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While the defending champ Pennsylvania College of Technology baseball team seeks a three-peat in the Penn State University Athletic Conference, the Wildcats softball team, which finished second the past two seasons, looks to get back to the top. Both teams open their seasons Sunday in nonconference action hosting Penn State Harrisburg.

Earlier this week, for the first time in its history, the Penn College men's volleyball team earned its first national club ranking at No. 25. Thursday night, it celebrated by knocking off top-ranked Messiah College in five sets at Bardo Gym. "They played as a team. They are having fun.

Unbeaten and, for the first time ever, ranked No. 25 in the nation, the Pennsylvania College of Technology men's volleyball team hosts top-ranked Messiah College at 7 p.m. Thursday at Bardo Gymnasium on East Third Street. Penn College (9-0 overall) never has beaten Messiah (4-0), which won the National Intramural-Recreation Sports Association Division II Champion in 2008.

Members of Penn College's Student Athlete Advisory Committee celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with Sheridan Elementary School pupils Tuesday. This is the second year in which council members joined in celebrating Read Across America at the school. The student-athletes sang "Happy Birthday" to Dr.

The look on the faces of his players may have reflected defeat Tuesday night, but Pennsylvania College of Technology men's basketball coach Gene Bruno didn't see it that way. "I can't be more proud of their accomplishments this season. There is a lot to be proud of,"he said.

Pennsylvania College of Technology men's basketball coach Gene Brunoknew his sixth-seeded team had its work cut out going into the Penn State University Athletic Conference playoffs, with theprobability that all of its games would be on the road. But that was no deterrent.

Baseball/softball clinics and a basketball camp are among the activities to be held on Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus in the coming weeks. The college and Elite American Baseball Academy will present baseball and softball clinics, open to boys and girls ages 8 to 18, on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the FIeld House. Clinic hours will be 9 a.m.-1 p.m. for baseball and 2-6 p.m.

After splitting in their final two regular-season games, Pennsylvania College of Technology men's and women's basketball teams enter Sunday's Penn State University Athletic Conference quarterfinal games as underdogs, but that does not mean they can't win. The Wildcat men, seeded sixth, take a 10-5 conference and 12-13 overall record into their game at No.

Penn College welcomed another member into the men's basketball 1,000-point club and bade farewell to three seniors during Thursday night's game against Penn State Beaver. Greg Solyak, an automotive technology management student from Lancaster, recently became the fifth player in college history to reach the 1,000-point plateau.

In their final tune-up before this weekend's state championships, Pennsylvania College of Technology bowlers finished second, fourth and fifth in the Blue Division and second in the Gold Division during the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference Championships on Wednesday. In action at Summit Lanes in Pocono Summit, Penn College No.