District College category, Page 37
Westmoreland campus clippings: Palmer Jackson named all-ACC
Notre Dame junior golfer Palmer Jackson, a Franklin Regional alum, was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Team. Jackson has nine top-10 finishes in 11 tournaments and averages 70.15, which ranks 16th in the nation. He made national watch lists for the Hogan Award and Haskins Award and will play...
Seton Hill lacrosse standout Jackie Frank pointing the way
One of the leading scorers in NCAA Division II lacrosse played one varsity game as a high schooler. Let that sink in. It suffices to say Seton Hill graduate student Jackie Frank has made up for lost time, as she has 43 goals and 65 assists this season and was...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Hempfield grads earn 1st-team honors for Seton Hill
Coming back to Seton Hill for a fifth season has brought Jenna Osikowicz riches: an NCAA Division II Atlantic Region title, a second straight PSAC West title and now, a second consecutive PSAC West Athlete of the Year award. An outfielder from Hempfield, Osikowicz also made the all-conference first team....
6 PSAC baseball teams headed to NCAA Atlantic Regional
Six baseball teams from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference made the field for the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region Tournament, including Seton Hill, Slippery Rock and Gannon. The double-elimination tournament begins Thursday. There are two Atlantic Region “pods.” The winners will meet in a Super Regional for a spot in...
Seton Hill softball wins Atlantic Region title
It was a super Saturday for Seton Hill. The softball team took another step toward its first national championship by advancing to the NCAA Division II Atlantic Super Regional for the first time. The Griffins left little doubt that they belonged in the next round of the postseason. They dusted...
Seton Hill softball gets past Shippensburg to reach NCAA regional final
Jenna Osikowicz scored the game-winning run on a sacrifice fly by Brooklyn Fukushima in the bottom of the 10th inning, and Seton Hill defeated Shippensburg, 3-2, Friday in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional at Shippensburg. The win advances the Griffins to Saturday’s championship at noon. Osikowicz, who had three...
Seton Hill softball makes winner’s bracket final at NCAA regional
Morgan Ryan threw five scoreless innings and catcher MacKenzie Zang drove in two runs to lead Seton Hill to a 3-0 victory over Clafin, S.C. on Thursday in the 2022 NCAA Atlantic Regional at Shippensburg. The Griffins also got a key RBI hit from Brooklyn Fukushima. Seton Hill is now...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Norwin grad Emily Brozeski wins Atlantic 10 title
Emily Brozeski won the heptathlon in record fashion Sunday at the Atlantic 10 Track and Field Championships in Richmond, Va. The Duquesne sophomore and Norwin graduate captured gold with a school-record 5,122 points, posting first-place finishes in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and long jump. She took second in the...
Penn State New Kensington baseball, softball teams cap spring seasons
The Penn State New Kensington baseball team concluded its regular season last week with a 16-2 loss at Westmoreland County Community College. PSNK finished the season 7-24 overall with a 3-12 mark in the Penn State University Athletic Conference. The team’s conference victories came against Penn State Fayette and a...
Seton Hill softball, women’s lacrosse qualify for NCAA Division II tournaments
Seton Hill’s softball team will play in the NCAA Tournament for the third time in school history. The Griffins are one of five teams from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference that were selected Monday. The others selected are Kutztown, Bloomsburg, Mercyhurst and Shippensburg. Seton Hill earned the second seed in...
Freeport grad Tori Radvan the ultimate utility player for UPJ softball
Tori Radvan’s path to the Pitt-Johnstown softball team wasn’t full of twists and turns. It was a straight-forward, relatively easy recruiting process for Mountain Cats coach Niki Cognigni-Pecora and the multi-sport standout from Freeport. Radvan’s older sister, Kristie, played first base for UPJ and was one of the top hitters...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Kevin Wanichko adds men’s cross country coach duties at Saint Vincent
Kevin Wanichko is the new men’s cross country coach at Saint Vincent. The Latrobe native will have a busy sports year: He already coaches the men’s and women’s track and field teams, and the women’s cross country team. An SVC alum, Wanichko replaces Andrew Herr, who resigned after 18 seasons...
Alle-Kiski Valley campus clippings: Heilman comes up aces at Merychurst
Jarrett Heilman (Freeport) has been a steady force for the Mercyhurst baseball team. The sophomore crafted a 7-0 record in 10 games — eight starts — through a complete-game 14-2 victory over Seton Hill in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference action April 29. In seven innings that day, Heilman gave up...
District college notebook: Heder steps down at IUP; Judy breaks another record at Gannon
After two decades on the sidelines, IUP women’s soccer coach Adel Heder is retiring. A former Kiski Area boys soccer coach from 1987-2001, Heder guided the IUP program since ‘01. His overall record of 220-139-24 is the best in program history and he led the Crimson Hawks to two regular-season...
District college notebook: All booked up, Ryan misses Seton Hill playoff opener
Morgan Ryan hopes to help Seton Hill softball reach the finals of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Tournament. Right after she is done with her own finals. Ryan, the Griffins’ standout grad student pitcher, did not join the team for the PSAC playoff opener Wednesday in Quakertown. She is expected...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Adrian Blewitt named Seton Hill’s women’s soccer coach
Seton Hill announced the hiring of Adrian Blewitt as women’s soccer coach. He replaces Zak Kruger, who was not retained after three seasons. Blewitt spent three years as the head women’s soccer coach at Army West Point and also served as head coach at Arkansas Little Rock for five seasons...
Plum grad Markus Cestra having breakout season for vastly improved IUP baseball teamVideo
Changes were needed after the IUP baseball team went a measly 2-35 (1-27 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference) last season. To that end, the Crimson Hawks hired a new coach: former major-league pitcher Steve Kline, who appeared in 796 games over 11 seasons (1997-2007) with St. Louis, Montreal, Cleveland, Baltimore and...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Penn-Trafford grad Turner Price named AMCC Player of the Year
The Price was right this season at Pitt-Greensburg. Junior tennis standout Turner Price, a Penn-Trafford graduate, was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Year for the third time in his career. The award was not given out in 2020. Price finished 7-0 in conference singles play and...
Hempfield grad earns invitation to exclusive Manning Passing Academy
It started with a simple email. Then, a text message. All of a sudden, Justin Sliwoski had a front-row seat to not only meet the Mannings — Peyton, Eli and their father, Archie — but also to get instruction from the the former star quarterbacks. Sliwoski, a redshirt junior quarterback...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Mt. Pleasant grad Sam Napper helps Westminster to PAC title
Junior Sam Napper and his Westminster golf teammates went back to back. And Napper had the shot of the tournament. The Mt. Pleasant graduate made a hole-in-one during the final round of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships and the Titans (892) went on to a 44-stroke victory over Washington &...
Saint Vincent baseball team has sights on postseason after 16-game winning streak
In his 25 years as baseball coach at Saint Vincent, Mick Janosko has never been part of a 16-game winning streak. And while Waynesburg ended that streak Sunday, Janosko was eager to see how his team responded Monday at Geneva. The Bearcats won 9-5 and improved to 21-9 overall and...
Alayna Mintz, Francesca Beighley help build foundation for young Carlow softball team
With a roster that features only four seniors, the Carlow softball team was going to have plenty of space for younger players to step into prominent roles. Two A-K Valley graduates — Alayna Mintz (Kiski Area) and Francesca Beighley (Plum) — have done just that. The pair played against each...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Penn-Trafford grad Anthony Sherwin on Brooks Wallace Award watch list
Breakout sophomore Anthony Sherwin has become known for his smooth glove in the middle of Bucknell’s infield. It’s no exaggeration to say the Penn-Trafford graduate is one of the top shortstops in the country. He is, after all, on the Brooks Wallace Award watch list, an honor reserved for the...
Gateway grad Caleb Lehman leading Chatham hitting attack
Caleb Lehman has made an impact on the Chatham University baseball team for several years, and the Cougars senior catcher continues to perform in his final collegiate season. The Gateway graduate produced a .358 (34 of 95) average through Chatham’s first 25 games with 18 runs batted in, 21 runs...
Reynolds tabbed to lead men’s basketball program at Point Park
After leading a turnaround of considerable note at Slippery Rock, Kevin Reynolds will look to do something similar at Point Park. He was announced Wednesday as the next head men’s basketball coach at NAIA Point Park, replacing Joe Lewandowski, who resigned in March after four seasons in charge of the...
