Landon Butler’s two brothers have experienced the NCAA transfer portal.

Now, he will, too.

Butler, a 6-foot-4 freshman, is leaving Montevallo, a Division II school in Alabama, after one season on the basketball team.

A Latrobe graduate, Butler played in 28 games, starting seven, and averaged 3.8 points and 2.3 rebounds over 19.2 minutes a game for the Falcons (12-16).

He had four double-digit scoring games, including 15 points against Nova Southeastern, when he made 4 of 6 3-pointers.

Products of covid times, Austin Butler and Bryce Butler played at multiple schools.

Austin played four years at Holy Cross before a final season at Charlotte. Bryce is headed to the NCAA Tournament with the College of Charleston, where he is playing his fifth year after a decorated four years at West Liberty.

Softball

IUP: Sophomore Maddie Griffin (Ligonier Valley) is hitting .347 with 12 RBIs and 10 runs through 15 games. Still listed as a pitcher, she has yet to take the circle this season. She has played some outfield and first base.

Griffin transferred from Youngstown State.

Marist: Graduate student Kiley Myers (Latrobe) has been a sure-fire starter on the Foxes’ pitching staff this season. But she came out of the bullpen and earned her second save of the season in a 6-5 victory over Bethune-Cookman.

Myers (6-2) struck out three and did not allow a hit.

Penn State: The Nittany Lions erupted for an 11-run inning in a wild, 14-12 victory over visiting Lehigh as junior outfielder Haylie Brunson (Mt. Pleasant) tripled and scored two runs,

Penn State snapped a five-game losing streak and quickly turned things around to win five in a row. Brunson powered Penn State (20-6) to a 15-5, five-inning win over Binghamton as she went 4 for 5 with a home run, double, four runs and five RBIs.

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats swept Penn State Beaver in a doubleheader by scores of 11-6 and 13-4 (6 innings) in their first two home games of the season.

Senior Olivia Persin (Hempfield) went 5 for 5 with a triple and four RBIs, and freshman Alyssa Henderson added three hits and three RBIs in the first game.

In the second game, Henderson homered and drove in three, Olivia Goodwin had an RBI double and freshman Zoe Mangan went 3 for 4 with three RBIs for the Bearcats (7-5).

Freshman Mackenzie Favero (Kiski Area) was named the PAC Newcomer of the Week. She went 7 for 13 with seven runs over a four-game stretch for the Bearcats.

Pitt-Greensburg: Senior Madison Stonbraker raised her batting average to .600 with a 2-for-3 effort in a 6-4 win over Ripon. Madison was 5 for 20 and had 10 RBIs for the Bobcats.

Senior Kacey Weller had two hits, including a double, and junior Melanie Mienke went 3 for 3 with two runs and pitched a shutout to lead the Bobcats (5-5) to a 3-0 win over McDaniel in Leesburg, Fla.

Seton Hill: Junior Brooke Cleland (Penn-Trafford) cracked a three-run homer and drove in four to pace the Griffins to a 13-5 victory over West Liberty.

Senior Mackenzie Zang went 3 for 3, and senior Logan Hartman picked up her seventh win in the circle for Seton Hill (12-6).

Washington & Jefferson: Senior Abby Fullem (Southmoreland) and sophomore Hannah Allen (Penn-Trafford) each had a hit, but the Presidents fell to Old Westbury, 3-2.

Men’s volleyball

Penn State: Grad student John Kerr (Derry) reached double figures in kills for the seventh match in a row, putting down 18, as the 10th-ranked Nittany Lions defeated St. Francis (Pa.), 3-2.

Senior Will Kuhns (Hempfield) added six kills in the win.

The Nittany Lions (15-6, 4-0 EIVA) played the Red Flash in back-to-back matches and also won 3-2 the second time as Kerr tallied 16 kills.

Kerr is a two-time EIVA Offensive Player of the Week this season.

Saint Vincent: Tyler Nelson and Matt Minkin had seven kills apiece to lead the Bearcats to a 3-1 win over Bethany. It was part of a two-match sweep in the Bearcats’ home opener.

Wrestling

Bucknell: Senior Kurt Phipps (Norwin) is headed to the NCAA Division I championships later this week in Kansas City, Mo.

Phipps, a 133-pounder, finished fourth at the EIWA championships to secure an automatic bid to the national tournament for the second straight year.

Ohio: Redshirt sophomore Garrett Thompson (Franklin Regional) is seeded No. 12 at 165 pounds for the NCAA Division I championships, set for Thursday through Saturday at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo.

Thompson is 26-6 and took second at the MAC championships.

Pitt: Two local Panthers will compete in the NCAA Division I championships. Finn Solomon (Franklin Regional), a redshirt freshman 149-pounder, is seeded 31st in his bracket, and redshirt freshman Dayton Pitzer (Mt. Pleasant) is the 21st seed at 285.

Solomon and Pitzer placed third at the ACC championships and received at-large bids to nationals.

Pitt-Johnstown: Junior Isaiah Vance (Hempfield) reached the semifinals and went on to earn All-American status with a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Division II championships.

Baseball

Bryant: Grad student Tyler Horvat (Penn-Trafford) pitched eight strong innings as Bryant completed a weekend sweep of Brown with a 6-3 victory.

Bryant, who had a terrific four-year run as an All-American at Washington & Jefferson, allowed two runs and struck out six for his first Division I win.

Cal (Pa.): Sophomore Jake Kramer (Hempfield) pitched two scoreless inning and did not allow a hit in an 8-1 win over Davis & Elkins.

Kramer was 1-0 with two saves and a 0.00 ERA in 9 2/3 innings.

IUP: Sophomore outfielder Elijah Dunn (Norwin) was hitting .250 with a homer, two doubles and six RBIs through seven games with the Crimson Hawks.

He went 2 for 4 with a homer and three runs in a 14-4 win over Bloomsburg.

Mount St. Mary’s: Sophomore Ty Stecko (Norwin) has started eight of 13 games and has two doubles and four RBIs for the Mountaineers.

Junior infielder Nick Fleming (Norwin) was batting .286 with one start in five games.

Saint Vincent: Billy Perroz (Valley) went 3 for 4 with a double and two runs to lead the Bearcats to a 10-8 victory over Apprentice in Hampton, Va.

Sophomore Vinny Amatucci (Latrobe) scored twice, and freshman Jacob Auld (Norwin), junior L.J. Evans and senior Austin Tirpak had two RBIs apiece for SVC (2-8).

Grad student Mario Disso (Penn-Trafford) added two hits.

Seton Hill: The Griffins (12-5) swept a pair of nine-ining games to complete a three-game sweep of Grand Valley State and build momentum for the upcoming start of PSAC play.

Grad student Jack Oberdorf (Greensburg Salem) had three hits and two RBIs, sophomore Jack Whalen (Norwin) drove in a pair and senior lefty Andino Vecchiolla struck out seven in the first game, a 6-2 win.

Redshirt sophomore Michael Gregos had three hits, junior Max Mandler added two and senior Michael Marinchak (Ligonier Valley) picked up the save with three scoreless innings in Game 2’s 7-3 win.

The series opener saw senior Brandon Bergert pitch a one-hitter, striking out eight and walking one over eight innings. Senior shortstop Owen Sabol (Norwin) picked up his 200th career hit in the first game.

Bergert was named the PSAC West co-Pitcher of the Week.

Waynesburg: Sophomore pitcher Ethan Erhard (Hempfield) allowed one run across eight innings as the Yellow Jackets defeated Geneva, 5-1.

Westminster: Senior third baseman Donald Shimko (Latrobe) went 2 for 4, but the Titans fell to Heidelberg, 8-1.

Shimko was leading the team with a .393 batting average and was tied for the top spot in hits with 11.

Men’s golf

Notre Dame: Grad student Palmer Jackson (Franklin Regional) finished third overall, and the Fighting Irish won the Johnnie-O at Sea Island (Ga.).

Jackson carded rounds of 69, 65 and 72 to finish at 206.

Notre Dame finished at 32-under-par 832 to win by 10 shots over Texas at the Sea Island Plantation course.

The Irish also finished second (-13) at the 44th Schenkel Invitational as Jackson shot a final-round 6-under 66. He finished 8-under for the tournamant and tied for fifth.

Women’s golf

Ohio Dominican: Sophomore Caroline Tragesser (Franklin Regional) was named the Great Midwest Athlete of the Week. Tragesser finished fifth at the 36-hole Sea Trail Intercollegiate in Sunset Beach, N.C., shooting 6-over 150, which tied for the fourth-lowest total in program history.

She carded a 2-over 74 in the first round.

Men’s track and field

Saint Vincent: Freshman P.J. McNeal finished second in the 400-meter dash in a time of 50.31 seconds at the Washington and Lee Carnival.

Senior Tim Patterson also added a runner-up finish, in the 5,000-meter run (15:04.51).

Westminster: Sophomore Gino Piraino (Franklin Regional) took seventh place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Bethany Invitational with a time of 14 minutes, 8.72 seconds.

Grad student Ryan Beard (Franklin Regional) took second in the “A” 400-meter relay in a season-best time of 43.63 seconds.

Women’s track and field

Saint Vincent: Sophomore Miranda Cincotta won the 1,500-meter race in a school-record time of 4:48.49 — 7 seconds ahead of second place — at the Washington & Lee Carnival in Lexington, Va.

Cincotta also ran a leg of the 1,600-meter relay, which also broke a school record with a 4:12.22.

Senior Miranda Guthrie broke two school records. She broke her own mark in the 200-meter dash at 27.36 seconds and in the 400 (1:02.76).

Freshman Caroline Kozera’s time of 19.61 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles was another school record.

Thiel: Freshman Cydny Wierzbowski (Derry) finished 31st in the discus at the Bethany Invitational with a throw of 24 meters.

Waynesburg: Junior Megan Barry (Norwin) won the javelin title at the Bethany Invitational, with her top throw soaring 34.89 meters.

Senior teammate Joula Anderson (Greensburg Salem) was seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (13:59.97).

Men’s basketball

Saint Vincent: Sophomore Jaden Gales, the PAC Most Valuable Player, added more postseason honors as he was named to the D3Hoops.com All-Region and the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District second teams.

Gales averaged 17.8 points and 7.5 rebounds to lead the Bearcats (23-5), who finished second in the PAC and made the ECAC Tournament.

Men’s lacrosse

Seton Hill: Sixteen players scored in a 24-2 victory over Thomas More.

Sophomore Wade Brunelle and grad student Peyton Gensler had three goals each for the Griffins (4-2, 1-0).

Sophomore Carter Green (Penn-Trafford) scored twice.

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