One of the top hitters in the country at the junior college level, Tommy Kegerreis was a bright spot for the Westmoreland County Community College baseball team this spring.
The freshman outfielder from Franklin Regional was recognized for his upstart season by being named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-American Third Team.
Kegerreis helped lead the Wolfpack to the Mid-Atlantic District Tournament out of Region XX by hitting .453 (49 for 106), the 13th-best average in NJCAA Division III.
He also led team with seven home runs and added 29 RBIs, 28 runs and 11 doubles.
Kegerreis had at least two hits in 15 games.
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Women’s track & field
Penn State: Grad student Maddie Holmberg (Hempfield), who finished sixth over the weekend competing in the heptathlon at the NCAA Division I championships in Eugene, Ore., to earn All-America first team honors, was named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic Field Athlete of the Year.
Holmberg won her second Big Ten championship, becoming Penn State’s first heptathlon conference champion since 2014. She also claimed the honor in 2018.
Her 5,839 score ranked eighth in the NCAA and was the top field-event ranking for any woman in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
She also ranked first in the long jump in the region (20 feet, 10 1/2 inches).
In her second appearance at nationals, Holmberg took second place in the long jump (6.28 meters), ninth in the javelin (37.63), sixth in the 800-meter run (2:15.39) and also posted season-best marks in the high jump (1.63) and shot put (13.55) on the way to a season-best score of 5,864.
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Softball
Pikeville: After putting her name into the NCAA transfer portal, incoming junior pitcher Carolyn Alincic (Mt. Pleasant) decided to join Pikeville, a NAIA Division I program in Pikeville, W.Va. She played just under two seasons at Morehead State, a Division I program. Alincic did not want to leave Kentucky and chose a program where she thinks she can have a greater impact.
She was 2-5 this season in 11 appearances for Morehead State, including 10 starts. She had an ERA of 8.06 in 33 innings with 26 strikeouts and 39 walks.
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Football
Lafayette: Junior running back John Gay IV (Penn-Trafford) entered the NCAA transfer portal and will look to play his final two seasons on a new team. Gay was named to the All-Patriot League second team in the spring as a kick returner. He returned five kickoffs for 108 yards. He also blocked a punt.
Gay had only seven carries in two games after rushing for 216 yards and two touchdowns in 2019. He also caught a touchdown pass. Gay began his college career at Air Force.
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Baseball
Seton Hill: Senior Derek Orndorff is getting to be a regular on ESPN.
The Seton Hill senior made another spectacular sliding catch in center field during the Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C., to make SportsCenter’s top plays again.
This time he checked in at No. 6, two spots lower than his No. 4 highlight play in March.
Orndorff took away a gap shot from Angelo State during the eighth inning of the Griffins’ second game in the winner’s bracket Tuesday.
Seton Hill fell, 9-4, and dropped into the losers’ bracket where they were downed by Wingate, 5-1, in an elimination game. The Griffins finished 39-8.
Orndorff’s earlier catch came against IUP when he fully extended to make a diving play, then recovered to make a quick relay throw to the infield, nearly doubling up the Crimson Hawks.
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Women’s lacrosse
Seton Hill: Midfielder Kristi Kada was named a first-team All-American by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association, and teammate Makayla Kintner was selected to the third team. Both sophomores, they also made the IWLCA Atlantic Region First Team.
Kada, the PSAC West Athlete of the Year, is the first player in program history to earn first-team accolades.
Kada led the Griffins with 61 points and 52 goals. The latter total led the PSAC. Kintner had 71 draw controls.
Bill Beckner Jr. is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Bill by email at bbeckner@triblive.com or via Twitter .
