West Chester

A West Chester high school swim coach, who allegedly posed as a swimmer's father, plied her with beer and had sex with her multiple times, was arrested Wednesday and charged on felony sex assault counts and corruption of a minor. Kenneth William Fuller, 47, was head coach of the Rustin High School swim team. A member of the team, a teenage girl, told police that she had had several assignations with Fuller at parks and coffee shops outside of school before he took her on April 27 to a Kennett Square hotel.

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)

A former convict described as a "walking time bomb" was arrested Tuesday and charged with spraying bullets in a West Chester neighborhood last week, killing a 23-year-old Philadelphia man. James J.E. Potts Jr., 28, should have been in a Philadelphia halfway house when the gunfire erupted at 2 a.m. Friday, officials said. He has been charged with fatally shooting Towayne Uqdah at the corner of Chestnut and North Matlack Streets, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in a statement.

Sunday was a day music - of rock and folk and blues - as West Chester hosted the 12th annual Turk's Head Music Festival.

A high-level change is under way in the West Chester Area School District, as two longtime district employees prepare to retire while another moves out of Henderson High School and into the Spellman Administration Building. Marc Bertrando has worked in the district for 15 years, the last four as the principal at Henderson. Starting on July 1, however, the 39-year-old father of three will instead make the drive about a mile down the road to the administration building on Paoli Pike, where he will serve as West Chester's new assistant superintendent for secondary schools.

West Chester exited the NCAA Division II World Series in an 8-6 loss to Cal-San Diego yesterday at the U.S. Baseball Training Complex, but the Golden Rams went out with a bang. The Rams (46-12) staged a furious rally from an 8-1 deficit as Matt Baer hit a grand slam with two outs in the top of the ninth. Matt Rossman took a three-hitter into the ninth inning for the Tritons (40-14) before West Chester came alive. San Diego held on to post the victory thanks to RBI singles by Josh Tanner and Brandon Gregorich in the bottom of the eighth.

West Chester, the Eastern Division champion of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, and Rowan College, the New Jersey Athletic Conference titlists, were selected yesterday for the NCAA postseason football playoffs. The Golden Rams (9-1) will meet New Haven (10-0) at 1 p.m. Saturday at Farrell Stadium in West Chester in one of two first-round games in the NCAA Division II East Region. West Chester was ranked in a seventh-place tie in last week's Division II poll; New Haven was fifth.

The offices of the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry will move to 17 E. Gay St. in West Chester tomorrow. Chamber Chairman Albert Eastburn said the move was necessary because of the growth of chamber activities and the need for more space. The chamber was previously at 750 N. Pottstown Pike in Exton. The new telephone number is 436-7696. The Chester County Development Council's annual meeting on June 26 will feature James Herr, president and chairman of the board of Herr Foods, as the keynote speaker.

St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church held a walk Wednesday as part of its 200th- anniversary celebration. John Gerding-Oresic (left), dressed as John Hannum, and Joe Carroll, dressed as Daniel Fitzpatrick, led the marchers from the Friends School to the church on West Gay Street. Hannum donated the land for the church, and Fitzpatrick was one of the original trustees.

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)

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.

   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.

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)

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.

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)

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.

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.

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)