Calling All Youth Basketball Players Youth Basketball Day Set for Saturday

SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) -- Susquehanna University will honor area youth basketball players and their coaches with free admission to this Saturday's home Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth League basketball doubleheader vs. Elizabethtown College. The women are slated for a 1 p.m. start, with the men set for a 3 p.m. tip-off in Susquehanna's O.W. Houts Gymnasium.

Any boys' or girls' basketball players and coaches from teams high school-aged and younger will be admitted to the game free by wearing any clothing identifiable with their team. Area youth basketball teams in attendance will also be recognized throughout the games.

Excluding Wednesday's league game at Moravian, the Crusader men have gotten back into the thick of the Commonwealth League playoff chase, now in fifth at 3-4 and just a game back of Widener for the fourth and final playoff spot. The women were 10-6 overall, 5-2 and tied for second in the Commonwealth League prior to Wednesday's game at Moravian.

The Elizabethtown women are one of the most storied programs in college history, now just four wins shy of becoming the first women's team to record 400 wins. The Blue Jays have won the Commonwealth League in all five seasons of its existence and are presently 7-0 and have a two-game lead in the league. At 14-1 overall, Elizabethtown is 13th in the latest Division III national poll, and second in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Blue Jay men are the surprise team of the Commonwealth League, now at 11-4, 5-2 and in second-place in the league.