GROVE CITY — Thiel sophomore Jason Thorp (Curwensville) matched par at the Grove City Country Club with a career-best 72 Saturday to earn All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference First-Team honors.
He tied for fourth place with a 72-hole total of 303 with rounds of 79 and 76 in the PAC Fall Championships and a 76 Friday to go with his 72 in the PAC Spring Championships.
Jeff Jenkins placed sixth with a 304 to make the All-PAC Second Team and Cody Slevin finished 15th with a 318 to earn All-PAC Honorable Mention.
The trio keyed a third-place finish for the Tomcats, who had a 1,246 aggregate total.
Grove City won the team title with a 1,212 score, just two strokes better than Saint Vincent.
Thiel tuned up for the tourney in the Westminster Spring Invitational at the New Castle Country Club on Monday, April 25, and Thorp helped the Tomcats place second among eight teams by posting an 81. He tied for 10th place.
He placed 10th, good for a 10thxx place tie
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BASEBALL
DUBOIS — Freshman catcher-third baseman Josh Sorbera (Clearfield) had two hits and scored three runs for Penn State DuBois in three wins at Showers Field early last week that earned the Lions the Pennsylvania State University Athletic Conference regular season championship.
The first-year Lions defeated Penn State Greater Allegheny 7-3 and then swept Penn State Beaver 6-4 and 3-1 for a six-game winning streak that set their PSUAC record at 17-3.
On Friday, the Lions received the No. 8 seed for the 10-team United State Collegiate Athletic Association National Small College World Series that begins Sunday at Glens Falls, N.Y., with No. 1 seed College of St. Joseph (Vt.) the host.
The news wasn’t as good for the Lions, however, in the PSUAC Championship Tournament that ran Friday through Sunday at Showers Field.
Seeded No. 1, they were bounced out in two games by Penn State Beaver, 9-1, and Penn State Mont Alto, 6-2, on Saturday.
Sorbera had one of Penn State DuBois’ two hits and also received a walk against No. 5 seed Penn State Beaver (17-20), which went on to win the title with three more victories and also qualify for the national tournament.
Against No. 3 seed Penn State Mont Alto, Sorbera made his first start of the season in left field and had a single and a run scored.
Sorbera scored in all three early-week games and had hits against Penn State Greater Allegheny and in the opener against Penn State Beaver.
For the season, Sorbera has made the most of his starts at third base or behind the plate and is hitting .300 with two doubles and nine runs batted in. He has scored 13 runs.
Penn State DuBois (21-13), ranked No. 10 in the USCAA’s April 22 poll, will make its national tourney debut Monday at 8:30 a.m. against a No. 9 seed with a deceiving record.
The Cleary (Mich.) Cougars are 17-24 with four games this week, but they’ve played three NCAA Division I teams, two Division II teams and three NAIA teams ranked in the top 25, according to a story on the school’s baseball website.
A second-year team, the Cougars have a pitching staff ranked in the USCAA top five and sport the best defense of the tourney hopefuls with a.956 field percentage. Their 58 double plays are 10 more than any other team.
The PSUAC has a third contender in Penn State Schuylkill (23-14), which was the No. 2 seed for the conference tourney and lost 18-4 to Penn State Beaver in the title game.
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PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — Freshman pitcher-outfielder Thomas Summers (Clearfield) had pairs of hits in two of Maryland-Eastern Shore’s five games last week.
The Hawks kept their slim hopes for a berth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Playoffs with a 7-3 win over Coppin State after losing 4-1 in the first game of their twinbill Saturday.
Summers doubled and singled and scored a run for the Hawks the previous day, when the Hawks lost the first game of the series, 15-8. He also pitched 1/3 of an inning in relief, allowing three hits and two earned runs with one strikeout.
In a non-league doubleheader against Georgetown on Tuesday, April 26, Summers was tagged with his third loss. He worked 1-2/3 innings, giving up four hits and the two deciding runs of the 7-5 final. He struck out two.
The Hawks won the nightcap 9-4 with Summers contributing two singles and an RBI.
In 34 games, including 28 starts, Summers is hitting .245 (23-for-94) and, with six doubles and a team-best three home runs, is second for the Hawks in slugging average (.404).
Summer has driven in 11 runs and scored 13 runs.
He has drawn eight walks and been hit six times for a on-base average of .343, fourth highest on the team.
Summer (1-3) has pitched 14 innings in 12 appearances with nine strikeouts, 11 walks and two hit batsmen. He has given up 24 hits and 13 runs, 11 earned for a 5.40 earned run average.
The Hawks (14-29) are 6-14 in the MEAC.
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HAMBURG, N.Y. — Sophomore infielder Jarrett Fulmer (Clearfield) singled twice in what proved to be Penn State Altoona’s finale when the Lions lost 7-4 to Hilbert in the second game of an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference game Saturday.
The Lions, who had dropped the opener, 15-2, came up one win shy of making the AMCC Championship, finishing in a tie for seventh place at 4-12 and 11-28 overall.
Fulmer also had a hit in Penn State Altoona’s 18-3 non-league loss to Hood at Frederick, Md., on Monday, April 25.
In 31 games, including 26 starts, Fulmer hit .224 (19-for-85) with three doubles, nine RBIs and five runs scored. He participated in 12 of the Lions’ 20 double plays.
Junior pitcher Kurtis Krise (Clearfield) made four appearances with one start.
The right-hander was 0-1 with an 11.25 earned run average for eight innings pitched. He struck out three and walked seven.
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LOCK HAVEN — Redshirt freshman outfielder Curtis Collins (Clearfield) scored as a pinch-runner and later beat out a bunt for a hit in Mansfield’s season-ending 13-9 loss to Lock Haven Saturday.
The host Bald Eagles won both Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference games in walkoff fashion in the eighth inning, 4-3 and 13-9 on a grand slam home run.
Collins was a defensive replacement in right field in the first game as well as the nightcap of the previous day’s twinbill at Mansfield which ended in a 9-9 tie because of inclement weather.
Collins saw reserve action in 19 games with three hits for a .333 average, one run batted in, one run scored and one stolen base.
The Mounties finished 18-27-1 with a 6-21-1 PSAC-East record.
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WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD
SHIPPENSBURG — Junior Jessica Shomo (Clearfield) set a personal record in the 100-meter dash preliminaries at Shippensburg University’s 12th annual Paul Kaiser Classic Saturday by sprinting down the Seth Grove Stadium track in 12.63 seconds, the fourth fastest time in the history of Clarion’s program.
After bettering the 12.65 she posted at the Westminster Open April 16 by winning her heat with the fifth best time of the prelims, Shomo finished fourth in the finals with a 12.95 clocking. The event attracted 36 sprinters from 18 schools.
Shomo also ran the third split for the Golden Eagle 4×100 relay foursome that was second in 49.03, which ranks third on Clarion’s all-time performance list.
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LORETTO — Freshman Sarah Lash (Clearfield) placed in two events at the Red Flash Open hosted by St. Francis at DeGol Field Saturday afternoon.
She was third in the javelin with a throw of 36.45 meters (119 feet, 7 inches) and eighth in the hammer throw with a heave of 32.44 meters (106 feet, 5¼ inches).
Junior Rebecca Johnson (Curwensville) finished second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 13:12.19.
St. Francis claimed second place with 44 points in the four-team event won by Duquesne with 96 points.
