District College category, Page 38

A basketball career that seemed to begin ages ago is turning to twilight, but Alayna Gribble has one more local stop before she throws her sneakers over the telephone wires. Gribble, a grad student guard at St. Joseph’s and the all-time leading scorer at Norwin, will play in Pittsburgh one...

Tony Grenek is stepping down as the head women’s basketball coach at Point Park after 11 seasons. Grenek had a record of 206-101. The wins are the most in program history. He put together four 20-win seasons and led the Pioneers to eight conference tournament appearances. This season, the Pioneers...

Senior Zach Hartman is gearing up for the NCAA Division I wrestling championships with a great strategy. He’s taking down nationally ranked opponents. The 165-pounder from Bucknell, who graduated from Belle Vernon, is ranked No. 18 in the country in his weight class. In a matchup of top-25 competitors who...

Norwin’s Polczynski sisters are all square. Freshman guard Mara Polczynski helped Grove City avenge an earlier loss to Westminster and her sister, senior Magen Polczynski, as the Wolverines stormed past the Titans for an 87-50 win in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. Mara had a career-high 12 points and added six...

Evan Whiteside is on a roll. The Gateway graduate and 125-pound starter in the Thiel College wrestling lineup is enjoying a breakout first collegiate season. He hopes the momentum built throughout the season, including the Presidents’ Athletic Conference title won Feb. 12, will lead him to big things at Friday...

The crack of the bat and the pop of the mitt near the Seton Hill baseball field is a sign spring is quickly approaching. Forget Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter. Baseball season begins Saturday for Seton Hill. The Griffins, the reigning NCAA Division II Atlantic Region...

Clarion filled its football vacancy Thursday by naming Raymond Monica head coach. The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference school did not retain Chris Weibel, who guided the Golden Eagles for seven seasons but saw the team finish 0-10 last year. Assistant Matt Hanhold served as interim head coach while Clarion looked...

When the Cal (Pa.) and Seton Hill women meet on the hardwood, the games are usually battles. It was no different Wednesday when the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rivals collided for first place atop the West Division at Salvitti Gymnasium. It was a battle to the end with Cal (Pa.)...

Bryce Butler is having a career season at West Liberty and the country is watching. The 6-foot-5 sophomore guard out of Latrobe is on a national watch list for the Clarence “Bevo” Francis Award, which recognizes America’s top small-college basketball player. He joins teammate Pat Robinson III on the 50-player...

Saint Vincent made quite a splash at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s swimming and diving championships. Junior Lauren Connors won four individual championships and earned the meet’s most valuable performer, the first woman in team history to earn the honor. The Bearcats’ Josh Gurekovich, meantime, was named PAC coach of...

He is the second-leading scorer in boys basketball at Greensburg Salem High School, having topped the list for a nine-year period from his graduation in 1993 until 2002, when his record was broken. His 2,160 career points in men’s basketball at Pitt-Greensburg from 1996-2000 represents the most at the Hempfield-based,...

Penn State senior softball pitcher Bailey Parshall (Belle Vernon) returned from a injury rehab to make a start in the Nittany Lions’ season opener. She struck out 10 in seven innings and reached 400 career strikeouts as Penn State fell, 2-1, against No. 11 Missouri in eight innings. She gave...

Jordan Edwards Jordan Edwards has made a scoring impact as of late for the High Point women’s basketball team in NCAA Division I. The 5-foot-7 senior guard and Gateway graduate scored a season-high 14 points last Wednesday in a 65-57 victory over Radford which put the Panthers at 11-11 overall...

Spencer Lee already has a Wikipedia page, his own clothing line and a fan following that stretches from Murrysville to Des Moines, Iowa — and beyond. He is a well-known figure in college wrestling. But the Iowa sensation’s popularity has reached new heights. The Franklin Regional graduate was part of...

After a 39-8 season that included a 23-4 mark in conference play, the Seton Hill baseball team is favored to win the PSAC West Division. The Griffins won the Atlantic Regional title and advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament. The team returns PSAC West Rookie of the Year Owen...

Mountain East Conference Player of the Week Bryce Butler continues to round out his game at West Liberty. The 6-foot-5 sophomore guard had one of his best all-around games as the Division II No. 5-ranked Hilltoppers won for the 15th time in 16 games by holding back West Virginia State,...

He could’ve been impatient. Instead, Jaden Datz showed discipline. For the former Southmoreland High School multi-sport star, who is the top winner this season for the Washington & Jefferson College wrestling team, his patience has paid off after he endured a long period of heartache and sweat. A senior, Datz...

The first time Hunter Martin tested positive for covid-19 in September, the Seton Hill junior track and field standout lost his sense of taste and smell, and he struggled getting through a simple workout. The second time Martin tested positive, which happened about a month ago, the Belle Vernon graduate...

With a small spot of blood visible through a bandage wrapped around his head, a grateful Isaac Reid bowed toward the center of the mat as his Lock Haven wrestling teammates and coaches — and a jam-packed Thomas Fieldhouse — erupted into a wild celebration. Reid then causally, or maybe...

Athletically, Ryan Bushey went to college to play baseball. But he is the gym-rat type, a sign of his affection for basketball that still lingers beyond high school. He likes to shoot around and play pick-up games, even if it’s against players from the men’s basketball teams at Mt. Aloysius,...

Andy Wormsley has added another prestigious honor to his hall-of-fame basketball career. The Quaker Valley and Westminster College graduate is a member of the sports hall of fame at both schools. He was inducted at Quaker Valley in 2012 and in the Titan Hall of Fame in 2010. On Feb....

While he has big shoes to fill, Ryan Larsen is excited to begin his quest as the next head football coach at Carnegie Mellon. “I cannot wait to get to work,” said Larsen, who was announced Thursday as the replacement for longtime coach Rich Lackner, who stepped down after 36...

Saint Vincent has a new men’s soccer coach. Matt Davis will take over the program in the fall. “With the college’s strong academic reputation and commitment to the full student-athlete experience, I’m excited to get to work to build this program into a winning one that our players, alums and...