The Warriors started the week off quickly with three straight wins to close in on a 20-win season, but then lost three straight games, all by one run, which left the team's record at 19-16-1.

Third baseman Ryan Hatfield (So., Pottstown, Pa./Owen J. Roberts) was the team's top hitter for the week, going 9 for 20 for a .450 average with four RBIs and nine scored runs scored. He belted homers in each game and was 5-for-7 in a 11-6, 5-3 twinbill sweep over West Chester.

First baseman Bryan Yagel (Jr., Sunbury, Pa./Shikellamy) had nine hits in 21 at-bats in the six games for a .429 mark which actually lowered his season average. He is now hitting .447 (55 for 123) with 57 runs-batted-in, including five last week.

Joe Sobeski (So., Duryea, Pa./Pittston) returned to action as the team's designated hitter after sitting out more than two weeks with a shoulder injury which still will keep him from his normal catching position. He had hits in all five games in which he played and was 6 for 19 for a .316 average with three RBIs.

Danny Supey (Fr., Exeter Twp., Pa./Wyoming Area) had the top pitching performance of the week, allowing only three hits and one unearned run over seven innings in a 6-3 victory over Philadelphia. He struck out five batters and stranded eight base-runners.

Shortstop Brett Reynolds (Sr., Philadelphia, Pa./Northeast) stole five bases last week to give him 48 for his career, breaking the school record of 45 set by Scott Roth from 1997-2000.

The Warriors dropped three one-run games and one two-run contests in a pair of Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference softball doubleheaders last week.

Pitcher Tina Morak (So., Willow Grove, Pa./Abington) turned in two strong pitching performances in losses to Shippensburg, 3-2, and Mansfield, 2-1, allowing only two earned runs in 14 innings.

Monica Sobolesky (Fr., Bloomsburg, Pa./Bloomsburg) gave up only five hits and didn't allow an earned run in a 2-0 loss to Shippensburg. She then was the losing pitcher in a 5-4 defeat to Mansfield, despite striking out a season-high nine batters, as the Mounties scored four runs in the seventh inning.

Mary Beth Scotch (Sr., Scranton, Pa./Scranton) continued her strong late-season hitting as she went 4-for-11 for .386. She stretched her hitting streak to six straight games before going 0-for-2 in the second contest against Mansfield.

There were two big hitting performance against Mansfield. In the opener, Tara Greig (Jr., Easton, Pa./Wilson) was 3-for-4 with a single, double and triple. In the second game, Erika Lee (So., Glenside, Pa./Abington) was 3-for-3 with three singles.

Senior attack wing Kim Niles (Sr., New Britain, Pa./Central Bucks West) tied the school record for assists in a career, but the Warriors dropped three away games last week.

Niles had an assist in a 14-6 loss at Mercyhurst which gave her 66 for her career, matching the mark set by Megan Macauley from 1997-2000. The Warriors have one game remaining at home against Rowan Tuesday.

Antonia Giannopoulos (So., Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) scored in all three games with two goals apiece in losses to Shippensburg, 18-9, and IUP, 7-3, and one goal against Mercyhurst. She has now scored in all 14 games this season and has a team-leading total of 32 goals.

Cheryl Griffin (Sr., Walden, N.Y./Valley Central) had the fastest splits as the Warriors won their heat of the 4 x 400-meter relay for the second straight year and set a school record in the 4 x-200-meter relay at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.

The ESU team streaked home in the 4 x 400 relay in 3:52.84 against a mainly Division I field. Bucknell was second in 3:53.39 with Central Connecticut third in 3:53.40. Other schools in the ten-team heat included Memphis, Charleston Southern, St. Francis, Pa., Colgate and Wagner.

Angela Gray (Fr., Jersey City, N.J./Ferris) led off with a 58.0 leg while Griffin blazed around in 56.9. Jen Eye (So., Aristes, Pa./North Schuylkill) followed with a 60.6 split and Shavanna Ross (Sr., Center Valley, Pa./William Allen) brought it home in a personal-best 57.0

The same quartet ran the 4 x 200 relay and broke the school record by more than four seconds with a time of 1:42.16 in placing fifth, again in a Division I field. Eye led off with a 26.7 leg with Ross and Gray running 25.4 and Griffin finishing in 24.5. Temple won the event in 1:36.14 with North Carolina second in 1:36.26 and Kent third in 1:38.41. The old school mark was 1:46.20 set by a team last season.

Ross also ran the 400-meter hurdles and placed third in her heat in 63.59. That surpassed the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

All-America javelin thrower Jenn Grube (Sr., Easton, Pa./Wilson) also bettered the NCAA provisional qualifying mark with a toss of 140-9. She placed ninth of 25 throwers. She was fifth in the javelin at last year's NCAA national championships with a school-record-146-7.

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Quanette Jester (Sr., Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) won two events, set a school and meet record and qualified for the nationals in a sensational performance in the Millersville Metrics.

Jester captured the triple jump at 39-2, breaking her own school mark of 39-1 1/4 set two weeks ago and establishing a Millersville Metrics record. She also won the high jump at 5-6 1/2. She is now a provisional qualifier in both events for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships May 24-26 at SIU-Edwardsville.

Jenn Grube (see above) was runner-up in the javelin with a throw of 126-0. Placing third was Jackie Babbini (So. Cliffside Park, N.J./Cliffside Park) in the javelin, 119-6.

The Warriors placed second in their heat of the 4 x 100-meter relay for their top finish in the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.

The team of Mark Stinson (So., Wescosville, Pa./Emmaus), John Van Soest (Jr., Fair Lawn, N.J./Fair Lawn), Andrew Morris (Fr., Randolph, N.J./Randolph) and Tom Schultz (Fr., Marshalls Creek, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) was timed in 43.85. Springfield won the seven-team heat in 43.76.

The Warriors' 4 x 200-meter relay team of Stinson, Dan Garibaldi (Jr., Toms River, N.J./Toms River East), Mike Newhard (Fr., Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) and Schultz was third in its heat in 1:28.86, third fastest time in the school's history. Pitt was first in 1:25.33 with William Paterson second in 1:28.69.

In the annual C.M. Wetzler/Penn Relay, the ESU team was seventh of 13 schools in 3:21.08. Runners were Morris, 51.1, Garibaldi, 49.5, Jim Dawson (Fr., Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) 51.2, and Stinson, 48.5. Lock Haven, 3:16.62, Kuztown, 3:18.06, and Shippensburg, 3:18.44, took the first three places.

Newhard and Brad Fees (So., Port Carbon, Pa./Pottsville) both cleared 6-6 in the college high jump, but did not place.

Doug Springer (Jr., Randolph, N.J./Randolph) was the Warriors' lone top-three place-winner in the Millersville Metrics. He took third in the pole vault at 15-0.