District College category, Page 45
District college football roundup for Oct. 23, 2021: Cal (Pa.) makes comeback to down IUP
Cal (Pa.) made a furious comeback, blocking a punt with 35 seconds left and scoring the go-ahead touchdown with 11 seconds to go, to defeat IUP, 38-34, in the Coal Bowl on Saturday afternoon. IUP took a 34-24 lead on a 35-yard field goal by Tyler Luther with 5:08 to...
College football preview capsule: Saint Vincent at Waynesburg, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021
NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference Saint Vincent (3-3, 2-3 PAC) vs. Waynesburg (1-5, 1-4 PAC) 1 p.m., Saturday, Wylie Stadium, Waynesburg Series: Waynesburg leads, 20-15-34 Last meeting: April 17, 2021: Saint Vincent 56, Waynesburg 26 About Saint Vincent: The Bearcats look to snap a two-game losing streak and push...
College football preview capsule: Seton Hill at Clarion, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021
NCAA Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Seton Hill (3-4, 1-3 PSAC West) vs. Clarion (0-6, 0-3 PSAC West) Noon, Saturday at Memorial Stadium, Clarion Series: Clarion leads, 5-2. Last meeting: Clarion 42, Seton Hill 16 (2019) About Seton Hill: The Griffins dropped a 14-10 decision to Gannon at home....
Westmoreland campus clippings: Hempfield grad Michelle Burns returning to Point Park for 5th year
At Point Park, the fire still Burns. Star point guard Michelle Burns (Hempfield) is back for a fifth basketball season after averaging 20.8 points as a senior last winter, and she is expected to be one of the best again in the River States Conference, She has a full-time job...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Pitt-Greensburg women’s tennis wins 1st AMCC title
Pitt-Greensburg is headed to the NCAA Division III women’s tennis tournament. The Bobcats won the first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship in program history over the weekend. Top-seeded UPG defeated No. 2 Penn State Behrend, 5-4, to complete a sweep — AMCC regular-season and tournament titles — while avenging a...
Apollo-Ridge grad Emily Bonelli making most of opportunities for Pitt-Greensburg
Soccer competition was never far away for Apollo-Ridge graduate Emily Bonelli growing up. She had a full-size goal that her dad built in her backyard. And she had a future Division I goalie living under the same roof: older sister Megan. Another older sister, Sarah, also went on to play...
Franklin Regional grad Brooke Horvath having strong freshman season for Westminster soccerVideo
Westminster women’s soccer player Brooke Horvath entered the week second the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in scoring. She had nine goals and eight assists (26 points) for the Titans, who sat atop the PAC at 6-0-0. Not bad for a freshman who nearly gave up on soccer. Horvath, a Franklin Regional...
Gateway grad Brady Walker coming into his own at quarterback at Saint Vincent
Brady Walker had a front-row seat for a wild college football game Oct. 2. The Gateway grad, a starting junior quarterback for Saint Vincent, helped lead the Bearcats to a come-from-behind 42-40 Presidents’ Athletic Conference victory over Case Western Reserve. Saint Vincent trailed 14-0 after the first quarter but came...
District college football roundup: IUP shocks No. 6 Slippery Rock
Harry Woodbery threw for 312 yards and five touchdowns to lead IUP to a 48-21 upset of No. 6 Slippery Rock in PSAC football Saturday. Apollo-Ridge grad Duane Brown caught six passes for 136 yards and a touchdown while teammate Irvin Charles added five receptions for 64 yards and three...
Norwin alum McCauley to lead Saint Vincent men’s volleyball
Kate McCauley brings a wealth of experience to her new position at Saint Vincent College. McCauley, a Norwin and SVC grad, was named the head men’s volleyball coach at her alma mater. She currently is a third-year assistant with the women’s volleyball team and works as positions manager of operations...
Seton Hill to take on Gannon in PSAC showdown
NCAA Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Gannon (2-4, 1-2 PSAC West) vs. Seton Hill (3-3, 1-2 PSAC West) 4 p.m. Saturday at Offutt Field, Greensburg Series: Gannon leads 6-1 Last meeting: Seton Hill 25, Gannon 21 (2019) About Gannon: The Golden Knights have put together some decent offensive numbers...
Saint Vincent set to take on Grove City in PAC matchup
NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference Grove City (5-1, 4-1 PAC) vs. Saint Vincent (3-2, 2-2 PAC) 1 p.m. Saturday, Chuck Noll Field, Unity Series: Grove City leads, 10-6 Last meeting: March 19, 2021: Grove City 37, Saint Vincent 14 About Grove City: Wolverines QB Josh Ehst has completed 96...
Campus clippings: UPG women’s tennis team repeats as regular-season conference champ
Regular season champions for the second straight season. That was the title bestowed on the Pitt-Greensburg women’s tennis team after an 8-1 win over Penn State Altoona capped a 6-0 run through AMCC play and improved the Bobcats to 8-2. The doubles teams of Cathryn Rossi and sophomore Isabella Lane;...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Logan Wiland carries Seton Hill to victory
Seton Hill running back Logan Wiland needed an ice bath Sunday morning. The grad student carried the football 38 times and gained 178 yards Saturday in Erie as the Griffins rallied past Mercyhurst, 19-17, for another grind-it-out victory, its first of the season in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. Wiland...
Alle-Kiski Valley Campus Clippings: IUP’s Brown does it all
Duane Brown was a double-edged sword that cut through the Clarion football team Saturday. The IUP junior punt returner and receiver from Apollo-Ridge earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Special Teams Athlete of the Week honors after totaling 75 yards on three punt returns in a 58-21 victory over the Eagles....
Hempfield graduate Justin Sliwoski relishes chance to start at St. Francis
Hempfield graduate Justin Sliwoski hopes to take care of patients someday as a physician’s assistant. He is good with a different kind of patience, as well. Sliwoski made his first collegiate start Oct. 2 for St. Francis (Pa.), the first time he started a game since his senior year of...
Saint Vincent football slowly coming around under 3rd-year coach Smetanka
After an 0-4 start to his first year as football coach in 2019 at Saint Vincent, Aaron Smetanka since has guided the Bearcats to a combined 8-6 mark while his third season marches on. They are 3-2 this year and angling for just their second winning record since the school...
Undefeated Washington & Jefferson rolls past Saint Vincent
Justin Heacock threw five touchdown passes as Washington & Jefferson stayed undefeated in convincing fashion with a 63-22 PAC victory over Saint Vincent on Saturday. Heacock was 16 for 18 passing for 188 yards. EJ Thompson had 122 yards rushing and two touchdowns for the Presidents (6-0, 5-0). Andrew Wolf...
High-scoring Saint Vincent travels to No. 12 Washington & Jefferson
Presidents’ Athletic Conference Saint Vincent (3-1, 2-1 PAC) at No. 12 Washington & Jefferson (5-0, 4-0) 2 p.m., Saturday, Cameron Stadium, Washington Series: Washington & Jefferson leads, 11-1 Last meeting: April 4, 2021: Washington & Jefferson, 42, Saint Vincent 14 About Saint Vincent: Quarterback Brady Walker threw two touchdown passes,...
Seton Hill seeks 1st PSAC West win of season at Mercyhurst
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Seton Hill (2-3, 0-2 PSAC West) at Mercyhurst (1-4, 0-2 PSAC West) Noon, Saturday at Saxon Stadium, Erie Series: Tied: 3-3 Last meeting: Seton Hill 30, Mercyhurst 20 (2019) About Seton Hill: After starting the season 2-0, Seton Hill is on a three-game losing streak. The...
Mt. Pleasant grad Luke Hauger is ‘something special’ as Seton Hill’s kicker
When he was a kid, Luke Hauger did what a lot of aspiring boys liked to do in the backyard: He kicked a football. When he got older, he began to play organized sports and kicked with even more frequency. He seemed to really like it. You could say Hauger...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Byers off to good start for Penn State tennis
He went from what could have been in high school to what will be in college. Loren Byers is a sophomore at Penn State, a school that recruited him because he was one of the nation’s top tennis players at the prep level. But Byers, who was ranked No. 46...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Saint Vincent rallies to win PAC barnburner
Down 14-0 after the first quarter, the Saint Vincent football team rallied and won a back-and-forth thriller at Chuck Noll Field on Saturday, 42-40, against Case Western Reserve. Junior Brady Walker threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns, freshman Billy Beck rushed for 93 yards and two scores and sophomore...
High school rivals Green, Aston now pushing each other to new heights for Saint Vincent women’s cross countryVideo
Somewhere, perhaps in a little-used desk drawer in the Saint Vincent athletic offices, there is a picture from the 2017 Westmoreland County Coaches Association cross country championships. The snapshot shows Hempfield’s Laura Aston and Latrobe’s Sydney Green running against each other as they so often did in high school. Bearcats...
District college football roundup: Saint Vincent tops Case Western in 42-40 slugfest
Brady Walker threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns as St. Vincent overcame a slow start to defeat Case Western, 42-40, in a PAC slugfest Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats (3-1, 2-1) trailed 14-0 late in the first half before Walker hit Antonio Zambrano with a 7-yard scoring pass with 1:09...
