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Transfer portal roundup: Penn Hills grad Daemar Kelly headed to Northern Illinois
Daemar Kelly has found success at his first two collegiate stops and now will take on a new challenge in the Mid-American Conference. Kelly, a Penn Hills grad, announced his commitment to play basketball for Northern Illinois on Thursday. #Committed ❤️???? @phbasketball pic.twitter.com/FpRmSltZUV— Daemar Kelly (@kellydaemar) April 17, 2025 Kelly...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Locals lead PSAC in home runs
A pair of local baseball sluggers have been swinging for the fences. They were leading the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in home runs. Seton Hill sophomore Jakob Haynes (Penn-Trafford) and IUP junior Elijah Dunn (Norwin) each had 10 homers heading into the weekend to share the top spot in the...
On campus: Gateway grad Nolan Boehm shines for Chatham baseball
Nolan Boehm is making his mark this spring for the Chatham baseball team. The Gateway graduate was third for the Cougars in hitting at .308 (20 for 65) through 20 games. He recorded two doubles, two triples, 12 runs batted in and 11 runs scored through a doubleheader split with...
Greensburg Central Catholic grad Emma Henry regains confidence with Point Park softball team
Emma Henry has nothing bad to say about the one season she spent playing softball at Central Connecticut State. The Greensburg Central Catholic grad was happy to compete at the Division I level despite being limited to five at-bats (with two hits) in 16 appearances for the Blue Devils. But...
Fox Chapel grad DiMatteo turns from bullpen stopper to lights-out starter for W&J baseball team
Recruited as an outfielder out of Fox Chapel, Dante DiMatteo has spent very little time there in his three-plus seasons with the W&J baseball team. His duties as a Presidents outfielder have been limited to a handful of games in his sophomore season, when injuries left the team short-handed in...
Carnegie Mellon men’s basketball coach Tony Wingen retires after 35 seasons
The winningest men’s basketball coach in Carnegie Mellon history has decided to call it a career. Tony Wingen announced he is retiring after 35 seasons as the Tartans’ head coach. Wingen amassed 390 wins and led Carnegie Mellon to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2006, ‘09 and ‘24. The...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Mt. Pleasant grads find success in college softball
Mt. Pleasant has been one of the WPIAL’s better softball programs for a decade with WPIAL championships coming in 2016 and ’21, and PIAA championships in ’17 and ’21. Some standout players — and a coach — from those teams have moved on to the next level, and, because of...
Norwin grads JC Govannucci, Tyler Hussey help Thiel men clinch inaugural PAC regular-season volleyball title
When the Presidents’ Athletic Conference opened its inaugural men’s volleyball season in January, it did so with a mixture of established programs and newer faces. Thiel was among the teams that had been around for a while, playing its first season in 2011. As such, the Tomcats were expected to...
Freeport grad Reese Skiba, A-R grad Sophia Yard showing medal capability as Slippery Rock women’s track and field ramps up for PSACs
Reese Skiba and Sophia Yard have known each other since they were 5 years old. Despite graduating a year apart from different high schools — Skiba from Freeport and Yard from Apollo-Ridge — they have maintained their friendship. When Yard joined Skiba on the Slippery Rock women’s track and field...
Former high school football coach, Kiski Area athletic director John Peterman to join Clarion Sports HOF
From the time he can remember, John Peterman was inspired to work. And work hard, said the former Kiski Area athletic director. “Growing up, my parents taught us to earn a day’s pay for a day’s work,” he said. “We were raised to do an honest day’s work.” Already retired...
Quintet turns Mercyhurst baseball team into ‘Norwin North’
Welcome to “Norwin North,” where the weather gets cold and the bats get hot. The Mercyhurst baseball team has become an offshoot of the Norwin program, a pipeline from North Huntingdon to Erie producing hits and quality starts up and down the lineup. “We always kind of joke about this...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Seton Hill baseball’s pitching staff among nation’s best
Seton Hill baseball has put together outstanding pitching rotations before, so it’s not exactly a surprise the Griffins have another first-rate band of arms. From the starters to the bullpen, they have been a stingy bunch. The Griffins (17-4), ranked No. 12 in the NCBWA Division II Top 25, boasted...
New Kiski School football coach Aaron Smetanka wants to build family atmosphere
A month into his stint as football coach at The Kiski School, Aaron Smetanka has set two clear objectives. First, and most importantly, he wants to help grow better men for the future, to make sure his players have a solid life path for whenever they graduate. “The academic standards...
Highlands grad Trent Bielak puts his mind at ease, pitchers on notice as he hopes to lead Pitt-Bradford to baseball postseason
Trent Bielak went nearly 120 at-bats before his first collegiate home run. Bielak, a Highlands grad and junior at Pitt-Bradford, finally hit one March 6 in the Panthers’ win at Elmira. In the top of the third, with one out and Max Rogers on base after a single, Bielak launched...
After guiding team to 1st NCAA Tournament berth in 34 years, Saint Francis’ Rob Krimmel retires
Saint Francis men’s basketball coach Rob Krimmel has decided to retire from coaching, the university announced Thursday. Krimmel, 47, led the Red Flash to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 34 years last week after Saint Francis won the NEC Tournament title. Saint Francis then lost to Alabama State, 70-68,...
Saint Vincent College women’s bowling team to make 1st NCAA Tournament appearance
Basketball season is over, but there is a different kind of March Madness brewing at Saint Vincent College. The excitement level is just as grand for the women’s bowling team, which is NCAA Tournament-bound for the first time. “We have nothing to lose and everything to gain,” senior bowler Sabine...
6 Saint Francis men’s basketball players enter transfer portal
A week after playing in just its second NCAA Tournament, Saint Francis’ decision to reclassify its athletic program to Division III and join the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in 2026-27 has sparked a mass exodus of men’s basketball players. Six more from the Northeast Conference school, including leading scorer Riley Parker,...
Saint Francis athletes, recruits left to ponder futures after school says it’s dropping to D-III
Montrell Johnson decided it was time to raise his grade point average. The Highlands senior spent a lot of time working to bring his average up to close to 3.0. When he verbally committed to play football at Saint Francis University last week, Johnson believed he had everything in place...
Saint Francis to transition from Division I to III beginning in 2026
Saint Francis is reclassifying its 22 athletic programs from NCAA Division I to Division III, the university announced Tuesday. The news comes on the heels of an NCAA Tournament appearance by Saint Francis’ men’s basketball team, the university’s first since 1991, as the Red Flash won an automatic bid by...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Pitt-Greensburg’s Chuck Myers earns milestone win
Pitt-Greensburg softball coach Chuck Myers reached a milestone when the Bobcats defeated Chatham in the first game of a doubleheader. UPG won both games 6-2, with the first going into the books as Myers’ 100th career win. The sweep was the first of the season for the Bobcats (5-9). In...
Norwin grad Justin Turcovski leads the charge as Pitt-Johnstown baseball team tries to end PSAC playoff drought
Talk with Justin Turcovski, and it quickly becomes clear that he is a thoughtful, quiet young man of great faith. So when asked about an injury he suffered during his sophomore season with the Pitt-Johnstown baseball team, Turcovski looked at it simply as part of a larger plan from a...
Knoch grad Madison Gardner working her way back to form with Pitt-Greensburg softball team after devastating injury
Madison Gardner appeared to be on her way to a stellar freshman season with the Pitt-Greensburg softball team last spring when disaster struck. The Bobcats were playing their first (technically) home doubleheader of 2024 on March 24 at Seton Hill. Late in the second game against Kenyon, a shallow pop...
Mt. Lebanon’s Stout brothers make NCAA history by facing off in Philly
It was a historic night at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Thursday during Day 1 of the competition. It was appropriate that Philadelphia, which is known as the “City of Brotherly Love,” was the site of the first “Battle of Brothers” at the Wells Fargo Center. While brothers...
College summer league baseball team to call Highlands High School field home
The former Butler BlueSox, a summer league team for college baseball players, is moving to Natrona Heights after many years at Pullman Park. The team has a new home — the ballfield at Highlands High School — and soon a new nickname that’s still to be determined, said Mike McNabb,...
A star on the rise, Greensburg CC grad Bailey Kuhns follows her heart to Robert Morris
When Mercyhurst announced a “leadership change” in cutting ties with women’s basketball coach Brooklyn Kohlheim four days after the season ended, junior forward Bailey Kuhns scrambled to reset her future. She didn’t have to go anywhere, but with Kohlheim gone, things would surely be different in the looming offseason and...
