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Junior pitcher Collin Liberatore is in control of his game at Indiana State. The Greensburg Central Catholic graduate improved to 7-0 this season after working eight strong innings in an 8-2 win Sunday over Evansville. The 6-foot-4 right-hander struck out two and gave up eight hits in the victory. Liberatore,...

Anybody who followed Seton Hill women’s lacrosse in recent years will know the name Courtney Grove. Now, Griffins field hockey fans will know it as well. The 10th-year coach of the lacrosse team was announced Tuesday as the new field hockey coach. She left Seton Hill in 2011 to become...

Maybe Tyler Garbee should pitch seven innings more often. Garbee, a senior righthander at Mercyhurst, pitched a no-hitter Monday during his second straight complete game performance, a 2-0 victory against host Slippery Rock. The Quaker Valley graduate and Pitt transfer struck out 12, walked one and hit a batter as...

With a fast transition to college softball, and big numbers to match, Emma Nedley has proven she is one of the top freshmen in the Ivy League. But now the Penn outfielder is on a ballot to be considered the nation’s top newcomer. Nedley, a Penn-Trafford graduate, is one of...

Jordan Geist is No. 1. The Arizona sophomore and Knoch graduate recorded the best shot put mark in the NCAA with a winning toss of 21.59 meters (70 feet, 11 inches) at the Triton Invitational on April 13. That throw also set Arizona’s school record and Geist’s personal record and...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Pitt softball wins 1st ACC series of season Sarah Dawson threw a two-hitter, and Walker Barbee homered, tripled and finished with three RBIs as the Panthers defeated Syracuse, 6-1, in the decisive game of their...

Scan the diamond at a Pitt-Johnstown softball game, and there are instant flashbacks to Westmoreland County WPIAL softball circa 2017. Four county schools often are represented on the lineup card. Middle infielders from the area turn double plays, and there is even an all-local battery. Five of the top players...

Celia Knappenberger plays to win. That might seem like a default setting for any athlete, but there was conviction in the tone of her voice when describing her will to be successful that showed she doesn’t take it for granted. And with focus and determination Knappenberger, a Knoch graduate, has...

During its decade in the Continental Volleyball Conference, the Thiel men’s team appeared in the championship match four times. The Tomcats lost them all. This spring was Thiel’s first in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, where it joined Geneva, Wittenberg and Hiram as affiliate members. Those additions enabled the AMCC...

With a fast transition to college softball, and big numbers to match, Emma Nedley has proven she is one of the top freshmen in the Ivy League. But now the Penn outfielder is on a ballot to be considered the nation’s top newcomer. Nedley, a Penn-Trafford graduate, is one of...

The Presidents’ Athletic Conference made its weekly award selections for softball Monday, and it had a pretty clear-cut choice for hitter of the week. Thiel senior Jess Kelley (Freeport) dominated at the plate in four games last week, going a combined 14 for 16 with a double, seven RBIs and...

Sydney Ball sat on a three-shot lead for the better part of six months. The Saint Vincent sophomore, however, still closed the deal. Ball this weekend was named MVP at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s golf championships after winning the title by nine shots at Chestnut RidgeResort in Blairsville. The...

New Saint Vincent assistant men’s basketball coach Nate Bollinger was added to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Under Armour 30-under-30 Team. Bollinger is the first coach from the PAC to make the list, which touts the country’s top rising coaches under age 30. The York native spent the last...

The Presidents’ Athletic Conference is expanding to double digits. Franciscan University will join the PAC as its 10th full-time member, the conference announced Tuesday morning. The league’s Presidents’ Council voted on the decision last week. Located in Steubenville, Ohio, Franciscan was already an affiliate member of the PAC in men’s...

Longtime Saint Vincent College baseball coach Mick Janosko reached another milestone last week with his 400th victory. Janosko, who began coaching the Bearcats in 1998, helped guide the team to a 6-1 victory over Geneva in Latrobe. Junior pitcher Fred Gillespie tossed a three-hitter and senior Bobby Finn tripled and...

Tre Tipton received recognition for his improvement Saturday, then backed it up on the field. The former Apollo-Ridge star caught both touchdown passes for Blue in its 14-7 victory over Gold in Pitt’s annual spring game Saturday at Heinz Field. Tipton caught three passes for 43 yards and scores of...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Thiel men’s volleyball earns 1st conference championship The Tomcats rallied from a first-set loss to defeat Wittenberg, 22-25, 25-18, 25-21, 25-20, in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title match Saturday. Jacobe DeRue led Thiel (17-12)...

Sydney Ball sat on a three-shot lead for the better part of six months. The Saint Vincent sophomore, however, still closed the deal. Ball this weekend was named MVP at the PAC Women’s Golf Championships after winning the title by nine shots at Chestnut Ridge Resort in Blairsville. The Pittsford,...

Seton Hill redshirt senior Nick Stotler had quite a game Saturday at Mercyhurst. The Plum graduate, who transferred from Lock Haven, drove in six runs and hit three home runs to lead Seton Hill to a 22-1 victory in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division game. They were his...

Penn-Trafford graduate Turner Price is turning heads as a freshman on the Pitt-Greensburg men’s tennis team. Price was 6-0 in singles and 5-1 in doubles in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference heading into the final regular-season match April 13. He was named the conference’s Player of the Week on April...

Marc Bucci is no stranger to the Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer team. In the fall of 2017, the Plum graduate served as an assistant with the Bobcats under then coach Dan Keefe. Bucci then spent last fall as an assistant an hour east at Pitt-Johnstown, his alma mater. But when Keefe...

Nick Stotler enjoyed playing baseball at Lock Haven, but when he graduated last year with a degree in business administration and the school didn’t offer an MBA program, he had to look elsewhere. Stotler, a Plum native, still had one year of eligibility remaining, so he started looking to see...

Moving without the ball wasn’t something Liam Weaver ever put a lot of thought into. Making a position change for the Heidelberg (Ohio) men’s lacrosse team this season presented a new line of thinking. After moving from midfield to attack, the sophomore has found a niche for the Student Princes....

As ShyAnne Toomer anticipated her junior lacrosse season at Slippery Rock, she knew the team might be looking for help winning draws. A large group of midfielders graduated from the season before, so Toomer prepared herself for the role and called on her mother, Shannon Reichel, for help. During the...

St. Francis (Pa.) last had a player selected in the NBA Draft nearly three decades ago, but junior Keith Braxton could change that. Braxton, the reigning Northeast Conference Player of the Year, declared for the NBA Draft on Thursday. He remains eligible to return to St. Francis if he withdraws...