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By STEVE SEMBRAT
Saturday, October 22, 1994     Page: 7B

Times Leader Assistant Sports Editor
   
Today’s Wilkes-Widener game at 1 p.m. at Ralston Field in Edwardsville
figures to be the closest thing to a Middle Atlantic Conference title game
this season.
    Wilkes and Widener are currently the only two teams that are undefeated in
MAC play. If the Colonels win, they’ll have a great shot at winning the
overall MAC championship for the second straight year.
   
Yet Wilkes certainly doesn’t clinch the title with a win today. The
Colonels have a very tough road ahead.
   
Should Wilkes beat Widener, the Colonels will need back-to-back wins on the
road against Lycoming, then Susquehanna, to take the crown. Pulling out wins
at those schools is about as easy as pulling teeth out of a live grizzly bear.
   
The Colonels wrap up the regular season against cross-town rival King’s.
That game could be huge for Wilkes with plenty of playoff implications — but
only if the Colonels start out the journey toward that date with a victory
over Widener today.
   
King’s, meanwhile, hits the road today to take on Juniata in Huntingdon.
Rumor has it if you make a wrong turn on the way out to this quaint little
town in Central Pennsylvania, you fall off the edge of the world and get eaten
by a dragon.
   
In any case, it is a difficult road trip no matter where you’re coming
from, and the Monarchs are hoping to take this route to get their first
victory of the season.
   
This figures to be King’s last chance at a win in the 1994 season, since
the Monarchs end their season against three MAC powers: FDU-Madison, Moravian
and Wilkes.
   
Much, much closer to home, Bloomsburg hosts Kutztown, rounding out the
area’s small college football schedule this weekend. This figures to be a very
entertaining game between a pair of up-and-coming teams in the Pennsyvlania
State Athletic Conference’s Eastern Division. Bloomsburg has a shot at the
PSAC East crown, and needs a victory to keep those hopes alive.