Wassel earns national player of week honors
Holy Family women’s volleyball’s Chase Wassel (North Wales/Lansdale Catholic) was named PrepVolleyball.com’s NonDivision I National Player of the Week last Wednesday after helping the Tigers to a 5-0 week.
Wassel, a senior, was also named Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Volleyball Player of the Week last Monday and earned all-tournament team honors at the Wildcat Invitational Tournament Sept. 7-8. She had 92 kills (27 in a 3-1 win over American International Sept. 7) averaged 5.41 kills per set and collected 56 digs (19 against American International) and 10 digs in HFU’s five wins.
Last Friday, Wassel had 21 kills and 22 digs while Morgan Silks (Norristown/Archbishop Carroll) had 53 assists and seven digs in a 3-2 loss to Jefferson. Candyce Riley (Horsham/Hatboro-Horsham) added 13 digs and five aces while Jamie Bonner (Warminster/William Tennent) had nine kills for the Tigers. Jefferson’s Abigail Kress (Lansdale/Gwynedd Mercy Academy) collected 11 kills and six digs.
Last Saturday in a 3-0 win over Nyack, Wassel had 19 kills and
seven digs while Silks had 35 assists and nine digs.
• Oklahoma State football’s Matt Ammendola (Lansdale/North Penn) connecting on all three of his field goal attempts — extending his consecutive field goal streak to 17 — as the Cowboys moved to 3-0 with a 44-21 victory over Boise State last Saturday.
Ammendola hit a 22yard field goals with 2:12 left in the second quarter then knocked a 48-yarder through the uprights at 13:03 in the third. Ammendola then made a 23-yard field goal at 11:07 in the fourth.
• Saint Joseph’s women’s soccer goalkeeper Grace Bendon (Doylestown/Central Bucks West) set a new program record for victories as the Hawks defeated Cornell 1-0 Sunday.
Bendon, starting in the net for the 36th consecutive game, earned her second shutout of the season to earn her 24th career win. Aleksa Peev (Chalfont/Central Bucks South) scored the game’s only goal at 66:54.
• Reece Udinski (North Wales/North Penn) threw for a career-high 305 yards and a touchdown as the Virginia Military Institute football team fell to East Tennessee State 27-14 last Saturday.
The sophomore quarterback broke the VMI record for passing attempts (60) and had a career-high for completion (27) as he became the first Keydet quarterback to throw for more than 300 yards since 2015.
• Temple football quarterback Anthony Russo (Doylestown/Archbishop Wood) tossed his first career touchdown pass — a 47-yarder to Kenny Yeboah at 12:10 in the third quarter as the Owls went on the road and defeated Maryland 35-14 last Saturday. Russo finished the game 15of-25 passing for 228 yards. Branden Mack (Wyncote/ Cheltenham) caught three passes for 30 yards as Temple earned its first win of the season.
• Cabrini women’s volleyball’s Steph Judkins (Perkasie/Pennridge) was named Atlantic East Conference Offensive Player of the Week Monday.
Judkins, a sophomore, finished with 95 kills, a .339 hitting percentage, 54 digs, five aces, five total blocks and three assists as the Cavaliers went 5-0 last week.
Judkins posted 17 kills and eight digs in a 3-0 win over Haverford last Tuesday. Last Friday, Judkins had 21 kills and 10 kills in a 3-1 win over Haverford and 17 kills and nine digs in a five-set win over Scranton. Last Saturday, Judkins had 22 kills and 12 digs as the Cavs defeated Salisbury 3-2 and went for 18 kills and 15 digs in a 3-0 win over Moravian.
• Gwynedd Mercy women’s volleyball’s Cait Saalfrank (Perkasie/Pennridge) was named Atlantic East Conference Defensive Player of the Week Monday.
Saalfrank made 81 digs in three matches for the Griffins with a 6.23 digs per set average and a .954 reception percentage.
She had 24 digs, three kills and three assists in a 3-1 win over Cairn last Tuesday, 29 digs in the 3-1 victory over Albright last Thursday then posted 27 digs, three kills and three aces in a five set loss to Notre Dame of Maryland last Friday.
• Montgomery County Community College women’s volleyball’s Rebecca Ferguson (Souderton/ Souderton) was named Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (EPAC) Athlete of the Week Tuesday. Ferguson finished with 57 kills, 80 digs, 14 aces and five assists as the Mustangs went 4-0 last week.
• Villanova football’s Jarrett McClenton (Bensalem/ Archbishop Wood) tied a career-high with 114 receiving yards on six catches in the Wildcats’ 45-35 loss to Towson last Saturday. One of McClenton’s catches went for a touchdown, the senior hauling in a 14-yard score at 11:05 in the third quarter.
• Rutgers football’s Raheem Blackshear (Warminster/Archbishop Wood) had his second 100-yard rushing game last Saturday, going for 102 yards on 19 carries as the Scarlet Knights fell to Kansas 55-14.
• Kutztown football’s Craig Reynolds (Willow Grove/Abington) caught nine passes for a careerhigh 148 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for 80 yards and a score on seven carries in the Golden Bears’ 48-33 win over Gannon last Saturday.
Reynolds had a 71-yard TD reception in the first quarter, then in the fourth hauled in a 7-yard touchdown pass then ran for a 60-yard TD. Reynolds is now ninth in Kutztown history in career rushing yards with 2,099.
• Vanderbilt football quarterback Kyle Shurmur (Philadelphia/La Salle) threw for 326 yards and a touchdown as the Commodores fell to Notre Dame 2217 last Saturday. Shurmur was 26-of-43 passing with his TD score coming from 18 yards out with 7:22 left in the fourth quarter.
• Katherine McVeagh (Flourtown/SpringfieldMontco) scored the Scranton field hockey team’s second goal off an assist from Grace McClatchy (Havertown/Archbishop Carroll) in the Royals’ 2-0 win over Marywood Tuesday.
Last Saturday, McClatchy tallied the lone goal at 9:25 in the first half as Scranton topped Arcadia 1-0.
• Delaware Valley quarterback Dashawn Darden (Norristown/Cardinal O’Hara) ran for a game-high 145 yards and two touchdowns on seven carries as the Aggies began Middle Athletic Conference (MAC) play with a 21-10 victory over Wilkes last Saturday.
Darden, who was also 12of-18 passing for 89 yards, scored on a 69-yard run at 8:44 in the first quarter then found the end zone on a 15-yard run with 1:08 remaining in the fourth.
• Ryan Quigley (Lansdale/Lansdale Catholic) had 44 yards on seven carries as the Princeton football team pounded Butler 50-7 last Saturday.
• Ursinus field hockey’s Jamie Mayer (Huntingdon Valley/Lower Moreland) and Erin Saybolt (Souderton/Souderton) scored back-to-back goals in the first half as the Bears topped McDaniel 7-2 in their Centennial Conference opener last Saturday.
• Princeton field hockey’s Julianna Tornetta (Plymouth Meeting/Agnes Irwin School) scored twice — her second goal assisted by Sophia Tornetta (Plymouth Meeting/Agnes Irwin School) — as the Tigers defeated Delaware 4-2 Sunday.