Riverview graduate Cal Fisher has delivered impactful performances for the Penn State men’s volleyball team, and he has earned first team All-Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association honors.

He is one of six Nittany Lions players named to the EIVA all-star teams. It is his second conference first-team selection.

Fisher finished the regular season April 10 as one of the top points scorers in the nation. His 287.5 points leads EIVA, and he ranks in the top five in points per set, kills, kills per set and hitting percentage.

He also is one of the nation’s top servers with a nation-best 52 service aces (0.733 aces per set).

Fisher will help lead Penn State, as the No. 1 seed, into the EIVA championship tournament starting April 22.

Penn State, 19-3 overall, will host the semifinals (April 22) and championship (April 24) matches.

Maria Taliani (Deer Lakes)

Taliani hit a pair of solo home runs in Gannon’s 5-2 victory over Edinboro in a PSAC contest Wednesday.

The mulit-homer game comes just four days after the senior hit a grand slam to lead the Knights to a 10-6 win over Clarion in the first game of a doubleheader sweep.

Through 24 games, all starts, Taliani hit .359 (28 of 78) with seven home runs, 21 runs batted in, seven doubles and 16 runs scored.

Gannon is 15-9 overall and 14-6 in PSAC play heading into a weekend series with Seton Hill.

Michael Odrey (Valley)

Odrey picked up Presidents’ Athletic Conference men’s tennis rookie of the week honors after helping Grove City to three shutout victories in conference play last week.

He went 6-0 between singles and doubles play, dropping only nine games in his three No. 4 singles wins.

Odrey is 4-0 in conference singles matches, and he also has won all four of his conference doubles matches.

Grove City is 5-2 overall and 5-0 in PAC matches.

Kaylee Sciubba (Deer Lakes)

Lauren Lampus (Freeport)

The two AK-Valley alums helped Westminster capture the PAC women’s volleyball title with a sweep of Grove City on Thursday.

Sciubba, a sophomore middle hitter, delivered 11 kills and a match-high six blocks for the Titans (10-1), and Lampus, a freshman outside hitter, added a team-best 23 digs and was named to the All-PAC Tournament Team.

Westminster, which was 10-0 in PAC matches this year, also has won PAC titles in 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2019.

Mackenzie Lake (Plum)

The freshman shortstop at Division I Towson has accumulated a team-leading .453 batting average (34 of 75) through 24 games this season.

She has five home runs, seven doubles, 16 RBIs and 20 runs for the Tigers, who were 11-13 overall heading into a Colonial Athletic Association game against Drexel on Friday.

Lake collected three hits in a game four times, most recently against Hofstra on April 3.

Abbie Pierson (St. Joseph)

The West Virginia sophomore gymnast recorded another strong winter campaign to help the Mountaineers reach the second round of the NCAA Morgantown Regional Championship and finish 28th in the nation rankings.

Pierson surpassed 500 career points this season and finished second on the team this season with 10 podium finishes in eight meets.

Pierson owns collegiate career bests of 9.9 on vault, 9.9 on balance beam and 9.925 on floor exercise.

Ben Pollock (Cheswick Christian)

Pollock made an impact with the Chatham men’s basketball team in his first year with the Cougars.

Pollock, a 6-foot-10 junior, earned All-PAC honorable-mention honors after averaging 11.8 points and 9.9 rebounds with 18 blocks. He delivered a season-best 30 points at Westminster.

Chatham went 5-5 overall, 5-4 in the PAC. The Cougars bowed out to Grove City in the first round of the PAC Tournament.

Maria Lawhorne (Plum)

The Washington & Jefferson women’s basketball senior capped her collegiate career with first team All-PAC recognition.

Lawhorne, a 5-10 forward, ranked tied for seventh in the conference in points (12.7), seventh in rebounds (7.4) and fourth in field goal percentage (50.6).

She was named to the PAC all-tournament team after scored 16 in the quarterfinals against Bethany and tallied a game-high 17 with six rebounds in the title game, a 65-61 loss to St. Vincent.

Gabby Fischetti (Plum)

The freshman catcher on the Northwest Florida State Junior College softball team, batted a team-best .455 (55 of 121) through 48 games of the 2021 season.

Fischetti also had 15 doubles, eight home runs and 43 RBIs for the Raiders, who own a 32-16 overall record heading into the final four games of the regular season.

Northwest Florida State plays in Division I of the National Junior College Athletic Association.

Harley Holloway (Freeport)

Holloway, a freshman on the Wooster women’s basketball team, became a starter at the end of the team’s eight-game schedule and finished second on the team in scoring at 8.9 points per game.

In her first start March 12, she scored a game-best 23 points in a 76-71 loss to Hiram.

Nineteen of those points came in the second half as Wooster outscored Hiram 46-34 in a comeback attempt from a 17-point halftime deficit.

She tallied 15 points against Hiram the next day.

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