District College category, Page 62

North Allegheny graduate Maddie Mianzo had a productive month as a junior diver on the Carnegie Mellon women’s swimming and diving team. Mianzo, 20, of Franklin Park, was named University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week for Nov. 18 after earning her first NCAA Division III regional qualifying marks of...

Brady Pevarnik has changed clubs before to combat a stiff wind or to negotiate a tight pin placement. But now the former Latrobe star golfer is changing colleges. Pevarnik is leaving Penn State and will transfer to the College of Charleston (S.C.) for the spring semester. “It just wasn’t the...

The Harlon Hill Award often is called the Heisman Trophy of NCAA Division II football. Could this year’s hardware end up in the hands of a player from … Slippery Rock? Could happen. Slippery Rock senior quarterback Roland Rivers III is one of the eight finalists for the Hill Award,...

On the eve of her volleyball team’s opening match in the NCAA Division II Tournament, Seton Hill’s Viktoria Farian received some more postseason recognition. Farian, a junior outside hitter, was named to the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association All-Atlantic Region second team. She was a first-team selection last season....

Seven-time AMCC Baseball Coach of the Year Chase Rowe is leaving La Roche to take a minor league position with the Detroit Tigers. Rowe will be a hitting coach but the team or level at which he will coach has not been announced. The Knoch graduate announced the move on...

Seven seasons into his tenure at Seton Hill, women’s basketball coach Mark Katarski has reached a milestone. Katarski’s teams often come close to scoring 100 points. In Sunday’s 85-78 win over Frostburg State, the Griffins gave him 100 career victories. Katarski, who began guiding the Griffins in 2013-14, when they...

Brandon Stone believed he could not only play Division I basketball, but that he also could make an immediate impact when he arrived at a program. The 6-foot-11 freshman forward, who played at Southmoreland before finishing his prep career at The Christ School (N.C.), is playing right away at La...

A trio of Pitt-Greensburg players from the most successful women’s soccer team in program history received additional postseason accolades. Senior defender Tori Conroy and freshman forward Ashley Lucas were named to the United Soccer Coaches Association NCAA Division III All-Great Lakes Region second team, while sophomore midfielder Tiffany Michalek made...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. WR Wynn, No. 8 Slippery Rock dominate in playoff opener Jermaine Wynn Jr. (Woodland Hills) equaled the NCAA Division II playoff mark with 18 catches as The Rock ousted Shepherd, 51-30, in a second-round game...

Roland Rivers III threw for 416 yards and four touchdowns as top seed/No. 8 Slippery Rock defeated visiting Shepherd, 51-30, in the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday afternoon. Jermaine Wynn caught a school-record 18 passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns for the Rock, and Charles...

His first reception for Franklin Regional went for a touchdown. So did his first two at Villanova. Todd Summers knows a few things about making a strong initial impression, but those events pale in comparison to what first-year Villanova offensive coordinator Chris Boden thought when he first saw the redshirt...

One town’s name keeps popping up on college basketball rosters all over the place, up and down the East Coast. From New England to Florida — and many stops in between — “Latrobe” is a common hometown among lists that also include jersey numbers, classes, heights and positions. Latrobe graduates,...

Megan Ost is making the most of her early-season opportunities for the Carlow women’s basketball team. The Apollo-Ridge graduate and sophomore forward with the Celtics owns six double-digit scoring efforts through eight games. Ost had a season-best 23 points to go with 10 rebounds in Tuesday’s 63-39 victory over Penn...

When Pitt-Greensburg plays host to Penn State-Behrend on Saturday, the athletic department will also honor four teams and their players. The four teams — squads from 1969-70,1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2004-05 — and former players who made their mark within the program will be recognized beginning at 12:30 p.m. with a...

Westminster senior Darius Doty ended his collegiate football career with the best game of his career on Saturday. The defensive end and Greensburg Salem graduate helped Westminster defeat SUNY-Morrisville, 35-24, in the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s Clayton Chapman Bowl. Doty led the Titan defense with eight tackles, a career-high six...

Arizona State redshirt senior 149-pounder Josh Maruca (Franklin Regional) earned a 5-4 decision over Penn State sophomore Jarod Verkleeren (Hempfield) as the No. 5 Sun Devils upset No. 1 Penn State, 19-18, to snap the Nittany Lions’ 60-dual match winning streak that dated to 2015. Bucknell: Sophomore Zach Hartman (Belle...

The Indiana University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team is undefeated through five games, and it moved up two spots to No. 6 in the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division II poll released Tuesday afternoon. IUP is the only Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference team ranked in this week’s poll. The...

The Cal (Pa.) women’s basketball team has moved into the top 10 of the latest Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released Tuesday afternoon. The Vulcans, 7-0 overall and 2-0 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, ticked up four spots to No. 9. They have been featured in...

The Seton Hill women’s volleyball earned a berth in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional Tournament for the third consecutive season and fifth time in school history. The Griffins (19-10) received a No. 7 seed and will face No. 2 Gannon (27-6) on Dec. 5 at Wheeling Jesuit, which will...

Anthony Harding teetered some when he was making his college decision coming out of Norwin. The soccer standout first chose Penn State before flipping to Pitt. Now he has found his way into the starting lineup for the Panthers (10-7-2). Harding made his starting debut as Pitt knocked off Lehigh,...

Robert Morris announced Monday that Colonials football coach Bernard Clark Jr. is a finalist for the STATS Eddie Robinson Award. The honor is presented annually to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision’s Coach of the Year. A national group of more than 150 writers, broadcasters and others will select the winner,...

There are long-snappers who get little recognition — most of them — and then there are long-snappers like Michael Pifer. The Navy senior and Penn-Trafford alum, in his second season as the starting “LS” for the Midshipmen, is considered one of the best at his position in the country. The...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Carnegie Mellon women’s soccer reaches D-III Final Four The No. 25 Tartans defeated No. 19 St. Thomas (Minn.) on penalty kicks Saturday, becoming the first women’s team to reach the NCAA Tournament semifinals. Next up...

For the past three years, senior Ben Andrews and his Gannon men’s soccer teammates have been working towards playing in the NCAA Division II men’s soccer tournament. Earlier this week, the Knights got the news that not only did they earn a bid, but they received the No. 2 seed...

IUP’s season ended with a 31-27 loss to No. 25 Shepherd in the first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday. Justice Evans put No. 18 IUP ahead 27-24 on a 1-yard touchdown run with 1 minute, 40 seconds left. But Shepherd (10-2) answered with an eight-play, 84-yard drive...