Westmoreland County campus clippings: Pitt-Greensburg women's tennis wins 1st AMCC title

Pitt-Greensburg is headed to the NCAA Division III women’s tennis tournament.

The Bobcats won the first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship in program history over the weekend.

Top-seeded UPG defeated No. 2 Penn State Behrend, 5-4, to complete a sweep — AMCC regular-season and tournament titles — while avenging a finals loss to Behrend from a year ago.

UPG finished 8-0 against conference opponents.

The doubles teams of Cathryn Rossi and Isabella Lane (8-7 tiebreak), and Abigail Rosman and Amber Sterrett (Derry) (8-3) picked up wins, before Lane used a tiebreak to win at No. 5 singles.

Sterrett (6-2, 6-3) and Rosman (6-4, 7-5) then won their singles matches to put the Bobcats ahead for good. Sterrett and Rosman were named to the all-tournament team.

UPG will play in the NCAA field for the first time, but the tournament won’t begin until May.

Football

Allegheny: Sophomore running back Kyrie Miller (Ligonier Valley) scored on a 41-yard run as the Gators (2-4, 1-4) downed Hiram, 38-13. His teammate and classmate, Declan O’Brien (Norwin), also scored, on a 48-yard pass from Jack Johnson.

Grove City: Sophomore cornerback Gabe Dunlap (Penn-Trafford) had five tackles and two pass break-ups for the Wolverines, who rallied for a 41-29 win at Saint Vincent.

John Carroll: Senior defensive back Nate Leopold (Franklin Regional) recorded a team-high-tying five tackles in a 27-17 win over Ohio Northern.

There was a local tie on the Ohio Northern side, too, as senior kicker Dom DiFalco (Franklin Regional) made a 26-yard field goal and a pair of extra points for the Polar Bears.

Mercyhurst: Senior tight end Jason Armstrong (Latrobe) caught six passes for 74 yards and a touchdown as the Lakers rallied past Edinboro, 27-20, in overtime.

Armstrong opened the scoring with a 20-yard catch for Mercyhurst (2-5, 1-3).

Saint Vincent: Junior Brady Walker passed for 235 yards and a touchdown, and sophomore wideout Molayo Irefin had 10 receptions for 133 yards, but the Bearcats gave up 20 fourth-quarter points in a 41-29 loss to Grove City to fall to 3-3 (2-3 PAC).

Freshman Joanes Polynice returned an interception 34 yards for a touchdown.

Villanova: Senior tight end Todd Summers (Franklin Regional) had two catches for 34 yards, one that went for a 24-yard touchdown, as the Wildcats defeated Albany, 17-10.

Summers has 13 catches and two scores this season, his fifth at the collegiate level.

Men’s golf

Gannon: Junior Clayton Skoff (Franklin Regional) carded rounds of 74, 78 and 74 to finish in a tie for 15th (226), and freshman Michael Wareham (Franklin Regional) tied for 18th (227) at the PSAC championships at Hershey Country Club.

Gannon was second overall behind conference champion IUP.

Pitt-Johnstown: Sophomore Mario Battaglia (Latrobe) finished ninth at the PSAC championships with a three-round total of 10-over-par 223, including a 69 in the first round at Hershey Country Club. Freshman Sal Cerilli (Norwin) tied for 18th (14-over 227).

The Mountain Cats finished fourth in the team standings.

Women’s swimming

Washington & Jefferson: Sophomore Amanda Graves (Penn-Trafford) picked up a pair of wins at Penn State Altoona, taking the 50-yard backstroke in 1 minute, 3.54 seconds and the 100-yard butterfly in 1:03.80.

The Presidents lost 128-126.