Kiley Myers was as efficient as she was dominant in her first college softball no-hitter.
The Marist grad student and Latrobe graduate blanked Long Island, 9-0, in five innings with precision. She had only two strikeouts but threw just 51 pitches and allowed one baserunner.
The fast-throwing right-hander retired 10 in a row to finish the game.
Her performance brought up another local player who stood out for Marist. Myers’ no-hitter was the program’s first since Jayne Oberdorf (Greensburg Salem) threw one in 2016.
This season, Myers is 5-0 with a 0.77 ERA.
Penn State: Senior outfielder Haylie Brunson (Mt. Pleasant) hit a two-run home run as Penn State slammed Nicholls, 10-2, to move to 4-7 on the season.
Men’s basketball
Pitt-Greensburg: Fifteen out of 16 and nine in a row. That is the winning form the Bobcats take into the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Tournament.
Coach Chris Klimchock (Greensburg Salem) and UPG moved to 18-7 overall and 12-4 in the AMCC with two recent wins.
The Bobcats ran to a 95-81 win over Mount Aloysius as junior guard Matt Marinchak (Ligonier Valley) scored 30 points, including a 6-for-11 effort from the 3-point arc.
Marinchak received a basketball to commemorate his 1,000 career points. He also was named the AMCC Player of the Week.
Junior Joziah Wyatt-Taylor added 19 points and 10 rebounds, and junior Michael Bigley scored 16 for UPG, which shot 54.7% from the field and made 12 3s.
Bigley had 21 points, sophomore Trent Rozich added 19 and Marinchak had 15, including the go-ahead score with 13 seconds left, in a 90-88 win over Pitt-Bradford.
Pitt-Johnstown: Sophomore Adam Bilinsky (Norwin) scored 10 points and went 5 for 5 at the free-throw line, but UPJ (11-14, 7-11 PSAC) fell to Cal (Pa.), 91-79.
Senior Kadyn Hannah (Franklin Regional) had 11 points for the Vulcans.
Saint Vincent: Senior Mike Iuzzolino had 19 points, junior Jevontae Johnson added 18, junior Dev Ostrowski 15 and junior Jaden Gales 14 as the Bearcats cruised past Bethany, 98-68, for their fourth straight win.
Jevontae Jones grabbed nine rebounds, and Gales had four steals for SVC (10-5, 16-4), which will host a Presidents’ Athletic Conference semifinal Thursday as the No. 2 seed.
SVC beat Grove City, 77-73, to end the regular season as Ostrowski scored 25, and Gales added 16.
Women’s basketball
Florida Tech: Senior Sarah Liberatore (Hempfield) has 639 points, 175 rebounds, 99 assists and 54 steals in three seasons with the Panthers.
Mercyhurst: Junior Bailey Kuhns (Greensburg Central Catholic) was named a Northeast Conference Prime Performer. She had 23 points — her 12th 20-plus-point game this season — against Saint Francis (Pa.).
Saint Vincent: The Bearcats (13-12, 12-8) locked up the No. 5 seed for the PAC playoffs and will travel to Grove City on Tuesday night.
They closed out the regular season with a 57-52 win over Grove City as 6-foot-2 junior center Camdon Bashor had a career day with 18 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks.
Bashor was named the PAC Player of the Week.
Seton Hill: How about some McKenna magic?
The nationally rated Griffins used a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by junior Hallie Cowan to force overtime, then knocked off visiting IUP, 86-82.
With IUP up 69-66 and 6 seconds to play, Cowan took a short pass from sophomore Mia Kalich, dribbled back and launched from about 25 feet for the tying 3.
Cowan was outstanding with a career-high 27 points, and Kalich added another double-double with 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Sophomore Hailee Ford added a season-best 19 points.
Cowan scored her 1,000th career point in the third quarter of an 82-66 loss to Edinboro.
Seton Hill moved to 21-4 overall and 15-3 in the PSAC.
Men’s volleyball
Grove City: Freshman Keith Otto (Penn-Trafford) had 12 kills, and sophomore Andrew Kessler (Penn-Trafford) added seven blocks in a 3-0 sweep of Geneva.
Penn State: Redshirt senior Will Kuhns (Hempfield) produced a career-high 21 kills and hit .357 to pace the Nittany Lions to a 3-1 victory over New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Saint Vincent: Freshman outside hitter Jackson Genicola (Norwin) was named the PAC Newcomer of the Week. He set a program record with 37 digs in a five-set loss against Geneva, adding 30 assists.
Baseball
Grove City: Sophomore left fielder Dan Luko (Franklin Regional) went 2 for 4 in a 14-1, season-opening win over Averett in Danville, Va.
Mercyhurst: Senior outfielder Eric Chorba (Norwin) was named a NEC Prime Performer after he hit .364 with a double, home run and two RBIs in the Lakers’ first two games.
IUP: Junior outfielder Elijah Dunn (Norwin) hit a solo home run in his first at-bat of the season as the Crimson Hawks fell to USC Aiken, 6-5.
Dunn started 31 of 38 games last year and hit .233 with five homers and 49 RBIs.
Pitt: Junior Jake Kendro (Norwin) delivered a two-run single as the Panthers defeated Monmouth, 6-1, to improve to 4-0.
Seton Hill: Junior infielder Joe Fiedor (Hempfield) was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Atlantic Region Hitter of the Week.
In three games in Aiken, S.C., Fiedor hit .500 (5 for 10) and had three RBIs.
Women’s track and field
Westminster: Freshman Grace Iwig (Hempfield) cleared a personal-best 3.72 meters — 12 feet, 2 1/2 inches — at the Mount Union Raider Tune-up.
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Wrestling
Bucknell: Fifth-year 133-pounder Kurt Phipps (Norwin) picked up a 15-5 major decision to give the Bison an early lead, but Columbia rallied for a 25-16 victory.
Pitt: Redshirt sophomore Dayton Pitzer (Mt. Pleasant) overcame a 3-0 deficit and won by technical fall to extend the Panthers’ lead in a 23-13 victory over Virginia.
Pitzer scored 18 unanswered points in the win.
Women’s swimming
Chatham: Senior Ali Cowan (Derry) won the PAC 3-meter diving championship, and freshman Hannah Uhrinek (Hempfield) helped the 400-yard medley relay to fifth at the conference finals.
Cowan was named the PAC Diver of the Year, and Uhrinek was tabbed newcomer of the year in the conference.
Clarion: Jordan Kutchak (Norwin) helped the 400-yard freestyle relay to a second-place finish at the PSAC championships with a time of 3 minutes, 27.10 seconds.
Saint Vincent: Senior Abby Leskovansky and sophomore Rachel Hutchinson won individual titles at the PAC championships. Leskovansky took the 50-yard freestyle in 23.93 seconds, and Hutchinson won the 500 freestyle in 5:19.48.
Leskovansky added another win, taking the 200 freestyle in 1:55.59, a second faster than her prelim time. She also won gold with a relay team.
Leskovansky was named the meet MVP.
Men’s swimming
Clarion: Sophomore Henry Miller (Southmoreland) and senior Austin Prokopec (Penn-Trafford) swam legs of the second-place 200-yard freestyle relay at the PSAC championships.
The team finished in 1:22.60 with Prokopec anchoring. It was an all-conference finish for the foursome.
Miller and Prokopec also competed for the runner-up 200 medley relay (1:29.09).
Miller came in second individually in the 100 backstroke in 49.84 seconds.
Saint Vincent: Junior Jacob Dzurica (Hempfield) set a team record in the 50-yard freestyle at the PAC championships — 20.08 seconds in a preliminary race — then won a title in the event in 20.10 seconds.
Later, he broke another program mark with the 400-yard medley relay in 49.67 seconds. He swam the 100 backstroke leg.
Dzurica then added another title, and another record, with a win in the 100 backstroke in 49.34, and also took the 100 freestyle in 44.44 seconds. He was named the meet MVP.
Women’s bowling
Saint Vincent: Junior Abby Justice was named the AMCC Bowler of the Week.
Football
Saint Vincent: New coach Casey Goff added Michael Yarosz to his staff.
Yarosz will coach wide receivers. He spent the last two seasons as a grad assistant at Illinois Wesleyan after starting his coaching career at William Paterson (N.J.), his alma mater where he played quarterback and receiver.
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