District College category, Page 87

Pitchers and catchers will report — along with the rest of the Saint Vincent baseball team. Saint Vincent will head south next month to open the season, but with a bonus. The Bearcats will play a doubleheader at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla., the spring training home of the Pittsburgh...

Its field has been covered in snow lately, but the Seton Hill baseball team already is thinking about the upcoming season — and the expectations that will come with it. The Griffins again are the preseason favorite in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. After back-to-back conference titles, Seton Hill was...

A pair of Plum alums saw double-double on Saturday. Washington and Jefferson sophomore Maria Lawhorne and St. Francis (Pa.) senior Courtney Zezza both reached double figures in points and rebounds in their teams’ respective games over the weekend. Lawhorne achieved her first college double-double, scoring 20 points and pulling down...

Carrie Ferguson was a standout basketball at Greensburg Salem in the late 1980s, and Isaac Greeley is an assistant wrestling coach at Burrell. They will be two of the five members of the 2019 Hall of Fame class at Pitt-Johnstown. The others to be honored April 6 are Matt Lushko...

Sophomore guard Cam Seigfreid was rewarded Monday for one of his most productive stretches of the season for the Pitt-Greensburg men’s basketball team. A Penn-Trafford graduate, Seigfreid was named Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Week after leading the Bobcats (7-14, 4-10) to a 2-1 week. The 6-foot-2 Seigfreid...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Westminster men hand Saint Vincent 1st PAC loss Sophomore Isaac Stamatiades recorded 19 points — including back-to-back 3s in overtime — and added a career-best 16 rebounds to lead the Titans past the Bearcats, 87-80,...

Saint Vincent College announced Monday the school will sponsor a men’s volleyball team. The school plans to begin competing at the NCAA Division III level in 2019-20. The school is seeking a coach and plans to have someone in place this month. The men’s volleyball program will become the 24th...

Sophomore guard Zach Queen became the 3-point king this season for the Washington & Jefferson basketball team. Queen, a Hempfield graduate, set the school record with 3-pointers in a season, with 69. The mark came in Saturday’s 80-76 home victory over Thiel in overtime. His record-breaking 3 with four seconds...

Seton Hill baseball is the preseason favorite to win the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division. The Griffins, reigning two-time PSAC champions, earned five first-place votes from the head baseball coaches in the league. Mercyhurst received three first-place votes and was second, followed by Slippery Rock, Gannon, Cal (Pa.), Indiana,...

When Maria Palarino was playing basketball at Penn-Trafford, she was the proverbial “do-whatever-the-team-needs-me-to-do” player. Often, that meant playing different positions. That penchant for playing all over the court has served her well at St. Francis Brooklyn, where she again has been asked to fill varying roles. Her versatility has been...

The IUP women’s basketball team, which suffered its first loss of the season last week, fell four spots to No. 5 in the latest Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll released Tuesday. The Crimson Hawks (16-1) are the only Division II program to be ranked...

Maria Palarino became the 17th player in St. Francis Brooklyn women’s basketball history to score 1,000 career points. The 5-foot-10 senior guard out of Penn-Trafford took a cross-lane pass and made a scooping, left-handed layup off the glass with 3:02 left in the second quarter Monday night to reach the...

Ardell Brown is proof the new NCAA transfer portal works. The big-play wide receiver from Seton Hill asked to have his name thrown into the hat so he could test the waters. Brown, a redshirt junior, knew he had a monster season for the Griffins and could draw a peek...

A torn labrum, broken ankle and broken knuckle in a 16-month span were enough. So Cal (Pa.) basketball player Seairra Barrett opted for lots of milk, protein and vitamins before this season in an attempt to shield herself from more injuries. “In my head, something wasn’t right because I kept...

Saint Vincent began the week unbeaten in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference men’s basketball race, and Mike Simmons is playing a significant part. Simmons, a senior and Kiski Area graduate, tied his personal best with 19 points in a 76-63 win over Grove City, helping Saint Vincent reach 10-0 in conference...

Michelle Burns, a sophomore guard at Point Park and a Hempfield graduate, broke the school record for 3-pointers in a game Thursday, connecting on 9 of 13 attempts — for a career-high 33 points — in a 91-62 victory over visiting Asbury. Burns, who made 11 of 17 shots overall,...

Jenna Cole is a criminal justice major at La Roche. She may work in that field one day, but until then she’ll continue to bring decency to the paint for the Redhawks women’s basketball team. Cole, a 6-foot junior forward out of Norwin, was lauded for her latest efforts Monday...

Coming off one of its best seasons, Seton Hill will begin the men’s lacrosse season with its best preseason ranking. The Griffins are rated third in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association II Coaches Poll. Defending national champion Merrimack is ranked No. 1 and LeMoyne checks in at No. 2....

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Chatham women end W&J winning streak at 11 Katie Sieg (Serra Catholic) scored 25 points, and the Cougars hit a single-game school-record 17 3-pointers en route to a 72-70 victory over Washington & Jefferson in...

From observer to leader, Kason Harrell has been mapping out a road to his future while attending Purdue Fort Wayne, an obscure basketball school in the nation’s heartland that, for now, serves as his second home. The former Hempfield standout more than three years ago arrived at the Summit League...

Coming off its best season, Seton Hill will begin the men’s lacrosse season with its best preseason ranking. The Griffins are rated third in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association II Coaches Poll. Defending national champion Merrimack is ranked No. 1, and LeMoyne checks in at No. 2. Seton Hill’s...

Tyler Perhac is expected to be a factor in goal for the Lebanon Valley hockey team as it continues the stretch run of its season. The Gateway product, a third-year goaltender for the Flying Dutchmen, has shared starting duties with three others this season. Perhac made his sixth start Jan....

In three seasons with the Gannon basketball team, Pine-Richland graduate Chelsea Rourke has continued to evolve. She began as freshman reserve, then became a role player as a sophomore. Now a junior, Rourke is flourishing as a do-it-all Swiss army knife. The 5-foot-11 swing player leads the team in minutes...

Geneva football standout Zach Hall remembers his first interception of the 2018 season like it was yesterday. But it’s what happened on the sideline afterward that sticks out the most. After the senior cornerback stepped in front of Bethany quarterback Carlin Bason’s pass and returned it 36 yards to give...