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AMCC News
POST-SEASON INDIVIDUAL HONORS FOR SOFTBALL, BASEBALL
5/16/12
The individual post-season honors season has begun for baseball and
softball.
National Fastpitch Coaches Association released its 2012 Division
III Softball All-Region
 Teams
on Monday and the AMCC was represented by Mount Aloyisus College
outfielder Jalisa Westover
(left) and Penn St. Altoona first baseman Kelly
Chambers
(right), both named to the third team of the All-East Region.
The conference's Co-Player of the Year, Westover had a .451 batting
average and led the AMCC with 55 RBI. Chambers, the league's
Newcomer of the Year, proved to be one of the elite hitters in the
AMCC, leading the conference in hits (64), runs scored (43), doubles
(19), home runs (10), and total bases (113).
Penn St. Behrend junior infielder Matt Bittner is also in the
spotlight, having been named to
 the
Capital One Academic All-District Four Baseball Team. The
academic teams are voted on by the College Sports Information
Directors of America to recognize the nation’s top student-athletes
for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
Bittner led his team in batting average (.394), hits (56), doubles
(19), triples (5), home runs (5), and RBIs (44). In the classroom,
the plastics engineering technology major has accumulated a grade
point average of over 3.5.
PITT-BRADFORD'S SMITH LEADS BASEBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
5/15/12
Pitt-Bradford second baseman Derek Smith
(left), who is currently ranked #3 in the nation
 with
a .492 batting average, is the AMCC Player of the Year. The
sophomore led the
conference in four statistical categories this season (batting
average, hits, on base percentage, slugging percentage).
Hilbert senior Nick Sherman (right) was voted the
Pitcher of the Year (5 wins, 57 strikeouts) while La Roche College
third baseman Brian Tougher earned Newcomer of the Year
recognition (.403 batting average, 38 RBI). La Roche's
Chase Rowe has been named Coach of the Year for the second
consecutive season after guiding the Redhawks to their first ever
AMCC title and NCAA tournament bid.
Click here for the
complete all-conference team.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK:
WEEK OF MAY 14
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BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
La Roche College - DH Ryan Fennell
 Fennell
had a spectacular tournament, hitting .538
(7 for 13) including a 5 for 5 performance in the championship
game. Fennell recorded 8 RBI, 4 doubles, and scored 3 runs to
help guide the Redhawks to their first-ever AMCC championship.
BASEBALL PITCHER OF THE WEEK
La Roche College - Tyler Ferguson
 Ferguson threw 7-2/3 innings of
scoreless baseball and allowed just 3 hits while striking out a
career-high 11 batters to beat #2 seed Penn State Behrend and
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LA ROCHE CLAIMS FIRST BASEBALL TITLE AND NCAA BID IN PROGRAM HISTORY
5/12/12
With a 14-4 win over Mount Aloysius College in the AMCC
championship game, La
 Roche
College earned its first ever conference title as well as a first
time trip to the NCAA Division III tournament. The top seeded
Red Hawks (25-16, 13-3 AMCC) faced a formidable opponent in the Mounties
(19-27-1, 7-8-1 AMCC), who battled
to the championship game as the #6 seed in the tournament, knocking
off #2 seed Penn St. Behrend on Friday to advance to the finals.
La Roche jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning, which was
countered by a 3 run third inning by Mount Aloysius. The
Redhawks responded with a 10 run rampage in the bottom of the third
and never looked back. Designated hitter Ryan Fennell
finished the game a perfect 5 for 5 at the plate with 3 RBI, while
third baseman Brian Tougher went 3 for 5, including a home
run that scored 3. Mounties third baseman Lucas Szymanski
was 2 for 4 at the plate with a pair of RBI. Reed
Tomlinson earned his fifth win of the season, putting in 6.1
innings on the mound.
PENN ST. BEHREND MEN, WOMEN FALL AT NCAA TENNIS TOURNAMENT
5/11/12
The competition proved too stiff at the NCAA Division III men's and
women's tennis tournaments for AMCC champion Penn St. Behrend.
The Behrend women fell to Hunter College, 5-3, in the first round of
the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon. The Lions took two of the
three doubles matches but only won one singles match. Jade
Buhite and Rachel Harris teamed up to win their doubles
match, 8-5. Megan Noschese and Carissa Zozos also won
their doubles match, 9-8. In singles competition, Nochese was
the lone Behrend winner. Nochese won 6-1, 6-1. Meanwhile the
Behrend men were defeated by Kalamazoo College, the Michigan
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions, 5-0, in Gambier, OH.
BRAZIL IS DESTINATION FOR PENN ST. BEHREND WOMEN'S SOCCER,
BASKETBALL TEAMS
5/10/12
The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball and women's soccer teams
are off to Brazil for
 an
eight day international sports tour. The trip will include two
games against local Brazilian teams. In addition, the squads will
visit the cities of Sao Bento do Sapucia, Paraty, and Ilha Grande.
Outside of their competition, the contingent will go on historical
tours, take various cultural classes, and put on a clinic at a
school in Sao Bento do Sapucia. Members from both teams will
chronicle the tour in “blogs”, which can be followed at psblions.com.
MOUNT ALOYSIUS TEAMS UP WITH SPECIAL OLYMPICS AND MYI
5/9/12
On Saturday April 28th the Mount Aloysius College athletic
department paired up with the Special Olympics. Along with these
athletes were 11 seventh grade students who are involved in the
Mercy Youth Initiative (MYI) that is provided through the college.
The MYI is a mentor program designed for Youth of Promise and the
Mount Aloysius students. These students are those that they believe
will benefit from learning about college, building communication and
learning social skills. Each session includes a career, mentor and
athletic event. The SAAC has taken the lead in coordination
teambuilding activities to get the kids up and moving.
Both the student-athletes and the students from the MYI listened to
Jennifer Tresp, Senior
 Competition Director, discuss the purpose of
Special Olympics in addition to her journey within the organization.
Jennifer discussed the importance of communication and support among
team members. She then facilitated a group activity in which the
athletes and MYI students had to come up with a strategy to get
paper air planes across the finish line. Then, they discussed ways
in which we as an athletic department can get more involved in the
Special Olympics. After that the athletes divided up into groups in
which they provided games and skill work in basketball, soccer and
volleyball. To end the session the student-athletes and the MYI
students played a fun game of kickball.
GRUBER, WESTOVER, NORTON LEAD SOFTBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
5/8/12
A talented list of players head the softball all-conference team for
the 2012 season. The choices were so tough that Co-Players of
the Year have been named.
Penn St. Behrend third baseman Ashley Gruber (left)
and Mount Aloysius College
 outfielder
Jalisa Westover (right) share the honor,
after completing standout campaigns. Gruber, who led her team
to the AMCC title over the weekend, ranks first on the squad in 9
different categories including batting average (.442), RBI (50) and
slugging percentage (.833). Westover boasted a .451 batting
average and a league-best 55 RBI.
Pitcher of the Year honors went to D'Youville senior Hannah
Norton (left) for the second
 year
in a row. She recorded 10 wins and 3 saves with a conference
low 2.25 ERA. Penn St. Altoona freshman first baseman Kelly
Chambers (right) was selected as the Newcomer of the
Year. Her standout numbers included leading the AMCC in
batting average (.488), hits (61), doubles (18) and total bases
(106). Penn St. Behrend's Stacy Pondo was voted Coach of the
Year after guiding the Lions to their fourth conference title in
seven years.
Click here for the
complete all-conference team.
PENN STATE BEHREND WINS SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP, EARNS
NCAA AUTOMATIC BID
5/6/12
Penn St. Behrend defeated Penn St. Altoona, 5-4, in 9 innings today to win
their fourth AMCC title
 in program history. The victory
includes a trip to the NCAA DIvision III tournament. After a
seventh inning rally by Penn St. Altoona to knot the score at 4-4,
Behrend third baseman Ashley Gruber stroked a walk-off home run in
the ninth to close the door. Behrend (26-13), who did not drop
a game in the tournament, will advance to the NCAA regional on
Thursday, where they will meet Ohio Northern University, the Ohio
Athletic Conference champion, at host Alma (MI) College. Penn
St. Altoona (32-10) has been selected as the #2 seed in the ECAC
South Region tournament, with play beginning on Saturday.
MOUNT ALOYSIUS TENNIS TEAM CELEBRATES EARTH DAY VOLUNTEERING AT
LOCAL HISTORIC SITE
5/3/12
Mount Aloysius College
student-athletes teamed up to do horticultural and environmental
work at the Allegheny-Portage National Historical Site on Earth Day,
with six members of the men’s tennis team along with head coach Ryan
Navarro joining forces with other
 members
of the campus community. The National Park Service, in
collaboration with the United Way of the Laurel Highlands, held
their first annual National Park Service Day of Caring on April 22.
This event also kicked off National Park Week.
Sophomore player Ryan Bressler said he found the community service
to be enjoyable and beneficial. "Although our part was small,
we contributed to the much larger picture," said Bressler.
"Simple community service makes the parks cleaner and creates a much
more picturesque atmosphere. It is surprising how much trash and
weeds a group of volunteers can collect in a short amount of time.”
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