Wildcat Athletics Articles

Vol. 7, No. 6 Recent Results/Upcoming GamesBaseball Overall record: 10-4 PSUAC record: 4-0Tuesday, Sept. 16 at Luzerne County Community College, L, 10-3; W, 10-3 Saturday, Sept. 20 at Penn State Hazleton, W, 12-1, five innings; W, 16-1, five innings Sunday, Sept. 21 host Penn State Scranton, W, 11-0, five innings; W, 13-0, five innings Saturday, Sept.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is only in its first year as a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association and already two of its teams are ranked at No. 1 and No. 2 in the nation. In the second USCAA poll released Wednesday, the Penn College women's soccer team, which won its first three matches, is ranked No.

Hannah E. McCracken, a graduate of Williamsport Area High School, and Kimberly L. Daley, a graduate of Cherry Valley High School in Springfield, have been named Penn College's "co-Student-Athletes of the Week" for Sept. 7-14. Both strikers on the women's soccer team, McCracken is a junior technology management student and Daley is a freshman architectural technology student.

At the beginning of the year, coach Chet Schuman said he had a very talented group of golfers and that was evident Monday when they played at Penn National, the home course for Penn State Mont Alto. "We were a player short and had an alternate team roster and played with a great deal of character and pride to preserve our winning streak," the coach said.

Vol. 7, No. 5 Recent Results/Upcoming GamesBaseball Overall record: 5-3Monday, Sept. 8 host Lehigh Carbon Community College at Bowman Field, L, 3-2; W, 11-0 Saturday, Sept. 13 at Penn State York (2), ppd., makeup date TBD Tuesday, Sept. 16 at Luzerne County Community College (2), 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20 at Penn State Hazleton (2), noon Sunday, Sept.

Congratulations to the Penn College students chosen for the Wildcat Dance Team on the basis of tryouts this month. (Another round of auditions is scheduled for 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Bardo Gym.) Those selected are Rebecca M. Boyer, Palmerton; Gabrielle D. Brehm, Williamsport; Erika K. Brunner, Bellefonte; Meredith A. Coleman, Collegeville; Kelsey A. Coppersmith, Kane; Erica Y.

Aimee Plastow, in her first season as coed tennis coach at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has her sights set high. "I think we're going to be able to do at least as well (as in the recent past), and I'm hoping that we'll be able to do better because we have such a strong team all the way down the lineup," Plastow said.

Vol. 7, No. 4 Recent Results/Upcoming Games Baseball Overall record: 4-2 Monday, Sept. 8 host Lehigh Carbon Community College at Bowman Field (doubleheader), 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at Penn State York (doubleheader), noon Cross-Country Men's overall record: 7-4 Saturday, Sept. 6 at Bloomsburg University Invitational, men finished fourth in five-team event Saturday, Sept.

Kim Antanitis enters her third season as coach of the Pennsylvania College of Technology women's soccer team seeking answers. "We definitely have a lot more difficult schedule. It will be a year to find out where we are heading. We've gone from not very hard to extremely difficult, so it will be a good year for evaluation," Antanitis said.

Members of the Penn College community had the opportunity to meet the players and coaches of the Fall 2008 athletic teams during a "Meet the Wildcats" night Wednesday in the Field House. Attendees had a chance to win prizes, and there were games and T-shirt giveaways, as well as free hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, soda, cotton candy and slushies.