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Willie Chandler has been named head men&#8217;s basketball coach at Misericordia University, where he spent the last five months as interim head coach, Chuck Edkins, director of athletics, announced on Monday.&#8220;It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Will Chandler as our head men&#8217;s basketball coach,&#8221; Edkins said. &#8220;He has proven himself as a strong leader and role model for the men&#8217;s basketball program and Misericordia community. He is a true Misericordia person, from his roots as the most highly touted men&#8217;s basketball player in program history to a first-rate assistant coach and recruiter. He will continue to put his mark on the men&#8217;s basketball program while making the MU community extremely proud.&#8221;A member of the Misericordia Athletics Hall of Fame, Chandler has guided the Cougars to a 10-9 record in his first season as head coach after spending the last six seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater.Chandler was a four-time Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Player of the Year and ended his career as the second-leading scorer in NCAA D-III history with 2,898 points.He was a three-time All-American and led the nation in scoring twice and spent five seasons playing professionally throughout Europe, South America and in the United States Basketball League.Chandler led the Cougars to four consecutive post-season appearances, including one trip to the PAC championship game.College SwimmingScott, Blass Swimmer of the WeekMisericordia University swimmers Thomas Scott and Dani Blass, from Berwick, swept the MAC Swimmer of the Week awards.Blass, a senior, won three individual events and was part of two runner-up relay finishes in a quad meet with Hood, Lebanon Valley and Messiah.Blass won the 400-yard IM (4:42.57) with the fastest conference time of the year. She had the second-fastest MAC time in the 200-yard butterfly with a winning time of 2:15.11 and added a win in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:30.65).Scott, a junior, repeated as the men&#8217;s winner after recording four wins a quad meet with Hood, Lebanon Valley and Messiah. He won the 200-yard breaststroke (2:12.33) with the second-fastest time in the MAC (behind his own season best time) and won the 200-yard IM (2:01.88) with the third-fastest conference time (he also has the top time).Scott won the 100-yard breaststroke with the third-fastest conference time of 1:00.6 and was also part of the winning 200-yard medley relay team (1:41.36).Indoor trackKorgeski Athlete of the WeekKing&#8217;s freshman and Dunmore native Jill Korgeski was named the Middle Atlantic Conference women&#8217;s indoor track and field &#8220;Field Athlete of the Week&#8221; on Monday.Korgeski becomes the first ever conference weekly award winner for the King&#8217;s track and field program which is in its first year as a varsity sport.Korgeski finished third in the shot put on Saturday in the John Covert Classic at Lehigh University. Her distance of 12.36 meters was the top among Division II and Division III competitors while also beating some Division I athletes.She also competed in the weight throw finishing with a mark of 10.91 which qualified her for the MAC Indoor Championships at the end of the month. Her mark is currently ranked 12th in the conference.College LacrosseMisericordia is picked to finish second in the men&#8217;s lacrosse MAC Freedom, according the 2016 pre-season Coach&#8217;s Poll.The Cougars of head coach Jim Ricardo received 40 points to finish behind only defending champion Eastern.Misericordia finished 10-8 overall a year ago and advanced to the MAC Freedom championship game.King&#8217;s picked 4th in pre-season pollKing&#8217;s was selected to finish fourth in the 2016 Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom pre-season coaches poll released on Monday.The Monarchs garnered 33 points in the poll as four-time defending MAC Freedom champion Eastern University was the unanimous selection to repeat as champions with 49 points. Misericordia University received 40 points for second while FDU-Florham was third with 38 points. DeSales University was fifth with 23 points, Delaware Valley was sixth with 18 points, Manhattanville College was seventh with 16 points, and first-year program Wilkes University rounded out the poll with seven points.Penn State hockey player suspendedThe Big Ten Conference office announced on Monday that Penn State hockey player Andrew Sturtz has been suspended for one game, under the conference&#8217;s supplemental discipline process, as a result of an incident that occurred in a game against Michigan on Jan. 30.The action was taken by the conference after a review of an incident that occurred near the 17:46 mark of the third period and resulted in the player receiving a major penalty for interference. Sturtz is ineligible to play in Penn State&#8217;s next game on Feb. 5 against Minnesota.H.S. 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