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It started with a simple email. Then, a text message. All of a sudden, Justin Sliwoski had a front-row seat to not only meet the Mannings — Peyton, Eli and their father, Archie — but also to get instruction from the the former star quarterbacks. Sliwoski, a redshirt junior quarterback...

Junior Sam Napper and his Westminster golf teammates went back to back. And Napper had the shot of the tournament. The Mt. Pleasant graduate made a hole-in-one during the final round of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships and the Titans (892) went on to a 44-stroke victory over Washington &...

In his 25 years as baseball coach at Saint Vincent, Mick Janosko has never been part of a 16-game winning streak. And while Waynesburg ended that streak Sunday, Janosko was eager to see how his team responded Monday at Geneva. The Bearcats won 9-5 and improved to 21-9 overall and...

With a roster that features only four seniors, the Carlow softball team was going to have plenty of space for younger players to step into prominent roles. Two A-K Valley graduates — Alayna Mintz (Kiski Area) and Francesca Beighley (Plum) — have done just that. The pair played against each...

Breakout sophomore Anthony Sherwin has become known for his smooth glove in the middle of Bucknell’s infield. It’s no exaggeration to say the Penn-Trafford graduate is one of the top shortstops in the country. He is, after all, on the Brooks Wallace Award watch list, an honor reserved for the...

Caleb Lehman has made an impact on the Chatham University baseball team for several years, and the Cougars senior catcher continues to perform in his final collegiate season. The Gateway graduate produced a .358 (34 of 95) average through Chatham’s first 25 games with 18 runs batted in, 21 runs...

After leading a turnaround of considerable note at Slippery Rock, Kevin Reynolds will look to do something similar at Point Park. He was announced Wednesday as the next head men’s basketball coach at NAIA Point Park, replacing Joe Lewandowski, who resigned in March after four seasons in charge of the...

HARRISBURG — Sports teams at six state-owned Pennsylvania universities will still compete against each other despite merging into two umbrella institutions, the State System of Higher Education announced Wednesday. The decision by the NCAA Division II Membership Committee pertains to sports in Division II at Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, Mansfield, California,...

When Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference universities Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, Mansfield, California, Clarion and Edinboro merge into two schools July 1, athletic programs on each campus will remain intact. The NCAA Division II Membership Committee gave its approval Wednesday for those schools to continue to offer a full complement of programs...

Former Westmoreland County resident Ben Wilkins is primed to take over the Seton Hill men’s basketball program. He was announced Tuesday as the new coach, replacing Kendrick Saunders, who was not retained after three seasons and a record of 3-24. Wilkins, an assistant at Army for the last six seasons,...

Clarion senior Jenna Uncapher was running all over the place at her latest track and field meet. And jumping. Uncapher, a Hempfield graduate, scored a career-best 4,247 points to finish fifth in the heptathlon at the Mondschein Multi meet at Kutztown. The mark is third all time at Clarion. She...

The brooms are going to need new bristles at Saint Vincent. The Bearcats baseball team earned its fourth straight sweep of a Presidents’ Athletic Conference opponent, and ran its winning streak to 11, with wins of 9-4 and 10-8 against Franciscan. Junior Jordan Sabol (Penn-Trafford) was the standout of the...

Unable to sleep and full of self-doubt, Neal McDermott sat up in bed and cried. A couple of years before the fifth-year Seton Hill baseball player made SportsCenter’s No. 1 play with a highlight-reel catch as a reinvented center fielder, he was a pitcher. A pitcher at wit’s end, watching...

Dave Scarborough is coming home to coach the Point Park women’s basketball team. A Fox Chapel and Cal (Pa.) graduate, Scarborough was announced Friday as the Pioneers’ next coach. He has been an NCAA Division I women’s assistant for the past nine years — and 13 of the last 14...

Jalen Cloud produced a highly successful indoor season with the Cal (Pa.) men’s track and field team, and those positive outcomes have carried over to the outdoors. The Vulcans senior and Kiski Area graduate improved on his NCAA provisional mark in the triple jump Saturday at IUP’s Ed Fry Invitational....

Ohio Northern will have Aaron Krepps back on its football coaching staff next season. The Division III program hired Krepps, a Belle Vernon graduate who served as an assistant there in 2015 and ‘16 before he left to coach at Bluffton, another D-III program that plays in the Heartland Conference....

Sophomore Anthony Sherwin has become a fixture in the Bucknell baseball lineup. The shortstop out of Penn-Trafford started 30 games as a freshman, and is the leading hitter this season for the Bison. Sherwin was hitting .362 with .954 and .486 on-base and slugging percentages, respectively. He had a team-best...

Right-hander Dylan Brosky allowed one base runner after the first inning on the way to completing Cal (Pa.)’s first no-hitter since 2014 in a 4-0 victory over IUP on Sunday at Wild Things Park in Washington. A senior from Brownsville, Brosky is the first Vulcans’ pitcher to throw a no-hitter...

Recruited as a pitcher out of high school, Neal McDermott did not get to show his defensive skills much at Seton Hill. But on Friday night, the converted outfielder flashed his glove for all of America to see. The grad student out of Greensburg Central Catholic made the No. 1...

A switch from basketball to lacrosse looked rather effortless to Westminster’s Magen Polczynski. The senior from Norwin has 10 goals and five assists in three games since switching uniforms. Her 15 points leads the team. Most of the other players have appeared in five games. She had a six-goal, nine-point...

Nobody ever accused Sam Kline of skipping leg day. A senior softball player at Denison, Kline, a Hempfield product, was the recipient of a National Strength & Conditioning Association All-American Athlete Award through her school. The award recognizes student-athletes’ commitment to staying in shape and working in the weight room....

Austin Butler dunked his way to $5,000 Sunday. And what a dunk it was. The former Latrobe basketball star who played four years at Holy Cross before a grad season at Charlotte, made the highlight reel with a big jam at the 3x3U National Championship at The Sugar Mill in...

Jenna Osikowicz came back for a fifth season at Seton Hill. It might earn her a national award. The standout softball player from Hempfield was added to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II National Player of the Year Award watch list, one of 50 NCAA Division II players nominated....