Athletics Articles

Individually and in team competition, Pennsylvania College of Technology archers closed out their season in grand fashion. Competing in the U.S.

Poised and ready for more good things to come. That is the outlook that Chad Karstetter, coach of the Pennsylvania College of Technology archery team, has for his archers going into this weekend's U.S. Intercollegiate Outdoor Championship at Georgia State University in Milledgeville, Ga. The season that began in January already has been a success.

"We've got to take one game at a time," Rees Daneker, coach of the Pennsylvania College of Technology baseball team, said after learning his club is going to the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference playoffs after all.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology coed tennis team is defending its Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association championship Saturday at the West Branch Tennis Club in South Williamsport. Six teams will compete beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Two firsts and two seconds. The Pennsylvania College of Technology archery team fared quite well when it hosted the East Regional Collegiate Outdoor Championship Saturday and Sunday. Beth Robinson (Williamsport) won the women's individual compound event and helped the Wildcats to a first-place finish in the women's compound team event by beating James Madison University, 231-222.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology men's volleyball team captured its first Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference championship Saturday with a 3-2 win over Harrisburg Area Community College. Individual game scores were 22-25, 25-16, 25-16, 21-25 and 15-9. "It feels wonderful. It really does," said Wes Strayer, coach of the Wildcats, after his team completed a 26-1 season.

As far as Wes Strayer, coach of the Pennsylvania College of Technology men's volleyball team, is concerned, there is just one thing his players have to do to claim a league championship on Saturday: pick up their game a notch. The Wildcats earned the top seed in the tourney they are hosting at Bardo Gym by going 14-1 during the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference regular season.

In their most recent outing April 9 at the James Madison Invitational, Penn College archers took a first place in the women's compound competition and Jason Kornbau (Red Lion) won the individual men's recurve championship. "They're on a roll now.

One year ago, the Pennsylvania College of Technology coed tennis team won its first Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association championship under coach Charlie Baum. This year, Baum is forecasting a repeat. "I've got a real positive outlook. . . . We are probably the favorites going into the season.

When the Pennsylvania College of Technology baseball team takes to the field Tuesday at Lehigh Carbon Community College, it will do so under a new head coach. Rees Daneker, a longtime assistant in the scholastic baseball programs both at Montoursville and Loyalsock Township, succeeds Mike Stanzione as coach of the Wildcats.