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NCAA Division II Nonconference Seton Hill (2-0) vs. Kutztown (1-1) Noon Saturday at Andre Reed Stadium, Kutztown Series: Tied 1-1 Last meeting: Kutztown 62, Seton Hill 17 (2017). About Seton Hill: The Griffins defense is tops in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in points allowed per game at 10.5. Jaylen...

Senior Ryan Hilty (Penn-Trafford) scored the winning goal in the 76th minute as the Allegheny men’s soccer team edged past Marietta, 3-2. It was the first score of his career. Cal (Pa.): Sophomore midfielder Zach Vanek (Hempfield) scored his second goal of the season, on a penalty kick, in a...

It’s mid-September and neither Seton Hill nor Saint Vincent has lost a football game. Seton Hill looks like it is going to grind its way to victories this season, and that will do just fine for a program looking to turn a corner. The Griffins improved to 2-0 with a...

Monica “Mo” Burns used to think about what coaching might be like, but she didn’t fully entertain the idea when she was in college. She was too busy breaking records at Wheeling Jesuit a few years ago. But now the profession has Burns’ full attention. The former Hempfield standout was...

MacKenzie Leeder isn’t acting her age. And that’s a great thing for the Duquesne women’s soccer team. Leeder, a freshman defender from Mt. Pleasant, has started four of five games for the Dukes (2-2-1) and has played all 90 minutes in the past two matches. “She’s earned every minute she’s...

Luke Hauger hit the go-ahead field goal with 2:30 left in the third quarter and Seton Hill started a season 2-0 for the first time since 2016 with a 13-7 victory over Bloomsburg (1-1) on Saturday night. JaiQuawn McGriff ran 20 times for 75 yards and Seton Hill’s only touchdown...

NCAA Division II Nonconference Bloomsburg (0-1) vs. Seton Hill (1-0) 6 p.m. Saturday at Offutt Field, Greensburg Series: Bloomsburg leads 1-0. Last meeting: Bloomsburg 17, Seton Hill 14 (2015) Coaches: Frank Sheptock, Bloomsburg; Daniel Day, Seton Hill About Bloomsburg: Linebacker Quentin Gaskill had 13 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss and...

NCAA Division III Nonconference Saint Vincent (0-0) vs. Bluffton (0-1) 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Alumni Field, Bluffton, Ohio Coaches: Aaron Smetanka, Saint Vincent; Aaron Krepps, Bluffton About Saint Vincent: The Bearcats are led by quarterback Brady Walker. He completed 69 of 107 passes for 880 yards and 10 touchdowns during...

An impressive showing at the U.S. Amateur has Mark Goetz in position to win a prestigious award. Goetz, a Greensburg native, Hannastown Golf Club member and fifth-year senior at West Virginia, is one of three finalists for the Ben Hogan Award August Golfer of the Month. He joins U.S. Amateur...

The Seton Hill baseball team added Parker Lynn to the coaching staff as a volunteer assistant. Lynn, a Belle Vernon graduate, will coach catchers and work with offensive details. He played one season at Cal U, where he later coached. He also spent a season as an assistant at West...

Riverview graduate Michael Komaniak didn’t waste any time delivering the dramatic for the Washington & Jefferson men’s soccer team. The senior forward and team captain tallied the winning goal in the 89th minute to lift the Presidents past Point Park, 3-2, in the season opener last Wednesday. Komaniak also scored...

Pitt-Greensburg will have an athletics hall of fame for the first time. The university put together a selection committee, which began meeting in June. They will consider past standouts for induction in four categories: student-athlete, coach/administrator, team and honorary. The nomination process begins Wednesday and will end Oct. 15. Nominations...

Justin Heacock threw for 234 yards and three touchdowns — all to Andrew Wolf — to lead Washington & Jefferson (1-0) to a 21-14 victory over No. 11 John Carroll (0-1) in district college football Saturday. Wolf finished with eight receptions for 172 yards. Jason Floriea threw for 257 yards...

Playing for the first time in almost two years, Seton Hill caught a break and opened its season with a 16-14 victory over Wheeling University on Thursday night at Offutt Field. Wheeling missed a potential game-winning, 26-yard field goal with 1:17 to play because of a botched snap. Seton Hill...

NCAA Division II Nonconference Wheeling vs. Seton Hill 7 p.m. Thursday at Offutt Field, Greensburg The skinny: This is the first meeting between the schools. This is Wheeling’s fourth season fielding a team. The Cardinals played four games in the spring. The Griffins and the PSAC did not play last...

Pitt-Greensburg will have an athletics hall of fame for the first time. The university put together a selection committee which began meeting in June. They will consider past standouts for induction in four categories: student-athlete, coach/administrator, team and honorary. The nomination process begins Wednesday of this week and will end...

Edinboro University’s football players have not stepped foot on a field for an official NCAA game in more than 21 months. New head coach Jake Nulph still has not made his head coaching debut since being hired in January 2020. That long wait for Nulph and the Fighting Scots’ players...

Tiana Stewart just graduated from Seton Hill, but her basketball career is continuing overseas. Stewart will earn a master’s degree while playing for TeamGLEAS, which gives former college players a chance to keep playing and studying in another country. A 5-foot-9 swing guard, Stewart will play for Newcastle University in...

Redshirt junior defender Mackenzie Aunkst (Penn-Trafford) dribbled inside the 18-yard box and dropped a perfect cross-pass to teammate Lauren Segalla, who scored a goal for West Virginia in a 4-0, season-opening win over Buffalo. The assist was the first for Aunkst in her career. She has started 31 games for...

After 38 years, Allegheny College athletics will return to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, the college and the PAC announced Monday. Allegheny will be the league’s 11th full-time member and will officially join July 1, 2022. Gators athletics will finish its commitment to the NCAA Division III North Coast Athletic Conference....

Three key senior members of the 2019 Baldwin girls volleyball team — outside hitter Allison Murray, middle hitter Ally Schenk and right-side hitter Riley Lenard-Haley — have continued their careers at the next level. After finishing as a back-to-back section champion and WPIAL runner-up in 2016 and 2018, Baldwin was...

Who knows how far the Carnegie Mellon football team will go this season, but the Tartans’ 2021 run will be the last chapter in the long career of coach Rich Lackner. CMU announced Thursday that Lackner, who has the most wins in program history, will retire at the conclusion of...

As the Seton Hill baseball team made its way through the Division II Atlantic Regional and NCAA championships earlier this summer, Parker Lynn watched with interest. During his time as a player and student assistant coach at Cal (Pa.), Lynn often competed against and admired the Griffins, a fellow foe...

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,...

Westminster captured the Presidents’ Athletic Conference spring football season. Senior linebacker Ian Barr said the goal is to win two titles in the same calendar year. If preseason polls mean anything, Westminster is the early favorite of the conference coaches and athletic directors, along with media outlets, to do so....