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Latrobe graduate Biss earns PSAC East honor
For the second time this season, Shippensburg sophomore point guard Jake Biss, a 2017 Latrobe graduate, earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Men’s Basketball Player of the Week honors. Biss averaged 23.5 points as he helped the Raiders to victories against Millersville and Lock Haven. He scored 24 points...
PSNK women complete trying resurrection season
The quarters slipped by, and the minutes and seconds ticked off the clock during Thursday’s Penn State New Kensington women’s basketball game with Penn State Beaver. Once the clock hit zero, it marked the end of a forgettable season that almost didn’t happen and a new beginning for a program...
Penn State Behrend’s Mark Patterson dominates AMCC swim meet
This is what total domination in a swimming pool looks like. Senior Mark Patterson was named Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Swimmer of the Year for the second straight time. But that was a mere formality. What he did to earn the award is the impressive part. The Norwin graduate won...
Kromka scores 1,000th career point as SVC nabs top seed in PAC
Senior forward Tom Kromka picked the perfect time to reach a milestone. The Saint Vincent basketball standout scored his 1,000th career point Saturday during the host Bearcats’ 80-73 senior day victory over Chatham before 912 at Carey Center. Kromka, a Gateway graduate who transferred from Carnegie Mellon after his freshman...
Saint Vincent women secure top seed for PAC tournament
The Presidents Athletic Conference women’s basketball championship will go through Latrobe. Saint Vincent secured the top seed and home-court advantage for the tournament, set to run Monday through Saturday. The Bearcats (21-4, 15-1) get a double-bye — as does second-seeded Washington & Jefferson (18-7, 13-3) — to the semifinals, to...
Former Slippery Rock basketball player wins night on ‘The Titan Games’Video
A former Slippery Rock University women’s basketball player won her debut events on NBC’s “The Titan Games.” Kara Lazauskas, who played for The Rock from 2009-12, debuted on the show Feb. 14, which is hosted by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on Thursday nights. View this post on Instagram As you...
Allegheny names former ODU defensive coordinator Rich Nagy as football coach
Allegheny welcomed back a familiar face in filling its vacant football coaching position. Rich Nagy, who served as a grad assistant for the Gators in 1988-89 before returning for a stint in the ’90s during which he was associate head coach, was hired to replace BJ Hammer. Hammer was hired...
W&J favored to win PAC baseball title
The Washington & Jefferson baseball team picked up eight of nine first-place votes and was the Presidents’ Athletic Conference coaches’ pick to win the conference. The Presidents were 28-16-1 overall and 16-2 in the conference in 2018, made their 10th consecutive trip to the conference tournament and finished second to...
Saint Vincent favored to win PAC softball title
The Saint Vincent softball team has been tabbed as the team to beat in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference on a vote by the conference’s nine coaches. The Bearcats were 22-10 overall and 12-5 in the PAC in 2018 and qualified for a fourth consecutive PAC tournament. Saint Vincent returns two...
Bishop Canevin grad Bri Allen making key contributions as freshman at Cal (Pa.)
If anyone knows how Cal (Pa.) freshman Bri Allen operates on the basketball court, it is teammate Gina Vallecorsa. Vallecorsa, a junior and the Vulcans’ second-leading scorer, also played with Allen at Bishop Canevin. When talking about Allen, Vallecorsa uses terms such as “aggressive,” “hard-working” and “confident.” Those are traits...
Hampton’s Fuller pays immediate dividends at Waynesburg
There’s a long list of former athletes who didn’t reach their full potential in high school. A much shorter list constitutes the ones who fulfilled it as college athletes. Brooke Fuller seems intent on doing that for Waynesburg. Fuller, a 6-foot freshman, was named Presidents’ Athletic Conference Rookie of the...
Several Western Pa. grads among NCAA wrestling leaders
The NCAA honors wrestlers in each Division (I, II and III) annually in three categories — for their dominance, most pins and technical falls — during the season at their championships in March. Currently in Division I, three Penn State national champions lead as most dominant. Bo Nickal (197 pounds)...
Westmoreland campus clippings: SVC softball player Sleith earns national recognition
Saint Vincent softball pitcher Alona Sleith is expected to have a big sophomore season. But it isn’t just her coaches, teammates and Presidents’ Athletic Conference opponents who have the expectations. Sleith, a Yough graduate, was named Monday to the Schutt Sports and National Fastpitch Coaches Association National Player of the...
Chatham men’s basketball seniors looking to cap ‘amazing’ journey
Four years ago, Isaiah Brown traveled nearly 1,000 miles to join a first-year college basketball program in an unfamiliar city. That inaugural season at Chatham — which coincided with the school’s first coed undergraduate class — brings back fond memories, even though the team went 5-22. “A lot of times,...
Virginia’s Bridget Guy breaks pole vault record … again
Bridget Guy just keeps raising the bar at Virginia. The Hempfield graduate and redshirt senior has broken the school pole vault record three straight weeks, the latest instance coming over the weekend at the Tiger Paw Invitational in Clemson, S.C. Guy cleared 14 feet, 4.5 inches on her first try...
Behrend’s Robbie McMaster sets program volleyball record
Robbie McMaster can dig it. A senior libero for the Penn State Behrend volleyball team and a Norwin graduate, McMaster recently became the program’s all-time leader in career digs, breaking Derek Polishen’s mark of 606 set in 2015. McMaster had 12 digs in a 3-0 win over Adrian, the fourth...
IUP women’s basketball up one spot in WBCA national rankings
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team ticked up one spot to No. 3 in the latest Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released Tuesday. The Crimson Hawks (20-1) have won five games in a row, including recent victories over Slippery Rock (88-51) and...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Former P-T kicker transfers to Shippensburg
Nick Tarabrella had two signing days. The first when the strong-legged kicker was coming out of Penn-Trafford to solidify his pledge to Ashland (Ohio). When he had a change of heart, the college sophomore found himself signing his name again last Wednesday, only with a different Division II program: Shippensburg....
A-K Valley campus clippings: Geist among world’s best in shot put
Jordan Geist continues to prove himself one of the top throwers in the world. The Arizona sophomore, a Knoch graduate, threw a season-best 69 feet, 4.75 inches in the shot put at Saturday’s Texas Tech Shootout. That mark ranks second this season in the NCAA and fourth in the International...
Former Penn-Trafford standout kicker Nick Tarabrella switching college programs
Nick Tarabrella had two signing days. The first when the strong-legged kicker was coming out of Penn-Trafford and pledged to Ashland (Ohio). The second came last Wednesday when he had a change of heart. Tarabrella, a sophomore, found himself signing his name with a different Division II program this time:...
Saint Vincent’s Alona Sleith named to softball watch list
Saint Vincent softball infielder and pitcher Alona Sleith is expected to have a big sophomore season. But it isn’t just her coaches, teammates and Presidents’ Athletic Conference opponents who have the ready-made expectations. Sleith, a Yough graduate, was named Monday to the Schutt Sports and National Fastpitch Coaches Association National...
Weekend College Top 10: Historic start for Robert Morris women
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. Robert Morris women make history with victory Isabella Posset (Beaver) made a layup with 38 seconds left, and the Colonials clipped Bryant, 59-56, on Saturday to become the first women’s team in Northeast Conference history...
Waynesburg’s Jake Evans sets NCAA wrestling wins record
Jake Evans did more than just win his fourth Presidents’ Athletic Conference wrestling championship — he made some NCAA history in the process. Evans, a senior heavyweight and Elizabeth Forward graduate, set the new NCAA all-divisions win record when he pinned Washington and Jefferson’s Jake Walker in the championship final...
Plum grad Zezza provides solid, steadying presence for St. Francis (Pa.) women’s basketball
The St. Francis (Pa.) women’s basketball team rode a wave of momentum into the 2018-19 season. The Red Flash were coming off a Northeast Conference title and berth in the NCAA Tournament, and they had one of the nation’s best scorers, Jess Kovatch, returning. The momentum quickly was halted by...
St. Francis star Zinobile to have jersey number retired
It wouldn’t be Legends Night at St. Francis (Pa.) without Jess Zinobile in the house. St. Francis will honor one of its all-time great women’s basketball players Saturday at DeGol Arena in Loretto by raising her No. 22 jersey to the rafters. The Red Flash (9-12, 6-3) host Central Connecticut...
