Westmoreland campus clippings: Adrian Blewitt named Seton Hill's women's soccer coach

Seton Hill announced the hiring of Adrian Blewitt as women’s soccer coach.

He replaces Zak Kruger, who was not retained after three seasons.

Blewitt spent three years as the head women’s soccer coach at Army West Point and also served as head coach at Arkansas Little Rock for five seasons and at Lenoir-Rhyne for four.

A Lock Haven graduate, Blewitt also was the men’s coach at Lees-McRae and Methodist. Seton Hill finished 7-9-1 last season, including a 6-9-1 mark in the PSAC West but did not qualify for the postseason.

Men’s track and field

Grove City: Sophomore Gabe Dunlap (Penn-Trafford) recorded a pair of fourth-place finishes at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships. He cleared 10 feet, 3/4 inches in the pole vault and measured 21-7 1/2 in the long jump.

Freshman Joe Whipkey (Penn-Trafford) was part of the fourth-place 1,600-meter relay.

Saint Vincent: Junior Joey Bujdos won the 800-meter title in a meet-record time of 1 minute, 52.30 seconds at the PAC championships in Morgantown, W.Va. He broke the previous mark of Saint Vincent’s Laurence Jaross from 2018.

Sophomore Tim Patterson, meanwhile, also won gold, taking the 10,000-meter run in 33:19.95 seconds and the 5,000 in 15:33.72.

Both athletes earned All-PAC honors.

Junior Auggie Frohnen was fourth in the shot put with a school-record toss of 43-8.

Westminster: Senior Ryan Beard (Franklin Regional) ran a leg of the winning 400- and 1,600-meter relay teams at the PAC Championships.

The 400 foursome broke the school record with a time of 41.27 seconds, and the 1,600 finished in 3:21.52.

The Titans won the team title for the first time since 2016.

Women’s track and field

Arizona: Sophomore Mackenna Orie (Hempfield) finished fifth in the shot put at the Desert Heat Classic in Tuscon, Ariz., with a throw of 52-6 1/2 inches.

Point Park: Junior Natalie Zucco (Greensburg Salem) finished fourth in the 10,000 at the River States Conference Championships with a time of 44:45.

Saint Vincent: Senior Sydney Green (Latrobe) won the 800 at the PAC Championships with a time of 2:18.66. She also added a runner-up finish in the 1,500 in 4:50.47.

She picked up all-conference accolades in both events.

Wheeling: Freshman Tara Perry (Derry) placed second in the high jump at the Mountain East Conference Championships in Glenville, W. Va. Competing in her first conference finals, she jumped 1.59 meters.

Wrestling

Bucknell: Sophomore Kurtis Phipps (Norwin) competed at the United States Marine Corps/USA Wrestling U.S. Open in Las Vegas.

The event is the national championship for freestyle wrestling and serves as a qualifier for the World Team Trials.

Phipps took seventh place in the U20 division at 61kg while representing Bucknell’s Regional Training Center, Buffalo Valley RTC.

Men’s golf

West Virginia: Fifth-year Mark Goetz (Greensburg, The Kiski School) tied for 25th at the Big 12 Championship at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas. He carded rounds of 75, 73 and 76 for an 8-over-par 224 total.

Women’s lacrosse

Saint Vincent: Senior Joey Smith ranks ninth nationally in Division III in points with 104 (45 goals and 59 assists).

Seton Hill: The Griffins left no doubt that they deserve a conference title, rolling past Edinboro, 20-0, to clinch the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division for the second straight season.

Junior midfielder Alaina Teselle and junior attacker Hannah Thompson had three goals and an assist each for Seton Hill, which will host the PSAC Final Four May 6-8.

Seton Hill had three major award winners in the conference. Grad student attacker Jaclyn Frank was named the PSAC West Player of the Year, junior defender Makayla Kintner earned PSAC West Defensive Player of the Year honors and freshman midfielder Megan Bunker was tabbed freshman of the year.

Frank, redshirt freshman Skylar Orlowski, Bunker and Kintner made the conference first team.

Washington & Jefferson: Senior Becca Ghion (Yough) had a goal in the Presidents’ 17-7 win over Saint Vincent. It was the eighth win in a row for W&J (9-4, 7-0 PAC).

Westminster: Senior Magen Polczynski (Norwin) had five goals and two assists in a 19-7 loss to Grove City.

Men’s lacrosse

Allegheny: Junior David Kratzenberg (Greensburg Central Catholic), the Gators’ goalkeeper, had 10 saves for his fourth double-digit save game of the season in an 11-5 loss to Wooster.

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats erupted for a season-high 22 goals to topple Thiel, 22-3, and move to 11-1 overall and 5-1 in the PAC. Junior Jordan Billet had four goals and three assists for seven points, and freshman Jake Crumling added a career-high five points with a hat trick and two helpers.

When the Bearcats trounced Franciscan, 25-1, grad student Tyler Condrasky (Norwin) and Billet achieved milestones, each reaching 100 career goals. Condrasky had three goal and two assists and Billet two scores and three assists in the one-sided win.

Billet, who had 16 points (9 goals) over a three-game stretch, was named the PAC Offensive Player of the Week, and freshman Justin Wodarek earned rookie of the week honors. Wodarek had four goals and eight assists in three games.

Seton Hill: Senior McGarity Harper surpassed the 100-point mark for his career.