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BASEBALL
Elizabethtown’s Mike Christy (North Penn) was named Landmark Conference Athlete of the Week for baseball last spring. With the cancellation
of spring sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Landmark Conference recognized an athlete from each member institution in each conference-sponsored spring sport. Christy began his senior year prepared to assault the Elizabethtown baseball record book. He reached both 100 career RBIs and runs scored in Florida and was on pace to end his career in the program’s top five in hits. Christy was projected to finish his career first in RBIs (128), second in at-bats (577), third in hits (193) and triples (13), sixth in games played (153), seventh in home runs (13), 10th in runs (120) and 13th in doubles (33) in program history. The Blue Jays finished the 2020 season 8-3.
Cabrini senior Shaun Stackhouse (Council Rock South) was named to the Atlantic East Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the final week of the spring season. The Rock North grad stuffed the stat sheet in the Cavs narrow defeat against No. 8 Kean University. Stackhouse finished the day 3-for-5 with two runs score, three RBIs and his team best 12th stolen base of the season. He rounded out his performance by recording a season high six putouts in right field. He finished the abbreviated season with a .311 batting average and .871 OPS across 45 at bats. He had a team high 20 runs scored, 14 hits, two doubles, seven RBI’s and 16 total bases. He posted a team best .515 on-base percentage and a .356 slugging percentage, paired with a team high 12 walks with 12 strikeouts. He led the Cavs with 12 stolen bases on 12 attempts.
Bloomsburg University’s Cole Swiger (Upper Dublin) saw his senior season end after a 9-1 start by the Huskies. The Huskies won their first PSAC championship in 54 years in 2019 and made back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Tournament in 2018 and 2019. 
Swiger’s honors included PSAC Scholar-Athlete and D2ADA Scholar Athlete recognition three straight years. He was named PSAC Eastern Division Co-Player of the Week in 2018 and the All-PSAC East second team in 2018. He appeared in 157 games while making 157 starts for the Huskies and started every game since his sophomore season. He boasted a career .306 batting average with 162 hits, which included 40 doubles, three triples and 21 home runs. He scored 127 runs and stole 37 bases. He posted a career-best 50 runs, 62 hits and 18 doubles in 2018 and had a career-best eight home runs in 2019. Swiger’s favorite memory of Bloomsburg: “Meeting a group of teammates that became extremely close friends of mine is my favorite off the field memory. Everything we do at Bloomsburg on and off the field involves my teammates. Making an impact on others outside of baseball with my teammates has meant a lot to me during my time here. I will be forever grateful for the memories we shared and the relationships built at BU.”
Gwynedd Mercy University sophomore TJ Brasier (Harry S Truman) was named to the Atlantic East honor roll for the week ending March 2. The Truman grad batted .556, going 5-for-9 with three doubles, three RBIs, two runs scored and a walk with an .889 slugging percentage in a pair of games. At nationally-ranked Johns Hopkins, he was 2-for-5 with a double. The baseball team then headed to Florida where in its first game against Hanover, Brasier was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored to key a 13-7 Gwynedd win.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Redshirt freshman Eric Dixon (Abington) contributed 14 points, 10 rebounds and three assists in 12th-ranked Villanova’s 87-53 win over Hartford on Tuesday. In 20 minutes off the bench, Dixon connected on 6-of-10 shots.
Freshman Zahree Harrison (Cheltenham) was in the starting lineup and played a team-high 33 minutes in Saint Francis (PA) 78-62 loss to Liberty on Thursday, finishing with six rebounds, four assists, four steals and one point. In Saint Francis 76-51 loss to No. 15 Virginia on Tuesday, Harrison finished with three points, five assists and three rebounds.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Senior Lizzie Oleary (Abington) scored a career-high 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the floor and also pulled down eight rebounds in the University of Delaware’s 111-54 win over Salem (W.Va.).
Freshman Maddie Burke (Central Bucks West) scored nine points and also had three rebounds in Penn State’s 82-72 loss to No. 22 Syracuse on Sunday. In her collegiate opener, Burke connected on 3-of-5 shots (2-for-3 from 3-point range) and scored eight points to go along with two rebounds and one block in 20 minutes off the bench in Penn State’s 84-45 win over Coppin State.
Sophomore Brooke Mullin (Neshaminy) scored nine points and pulled down three rebounds in Villanova University’s 90-72 win over Temple on Friday. Sam Carangi (North Penn) had four assists and buried her only shot – a 3-pointer – in 22 minutes off the bench.
Junior Kate Connolly (Souderton) contributed 16 points, nine rebounds and four steals in Drexel’s 61-50 win over Monmouth on Saturday. In Drexel’s 62-49 win over Rider, Connolly finished with eight points on three-of-four shooting, three rebounds and a steal.
Senior Bridget Birkhead (Central Bucks East) contributed 14 points – which included four 3-pointers, six rebounds, four assists and three steals in Mount Saint Mary’s 72-58 win over UMBC on Saturday. Last year, Birkhead, who averaged 7.9 points, connected on 41.1 percent of his 3-point shots.
Devon Rimmer (Pennridge) closed out her career at Widener University last spring with WEBCA Honorable Mention All-American recognition. 
The Pennridge graduate was third in the MAC Commonwealth in scoring last season, averaging 18.0 points per game to go along with 2.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.6 steals an outing. She led the conference and ranked in the top 30 nationally, connecting on 41.3 percent of her 3-point attempts. She shined her brightest during the postseason, averaging 25.0 points per game in the MAC Commonwealth and NCAA Tournaments with eight made 3-pointers and nine steals. Rimmer was named MAC Commonwealth first team and second team All-Region by D3hoops.
Chestnut Hill’s Bri Hewlett (North Penn) was named to the 2019-20 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Women’s Basketball All-Academic Team. In order to be eligible for the CACC All-Academic Team, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore, must have been a student-athlete at their current school for at least two semesters and must have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher through the preceding semester.
Ursinus College’s Lydia Konstanzer (Pennridge) closed out her final collegiate season last spring with a second team All-Mid-Atlantic Region 
honor from D3hoops.com. Also a second team all-region performer in 2019, she is the first player in team history to garner multiple all-region honors. Konstanzer, the Mid-Atlantic rookie of the year in 2017, was one of just two players in the Centennial Conference to average a double-double, ranking fourth in scoring at 17.1 points per game and fourth in rebounding at 10.1 boards a night on the way to a second consecutive first team all-league nod. She piled up 16 double-doubles and led the conference in steals (60) and defensive rebounds while ranking second in rebounds per game and total field goals (175), third in blocks (41), fourth in points per game and field goal percentage (46.8) and fifth in total free throws (74). A three-time All-Centennial honoree, Konstanzer finished 11th in Division III in double-doubles, stringing together 10 in a row down the stretch.
FIELD HOCKEY
Senior Bryn Boylan (Central Bucks West) scored a goal in the University of North Carolina’s 4-2 win over top-seeded Louisville in the ACC 
championship game. The CB West alum started 10 of 11 games for UNC. The 2020 ACC title was the fourth in a row for the Tar Heels, who closed out its season with a 10-1 record. It is the 23rd conference title for the perennial powerhouse.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Vanderbilt senior Maddie Elwell (Wissahickon) earned second team All-SEC honors for the second consecutive season. She scored a goal in Vanderbilt’s second round game of the SEC Tournament against Mississippi State game and added another goal in the SEC quarterfinals against No. 13 Tennessee.
SOFTBALL
Juliana Shields (Council Rock North) batted .276 with seven runs scored and an on-base percentage of .400 while starting in left field all 11 games as a freshman last spring in the shortened season of the University of Massachusetts. At the USF Tournament during the final weekend of the season, Shields batted .400 and led the team in hitting while going 2-for-3 in the tournament championship game against the University of Wisconsin. On day one of the tournament, she had three hits, including a double, in the team’s games versus Wisconsin and USF.
Moravian senior Meghan Bauer (Pennridge) was welcomed into Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society. The organization recognizes outstanding college student-athletes for their successes both on the field and in the classroom. To be eligible for Chi Alpha Sigma, student-athletes must be a junior and/or senior with a 3.4 or higher GPA and have earned a varsity letter.
Shippensburg University’s Meghan Klee (Quakertown) was named a recipient of the NCAA Division II Degree Completion Award after a national
committee selected her on the basis of academic performance, athletic achievement and involvement in campus and community activities. Klee is an early childhood education major and a coaching minor at Shippensburg. In her four seasons with the Raiders, Klee made 149 starts between the infield and the outfield. She posted a .284 career batting average, and her 112 career hits include five home runs and 19 doubles. Klee totaled 65 RBIs and scored 76 runs. The Division II Degree Completion Award program helps student-athletes who have exhausted their athletic eligibility with tuition to complete their undergraduate degree. To date, the NCAA has given nearly $4 million to more than 1,000 deserving student-athletes of which 94 percent have gone on to earn their undergraduate degree using the program.
An outfielder through high school and travel softball, Alyssa Booth (Council Rock North) became primarily a shortstop in her freshman year at Keystone College last spring. “She’s been working really hard,” Keystone coach Alison Ritter said. “It’s been an adjustment moving from outfield to primarily shortstop, but she’s been open to learning and practicing and getting her reps every practice. She’s making adjustments hitting-wise as well so I’m excited to see her power really come through. She’s had a few bumps in the road, but she’s a very coachable kid. The few games she did get time at short you could tell she was nervous, but every game that went by she got more and more comfortable with the position. She’s a great kid with a great personality and has adjusted well to the team and her role so far. I’m excited to have a player of her caliber on the team and look forward to her really making an impact next season.”
Riley Sheehy (Council Rock North) finished her sophomore season as a University of Iowa left fielder with a .375 batting average. Sheehy traveled to South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Hawaii before the season was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa was 17-5, one of its best starts to the season in program history and was leading the BIG 10.
Colgate senior Nicole Rounsavill (Council Rock North) finished an abbreviated final season with a .317 batting average (19-for-60), a .406 on-base percentage, a .600 slugging percentage. She started 20-of-20 games and had three doubles, one triple, four home runs, 20 RBIs and nine 
runs scored. She had a .984 fielding percentage and picked up back-to-back Patriot Player of the Week honors. She was named Patriot Player of the Week for the weeks ending Feb. 17 and Feb. 25. Rounsavill’s first career weekly honor came after she hit .357 (5-for-14) with 1.295 OPS in five games. Rounsavill smashed a grand slam in her first at-bat of the season and finished the week with two home runs, eight RBIs and three runs scored. She finished the week with an .857 slugging percentage and .438 on-base make to lead the Raiders in both categories. Rounsavill opened the season with three hits and seven RBIs on day one at Gardner-Webb. She blasted a home run to give Colgate an early 4-0 lead against Robert Morris in the opening game before finishing 2-for-2 with a double and three RBIs in the nightcap win over Gardner-Webb. Ronsavill continued her red hot start to the season in Florida the following week, batting .500 (9-for-18) with two home runs, eight RBIs and four runs scored during the five-game trip. She posted a .526 on-base percentage and slugged .889 to help lead the Raiders to three wins. The senior was riding a seven-game hitting streak and had two hits in three of the five games, including a 3-for-4 performance against Stony Brook – a 30-win team the preceding year. Rounsavill keyed Colgate’s six-run comeback against Columbia with three RBIs in the sixth inning or later. She had a two-run single to trim the deficit to 6-5 in the sixth and gave the Raiders their first lead 7-6 in the top of the eighth. Colgate went on to win 9-8. Through 10 games, Rounsavill was batting .438 with a 1.361 OPS, four homers and 16 RBIS.
MEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
St. Joseph’s Matthew Scarpill (Central Bucks South) was voted onto the 2020 Atlantic 10 Men’s Indoor Track and Field Academic All-
Conference team last winter. The team is comprised of student-athletes who were selected based on their performance on the track as well as in the classroom. To be nominated, runners must have a GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale for their entire academic career. The teams were selected through voting conducted by the league’s Sports Information Directors. Scarpill completes the A-10’s Academic All-Conference trifecta after landing on the A-10’s Academic All-Conference cross country squad and the A-10’s Academic All-Conference outdoor track and field team last spring. Scarpill turned in a strong performance at the A-10 Indoor Track and Field Championships. He brought the DMR from fifth place – when he was handed the baton – to second as he ran down three other anchor legs for the silver medal. Scarpill followed up that performance with a third place showing in the mile for his first individual conference medal. At the season-ending IC4A Indoor Track and Field Championships, Scarpill cruised to a new 3000m PR (8:22.50) for 12th overall.
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