Achieving Athletes
Watson leads Ivy
Former South Fayette standout Justin Watson was the leading receiver in the Ivy League.
A sophomore at Penn, Watson has 74 receptions for 1,082 yards and nine touchdowns – all league highs – for the Quakers, who won the Ivy League championship with a 6-1 record in league play and a 7-3 overall mark.
In a 34-21 win Saturday over Cornell that clinched the league title for the Quakers, Watson caught nine passes for 133 yards, including touchdowns of 37 and 12 yards.
Watson is averaging 7.4 receptions per game, which ranks fourth among all Football Championship Series players.
“He’s a great kid. He works exceptionally hard,” Rick Ulrich, Penn’s wide receivers coach told reporters. “And he’s got great open-field running ability. He breaks a lot of tackles.”
Latsko excels
Veronica Latkso continues to kick up a storm for the University of Virginia.
A sophomore forward from Venetia and a Peters Township graduate, Latsko has been a key player for the Cavaliers (19-1-2), who are the top seed in their regional and will play Rutgers today in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament.
Latsko has played in 22 games and made nine starts. She is Virginia’s fourth-leading scorer with seven goals and five assists for 19 points. She scored two goals in a twominute span in the Cavaliers’ 7-1 win over Howard in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Latsko was the 2012 and 2013 Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year while at Peters Township.
Top rookie
St. Francis University (Loretto) freshman Mario Mastrangelo was named to the Northeast Conference All-Rookie team. A Venetia native and Peters Township graduate, Mastrangelo led the Red Flash and was second in the NEC with 10 goals and 21 points. The 10 goals rank sixth in SFU history and are the most in a season by a Red Flash player since 2004. Mastrangelo scored seven of his 10 goals in NEC play, including hat tricks against Sacred Heart and Central Connecticut. Mastrangelo swept the NEC Player and Rookie of the Week awards three times.
Schram shines
Canonsburg native and Canon-McMillan graduate Connor Schram won the 125-pound title at the Roadrunner Open in Fresno, Calif., Nov. 15. The Stanford University redshirt sophomore won four bouts in the tournament including a technical fall over Kyle Anderson of Cal State-Bakersfield in the first round and a first-period pin of Yoshito Funakoshi of Cal Poly in the second round. After winning a 2-0 decision over Zack Fuentes of Drexel, Schram took a 2-1 overtime decision over Sean Russell of Edinboro in the finals. When Stanford opened the season Nov. 2 with a dual meet against Cal Poly , there were two former Canon-Mc-Millan wrestlers competing. Schram won a 14-5 major decision over Funakoshi and former C-M standout.