Mars resident named Academic All-OAC

BEREA, Ohio — Mars resident and North Allegheny graduate Nik Baldis, a pitcher on the Baldwin Wallace College baseball team, has been named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference.

Baldis is one of 51 B-W student-athletes to receive this honor. The athlete must maintain a grade point average of 3.50 or higher to qualify.

Baldis was 3-1 with a 2.25 earned run average for B-W this season, accumulating 35 strikeouts in 36 innings.

2 SRU athletes make PSAC Top 10

SLIPPERY ROCK — Two Slippery Rock University athletes are among the PSAC Top 10 for the spring. The award is given to men and women excelling in the classroom and in athletics.

Women’s lacrosse player Charleigh Rondeau carries a 4.0 grade point average as an Engineering major. She set The Rock’s single-season record of 144 draw controls and ranked sixth nationally with 8.47 draw controls per game.

Connor Hamilton, SRU’s catcher in baseball, has a GPA of 3.92 as a Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering major. He hit .400 with 17 homers, 52 RBI and 56 runs scored. His 17 home runs broke SRU’s single-season record.

York, Johnston, Brown score wins

WASHINGTON, Pa. — Little Lady J, trained and owned by Mitchell York of Cranberry Township, won the $9,000 co-featured pace during harness tracing action Wednesday at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.

The horse became the track’s first 2-year-old to score two victories this year.

Elsewhere on the card, Silly But Serious, trained by Gary Johnston of Evans City, won a $5,800 Conditioned Claiming Pace. Johnston and Joyce Benkart of Cranberry Township own the 5-year-old mare.

Slippery Rock’s Brady Brown drove Crime Fighter, a 7-year-old trotter, to victory in a $5,500 Conditioned event.