The Warriors will play host to the 36th Rotary Pocono Classic Basketball Tournament Friday and Saturday in the Koehler Fieldhouse. Pairings will be: Friday - 1 p.m., Longwood vs. Winston-Salem, Women; 3 p.m., St. Anselm vs. West Liberty, Men; 6 p.m., ESU vs. Bowie State, Women; 8 p.m., ESU vs. New Haven, Men; Saturday - 1 p.m., Women's Consolation; 3 p.m., Women's Championship; 5:30 p.m., Men's Consolation; 7:30 p.m., Men's Championship.

Shahad Abdur-Rahkman (So., Allentown, Pa./William Allen) scored 19 points in each game as the Warriors split a pair of contests on a Western Pennsylvania trip.

Rahkman made all six of his shots in the second half and finished with 7 for 10 shooting from the floor and 5 for 6 from the foul line in a 58-51 win over Slippery Rock. He had connected on 6 of 11 field goal attempts and 7 for 11 foul shots in a 69-55 loss at Edinboro.

The Warriors shot woefully for three halves. They made only 24 percent of their shots (15 for 62) against Edinboro and hit only 19 percent (4 for 21) in the first half at Slippery Rock. They warmed up, however, and converted a sizzling 67 percent (16 for 24) of their shots in the second half, taking charge with a 15-4 run with ten minutes remaining for the victory.

Guard R.C. Kehoe (Sr., Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic) contributed 14 points in each game.

Now 3-1, the Warriors' next five games will be at home starting with Shippensburg Wednesday and New Haven in the first round of the 36th Rotary Pocono Classic Friday.

Forward Kelly Hutchison (Sr., Reading, Pa./Exeter) had the Warriors' biggest game of the season, scoring 18 points and grabbing nine rebounds in a loss to Slippery Rock. She is averaging a team-leading 12 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.

Guard Stephanie Kuhn (Sr., Columbia, Pa./Lancaster Catholic) hit double figures in both weekend games. She tallied ten points in a loss to Edinboro and 12 points against Slippery Rock.

The Warriors will play their next four games at home including playing host to the 36th Rotary Pocono Classic Basketball Tournament Friday and Saturday.

The Warriors made their first NCAA Division II Final Four appearance, but bowed in the semi-finals to host Barry University, 2-1, Friday night.

Barry's winning goal was scored by Fitzgerald Clarke with under 20 minutes remaining. Carrington Brown set up the play by dribbling the ball down the right side and then crossing a pass to Clarke at the far post.

After a scoreless first half, the Buccaneers took a 1-0 lead with 5:50 gone in the second half. ESU tied the score six minutes later as Sean Stewart (So., St. Elizabeth, Jamaica/Munro College) connected after a free kick by Eric Kolar (So., Fredericksburg, Pa./Tulpehocken). Stewart took the ball at the right side of the goal and drilled a shot around the goalie.

The Warriors had three opportunities to tie the score in the final ten minutes. The best was on Stewart's free kick from just outside the box which appeared to be carrying into the upper right corner of the nets. Goalie Ron Goguen literally "took it out of the corner," according to ESU head coach Jerry Sheska, and secured the team's victory.

The game was evenly played with Barry having a slight 16-13 edge in shots. Both corner kicks at 6-6 and goalie saves at 3-3 (Goguen and ESU's Jason Land (Jr., Carney's Point, N.J./St. James) were identical.

Stewart and Karl Nusshag (Sr., Media, Pa./Penncrest), the team's anchor in the midfield, made the All-Final Four Tournament team.

The Warriors ended the season with an 18-3-2 record, tying the school mark for most wins in a campaign. They won their fourth straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title and eighth in nine years and captured their first NCAA Division II regional crown.

There are only four seniors on the squad in Nusshag, starting outside back Erik Buksa (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore), reserve outside midfielder Ryan Hepford (Sr., Harrisburg, Pa./Susquehanna Twp.) and back-up goalie Conor Fry (Landisville, Pa./Hempfield).

Cal State Dominguez Hills won the national title by beating Barry, 2-1, on Victor Guerrero's goal, his second of the game, with 11:16 left in the fourth and final overtime period.

The Toros, the nation's top-ranked team going into the tourney, finished with a 23-1-1 record.

Marc Bauknecht (285, Sr., Cheshire, Ct., Holy Cross) was undefeated as the Warriors beat AIC, 36-12, and Springfield, 36-3, but lost to Princeton, 33-6, in a quadrangular home match.

Bauknecht pinned Joe Rybecki of Princeton in 6:44, won by forfeit against AIC and defeated Jason Miemetz of Springfield, 6-1, to raise his season record to 6-2.

Dan Roy (174, Jr., West Belmar, N.J./Wall) won a pair of matches over Demitry Privenduyk of AIC, 9-1, and Tom Mendonis of Springfield, 5-2, after bowing to Greg Parker of Princeton, 11-3. Ben Zerance (197, Fr., Loysville, Pa./West Perry) had a pair of pins over opponents from AIC and Springfield.

Cheryl Griffin (Sr., Walden, N.Y./Valley Central) swept both sprint events for the second straight year in the Lafayette Indoor Track and Field Invitational. She won the 60-yard dash in 7.0 and the 220 dash in 26.1.

ESU's Shavanna Ross (Sr., Center Valley, Pa./William Allen) captured the 60-yard high hurdles in 8.5, tied for third in the high jump at 5-2 and was fifth in 440-yard dash in 60.9.

The Warriors swept the triple jump with Russ Holmes (Sr., Allentown, Pa./Salisbury) first in the men's event at 44-11 and Quanette Jester (Sr., Qakland, N.J./Indian Hills) tops in the women's competition at 35-4. Holmes also was second in the long jump at 21-0 1/2 and Jester tied for the third in the high jump at 5-2.

Also placing second were Mike Newhard (Fr., Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) in the high jump with a school freshman-record leap of 6-8, Brooke Garman (Jr., Boiling Springs, Pa./Boiling Springs), long jump, 15-11, and Jay Rehrig (Grad., Slatington, Pa./Northern Lehigh), shot put, 41-11 1/4. Newhard also tied for second in the long jump at 20 2 1/4.

Third-place finishers were Becky Fitz (So., Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim) in the long jump, also at 15-11, Angela Gray (Fr., Jersey City, N.J./Ferris), 400 dash, 60.5, and Doug Springer (Jr., Randolph, N.J./Randolph), pole vault at 13-6.

Jamie Miller (Jr., Northampton, Pa./Northampton) captured the 100-yard butterfly, was second in both the 200 individual medley and the 200 butterfly and swam on a record-breaking relay team as the Warriors,finished third of eight schools in the Kutztown Invitational.

Host Kutztown won the event with 589 points with Salisbury State second with 511 and ESU next with 491.

Miller turned in a winning time of 1.02.13 in the 100 fly. Her other times were 2:19.67 in the 200 fly and 2:19.08 in the 200 IM. She combined with Heather Clouser (Jr., Wyomissing, Pa./Wyomissing), Mikaela Thorne (Fr., Elkins Park, Pa./Cheltenham) and Erin Kowalik (Sr., Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion) on a 400-yard medley relay team which won its event in a school-record 4:12.55. The old mark was 4:13.77 set in 1999.

Placing second in two events were Thorne, 100 breaststroke in 1:12.38 and 200 breast in a season-best 2:41.10, and Clouser, 100 backstroke in 1:03.80, her best this year, and 200 back in 2:17.25.

Karen Scott (So., Berwick, Pa./Berwick) was second in the 50 freestyle in 25.61 with Kowalik third in 25.68. Also placing in the top three were Maribeth Kenny (So., Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham), second in the 1,650-yard freestyle, 19:43.0, Trish Dixon (Fr., Hatboro, Pa./Archbishop Wood), third in the 100 breaststroke, 1:14.91; and Bridget Flack (Fr., Langhorne, Pa./Council Rock), third in the 1,650 freestyle, 19:51.0.

The Warriors captured the 200-yard medley relay in 1:56.20 with a team of Clouser, Thorne, Miller and Scott.

Placing second were the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Kowalik, Donna Gebhard (Sr., Spring City, Pa./Owen J. Roberts), Scott and Thorne in 1:43.33 and the 800 freestyle relay team of Miller, Bridget Flack, Clouser and Kowalik in 8:23.17.