District College category, Page 4
District college football roundup: Cal (Pa.) opens season with win
Roman Purcell threw for 180 yards and scored on a 7-yard run and Kenny Lewis returned a punt 50 yards for a touchdown to lead Cal (Pa.) to a 23-19 victory over the University of Charleston (W.Va.) in its season opener Thursday night. Bobbie Boyd Jr. ran for 108 yards,...
Berth in PAC title match last fall provides fuel for Saint Vincent women’s volleyball team
The Saint Vincent women’s volleyball team advanced to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference final for the first time last season, losing to Allegheny in straight sets. When asked about her thoughts on that match, sophomore outside hitter Meegan Williams spared the sugar coating. The Bearcats, she said, played like it was...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Norwin’s Scalise stands out as Penn State Behrend goalkeeper
Anthony Scalise helped lead the Norwin boys soccer team to a WPIAL championship two years ago, making one highlight save after another in front of the net while catching the eye of college coaches. Penn State Behrend landed the goalkeeper, and in a short time he has become one of...
Saint Francis blanked by Louisiana-Monroe in opener
MONROE, La. — Braylon McReynolds ran for 113 yards and caught a touchdown pass, and D’arco Perkins-McAlister recorded two sacks in the University of Louisiana-Monroe’s season-opening shutout win over Saint Francis on Thursday night, 29-0. The game was delayed due to weather conditions caused by lightning in the area, pushing...
District college football roundup: Fairmont State fends off Seton Hill comeback bid
Leonard Farrow ran for 274 yards and two touchdowns, and Fairmont State held off a Seton Hill surge to come away with a 24-21 victory in the season opener for both teams Thursday. Ky’Ron Craggette ran for 112 yards and two touchdowns — an 8-yarder with 14 minutes, 8 seconds...
Kevin May steps up to lead Seton Hill football team into season opener
From Day to May. By a single letter, Seton Hill enters another college football season under its fifth coach since the birth of the school’s program in 2005. Kevin May is in. Dan Day is out. “I didn’t need to be a figurehead, but when this really came down, I...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Saint Vincent welcomes latest hall of fame class
The 2025 Saint Vincent Athletics Hall of Fame class covers six sports and stretches from the 1970s deep into the 2000s. The inductees will be recognized Sept. 27 at halftime of the Hiram-Saint Vincent football game at Chuck Noll Field. They include: • Joey Butler (2009), basketball — Helped SVC...
Under new coach Casey Goff, Saint Vincent football wants to establish winning culture
Like anyone in his position, first-year Saint Vincent football coach Casey Goff wants to win. He wouldn’t be in the coaching business if he didn’t. But Goff also is a realist. After taking over a team that has had only fleeting success and bottomed out at 1-9 a year ago,...
Kiski Area grad Dom DiNinno thrives for Grove City football after switch from WR to CB
When Dom DiNinno first suited up for a Grove City football practice, he knew he had a steep hill to climb if he wanted to steal playing time in a deep wide receivers corps. The position group already had three established upperclassmen. With Scott Fraser (Knoch), Daniel Sullivan and Ryan...
Wisconsin’s Cade Yacamelli among former Westmoreland County stars to watch in Division I, II football
Wisconsin running backs coach Devon Spalding trumpeted the praises of Cade Yacamelli during training camp, saying the former Penn-Trafford star had the ability to “take charge of the room.” Wisconsin opens the season Aug. 28 against Miami (Ohio), and Yacamelli could end up taking charge of the Badgers’ backfield as...
Penn State’s Pat Kraft offers Beaver Stadium renovation update
STATE COLLEGE — “Let’s talk about the west side.” With that, Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft on Tuesday discussed at length what has transpired at Beaver Stadium since early January. James Franklin’s Nittany Lions open their season Aug. 30 against Nevada in State College. Penn State kicked off its...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Seton Hill’s Ky’Ron Craggette earns preseason honor
Seton Hill running back Ky’Ron Craggette made a national preseason watch list. Craggette, a redshirt senior, was named to the D2Football.com Elite 100 preseason watch list. The list aims to begin the process of identifying All-American-caliber players. There are first, second and “squad,” or honorable mention, teams. Craggette made the...
Pitt-Greensburg men’s, women’s soccer teams have conference title aspirations
The men’s and women’s soccer teams from Pitt-Greensburg enter the 2025 season with plenty of optimism. With both squads returning several key players, they are setting their sights on Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference titles. Coach Marc Bucci’s men’s team got out of the gate slowly in 2024 but rebounded to...
Latrobe’s Chris Fite part of 1st University Athletic Association Hall of Fame class
Latrobe alum Chris Fite played professional basketball for more than a decade in Europe. Before that, he was a dominant post player at Rochester and won an NCAA Division III championship in 1990. His college exploits are getting recognized over three decades later. Fite, the men’s basketball coach at Shippensburg,...
Former Clairton star Kam Gissendanner takes over Saint Vincent women’s basketball program
Two years? Three years? No, new Saint Vincent women’s basketball coach Kam Gissendanner doesn’t want a grace period for the Bearcats. She wants to win immediately. “We’re going to hit the ground running, quickly,” Gissendanner said Wednesday from Carey Center on SVC’s campus. “Like, we want it right now.” SVC...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Latrobe grad Sofia DeCerb earns preseason honor
James Madison redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Sofia DeCerb (Latrobe) was named the Sun Belt Conference Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year. DeCerb started 21 games last season and made the Sun Belt all-tournament team. She produced a conference-best seven shutouts for the conference champion Dukes. She finished 12-4-4 in 21 starts with...
Seton Hill men’s soccer team believes it has pieces in place to contend for PSAC title
Dilveer Chaggar owes a lot to former Seton Hill men’s soccer coach Dan McCarty. McCarty, who headed the program from its inception in 2002 until the spring of 2022, brought Chaggar in as a player and later made him assistant coach. McCarty built Seton Hill into a perennial playoff team...
Slippery Rock picked to win PSAC West Division in preseason football poll
The Slippery Rock football team made a trip to the NCAA semifinals last season and, according to coaches in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, the Rock has the capability to find additional success this fall. Slippery Rock was voted as the favorite in the PSAC West Division in a preseason...
Changes on the horizon as the Presidents’ Athletic Conference prepares for 2025 season
Wednesday’s annual Presidents’ Athletic Conference football media day was as much about honoring Geneva coach Geno DeMarco as it was previewing the 2025 season. In June, DeMarco announced that this, his 33rd season at the helm of the Golden Tornadoes, would be his last. So when it was their turn...
Wisconsin RB, Penn-Trafford grad Cade Yacamelli named to ‘Freaks List’
Cade Yacamelli was often said to have “freakish” qualities when he played at Penn-Trafford. His teammates were often in awe of how high he could jump vertically and how fast he could sprint. Now at Wisconsin, the budding running back has caught the attention of national pundits, including Bruce Feldman,...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Hempfield grad Fintan Brose earns preseason honor
Delaware lineman Fintan Brose is on the NFL radar. Not only that, but Brose, a Hempfield graduate, is eligible to get selected to play in college football’s longest-running all-star game. Brose (6-foot-2, 302 pounds) was named to the East-West Shrine Bowl 1000 list. The list is intended to highlight the...
Plum grad Ethan Rose, Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer working to take big step this season
Ethan Rose didn’t pull any punches when assessing his sophomore season with the Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer team. He called it “underwhelming.” The Plum grad wasn’t even impressed by registering his first collegiate points. He posted a pair of assists before breaking through with his first goal late in the season...
Norwin grad Alyssa Aquilio eager to get back on field for Clarion soccer after injury
For many athletes, having a foot stepped on is just an occupational hazard of their sport. That is particularly true for soccer players. So when Clarion forward/midfielder Alyssa Aquilio got her right foot stepped on during a preseason game against West Virginia Wesleyan last year, she didn’t think much of...
Saint Vincent women’s soccer team using last season’s disappointing finish as fuel for 2025
The Saint Vincent women’s soccer team was in cruise control. The Bearcats won 12 of their first 14 matches — the 12 wins represented the most in program history — and were on a 10-0-1 run heading into the home stretch of the 2024 season. That’s when the wheels came...
Campus’ impending closure not putting a damper on 2nd season for Penn State New Kensington’s women’s soccer team
The ride of the Penn State New Kensington women’s soccer team is ending after barely getting off the ground. Previously a club team, the women’s soccer team became a full-fledged varsity program in 2024. Of course, since then, word has come down that the New Kensington campus is one of...
