Westmoreland campus clippings: Penn-Trafford grad Turner Price named AMCC Player of the Year

The Price was right this season at Pitt-Greensburg.

Junior tennis standout Turner Price, a Penn-Trafford graduate, was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Year for the third time in his career.

The award was not given out in 2020.

Price finished 7-0 in conference singles play and won 33 consecutive matches. He helped lead the Bobcats to the AMCC semifinals.

Men’s tennis

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats (15-6) reached the PAC Championship match before falling to Grove City, 5-1. It was the team’s first trip to the conference finals.

In a 5-3 semifinal win over Franciscan, senior Mauricio Sanchez and senior Aaron Kuhn (Norwin) won at No. 3 doubles, and junior Evan Ray, Sanchez, sophomore David Lynn and freshman Jack Citrone won their singles matches.

Baseball

Penn State Greater Allegheny: Sophomore Brian Woods (Norwin), who has been the starting catcher for the Lions for the past two seasons, had two doubles and three RBIs in a 7-5 victory over Penn State Fayette.

Woods hit .420 last season and made the All-PSUAC team. This season, he batted .298 and drove in eight runs, while scoring 10.

Teammate Tyler Elliott (Jeannette), a junior second baseman, batted .278 with 15 RBIs and seven runs for Greater Allegheny (10-19).

Pitt-Greensburg: For the first time all season, the Bobcats swept an opponent in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. They defeated Hilbert (N.Y.), 19-1 and 9-3, in Greensburg.

In the first game, senior Brody Bonadio and grad student Jake Davey each drove in five runs, while freshman Diego Santos and junior Will Thorp each had three hits and four runs scored, and junior Chris Hammond had three RBIs.

Bonadio doubled and tripled.

Davey and junior Mike Sullivan, who also drove in three, both homered.

Game 2 saw Sullivan go 2 for 4 with a homer and three RBIs, and Thorp and freshman Hunter Gideons pick up three hits each for UPG (5-23, 5-9).

Seton Hill: Junior Braden Durham delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Griffins (29-15-1, 13-11) to a 3-2 win over Mercyhurst in PSAC West action to keep the team in the thick of the playoff chase.

The Griffins scored the tying run with two outs in the seventh.

Durham finished 4 for 4 and senior Isaiah DiAndreth (Hempfield) had two hits in the win for Seton Hill.

Waynesburg: Sophomore Mike Bell (Yough) doubled and drove in two runs as the Yellow Jackets held back Bethany, 12-10.

Softball

Allegheny: Freshman Sophia Godzak (Belle Vernon) delivered a walk-off single as the Gators clipped Wittenberg, 5-4. She also had a hit in a 3-0 win over the same team.

Bloomsburg: Freshman pitcher Callie Sowers (Hempfield) improved to 14-6 with a pair of wins against Millersville, one of which was her best performance of the season. Sowers pitched a one-hitter and struck out 14 in a 4-0 victory. In the second game of the doubleheader, she worked 3 2/3 innings in relief and struck out five as the Huskies won 6-3.

Freshman catcher Emma Little (Penn-Trafford) homered for the second time this season in the first game.

Sowers was named the PSAC East Pitcher of the Week.

Gannon: Senior Rebecca Tatone (Latrobe) improved her record to 7-3 with a complete-game victory over Cal (Pa.). She allowed two runs and struck out five in a 5-2 victory.

Penn State: Senior Bailey Parshall (Belle Vernon) pitched her 17th complete game of the season and struck out nine, but the Nittany Lions (28-19) dropped a 1-0 decision against Wisconsin.

Pitt-Greensburg: Junior Kayla Santucci (Burrell) had two hits, including a triple, and senior Krista Bayus and junior Ashley Noel (Latrobe) each drove in three runs as the Bobcats defeated Medaille, 6-3.

Freshman pitcher Melanie Mienke struck out six and earned the complete-game win.

Saint Vincent: Sophomore Alex Dillner (Norwin) ripped a walk-off double to propel the Bearcats to a 12-11 win over Thiel in eight innings.

SVC came back from a 6-0 deficit. Dillner went 3 for 5 with a home run and five RBIs. Sophomore Jessica LaPorte added three hits, and senior Abbey Ginter tripled.

In the second game of the doubleheader, an 8-0 win, Ginter homered and drove in five, while Ginter and LaPorte doubled for SVC (22-8, 11-7).

Sophomore pitcher Haley Bicko was named the PAC Pitcher of the Week. She went 3-0 and did not allow an earned run over 13.2 innings for the Bearcats.

Seton Hill: Coach Jess Strong recorded the 100th career win when the Griffins edged past IUP, 2-1.

The fourth-year coach took a 100-50 mark into a weekend series against Slippery Rock.

Seton Hill (35-8, 12-4 PSAC West) wrapped up the regular season with a two-game sweep of Slippery Rock, including a thrilling, 1-0 win in Game 2 as sophomore Nina Grandey delivered a walk-off single.

Seton Hill earned the No. 2 seed and will take on No. 3 Bloomsburg in the first round at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in Quakertown.

In other team news, grad pitcher Morgan Ryan (Hempfield) was named the PSAC West Pitcher of the Week. Ryan pitched a pair of complete games, including an eight-strikeout effort against IUP, and a three-hitter against Slippery Rock.

Westminster: Freshman Sydney Lokay (Norwin) hit her first collegiate home run in a 14-0 victory over Chatham. Lokay had a .321 batting average with eight runs and five RBIs in 17 games.