College Roundup: Witt to enter GCC Men's Soccer Hall of Fame on Saturday

GROVE CITY The Grove City College mens soccer team will induct 2011 graduate Chuck Witt into the Colleges Mens Soccer Hall of Fame as part of Homecoming Weekend festivities this Saturday.

Witt played in 74 matches for the Wolverines from 2007 to 2010, including a program-record 23 starts at midfielder as a senior in 2010.

He helped Grove City to a 15-6-2 record that season while helping the team advance to the finals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III South Championship Tournament.

Witt scored a team- leading 11 goals in 2010 and earned First Team All-Presidents Athletic Conference recognition.

He also earned National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Region recognition.

The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) honored Witt as a First Team Division III Academic All-American.

He became the first Grove City mens soccer player to be named as a First Team Academic All-American.

A native of Dillsburg, Pa., and a Northern York High School graduate, Witt earned the Colleges prestigious Senior Man of the Year award for the 2010-11 academic year.

He also received induction into the Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar Board honoraries during his career at Grove City.

The College established its Mens Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001.

Witt will be the 48th man inducted into the Hall.

A recognition gathering will be held at 10:30 a.m.

at Don Lyle Field, prior to the annual alumni match.

The Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held Saturday afternoon.

The Presidents Athletic Conference honored two Grove City College fall sports athletes Monday afternoon as Players of the Week in recognition of their respective performances last week.

Senior running back Nico Flati captured Offensive Player of the Week in football while senior forward Emma Herrmann earned Offensive Player of the Week in womens soccer.

Flati ran for 155 yards and a career-high four touchdowns on 20 carries Saturday in Grove Citys 62-22 win at conference foe Bethany.

He recorded his 16th career 100-yard performance and his third 100-yard outing this fall.

Flati has rushed for 469 yards and six touchdowns this year.

He led the conference with 1,234 rushing yards and ranks third all-time at the College with 3,225 rushing yards.

Herrmann recorded a Grove City-record nine points Saturday in the Wolverines 12-2 conference win at Thiel as she registered four goals and assisted on a fifth score.

Three days earlier, Herrmann posted a goal and an assist in a 5-2 home win over Geneva at Don Lyle Field.

Herrmann leads the Wolverines (7-3-1, 4-0) with 13 goals, five assists and 31 points.

She has moved into eighth place on Grove Citys career scoring list with 33 points.

She scored 20 goals last year, her first season at Grove City.

The Grove City womens soccer team will host Westminster at 4:30 p.m.

Friday in conference play.

That match will help kick off Homecoming Weekend at the College.

The football team, now ranked No.

7 in the and American Football Coaches Association Top 25 polls, will host No.

15 Carnegie Mellon at 2 p.m.

Saturday.

Both teams are 4-0 overall and in conference play.

GCC improved to 8-1 overall Monday afternoon by earning a 6-1 victory over visiting Saint Vincent in PAC action at Walters-Zbell Courts.

The Wolverines (5-1 PAC) picked up wins at second and third doubles to nail down the doubles team point.

GCC then closed out the victory by taking five of the six singles matches four in straight sets.

1.

Carolina Walters (SVC) def.

Peyton Joines (GRO) 6-2, 6-4 2.

Anna Poranski (GRO) def.

Rachel Zgurich (SVC) 6-0, 6-0 3.

Emily Ivory (GRO) def.

Isabella Lane (SVC) 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-8) 4.

Iris Kiehl (GRO) def.

Lydia Lieb (SVC) 6-3, 6-0 5.

Alyssa Good (GRO) def.

Marisa Hooper (SVC) 6-0, 6-4 6.

Janel McCray (GRO) def.

Abby Donnelly (SVC) 6-0, 6-3 1.

Carolina Walters/Isabella Lane (SVC) def.

Emily Ivory/Janel McCray (GRO) 6-4 2.

Anna Poranski/Peyton Joines (GRO) def.

Rachel Zgurich/Marisa Hooper (SVC) 6-1 3.

Courtney DeCarlo/Alyssa Good (GRO) def.

Abby Donnelly/Lydia Lieb (SVC) 6-3 Grove City will host Waynesburg University in conference play Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Thiel defeated the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets, 3-0, in a PAC match in Greenville on Monday night.

Thiel won in straight sets 25-18, 25-12, 25-17.

Thiel was led by Erica Gregory, who recorded 11 kills and 16 digs, her sixth straight double-double.

Arin DeLattre notched six blocks and six kills, while Daisy Jenness recorded 13 kills and five digs.

With her six blocks, DeLattre surpassed 100 career blocks.

(Grove City High) recorded 30 assists, while Danielle Aulet recorded 12 digs.

Waynesburg was led by Madisen Dayton who recorded seven kills and 14 digs.

Riley Ruffley recorded 12 assists, while Jordan Stein recorded 12 digs.

Thiel returns to action on Wednesday for a big PAC matchup against Westminster.

The conference game is slated to begin at 7 p.m.

The Tomcats dropped a non-conference matchup to the Penn State Altoona Lions, 7-0, on the road Monday.

Nathaniel Udell fell to Casey Hess, 6-0, 6-0, at first singles, while Bret Vilage fell 6-4, 6-0 to Andrew Chronister at second doubles.

Takafumi Sasazaki fell to Nick Beard 6-0, 6-0 at third singles, while Evan Cessna fell 6-0, 6-0 to Jackson Newell at fourth singles.

Udell and Vilage fell to Kadyn carey and Wilhelm Grot 7-5 at first doubles, while Sasazaki and Cessna fell to Emmett Hibbs and Gabriel Lopez 6-2 at second doubles.

The Tomcats return to action on Thursday when they host Penn State Behrend.

The non-conference match is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m.

After a trio of upsets to top 10 teams last week, the SRU football team climbed three places to No.

6 in this weeks Division II national rankings when the American Football Coaches Association announced its weekly poll Monday.

Slippery Rock has been ranked in every AFCA national poll since the final poll of the 2018 season and has spent at least one week ranked inside the top 10 in each of the last five seasons.

SRU opened the year at No.

11 in the preseason poll before climbing to No.

9 for the last three weeks and making the jump to No.

6 this week.

The Rock are one of two teams from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference to be ranked in the top 10 this week with Kutztown also jumping three places to No.

5.

Slippery Rock jumped three places in part thanks to a thrilling 33-32 win on the road at then 21st-ranked IUP Saturday..

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