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PSU spring football capsule: LBs

Position: linebackers Following is the second in a series previewing Penn State’s spring practice: Returning starter(s): Kobe King is the lone starter returning as the second leading tackler from last year. Key players lost: Abdul Carter wasn’t actually lost. He’s just now an EDGE rusher. Curtis Jacobs is gone, though, and is projected to be a day 3 pick in the NFL Draft. Statistically speaking: King recorded 59 total tackles, six for a loss, one and a half sacks, and a fumble recovery. Jacobs had 49 tackles, two and a half sacks, and two fumble recoveries last year. Dominic ...

Poor third quarter costly for Lady Lions

INDIANAPOLIS — Despite big games from Leilani Kapinus and guard Ashley Owusu, the Penn State women’s basketball team saw its season end on Monday, losing 58-53 to Villanova in the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Lady Lions close the book on their winningest season since the 2013-14 team rattled off a 24-8 overall record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament regional semifinals. PSU’s 2023-24 squad turned in a 22-13 finish with a 9-9 mark in Big Ten regular season action, winning its most postseason games in a single year since the ...

Penn State Spring Football Capsule: WRs-TEs

Position: WRs/tight ends Following is the second in a series previewing Penn State’s spring practice: Returning starter(s): KeAndre Lambert-Smith, Trey Wallace, Liam Clifford, and Malik McClain all recorded at least one start last season. Tyler Warren is the lone starting tight end returning. Key players lost: Dante Cephas went to Penn State for just one season after transferring in from Akron. He is now at Kansas State for the 2024 spring. …As for the tight ends, Theo Johnson is preparing for the NFL Draft, where he is projected as an early-to-middle third-day ...

Lady Lions moving on to quarterfinals

From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s basketball team rallied in the second half to defeat Belmont, 74-66, to advance to the quarterfinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament Monday night. Penn State (21-12) will host Mississippi State on Thursday at 6 p.m. Redshirt-junior guard Leilani Kapinus, who posted her 1,000th career point and graduate guard Ashley Owusu, who earned her 500th career rebound, propelled the Lady Lions from a halftime 32-29 deficit. Kapinus earned her seventh consecutive double figure scoring performance with 11 ...

Penn State continues to stuff the record books

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Penn State’s college wrestling dynasty will always be compared with Iowa’s historic runs under coach Dan Gable. But the longer the Nittany Lions dominate, the more they replace the Hawkeyes at the top of many record lists. The Nittany Lions rewrote a couple of records ...

No end in sight for Nittany Lions’ dominance

By Andy Stine astine@altoonamirror.com Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson has never wanted to talk about whether the 2023-24 edition of the Nittany Lions was his best team in his storied career. The evidence is certainly there to support that it might be the best team in NCAA wrestling history. For starters, the Lions broke the NCAA Championships record for team points with 172.5 points, beating the 1997 Iowa Hawkeyes’ record of 170 points. They also beat second place Cornell by a total of 100 points. You read that right. A 3-digit number. One hundred. In other words, ...