Last Week Revisited Highlights of performances by district individuals and teams the past week: California running back Antoine Bagwell, an NCAA Division II All-American who rushed for 1,588 yards and scored 152 points, is the school's first player invited to the Hula Bowl All-Star game Jan. 21 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. Bagwell will be among a handful of non-Division I players. Several players were named to The Sports Network NCAA Division I-AA Mid-Major All-America team -- Duquesne OT Matt Bovich, LB Harry Carter, DLs Josh Antinopolous and Antoine Bullock; Robert Morris DL Jason Forrest and LB James Noel; Saint Francis WR Michael Caputo. Westminster kicker Chris Castillo had field goals of 35 and 32 yards and three extra points to help the South defeat North, 27-14, for the first time in the five-year history of the East Coast Bowl in Petersburg, Va., which features players from Division I-AA, II and III teams in the Eastern United States. Thiel senior offensive tackle Dave Hendricks will play for the United States team of NCAA Division III players against the Mexican National team Dec. 17 in the Aztec Bowl in Toluca, Mexico. Slippery Rock senior nose tackle Robert Minnie (Ringgold) will be on the East team in the Cactus Bowl that features NCAA Division II players Jan. 6 at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Gary Edwards, who served a disciplinary suspension imposed by the university during an investigation of the men's basketball program, has returned to coach IUP and will step down after the end of the season.

His first game back was an 81-79 victory Wednesday at Juniata in which Eddie Peterson scored 42 points, including a winning 3-pointer with nine seconds remaining.

Although Edwards wouldn't discuss the suspension, he talked at length about the job that assistants Wes Layton and Robby Pridgen did in his absence and his future and that of the Indians (5-1).

"I've watched a lot of tape of the games right after they were played, just to see how the guys were doing," said Edwards, who is in his 10th season as IUP's coach. "It was a heroic job by the assistants, and the players did a tremendous job taking ownership of the team. I didn't want to assume anything, but I was hoping I'd come back. I never was not the head coach, technically."

But Layton and Pridgen have run things from the first day of practice.

"The dynamics of the team are a little different, but the basic concepts were still there," Edwards said. "They put their own wrinkles on it, as it should be."

Edwards is looking to continue coaching after this season.

"I've always been a coach, I am a coach and I want to continue to be a coach," he said. "You do a lot of personal and professional reflection during something like this."

Terrific Tartans

The Carnegie Mellon men's basketball team is 7-0 for the best start in school history and is inching closer to the NCAA Division III Top 25. On the strength of a 72-71 victory against then-No. 12 Rochester, the Tartans moved up to 29th in the D3hoops.com poll. Nate Maurer, a 6-foot-6 senior forward, scored 41 points, including CMU's final 16 of the game, against Rochester. He was two points shy of Bill Soffa's school record set in 1957-58 season. Maurer set a school record with seven 3-pointers on eight attempts and scored 31 of his points in the second half as the Tartans ended Rochester's 23-game home winning streak in the University Athletic Association.

Maurer, a transfer from Grove City as a junior, was the player of the year in the Presidents' Athletic Conference as a sophomore. He grew up in Mt. Lebanon and attended Linsly Academy (W.Va.). Maurer was named ECAC Southern Men's Basketball athlete of the week for his performance against Rochester.

Maurer (19.6 ppg) leads the Tartans in scoring, followed by 6-4 senior Clayton Barlow-Wilcox (17 ppg, 9.3 rpg).

The Tartans are on the road tonight at Skidmore and tomorrow at Union. They take a break over the holidays and return for a game Dec. 28 at Division I Princeton.

Short jumpers

Point Park (6-3) features Chivas Wipple, a 6-2^{1/₂ freshman who is the ninth-leading scorer in NAIA Division II with a 21.3 average, and fourth in rebounding at 10.8. Denny DiPasquale}, a 6-1 junior from Shaler, averages 17.6 points and shoot 43 percent from beyond the arc. The Pioneers average 90.1 points with five players scoring in double figures ... Westminster (1-4) is the highest-scoring team in the district with 114.4 points per game ... Pitt-Bradford's Ryan Race (27.7 ppg), a 6-3 junior from Bradford, is the top scorer in the district. He set school records with 55 points and 22 field goals (28 attempts) in a 131-119 victory against Marietta last month. ... Mercyhurst (6-1) has gotten a boost from 6-2 junior guard Avi Fogel (17.3 ppg), a transfer from Division I San Diego, where he started 14 games last season ... Saint Vincent (5-3) is led by 7-0 Jeff Mallory (17.3 ppg, 8.4 rpg).