Wildcat Athletics Articles

28/22 News reporter Joe Garrison covered the Penn College softball team’s strong start at its new home field: the Williamsport Lumber Yards.

During a busy 10-game week, a new era began on Tuesday for the softball team with two wins in the opening of its new facility at the 28-acre Lumber Yards on Rose Street.

On Tuesday, Penn College’s Mackenzi Tice became the first pitcher to take the mound at the Williamsport Lumber Yards, a new baseball and softball facility built just south of campus by the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce.

Tennis, lacrosse and golf teams all saw action, with the men’s and women’s tennis teams each picking up two wins in United East Conference play.

Stepping into United East Conference play for the first time this season, the men’s lacrosse team gave perennial champion St. Mary’s (Md.) College all it could handle, while the softball team got off to a 2-0 start. Also, three Wildcats received UE recognition for their outstanding performances the week before.

The women’s softball and men’s lacrosse teams each had double-win weeks, with the softball team extending its win streak to eight games and the lacrosse team knocking off an undefeated team that it had never beaten before. Also, the women’s tennis team opened its spring season with a shutout win, and a men’s golfer placed second in his first spring outing.

After completing their fall seasons and taking a winter break, spring play with United East Conference action gets underway for the Penn College tennis and golf teams.

Penn College sent three wrestlers to the NCAA Division III National Championships, and all of them, although eliminated on Friday’s first day, came away winners and helped the team to its best finish ever on the national level.

Three Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers are poised to compete this weekend on the sport’s biggest stage at the NCAA Division III National Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and coach Dalton Rohrbaugh sees potential for each of them.

The women’s basketball team saw three players named to United East All-Conference teams, while Friday’s 15-goal win over Shenandoah University improved the men’s lacrosse record to 5-1, matching the start of the 2023 squad.