Fighting Scot Basketball
Edinboro University
vs
Point Park College
McComb Fieldhouse

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November 30,1992

NO
4
14
20
24
25
30
32
33
34
40
42
44
50

NAME
Ernest Giles
Phillip-Melton
Lasana Crider
Sean Gibson
Ron Santiago
Exavier 2k)llicoffer
Greg Fox
Sam Dickerson
Alex Boyden
Chris Paris
Adam Cheek
Keith Perry
Junior Simpson

Edinboro Fighting Scots
POS
G
F
F
F
G
F
G
F
F
F
G
F
C

HT
5-10
6-3
6-5
6-3
6-0
6-3
6-1
6-6
6-3
6-3
6-3
6-4
6-9

WT CL
160 Fr.
185 Fr.
200
Jr.
200 Sr.
165
Jr.
205
Jr.
170 Sr.^
215 Sf.
185
Jr.
180 So.
180' Sr.
180 Fr.
215 Sr.

Head Coach: Greg Walcavich (4th season)
Assistant Coach: Sterling Washington, Jr.
Manager: Joseph Nasal

Point Park Pioneers
NO
11
12
20
23
24
32
34
45
50

NAME
Brian Guerrieri
Brian Tomasic
Tim Lackner
Roger Mahaffey
Kenny Walls
Randy Smith
Dane Cosby
Lance Harrell '
Tom Raglin

POS
G
G
G
F
C
G
G/F
G
G

HT
5-10
6-0
6-0
6-4
6-5
6-3
6-3
6-3
6-2

WT
145
165
165
178
195
205
180
195
180

Head Coach: Bob Rager (4th season)
Assistant Coaches: Sam Kosanovich, Ed Meena

CL
So.
So.
Jr.
Sr.
So.
Sr.
Jr.
Jr.
Fr.

HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL
Cheswick/Springdale
Munhall/Steel Valley
Mayfield Hts., Ohio/Mayfield Village
Pittsburgh/Langley
Pittsburgh/Peabody
Cleveland Hts., Ohio/Cleveland Hts.
Aliquippa/Moon
Pittsburgh/Brashear
McKeespOTt/McKeesport

HOMETOWN/HIGH SCripOL
Pitlsburgh/Taylor Alderdice .
Philattelphia/Bartiam
4 ''
Oak ViUage. Ohio/Chanel
Pittsburgh/Langley
,
Oakville, Ontario/Loyola
''
Canton, Ohio/McKinley
Apollo/Apollo
Bedford Heights, Ohio/Bedford Hts.
Wilkinsburg/Wilkinsburg
Waltsburg/Seneca
Louisville, KY/Ballard
West Mifflin/West Mifflin
Barberton, Ohio/Barberton

1992-93 Results
Nov. 20 Alaska-Anchorage A 83-89
21 Alaska-Anchorage A 92-116
24 Alaska-Fairbanks A
25 Alaska-Fairbanks A
30 Point Park
H
Dec. 3 Gannon
A
9 Mercyhurst
H
11 West Va. Wesleyan H
19 Cheyney
H.
Jan. 4 Fairmont State
A
8-9 Bloomsburg Toum. A
13 Gannon
H
16 Columbia Union H
20 Slippery Rock
H
23 Lock liven
H
25 Clarion
A
27 Pitt-Johnstown
H
30 Califcffnia
H
Feb. 3 lUP
A
6 Shippensburg
H
10 Slippery Rock
A
13 Lock Haven
A
15 Clarion
H
17 Mercyhurst
A
20 C^ifomia
A
24 lUP
H
27 Shipi^nsburg
A
28 MiUersville
A
Mar. 5-6 PS AC Championship

Scots Searching for
Elusive PS AC Title
In J^is three seasons as coach of the Edinboro
Unive/isity men’s basketball team, head coach Greg
/ Walca ndi has led his ^qnad to 60 victories. But as he
/j
enter^ tiie 1992-93 campaign, the veteran coach wants
only
win...the one tn^t will propel his club to the
'
Pen^ylvania State Athletic Conference championship
N. an^nto the NCAA Division II national tournament.
', We’ve come as close as you can (to winning the
. coMerence title),” says Walcivich. “We’ve finished
^cond in each of the last three years. We could have
Wn it at some point in the last three years, but we
haven’t been able to do that.
“I would like to be able to win t^,ie (PSAC) West, and I
would like for us to be able to go ihto the four team
/playoff and win that, and I’d like t^be able to get to the
NCAA’s. But we really have a diffic^^lt time setting our
goals beyond winning the West, becadse we haven’t been
able to do that.”
^
And winning the West this season certainly won’t be
an easy task. Not with the likes of Slippery J^ck, lUP,
Lock Haven, Clarion and Shippensburg ail figuring to be
vastly improved, to say nothing of defending PSAC

But the good news for Walcavich is that he returns
his most experienced group including guard Adam
Cheek, the Boro’s leading scorer and a unanimous
PSAC West First Team pick last year.
Other returnees include seniors Greg Fox, Sam
Dickerson and Junior Simpson; juniors Lasana Crider,
Ron Santiago and Exavier Zollicoffer; and fi*eshman
Keith Perry.
Cheek, a 6-foot 2-inch senior, averaged 20.5 points
per game last season and established several school
records, including most points in a season (594). For
his efforts, he was named to the National Association
of Basketball Coaches All-East Region Second Team.
Cheek is also the Scots’ top returning rebounder (6.7
rpg).
X.
Joining Cheek in the ba(^court will be the versatile
Fox, who dished out 103 assists last year (second on
the team to graduated point guard Derek Walton). At
6-0, Fox scored 3.4 points per game a year ago. The 510 Santiago (2.0 ppg, 1.2 apg) will add depth at the
guard spot.
Up front, the 6-9 Simpson gets the nod at center,
after posting a team-high
49 blocks. Simpson, who
has been plagued by
'We really have a difficult time setting our goals beyond
injuries throughout his
winning the West, because we haven't been able to do that."
Boro career, averaged 7.0
I
points per game last year.
Scots Head Coach Greg Walcavich
The 6-7 Crider (3.2 ppg, 2.3
rpg) will push Simpson for
champion and Final Four participant California.
playing time.
“I would think that, aside from California and us, that
At forward, Walcavich will turn to a stable of players
everybody (in the West) would expect that they would be
to pick up the slack left by the departed Aaron Brown
better than they were last year,” says the Scots’ head
and Torry Rollins. Heading that list of hopefuls are
man. " I don’t know that we and California can’t be
Zollicoffer (6-3), Dickerson (6-6), Pehy (6-4) and
better but I would guess that everybody else feels like
newcomers Alex Boyden and Sean Gibson. Zollicoffer
they’re going to be much improved.”
averaged 6.5 points in 27 games a year ago, while
But in order for Edinboro to improve on its 20-9 (9-3 in
Dickerson scored at a 3.5 clip in 20 contests. .
the West) record of a year ago, it must not only overcome
Both Perry, a redshirt freshman, and Boyden, a
conference foes but also a brutal non-conference
transfer from Allegheny County Community College in
schedule. The slate includes NCAA Division II powers
Pittsburgh, will see their first action this season.
Alaska-Anchorage and Alaska-Fairbanks, PSAC East
Gibson was the Scots' second-leading scorer in 1990-91,
foes Cheyney and Millersville, as well as rivals Gannon
averaging 14!4 points per contest.
and Mercyhurst.
Edinboro begins its quest to reach the national
“I doubt that you could find a time in Edinboro history
playoffs for the first time since 1986, with a trip to
that the schedule has been as demanding as it will be
Alaska to take on the University of Alaska-Anchorage
this year,” admits Walcavich. “And I am certain that you
and Alaska-Fairbanks beginning Nov. 20. The Scots
couldn’t find a four-year period in a row where the
open their home slate Nov. 30 against Point Park.
schedule has been as demanding as ours has been.”

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