Feb 24, 2019 4 min read

W&J’s Parker named to All-PAC first team

Washington & Jefferson senior forward Danielle Parker was named to the All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s basketball first team.

Teammate Alie Seto was named to the second team along with Waynesburg’s Andrea Orlosky. Lauren Gilbert of W&J and Waynesburg’s Monica Starre each received honorable mention.

The league announced and its all-conference teams and award winners at the PAC tournament semifinals.

The all-conference honor was the third straight for Parker, who was named to the second team following both her sophomore and junior seasons. The senior from Canonsburg excelled as one of the most efficient and productive players in the PAC. She ranked sixth in scoring (15.4) and sixth in rebounding (8.0). Earlier this season, Parker became the 18th player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for her career.

Orlosky posted the highest single-season scoring average (17.3) at Waynesburg since 1993. She led the PAC in free throws attempted (176) and free throws made (125), and was the Yellow Jackets’ leading rebounder 8.2 per game.

Seto averaged 13.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. She shot 48.4 percent from the field and was sixth in the conference in free-throw percentage at 78.3 percent.

Thiel senior guard Jess Vormelker was voted the league’s Player of the Year while Grove City junior forward Kate Balcom was recognized as the PAC’s Defensive Player of the Year.

Thiel freshman forward Destiny Johnson won the Freshman of the Year award and Chatham first-year head coach David Saur was honored as the PAC Coach of the Year.

In the NHL

Evgeny Kuznetsov scored at 4:20 of overtime, just beating teammate Alex Ovechkin’s stick to the puck, and the Washington Capitals defeated the New York Rangers 6-5 on Sunday in their return from their longest road trip this season.

Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist tried to block Kuznetsov’s pass back to Ovechkin in front of the net.

But the puck trickled away from Lundqvist and right in front of the net, Ovechkin first attempted to knock it in before Kuznetsov guided it across the goal line.

Nicklas Backstrom scored his 14th and 15th goals of the season and the second-place Capitals moved within two points of the Metropolitan Division-leading New York Islanders. However the Capitals have played two more games.

• Jason Spezza broke a tie on a 5-on-3 power play midway through the third period and the Dallas Stars rebounded to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 after blowing a three-goal lead.

Spezza took Alexander Radulov’s feed across the crease and tapped the puck past goalie Cam Ward.

• Joe Pavelski got his fifth career hat trick, including scoring twice in less than a minute late in the second period, to give the San Jose Sharks a 5-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings.

Defenseman Brent Burns had a goal and assist and defenseman Tim Heed also scored for San Jose, which trailed 3-1 in the middle of the second period.

In the NBA

Terrence Ross scored 28 points against his former team, Nikola Vucevic had 23 points and 12 rebounds and the Orlando Magic beat the Raptors 113-98 on Sunday, ending Toronto’s winning streak at seven.

• The Denver Nuggets breezed past the cold-shooting Los Angeles Clippers 123-96 behind Nikola Jokic and Paul Millsap for their fourth consecutive victory.

Jokic had 22 points and 16 rebounds, and Millsap had 21 points and 16 boards, doing much of his damage after Jokic took a seat two minutes into the third quarter with his fourth foul.