Apr 19, 2007 3 min read

Boxing

Karpency on card

Adah’s Tommy Karpency will be on the fight card this Friday at “Budweiser Fight Night” at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown. Karpency will box Alan Snyder in the 175-pound bout.

Tennis

Santoro PSAC athlete

California University of Pa. junior Lisa Santoro was named the PSAC West Division tennis Athlete of the Week after she took part in a couple of victories in the Vulcans’ 7-0 pasting of Division I Georgetown last weekend.

Santoro won an 8-4 decision over the Hoyas’ Courtney Olsen at No. 2 singles, and then joined Helena VanEysendeyk for an 8-1 victory at No. 2 doubles.

The junior is 25-2 in singles action and is 12-1 in doubles when paired with VanEysendeyk.

Softball

Bihler honored

California University of Pa. sophomore Heather Bihler was named the PSAC West Division Athlete of the Week after the Vulcans won 5-of-8 games with Bihler batting .480.

Bihler was 12-for-25 over the eight games, scoring five runs and driving in six. She had two doubles and walked twice. She is batting .319 for the season (22-for-69) with two doubles, six RBIs and eight runs scored.

Track & field

Dodd wins SRU pole vault

Waynesburg sophomore Ashley Dodd won the women’s pole vault last weekend at the Slippery Rock Invitational, highlighting several strong performances by Yellow Jacket athletes.

Dodd cleared a personal-best 3.53 meters to top the 29-vaulter field, and now ranks 12th among vaulters in NCAA Division III. Dodd has already qualified for the NCAA Championships in the event, to be hosted by Wisconsin-Oshkosh on May 24-26.

Fellow vaulter Randi Patton, a sophomore from Waynesburg Central, finished tied for fifth with a vault of 2.74 meters.

The 400-meter relay quartet of Eric Daniels, Tom Hudson, Troy Hill, Jr. and Chris Barnes qualified for the ECAC Championships with their time of 44.20 seconds.

Waynesburg Central graduate Melissa Cox was ninth in the 800 with a time of 2:29.46, and fellow freshman Janet Carson finished ninth in the 5,000 in 20:06.69.

PAC honors Waynesburg

Willy Herrington and Ashley Dodd, in the field, and Brian Lucarelli, on the track, were honored by the Presidents’ Athletic Conference as the top track & field performers for the week ending April 15.

Herrington, a Connellsville graduate, gained a spot in the ECAC with a winning throw of 44.34 meters in the discus, a personal and school best. The sophomore was 12th overall last weekend in the Slippery Rock Invitational.

Dodd vaulted 11-6 at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational to earn a berth into the NCAA Championships. She vaulted an inch higher to win the Slippery Rock Invitational crown, the 12th-best mark in Division III.

Lucarelli set the school standard for the 400 at Carnegie Mellon with a time of 50.85 seconds. He was the highest finisher among non-scholarship sprinters in the Slippery Rock Invitational with his time of 51.39 in the 400.