2008 Woodie Awards
PSAC adds more fuel to fire
Michael DeSumma
Issue date: 9/24/07 Section: Sports
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When it comes to Division II sports, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference holds its own in terms of stiff competition.
All a person has to do is look at the 2007 Golden Rams football season to prove that point true. Aside from having to deal with a familiar Bloomsburg group this week, Bill Zwaan and company will have to face a California team that is making a huge impact out west, as well as the Golden Bears of Kutztown University, who have been keeping pace with them back here in the east.
Last winter, the West Chester men and women's basketball teams ended their seasons with losses to in-conference opponents. Dick Delaney and his men felt the sting all through late February with critical losses to Mansfield, Bloomsburg and a Millersville Marauders team that was nationally ranked. The Lady Rams, on the other hand, held their own by winning 7 straight conference games late in the season to make the playoffs. However, they too eventually met their fate with a loss to Millersville in the first round.
All in all, with competition as rough as it is in the PSAC, it's hard to imagine how things could get any more heated. However, this past June, league officials announced their intentions to throw another log on the fire.
Actually they're going to throw three.
Beginning with the 2008-2009 sports season, the PSAC will be joined by three new participating athletic programs: the Golden Knights of Gannon University, the Lakers of Mercyhurst College and the Pioneers of Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus. Gannon and Mercyhurst both are located near Erie, Pennsylvania, and will become full time additions to the league next year, while C.W. Post will only be participating in football and field hockey as an associate member.
The new teams will bring a world of difference to the realm of the PSAC with 14 current members is one of the largest conferences with all its participating schools in the same state. What was originally a league made up only of schools in the Pennsylvania state system, will now feature private universities with the addition of Mercyhurst and Gannon as well as a school from New York state.
All a person has to do is look at the 2007 Golden Rams football season to prove that point true. Aside from having to deal with a familiar Bloomsburg group this week, Bill Zwaan and company will have to face a California team that is making a huge impact out west, as well as the Golden Bears of Kutztown University, who have been keeping pace with them back here in the east.
Last winter, the West Chester men and women's basketball teams ended their seasons with losses to in-conference opponents. Dick Delaney and his men felt the sting all through late February with critical losses to Mansfield, Bloomsburg and a Millersville Marauders team that was nationally ranked. The Lady Rams, on the other hand, held their own by winning 7 straight conference games late in the season to make the playoffs. However, they too eventually met their fate with a loss to Millersville in the first round.
All in all, with competition as rough as it is in the PSAC, it's hard to imagine how things could get any more heated. However, this past June, league officials announced their intentions to throw another log on the fire.
Actually they're going to throw three.
Beginning with the 2008-2009 sports season, the PSAC will be joined by three new participating athletic programs: the Golden Knights of Gannon University, the Lakers of Mercyhurst College and the Pioneers of Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus. Gannon and Mercyhurst both are located near Erie, Pennsylvania, and will become full time additions to the league next year, while C.W. Post will only be participating in football and field hockey as an associate member.
The new teams will bring a world of difference to the realm of the PSAC with 14 current members is one of the largest conferences with all its participating schools in the same state. What was originally a league made up only of schools in the Pennsylvania state system, will now feature private universities with the addition of Mercyhurst and Gannon as well as a school from New York state.
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