District College category, Page 82

The IUP women’s basketball team will be seeking a second straight trip to the NCAA Division II Final Four. The Crimson Hawks (29-3), seeded third in the Elite Eight (national quarterfinals) will meet No. 6 Azusa Pacific (28-5) at noon on Tuesday at Ohio Dominican’s Alumni Hall in Columbus as...

Marc Bucci already was familiar with the men’s soccer program at Pitt-Greensburg, having served as an assistant coach in 2017. That made his transition to head coach a little easier. Bucci will take over the program following the departure of Dan Keefe, who left to become an assistant at Lincoln...

Sal Frelick did not play high school baseball in Westmoreland County, but the fast-rising star at Boston College has plenty of fans watching his progress from afar. Frelick, a freshman outfielder, still has family and friends in the Greensburg area, and he continues to impress. Frelick, who was named the...

Seton Hill is mourning the loss of a man who gave four decades worth of commitment to the university and Griffins athletics. John Fogle, a former women’s soccer coach and athletic director on “The Hill,” died Tuesday. Fogle was a member of the school’s inaugural hall of fame class in...

Mikayla Bisignani has proven she can balance academics and athletics at the college level, throwing the discus and swimming in overlapping seasons at Johns Hopkins, all while maintaining a perfect grade-point average. The Greensburg Central Catholic graduate was lauded for her efforts Tuesday night when she was announced as the...

Bob Bubb became an NCAA All-American in 1959, wrestling in the University of Iowa’s gymnasium. Nearly 60 years later, Nico Megaludis won a national title in “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” New York’s Madison Square Garden, with a finals attendance of 19,270 — more than the crowd for the entire...

Tournament MVP Kaitlyn Slagus and her teammates are going to the Big Dance. Slagus, a 6-foot-2 senior forward, scored a game-high 23 points to power the top-seeded Bucknell women’s basketball team to a 66-54 victory over No. 2 American in the Patriot League championship game Sunday in Lewisburg. Bucknell (28-5)...

As the chants of “IUP, IUP” grew louder, it was clear the Crimson Hawks had shaken the Cal (Pa.) jinx. The Crimson Hawks used an 11-0 run from the end of the third quarter into the fourth to capture another NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional title with a 68-60 win...

Natalie Myers helped IUP win its second consecutive regional women’s basketball title. The Burrell graduate, a redshirt junior in her first season with the Crimson Hawks, scored six points and pulled down four rebounds in IUP’s 68-60 win over California (Pa.) in the finals of the NCAA Division II Atlantic...

Tommy Pellis looks comfortable in the batter’s box at Seton Hill, like he belonged there all along. That’s not to say the junior third baseman did not fit in at Penn, but his transfer closer to home has him swingly freely and producing for the Griffins. Pellis was named the...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. OT goal pushes Robert Morris hockey into conference semifinals Justin Addamo scored with less than four minutes left in overtime, lifting the Colonials past Bentley, 3-2, in the deciding game of their best-of-three Atlantic Hockey...

Tournament MVP Kaitlyn Slagus and her teammates are going to the Big Dance. Slagus, a 6-foot-2 senior forward from Belle Vernon, scored a game-high 23 points to power the top-seeded Bucknell women’s basketball team to a 66-54 victory over No. 2 American in the Patriot League championship game Sunday in...

IUP will try to win a regional title and advance in the NCAA Division II women’s basketball tournament. The third-seeded Crimson Hawks (28-3), though, will have to get past their nemesis, another local program, to win the Atlantic Region title and move into the national quarterfinals. (26-5) for the third...

Two weeks after the NFL Combine wrapped up in Indianapolis, the Pittsburgh Indoor Sports Arena will host a similar event for local college football players pursuing a professional career. Cal (Pa.)’s Pro Football Combine, sanctioned by the NFL, is 9 a.m. Monday at PISA in Cheswick. About 60 players from...

Tales of athletic prowess often improve with age. That’s not the case with John Yurisinec. The 1997 Penn-Trafford graduate doesn’t sugarcoat his accomplishments while playing football and wrestling for the Warriors. “My high school career was less than stellar,” Yurisinec said. Yurisinec did start at receiver in 1996, the first...

With the Carlow women’s basketball season completed, Seton LaSalle graduate Delaney Daly has her sights on her summer schedule. Daly, a 5-foot-7 junior and NAIA All-American guard for the Celtics, averaged 11.5 points, 3.5 assists and 3.5 steals this season. Her focus now is on her impending trip to Europe....

Seton Hill is sending another lacrosse player to the pros. Senior long-stick midfielder Brett Craig was picked by the Atlanta Blaze in the fifth round of the Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft. He was the 39th overall pick but the first from a Division II program. The reigning Great Midwest...

John Gay IV wants to be a more traditional college student, which he hopes can make him a more traditional college football player — and maybe lead to something further. The former Penn-Trafford standout running back is leaving the Air Force Academy and will transfer to Lafayette, a FCS program...

Change has been good for a few local athletes who have found new homes this spring sports season. Tommy Pellis transferred from Penn to Seton Hill, seeking a better on-field opportunity and a chance to play baseball in the area where he grew up. Pellis, a junior infielder out of...

Three district wrestlers were among the 45 to receive at-large bids Tuesday for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, which are March 21-23 at PPG Paints Arena. Hempfield graduate Sam Krivus (Virginia), Mt. Lebanon’s Kellan Stout (Pitt) and South Park’s Greg Bulsak (Clarion) were selected. This is the third year...

Seton Hill is sending another lacrosse player to the pros. Senior long-stick midfielder Brett Craig was picked by the Atlanta Blaze in the fifth round of the Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft. He was the 39th overall pick but the first chosen from a Division II program. The reining Great...

Seven teams from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference were selected to play in the NCAA Division II basketball tournaments. Conference winners received automatic spots in the postseason brackets, while 40 at-large bids went to teams chosen by the tournament committee. There are eight regional tournaments (8 teams each) that will...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Diaz, Lombardi lead Crimson Hawks to PSAC title Jacobo Diaz had 14 points and 12 rebounds as No. 2 IUP topped Mercyhurst, 56-49, on Sunday for the 10th conference championship in school history. Dante Lombardi...

Jordan Geist is an All-American again. The Knoch graduate, a sophomore at Arizona, earned first team All-American honors with a fifth-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday in Birmingham, Ala. His throw went 66 feet, 6.5 inches. Geist was also named...