Category: College

LOCK HAVEN, PA – The Clarion University men’s basketball team is picked to finish seventh in the PSAC West according to a preseason poll of the league’s coaches. The Golden Eagles, who went 15-13 overall and 11-11 in the PSAC West a year ago, must replace nearly 60 percent of their scoring and 55 percent of their rebounding from that team. Three returning starters and a pair of transfers are expected to lead the way. Junior forward Mike Kromka started 16 of 28 games last year and averaged 7.2 points…

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LOCK HAVEN, PA – Clarion sophomore forward Hannah Heeter is a preseason All-PSAC West choice, and the Golden Eagles are picked to finish fifth in the PSAC West in the preseason coaches poll. Heeter is coming off an outstanding rookie campaign that saw her named PSAC West Freshman of the Year and second-team PSAC West. She was the only freshman in either NCAA Division I or NCAA Division II to average a double-double for the season last year (13.4 ppg, 11.7 rpg) while leading the PSAC in both rebounding and…

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LEWISBURG, PA – For the second time this season, Bucknell volleyball’s Karen Campbell (Chesapeake, Va./Cape Henry Collegiate) was named the Molten Patriot League Rookie of the Week on Monday. Campbell led the team in attack percentage and was second among Bison in kills as the team closed out its schedule with a pair of split decisions against Holy Cross and Army. After both matches, Campbell’s stat sheet had 15 kills coming on a .370 attack percentage. Eight of those kills came in the loss to Army and was the highest…

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LOCK HAVEN, PA – Joel Blesh, a 2009 Lock Haven University graduate and a Lock Haven, Pa. native has been named the new head swimming coach at LHU. Blesh is no stranger to the Lady Eagle swim program having served as a student-assistant coach for two seasons while attending LHU. Since 2010, Blesh has been both the head swim coach for the Lock Haven area YMCA and Haven Area Aquatic Club, while also serving as the YMCA Aquatics Director. Blesh could not be more excited to rejoin The Haven program…

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LEWISBURG, PA – The start of the Bucknell basketball season is just three weeks away and good season ticket seats are still available. Additionally, single-game tickets go on sale Oct. 29. The men’s basketball home opener is Nov. 13 vs. George Mason at 7 p.m., while the women open their home campaign Nov. 14 vs. Saint Francis (Pa.), also at 7 p.m. Season tickets can be purchased by calling the Campus Box Office at 570-577-1000. Single-game tickets can be purchased starting Oct. 29 by calling the Campus Box Office or…

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FAIRFIELD, CT – Coming from behind, the Saint Francis University women’s volleyball won against Sacred Heart on the road in five sets, 22-25, 28-26, 22-25, 25-22, 15-12. Saint Francis has now won three in a row and improved to 9-12 overall and to 5-3 in Northeast Conference play. The Pioneers fell to 6-16 on the year and 4-4 in the NEC. SFU battled throughout the first set, but they were not able to grab a hold of the lead. Amanda Zahumensky led the Flash with five kills in the first…

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LEWISBURG, PA – Senior Brian Barron capped a 17-goal weekend with a team-high four goals against No. 16 Princeton as the Bucknell men’s water polo team completed a solid 3-1 weekend with a 10-9 victory over the nationally ranked Tigers Sunday evening at Kinney Natatorium. Bucknell led the game 5-0 in the first half and held off Princeton in the final minutes to snap a three-game losing streak to the Tigers. Bucknell (9-10, 3-5 CWPA Southern Division) led nearly wire-to-wire as it tallied the first five goals in the game….

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SPARKILL, NY – The Lock Haven University men’s soccer team (5-8-1) rallied midway through the second half for a pair of goals, but the Bald Eagles fell to host Saint Thomas Aquinas (4-5-3) 3-2 today in non-conference action. The Bald Eagles, who were playing for the second time in as many days trailed 3-0, but fought back. Midway through the second half, Lock Haven got a pair of quick strikes from Trent Burris (McAlisterville, Pa./East Juniata) and Bobby Mohr (Erie, Pa./Cathedral Prep) to make it 3-2. The Haven rally ended…

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PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Lock Haven University field hockey team scored two goals in the second half to force overtime, but the Lady Eagles fell to host Temple, 4-3 in overtime today in Atlantic 10 action. Temple (10-6, 3-0 A-10) led 3-1 at halftime, but Lock Haven (10-6, 1-2 A-10) got second half goals from Nakira Downes (Bridgetown, Barbados/The Combermere School) and Stephanie Ebersole (Elizabethtown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) to force overtime. Temple scored its third goal of the match in the 26th minute as the Owls jumped out to a commanding…

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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Meet Jason Mifsud, MAC Champion. Cementing a resume that stands as one of, if not the, best in the history of Lycoming College men’s tennis, the 5-11, 170-pound senior finished off a torrid fall by doing something no one in the history of the program ever has – win a Middle Atlantic Conference Individual Championship. The top-seed in the top flight, the Montoursville Area grad made quick work of a pair of opponents on Sunday, Oct. 14 to clinch the title at Kirby Park on an unusually…

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