Local roundup: Lycoming women’s soccer earns senior day victory on Saturday
Senior Sydney Seller secured the game-winning goal for the Lycoming College women’s soccer team four minutes into the first half and it held on from there in a 1-0 Senior Day win in Landmark Conference action against Elizabethtown College on Saturday.
With a 14-2-3 overall and 6-1-2 Landmark Conference record at the conclusion of the regular season, the Warriors will compete in the six-team Landmark Conference Championship playoffs on Thursday, Nov. 7 as the No. 2-seed, earning the right to host a postseason game for the first time in program history, earning a bye into Thursday’s semifinal.
The Warriors, who tied the 2022 team’s record with 10 shutouts with the blanking, are entering the postseason for the second time, joining the 2022 team.
Junior Christian Woobay scored early in the second half, leading the Lycoming College men’s soccer team to a 1-0 shutout in the Landmark Conference regular season finale against Elizabethtown College.
With a 10-5-4 overall and 4-3-2 Landmark Conference record, the Warriors will compete in the six-team Landmark Conference Championship playoffs on Tuesday, Nov. 5, entering the tournament as the No. 5 seed and facing off with No. 4 the University of Scranton at 7 p.m.
Elizabethtown fell to 6-8-3 overall and 4-4-1 in the Landmark Conference, earning the No. 6 seed.
• Senior Ali Koval, a North Penn-Mansfield graduate, became the 15th player in program history to reach 1,500 career digs and senior Brynne Bisel reached 100 career aces to highlight Senior Day for the Lycoming College volleyball team on Saturday, Nov. 2, as it fell to Drew University, 3-1 (25-14, 16-25, 25-20, 25-23) in Landmark Conference action to wrap up the 2024 season.
Koval reached the mark in the fourth set, as she finished the game with 13 digs and 1,502 in her career. Bisel finished with 10 kills, 21 digs, two blocks and her 100th career ace.
Junior Cameron Upcraft added 12 kills and a block, hitting .458. Sophomore Haley Balgavy posted 16 assists and sophomore Ima Mercado added 16 assists and nine digs. Senior Kendall Myers posted 13 digs and sophomore Alli Macensky, a Galeton graduate, added five kills and four blocks.
• Gwen Lloyd took top honors individually which helped lead the Lock Haven women’s cross country team to a team title at home as the Bald Eagles hosted the annual Go Fast River Run.
Lloyd finished first of 32, covering the 6K course in 22:32.8.
Lock Haven finished with 33 points to place first of four scoring-teams. Frostburg State was second with 40 points, while IUP and Penn State Schuylkill finished third and fourth, respectively.
Claire Hauser finished fourth overall today in a time of 23:39.4.
Addison Farrer and Sophie Dillon finished 12th and 13th with times of 25:27.0 and 25:31.0. Madalyn Farrer placed 19th in 26:38.6, while Ella Bray (20th; 26:47.8) and Ashleigh Auckerman (22nd; 27:09.8) rounded out the Bald Eagles top-seven finishers today.
Senior Katryn Yocum became the first runner in program history to earn four all-conference honors in a career to lead the Lycoming College women’s cross country team to an eighth-place team finish, after she finished 12th out of 105 runners on the 6K course at the Landmark Conference Championships.
Less than two minutes after the first-place finisher, Yocum finished the race with a time of 23:16.75, to earn Second Team All-Landmark Conference honors after she was an honorable mention all-conference pick as a junior. Yocum also earned two All-MAC honors in her first two years, earning Second Team All-MAC honors as a first-year and third-team honors as a sophomore.
Four Warrior women set personal bests at the Landmark Conference Championships, including sophomores Sydney Taylor and Gwyn Fox, who finished second and fourth for the Lycoming women. Taylor placed 69th on the field with a time of 26:44.27, and Fox notched a 28:06.45 time with an 89th-place ranking on the field.