College notebook: Moessner gets All-PSAC nod in freshman season
Ryan Moessner had an incredible career as a soccer player at Bentworth High School, leading the Bearcats to multiple WPIAL championships and a state title last fall. He was named the Observer-Reporter’s Boys Soccer MVP in 2025.
Moessner continued that success into his first season on the collegiate level. Moessner, a freshman forward at Penn West California, was named All-PSAC West second team last week.
Moessner ranked second on the Vulcans with six goals, four assists and 16 points. He started every game for Cal and finished with the most points by a Vulcans freshman in 16 years.
Cal had a 4-9-4 overall record.
Tennis
Penn State Altoona’s Sienna Fell, a Canonsburg native and Canon-McMillan graduate, had an outstanding junior season for the Lions.
Fell played 17 of her 18 singles matches at the No. 4 position, where she went 14-3 overall and 6-2 against Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference opponents. Fell tied for the team lead in overall singles wins and was second in conference singles wins. Additionally, the junior was a two-time AMCC Player of the Week this season.
Fell was named the Allegheny Mountain College Conference’s Player for the Week on Oct. 19.
Fell went undefeated in both of her No. 4 singles and No. 2 doubles matches during the week, as the Penn State Altoona closed out its regular season schedule with matches against non-conference opponent Juniata and AMCC foe Pitt-Greensburg.
In the Lions’ 6-1 home loss to Juniata, Fell provided her team’s lone point with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) victory in No. 4 singles. In a 7-0 triumph at Pitt-Greensburg, Fell prevailed 6-2, 6-2 in No. 4 singles and 6-0 alongside teammate Eliana Fetters in No. 2 doubles.
Football
Junior linebacker Geno Calgaro is the second-leading tackler for Stony Brook and is coming off one the most active games of his collegiate career.
A Canon-McMillan graduate, Calgaro has 93 tackles, including 44 solo, through 10 games. A transfer from St. Francis, Calgaro has five tackles for loss, a half-sack and three pass breakups.
Last weekend, Calgaro made a season-high 18 tackles in Stony Brook’s 48-35 loss to Campbell. He also had a 13-tackle game against Ball State this year and made 12 stops against Sacred Heart.
• Landon Lutz, a redshirt senior quarterback at Wheeling, will try to get the Cardinals an above-.500 finish to the season when they play Saturday against arch-rival West Liberty.
Lutz, a South Fayette graduate, has completed 58 percent of his passes for Wheeling, which will take a 5-5 record into the game. Lutz has passed for 2,204 yards and 12 touchdowns. His seven rushing touchdowns rank second on the team.
Lutz had a season-high 356 passing yards and three touchdowns on Oct. 10 in a 43-25 loss to Charleston.
Soccer
Gavin Patterson, a freshman forward/midfielder and graduate of Canon-McMillan, had a strong initial season with the Presidents.
Patterson finished in a tie for W&J’s leading scorer with nine points, matching teammate Ryan Noel. Patterson scored four goals, had one assist and his 16 shots on goal led the team.
Patterson was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Week on Oct. 26 after scoring the game-winning goal in W&J’s 1-0 victory over Westminster. In the 83 minute of the match, W&J generated a corner kick and Patterson kicked in a rebound to give the Presidents the lead and eventual win. It was Patterson’s second game-winning goal of the season.
• Logan Joseph, a sophomore for Washington & Jefferson, was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Goalkeeper of the Week on Oct. 12.
A Canon-McMillan graduate, Joseph helped the Presidents secure consecutive shutout wins during the week in conference play against Bethany and Thiel. Joseph had nine saves in the two matches.
On the season, Joseph started 15 games and had a 6-8-1 record backstopping the Presidents. He had a .721 save percentage and recorded three shutouts.
• Westminster freshman Amelia Brose was named the PAC Women’s Soccer Newcomer of the Week for the second time this season on Nov. 2.
Brose helped the Titans conclude the regular season with a 3-0 win at Hiram. She scored the game-winning goal 25 minutes into the match. She finished the contest with seven shots, including five on goal.
Brose finished her first collegiate season with eight goals and one assist for 17 points.
Golf
Gabby Catalogna helped Penn State Altoona to a fifth-place finish in the Colonial Women’s Golf Championships in Pittsgrove, N.J. on Oct. 27.
A sophomore from Venetia and a Peters Township graduate, Catalogna finished in 18th place, shooting rounds of 96-90.
Basketball
Ryan Oldaker has scored in double figures in two of the first three games of her freshman season at Marist.
The South Fayette graduate netted 12 points in the season opener against Drexel and followed that with a 10-point game against Bryant.