Courtney Poulich powered Robert Morris softball to its first Horizon League title last season. The Mt. Pleasant graduate did so in record-breaking fashion, swinging a big bat and becoming known for her fence-clearing blasts.
Hopes are high again for the redshirt senior outfielder, who was named to the D1Softball Preseason Mid-Major Top 100 players for 2026.
Poulich is ranked No. 80 on the list.
She set program records for home runs (16), RBIs (53) and runs scored (45). Poulich, who had a three-homer game for another record, helped the Colonials set team high-water marks for RBI (258), homers (50), doubles (79) and stolen bases (74).
Poulich hit .336 with a .412 on-base percentage, .785 slugging percentage and 50 hits.
The All-Horizon League first teamer’s home run and RBI totals led the conference.
She also was named Horizon Tournament MVP after hitting three homers, driving in five and scoring five times in three games. She was the first Colonials player to homer in a regional playoff game.
RMU opens the season Feb. 13 at the Winthrop Invitational.
Football
Florida: Greg Gasparato, who has ties to Jeannette, was named linebackers coach at Florida.
Gasparato, who spent the last two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Tulane, is the son of the late Nick Gasparato, who was a longtime assistant under Joe Paterno at Penn State. Nick Gasparato was on staff when the Nittany Lions won a national championship in 1986.
Greg Gasparato helped Tulane make the College Football Playoff this year — the Green Wave lost to Mississippi, 41-10, in the first round — and an American Athletic Conference title.
He was considered one of the top assistants in the country while coaching at Troy in 2023. He also worked on staffs at Cincinnati, Louisville, Army, Appalachian State and Wofford.
Men’s basketball
Geneva: Sophomore Austin Matthews (Yough) scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds in 26 minutes as a starter as Geneva (8-9, 5-3 PAC) pushed past Bethany, 90-82.
Pitt-Greensburg: The Bobcats (15-3, 7-2 AMCC) bounced back from a loss to La Roche with a 74-55 victory over Alfred State.
Senior forward Trent Rozich had a team-high 13 points, and senior Jackson Byer added 12 points and eight rebounds.
Pitt-Johnstown: Junior Adam Bilinsky (Norwin) had eight points and five assists in 29 minutes, but UPJ (10-9, 4-7 PSAC) fell to visiting Gannon, 112-86.
Saint Vincent: Senior Mike Iuzzolino scored a team-high 21 points, and senior Jaden Gales finished with 20 points and seven rebounds as the Bearcats defeated Grove City, 81-75, for their third straight win.
Senior Dev Ostrowski added 17 in the victory, which saw the Bearcats (10-7, 5-3 PAC) make 10 3-pointers and get all five starters into double figures.
West Liberty: Junior Landon Butler (Latrobe) scored 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting, and added three assists, as the Hilltoppers edged Wheeling, 83-81, for their fifth straight win.
Women’s basketball
Allegheny: Sophomore guard Ava Kobus (Norwin) scored a season-high 21 points, making 9 of 18 shots and grabbing six rebounds as the Gators (8-8, 5-2 PAC) downed Hiram, 76-66.
Bethany: Junior Kate Botti (Norwin) grabbed her 500th career rebound as the Bison defeated Waynesburg, 82-71, in the PAC. Botti finished with 15 rebounds in the victory along with nine points and a career-high six blocks.
Her milestone rebound came in her 67th career game. She is averaging 7.5 rebounds.
Chatham: Senior forward Alyssa Laukus (Norwin) had 12 points (5 for 7 FGs) and six rebounds for the Cougars (12-4, 5-3 PAC) in a 70-56 victory over Hiram.
Evansville: Sophomore guard Elle Snyder (Latrobe) scored a season-high 18 points, including 5 of 7 3-pointers, in a 68-65 victory over UNI.
Saint Vincent: Senior forward Camdon Bashor had 14 points, and senior Makenna Maier added 12 points and eight rebounds as SVC (13-4, 8-0) ran its winning streak to seven and remained perfect (7-0) at home with a 61-48 victory over Grove City.
Westminster: Sophomore guard Angelina Brush (Franklin Regional) scored a season-high eight points and played 29 minutes off the bench for the Titans in an 86-74 loss to Waynesburg.
Wrestling
Lock Haven: Redshirt sophomore Lucas Kapusta (Hempfield) is ranked No. 3 at 149 pounds in the Mid-American Conference. He also is No. 22 in the NCAA D1 InterMat rankings.
Ohio State: Redshirt sophomore Vinny Kilkeary (Latrobe) upset No. 9 Jore Volk in the 125-pound bout as the second-ranked Buckeyes beat No. 7 Minnesota, 29-9, to move to 13-0 overall and 2-0 in the Big Ten.
Pitt-Johnstown: Redshirt senior Isaiah Vance (Hempfield) earned his 100th career victory as UPJ (3-0) blanked Seton Hill, 50-0. Vance, a heavyweight, reached the milestone at the Winterfest Celebration at UPJ.
The two-time NCAA All-American, who is ranked No. 3 in the nation, scored a 46-second pin for No. 100.
Men’s volleyball
Grove City: Juniors Carson Good (Penn-Trafford) and Andrew Kessler (Penn-Trafford) posted nine kills and six kills, respectively, with Kessler adding nine digs, in a 3-1 loss to Mount Union.
Saint Vincent: Fourth-year coach Kate McCauley picked up her 50th career win as the Bearcats blanked Mount St. Joseph, 3-0, in a nonconference game. Juniors Shawn McSwiggen had nine kills and four aces, and Zebadiah Wyant contributed eight kills for SVC (1-2).
McCauley guided Greensburg Central Catholic from 2015-18 and led the Centurions to WPIAL and PIAA titles in 2016.
Thiel: Senior Tyler Hussey (Norwin) had three kills in a 3-1 loss to No. 7 Messiah.
Women’s swimming
Cal (Pa.): Senior Ashlyn Hornick (Mt. Pleasant) swam a leg of the fourth-place 200-yard freestyle relay that finished in 1 minute, 46.62 seconds at the PennWest Duals.
North Carolina State: Freshman Lily King (Mt. Pleasant) finished in 1:44.91 in the 200 freestyle in a dual against North Carolina for the seventh-best time in program history.
She also swam a leg of the 400 freestyle relay that set a pool record of 3:11.21.
Westminster: Freshman Olivia Schrock (Hempfield) won the 200 backstroke in 2:23.51, took second in the 100 backstroke (1:07.96) and helped the 200 medley relay to a second-place finish in a tri-meet with Mount Union and Franciscan.
Men’s swimming
Saint Vincent: Senior Jacob Dzurica (Hempfield) won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races and took second in the 100 backstroke at the Western PA Invitational at Carnegie Mellon. Dzurica was named the PAC Swimmer of the Week.
Westminster: Grad student Gino Piraino (Franklin Regional) swam for the second-place 200 medley relay (1:46.54) during a loss to Mount Union.
Piraino was the lone competitor in the 1-meter dive, finishing with a score of 220.90.
Women’s track & field
Edinboro: Senior Bernadette Zukina (Norwin) won the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.27 seconds — a PSAC-qualifying mark — at the Spire Midwest Open.
Pitt-Johnstown: Sophomore Audra Fedor (Norwin) won the mile run at the Larry Brown Invitational at Heidelberg. Her time of 5:35.17 topped the field.
Fedor also was second in the 3,000 (11:05.08).
Saint Vincent: Freshman Grace Neubert won the mile run in a school-record time of 5:04 — the 15th-best time in NCAA Division III this season — at the Muskie Meet No. 2 in New Concord, Ohio.
Freshman Jane Huss (Derry) took second in the 800 in 2:30.13.
Seton Hill: Sophomore Nemani Moon was named the PSAC Athlete of the Week after she set a program record in the 800 with a time of 2:16.33 at the Ashland Invitational.
It is the second-fastest time in the conference this season, and is second best in the Atlantic Region.
Shippensburg: Junior Ashley Laukus (Norwin) was named the PSAC Field Athlete of the Week. Laukus won the high jump at Bucknell’s Gulden Invitational with a mark of 5 feet, 7.25 inches. The distance ranks second all-time in the program. It is the top mark in the PSAC this season.
Men’s track & field
Saint Vincent: The SVC 800-meter relay of sophomore P.J. McNeal, freshman Daniel Maddock (Norwin), freshman Shane Fawehimni and freshman Bailey Simon set a school record and won a title at the Muskie Meet No. 2. The foursome’s time was 1 minute, 33.10 seconds, which is a regional-qualifying mark.
Maddock, a soccer standout for the Bearcats, took third in the 60 (7.16).
Waynesburg: Senior Isaac Trout (Southmoreland) took fourth in the triple jump with a distance of 12.21 meters at the Muskie No. 2 Meet.