Westmoreland campus clippings: Belle Vernon's Aaron Krepps returns to Ohio Northern

Ohio Northern will have Aaron Krepps back on its football coaching staff next season.

The Division III program hired Krepps, a Belle Vernon graduate who served as an assistant there in 2015 and ‘16 before he left to coach at Bluffton, another D-III program that plays in the Heartland Conference.

After a short stint as an assistant, Krepps was the head coach at Bluffton from 2018-21, compiling a record of 13-25.

He will coach quarterbacks and serve as co-offensive coordinator at Ohio Northern, a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference.

Krepps will organize the passing game.

Krepps also had assistant coaching stops at Alderson Broaddus (2014), Eastern Michigan (2007) and Adrian (2006).

A former Belle Vernon star who was a three-time All-American wide receiver at Washington & Jefferson — he won Presidents’ Athletic Conference Player of the Year as a junior — Krepps was Belle Vernon’s head coach from 2009-13.

Softball

Bloomsburg: Freshman pitcher Callie Sowers (Hempfield) has a team-best eight wins (8-3) with a 2.86 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 73 1/3 innings for the Huskies (14-10).

Sowers struck out a season-high 10 and surrendered eight hits, while helping her cause with an RBI single, in an 11-3 win over Bloomfield in five innings.

Freshman Emma Little (Penn-Trafford) has started 19 games and has six doubles, a home run and 15 RBIs.

Cal (Pa.): Sophomore Charity Henderson (Southmoreland) has started 18 of 19 games and has 14 hits (.280), nine RBIs and eight runs scored.

Senior teammate Alexa Pastor (Hempfield) was hitting .350 (7 for 20) in 13 games with seven runs for the Vulcans (12-7).

Georgetown: Freshman pitcher Jordan Tallman (Latrobe) is 1-2 with a 6.58 ERA in 13 appearances. She has 24 strikeouts and 24 walks.

Marist: Junior pitcher Kiley Myers (Latrobe) owns a 5-1 record in eight starts (14 appearances) with a staff-best 2.67 ERA. She has six complete games, 47 strikeouts and 11 walks.

Mercyhurst: Sophomore pitcher Morgan Hilty (Penn-Trafford) pitched a complete game, allowing four hits and one earned run while forcing 10 groundouts, as the Lakers defeated Lake Erie, 3-2.

Penn State: Senior pitcher Bailey Parshall (Belle Vernon) earned a win in relief as Penn State upset No. 22 Michigan, 3-2. Parshall, who moved to 14-6, entered the game in the bottom of the sixth inning and kept the Wolverines off the board over the final two frames.

Pitt-Johnstown: Redshirt senior Olivia Porter (Southmoreland) is hitting .342 with nine RBIs and 11 runs through 21 games for the Mountain Cats (12-9).

Junior Laura Fox (Hempfield) has appeared in 18 games and has eight hits, while freshman Kelsi Terzolino (Hempfield) has a .278 average, 10 hits and three runs, and freshman Hannah Gnibus (Mt. Pleasant) has made 10 starts and has five RBIs.

Point Park: Junior Angalee Beall (Franklin Regional) had a 7-5 record and an ERA of 4.80 in 13 appearances inside the circle. That includes five complete games and a save.

Beall also hits for the Pioneers. She was batting .230 with 14 hits, five doubles, 11 RBIs and five runs.

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats rebounded from their first loss of the season with a two-game sweep of Franciscan in Latrobe.

In an 8-0 win in the first game, Freshman Olivia Bushore moved to 6-0 in the pitching circle with a five-hit shutout, while senior Abby Ginter went 3 for 3 with a triple, two RBIs and two runs, and sophomore Jessica LaPorte hit a two-run home run.

Bushore struck out six and did not issue a walk.

SVC (15-1, 4-0 PAC) won Game 2, 14-6, as it pounded 18 hits. Ginter doubled, homered and drove in three, while freshman Katelyn Stokan went 4 for 4 with two doubles and five RBIs.

Sophomore Haley Bicko also had three hits and two RBIs, and senior Kelsey Tobin (Hempfield) had two hits and two RBIs.

The Bearcats were leading the PAC with a .386 team batting average, nine homers, 41 doubles and 133 runs.

They scored a triple-crown in this week’s PAC awards. Ginter was the conference hitter of the week, Bushore the top pitcher and Stokan the rookie of the week.

Westminster: Freshman Sarah Eisenhuth (Penn-Trafford) doubled in a 7-2 victory over Penn State Behrend. Eisenhuth was hitting .345 with seven RBIs through 12 games for the Titans.

Men’s golf

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats finished tied for third at the Thiel Invitational at Avalon Country Club in Hermitage. Sophomore Brevin Urso shot a 79 to tie for third, while sophomore teammate Alex Jones tied for ninth with an 81.

Westminster: Junior Sam Napper (Mt. Pleasant) tied for 11th with a 36-hole score of 151 (72-79) at the Garden State Collegiate Classic in Flanders, N.J.

Napper then tied for 16th at the Peter C. Rossin Memorial at Southpointe Golf Club with an 86. Westminster finished second overall with a score of 335.

Women’s water polo

Washington & Jefferson: Senior Kimber Randolph (Hempfield) had a hat trick in a 19-3 win over Utica.

Women’s lacrosse

Saint Vincent: Senior attacker Joey Smith was named the PAC Player of the Week. She accounted for 29 points over a 3-0 stretch for the Bearcats, including 13 goals. Teammate Kyra Lipetzky, meantime, was named the PAC Defensive Player of the Week. The sophomore goalkeeper had 23 saves and six ground balls in three games.

And don’t forget about sophomore Hannah-Marue Starner, who garnered PAC Midfielder of the Week honors. She had six goals, two assists and 30 draw-controls in the trio of wins.

Men’s track and field

Grove City: With a mark of 20 feet and one-half inch, sophomore Gabe Dunlap (Penn-Trafford) finished sixth in the long jump at the Westminster Invitational.

Saint Vincent: Sophomore Joey Bujdos was named the PAC Track Athlete of the Week. He took first in the 800-meter run at the Westminster Invitational with a time of 1 minute, 54.07 seconds — a career-best mark and the fastest time in the PAC this season.

Seton Hill: Senior Sam Hartman won the 400-meter hurdles in 52.20 seconds at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational in Miami, Fla.

Meantime, at the Ed Fry Invitational at Indiana, junior Josh Piper (Latrobe) won the 200-meter dash in 22.12 seconds, while Zane Baughman won the shot put with a mark of 13.57 meters.

Women’s track and field

Arizona: Sophomore Mackenna Orie (Hempfield) tossed the discus 51.92 meters and the shot put 16.23 meters for a pair of third-place finishes at the Jim Click Shootout in Tuscon, Ariz.

Point Park: Junior Jordan Yaniga (Franklin Regional) was named the River States Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week. Yaniga took second place in the 400-meter run (61.88 seconds) and sixth in the 200 (27.39) at the Westminster Invitational.

Yaniga also plays basketball for the Pioneers.

Robert Morris: Freshman Rayna Todero (Franklin Regional) won the triple jump at the RMU Midweek PR Bonanza with a mark of 10.92 meters.

Saint Vincent: Senior Sydney Green (Latrobe) ran to a victory in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 4 minutes, 53.39 seconds at the Westminster Invitational, besting a 38-runner field by nearly two seconds.

Senior Alissa Beam added a win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 12:08.16, a time that qualified her for the All-Atlantic Region Championships next month.

Freshman Miranda Guthrie and sophomore Lauren Brennan broke program records in the 200-meter dash (28.80) and 5,000 meters (19:23.86).

Seton Hill: Senior Sydney Wolf ran to a first-place finish in the 800-meter run at the John Homon Open at Mt. Union. Wolf finished in a time of 2:16.52, the fastest mark in the PSAC so far this season.

Freshman Keelin Becker took first in the triple jump at the Ed Fry Invitational with a mark of 10.51 meters.

Wake Forest: Freshman Bella Gera (Hempfield) threw the shot put a personal-record 14.57 meters for the fourth-beat mark in school history, as she placed seventh at the Duke Invitational.

Waynesburg: Freshman Megan Barry (Norwin) took ninth in the javelin at the Westminster Invitational with a throw of 95-1.

Wheeling: Freshman Tara Perry (Derry) finished 13th in the 100-meter hurdles in a personal-record time of 15.81 seconds at the High Point Verteklasse.