District College category, Page 85
Seton Hill’s Craig drafted by MLL team
Seton Hill is sending another lacrosse player to the pros. Senior long-stick midfielder Brett Craig was picked by the Atlanta Blaze in the fifth round of the Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft. He was the 39th overall pick but the first chosen from a Division II program. The reining Great...
PSAC basketball teams set for NCAA tournaments
Seven teams from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference were selected to play in the NCAA Division II basketball tournaments. Conference winners received automatic spots in the postseason brackets, while 40 at-large bids went to teams chosen by the tournament committee. There are eight regional tournaments (8 teams each) that will...
Weekend College Top 10: IUP men, women record rare double
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Diaz, Lombardi lead Crimson Hawks to PSAC title Jacobo Diaz had 14 points and 12 rebounds as No. 2 IUP topped Mercyhurst, 56-49, on Sunday for the 10th conference championship in school history. Dante Lombardi...
Alle-Kiski Valley campus clippings: Geist earns All-American honors
Jordan Geist is an All-American again. The Knoch graduate, a sophomore at Arizona, earned first team All-American honors with a fifth-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday in Birmingham, Ala. His throw went 66 feet, 6.5 inches. Geist was also named...
Westmoreland campus clippings: County wrestlers qualify for NCAA championships
What would the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Pittsburgh be without a Pittsburgh presence? No need to fret. When it comes to star power at the tournament, the question might be, who isn’t from Pittsburgh? Several talented Westmoreland County wrestlers qualified for nationals, set to take place March 21-23...
Riverview grad Fisher takes on larger-than-expected role for Penn State volleyball
Volleyball always has come naturally for Penn State freshman Cal Fisher. Between his mother, Charlotte, who played at Eastern Kentucky and then professionally in Spain, and two older sisters, Hannah (Wheeling Jesuit) and Arden (Robert Morris), who also played collegiately, he has been around the game his entire life. Fisher,...
IUP men’s basketball team tops Mercyhurst for PSAC title
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team held Mercyhurst under 50 points and claimed the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship with a 56-49 victory Sunday afternoon. The Crimson Hawks (29-2) finished off the Lakers (23-7) about an hour after the IUP women won their PSAC title with a 72-57...
Wrestlers with local ties qualify for NCAA championships in Pittsburgh
Wrestlers with local ties who during their conference tournaments this weekend earned automatic berths for the NCAA wrestling championships that begin March 21 at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena: Wrestler, college (local high school), weight class, how qualified Noah Adams, West Virginia, 197, Big 12 fifth place Brady Berge, Penn State,...
IUP captures PSAC women’s basketball championship
For the second time in three years, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team is the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champion. The Crimson Hawks topped Kutztown 72-57 in the tournament title game Sunday afternoon at Kutztown University. Kutztown, the top seed from the PSAC East, led 22-9 after the...
Greensburg Salem graduate Chris Eddins wins second NCAA Division II wrestling title
Chris Eddins never won a PIAA wrestling championship at Greensburg Salem. But the Pitt-Johnstown junior added his second NCAA Division II national title Saturday by defeating Tiffin’s Trey Grine, 7-2, in the 149-pound finals. Eddins (23-0) opened the two-day tournament in Cleveland with a pin and followed with three consecutive...
Point Park’s Shields is NAIA’s top athlete, again
What Anna Shields has done at Point Park will become legendary long after she graduates. It will tough to forget her “run” of success. Arguably the fastest woman in Pittsburgh for the duration of her college running career, Shields achieved elite status and stayed there. For the fifth time, she...
Pitt-Johnstown’s Pat Pecora named Division II wrestling coach of the year
Twenty years after his most recent national coach of the year award, Pitt-Johnstown’s Pat Pecora earned the honor again. The longtime Mountain Cats coach was named the 2018-19 NCAA Division II National Wrestling Coaches Association’s coach of the year Thursday night at the Division II Hall of Fame banquet in...
Kennesaw State’s Amani Johnson tabbed ASUN’s top freshman
Amani Johnson, the former WPIAL scoring champion from East Allegheny, was unanimously voted the top freshman basketball player in her college team’s conference. The 5-foot-6 guard at Kennesaw State was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Freshman of the Year. Johnson, who scored 2,345 points in high school, was named ASUN...
5 district athletes to watch at NCAA D-I Indoor Track & Field
The NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships will be contested Friday and Saturday in Birmingham, Ala. Here are five district athletes to watch at the meet: Jordan Geist, So. Arizona (Knoch) — A record-breaker and bona fide “stud” in his sport growing up, Geist drew crowds away from...
Pitt-Johnstown’s Eddins, Allesandro eye DII national titles
Greensburg Salem graduate Chris Eddins has come a long way since high school. He left the Golden Lions with a 138-35 career record, was a WPIAL champion in 2016 and placed sixth in the PIAA Class AAA state tournament. But he stepped up his game at Pitt-Johnstown. He earned a...
Longtime coach D.P. Harris leaving Saint Vincent hoops program
For the first time in more than a decade, Saint Vincent is looking for a men’s basketball coach. Don Paul “D.P.” Harris, the man in charge of the Bearcats for 16 years, stepped down to take a position at a college in Florida. The Bearcats just finished a 22-5 season...
International tennis players find home, success in PSAC
Athina Tsagkaraki called her first couple of months at Mercyhurst “maybe the worst time” of her life. More than 5,000 miles from her home on Crete, she was adapting to a new environment and a new culture while trying to balance academics with playing collegiate tennis. She wasn’t alone. Four...
IUP women limit Seton Hill’s perimeter shooting in PSAC quarterfinal victory
For a time, it looked as though Seton Hill’s improbable, late-season run in women’s basketball might continue Wednesday night. Then No. 14 IUP’s offense started to click midway through the third quarter. Carolyn Appleby scored 28 points and Brittany Robinson scored 16, including the 1,000th of her college career, and...
Former Latrobe wrestler Smith tries to remain confident as NCAAs approach
It’s not that Ethan Smith lacks confidence in his abilities, or even that the Ohio State 174-pound wrestler intentionally is trying to keep a modest and unassuming mindset as a freshman. But when Smith, a former standout at Latrobe, demurs from making boastful goals for the NCAA championships in Pittsburgh...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Penn State’s Holmberg set for NCAA indoor championships
Penn State’s Maddie Holmberg was named U.S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Field Athlete of the Year in the Mid-Atlantic Region. She will compete in the NCAA indoor championships this week in Birmingham, Ala. Holmberg, a senior and a Hempfield graduate, took seventh in the pentathlon last...
Burrell grads Falleroni, Greenwald chasing dreams at NCAA Division II wrestling tournament
Corey Falleroni and Damon Greenwald responded differently to the pomp and circumstance of the NCAA Division II wrestling championships when they competed there for the first time in March 2018. The bright lights of the tournament affected Greenwald a bit. Falleroni said the stage didn’t bother him at all, but...
Penn State’s Rivers, Holmberg pick up track & field hardware
Penn State pulled a sweep in the women’s regional track & field awards. Nittany Lions Danae Rivers (track) and Maddie Holmberg (field) were named U.S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association athletes of the year in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Both women will compete in the NCAA Division I...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Slippery Rock’s McQuaide reaches nationals
After placing fifth last year at the NCAA Division II track and field championships, pole vaulter Courtney McQuaide will get another shot to raise the bar. A redshirt senior at Slippery Rock and a former outdoor national champion in her event, McQuaide is one of 16 athletes from the PSAC...
Seton Hill women set to play IUP in PSAC quarterfinals
PSAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals Seton Hill (19-10) vs. IUP (23-3) 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Kovalchick Center, IUP Coaches: Mark Katarski, Seton Hill; Tom McConnell, IUP Top scorers: Megan Marecic, GS, G, Seton Hill (18.8 ppg); Carolyn Appleby, Sr., G, IUP (17.3 ppg) Video feed: Winner plays: Winner of West...
Division I Eastern Wrestling League to merge with MAC next season
The Mid-American Conference made a major move to continue to enhance its wrestling presence, announcing Tuesday that the seven teams from the Eastern Wrestling League will be joining for the 2019-20 season. This will give the MAC the second-largest wrestling conference in the country behind the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Conference,...
