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A-K Valley campus clippings: PS Behrend’s Gozzard on a hitting tear
Katie Gozzard is hitting just about everything in sight these days. The Penn State Behrend senior and Deer Lakes graduate extended her hitting streak to 11 games by going 3 for 3 with two RBIs in a 9-3 victory over Thiel on Sunday. The performance also gave her hits in...
Westmoreland softball players leading college teams in home runs
Westmoreland County softball players have shown a propensity for hitting the long ball this college softball season. A quartet of local players are leading their respective teams in home runs — at the Division I, II and III levels. Penn State freshman outfielder Chelsea Bisi (Derry) blasted her team-leading ninth...
Point Park track star Anna Shields featured in Sports Illustrated
Anna Shields has dominated the NAIA competition in track and field and cross country during her time at Point Park, and she added some more recognition for those accomplishments recently. Sports Illustrated highlighted Shields in its “Faces in the Crowd” feature in the April 8 edition of the magazine, which...
Weekend College Top 10: Records fall for Saint Vincent baseball
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Saint Vincent senior breaks HR record First baseman Bobby Finn (Peters Township) homered twice in a doubleheader sweep of Geneva on Saturday, becoming the school’s all-time leader with 20. He hit his 10th homer of...
Finn breaks career home run record at Saint Vincent
Senior Bobby Finn is the new home run king at Saint Vincent. Finn blasted his record-breaking 19th career homer Saturday, then added another in the second game of a doubleheader, as the Bearcats (14-9, 7-4) swept host Geneva, 8-4 and 9-0. Finn moved past TJ Conroy, the son of former...
Freeport grad Matt Swartz carves out niche as catcher, shortstop at IUP
Catcher and shortstop aren’t typically positions where the same player is listed at the top of the depth chart, but Matt Swartz is not a typical player. When Swartz, a Freeport graduate, isn’t wearing the “tools of ignorance” and crouching behind home plate for IUP, he finds himself standing between...
CCAC Boyce baseball ready to defend conference title
The Community College of Allegheny County’s Boyce campus baseball team ended a long drought last year as it won its first Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference title since 1985. St. Bernards also advanced to the Region XX tournament with a chance to go to nationals. The team saw its season end...
RMU’s Abrielle McCartney juggles softball, academics and military aspirations
At 4 a.m., while the Robert Morris campus slumbers in silence, it isn’t unusual for senior Abrielle McCartney to be out for a run. A 6-mile run. It’s part of her ROTC training as the Canon-McMillan grad prepares for active military duty next year. On most days, she is lucky...
Saint Vincent names Terrance Smith new men’s basketball coach
It didn’t take Saint Vincent long to find a new men’s basketball coach to replace D.P. Harris, who left March 7 to coach at NAIA St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla. After receiving more than 100 applicants, Saint Vincent officials trimmed the list to six finalists and then to...
Appleby had quite a career at IUP
Not many college basketball players can say they played in two Division II Final Fours and led their team to the No. 1 ranking in the nation. But IUP senior Carolyn Appleby can say she’s done that — and much more. Appleby had quite the career for the Crimson Hawks...
Hempfield graduate Danny Whirlow gets PAC honor
Hempfield graduate and Saint Vincent swimmer Danny Whirlow was pleasantly surprised by an honor he earned recently. Whirlow, a sophomore, made the All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference men’s first team following his performance at the conference championship meet. “I did not know it was an honor I could receive,” said Whirlow, 19....
Six Seton Hill wrestlers are academic all-Americans
Seton Hill wrestling team had six wrestlers named 2018-19 NCAA Division II Scholar All-Americans. They were Billy Bowlen, Luke Ewing (Greensburg Salem), John Fulmer, Damon Greenwald (Burrell), Sean Hoover and Ryan Ressler. Seton Hill wrestling team finished 18th in the country with an overall GPA of 3.099. Maryville University led...
Greensburg Salem graduate Chris Eddins receives regional wrestling honor
Pitt-Johnstown junior Chris Eddins recently won his second NCAA Division II wrestling title by defeating Tiffin’s Trey Grine, 7-2, on March 9, in Cleveland, Ohio. The Greensburg Salem graduate won the 149-pound title and on Thursday was named the National Wrestling Coaches Association Super Region I Wrestler of the Year....
Plum grad Zezza to take part in professional basketball combine
Courtney Zezza, a Plum graduate and senior center/forward on the St. Francis (Pa.) women’s basketball team, will take part in a professional combine Saturday at Tampa Prep High School in Tampa, Fla. Zezza joins Red Flash senior teammate Jess Kovatch at the combine and will be evaluated by more than...
PSNK softball pushes win streak to six
After beginning the season with 12 consecutive losses, PSNK softball is on a hot streak. A doubleheader sweep of Penn State Mont Alto on Tuesday (10-2 and 8-2 victories) pushed the Lions’ winning streak to six games. Senior Brittney Wolford (Burrell) led the offense in the first game, collecting three...
Geneva College hires new women’s basketball coach
Geneva College’s new women’s basketball coach knows how to do two jobs at once, but he can limit his focus to one now. Michael Grinder, both the men’s and women’s basketball coach at Pitt-Titusville, will take over the head coach position at Geneva, the university announced Tuesday. Grinder, who replaces...
McNab resigns as Seton Hill women’s soccer coach
Andy McNab has resigned as women’s soccer coach at Seton Hill after four seasons. McNab is leaving to coach the women’s team at Barton College in Wilson, N.C. He spent two years with the Griffins as an assistant. “Seton Hill is a special place where it is easy to build...
Saint Vincent tabs Wisneski to coach new men’s volleyball team
Saint Vincent has a coach for its newest varsity sport. The school added men’s volleyball, its 24th sport, and on Tuesday announced Derry native Scott Wisneski will lead the first-year program, which is expected to begin play for the 2019-20 season. Wisneski was an assistant for the Bearcats women’s volleyball...
Westmoreland campus clippings: DeFazio on offensive tear for Mt. Aloysius softball
Lydia DeFazio is taking the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference by storm this softball season. The sophomore first baseman/catcher at Mt. Aloysius was named AMCC Player of the Week after a dominating, four-game stretch for the Mounties (17-4, 4-0). A Penn-Trafford graduate, DeFazio went 13 for 15 — hitting safely in...
IUP women No. 4 in final WBCA coaches poll
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team finished its season ranked fourth in the final Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released Sunday. The Crimson Hawks found themselves in the top five 15 of the 18 weeks and spent three weeks at No. 1. IUP...
IUP women finish No. 4 in national rankings
After another memorable season that lasted into March and generated more national interest in the program, the IUP women’s basketball team can reflect. The Crimson Hawks went 30-4 and reached the NCAA Division II Final Four for the second consecutive season. They climbed to the No. 1 ranking in the...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Derry grad Bisi finds groove with Penn State softball
Chelsea Bisi started the softball season slowly as she adjusted to Division I pitching and worked her way back from a knee injury that cost her the majority of her senior season at Derry. The freshman at Penn State, though, has found her groove and has become one tough out...
Penn-Trafford grad DeFazio putting up big numbers in AMCC
Lydia DeFazio is taking the AMCC by storm this softball season. The sophomore first baseman/catcher at Mt. Aloysius was named AMCC Softball Player of the Week after a dominating, four-game stretch for the Mounties (17-4, 4-0). Her numbers have been astronomical. A Penn-Trafford graduate, DeFazio went 13 for 15, hitting...
Weekend district college top 10: W&J baseball keeps rolling
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. W&J baseball extends win streak to 10, stays perfect in PAC The Presidents (13-7, 8-0 Presidents’ Athletic Conference) needed 10 innings but finished off a weekend sweep of Chatham with a 6-3 victory to keep...
Gateway grad Betts to be inducted into Clarion Sports Hall of Fame
Bob Betts played football at Gateway for legendary coach Pete Antimarino. His father, former Penn State player Art Betts, served as Antimarino’s longtime defensive coordinator. But that doesn’t mean Bob Betts, a 1978 Gateway graduate who was part of an 8-1 team his senior year, was given any favors. “In...
