Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Penn-Trafford loading college softball teams

Penn-Trafford alums are scattered across the college softball landscape, and the players are making an impact at various levels.

Consider: The Warriors have impactful former players at the Division I, II, III and NAIA levels this season — more than any other area program.

You could fill out a lineup and dot your bullpen with them.

• Junior Emma Nedley is hitting .333 in 10 games for Penn, of the Ivy League. She has a team-high three home runs and seven RBIs.

• Sophomore Emma Armstrong has a pair of homers and eight RBIs for Division I Hartford.

• Senior Bree Ginther has been a mainstay for Pitt-Johnstown with 23 hits, 10 RBIs and 18 runs this season.

• At Mercyhurst, senior Sarah Koscho has a team-best eight home runs and 21 RBIs to go with a .322 average. Freshman teammate Morgan Hilty has 16 appearances in the pitching circle and has a pair of saves for the Lakers.

• Junior Lydia DeFazio has a .390 average and leads Mt. Aloysius in RBIs (12) and doubles (5). She was the AMCC Preseason Player of the Year.

• Senior Hannah Dobrinick is leading Division III Otterbein in several categories including batting average (.435) and home runs (7) and also has 18 RBIs, 19 runs and OBPS of 1.282.

• Carlee Lamacz, a sophomore at Muskingum, has a .342 average, two homers, 12 RBIs and 12 runs in 16 games.

• Sophomore Madison Forsythe has driven in 25 runs and scored 27 while hitting .360 for Geneva.

• In 16 games, freshman Jess Lichota has a .345 average and 10 hits for John Carroll.

• Sophomore Morgan Nedley has a .364 average with three homers and nine RBIs for Carlow.

Cal (Pa.): Freshman Charity Henderson (Southmoreland) has started all 16 games for the Vulcans and has a .356 average, three home runs and 10 RBIs.

Frostburg State: Junior outfielder Ava Gnibus (Mt. Pleasant) went 4 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs in a 4-1 win over Wheeling. Gnibus is hitting .329 with 20 runs, three homers and 17 RBIs.

Gannon: Junior Rebecca Tatone (Latrobe) was named the PSAC West Pitcher of the Week. She registered her second shutout of the season and went 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA in 10 1/3 innings, allowing six hits, against IUP.

Marist: Sophomore pitcher Kiley Myers (Latrobe) has an 0-1 record with a 4.20 ERA in 11 2/3 innings. She has struck out 10.

Penn State Altoona: Senior Olivia Miller (Yough) has a .314 average and nine runs for the Lions.

Pitt-Greensburg: Sophomore Hannah Corvin (Southmoreland) doubled, tripled and drove in two runs to lead UPG to a 6-4 victory over La Roche. Sophomore Ashley Noel (Latrobe) and freshman Taylor Bojtos (Ligonier Valley) each have two hits for the Bobcats (7-15-1, 3-4 AMCC).

Pitt-Johnstown: The Mountain Cats picked up a sweep of Slippery Rock, by scores of 8-0 and 4-2, for their second two-game winning streak of the season. Redshirt junior Olivia Porter went 2-3 with two runs and senior Bree Ginther drove in two in the first game. Senior Ali Belgiovane (Hempfield) tripled in Game 2.

Point Park: Freshman pitcher Angalee Beall (Franklin Regional) pitched nine innings across a doubleheader split with Carlow, starting in a 9-1 win and coming on in relief in a 6-3 loss.

Saint Vincent: Junior Kelsey Tobin (Hempfield) delivered a two-run single in the top of the seventh to lift the Bearcats to a 5-4 win over Geneva. Sophomore Mallory Halleck (Franklin Regional) doubled and drove in a pair, and senior Shae Robson had two hits and scored three runs for SVC (12-15-1, 6-8 PAC).

Tobin leads the team with a .450 average.

Seton Hill: The Griffins ran their winning streak to four with a two-game sweep of Mercyhurst by scores of 9-1 and 2-1. In the first game, freshman Nina Grandey and grad student Christiana Skrabak (Norwin) homered, senior Jenna Osikowicz (Hempfield) went 2 for 4 with two runs and junior Morgan Toal drove in two.

Osikowicz homered in the second game.

Penn State: Junior pitcher Bailey Parshall (Belle Vernon) came on in relief to earn her seventh career save as the Nittany Lions shut out Maryland, 1-0. Junior Chelsea Bisi (Derry) had the game’s RBI, a two-out single in the fourth inning.

Parshall has 388 career strikeouts, tying her for sixth all time at Penn State.

Men’s track & field

Allegheny: Freshman Jacob Boord (Hempfield) took the javelin title with a throw of 48.78 meters at the Marty Goldberg Gator Invite.

Chatham: Junior Emanuel Snyder (Greensburg Central Catholic) won the pole vault title at the Grove City Invitational with a mark of 3.80 meters.

Women’s track & field

Point Park: Sophomore Natalie Zucco (Greensburg Salem) finished third in the 10,000-meter run, and freshman Alisson Plassio (Norwin) placed seventh in the 1,500 as the Pioneers won the River States Conference outdoor season team title a short time after capturing the indoor championship.