Westmoreland campus clippings: Local players lead Pitt-Johnstown softball

Pitt-Johnstown softball doesn’t just have a local flavor on its rosters. It has a local impact.

Five of the Mountain Cats’ top six hitters are from Westmoreland County.

Redshirt junior Olivia Porter (Southmoreland) is having a career season. She is hitting .349, with a team-best 29 hits, 18 runs, seven doubles, four triples, two home runs and 20 RBIs.

Senior Stacy Walling (Hempfield) is batting .288, senior Bree Ginther (Penn-Trafford) .286 — with 18 hits and 15 runs — sophomore Laura Fox (Hempfield) .267 and senior Ali Belgiovane (Hempfield) .250 with 11 RBIs. UPJ took a 5-17 record into the week.

Gannon: Junior pitcher Rebecca Tatone (Latrobe) was named the PSAC West Pitcher of the Week. She gave up just three runs in three complete-game wins, including a 2-0 victory over Clarion for her first shutout.

Geneva: Sophomore Madison Forsythe (Penn-Trafford) is hitting .391 with 22 RBIs and 25 runs scored for the Golden Tornadoes.

Hartford: Sophomore first baseman Emma Armstrong (Penn-Trafford) belted two home runs — a solo shot and three-run bomb — in a 5-2 win over Maine. Armstrong has eight RBIs this season.

Hillsdale: Senior catcher Madi Stoner (Hempfield) was named the Great Midwest Conference Player of the Week.

Stoner led the Chargers to a pair of wins, 16-9 and 6-1, against Tiffin. She went 4 for 5 with a two-run single, RBI double and three-run homer in the first game, then went 2 for 3 with a double in the second.

In a sweep against Lake Erie, she went 6 for 7 with a homer and three RBIs.

Stoner was hitting a team-best .422 with a percentages of .526 (on-base) and .703 (slugging), four home runs and 25 RBIs.

Pitt-Greensburg: The Bobcats racked up 28 runs on 39 hits in a two-game sweep of La Roche.

Sophomore Hannah Corvin (Southmoreland) had five hits in the doubleheader, going 5 for 5 with three runs scored and three stolen bases.

Freshman Madison Stonbraker, freshman Taylor Bojtos (Ligonier Valley), senior Madison Hollis, and sophomore Ashley Noel (Latrobe) had four hits each. Senior Krista Bayus had three hits and three RBIs, and sophomore Corrin Parquette homered and had four RBIs for UPG (4-7-1).

Point Park: Freshman Angalee Beall had two hits and earned the pitching win for the Pioneers in a 8-3 win over Brescia. Beall worked the first five innings and improved to 7-5. Beall also came up big in a 3-0 win over Oakland City as she pitched a three-hitter and had an RBI double.

Robert Morris: Freshman Faith Miller (Southmoreland) delivered the winning single for the Colonials (7-3) in a 6-5 win over UIC. Miller is hitting .306 with 16 runs and six RBIs in her first season at the college level.

…

Baseball

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats swept Thiel in a doubleheader, winning with some drama in the first game and firing up the offense for Game 2.

Sophomore Jordan Sabol (Penn-Trafford) singled to open the seventh inning, and sophomore Alex Legge scored on an overthrow as SVC won 5-4. Senior Matt Evans worked out of a jam in the bottom of the inning.

In the second game, Evans went 4 for 6 with a double and four RBIs, and senior TJ Dailey went 4 for 5 with a triple, home run and four RBIs. Sabol also tripled.

SVC then split a pair with Thiel, including a thrilling 9-8 win as the Bearcats rallied from a 7-0 deficit. Evans and Sabol doubled, and sophomore Tim Beimel tripled. Evans drove in three and came on for his third save.

Seton Hill: The undefeated Griffins moved up to No. 7 in the latest NCBWA Division II Top 25 poll without playing a game this month. The team (12-0) has been idle since March 27 after 10 straight postponements related to covid-19 protocols.

Thiel: Grad student Andrew Giesey (Penn-Trafford) had two hits in a 5-4 loss to Saint Vincent. He belted his second home run of the season in a 9-8 loss to Saint Vincent. He drove in three in the defeat.

Westmoreland County CC: Sophomore outfielder Tommy Kegerreis (Franklin Regional) was named NJCAA Division III Player of the Week after a monster game against Kent State Tuscarawas. Kegerreis broke the school record with six hits in a 19-8 victory. He hit .750 for the week with two home runs and nine RBIs.

Washington & Jefferson: Sophomore pitcher Tyler Horvat (Penn-Trafford) earned his fourth win of the season as he gave up just two hits and no runs over six innings as the Presidents throttled Waynesburg, 21-4. Horvat has done some damage at the plate, too. He had two triples in a two-game sweep of Waynesburg that extended the Presidents’ winning streak to 20. The streak is a school record for W&J, ranked 17th in Division III.

Horvat is hitting .268 with 11 runs scored and 10 driven in.