Robert Morris category, Page 18
Tim Benz: Derek Schooley prepares for Robert Morris hockey’s ‘championship game’ this Sunday
Autumn weekends have become very difficult for Derek Schooley. The Robert Morris University men’s hockey coach has a void in his life right now. Those days are usually dedicated to coaching his Colonials in Atlantic Hockey contests. In a normal season, his team would have six to eight games under...
Kiski Area grad Nick Bisceglia makes FG with 5 seconds left to lift Robert Morris past Hampton
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — George Martin threw for 315 yards and two touchdowns, and Nick Bisceglia made a 38-yard field goal with five seconds left to help Robert Morris beat Hampton, 38-35, on Saturday. Martin highlighted Robert Morris’ final drive with a scramble to get away from pressure before finding...
Robert Morris women’s, men’s teams picked to finish 9th, 10th in Horizon League
The Robert Morris women’s and men’s basketball teams were picked to finish 9th and tenth, respectively, in their second season in the 12-team Horizon League, according to preseason polls released Tuesday by the league. Horizon League head coaches voted in the women’s poll and a committee of media members, communication...
Robert Morris hockey programs short on pledges, but optimism remains for reinstatement
Logan Bittle wants more. He needs more. The former Robert Morris hockey player and assistant women’s coach is sitting on $1.4 million in pledges earmarked for reinstating the Robert Morris men’s and women’s ice hockey teams in time for the 2022-23 season. All that is left is collecting — and...
99-yard touchdown run helps North Alabama past Robert Morris
FLORENCE, Ala. — Parker Driggers ran for 145 yards and three touchdowns — including a school- and Big South Conference-record 99-yarder — on just 12 carries and North Alabama picked up its first win of the season with a 42-31 victory over Robert Morris on Saturday. Driggers staked the Lions...
Lorenzo Euline’s late pick-6 helps Robert Morris beat Charleston SouthernVideo
Lorenzo Euline returned an interception 50 yards into the end zone with about three minutes remaining to help Robert Morris beat Charleston Southern, 31-24, on Saturday. Euline’s pick-6 gave the Colonials (2-2, 1-1 Big South Conference) a 31-21 lead. Sam Babbush kicked a 26-yard field goal for Charleston Southern (0-2,...
North Carolina A&T powers past Robert Morris
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jalen Fowler threw two touchdown passes and Jah-Maine Martin ran for 105 yards and two scores to lead North Carolina A&T to a 41-14 victory over Robert Morris in a Big South Conference opener Saturday. Andrew Brown sandwiched two field goals around an 18-yard TD run by...
George Martin accounts for 3 TDs as Robert Morris rallies past Howard
MOON TOWNSHIP — George Martin found D’Andre Hicks for a 17-yard touchdown as Robert Morris put together a nearly six-minute drive late in the fourth quarter to edge Howard, 22-16, on Saturday. Howard’s Quinton Williams ran for one touchdown, passed for another and Faraji Woodson kicked a 27-yard field goal...
Robert Morris set to hit the road to start 2021-22 men’s basketball season
Robert Morris will open its 46th season of NCAA Division I basketball with a three-game road trip that will take the Colonials to Orlando, Fla., Lexington, Ky., and Athens, Ohio, before they finally return to the UPMC Events Center for the home opener. The season starts Nov. 10 at Central...
Robert Morris opens season with 45-0 loss at Central Michigan
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — Jacob Sirmon threw for three touchdowns, Dallas Dixon had two receiving scores and Central Michigan dominated Robert Morris, 45-0, on Saturday. Robert Morris (0-1) was outgained 515-109, and Central Michigan held the ball for more than 35 minutes. The Colonials, facing a Mid-American Conference opponent for...
Derek Schooley named coach, director of operations for RMU hockey programs
Derek Schooley, the only head coach the Robert Morris men’s hockey team has ever known, will remain at the forefront of efforts to reinstate the school’s men’s and women’s programs. The school announced Tuesday that Schooley has been named coach and director of men’s and women’s hockey operations. Prominent RMU...
Lawyer alleges Robert Morris administrator ordered employee to erase records of discussions to cut ice hockey teams
A lawyer who represents a former Robert Morris hockey player is alleging that a university official ordered an athletic department employee to “get rid of” text messages and emails about the school’s decision to eliminate the men’s and women’s ice hockey programs. In a series of interviews with TribLIVE.com, Cleveland-area...
Robert Morris announces web portal for hockey fundraising efforts
Robert Morris has introduced a website where supporters of the university’s men’s and women’s hockey programs can make financial pledges to keep the teams from folding. The goal for the fundraising effort, dubbed “Hockey is the Goal,” is to raise $1.4 million in contributions and $1.4 million in pledges by...
Tim Benz: Derek Schooley hopes to build Robert Morris hockey from the ground up — again
Here’s a challenge. Recruit for a college hockey team that doesn’t exist. Here’s another challenge. Do it twice in less than 20 years. That’s the task facing presumptive current Robert Morris men’s hockey head coach Derek Schooley. Wait a minute. Is that a thing? “Presumptive current head coach.” It feels...
Longtime Robert Morris coach Joe Walton dies at 85
Joe Walton, a first-team All-American tight end at Pitt in 1956 and later a 35-year fixture in the NFL as a scout, player and coach before returning to college football to build the Robert Morris program from scratch, died Sunday. He was 85. Born in Beaver Falls, Walton evolved from...
Robert Morris hockey players feel ‘double crossed,’ doubt school’s sincerity about reinstatement plan
The Robert Morris men’s and women’s hockey programs are about to enter another postseason overtime period. The clock isn’t reading 20 minutes. It’s reading four months. For a second time, Robert Morris University officials have given both teams nothing more than a foggy possibility as to whether they will be...
Robert Morris hockey programs on hold until at least 2022-23 season
The Robert Morris men’s and women’s hockey teams will not have the chance to compete during this upcoming season because fundraising pledges remain below necessary levels to sustain the programs in the long term, the university announced Thursday. About $1.34 million has been raised, with $754,000 payable in 2021-22, according...
Tim Benz: Departure of women’s coach Paul Colontino is latest hurdle for Robert Morris hockey
For former Robert Morris University women’s hockey coach Paul Colontino, he just couldn’t wait any longer. No more delays. No more soft deadlines. No more uncertainty. He needed a job. And a team to coach. More than two months after waiting for the RMU administration to tell him if either...
Yough, RMU product picked for NEC Mount Rushmore team
Yough graduate Nicole Sleith Schaffer was one of the most feared softball pitchers to play at Robert Morris. She struck out more than 900 hitters over four seasons and once tossed a perfect game to extend her team’s season. She will go down as one of Northeast Conference’s all-time greats,...
Tim Benz: Robert Morris hockey teams need clarity from administration, not an NCAA extension
For the Robert Morris University hockey teams, this was a weekend where no news wasn’t necessarily good news. Robert Morris had previously put a fundraising deadline of July 31 as the end date for the men’s and women’s hockey programs to generate enough funds to keep their programs alive. This...
Tim Benz: SEC expansion isn’t just about trying to dominate the NCAA; it’s preparing for a world after the NCAA
As the drama continues to swirl around the Southeastern Conference’s attempt to absorb Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, many characterize the advance as an SEC attempt to form a “super conference.” Wait. I thought that’s what the SEC was already. No? A lot has been written and said...
Robert Morris football returns to the fall, picked to finish last in Big South
After a season that was postponed, moved to the spring and shortened to three games, Robert Morris will enter a 2021 campaign that returns to its normal spot on the calendar in the fall. The Colonials lost all three games but return 21 starters (11 on defense). Included in the...
NCAA clears Robert Morris transfers Rasheem Dunn, Ferron Flavors Jr. to play in 2021-22
Two Robert Morris men’s basketball players who have transferred multiple times have been granted waivers from the NCAA to play this season for the Colonials, a school spokesman confirmed Tuesday. Point guard Rasheem Dunn and shooting guard Ferron Flavors Jr. will play for Robert Morris in their final seasons of...
Tim Benz: Robert Morris hockey teams want to play games. On the ice, not with their own administration
If Robert Morris University truly wants its recently resuscitated hockey programs to play games this season, the school should stop playing games with the student-athletes who remain on the teams. Immediately. The decision makers in Moon Township should reinstate both the men’s and women’s programs right now and let them...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Saving Robert Morris hockey worthy idea but unrealistic to sustain
Dropping hockey was a bad decision by Robert Morris, especially the timetable. But now good effort is being wasted after that bad decision. The attempt is being made to revive the RMU men’s and women’s hockey teams via fundraising. That’s going to have to be one heck of a bake...
