Here are two updates to previous YAIAA alumni postings:
Diana Feldmann (Central York) was recently named a first-team All-Landmark Conference for her standout play for Moravian College. She had two goals and two assists for six points from a defensive position.
Adrienne Stine (Northeastern) came back from injury to help the Penn State Harrisburg women's soccer team earn its first NEAC championship after going 9-0 on the season and 2-0 while winning the conference tournament.
Of course, I couldn't put up the Messiah post without talking about York College, which is also in the men's soccer Sweet 16 for the third time in five years.
In the current d3soccer.com rankings, the Spartans are No. 2 behind the Falcons York is a host site and will face Williams at 11 a.m. on Saturday. A victory in that game will pit the Spartans against the winner of Saturday's second game between Christopher Newport and Stevens Institute.
York had a relatively easy time last weekend, opening the first round with a 6-0 win over Cazenovia. Freshman Antonio Bua is pictured above heading in the first goal of the game. Thanks to York College's Stephen Doemland for the photo.
Two YAIAA grads, Jorden Messersmith (Red Lion) and Jesse Derksen (Susquehannock) played more than 30 minutes in that game for the Spartans.
On Sunday, York bested Amherst 2-0 to move into the round of 16.
Click here for more photos by Doemland.
During the 2008-09 academic year, Messiah College won three NCAA Division III national championships and the institution is hoping for at least the same success this year.
Last fall, the Falcons went the distance in both men's and women's soccer and in the spring captured the school's first softball national championship.
Messiah has three contenders for titles this fall with both men's and women's soccer being in their respective tournament's Sweet 16. Of course for the men to reach yet another pinnacle, a potential semifinal battle with York College looms if both teams survive this weekend's regional competition in which both are host sites.
The new squad is the 21-0 Falcon field hockey team, which thanks to a 3-2 overtime win over Lebanon Valley are in the Final Four and will face Ursinus College on Saturday. A win would put the team in Sunday's championship game.
This kind of success makes it easy to see why USA Today did a feature story on Messiah athletics.
South Western graduate Corwyn Gordon was recently named to the second-team All-Centennial Conference defense as a standout for Dickinson College.
The mammoth (6-foot-4, 332-pound) sophomore lineman was one of 10 Red Devil players honored by the conference.
Gordon switched from the offensive line this season and was stellar with 55 tackles, including 9.5 for losses. He also blocked an extra point against Franklin & Marshall this season.
The Flying Dutchmen women's basketball opened their 2009-10 season with an easy 80-50 victory at Hood on Sunday, a game in which LVC led 37-19 at halftime and led by as many as 34 points in the second half
The Dutchmen never trailed, opening up a 16-4 lead on a jumper by Chelsea Kehr, a Hanover alum. In the second half, after Hood closed within 20 at 49-29, LVC scored 14 straight points to extend its lead to 63-29.
Former Susquehannock standout Andrea Hoover was a big factor in facilitating the game at the point guard spot, with four assists and four steals for the Dutchmen.
The Dutchmen's next game is Tuesday at Misericordia at 7 p.m.
A better ending couldn't have happened for longtime Bloomsburg field hockey coach Jan Hutchinson, and Dallastown grad Aubrey Carman, left, had a part.
The Huskies sent their coach off into retirement with their fourth straight NCAA Division II title Sunday with a 3-2 win over UMass-Lowell.
Hutchinson ends her 32-year reign with 16 PSAC titles and 16 national championships.
"I'm excited and very happy that it ended this way," Hutchinson said in a newsrelease. "But I'm mostly happy for the seniors, because they'll leave here with four championships. This season was a story book ending, and for these kids to come back and win it all...it's incredible."
Carman, a senior, now has four national titles in her pocket. The defender started in all but one game this season. She contributed one goal and two assists for an offense that outscored opponents 105-17 this year and outshot them 417-142.
Former West York star Brandon Real not only avoided a redshirt season, but was good enough to get on the all-PSAC East second team as a kick returner for Bloomsburg University.
Real posted an average of 24.6 yards per kickoff returns and an amazing 19 yards per punt return.
Of course, the freshman's numbers were helped when he took a punt return 68 yards for a touchdown against Millersville.
York Catholic grad Mary McGann will be in uniform when Catholic University takes on Washington & Lee University in the opening round of the NCAA Division III women's soccer tournament on Saturday.
McGann has appeared in 19 games for the Cardinals, scoring a goal and two assists this season.
The freshman won't have much time to rest either. As soon as the soccer season ends, she will join her twin sister Jenny McGann on the Catholic women's basketball team.
Former Central York soccer star Mindy Beck recently earned a first team all-Sun Conference nomination for the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The former Panther scored three goals and added an assist during her senior season with the Bees. It was the second all-conference nomination of the advertising arts major's stellar collegiate career.
Bloomsburg turned in an 8-3 mark for the season and finished sixth in the final Super Region One poll of the year, but the Huskies will not be making the trip to the NCAA DIvision II playoffs.
Why you ask? Because of the earned access rule.
For all who don't know, here's what that rule is:
Find out what is happening with former York and Adams county high school athletes, both on the field and off. Daily Record sports reporter Steve Navaroli and others will keep you posted on their outstanding accomplishments in college and beyond.
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