Dave Mackall stories, Page 5
Duquesne men lose to Saint Louis in overtime, get No. 9 seed for A-10 tournament
It was some early madness. From the start Saturday night, Duquesne and Saint Louis weren’t about to concede. But somebody had to win. Gibson Jimerson scored a career-high 35 points, Robbie Avila added 22 — including a key 3-point shot with 36 seconds left in overtime — and Saint Louis...
Robert Morris women defeat Northern Kentucky, advance to Horizon League semis MondayVideo
During the women’s basketball regular season, Northern Kentucky gave Robert Morris fits. On Thursday in the Horizon League Tournament quarterfinals, the Colonials returned the favor. Noa Givon scored a season-high 23 points, and No. 4 seed Robert Morris defeated No. 5 Northern Kentucky, 70-57, at UPMC Events Center to advance...
Robert Morris men top Wright State in Horizon League quarters in front of record crowd
Robert Morris’ UPMC Events Center was rocking Thursday night. And why not? The Colonials are a hot ticket these days. They certainly didn’t disappoint their screaming faithful in passing their first test in the Horizon League Tournament for their eighth consecutive victory and 14th in the past 15 games. Kam...
Well-traveled Woods plays important role in getting Robert Morris the top seed for the Horizon League Tournament
In high school, Kam Woods was a phenom on the basketball court. After all, he didn’t score nearly 4,000 career points by accident. He averaged 38.1 as a senior at Pinson Valley in suburban Birmingham, Ala. It’s just one small highlight in the big picture of Woods’ illustrious background that...
Duquesne men cool off, lose to VCU at home
The league’s top team was facing the defending Atlantic 10 champs. Virginia Commonwealth had revenge on its mind. But for a time Tuesday night, it was Duquesne that was looking like the better team, the fresher team, the hungrier team. “Early in the game, we were very disruptive,” Duquesne coach...
Duquesne’s Megan McConnell named A-10 defensive player of year
Duquesne senior Megan McConnell on Tuesday was named the Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year in women’s basketball. The Chartiers Valley product and a sister of Indiana Pacers guard T.J. McConnell also earned a place on the all-conference first team, defensive team and academic team. “We celebrate Meg and...
Robert Morris men claim 3 Horizon League postseason awards
Five years into its Horizon League membership, Robert Morris finally is proving the prognosticators wrong. Picked to finish ninth in the 11-team conference and with no one on the preseason all-league men’s basketball teams, the Colonials on Monday claimed three of the Horizon’s major postseason awards less than a week...
Folgueiras’ health a concern for top-seeded Robert Morris as Horizon League Tournament approaches
Top-seeded Robert Morris entered the week with a bit of uncertainty as the start of the Horizon League Men’s Basketball Tournament loomed. The Colonials (23-8), one of five teams with first-round byes, were looking ahead to the quarterfinals on Thursday night with an eye on the status of injured sophomore...
Fort Cherry’s Welsh earns only gold for WPIAL at Class 2A wrestling regionals
ALTOONA — The WPIAL nearly was shut out Saturday in the championship matches of the PIAA Class 2A Southwestern Regional wrestling tournament at Altoona High School. Fort Cherry’s Braedon Welsh made sure there was a winner. Down to the final two weight classes — PIAA Districts 5 and 6 dominated...
Duquesne heats up from 3-point range, drops George Mason
They made the old guys proud. On Senior Day and with members of Duquesne’s 1977 Atlantic 10 men’s basketball champions in the house, the current Dukes put on a championship-caliber show on Saturday at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. Tre Dinkins III scored 20 points, Cam Crawford added 16 and the duo...
Robert Morris men win, clinch their 1st Horizon League regular-season titleVideo
After four agonizing seasons in the Horizon League, Andy Toole finally is back on top. And the longtime Robert Morris men’s basketball coach is hoping for even more. “We’ll enjoy this tonight and then we’ll be back to work (Friday) trying to figure out what we’ve got to do to...
Duquesne men never trail, defeat La Salle in Philly
Duquesne reverted to a familiar playing style from last season’s Atlantic 10 championship team and won a men’s basketball game Wednesday night for just the second time on the road this season. That’s right, it wasn’t pretty. Taking a page from former coach Keith Dambrot’s guide to winning ugly, Tre...
Playoff magic carries Peters Township past Mars into WPIAL Class 5A title game
Peters Township junior Dylan Donovan, wearing sweats and a hoodie, stood on the court and talked to friends Tuesday night not long after the Indians beat Mars in overtime and advanced to the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball championship game. He also appeared dry, even though in the locker room...
Robert Morris men roll past Milwaukee for 12th victory in past 13 games
And just like that, Robert Morris is in first place in the Horizon League men’s basketball standings. For the first time. Ever. Don’t tell coach Andy Toole, though. He’s not biting. “We’ve just got to keep doing what we do,” Toole said Sunday after Robert Morris’ 72-59 victory over Milwaukee...
Duquesne can’t overcome early deficit in loss to St. Bonaventure
They staged their 136th meeting in a men’s basketball series dating to 1920. St. Bonaventure is Duquesne’s most frequent all-time opponent. And get this: The average score in the first 135 games? Duquesne 71.6, St. Bonaventure 70.9, a difference of less than a point. The latest affair Saturday at Reilly...
Robert Morris men top Green Bay for 11th win in past 12 games
Everyone in the Robert Morris locker room was delighted with another victory. Nobody could’ve been thrilled with much else. Not even Kam Woods, the Colonials senior guard who flirted with a triple-double. This was Green Bay, after all. “It’s your biggest fear as a coach,” Robert Morris’ Andy Toole said...
Duquesne drops Fordham at home to stay in A-10 race
David Dixon raised the roof multiple times Wednesday night at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse to the delight of a home Duquesne basketball crowd energized by the sounds of the Mt. Pleasant High School marching band, which was making a guest appearance alongside the Duquesne pep band. The Dukes, led by Dixon’s...
Latrobe hockey hopes to make push for playoff seeding in final stretch
Some day, maybe Adam Ferguson will fulfill an ambition to join college hockey’s coaching ranks. For now, he’s content with the high school level. “I’m enjoying it, for sure,” said Ferguson, Latrobe’s second-year coach. “I’m enjoying my staff. I’m enjoying being around the players. I certainly can’t complain about how...
Robert Morris basketball stays hot, defeats Purdue Fort Wayne
The ball worked its way inside the paint and back to the arc as the shot clock ticked into single digits. Back inside and out to Kam Woods in the right corner. Woods’ 3-point shot went up and bounded off the back of the iron before kissing the backboard and...
With tenacious coach Andy Toole leading the way, Robert Morris surges in Horizon League
When Andy Toole took the men’s basketball reins at Robert Morris in 2010, he was going by his given name, Andrew. As time passed, it, naturally, morphed into Andy. A decade later, the Colonials, for years among the top contenders in the lightly regarded Northeast Conference, made their way to...
Scoring leader Dinkins, Duquesne prepare for final stretch of A-10 schedule
The way Duquesne’s Tre Dinkins III sees it, basketball is a pretty simple game. At any level. The 6-foot-2 guard from Chester seems to have played the game with ease everywhere he’s been. He was an all-Philadelphia Catholic League second-team player at Cardinal O’Hara. He was an NJCAA All-America third-team...
Robert Morris defeats Horizon leader Cleveland State
Robert Morris sent a stern message Wednesday night to the rest of the Horizon League men’s basketball teams. League-leading Cleveland State certainly heard it loud and clear: “Beware.” “You can’t beat a team like Cleveland State on the road unless you get contributions from everybody, and that’s what we did...
Duquesne grinds out victory over Loyola Chicago to end 5-game skid
A 13-point victory? With the way Duquesne’s offense was broken, how did that happen? The Dukes went scoreless for nearly 7 1/2 minutes to open the second half Saturday, missing their first 11 shots along the way, yet they recovered on the strength of their defense and beat Loyola Chicago,...
Jeannette boys make memories in win over Clairton
It was a special moment Friday on senior night for one Jeannette boys basketball player. Oh, how Casen Clary knows it. He scored the first points of his high school career for the second-ranked Jayhawks in the final minute of their 60-45 WPIAL Section 1-2A victory over visiting Clairton moments...
Robert Morris looks to follow path of fellow mid-major Duquesne to NCAA Tournament
Remember last season? Who could forget when Duquesne won the Atlantic 10 Tournament in men’s basketball and surged to its first NCAA Tournament in something like a million years? Remember that? It had been 47 seasons — the year was 1977, to be exact — since the Dukes made The...
