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The hazards involved with being a starting center in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference are something Maria Lawhorne learned the hard way. The 2017 Plum graduate was no stranger to post play before arriving at Washington & Jefferson, but the 5-foot-10 Lawhorne spent more time at guard with the Mustangs and...

Many remember Antonio Ionadi as the sharpshooting guard who helped lead Hampton to its WPIAL Class 5A finals appearance in 2017. The junior at Case Western still sports a great shot, but defense has helped him become a more complete player. He was recently named CoSIDA Academic-All District for the...

Two years ago, Clare Flanagan was left off Duquesne’s competition team for the Atlantic 10 swimming championships. So the possibility of medaling in her career was incomprehensible. Even last week, she never thought it was possible. The mindset only changed when she finished third in the A-10 prelims. “I’ve been...

College basketball conference tournaments are underway in the region and March Madness is on the horizon for Division III programs. Here is a look at the playoffs in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Men PAC Semifinals Tonight ( 7 p.m.) 6-Saint Vincent (13-13) at 1-Grove...

Julian Batts plays college basketball out of state, so friends and family usually can watch his games only online. But Batts played a game close to home — as close as the schedule would allow — and achieved a career milestone for the wacthful eyes of local fans. Batts, a...

These are the best of times for the Grove City women’s basketball team, and at the center of Wolverines success is sophomore Allison Podkul. Technically, the 5-foot-8 Podkul is an undersized power forward for Grove City, but the Hempfield graduate is playing a big role for the second-place team in...

When it comes to running, Olivia Miller used to keep things at a distance. The multisport athlete from Ligonier Valley participated in cross country, and when she was recruited by the Carlow track and field team for jumping events, her duties included fall tours with the Celtics’ cross country team....

Lydia DeFazio took the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference by storm last softball season. After her breakthrough year, Mt. Aloysius can’t hide its secret weapon any more. DeFazio, a junior who has played first base and catcher at the college level, was tabbed the AMCC Preseason Player of the Year, and...

Peyton Kondis felt right at home over the weekend as the University of Houston hosted the American Athletic Conference men’s and women’s swimming championships. The Plum resident and Oakland Catholic graduate won two individual titles and was a part of two relay triumphs. She captured both the 100 and 200...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. La Roche women tie AMCC record for wins Danajah Sanders scored 22 points, and the Redhawks recorded a season high in points en route to a 93-56 rout of Alfred State in the Allegheny Mountain...

Waynesburg had been waiting a long time to experience the thrill of victory again. The women’s lacrosse team finally broke through and did so Sunday when it scored a 7-5 victory at Thomas More to snap a 45-game losing streak that dated to 2016. Not a bad way to open...

As all teams do, the Grove City men set goals at the beginning of the basketball season. Among them was, of course, to win the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship. But no team with conference-title aspirations figures on starting 0-4. Granted, those were nonconference games, but Wolverines coach Steve Lamie, in...

North Allegheny graduate Michael Struk ended his career as a member of the Washington and Lee men’s swimming team on a high note. Struk, a senior, placed second in the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16 minutes, 36.32 seconds at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship meet. He helped the Generals, of...

Becoming a coach involves plenty of travel. It can take you around the country and sometimes around the world. That’s part of the job. If Point Park junior and Hampton graduate Mark Shehady is to one day become a coach, he already has that part covered. Shehady, a point guard,...

Saint Vincent junior Zach Baum (Derry) capped another stellar conference season in the pool with the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year award. Baum won the 100-yard butterfly for the third consecutive year, with a time of 48.92 seconds, at the PAC championships at Grove City. The time set...

No. 1 La Roche and No. 2 Pitt-Greensburg, the top-seeded men’s basketball teams in the NCAA Division III Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Tournament, put on a dazzling dress rehearsal for the postseason in front of an overflow crowd Wednesday night at UPG’s Chambers Hall. The league’s top two teams came...

Pitt-Greensburg will play its most meaningful game of the men’s college basketball season so far without its top scorer. The Bobcats (20-4, 16-3) will host La Roche (17-6, 17-1) at 6 tonight in a showdown of the top two teams in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference standings. But they’ll do...

Lydia DeFazio took the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference by storm last softball season. After her breakthrough year, Mt. Aloysius can’t hide its secret weapon any more. DeFazio, a junior who has played first base and catcher at the college level, was tabbed the AMCC Preseason Player of the Year, and...

Junior point guard Jake Biss became the 34th player in Shippensburg men’s basketball history to reach 1,000 career points. The former Latrobe standout played a brow-raising 50 minutes in Saturday’s 104-103 double-overtime loss to Lock Haven. He added four rebounds and two assists for the Raiders (20-5, 16-3 PSAC). In...

Playing experience stood out on the resumes of two new coaching hires at Pitt-Greensburg. Amanda Balas was named coach of the new women’s bowling team, which will play an independent schedule in 2020-21 and plans to join the AMCC the following year. Balas was an accomplished bowler at Division-I St....

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Allegheny’s Rawls breaks school’s scoring record Senior Jordan Rawls (Allderdice) scored 18 points Saturday and became the program’s all-time leader with 1,701 points during a 90-63 victory over Denison. AND THERE IT IS!!! Jordan Rawls...

Abbie Pierson is making her mark in her first season with the West Virginia women’s gymnastics team. The St. Joseph graduate and Mountaineers freshman has four podium finishes: two on balance beam, one on vault and one on floor. Three are event wins. In her collegiate debut Jan. 11 against...

Since stepping onto campus four years ago, Gannon women’s basketball player Chelsea Rourke has appeared 111 games. In that time, she has amassed more than 1,000 points and 500 rebounds. At this point, the senior forward and Pine-Richland alum is relishing each game remaining in her time with the Golden...

Sewickley Academy graduate Justin Pryor is driving to the basket more, and it is helping him on the Catholic University men’s basketball team. Pryor, a 6-foot-3 junior guard, recently had two career-high 15-point games. He said laying the ball up was something he hung his hat on before the Division...