Westmoreland County campus clippings: Honors pour in for Seton Hill women's lacrosse

A Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division title that came with a 12-0 record earned the Seton Hill women’s lacrosse team a number of awards.

The accolades start with senior Makayla Kintner, who was named the division’s defensive player of the year.

Mila Udovicic, meantime, was picked for the rookie of the year, and Courtney Grove received coach of the year.

In addition, Kintner, redshirt sophomore Skylar Orlowski, sophomores Carleigh Sutfin and Megan Bunker, and grad student Kyleigh Hessian, were all named to the All-PSAC First Team.

Heading into the conference tournament, Kintner had 57 draw controls and 27 ground balls, plus 22 caused turnovers. Udovcic had a team-high 30 assists, while Orlowski had 43 goals and 63 points.

Grove is a four-time coach of the year.

Seton Hill (15-4) will play in the NCAA Division II Tournament for the fourth straight time. The fourth-seeded Griffins are set to visit No. 1 West Chester (19-0) in the Atlantic Regional at 11 a.m. Friday.

Men’s lacrosse

Seton Hill: the Great Midwest Athletic Conference regular-season champion Griffins received two major awards from the conference.

Grad student Josh Miller was named the goalkeeper of the year, while Brian Novotny was tabbed coach of the year.

Miller joined sophomore Holden Charboneau and senior Jeremy Sforzo on the first team.

Miller was 11-4 with an 8.48 goals-against average heading into the postseason, while Charboneau had 21 ground balls, and Sforzo had a team-best 53 points (28 goals, 23 assists).

Novotny also was coach of the year in 2018 and ‘19.

The Griffins (12-4) defeated Walsh, 19-6, to advance to the G-MAC championship.

Softball

Bloomsburg: Sophomore Emma Little (Penn-Trafford) was named to the All-PSAC Eastern Division First Team as a utility player.

Sophomore pitcher Callie Sowers was selected to the second team.

Little hit .324 and drove in 32 during the regular season. A catcher and outfielder, she had eight doubles, four home runs and a team-high 18 walks. She took a seven-game hitting streak into the playoffs.

Sowers had 14 wins and a 2.77 ERA and led the PSAC in strikeouts with 227. She also had the most complete games (23) and had six shutouts.

Cal (Pa.): Junior outfielder Charity Henderson (Southmoreland) made the All-PSAC Second Team. A three-year starter, Henderson hit .333 with a team-best four homers and a career-high 35 RBIs during the regular season.

She had 23 RBIs in conference play.

Marist: Senior Kiley Myers (Latrobe) was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week. She tossed two-hit and one-hit shutouts to move to 9-5 for the season.

Myers had three strikeouts over six innings, and threw just 57 pitches, in an 8-0 win over Quinnipiac in six innings.

In a 9-0 win over Manhattan, she struck out six and did not issue a walk in five innings.

Robert Morris: Fifth-year pitcher Dana Vatakis (Monessen) allowed three hits in a complete game, earning her fifth career shutout as the Colonials beat Cleveland State, 6-0.

Junior Jane Garver (Ligonier Valley) tossed five innings, allowing four hits while striking out four and walking one, as the Colonials blanked Cleveland State, 4-0.

In the second game, Vatakis posted her second straight shutout, 2-0, striking out five. It was her ninth complete game in 13 starts against Horizon League opponents.

Junior Faith Miller (Southmoreland) had an RBI single in the win.

Vatakis finished the regular season with a 10-10 record and a 2.13 ERA in 22 starts. She was named the Horizon League Pitcher of the Week.

Saint Vincent: The Bearcats went 1-1 in the PAC Tournament to finish the season with a record of 23-15.

Junior Lead Yoder (Norwin) went 3 for 3, and junior Olivia Persin (Hempfield) added three hits in a 7-3 win over Grove City.

But Geneva clipped SVC, 5-3, despite Yoder’s 2-for-2 effort.

The Bearcats made the conference tournament for the seventh time in nine years.

Seton Hill: Junior Lauren Dellett was named the PSAC West Pitcher of the Year, while Griffins’ first-year leader Cassie Moore was tabbed the coach of the year in the division.

The Griffins won their third straight division title.

Junior shortstop Nina Grandey made the All-PSAC First Team.

Dellett, who also was a first-team pick, had an 18-6 record and a 1.52 ERA during the regular season, and finished complete games in 21 of 22 starts.

She had 138 strikeouts.

Grandey had a .318 average with seven doubles, a triple, a home run and 11 RBIs.

Sophomore Brooke Cleland (Penn-Trafford) was a second-team selection at designated player.

Seton Hill went 0-2 in the PSAC Tournament to finish the season 29-17.

Baseball

Bucknell: Junior Anthony Sherwin (Penn-Trafford) is leading the Bison (21-21-1) with a .371 batting average.

The shortstop had hit safely in his last seven games. He also had a team-high 14 doubles and 38 runs, along with 29 RBIs, in 34 starts.

He went 3 for 5 with a home run and three runs in a 7-5 win over Holy Cross.

Cal (Pa.): Freshman Jake Kramer (Hempfield) picked up a win after one inning of scoreless relief in a 5-4, walk-off win over Clarion.

Gaston (N.C.): Freshman third baseman Andrew Maruco (Franklin Regional) hit two home runs and drove in four runs to power Gaston to an 8-0 victory over USC Sumter in the NJCAA Region 10 Tournament.

Maruco, a Coastal Carolina transfer, also scored two runs in the win.

He added anther home run in the Rhinos’ 9-6 victory over USC Lancaster

Maruco was hitting .293 with six doubles, seven homers and 22 RBIs in 39 games.

Mercyhurst: The Lakers ended Seton Hill’s 26-game PSAC regular-season winning streak with a two-game sweep.

Sophomore pitcher Jake Bazala (Norwin) picked up a win in Game 2, a 4-1 victory, as he struck out five and limited a potent lineup to three hits over five innings.

Sophomore Eric Chorba (Norwin) had a hit and scored a run for the Lakers.

Pitt-Greensburg: Freshman James Domer set a Bobcats’ single-season record with 52 RBIs, breaking Garrett Herald’s mark of 51 in 2012.

Domer also had 68 hits for another single-season record for UPG, which earned the No. 4 seed in the AMCC Tournament.

Freshman Colin Solinski finished with a .469 batting average, the best in the program history for a third record for a season.

The Bobcats lost back-to-back games to Hilbert in the AMCC playoffs. Both games were played at Bobcat Park, marking UPG’s first home postseason game since 2017.

They finished 21-16, a record that reflects their most wins since 2018.

Seton Hill: Senior third baseman Jack Oberdorf (Greensburg Salem) was named the PSAC West Athlete of the Week. Oberdorf went 5 for 11 in a four-game series against Mercyhurst, which saw each team win twice. He doubled, hit two homers, and drove in six, and went 2 for 2 with a two-run homer and a grand slam in a 6-3 win in the third game against the Lakers.

The Griffins (40-10) open PSAC Tournament play Wednesday against Shippensburg at Slippery Rock.

Washington & Jefferson: Senior Tyler Horvat (Penn-Trafford) went 2 for 4 with a double and two runs in a 17-8 loss to Otterbein.

Junior pitcher Ethan Boring (Ligonier Valley) worked 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief, allowing two hits.

Horvat added a hit and three RBIs as the Presidents bounced back with a 9-8 win in the second game of the doubleheader.

W&J (28-12) locked up the No. 1 seed in the PAC Tournament as Horvat tossed a complete game in a 9-5 win over Allegheny, which preceded a 10-1 victory against the Gators.

Horvat, who struck out 10 in his 10th win of the season, now has 28 career wins, tying him with Riley Groves and Eddie Nogay for the program record.

Horvat was named the PAC Hitter of the Week.

Waynesburg: Freshman Ethan Erhard (Hempfield) tossed his second complete game of the season as the Yellow Jackets defeated Denison, 9-4. He allowed three earned runs on six hits, struck out four and walked five.

Erhard earned PAC Rookie of the Week honors.