CLARION (14-10 overall, 4-5 PSAC-West) AT LOCK HAVEN (3-21, 2-8)
PSAC-WEST MEN’S BASKETBALL
DATE: Feb. 21, 2004 LOCATION: Thomas Fieldhouse, Lock Haven, Pa. TIME: 3 p.m.
LAST GAMES: Clarion lost to Slippery Rock 60-49 Wed., while Lock Haven lost to Shippensburg 64-45
NEXT UP: Clarion is hosts Edinboro (8 p.m.) Wed., while Lock Haven is at Pitt-Johnstown Wed.
CLARION LAST 10 GAMES: 4-6 LOCK HAVEN LAST 10 GAME: 2-8
CLARION-LHU SERIES LAST 10 GAMES: Clarion leads 7-3
THIS SEASON: Clarion won 72-57 Jan. 28 ... See attached box score.
RECENT CLARION-LOCK HAVEN SERIES HISTORY: Clarion and Lock Haven have split the season series the last three years with three of the last four meeting being decided by a total of seven points … Last season at Lock Haven Clarion rallied from a 31-21 halftime deficit and a 15-point second-half deficit to get a 63-60 win when Rollie Smith hit the game-winning jumper with 11 seconds left.
CLARION LEADERS: Michael Clarke – 12.3 ppg, 7.0 rpg, 17 blocks; Terrance Vaughns – 12.1 ppg, 2.6 apg, 52 3-pointers; Ryan Wells – 11.1 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 2.0 spg, 1.8 apg; Justin Collins – 9.4 ppg, 54 3-pointers.
CLARION NOTES: Clarion has lost six straight games for the first time since losing nine straight at the end of the 1989-90 season … Clarion is tied with Slippery Rock for the fourth and final PSAC playoff berth from the PSAC-West … Each team has three games left … Clarion is at Lock Haven today, hosts Edinboro Wednesday and is at Shippensburg next Saturday … Slippery Rock is at IUP today, hosts California Wednesday and is at Lock Haven next Saturday … If both teams would win out the final playoff spot could come down to a series of complicated tiebreakers … The earliest Clarion could either clinch a playoff spot or be eliminated is after Wednesday’s games … Clarion could clinch a spot with two wins and two Slippery Rock loses or Clarion could be eliminated with two loses and two Slippery Rock wins … Junior Ryan Wells has been Clarion’s best player during conference play averaging 14.6 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 1.9 apg and 1.2 spg … Terrance Vaughns is adding 12.1 ppg and 25 3-pointers during the conference season, while Michael Clarke is adding 11.4 ppg and 7.1 rpg. Justin Collins gives the Golden Eagles four players scoring in double figures during conference play adding 10.2 ppg while hitting 50 percent of his three-pointers (22 of 44).