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A-K Valley campus clippings: Burdelski earns PAC pitching honor
Krystyna Burdelski’s strong week earned conference recognition. The Westminster freshman, a Fox Chapel graduate, was named Presidents’ Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week on Monday after leading the Titans to two wins last week. Burdelski pitched a one-hit shutout, her second of the season, in a 9-0 win over Bethany....
WCCC softball hosting conference playoffs
The Westmoreland County Community College softball team earned the top seed in the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference and will host the conference tournament Saturday at Seton Hill University. There are three teams in the bracket. Butler County Community College will play Garrett College (Md.) at noon. WCCC (6-8) will face...
Healthy Emily Forner going for second national title for Allegheny track and field
Allegheny senior runner Emily Forner entered the week with the top time in NCAA Division III in the 5,000 meters: 16 minutes, 33.01 seconds. In the winter, she won the the indoor 3,000-meter national title. But just a couple of years ago, she thought her best days as a runner...
St. Francis (Pa.) hires Keila Whittington as women’s hoops coach
Keila Whittington’s first head coaching job in Division I women’s college basketball will be at Saint Francis (Pa.). A Louisiana native, Whittington replaces Joe Haigh, who resigned after 10 seasons with the program, seven as head coach. Whittington will officially be announced Thursday afternoon during a press conference on Loretto....
Westmoreland campus clippings: GCC grad Collin Liberatore stays unbeaten for Indiana State
Junior pitcher Collin Liberatore is in control of his game at Indiana State. The Greensburg Central Catholic graduate improved to 7-0 this season after working eight strong innings in an 8-2 win Sunday over Evansville. The 6-foot-4 right-hander struck out two and gave up eight hits in the victory. Liberatore,...
Courtney Grove named field hockey coach at Seton Hill
Anybody who followed Seton Hill women’s lacrosse in recent years will know the name Courtney Grove. Now, Griffins field hockey fans will know it as well. The 10th-year coach of the lacrosse team was announced Tuesday as the new field hockey coach. She left Seton Hill in 2011 to become...
Quaker Valley grad Garbee tosses no-hitter for Mercyhurst
Maybe Tyler Garbee should pitch seven innings more often. Garbee, a senior righthander at Mercyhurst, pitched a no-hitter Monday during his second straight complete game performance, a 2-0 victory against host Slippery Rock. The Quaker Valley graduate and Pitt transfer struck out 12, walked one and hit a batter as...
Campus clippings: Penn’s Nedley in running for nation’s top freshman
With a fast transition to college softball, and big numbers to match, Emma Nedley has proven she is one of the top freshmen in the Ivy League. But now the Penn outfielder is on a ballot to be considered the nation’s top newcomer. Nedley, a Penn-Trafford graduate, is one of...
A-K Valley campus clippings: Knoch grad Geist has NCAA’s top mark in shot put
Jordan Geist is No. 1. The Arizona sophomore and Knoch graduate recorded the best shot put mark in the NCAA with a winning toss of 21.59 meters (70 feet, 11 inches) at the Triton Invitational on April 13. That throw also set Arizona’s school record and Geist’s personal record and...
Weekend College Top 10: Pitt softball wins 1st ACC series of year
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Pitt softball wins 1st ACC series of season Sarah Dawson threw a two-hitter, and Walker Barbee homered, tripled and finished with three RBIs as the Panthers defeated Syracuse, 6-1, in the decisive game of their...
Westmoreland County contingent forms bond with Pitt-Johnstown softball
Scan the diamond at a Pitt-Johnstown softball game, and there are instant flashbacks to Westmoreland County WPIAL softball circa 2017. Four county schools often are represented on the lineup card. Middle infielders from the area turn double plays, and there is even an all-local battery. Five of the top players...
Knoch grad Celia Knappenberger hopes to pitch Saint Vincent softball into postseason
Celia Knappenberger plays to win. That might seem like a default setting for any athlete, but there was conviction in the tone of her voice when describing her will to be successful that showed she doesn’t take it for granted. And with focus and determination Knappenberger, a Knoch graduate, has...
Shaler grad Stephen Borgen helps Thiel men’s volleyball capture AMCC title
During its decade in the Continental Volleyball Conference, the Thiel men’s team appeared in the championship match four times. The Tomcats lost them all. This spring was Thiel’s first in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, where it joined Geneva, Wittenberg and Hiram as affiliate members. Those additions enabled the AMCC...
Penn-Trafford product Emma Nedley up for national freshman of year
With a fast transition to college softball, and big numbers to match, Emma Nedley has proven she is one of the top freshmen in the Ivy League. But now the Penn outfielder is on a ballot to be considered the nation’s top newcomer. Nedley, a Penn-Trafford graduate, is one of...
A-K Valley campus clippings: Freeport grad Kelley has big week for Thiel softball
The Presidents’ Athletic Conference made its weekly award selections for softball Monday, and it had a pretty clear-cut choice for hitter of the week. Thiel senior Jess Kelley (Freeport) dominated at the plate in four games last week, going a combined 14 for 16 with a double, seven RBIs and...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Saint Vincent’s Sydney Ball win’s PAC women’s golf title
Sydney Ball sat on a three-shot lead for the better part of six months. The Saint Vincent sophomore, however, still closed the deal. Ball this weekend was named MVP at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s golf championships after winning the title by nine shots at Chestnut RidgeResort in Blairsville. The...
Saint Vincent hoops assistant Nate Bollinger makes 30-under-30 list
New Saint Vincent assistant men’s basketball coach Nate Bollinger was added to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Under Armour 30-under-30 Team. Bollinger is the first coach from the PAC to make the list, which touts the country’s top rising coaches under age 30. The York native spent the last...
Presidents’ Athletic Conference adds Franciscan University as full member
The Presidents’ Athletic Conference is expanding to double digits. Franciscan University will join the PAC as its 10th full-time member, the conference announced Tuesday morning. The league’s Presidents’ Council voted on the decision last week. Located in Steubenville, Ohio, Franciscan was already an affiliate member of the PAC in men’s...
Campus clippings: Saint Vincent’s Janosko reaches 400 wins
Longtime Saint Vincent College baseball coach Mick Janosko reached another milestone last week with his 400th victory. Janosko, who began coaching the Bearcats in 1998, helped guide the team to a 6-1 victory over Geneva in Latrobe. Junior pitcher Fred Gillespie tossed a three-hitter and senior Bobby Finn tripled and...
Campus clippings: Tre Tipton shines in Pitt’s Blue-Gold game
Tre Tipton received recognition for his improvement Saturday, then backed it up on the field. The former Apollo-Ridge star caught both touchdown passes for Blue in its 14-7 victory over Gold in Pitt’s annual spring game Saturday at Heinz Field. Tipton caught three passes for 43 yards and scores of...
Weekend College Top 10: Thiel men claim 1st volleyball title
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Thiel men’s volleyball earns 1st conference championship The Tomcats rallied from a first-set loss to defeat Wittenberg, 22-25, 25-18, 25-21, 25-20, in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title match Saturday. Jacobe DeRue led Thiel (17-12)...
Saint Vincent’s Sydney Ball wins PAC golf title
Sydney Ball sat on a three-shot lead for the better part of six months. The Saint Vincent sophomore, however, still closed the deal. Ball this weekend was named MVP at the PAC Women’s Golf Championships after winning the title by nine shots at Chestnut Ridge Resort in Blairsville. The Pittsford,...
Seton Hill’s Nick Stotler hits 3 HRs in 22-1 win against Mercyhurst
Seton Hill redshirt senior Nick Stotler had quite a game Saturday at Mercyhurst. The Plum graduate, who transferred from Lock Haven, drove in six runs and hit three home runs to lead Seton Hill to a 22-1 victory in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division game. They were his...
Penn-Trafford graduate Price is ‘special talent’ for Pitt-Greensburg tennis
Penn-Trafford graduate Turner Price is turning heads as a freshman on the Pitt-Greensburg men’s tennis team. Price was 6-0 in singles and 5-1 in doubles in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference heading into the final regular-season match April 13. He was named the conference’s Player of the Week on April...
Plum grad Bucci adjusts to head coaching position at Pitt-Greensburg
Marc Bucci is no stranger to the Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer team. In the fall of 2017, the Plum graduate served as an assistant with the Bobcats under then coach Dan Keefe. Bucci then spent last fall as an assistant an hour east at Pitt-Johnstown, his alma mater. But when Keefe...
