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Westmoreland campus clippings: Greensburg’s Loren Byers caps freshman year at PSU
Loren Byers took his place among the starting lineup on the Penn State tennis team and put together a strong freshman season. Byers, who is from Greensburg and attended Greensburg Salem for one year before attending 21st Century Cyber Charter School, finished 17-10 in singles, and 6-8 playing doubles for...
CCAC Boyce baseball program on upward trajectory after strong comeback season
Larry Bielawski was happily working for a rug company in the Strip District when he saw a poster advertising CCAC. Seeing a chance to pick up some skills in music production, Bielawski decided to go back to school while working. Despite not playing baseball since 2018 in the OVDL Summer...
Latrobe’s Bryce Butler tabbed MEC’s top athlete
Whether he was finishing a fast break with a thunderous slam dunk, putting back a missed shot or moving the ball with precision in the halfcourt for high-scoring West Liberty, Bryce Butler stood out on the hardwood. Opposing teams were watching the sophomore put in work.They saw his end-to-end talent,...
After year of growth, Freeport grad Heilman has breakout season for Mercyhurst baseballVideo
Is it possible for a pitcher to throw too many strikes? That’s what Mercyhurst baseball coach Joe Spano thought about Freeport grad Jarrett Heilman. Through his freshman season, the right-hander spent most of the time pitching in practice — he appeared in only two games — and Spano noticed his...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Penn-Trafford grad Josh Spiegel earns all-conference honors
Josh Spiegel became a fixture in the Penn State baseball lineup this season and put together an all-conference junior year. A Penn-Trafford graduate, Spiegel was named to the All-Big Ten second team. He played in all 55 games for the Nittany Lions (26-29) and started 53 of them as either...
Cal (Pa.) softball’s Caleigh Rister earns national freshman award
Caleigh Rister made quite a splash in her debut for the Cal (Pa.) softball team this spring. The two-way standout from Bucyrus, Ohio, recently was selected the Schutt Sports/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division II National Freshman of the Year. Rister is the first player from the Atlantic Region, comprised...
Penn-Trafford grad Cleland made strong impact as freshman for Seton Hill softball
Playing college softball for the first time wasn’t like setting off into the wild for Brooke Cleland. The Penn-Trafford graduate brought her heavy bat and was prepared to make an impact from Day 1. Her vast experience playing youth, high school and travel ball had her ready for anything. She...
Latrobe grad Austin Butler selected to USA Basketball 3×3 team
After displaying a knack for making splash plays in 3-on-3 basketball in March at the 3x3U National Championship during the Final Four, Austin Butler was a favorite to make the USA Basketball 3x3 team. The Latrobe alum’s addition to the team became official Monday as he joined six other former...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Saint Vincent grad Kristin Consuegra joins PAC leadership
Mt. Pleasant native and Saint Vincent graduate Kristin (Hozak) Consuegra has joined the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in a progressive position. Consuegra was named the Assistant Commissioner for Governance and Championships in the conference. The position is funded partially through the NCAA Division III Strategic Alliance Matching Grant and is meant...
Penn-Trafford grad Tyler Horvat working toward adding to his baseball success at W&J
Tyler Horvat is spending his summer in Charlottesville, Va., playing in a collegiate baseball league with the Charlottesville Tom Sox. The Penn-Trafford grad primarily is serving as a pitcher, but, he said, he will get to swing the bat once in awhile, too. During his three seasons at Washington &...
Deer Lakes grad Jacob McCaskey makes leap from Cal (Pa.) to Gardner-Webb
Jacob McCaskey garnered Division II second-team All-American honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association in early June. A well-earned honor for certain, but it was only the second biggest piece of news during a whirlwind week for McCaskey, a Deer Lakes grad who put together a superb senior season and...
Looking to challenge himself, Franklin Regional grad Kadyn Hannah transfers to Cal (Pa.)
The challenge, not the change of scenery, is what attracted Kadyn Hannah to Cal (Pa.). Ever since he left Franklin Regional, Hannah wanted to play at the highest level of college basketball his talent would allow. Feeling somewhat under recruited, he went to La Roche and became an immediate impact...
Former Hempfield standout excited to join reborn Robert Morris hockey program
The reinstatement of the Robert Morris hockey program meant a lot to alumni and fans of the program. It may have meant more to future Colonials prospects like Dominic Schimizzi. His allegiance to RMU was re-energized when hockey came back to Moon. The men’s and women’s programs were cut last...
Hempfield grad Jacob Boord competes at NCAA Division III track and field championships
The numbers don’t lie. Jacob Boord fell “just short.” Boord, a WPIAL javelin champion while at Hempfield and a current Allegheny sophomore, nearly landed in the medals round at the recent NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Who knows where it would have gone from there? But his...
Plum grad Casile helps lead W&J women’s lacrosse to PAC title with MVP performance on defenseVideo
Conventional wisdom says defense wins championships. And yet, when championships are won, defensive players seldom receive the spoils. Washington & Jefferson women’s lacrosse defender Sam Casile earned a little respect for defensive players everywhere. After the Presidents secured their second consecutive Presidents’ Athletic Conference title and NCAA Division III Tournament...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Palmer Jackson named to PING All-America team
Some might say Palmer Jackson’s golf game is a 9 out of 10. No golfer is perfect. The game won’t allow for it. But Jackson had nine top-10 finishes this past college season, which also points to excellence. The junior from Notre Dame is one of the top players in...
Going from the pitch to track, Franklin Regional grad Ryan Beard became an All-American at Westminster
Ryan Beard was a key cog in Franklin Regional’s run to the first of back-to-back WPIAL Class 3A soccer championships in 2018. The midfielder was recruited to play at Westminster College. But growing concerns over multiple concussions — six that were diagnosed, including one in the PIAA quarterfinals against Cathedral...
Burrell grads help IUP win Rugby Club Division II championship
RJ Beach and Dom Holmes knew the feeling of teaming up to help win a rugby championship. The Burrell graduates — RJ in 2019 and Holmes in 2020 — were teammates on the Kiski Valley club team that captured the Rugby Club Division II championship in May 2019. Fast forward...
Jeannette grad Gio Vonne Sanders to play at Western Michigan
With two years of eligibility left to give a team, Gio Vonne Sanders is set to live out his dream. The former Jeannette and St. Francis (Pa.) football standout announced he has made a verbal commitment to Western Michigan of the FCS Mid-American Conference. Sanders, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound defensive back,...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Belle Vernon’s Bailey Parshall named All-American at Penn State
Bailey Parshall capped a career season in the pitching circle at Penn State with an All-American nod. The senior from Belle Vernon was selected to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American Third Team. She is just the fifth Penn State softball player to be named an All-American, and the first...
Times Express campus clippings: Gateway grad honored for strong softball season at Waynesburg
Gateway graduate Kayla Gratton, a sophomore on the Waynesburg University softball team, enjoyed a strong season at shortstop, and she was rewarded for her efforts with selection to the Presidents Athletic Conference all-star team as an honorable-mention pick. Nine players in all were selected after helping lead the Yellow Jackets...
Valley grad Jeremy Iellimo helps Mt. Aloysius capture 1st AMCC baseball titleVideo
Mt. Aloysius baseball coach Kevin Kime said he hadn’t seen anything like it in his 20 years in the dugout. When his team arrived at Penn State Behrend for the finals of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference tournament, Kime immediately took the players into right field to discuss what was...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Seton Hill’s Jenna Osikowicz named All-American
Seton Hill grad student softball player Jenna Osikowicz is breathing rarefied air. The Hempfield alum became the first softball player from Seton Hill to be named a National FastPitch Coaches Association All-American. The outfielder was selected for the second team. Osikowicz already had been named the PSAC West Athlete of...
Seton Hill softball eliminated from NCAA Division II World Series
The problem with elimination games is that someone has to get eliminated. That someone Saturday was Seton Hill, which fell to Cal State Dominguez Hills, 9-6, for its second loss in the double-elimination NCAA Division II Softball World Series in Denver. The Atlantic Regional champion Griffins end a season that...
Former Franklin Regional wrestlers keep Olympic dreams alive
Josh Shields and Nico Megaludis aren’t ready to hang up their headgear just yet. The Franklin Regional grads recently competed in the U.S. Open freestyle wrestling tournament and the World Team Trials and just came up short of making the team. But they’re looking for another shot down the road...
