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BASEBALL
Former East Stroudsburg University All-American Mark Angelo (Quakertown) went 1-for-3 with a double and scored a run as the Seattle Mariners’ affiliate won the Arizona Rookie League championship with a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night. Angelo hit .272 (34-for-125) with two doubles, a triple and a home run in the regular season for the Mariners, which won both the first half and second half championships of the Arizona League’s West Division and finished the season with a 33-22 record. He posted a .385 on-base percentage and had one of the best walk-to-strikeout ratios (19 walks, 25 strikeouts) in the Arizona League. Angelo scored 16 runs and had 14 RBI while playing in 39 games between left field and first base. With runners on base, he had a .344 batting average and a .432 on-base percentage with 22 hits and eight walks in 64 at-bats.
FIELD HOCKEY
LaSalle freshman Becca Chylack (Souderton) scored her first collegiate goal 16 minutes into last Saturday’s game against Monmouth, but Monmouth answered with two unanswered goals in the second half to earn a 2-1 win.
Breann Tobin (Pennridge) scored a pair of goals to lead Bloomsburg to a 10-0 win over Seton Hall on Thursday. Niki Leone (Council Rock North) added a single goal. The Huskies (3-0) have won 18 straight games dating back to last year and 29 of 30 going back to 2007. Last Sunday, Tobin scored an unassisted goal in Bloomsburg’s 4-0 win over eighth-ranked Stonehill College. The Huskies defense, led by Madison Schoch (Quakertown), Chelsea Due and Betsy Renn, limited the Skyhawks to just two shots on goal, both in the final minute. One day earlier, Tobin scored a goal in Bloomsburg’s 5-0 win over Houghton College. Senior Caitlin Koczynski (Neshaminy) started in goal and went the first 52 minutes.
Junior Megan Purcell (Perkasie), a second team All-Commonwealth Conference selection last year, made two saves in the opening half of Widener’s 4-1 win over Swarthmore on Saturday. She recorded one save in Widener’s 4-1 season-opening win over Immaculata on Wednesday.
FOOTBALL
Redshirt junior linebacker Matt Freed (Souderton), an All-American in 2008, had eight tackles and one of East Stroudsburg’s four sacks in the Warriors’ 19-6 season-opening win over Virginia Union last Thursday.
MEN’S SOCCER
Maurice Blanton (Harry S. Truman) scored his team’s only goal in Chestnut Hill’s 3-1 loss to Washington Adventist on Tuesday.
Junior Brian James (Pennridge) scored a goal to give Widener a first-half lead, but the squad could not hold on, falling to Wesley 2-1 on Sunday.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
LaSalle freshman Gabrielle Pakhtigian (North Penn) was named the Atlantic Conference Rookie of the Week for the week ending Aug. 31. The North Penn alum recorded nine saves in her collegiate debut on Aug. 28 against Sacred Heart in the Explorers 1-0 win. She preserved the win with a pair of saves in the final seven minutes of action. In the process, she became the program’s first keeper since Kaitlin Glass (1998-01) to record a solo shutout in her collegiate debut.
Only nine Explorers have ever been named A-10 Rookie of the Week, and Glass was the only goalkeeper to receive that honor until Pakhitigian’s recent recognition.
LaSalle defeated Lafayette 2-0 on Tuesday to improve to 4-0 to start the season for the first time in the program’s 24-year history. Pakhitigan made three saves to earn her second consecutive shutout. She is the first freshman to accomplish that feat.
Sophomore midfielder Devon Miniscalco (Council Rock South) scored a pair of goals in a four-minute stretch late in the second half to help East Stroudsburg put away Charleston in a 5-1 non-conference win on Sunday afternoon. Earlier in the week, freshman forward Ashley McKenna (Central Bucks South) scored off the rebound of a shot taken by Miniscaloin East Stroudsburg’s 5-2 win over Millersville on Wednesday.
Senior Kelly Modes (Neshaminy) had an assist in on Bloomsburg’s first goal of Saturday night’s 3-1 win over Millersville. She also assisted on Bloomsburg’s only goal in the Huskies 1-0 win over nationally-ranked West Chester on Wednesday.
Courtney Silbert (Souderton) assisted on the game-winning goal in West Chester’s 1-0 win over Shippensburg on Saturday. Brittany Couper (Bensalem) blocked a shot with her body in the second half to preserve the shutout.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Junior Alyson Stark (Council Rock South) had 11 kills and eight digs with a .259 attack percentage in East Stroudburg’s 3-0 loss to Saint Leo on Saturday. Earlier in the week, Stark was named the PSAC East Women’s Volleyball Player of the Week and East Stroudsburg University’s ABC Trophy, Inc. Athlete of the Week after leading the Warriors to a 4-0 record. Stark had 42 kills, 41 digs, nine blocks and six aces and posted double-doubles in both of ESU’s wins over Shepherd last Saturday.
A second team All-PSAC East selection last year, Stark opened the season with 16 kills, eight digs and four blocks in a 3-0 win at Philadelphia University. In the first match against Shepherd, Stark had 15 kills and a career high 17 digs and also contributed three aces. She had 11 kills, 13 digs, four blocks and two aces in ESU’s second win of the day over Shepherd and averaged 3.5 kills, 3.4 digs, 0.8 blocks and 0.5 aces in 12 sets for the week. Stark has led ESU in kills per game in both of her first two seasons and entered the season with 532 career kills. She has reached double figures in kills in 32 of her 62 career matches.
Nicole Corrado (Souderton) had five kills and setter Katherine Tohanczyn (North Penn) had four kills and 10 assists in Chestnut Hill’s 3-0 win over Gwynedd Mercy. Corrado had four kills in Chestnut Hill’s 3-1 win over Rosemont while Tohanczyn had two kills and eight digs to go along with five aces and 10 assists.
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