Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
WCU’s Coleman wins national title on uneven bars
West Chester junior gymnast, Jordan Coleman won the USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championship at the 2024 USAG Nationals held inside Hollinger Field House on the campus of West Chester University Sunday afternoon. Coleman scored a 9.8875 on the uneven bars and then waited out three more competitors to find out she was the national champ.
Coleman is just the second national champion from West Chester University and the first since 2017 when Majesta Valentine was the all-around champion at USAG nationals in Seattle, Wash.
Sarah Eskew placed fifth in the all-around competition for West Chester. Eskew scored a 38.85 in the all-around for the Golden Rams on Friday evening when the finals of that event took place.
Men’s Tennis
IMMACULATA 8, MOUNT ALOYSIUS 1 >> The Immaculata University men’s tennis team (1-6, 0-1 Atlantic East) was back in action on Sunday as they hosted Mount Aloysius College at the IU Tennis Court.
Immaculata earned the win defeating Mount Aloysius 8-1. In the doubles, Jason Watts and Troy Watts won the first doubles match 8-2. Jeremy Brown and Nicholas Fleming won the second doubles match 8-2, and Nicholas Brown and Alex Polidoro won the third doubles match 8-1 to give Immaculata a 3-0 lead heading into the singles matches.
Watts was perfect in the first singles match winning in straight sets 6-0, 6-0. Troy Watts won the second singles match in straight sets 6-1, 6-0. Nicholas Fleming won the third singles match in straight sets 6-1, 6-1. Jeremy Brown lost the four singles match 6-4, 3-6, 6-10. Nicholas Brown won the fifth singles match in straight sets 6-0, 6-0, and
Alex Polidoro won the sixth singles match in straight sets 6-0, 6-1.
Baseball WEST CHESTER 6, BLOOMSBURG 1; WEST CHESTER 13, BLOOMSBURG 1 >>
Julian Costa delivered another excellent complete-game performance in game one and the Golden Rams scored 19 runs in two games to roll to a doubleheader sweep of Bloomsburg (12-21, 8-14) on a sun-soaked Sunday afternoon in West Chester. West Chester (27-5, 13-5) captured game one by a final of 6-1 before seeing its offense explode for 13 runs, including 11 in the fifth in a 13-1 game two victory. Costa was dominant in the first game of the afternoon for West Chester as he went the distance on the mound, scattering just three hits and one run, while walking
a pair and striking out seven to improve to 6-2 on the year. West Chester scored its first run of the game in the second, as Zack Miles was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. The Huskies tied the game up at 1-1 in the top of the fifth, but West Chester countered quickly with a twoRBI double by Sean Szestowicki and an RBI single by Casey Vaughan.
In the second game of the afternoon, Bloomsburg scratched across a run in the first inning for its first and only lead of the day; however, this lead was short-lived as an Anthony Boccio (Coatesville) laced an RBI single, for the first of his five RBI on the afternoon, in the home half of the first evened the score at 1-1. West Chester took the lead back in the second after an RBI double by Miles
and exploded for 11 runs on nine hits in the fifth, forcing Bloomsburg to turn to its bullpen twice to escape the big inning.
West Chester showed its balance offensively in the game two victory, as five Golden Rams recorded multi-hit games, including a 3-for-4 effort by Miles and a 2-for-3 effort by Boccio, along with five RBI for the graduate student. Nick Noga (Avon Grove) was excellent on the mound, pitching five strong innings, surrendering just one run on three hits and a walk while striking out four. Ben Jones (Coatesville) entered in relief and turned in two solid innings out of the pen for the Golden Rams, scattering just two walks while fanning three to secure the game-two victory and a doubleheader sweep.