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College basketball preview: Latrobe grad Butler has high hopes for basketball season
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...
Latrobe grad Emma Fenton shines in more prominent role for St. Francis (Pa.) volleyball
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...
Deer Lakes grad Jesse Greyshock anchors Grove City defense in goal as Wolverines chase elusive titleVideo
In the past six seasons, five teams have won the Presidents’ Athletic Conference men’s soccer championship. Grove City isn’t one of them, even though the Wolverines have been preseason favorites multiple times in that stretch. Grove City (11-5, 9-0 PAC) was picked as the favorite again this season, but, this...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Franklin Regional grad Mike Evans enters transfer portal
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...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Palmer Jackson makes PGA Tour debut
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...
After injuries derailed her college career, former GCC soccer star Bailey (Cartwright) Cullen returns to field
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...
District college football roundup: Seton Hill slams Edinboro for 1st win
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...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Penn-Trafford grad Bobby Lane to play baseball at VCU
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...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Saint Vincent closes in on winning football season
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’...
Norwin grad Caleb Yuricha’s goal-scoring ability helps make UPG men’s soccer a contenderVideo
Caleb Yuricha isn’t going to lie. He loves scoring goals. And why not? He has proven to be good at it in club soccer and at Norwin. Now, he is showing his goal-scoring prowess at the college level. Through Pitt-Greensburg’s 3-0 win over Pitt-Bradford on Saturday — it raised the...
Gateway grad Brady Walker, Saint Vincent look to finish season strong
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...
Shaler grad Parker Kilgore sets standard for resurgent Grove City defense
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...
District college football roundup: Brady Walker throws 5 TD passes in Saint Vincent win
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....
Westmoreland campus clippings: Mt. Pleasant grad Sam Napper leading PAC championships
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...
Kiski Area grad Jared Curcio helps Thiel football team end its 41-game losing streakVideo
The Thiel football team entered its Oct. 1 game against Bethany having lost 41 straight. That means none of the men on the Tomcats’ current roster had experienced a win at the college level. Junior safety/linebacker Jared Curcio had been on the roster for about a third of those losses,...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Pitt-Greensburg women’s tennis defends AMCC title
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...
District college roundup: Cal (Pa.) fends off Seton Hill upset bid
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 softball hires ex-Bethany coach
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...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Pitt-Greensburg soccer players honored
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...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Yough grad Appolonia scores first goal at YSU
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...
Burrell grad Ian Durci sees receiving numbers rise in second season at AlleghenyVideo
Ian Durci can laugh about it now, the way the Burrell football team’s offense has gone from coach Shawn Liotta’s preferred pass-happy style to ground and pound. “I bet coach Liotta isn’t too happy about that,” Durci said with a chuckle. Fortunately for Durci (5-foot-9, 160 pounds), as a receiver...
District college football roundup: IUP rallies past Cal (Pa.) for dramatic Coal Bowl win
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...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Norwin grad Sam Wexell posts 11th career shutout
This one was for all the bricks. And Sam Wexell was a brick wall. Wexell, redshirt senior goalkeeper, batted away and clutched shot after shot for Ohio University, posting the 11th shutout of her college career in a 2-0 victory over Miami. It was the annual “Battle of the Bricks”...
After 2 years with no game action, DiNunzio-Biss emerging for IUP defenseVideo
Every football player in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference was in the same boat in 2020: no game action after the season was canceled because of the pandemic. Then there was IUP’s Drew DiNunzio-Biss. DiNunzio-Biss came to IUP in 2019 after starring at Kiski Area and spent that season as...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Saint Vincent golfers win host tournament
Saint Vincent may have been a gracious host, but that didn’t stop the Bearcats from winning their own golf tournament. The SVC men claimed the title as four individuals finished inside the top five and the team finished with 323 strokes to top Grove City by 16. Junior Brevin Urso...
