Monday, November 10, 2003

KORSAK & JACOUBS NAMED MORAVIAN STUDENT-ATHELTES OF THE WEEK

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Freshman Valerie Korsak (Coplay, PA/Whitehall HS) from the women’s volleyball team and freshman Chris Jacoubs (Fair Haven, NJ/Rumson-Fair Haven HS) of the football squad have been named the Moravian College Student-Athletes of the Week for their performances last week.

Korsak, a setter, led the Greyhounds to the Commonwealth Conference Championship match for the eighth straight season before Moravian fell to eventual champion Juniata College. Korsak had 42 assists and nine digs in the Greyhounds’ 3-0 victory at Lebanon Valley College in the semifinals, and she added 21 assists and seven digs in the loss at Juniata. Moravian has a 26-9 overall record and will find out on Monday, November 10th if the squad has received its third straight bid to the Eastern College Athletic Conference South Championships.

Jacoubs, a tailback, ran for a school-record 319 yards and three touchdowns on 51 carries but Albright College rallied from a 24-14 fourth quarter deficit to a 28-24 victory in MAC action. Jacoubs broke James Evanko’s school record of 256 yards set on November 14th, 1953 against Wagner College. Jacoubs passed the mark on a 21-yard carry, his 39th attempt of the game, with 12 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Jacoubs’ 319 yards was the second highest single-game total in MAC history and leaves him just 28 yards shy of becoming the second running back in Moravian history to reach 1,000 yards in a single season and 77 yards short of Jim Joseph’s single season record of 1,048 yards. Jacoubs had four carries of over 20 yards in the game with nine attempts of over 12 yards and a long run of 46 yards on the second play of the game. Moravian has a 3-6 overall record this season and a 3-6 slate in the MAC. The Greyhounds will closeout the 2003 season with a non-conference game at rival Muhlenberg College on Saturday, November 15th at 1:00 p.m. at Scotty Wood Stadium in Allentown, Pennsylvania.