SPORTS
May 25, 2012 | INQUIRER WIRE SERVICES
When West Chester University opens play Saturday in the Division II College Baseball World Series, senior second baseman Joe Wendle will be key to their hopes of winning the title. West Chester (42-10) will play California State-Chico (40-17) at 1 p.m. at the USA Baseball National Training Center in Cary, N.C. The Golden Rams reached Cary by winning the Atlantic Region with Sunday's 6-0 victory over Kutztown. Chico won the West with a 7-3 win over Dixie State (St. George, Utah)
SPORTS
May 22, 2012 | The Inquirer Staff
West Chester is headed to the World Series. Righthander Dylan Porter fired a four-hitter to lead the Golden Rams past Kutztown, 6-0, on Sunday, for the championship of the NCAA Division II Atlantic baseball regional. West Chester (42-10) earned a trip to the D-II College World Series in Cary, N.C. this weekend. The Golden Rams will open against Chico State of California (40-17) at 1 p.m. Saturday in the eight-team, double-elimination tournament. Porter (5-1) was masterful right from the first pitch at Owls Field in West Lawn, Pa. The senior from Chesapeake High in Pasadena, Md., scattered four hits over nine innings, walking one and striking out seven.
SPORTS
May 20, 2012 | By the Inquirer Staff
LOUISVILLE - West Chester fell behind early in the game and never could quite overcome the deficit in losing the NCAA Division II women's lacrosse national championship, 17-16, to C.W. Post. Pioneers sophomore Jackie Sileo set a Division II record with nine points, including six goals, in a national final. The Golden Rams (16-4) scored the game's first goal and C.W. Post scored the next seven (four by Nan Mayott) to take a 7-1 lead with just over 13 minutes left in the first half, at Bellarmine University's Frazier Stadium.
SPORTS
May 20, 2012 | The Inquirer Staff
West Chester scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night, then turned the game over to Fred Breidenbach as the Golden Rams beat Seton Hill, 9-5, to gain the championship of the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional. West Chester (41-10) will meet Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Kutztown (36-18) at 1 p.m. Sunday at Owls Field in West Lawn, Pa. A win sends the Golden Rams to the Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C., May 26 to June 2. West Chester sent 10 men to the plate in the first, and Seton Hill (46-11)
SPORTS
May 19, 2012 | The Inquirer Staff
Joe Wendle (Avon Grove) stroked a run-scoring single down the right-field line in the top of the seventh to score the game-winning run as West Chester topped Mercyhurst, 3-2, in an NCAA Atlantic Regional baseball game in West Lawn, Pa., Friday night. Righthander Joe Gunkel (8-1) struck out nine to pick up the complete-game win. He allowed two runs, one of them earned, on eight hits. He did not walk a batter. West Chester took advantage of a Mercyhurst error in the seventh to score an unearned run, which proved to be the difference.
SPORTS
May 19, 2012
The West Chester University women's lacrosse team, which advanced to the NCAA Division II national championship game for the ninth time in the last 12 years and the first time since 2010 with a 19-10 win over Rollins on Thursday, will face C.W. Post (16-3) in the final at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. In the win over Rollins, the No. 7 Golden Rams (16-3) held the nation's top-scoring offense to its lowest output of the season. In two tournament games, West Chester's defense has limited its opponents (No. 4 Limestone and No. 3 Rollins)
NEWS
May 18, 2012 | By Sam Wood, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A West Chester high school swim coach was arrested Wednesday on charges that he posed as a swimmer's father, plied her with beer, and had sex with her. Kenneth William Fuller, 47, head coach of the Bayard Rustin High School swim team, was charged with felony sex assault and corruption of a minor. "This was a despicable violation of trust," said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan. A member of the team, a teenage girl, told police that Fuller took her to a Kennett Square hotel April 27 and gave her "multiple" beers, court documents state.
SPORTS
May 15, 2012 | DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORT
LOYOLA SCORED with 0.3 seconds left in the first overtime session and then won the game with a goal with 20 seconds left in the second to eliminate Penn, 10-9, in the first round of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament in Baltimore. The game featured nine ties and five lead changes, and not once did a team hold a lead by more than one goal. Loyola (13-5) never led in the second half. Penn (9-8) took an 8-7 edge on a Caroline Bunting goal with 4:32 left in regulation, but Loyola countered 50 seconds later.
SPORTS
May 8, 2012
Penn and Penn State earned at-large bids to the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse tournament on Sunday, and West Chester was selected in Division II. Penn, 9-7 and runner-up in the Ivy League tournament, will face No. 6 seed Loyola on Sunday in Baltimore. Penn State (11-5) will travel to No. 8 Towson. Florida, Northwestern, Maryland, and Syracuse are the top four seeds in the 16-team tournament. West Chester (14-3) is seeded sixth D-II and will travel to No. 5 Limestone (17-1)