Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Saint Vincent welcomes latest hall of fame class

The 2025 Saint Vincent Athletics Hall of Fame class covers six sports and stretches from the 1970s deep into the 2000s.

The inductees will be recognized Sept. 27 at halftime of the Hiram-Saint Vincent football game at Chuck Noll Field.

They include:

• Joey Butler (2009), basketball — Helped SVC to more than 40 wins and an ECAC championship. Averaged 17.2 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds, then 20 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds in his two all-conference seasons. He holds the team’s single-game mark for assists with 16.

• Martin Corcoran (1974), wrestling — Had more than 60 career wins, including 30 by pin, competing at 167- and 177-pound weight classes.

He was a multi-time qualifier for the NAIA Championships. As a senior, he went 17-3 with 10 pins.

• Will Delanoy (2012), men’s lacrosse — Scored 141 goals and handed out 101 assists for 242 points, second most in the program.

• Dr. Andrew Herr, cross country coach — Guided the Bearcats to seven PAC titles and won coach of the year just as many times.

• J.C. Howard (2016), basketball — A four-year guard, he scored 1,055 career points and earned all-conference honors twice while helping SVC to four straight PAC titles and four NCAA Division III Tournament appearances.

• Alyssa Taylor (2014), swimming — The Latrobe graduate had a productive two years with the program, earning All-PAC First Team honors both times and becoming the first SVC swimmer to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championships (100-yard butterfly). She set program records in the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyles, and the 100- and 200 butterfly.

• 2012-13 women’s tennis team — Led by PAC coach of the year Chris McMahon, SVC went 14-0, won the PAC, and made the NCAA Division III Tournament for the first time.

Key players included Jessica McKetta, Kylie (Auman) Centore, Jacquelyn Hauser, Shayla Landman, Amanda Gans and Stephanie (Rubin) Murray.

• 2004 baseball team — The Bearcats won the American Mideast Conference and finished second in the Region IX Tournament. Their 26 wins are second-most in a season in the program.

Coach Mick Janosko’s team included AMC North Player of the Year Joe Pichler and all-conference first teamers Shaun Wenz, Mike Hermann and Kevin Brogan.

Other key players were Danny Consuegra, Aaron Wilson, Jeremiah Scott, Christopher “Kip” Watkins and Russ Daniels.

Janosko was the AMC North and Region IX coach of the year.

Women’s soccer

Penn State Behrend: Senior goalkeeper Riley Morningstar (Norwin) was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.

Morningstar, an All-AMCC First Team and all-region player last season, had 38 saves and a 0.46 goals-against average in 20 games, and finished with a 17-3 record.

She allowed one goal in eight conference games (8-0).

The Lions are the coaches’ preseason favorite to win the conference.

Pitt-Greensburg: Sophomore midfielder Riley Gesinski (Mt. Pleasant) was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Offensive Player of the Year.

A first-team All-AMCC performer as a freshman, Gesinski was the conference’s newcomer of the year. She led the AMCC in assists (seven) and was fourth in goals (five).

UPG is No. 2 in the coaches’ preseason poll.

Youngstown State: Sophomore Sara Felder (Greensburg Central Catholic) scored her first goal of the season as the Penguins posted their first win of the season, 3-0 against St. Bonaventure.

Felder’s first shot was stopped, but she regrouped to score on the rebound for the first goal of the game.

Felder scored three goals last season in 18 games.

Women’s volleyball

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats are favored to win the PAC South Division in a preseason poll.

SVC was the conference runner-up last season and advanced to the PAC championship for the first time.

Key players back include senior Lauren Fox and sophomores Meegan Williams and Dakota Hershberger.

Williams won the PAC Newcomer of the Year last year and was an all-conference first-team pick. Fox made honorable mention.

Allegheny is the favorite in the North Division.

The Bearcats open the season Friday at home in the two-day Bearcat Challenge.

Men’s golf

West Virginia: Alum Mark Goetz (The Kiski School/Greensburg) was named to the Mountaineers’ All-Decade Team.

Goetz, who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour, was WVU golf’s first All-American and NCAA individual qualifier.

He was a runner-up at the NCAA regionals, and posted a pair of wins and shot a school-record 12-under-par at the WVU Invitational.

Goetz was the stroke-play medalist at the 2021 U.S. Amateur at Oakmont.

Baseball

Seton Hill: Longtime coach Marc Marizzaldi added two new assistants to his staff in Mike Zito and Caiden Wood.

Both are former college pitchers.

Zito, who was a closer at Washington & Jefferson, spent two years as an assistant at Chatham after two years at Division I Belmont, where he was director of baseball operations.

Wood, a Griffins’ alum, was a grad assistant at Salem, which last year won the USCAA Small College World Series.

As a pitcher at Seton Hill, he went 20-5 with a 3.58 ERA and five saves. He struck out 153 in 140 innings.

Matthew Blanchard also joins the staff as a volunteer assistant. He, too, was a pitcher at Seton Hill, going 2-2 with a 2.66 ERA in 40 1/2 innings as a senior.

Blanchard began his college career at Bryant and Stratton.