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Dave Scarborough is coming home to coach the Point Park women’s basketball team. A Fox Chapel and Cal (Pa.) graduate, Scarborough was announced Friday as the Pioneers’ next coach. He has been an NCAA Division I women’s assistant for the past nine years — and 13 of the last 14...

Jalen Cloud produced a highly successful indoor season with the Cal (Pa.) men’s track and field team, and those positive outcomes have carried over to the outdoors. The Vulcans senior and Kiski Area graduate improved on his NCAA provisional mark in the triple jump Saturday at IUP’s Ed Fry Invitational....

Ohio Northern will have Aaron Krepps back on its football coaching staff next season. The Division III program hired Krepps, a Belle Vernon graduate who served as an assistant there in 2015 and ‘16 before he left to coach at Bluffton, another D-III program that plays in the Heartland Conference....

Sophomore Anthony Sherwin has become a fixture in the Bucknell baseball lineup. The shortstop out of Penn-Trafford started 30 games as a freshman, and is the leading hitter this season for the Bison. Sherwin was hitting .362 with .954 and .486 on-base and slugging percentages, respectively. He had a team-best...

Right-hander Dylan Brosky allowed one base runner after the first inning on the way to completing Cal (Pa.)’s first no-hitter since 2014 in a 4-0 victory over IUP on Sunday at Wild Things Park in Washington. A senior from Brownsville, Brosky is the first Vulcans’ pitcher to throw a no-hitter...

Recruited as a pitcher out of high school, Neal McDermott did not get to show his defensive skills much at Seton Hill. But on Friday night, the converted outfielder flashed his glove for all of America to see. The grad student out of Greensburg Central Catholic made the No. 1...

A switch from basketball to lacrosse looked rather effortless to Westminster’s Magen Polczynski. The senior from Norwin has 10 goals and five assists in three games since switching uniforms. Her 15 points leads the team. Most of the other players have appeared in five games. She had a six-goal, nine-point...

Nobody ever accused Sam Kline of skipping leg day. A senior softball player at Denison, Kline, a Hempfield product, was the recipient of a National Strength & Conditioning Association All-American Athlete Award through her school. The award recognizes student-athletes’ commitment to staying in shape and working in the weight room....

Austin Butler dunked his way to $5,000 Sunday. And what a dunk it was. The former Latrobe basketball star who played four years at Holy Cross before a grad season at Charlotte, made the highlight reel with a big jam at the 3x3U National Championship at The Sugar Mill in...

Jenna Osikowicz came back for a fifth season at Seton Hill. It might earn her a national award. The standout softball player from Hempfield was added to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II National Player of the Year Award watch list, one of 50 NCAA Division II players nominated....

Austin Butler is tough to defend one on one. Opponents will soon be trying to slow the former Latrobe star in a 3-on-3 format. The former Latrobe star can earn some cash along the way. Butler, who just completed his grad season at Charlotte, has been selected to play for...

When she played at Ligonier Valley, Rachel Caldwell was a four-year letterwinner in soccer and earned two letters playing softball. If there was a spot for hidden talents in her yearbook, she could have listed lacrosse. Caldwell, a junior at Waynesburg, registered a career-high six goals in a 22-14 loss...

A “severely sprained wrist” turned into the biggest break of Billy Perroz’s baseball career. The Kiski Area graduate was a student-athlete last semester at IUP when the injury happened. He missed the fall season, and Perroz said the decision was made to cut him from the Crimson Hawks’ roster. Perroz...

Gradually, Washington & Jefferson junior baseball player Tyler Horvat (Penn-Trafford) is getting back into a rhythm, but a slight setback has him well behind of last year’s torrid pace. A nagging groin injury caused him to miss the first 10 games of the season. “We didn’t want to rush things...

Pitt-Johnstown junior forward John Paul Kromka was named to the first-team Division II National Association of Basketball Coaches All-Atlantic Region Team on March 21. The next day, he was selected as one of the 16 men’s basketball players to earn a spot on the NABC Division II All-America team. The...

Julianna Skowron ended her college basketball career in a big way. After a successful four-year stint at Allegheny College, Skowron, a 6-foot-1 forward, competed at Chatham as a graduate student in 2021-22. The Oakland Catholic product led the Cougars to their all-time winningest season in women’s basketball, netted her 1,000th...

Behind 21 points from Dave Morris and a double-double from Tomiwa Sulaiman, the IUP men’s basketball team advanced to the Division II Final Four with a 67-55 win over No. 7 Hillsdale on Tuesday. Sulaiman finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Ethan Porterfield had 14 points for the...

Former Norwin football standout Anthony DelleFemine is leaving Youngstown State. He has entered the NCAA transfer portal and will have two years of eligibility left. DelleFemine began his college career at Robert Morris but setbacks and injuries forced him to change lanes. The 6-foot, 185-pound senior wide receiver played in...

Earning All-America recognition one time is an accomplishment in college wrestling. To do it twice it highly commendable. But Michael Kemerer took it to another level. The Iowa redshirt senior wrestled back to claim a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Division I Championships, giving the Franklin Regional alum five All-America...

Wrestling once prospered at Saint Vincent College. From 1963-75, the school sponsored a full-fledged NAIA program before it faded into a club team. Rumblings of a program reboot turned into much more than that Thursday when SVC announced wrestling will return as the school’s 24th varsity sport. Backed by supportive...

D.P. Harris is reprising his role at Saint Vincent. The college announced Wednesday that Harris is returning to the sidelines as men’s basketball coach. Harris led the Bearcats from 2003-19 before leaving to coach Saint Thomas in Miami Gardens, Fla., where he worked for two seasons. “It’s a beautiful day...