Rich Hofmann: Hawks' seniors finally win the war
AS DAY TURNED into night yesterday, as another hot appointment in the old gym beckoned, the thought had to have entered the heads of Pat Calathes and Rob Ferguson, at least fleetingly. This was going to be the last chance for the two seniors who start for the Saint Joseph's Hawks, their last swing in a rivalry played with bludgeons, their last chance to beat Villanova.
Three games, three losses - and two of them were merciless maulings. That was the St. Joe-Villanova line on the resumes of Calathes and Ferguson, the old men on a resurgent team. It is the line that everyone's eyes find on a page full of type - everyone who has lived or loved or just watched this rivalry over the years. You measure yourself in a dozen different ways as a




