District College category, Page 15
Burrell grad Armstrong battles through thumb injury to post solid freshman season for Gannon softballVideo
Adjusting to college softball is difficult enough. Doing it while coping with an injury is even tougher. When that affliction is a partially torn thumb ligament and the player dealing with it is a pitcher, that adds to the degree of difficulty. That’s the Cliffs Notes version of pitcher Katie...
Newly armed with scholarships, Westmoreland County Community College basketball attracting top local recruits
A boost in classification and the ability to offer athletic scholarships for the first time is allowing Westmoreland County Community College to cast a much wider net in the local basketball recruiting game. Players who once were untouchable are now willing to give the junior college path a look. “It...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Norwin grad makes Pan Am wrestling team
Norwin alum Kurtis Phipps qualified to wrestle in the U23 Pan American Championships on June 21-22 in Rionegro, Colombia. The Bucknell senior qualified in Geneva, Ohio, by reaching the 61kg finals of the U23 Freestyle Nationals. Phipps went 5-0 and advanced to the best-of-three finals before losing twice to Ohio...
Norwin grad Elijah Dunn perseveres through injuries, helps IUP baseball team make D-II World SeriesVideo
Truth be told, Elijah Dunn would have liked to contribute more to the IUP baseball team this season. But a series of injuries, including a broken big toe, hampered his availability. So the Norwin grad tried to make the most of it when he was in the lineup, and his...
Burrell grad Zach Miller plays role perfectly in helping IUP baseball team reach World SeriesVideo
IUP baseball coach Steve Kline remembers the encounter with Zach Miller well. Kline was entering his second year as the Crimson Hawks’ baseball coach, and Miller approached him in an on-campus parking lot. Miller, a Burrell grad, spent his initial college days at Cal (Pa.) but never took the field...
Miscues costly for IUP as Crimson Hawks’ run in D-II World Series ends
CARY, N.C. — The IUP baseball team had to come a long way to make it to the semifinals of the Division II College World Series. But advancing through the losers’ bracket of the double-elimination tournament was easy compared to what it took to get this far. So even though...
IUP baseball earns 3rd straight win at Division II College World Series
Turning away elimination for a third straight time in the NCAA Division II College World Series, surging IUP baseball pushed on and now sits one win away from the national championship game. Elijah Dunn, a Norwin product, went 2 for 4 with a home run, double, four RBIs and two...
Jake Black’s 8 shutout innings propel IUP baseball to Division II College World Series semifinalsVideo
Jake Black allowed two hits over eight shutout innings, and Elijah Dunn’s RBI single helped lift IUP to a 1-0 victory over Point Loma (Calif.) in a Division II College World Series elimination game Wednesday in Cary, N.C. No. 5-seeded IUP (40-17), now one of the final four teams remaining...
PAC moving to 2 divisions next year in 3 sports
The NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference will split into two divisions for men’s and women’s basketball, and women’s volleyball beginning in 2025. The conference will be 12 schools strong with the addition of Hiram, which returns to the league in 2025-26. There will be two, six-team divisions — North...
Former Latrobe state champ takes on head coaching job in NCAA Division I tennis
From a high school and college star to a 10-year professional and now a budding college coach, Joelle Kissell has experienced success at just about every level of tennis. The Latrobe graduate and Hostetter native is about to embark on her newest venture. Kissell is taking her knowledge of the...
IUP ousts top-seeded Central Missouri from Division II College World Series
The No. 5-seeded IUP baseball team secured the program’s first victory at the NCAA Division II College World Series on Monday, defeating top-seeded Central Missouri, 4-3, in Cary, N.C. IUP (39-17) scored runs in the second and fifth innings and plated two more in the bottom of the eighth to...
One-season wonder: Seton Hill’s Natasha Bernett places 4th in 2 events at Division II track and field championshipsVideo
As Seton Hill’s Natasha Bernett stepped in front of the blocks for her last collegiate track and field event — the NCAA Division II 100-meter hurdles final — she couldn’t help but smile. That was not her usual on-track demeanor. She always had a game face, one so intense that...
Freeport grad Tori Radvan ends softball career with solid senior season for Pitt-JohnstownVideo
When Tori Radvan walked onto the field for Pitt-Johnstown softball’s senior day, she was escorted by her older sister, Kristie. It was a fitting curtain-closer for Tori’s softball career. Three years earlier, when Kristie was a senior and Tori was a freshman with the Mountain Cats, Kristie suffered a torn...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Franklin Regional’s Palmer Jackson caps NCAA career
When Palmer Jackson tapped in for par on the ninth hole at Omni La Costa North Course in Carlsbad, Calif., last weekend, he brought an end to a shining college golf career at Notre Dame. Now, the turning-professional talk officially can begin. The grad student and Franklin Regional product tied...
IUP falls to Point Loma in 1st round of Division II College World Series
The No. 5-seeded IUP baseball team suffered a 2-1 defeat to No. 4 Point Loma (Calif.) in the first round of NCAA Division II College World Series on Saturday in Cary, N.C. First baseman Brady Yard knocked in the lone run for IUP in the top of the eighth inning....
IUP earns No. 5 seed in 1st NCAA Division II College World Series appearanceVideo
Following a dramatic 2-1 series victory over Seton Hill in the Atlantic Region Super Regionals last weekend, the IUP baseball team made history, qualifying for the NCAA Division II College World Series for the first time. The Crimson Hawks (38-16), led by coach Steve Kline, earned the No. 5 seed....
Apollo-Ridge grad Brandon Butler wraps up strong freshman season for Slippery Rock baseball team
Jeff Messer has been coaching baseball at Slippery Rock for four decades, so he knows a good player when he sees one. When he saw Apollo-Ridge grad Brandon Butler last fall during offseason workouts, he knew he had a future standout on his hands. And the future came quickly. When...
Franklin Regional grad Michael Wareham helps Gannon men’s golf win regional title, seeks individual win
Golf can be a stressful game. It requires perfection in almost every facet, and the slightest misstep can send the ball off in an unintended direction. Franklin Regional grad Michael Wareham, however, said he finds sanctuary on the golf course. Sure, the tournaments he plays with his Gannon teammates are...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Hempfield grad Jake Kramer earns All-American honors
It was closing time this season when Jake Kramer headed to the Cal (Pa.) bullpen. The sophomore out of Hempfield has risen to record status among the program’s relief pitchers, and his postseason honors are rolling in. Kramer was named as a National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Second-Team All-American, the...
IUP baseball advances to Division II World Series
Steve Kline has been around baseball for a long, long time. The former relief pitcher’s elbow bone spurs are a testament to his longevity on the baseball diamond during 11 seasons with five major league clubs, and before that a lot of years in various loops from Little League to...
CCAC Boyce baseball falls just short in district championship series
Monroeville’s CCAC Boyce baseball team started the 2024 season 3-11. Austin Long, who returned to the program last fall after having previously coached Boyce in 2018 and 2018, said he saw the team come together more in the second half of the schedule, and they went 9-10 over their final...
IUP evens Super Regional series with Seton Hill to force decisive Game 3 Sunday
Let’s play three. IUP’s Davin Landers stroked a three-run homer in the eighth inning Saturday, and the Crimson Hawks edged Seton Hill, 9-8, to even the best-of-three NCAA Division II Atlantic Super Regional series at a game apiece and send the teams to a third, deciding game Sunday. “Nothing better...
Golf team wins 1st women’s NCAA title for Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon captured the first women’s NCAA title in school history Friday when the golf team rolled to a 14-stroke victory at the Division III team championships at Keene Trace Golf Club in Kentucky. The victory came one year and five days after the men’s golf team gave CMU its...
Mandler’s homer helps Seton Hill beat IUP in super regional opener
Max Mandler was happy to contribute in such a big way, but the Seton Hill outfielder certainly wasn’t about to accept all the credit. Mandler hit a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning, and Seton Hill’s bullpen made it stand Friday in a 5-4 victory over IUP in the...
IUP baseball coach Steve Kline guides team to 1st Super Regional
For three seasons, from 1999-2001, left-hander Steve Kline led the National League in appearances, averaging 85 per year with Montreal and St. Louis during that time. In all, Kline pitched in 796 games during an 11-year major-league career. All but once he worked in relief — his lone start came...
