game-winning goal in five games as the Warriors trimmed Millersville, 1-0, early in the week. It was the 13th game-winning goal of her career. Kelly Gunther (Sr., Brick, N.J./Brick Township) assisted on the play.

Goalie Lindsay Vandegrift (So., Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks West) posted the first shutout of her career, making ten saves. She was helped by her backline of Tiffanie Savacool (Jr., Yardville, N.J./Hamilton West), Jen Amos (Jr., Reading, Pa./Exeter) and Crystal Kistler (Sr., Walnutport, Pa./Northampton) and center midfielder Heather McMillan (Fr., Avondale, Pa./Kennett).

Woolf also scored once, but that wasn’t enough in a 3-1 loss to Lock Haven. The ESU forward now has nine goals in eight games this season and 50 for her career.

The ESU field hockey team scored two straight victories over Millersville, 2-0, and Mansfield, 4-2, last week to stretch their Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference winning streak to four straight and raised their PSAC record to 5-1. They have two league games remaining, both at home, against Shippensburg Oct. 9 and Kutztown Oct. 15, and need only one win to gain a berth in the conference playoffs for the first time in 1996.

Michelle Butkus (Sr., Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone) had a goal and an assist against Millersville with Jess Anders (Sr., Telford, Pa./Christopher Dock Mennonite) scoring the other goal. Mardelle Swoyer (Sr., Jonestown, Pa./Northern Lebanon) and Sara Gorman (So., Biglerville, Pa./Biglerville) assisted on Butkus’ goal.

Shannon McCracken (Jr., Collegeville, Pa./Methacton) and Gorman tallied two goals each in the win over Mansfield game with Kathy Martin (Jr., Leesport, Pa./Schuylkill Valley) and Rachel Miller (Sr., Tunkhannock, Pa./Tunkhannock) credited with assists.

The win over Mansfield gave Coach Sandy Miller her 200th coaching victory in 18 years as the Warriors’ head coach. She is now 200-141 and her teams have posted 14 straight non-losing seasons.

Christel Hibbard (Sr., Springville,. Pa./Elk Lake) won the individual title and led ESU to the team championship of the Tidewater Cross Country Classic at Salisbury State. She was timed in 19:25 for the 5,000-meter distance. She had been third in the race last year and fourth as a sophomore.

The Warriors had three other top-ten finishers in Erin Coyne (So., Freehold, N.J./Freehold Twp.), fourth in 19:53, Kelly Curry (So., Pittston, Pa./Pittston), eighth in 20:08, and Nova Tindall (Sr., Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), tenth in 20:17. The team’s fifth runner was Heather Bjorndahl (Sr., Coram, N.Y./Longwood), 12th in 20:26.

In the men’s race, the Warriors placed third and had two runners in the top ten in Mark Donio (Sr., Millington, N.J./Watchung Hills), fifth in 26:59, and Mike Webster (Sr., Reading, Pa./Exeter), eighth in 27:10.

April Mellott (Jr., Dover, Pa./Spring Grove), last year’s Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Player of the Year, had a big week as the ESU women’s volleyball team beat West Chester, 3-2, and Pace, 3-0.

Mellott had 30 kills in 70 swings with only two errors for a .371 hitting average against West Chester. She spiked home the winning point in the fifth game. She came back with 12 kills in 20 attempts with two errors against Pace for a .500 mark.

Andrea Myers (Jr., Mount Wolf, Pa./Northeastern) had a strong all-around match against West Chester with 15 kills, 32 digs and four service aces. Jessica Nourse (Jr., Hanover, Pa./Williamsburg) added 12 kills and Cassie Brinn (Sr., Oxford, Pa./Oxford) nine kills without an error. Brinn and Sarah Brown (So., Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove) made four blocks apiece.

Heidi Johnston (Jr., Mercersburg, Pa./James Buchanan) continued her strong play as the team’s setter with 64 assists in the West Chester match and 36 assists against Pace. She also made five service aces in the team’s second match against Pace in five days. The Setters had beaten ESU, 3-1, in the Lock Haven tournament the previous weekend.