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For the first time since becoming NCAA postseason eligible in 2017-18, three Wildcat wrestlers qualified in a single season for the Division III National Championships. Meanwhile, the women’s basketball team closed its winningest campaign in program history.

Penn College is scheduled to open its season under a new head coach with a doubleheader on Saturday against crosstown rival Lycoming College at 1 p.m. at the Lycoming Valley Intermediate School field.

Twice in the last three seasons, the Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestling program was represented at the NCAA Division III National Championships. This weekend, the Wildcats will be looking to add to that list.

Due to weather impacting some areas on Tuesday, both United East Conference women’s basketball semifinal games will be played at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

Penn College’s women’s basketball team earned its program-record 20th win of the season on Saturday and reached the United East Conference semifinals. This Friday and Saturday, Wildcat wrestlers will compete in the NCAA Division III Region 2 Championships at Ithaca College. Also on Saturday, the baseball and softball teams are set to get underway.

Through its first 25 games, the Penn College women’s basketball team has reached not only new NCAA era (since 2014) heights, but program marks, as well. Going into Saturday’s United East Conference quarterfinal, it looks to go even further.

Penn College is scheduled to open its season on Saturday, hosting Juniata College in a doubleheader that starts at noon at the Lycoming Valley Intermediate School.

Penn College was the top collector in the United East Conference's fourth annual "United Feast" food drive, organized by the members of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. The initiative, which ran Jan. 30-Feb. 8, had each of the United East’s 14 member colleges collect canned goods and other nonperishables for local food banks.

Wins by the wrestling, women’s basketball and men’s lacrosse teams made for a super Saturday. The wrestling team successfully defended its title as conference champion, and the women’s basketball team is headed to the playoffs.

Forty-two girls, in kindergarten to sixth grade, attended Penn College’s annual Girls and Women in Sports Day Clinic on Feb. 8, where they not only received instruction from Penn College’s women’s athletes and coaches, but learned wider lessons about self-esteem and what it means to be a girl in sports.