District College category, Page 64

The Case Western Reserve football team edged Waynesburg on Saturday to clinch the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship and the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs. Throughout the matchup with the Yellow Jackets, Patrick Crossey was making a difference for the Spartans defense. The Plum graduate and senior...

Still undefeated and wanting more, the Pitt-Greensburg women’s soccer team won its first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title Saturday with a 3-2 victory over Penn State Behrend before 247 at Westmoreland County Community College. The victory secured the Bobcats’ (19-0-1) first spot in the NCAA Division III Tournament, which begins...

Andrew Mastovich lived up to the hype. The senior defender on the Penn State Behrend soccer team was tabbed the preseason defensive player of the year in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. On Tuesday, the honors were validated when he was named AMCC Defensive Player of the Year. Mastovich, a...

The Seton Hill women’s basketball team developed a reputation for being one of the top 3-point shooting teams in Division II last season, and the Griffins aren’t changing the way they play. High-scoring Seton Hill made 33 shots from 3-point range in its first two games. It hit a school-record...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Turnovers fuel Robert Morris’ win over rival Duquesne Mason Gray returned two interceptions for touchdowns in the second half, helping the Colonials extend their winning streak to five with a 41-21 victory in a matchup...

Still undefeated and wanting more, the Pitt-Greensburg women’s soccer team won its first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title Saturday with a 3-2 victory over Penn State Behrend before 247 at Westmoreland County Community College. The victory secures the Bobcats (19-0-1) a spot in the NCAA Division III Tournament, which begins...

Roland Rivers III threw for 293 yards and four touchdowns as Slippery Rock moved to 10-0 for the first time in school history by defeating Gannon, 56-7, on Saturday in PSAC play. Rivers III set the single-season (36) and career passing touchdown marks (64) for the Rock. Jake Chapla’s six...

Ask the Saint Vincent women’s basketball coach what he likes most about the current version of Bearcats, and you likely won’t get a straight answer. There seem to be so many choices. For Jimmy Petruska, whose team is coming off its third NCAA Division III playoffs appearance in eight-plus seasons...

After two years of paying his dues, Pine-Richland product Hunter Baxter has earned his spot as the top 141-pound wrestler in Maryland’s starting lineup. The redshirt sophomore already has accomplished plenty in his 21⁄2 years as a Terrapin — winning Academic All-Big Ten honors and earned the team’s freshman of...

NCAA Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference SETON HILL at CAL (PA.) Adamson Stadium 4 p.m. Saturday Records: Seton Hill 2-6, 2-4 PSAC West; Cal (Pa.) 6-3, 4-2 Coaches: Daniel Day, Seton Hill; Gary Dunn, Cal (Pa.) Last week: IUP 50, Seton Hill 23; Slippery Rock 31, Cal (Pa.) 28...

Chase Balla is a jack-of-all-trades for the Allegheny College football team. The 5-foot-8, 180-pound junior has served as an anchor of the defense as a linebacker/defensive back hybrid since his freshman season, when he earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honorable-mention honors. Balla, a Valley High School graduate, has been a...

Pitt-Greensburg will try to win the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference women’s soccer title on Saturday afternoon. Each time the Bobcats (18-0-1) take the field, they put their undefeated record on the line. They are the top seed in the tournament for the first time and will face No. 2 Penn...

The changes are many, but the expectations for the Saint Vincent College men’s basketball program remain the same. A perennial title contender, Saint Vincent is the narrow choice in a preseason poll of conference coaches to win the NCAA Division III Presidents’ Athletic Conference regular season title. Gone are longtime...

Hannah Irvine was on point offensively for the Saint Vincent women’s soccer team in a 3-1 victory over Thiel to cap the 2019 season. The Deer Lakes graduate, a sophomore midfielder, recorded a hat trick as the Bearcats finished 2-6 in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and 2-14 overall. Irvine led...

Tuesday night was a historical one for the Chatham women’s soccer team. The Cougars captured the first playoff victory in the history of the program and did so in dramatic fashion by defeating No. 1 seed Westminster 1-0 in the first round of the President’s Athletic Conference tournament. The Cougars...

Latrobe native Luke Pletcher, a senior wrestler at Ohio State, is now ranked No. 1 at 141 pounds by InterMat Rankings. Pletcher, who began the season ranked No. 3, leaped over preseason No. 1 Oklahoma sophomore Dom Demas and No. 2 Penn State junior Nick Lee after defeating Demas in...

A trio of local players helped lead the Duquesne women’s soccer team into the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Sophomore midfielder Hannah Nguyen (Penn-Trafford) has started 16 games and has a goal and an assist, and redshirt junior defender Marley Smith (Norwin) has made 14 starts and sophomore forward Lexi Kendro (Norwin)...

Here come the Butlers and the Burnses. College basketball season is here again and Westmoreland County will be well represented at the Division I through NAIA levels. While Latrobe has produced the lion’s share of prospects in recent years, the rest of the county also has spread plenty of next-level...

Two area wrestlers who were All-Americans at Pitt-Johnstown last year will open this season ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division II Super Region I. Senior Chris Eddins, a Greensburg Salem graduate and two-time national champion, is No. 1 at 149 pounds, and redshirt senior Devin Austin (Penn-Trafford) has the top...

Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Schmitt becomes Dukes’ all-time winningest coach Daniel Parr had three total touchdowns as Duquesne defeated St. Francis (Pa.), 30-21, on Saturday to give Jerry Schmitt his 98th win with the Dukes. He passed Greg Gattuso...

Daniel Parr threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, and Duquesne cashed in on a turnover to beat St. Francis (Pa.), 30-21, on Saturday to remain undefeated in Northeast Conference play. The win was coach Jerry Schmitt’s 98th, the most in program history. Parr’s 15-yard pass to Kellon...

D-III teams to watch Saint Vincent: Coach Terrance Smith replaces D.P. Harris after 16 years. … Bearcats won regular-season PAC title before losing in the conference semifinals. Finished 22-5 overall and 14-2 in the league. … Led league with 79.1 points per game. … Must replace PAC Player of the...

Teams to watch La Roche: Won seven straight AMCC titles from 2011-17 but will look to end a two-year drought as Hilbert has captured previous two conference titles. … Redhawks return four of five starters. ••• Saint Vincent: Won PAC title in the first year of the post-Thomas More era,...

DII teams to watch IUP: A Final Four team that won 30 games last season, the Crimson Hawks are ranked No. 9 in the preseason WBCA poll. … Must make up for loss of three top scorers, including Greensburg Central Catholic product Carolyn Appleby. … Starters Lexi Griggs (10.9 ppg,...

D-II teams to watch IUP: Reigning PSAC champions went 30-3 last winter and enter season ranked No. 11 in the NABC Coaches’ poll. … Team must replace two of its top players in recent history: All-American forward Jacobo Diaz and four-time all-conference point guard Dante Lombardi. … First-team all-conference guard...