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Despite challenges of pandemic, Chatham hockey will start this weekend
If you’ve paid attention to college sports at all over the past year, you know the struggle it has been to get through schedules during the coronavirus pandemic. Games get postponed, moved up and canceled altogether like it’s beer league softball or rec-league hoops at the local YMCA. If the...
Butlers, Gribbles make basketball a family affair in Westmoreland County
For two of Westmoreland County’s most prominent basketball families, the game goes on. Somehow, it goes on. Even in a global pandemic, when hundreds of college programs are shut down and the fortunate programs that are playing are not allowing fans, it’s still hoop season for the Butlers and Gribbles....
Saint Vincent women, men expect to compete despite roster turnover
Saint Vincent returns the Presidents’ Athletic Conference player of the year in women’s basketball this season, hoping to make another run at the NCAA Division III PAC championship, but the Bearcats must overcome the loss of their leading scorer in the process. They get started on a modified schedule at...
Seton Hill, Mercyhurst baseball are co-favorites in PSAC West
Seton Hill was off to a good start to the 2020 baseball season. The Griffins returned home from their Florida trip with a 9-4 record and were set to open the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference season. Then the coronavirus hit the country and the NCAA shut everything down. Things are...
Carlow’s Olivia Miller, Ligonier Valley alum, named River States’ field athlete of week
When Carlow says, “jump,” Olivia Miller asks, “how high?” The senior, who competes in a multiple events for the Celtics track and field team, garnered River States Athletic Conference Field Athlete of the Week honors after a strong start to the indoor season. A Ligonier Valley graduate, Miller has competed...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Spencer Lee dominates
Not that it comes as much of a surprise, but Spencer Lee is holding down his No. 1 national ranking at Iowa. The senior 125-pound wrestler from Franklin Regional recorded another pin for the top-ranked Hawkeyes flattened No. 9 Illinois, 36-6. The victory improved his winning streak to 26 matches,...
Gateway grad Kayla Trozzi honored by Westminster
During her soccer career at Gateway and then for four years at Westminster College, Kayla Trozzi used her speed and scoring touch to make an impact and earn numerous accolades. Her efforts for the Titans recently were honored with selection to Westminster’s All-Decade Women’s Soccer Team as a first team...
Penn Hills grad Sherron Schifino hitting stride for Point Park basketball
Sherron Schifino is starting to find his way again at Point Park after sitting out the first semester after transferring from CCAC-Boyce last year. In his first four games this season, the junior guard is averaging 10.0 points and 3.5 rebounds. Schifino scored a team-high 14 points and grabbed six...
Former WPIAL champ, Point Park standout Max Kaminsky to coach La Roche men’s golf
It wasn’t all that long ago Max Kaminsky was celebrating a WPIAL golf championship as a freshman at Serra Catholic, the first ninth-grade boy to win a district title. Or, when he was qualifying for NAIA nationals as a long-hitting frontman at Point Park. His game matured fast and so...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Jeannette’s Robert Kennedy transfers
Robert Kennedy is on the move again. The former Jeannette football standout is leaving East Carolina and will transfer to Old Dominion in Norfok, Va. Kennedy, a 5-foot-10, 183-pound safety, played in five games last season as a junior, recording 13 tackles and three pass breakups for East Carolina. He...
Men’s lacrosse team at Seton Hill ranked nationally
Seton Hill has high expectations in men’s lacrosse after the team’s season was cut drastically short in 2020. The Griffins begin the season ranked fifth in the Nike/US Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Top 20. They return their top nine scorers and goalkeeper from a team that was 6-0 last season when...
Robert Kennedy, former Jeannette football star, leaving East Carolina
Robert Kennedy is on the move again. The former Jeannette football standout is leaving East Carolina and will transfer to Old Dominion in Norfok, Va. Kennedy, a 5-foot-10, 183-pound safety, played in five games last season as a junior, recording 13 tackles and three pass breakups for East Carolina. He...
Hempfield grad Burns sets Point Park 3-pointer mark but wants to be known as all-around player
With a dart from the right wing, Michelle Burns watched 3-pointer No. 202 of her college career splash through the net. She might have been smiling, but nobody could tell because the Point Park senior guard was wearing a face mask — a sign of the times. Her teammates’ mouths...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Basketball is on at Saint Vincent, other PAC schools
There will be basketball at Saint Vincent College this season after all. The sport is coming back in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference with a shared chorus among the 10 schools: better late than never. The NCAA Division III league, which postponed winter sports months ago when the covid-19 pandemic bum-rushed...
With college sports on hold, Hampton grad lends hand at nursing home
Hampton graduate Jason Goodman last winter won a PSAC indoor track championship. This winter, the Slippery Rock senior is doing something even more important. Goodman is working as a nursing assistant at a Pittsburgh-area nursing home during the covid pandemic that canceled all winter sports in the Pennsylvania State Athletic...
PAC announces schedule for late-starting basketball season
Basketball is coming back in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference with a shared chorus among the 10 schools: better late than never. The NCAA Division III league, which postponed winter sports months ago when the covid-19 pandemic bum-rushed daily life, released modified schedules Thursday with each men’s and women’s team playing...
Michelle Burns becomes Point Park’s 3-point queen
Michelle Burns scored a team-high 29 points and made some school history along the way Tuesday night in Point Park’s 78-74 loss to visiting Ohio Christian. The Hempfield grad and senior guard broke Point Park’s career record for 3-pointers made as she connected on 5 of 12 attempts from behind...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Jeannette grad Redman gets to play on ESPN
Senior Swade Redman plans to graduate from Carlow in the spring. He longs to play one final basketball season with the Celtics. For now, he will settle for one game. Redman, a Jeannette graduate, led his teammates in their national television debut last week at Youngstown State in a game...
Norwin grad Alayna Gribble making successful comeback at St. Joseph’s
From academics to basketball, Alayna Gribble likes to stay a step ahead of things in her life. She prefers to be on time and get her work done early. Why wait? On a Monday, she already is thinking about Wednesday’s plans. Procrastination is like a turnover on a fast break:...
Former Slippery Rock, Woodland Hills star Jaimire Dutrieuille awarded for ‘noteworthy bravery’
A selfless act of courage by Jaimire Dutrieuille saved someone’s life and almost ended his. It is the reason he will receive the NCAA Award of Valor, presented to a current or former student-athlete, coach or administrator who demonstrates “noteworthy bravery.” As guidelines state, someone who, when “confronted with a...
Franklin Regional alum Spencer Lee presented Hodge Trophy as top college wrestler
On the same day the Heisman Trophy was presented to college football’s top player, Spencer Lee was handed wrestling’s equivalent of the award. Lee, a senior at Iowa and a Franklin Regional alum, was presented in person the Dan Hodge Trophy as the nation’s most dominant college wrestler from the...
Cal (Pa.) hires Yough grad Chandler Daniel as assistant strength and conditioning coach
Chandler Daniel was a talented offensive and defensive lineman at Yough under former football coach Mark Crovak. He went on to play college football Duquesne where he earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training in 2018. The Herminie native played both offensive and defensive line for the Dukes (2014-17) and...
Carlow men’s basketball making season debut on ESPN3
Swade Redman plans to graduate from Carlow in the spring. He longs to play one final basketball season with the Celtics. For now, he’ll settle for one game. Redman, a Jeannette graduate, will lead his teammates in their national television debut Monday night. The Celtics will visit Youngstown State in...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Norwin grad Wehner in giving mood; Butler finally healthy
Former Norwin standout Jayla Wehner was in a giving mood during the holiday season. The freshman point guard for the women’s basketball team at Marian (Ind.), a NAIA school in Indianapolis, put together a career day last week in a home victory. The floor leader dished out 10 assists in...
PSNK athletes cope with latest changes caused by coronavirus
Penn State New Kensington athletic director Megan Bratkovich said she wasn’t surprised when the executive committee of the Penn State University Athletic Conference voted unanimously Dec. 18 to cancel all sports for the 2020-21 fall and winter seasons. “Given the current state of the pandemic, I think we all knew...
