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A Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division title that came with a 12-0 record earned the Seton Hill women’s lacrosse team a number of awards. The accolades start with senior Makayla Kintner, who was named the division’s defensive player of the year. Mila Udovicic, meantime, was picked for the rookie...

Going through a period of adjustment is not unusual for a freshman college athlete. There’s the speed of the game, the amount of work required away from regular practices, not to mention juggling school work and all the other trappings of college life. But on a team with plenty of...

Seton Hill baseball has a 26-game winning streak in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, a .979 team fielding percentage, a 3.20 team ERA and a No. 16 ranking in the country. While impressive on a national scale, it is unlikely any of it happens without a local pool of recruits....

Because IUP was on the threshold of surpassing the 50-game limit for the regular season, the Crimson Hawks’ baseball program is facing sanctions from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. The PSAC announced Tuesday that IUP, which “failed to monitor its permissible NCAA contest limitations,” will forfeit a game and face...

Seton Hill celebrated under the lights in Ohio. Now its postseason future looks bright. The men’s lacrosse team clinched the Great Midwest Conference regular season title with a 13-5 victory Wednesday night at Walsh. Senior Peyton Gensler led the offense with a hat trick and an assist, while senior midfielder...

His trademark cowboy hat perched atop his head, Allegheny junior Jacob Boord stood proudly at the top of the medal stand. The Hempfield product won his third conference javelin title at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships. Boord’s clinching throw sailed 207 feet, 7 inches and set a facility record. 2023...

When Kayla and Deanna Gratton shared the softball diamond growing up, they always did it on the same team. But on April 8, the Monroeville sisters and Gateway High School graduates found themselves on opposite sides for the first time. Kayla, a junior captain for Waynesburg, and Deanna, a freshman...

When Anthony Accardi was hired last August as the men’s lacrosse coach at Westminster College, it was a clean slate for the returning players in terms of opportunity to get on the field and contribute to team success. Nick Hubner took that to heart. The Plum graduate, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound...

Seton Hill looks to be playing some of its best softball late in the season. The Griffins ran their winning streak to nine with a doubleheader sweep of Pitt-Johnstown on Thursday to move to 24-12 overall and 17-5 in the PSAC West. Junior Brooke Cleland (Penn-Trafford) went 2 for 4...

For Allegheny junior thrower Jacob Boord, here’s the bad news: He won’t have a chance to become a three-time North Coast Athletic Conference champion in the javelin. But here’s the good news: The Hempfield grad has a new conference to conquer. The Gators moved their athletic programs out of the...

For sports teams, end-of-the-season banquets are a time to look back at the accolades and accomplishments of the prior months. For Fox Chapel grad Neena Pietropaolo, the 2022 Mercyhurst softball banquet was a time to look ahead. Pietropaolo served as the Lakers’ manager last season, and at the end of...

If defense wins championships, it might be a good time for Seton Hill to start shopping ring-fitters. The Griffins baseball team has a dragnet defense that is keeping opposing offenses off the field and smothering rallies. Through 37 games, Seton Hill was ranked sixth in the country in NCAA Division...

Plum graduate Nick Hubner, a senior attacker on the Westminster men’s lacrosse team, earned his second straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference men’s lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. He scored nine goals and added two assists in a pair of games for the Titans. Hubner tallied a pair of...

With an extra year of eligibility, it was just a matter of time before Bailey Parshall took over the Penn State softball record book. That time came Tuesday in University Park. They call her “Queen B” but Parshall is more like “Queen K.” The fifth-year pitcher broke two program records,...

Clarion senior Jenna Uncapher (Hempfield) and sophomore Leah Perry (Derry) competed in the heptathlon at the Messiah Multi. Uncapher opened the Messiah Multi with a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.89 seconds. She tied for fourth in the high jump (1.50 meters) and won the...

New athletic programs usually need an adjustment period — give or take five years — before they start thinking postseason wins. But the Saint Vincent men’s volleyball program, which began playing competitive games just four years ago, is ahead of the curve. The Bearcats posted their first playoff win, taking...

Tasked with what he considered the toughest decision of his life — even tougher than giving up high school football when he blew out his knee as a freshman — Bryce Butler decided where he will play his final year of college basketball. More than 60 schools showed interest in...

Senior Kiley Myers was known for her aggressiveness and speed from the pitching circle when she played at Latrobe. Those traits followed her to college softball at Marist. Myers recently earned the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week after winning three straight starts. She pitched a three-hit shutout...

Jake Williams would not let his team lose. In the huddle during a timeout, Williams, a 6-foot-1 senior outside hitter for the Geneva men’s volleyball team, exhorted his teammates to pick up their performance. Alderson Broaddus had tied their nonconference match at one set each, and Williams could feel momentum...

Like all coaches, Pitt-Greensburg baseball manager Scott Adams was optimistic about his latest incoming crop of freshmen. But Adams had a sense this season’s group of newbies could be special. At the midway point of the season, he has seen nothing to change that impression. Through early April, the Bobcats...

Kiyara Sawyers is making the most of her freshman season on the Point Park women’s track and field team. At the Tim Weaver Invitational at West Liberty State (W.Va.) on April 1, the 2022 Gateway graduate placed fourth overall in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 5 minutes, 25...

About three weeks ago, one match at the NCAA Championships knocked the college wrestling world off its axis. The nation watched as Iowa sensation Spencer Lee writhed under Purdue’s Matt Ramos, bending and trying to peel his opponent off and turn him as time ticked away, finally submitting for a...

Walk-off wins have become a hot commodity for the Seton Hill baseball team. Nobody has done it better lately, or with more flair, than the Griffins. They were at it again Sunday, earning two thrilling, extra-inning victories against visiting Pitt-Johnstown to stretch their winning streak to 11. (The streak has...

Jake Williams took a gap year after he left Franklin Regional and enrolled at Yale. Now, he is hitting gap shots for the baseball team. Williams, a junior, was a hero last week for the Bulldogs when he capped a four-hit game with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom...