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ESU-West Chester Women's Basketball

 

WEST CHESTER - Senior standout Shannon Schwilk scored 21 points in her final game at East Stroudsburg University, but it was not enough as West Chester University upended the Warriors, 67-49, in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division women's basketball game Wednesday night.

ESU (11-15, 3-9 PSAC East) trailed early in the contest but used a 7-0 run midway through the first half to grab a 17-16 lead. West Chester (11-13, 6-5) responded with an 11-0 spurt of its own as Amy Mac Donald hit a three-pointer and then followed an Amy Buda jumper by assisting on two more 'threes' by Emily Bender to push the Rams' lead to 27-17 with 8:32 remaining.

The Warriors did cut the lead to six late in the half, but West Chester scored the final five points to take a 34-23 lead to the locker room. ESU whittled the lead to eight on two occasions in the second half but could get no closer.

Schwilk finished the season with 391 points, giving her 1,026 for her career, which is good enough for ninth place on the Warriors' all-time scoring list. Fellow-senior Marie Schlegel dished out four assists, giving her 166 on the season. She fell four shy of Stacy Perryman's record 170, set in the 1995-96 campaign. West Chester's Carolyn Casey led all players with 24 points on 11-of-14 shooting.

 

West Chester 67

Rozich 2 1-2 5, Carter 0 0-0 0, MacDonald 2 2-2 7, Manlove 2 0-0 4, Casey 11 2-3 24, Buda 2 2-2 6, Bender 3 0-0 9, Seifert 0 4-4 4, DeYoung 0 0-0 0, Voorhees 0 0-0 0, Timothy 4 0-3 8, Bodolus 0 0-0 0. Totals: 26 11-16 67.

 

ESU 49

Ross 3 0-0 6, Schwilk 10 0-0 21, Schlegel 1 0-0 2, Pilenza 1 4-6 6, Hutchison 2 1-2 5, Brennan 0 0-0 0, Kuhn 0 2-3 2, Barnes 0 0-0 0, Camisa 1 1-1 3, Helt 1 2-4 4, Buss 0 0-0 0, McLoughlin 0 0-0 0. Totals: 19 10-16 49.

Three-Point Goals: West Chester - Bender 3, MacDonald; ESU - Schwilk.