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Northeast Conference pushes back start of fall sports
The Northeast Conference has decided to postpone the start of its fall sports seasons, with one exception, until Sept. 10, the league announced Thursday. Football teams may play nonconference games before that date at the discretion of the individual schools. The conference also announced that overnight travel will be limited...
NCAA Division III athletes won’t lose year of eligibility if teams play less than half a season
College athletes playing upcoming NCAA Division III sports during the covid-19 era will not have to burn a year of eligibility if their team completes 50% or less of its maximum contests. The decision to offer a blanket waiver for 2020-21 was announced Thursday by the D-III administrative committee. The...
Brett Craig, former Seton Hill lacrosse standout, to play for Philadelphia Barrage
Former Seton Hill All-American Brett Craig is extending his lacrosse career. Craig will play for the Philadelphia Barrage of Major League Lacrosse after spending the 2020 season with the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League. Philadelphia announced its roster this week. A defensive standout, Craig played in eight games...
St. Francis coaches plan golf marathon for mental health awareness
As golf coaches at St. Francis (Pa.), Lisa Warrilow and Derek Tyson usually are the ones giving instruction, organizing practices, setting lineups and parading around in carts at college tournaments. But on July 22, they will be the players to watch. Warrilow, the women’s coach, and Tyson, who leads the...
Former Southmoreland softball slugger on mend after shoulder surgery
Adeline Nicholson pushed a rock up a hill for the better part of three years. A worsening shoulder injury nagged her college career and threatened to stop it. But somehow, Nicholson did not let it slow her down. She played through some pain at Slippery Rock for two years and...
Carnegie Mellon shuts down fall sports
With growing concern over the widespread coronavirus spike that has made its way to Allegheny County, Carnegie Mellon will not participate in fall sports, the university announced Wednesday. Sports that will be shelved are football, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and women’s volleyball. All but football and volleyball field men’s...
Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference limits fall sports to league games
The NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference will limit its fall sports teams’ schedules to conference games only, a move announced by the league Tuesday. All fall sports, except football, are looking at a start date of Sept. 1. Football teams are set to begin their nine-game schedules on Sept....
Former Mt. Pleasant softball standout changes course, transfers to Alderson Broaddus
Meadow Uncapher is hitting the reset button again on her college softball career. A rising junior out of Mt. Pleasant, Uncapher is leaving St. Francis (Pa.) to play at Alderson Broaddus (W.Va.). The move will take her from a Division I to a Division II program, but she believes it...
Seton Hill product Nate Davis inks pro hoops deal with team in Germany
Late in his senior season at Seton Hill, Nate Davis said the stars would have to align for him to continue playing basketball past college. He must have wished upon one because it’s happening. Davis, the second-leading scorer in Griffins history, is set to embark on a professional career after...
La Roche names Cody Golon as its lacrosse coach
La Roche turned to a former Seton Hill player and offensive-minded assistant to lead its men’s lacrosse program. The university announced the hiring of Cody Golon as its head coach. A former assistant at Peters Township High School and a Baldwin grad, Golon was an assistant at Seton Hill the...
Former Slippery Rock star Micah Till turns pro
Micah Till was a wrecking ball around the basket at Slippery Rock. The 6-foot-7, 250-pound forward could rebound with the best in NCAA Division II basketball, but he was far from one-dimensional. He graduated as the only Rock player with at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 100 blocks, 100 steals...
Kevin Wanichko promoted to track and field coach at Saint Vincent
Kevin Wanichko was named the men’s track and field coach at Saint Vincent on Tuesday. Wanichko served as the women’s cross country and track and field coach since July, 2016. He was the men’s track and field assistant the past season. The Bailey, N.C. native is a 2012 graduate of...
Slippery Rock, IUP ranked in preseason top 25 football polls
A pair of Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division football rivals are ranked in the Division II top 25 by a pair of national college preview magazines. Slippery Rock is No. 9 in the Street & Smith’s poll and No. 11 in the Lindy’s Sports rankings. Both preseason lists were...
Former GCC standout AnnaMarie Gatti promoted to assistant with St. Francis (Pa.) softball
When she played college softball, AnnaMarie Gatti was known as a drop-ball pitcher, one who could induce ground ball outs to stifle opposing rallies. But now that she has entered the coaching ranks, the former WPIAL star is on the rise. Gatti, an overpowering pitcher at Greensburg Central Catholic before...
Seton Hill women’s basketball brings in 7 new players
Seton Hill women’s basketball coach Mark Katarski found away to build a solid recruiting class for the 2020-21 season, mainly online. The incoming class includes junior transfer Sonia Sarda of Granollers, Spain. Sarda played the past two seasons at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma, where she averaged 11.2 points as...
Wrestler Jarrod King headlines 2020 Edinboro Hall of Fame class
Jarrod King won an NCAA Division I wrestling title in 2009. On Friday, he joined his brother Matt (2015) as the first family members to be inducted into the Edinboro University Athletic Hall of Fame. The 39th annual Hall of Fame ceremony will tentatively take place Sept. 4. The Connellsville...
Southmoreland grad Lexi Klatt leaving one Division II school for another
Lexi Klatt is on the move. The former Southmoreland softball standout is leaving Alderson Broaddus after less than half a season to play closer to home in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. Klatt, a catcher and outfielder, announced she is transferring to Edinboro. “I was just unhappy there,” the rising...
Luckhardt, Mihalik, Hieber, Murawski among locals on College Football Hall of Fame ballot
When John Luckhardt retired from Cal U in 2012, he likened his 40-plus-year journey coaching football, which also included a successful stint at Washington & Jefferson, to a “Carnival cruise.” Luckhardt could soon be setting sail toward the elite of college football. He is a candidate for the 2021 College...
Temporary recruiting calendar proposed for Division I men’s basketball
The plan is temporary, but it is a plan nonetheless. The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee on Monday endorsed a fall recruiting calendar which was devised by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and other collaborators. The outline is meant to reestablish important recruiting dates that had been...
Number of WPIAL softball standouts were off to fast starts at college level
It pains some coaches and fans to think what could have been this season for a number of former WPIAL softball stars playing at the Division I college level. When the coronavirus pandemic showed up early in the spring and put a line through the NCAA softball season, it also...
Craig Heyward, Steve Wisniewski among those on 2021 College Football Hall of Fame ballot
Craig Heyward, Steve Wisniewski and Matt Cavanaugh are among those with local ties who were listed on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021 that was announced Tuesday. Heyward was a 1987 consensus All-American after leading the nation in rushing yards for Pitt. The late...
Latrobe grad Taylor Miller earns CSCAA All-American honors
Latrobe graduate Taylor Miller did not get to qualify for this season’s NCAA Division I women’s diving championship meet but earned a top honor by coming close. Miller, an Ohio University sophomore, was selected as an All-American on the 3-meter board by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of...
Ex-Greensburg Central Catholic soccer star Cartwright fighting back from injury-stunted career at Notre Dame
A bright spotlight followed Bailey Cartwright when she played high school soccer at Greensburg Central Catholic, one so bright it was more like a heat lamp sometimes for the star forward. Her goal-scoring barrage became a sort of spectacle as record after record fell and the Centurions meandered through each...
Franklin Regional grad Fisch lives dream, earns walk-on spot with Pitt basketball
It is not quite “The Fish Who Saved Pittsburgh.” No, this story is more along the lines of, “The Fisch Who Wooed Pittsburgh,” and it is a tale of devotion, determination and fulfillment. In a couple of years, Pitt super fan Aidan Fisch went from being a team manager on...
NCAA Division III extends preseason on run-up to sports’ phased return
In another step geared toward keeping the health and safety of student-athletes first, the NCAA Division III Administrative Committee announced it will lengthen the preseason for sports teams for 2020-21. The move looks to provide a cushion of preparation time as college athletics begin to swing toward a measured return...
