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Colleges have a soccer pipeline going to Franklin Regional and the recruits are producing at the next level. Sophomore Blake Cooper has been one of the top offensive threats in the AMCC for Penn State Behrend. The midfielder had a team-best 10 goals and six assists for 26 points through...

The Saint Vincent men’s cross country team collected a pair of top-10 finishes and three in the top 20 to finish fourth at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships Oct. 29 on its home course near campus in Latrobe. One of those top-10 finishes came from Gateway graduate Brady Sundin, who...

Molayo Irefin returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown – the longest play in school history – to lead Saint Vincent to a 53-16 victory over Waynesburg (4-5, 3-4) in PAC football Saturday afternoon. Irefin caught seven passes for 82 yards and two touchdowns from Brady Walker, who...

Bryce Butler took the Mountain East Conference and NCAA Division II Atlantic Region by storm last season. What will the former Latrobe standout do for an encore? A West Liberty junior swingman who is as surefire a bet to get a double-double as anyone in the country, Butler was the...

A freshman season of learning for former Latrobe girls volleyball standout Emma Fenton has evolved into a sophomore year of applying at St. Francis (Pa.). Fenton was learning the life of a college athlete last season as a wide-eyed first-year player before a year later applying all that in a...

Mike Evans continues to search for the right fit in college football. The former Franklin Regional standout receiver played only three games at Robert Morris before transferring to West Virginia. But before he ever saw the field in Morgantown, he was on the move again, entering his name into the...

Amateur Palmer Jackson is like a sponge when he is around professional golfers or plays high-level events at premier courses. So when he was granted a sponsor exemption to play his first event on the PGA Tour, he had his mental notebook ready. Jackson, a Franklin Regional grad and a...

Someone who once was featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” had disappeared into the crowd. After a legendary WPIAL career, many wondered what ever became of Bailey Cartwright. Four years flew by at Notre Dame, and Cartwright only played three games as she combated reoccurring leg problems. The...

Ky’Ron Craggette ran for 94 yards and two touchdowns as Seton Hill rolled to a 45-14 victory over Edinboro in PSAC football Saturday afternoon, picking up its first victory of the year. Taz Morris ran for 98 yards and a touchdown, and Damonte Pratt returned an interception 35 yards for...

Talk about a Lane shift. Bobby Lane is taking his baseball career in a new direction. The former Penn-Trafford standout is headed to Virginia Commonwealth of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Lane will be a redshirt junior when he finally suits up for VCU. Injuries played a part in the slow-going...

Saint Vincent was looking for a bust-out victory to move a game above .500 in conference play and continue its quest for a winning football season. The Bearcats made it happen. They erupted for a season-high 52 points and 439 yards in a 52-35 victory over Allegheny in a Presidents’...

Against Geneva College on Oct. 10, Brady Walker threw for 221 yards and three touchdowns to help Saint Vincent post a 41-25 Presidents’ Athletic Conference victory. Both were season highs for the Gateway graduate and Bearcats senior. The effort marked the fifth time in Walker’s collegiate career that he threw...

Grove City College football coach Andrew DiDonato’s has a playlist of video clips of senior middle linebacker Parker Kilgore’s greatest hits, and it might start with his first play as a college player. Instincts drew Kilgore, a Shaler graduate, into a passing lane, where he nearly grabbed an interception. As...

Brady Walker threw for 315 yards and five touchdowns to lead Saint Vincent (3-4, 3-2) to a 52-35 victory over Allegheny (2-6, 1-5) in a Presidents’ Athletic Conference matchup Saturday. Molayo Irefin caught nine passes for 103 yards and a touchdown for Saint Vincent, which picked up 439 yards overall....

Sam Napper will sit on a lead until April. The senior golfer from Westminster and a Mt. Pleasant graduate, Napper shares the 36-hole lead at the PAC Championships after rounds of 78 and 3-under 69 at Avalon Golf & Country Club in Warren, Ohio. He is tied with Allegheny sophomore...

Pitt-Greensburg pulled off a repeat as it defended its Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference women’s tennis title. The Bobcats handled Penn State Behrend, 5-0, in the conference title match. Your 2022 AMCC Women's Tennis Champions, the @upgbobcats! pic.twitter.com/HDi6NLsDhZ— AMCC Sports (@AMCCsports) October 16, 2022 UPG (11-1) will play in the NCAA...

Noah Mitchell was 15 for 30 for 239 yards and two touchdowns as Cal (Pa.) held on for a 21-14 victory over Seton Hill in PSAC football Saturday night. JaQuae Jackson had five catches for 138 yards and a score, helping the Vulcans (4-3, 3-1) take a 21-0 lead after...

Seton Hill’s new softball coach will inherit a team that has a nice ring to it. Cassie Moore was named the Griffins’ coach Tuesday, replacing Jessica Strong, who resigned in August after a four-season run of success. SB: Cassie Moore Named Seton Hill Softball Coach. Spent previous four years at...

Pitt-Greensburg was the place for soccer awards last week. The Bobcats women’s team had a pair of honorees as senior Ashley Lucas was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference South Player of the Month. Her teammate, freshman Megan Hickey, was tabbed the ECAC South Region Rookie of the Month. And...

Justine Appolonia was a goal-scoring machine when she played at Yough. The soccer team’s all-time goals leader with 117, Appolonia is now a junior at Youngstown State, and she is becoming more prominent in the Penguins’ attack. Appolonia scored her first career goal for YSU in a 3-0 victory over...

Dayjur Stewart scored on a 1-yard run with 1:27 left in the game as No. 18 IUP rallied for a 22-21 PSAC victory over Cal (Pa.) in the 13th Coal Bowl on Saturday. The Vulcans led 21-10 heading into the final quarter before IUP (5-0, 3-0) closed the gap on...