Wise has plenty in reserve for Pitt-Johnstown
Former Washington High School standout Josh Wise is having a strong start to his college basketball career at Pitt-Johnstown.
Wise, a redshirt freshman forward, has played in all eight games for the Mountain Cats (5-3) and is averaging 9.0 points per game, which ranks fourth on the team. Though he has not started a game, Wise is averaging exactly 20 minutes of playing time per game.
Wise is shooting 51 percent from the field and has made 11 of 24 shots from three-point range. He averages 2.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.
In the regular-season opener against Urbana, Wise scored 15 points, which is his career high. He also scored in double figures against Carlow (11 points), University of the Sciences (10) and Kutztown (10). In UPJ’s 96-90 loss at Kutztown Saturday, Wise made three of five three-pointers and also had three assists.
Wise is a 2013 graduate of Washington and was a third team Class AAA all-state selection. He scored more than 1,300 career points for the Prexies.
Oberlin’s Sarah Urso, a junior from Washington and a Trinity graduate, placed 41st at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Championships at Holland, Mich. Urso completed the 6K course in 23:02.2.
Urso is a three-time regional qualifier. She placed 56th as a sophomore.
At the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., Urso placed 13th with a time of 23:43.4.
Megan Simpson, a Westminster sophomore and Trinity graduate, placed 38th at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships in Latrobe. She was fifth among Westminster runners with a time of 27:00.
Westminster’s team advanced to the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional in Center Valley, where Simpson ran 25:59 and placed 214th out of 371 runners.
Maddi Santo, a sophomore midfielder from Peters Township, was the fourth-leading scored for Virginia Commonwealth.
Santo scored five goals and had two assists for the Rams, who had an 8-10-1 record.
Though his senior season was cut short because of an injury, Marietta defensive back and Trinity graduate Corey Hunsberger was named to the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America Division III Football Team.
A first team honoree for the second straight season, Hunsberger is the first Pioneer football player to earn Academic All-American honors twice. He joins baseball players Jim Pancher (1982-83), Dave Thomas (1983-84) and David Bradley (1998-99) as Marietta’s two-time first team selections. Bradley went on to pitch for the Washington Wild Things for two seasons (2002-03).
Hunsberger is just the fourth Marietta football player to be an Academic All-American.
Hunsberger, a petroleum nngineering major, has a 4.0 grade-point average. He was fourth on the team with 42 total tackles through six games. In his career, he played in 36 games, starting all but one.
Colgate defensive lineman Alex Campbell, a senior from Canonsburg, ended his career being named second team All-Patriot League for the second consecutive season.
Campbell made 34 tackles and was third on the team with three quarterback hurries. He had a season-high seven tackles in a Sept. 24 game against Richmond and had a tackle for loss in each of the final four games of the season. In his career, Campbell was credited with making 109 tackles.
Denison’s George Carson, a sophomore offensive lineman from Canonsburg, received honorable mention on the All-North Coast Athletic Conference team. Carson anchored an offensive line that had 17 rushing touchdowns.
Denison had an 8-2 record and won each of its first seven games.
Mike Kope, a redshirt senior defensive tackle from Charleroi, was Slippery Rock’s fifth-leading tackler.
Kope started all 11 games for The Rock and made 46 tackles, including 4 ½ for losses and three sacks. He also broke up three passes and was credited with four quarterback hurries and one forced fumble.
Kope had a season-high eight tackles in the season opener against New Haven and later had a streak of making five tackles in five consecutive games.
Freshman guard Kayla Yorko of Jefferson has cracked the starting lineup for Penn State-Fayette.
A Jefferson-Morgan graduate, Yorko is averaging 7.6 points in nine games. She has been among the team’s best three-point shooters, making 15 of 32 behind the stripe and is shooting 47 percent from the field.
Yorko has scored in double figures three times, including a season-high 18-point performance in Penn State-Fayette’s 99-29 rout of CCAC-North. She scored 12 points against Butler Community College and 11 against Penn State-Worthington Scranton.
Yorko was a 1,000-point scorer at Jefferson-Morgan and averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds per game as a senior.
The Citadel’s Ty Buckiso, a junior from Venetia, placed third at 149 pounds in the Navy Classic.
Buckiso had a 4-1 record in the tournament, opening with a technical fall over Ohio’s Nick Steed. Buckiso then defeated Delaware Valley’s Rob Duxbury in the quarterfinals by 12-0 major decision 12-0 to advance to the semifinals.
The former Peters Township standout dropped an 8-6 decision to eventual tournament champion Sahid Kargbo of George Mason. Buckiso won his final two matches, over Indiana’s Luke Blanton by technical fall and Kent State’s Tim Rooney by a 6-4 decision, the latter the third-place match.
Buckiso had a 20-14 record last season at 141 pounds.