Feb 19, 2005 2 min read

Rifle

Swartz medals again

Jefferson-Morgan junior Glen Swartz placed ninth in Thursday’s WPIAL Individual Rifle Championships held at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Canonsburg. Swartz scored 200-17X in his medal performance, earning one of the 10 medals and one of the 12 berths into the Pennsylvania State Scholastic Team and Individual Championships against shooters from the Somerset and Wilkes-Barre area.

Swartz finished fourth in 2004.

McGuffey’s Wes Lauff, Trinity’s Cody Conner and Mt. Lebanon’s Cody Gonze shared the gold medal with perfect scores of 200-20X.

Basketball

Swink gains recognition

Connellsville graduate and Saint Francis University senior women’s basketball player Beth Swink was named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Regional All-American Team on Feb. 17. The recognition makes Swink eligible for national honors.

Swink was also one of 36 student-athletes chosen to the Creamland Dairies’ third annual Collegiate Basketball Award of Excellent ‘Watch List.’ The award honors college seniors for their athletic and academic achievement and community involvement.

Swink has a 3.71 cumulative grade-point average as a biology major and has made the university’s Athletic Honor Roll in six of the last seven semesters.

On the court, Swink leads the Northeast Conference in scoring, ranking third in the nation with a per game average of 22.5 points. She is 20 points shy of reaching the 2,000-point plateau to become only the second player in school and conference history to do so.