SLIPPERY ROCK— Matt Schaefer scored 14 points and Jamar Scales added seven points and seven rebounds to pace the Slippery Rock University men's basketball team to a 53-43 triumph over visiting Lock Haven Saturday.

The win moved SRU (5-16, 3-4) moved into a fourth-place tie in the PSAC-West. The top four teams in each division will reach post-season play.

The 43 points allowed is the fewest allowed by an SRU team since the 1989-90 season while SRU's total was its second-lowest since 1981-82.

Julie Molloy, a Grove City High graduate, scored a team-high 17 points, but The Rock fell to visiting Lock Haven 62-59 Saturday.SRU (7-15, 1-6), which has lost five consecutive games, misfired on a pair of three-point attempts before the buzzer.Haley Gaidosh and Amanda Nero added 13 points apiece while KellyAnn Staudinger had seven points and 10 rebounds.

Brad Mueller (Mars) sprinted to a school-record time of 6.36 seconds in the 55-meter dash to key seven first-place efforts at the SRUOpen Friday.Mueller earned a provisional berth in the NCAA Division II national championship meet in March.Other winners were Chris Geddis (800, 2:00.73), Eric Novick (55 hurdles, 8.25), Steve Brenner (high jump, 6-0.75), Tim Tray (pole vault, 15-5.75), Adam Jones (35-pound weight throw, 54-7.25) and the 1,600 relay team (3:36.16).

Freeport grad Lacey Cochran (800, 2:26.85), Allison Smith (55 hurdles, 8.84) and Tiffany Tedesco (55 dash, 7.56) each won an individual event as well as teamed up with Amanda Seigworth to win the 1,600 relay (4:10.5) at the SRUInvitational Friday.Jen Hansen pole-vaulted a school-record 15 feet, 6.75 inches in winning the event as did Tina Beggs (200, 27.36), Crystal Burnick (3,000, 10:36.64), Whitney Hendershot (high jump, 5-1.75) and Jaime Wright (mile, 5:19.14).