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6 players to represent Western Pennsylvania schools at NFLPA Collegiate Bowl
The eighth annual NFLPA Collegiate Bowl game will be well represented with players from district colleges. The all-star game, which consists of college seniors, will be played Jan. 19 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. It will include six players from Western Pennsylvania schools among the 112 participants on...
With 2 top-5 teams, IUP solidifying itself as a hoops haven
The IUP men are back in the rarefied air of Division II college basketball, off to a 13-0 start and holding the No. 3 spot in the polls. Yet they’re not even the top-ranked team on their campus. That honor belongs to the women, who are 11-0 and ascended to...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Norwin grad eclipses 1,000 points
It might be divided among two schools, but a milestone is a milestone to Jenna Cole. The former Norwin basketball standout scored the 1,000th point of her college career Saturday while leading La Roche to a 64-59 win at Medaille. Cole, a 6-foot junior forward, transferred from Pitt-Greensburg after her...
IUP women vault to No. 1
There is a new No. 1 in Division II women’s basketball, according to at least one of the top national polls. IUP rocketed to the top spot this week for the first time in program history in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Coaches’ Poll. IUP (11-0) picked up...
A-K Valley campus clippings: Simmons leads Saint Vincent men’s basketball over holiday break
Mike Simmons is heating up at Saint Vincent. The Bearcats’ senior guard, a Kiski Area graduate and former Valley News Dispatch Boys Basketball Player of the Year, was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week on Monday. Simmons averaged 17 points in helping Saint Vincent go...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Latrobe grads guiding Shippensburg men’s basketball
Latrobe was well-represented Saturday as the Shippensburg men’s basketball team took down visiting East Stroudsburg, 76-70. Raiders coach Chris Fite notched his 100th career victory, and sophomore point guard Jake Biss scored a career-high 30 points for No. 25 Shippensburg (12-3, 6-1 PSAC). Fite and Biss are Latrobe graduates. Since...
Latrobe grad Biss nabs PSAC East player of week honors for Shippensburg
A head-turning performance Saturday — and a quality three-game stretch in general — earned Jake Biss some conference-wide attention Monday. Biss, a sophomore point guard from Shippensburg and a Latrobe graduate, was named Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Athlete of the Week after his 30-point game — and a...
Saint Vincent’s Simmons named PAC player of week
Saint Vincent senior Mike Simmons took momentum into the new year for the men’s basketball team. His strong play of late garnered him some recognition Monday as he was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. A 6-foot-2 guard from Kiski Area, Simmons went for a...
Weekend College Top 10: Unlikely source leads Saint Vincent
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Saint Vincent men stay perfect in PAC Cletus Hilton (Seton LaSalle) scored a personal-best 20 points — 10 more than his previous high — in an 89-65 rout of Bethany on Saturday. Hilton, a transfer...
Seton Hill’s Megan Marecic makes most of only chance with Griffins
Megan Marecic won a WPIAL basketball championship at Bethel Park, and she hit double-digit scoring in six consecutive games during her senior season at Drexel. Still, those impressive accomplishments didn’t soothe Marecic’s nerves when she decided to join the team at Seton Hill. “I was very nervous,” Marecic said. “I’m...
Fite, Biss make Latrobe proud in Shippensburg victory
Latrobe was well-represented Saturday as the Shippensburg men’s basketball team took down visiting East Stroudsburg, 76-70. Raiders coach Chris Fite notched his 100th career victory, and sophomore guard Jake Biss scored a career-high 30 points for No. 25 Shippensburg (12-3, 6-1 PSAC). Both are Latrobe graduates. Since Fite began coaching...
La Roche’s Jenna Cole hits 1,000-point mark
It might be divided among two schools, but a milestone is a milestone to Jenna Cole. The former Norwin basketball standout scored the 1,000th point of her college career while leading La Roche to a 64-59 win at Medaille. Cole, a 6-foot junior forward, transferred from Pitt-Greensburg after her freshman...
Plum graduate Loebig aims for another run at nationals with Pitt hockey
Last year, Ryan Loebig was one of several first-year members of Pitt’s Division I men’s hockey team to hear shared stories from the Panthers’ 2017 trip to the American College Hockey Association national tournament. Then, after helping Pitt to a successful regular season, which included the College Hockey Mid-American championship...
Shaler grad Duritza chips in for surging Marietta
Luce Duritza’s climb didn’t come by scaling the mountain all at once. The 5-foot-11 forward for the Marietta women’s basketball team had to make gradual progress. As a senior at Shaler, Duritza had her season end when she tore her ACL in the opener. As a college freshman, Duritza was...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Bucknell’s Hartman wows at Midlands
College wrestlers often make their mark at large-scale tournaments early in their careers. One such tournament is the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships in Illinois, and Zach Hartman made a splash — a few of them, in fact — last weekend at that event. A freshman from Bucknell and a Belle...
UPG forward Durand named AMCC player of week
Nadege Durand has been good for a double-doube just about every game this season for the Pitt-Greensburg women’s basketball team. Now she is a double-winner as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Week. Durand, a sophomore forward from Philadelphia, earned the recognition after three strong games to close...
