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Friday, August 02, 2002     Page: 2B

HS BASKETBALL
   
Pace Setters face tough game
    The Pace Setter Athletic Club high school basketball team of Northeastern
Pennsylvania puts its 11-1 record on the line tomorrow evening when it
welcomes the powerful Philadelphia Spirit.
   
Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Bishop O’Reilly High School in Kingston.
   
This will be the second meeting between the two clubs this summer. In the
first contest, the Pace Setters came away with a 98-96 victory in one of the
highest-scoring Pace Setter games in years.
   

   
LOCAL COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
   
King’s lands Midwest star
   
The King’s College women’s volleyball team has landed the services of a
player who figures to make an immediate impact for the Lady Monarchs.
   
Jessica McVey, a resident of Morton, Ill., will take her talents to King’s
after playing the 2001 season at junior college power Illinois Central.
   
The 5-foot-10 McVey helped lead Illinois Central to a 33-16 mark and an
11th place finish in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division
I National Tournament. She was second on the team in games played (159) while
finishing third with 500 digs. She also added 63 kills, 64 service aces, 36
assists and 14 blocks.
   
She was named a second-team All-Regional selection.
   
McVey attended Illinois Central after spending her freshman year at NCAA
Division II Northern Kentucky University where she played a reserve role on a
team which went 27-7 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II
National Tournament. The previous season NKU was 33-2 and reached the Division
II Final Four.
   
At King’s, she joins an NCAA Division III programs which comes off a 29-4
campaign and a second-place finish in the MAC Freedom Conference tournament.