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The West Chester women&#8217;s basketball team will face Glenville State in the first round of the NCAA Division II Tournament Friday in Richmond, Va., and a key performer for the 23-5 Golden Rams will be senior Mia Hopkins.The 5-foot-11 forward, a Pittston Area grad, was named to the PSAC East first team on March 1. She stands second on the team in scoring (15.3), first in rebounding (8.8), second in assists (107), third in steals (50) and leads in blocked shots (25).Hopkins has been consistent all season long. She started all 28 games and scored in double figures in 25 of them, with a season-high 24 in a 106-71 victory over Clarion on Nov. 19. She had 11 double-doubles and a triple-double. That came in a 98-63 triumph over Cheyney on Feb. 10 when she had 22 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists. And she had eight steals in that game as well.The Golden Rams are familiar with their first-round foe. They defeated Glenville State 97-84 on Nov. 12 in Chester. Hopkins had 11 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and two steals in the game.Schutz, Laubach just missBloomsburg&#8217;s Andy Schutz finished second at 133 pounds and Kevin Laubach Jr. finished fourth at 157 pounds at the Eastern Wrestling League Championships last weekend in Erie. Both were unable to earn a berth in the NCAA Division II Championship this weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Schutz, a Wyoming Area grad, was beaten 4-0 in the 133 pound final and finished 23-7 on the season. Laubach, a Berwick grad, was beaten 14-5 in the third place match and ended the season with a 12-12 record. The Huskies finished fifth in the team standings.Koshinski among the leadersWest Virginia junior Kirah Koshinski has her name on the Road to Nationals Rankings in the Southeast Region and in the Big 12 Conference. The Berwick grad ranks 12th in the nation on vault (9.895) and 49th on floor exercise (9.870) and has scored 9.850 or better on floor in each meet since Feb. 10.Regionally, she ranks fourth in the vault and ninth on floor, and in the Big 12 she&#8217;s third on vault and sixth on floor. The 8-9 Mountaineers are at George Washington Sunday in Washington, D.C.Big start for LipowskiFreshman Jenna Lipowski is hitting .440 for the 5-4 Kutztown softball team. The Nanticoke Area grad has 11 hits in 25 at-bats with three doubles, a home run, two runs scored and seven runs batted in.She had a home run and single in an 11-2 victory over UNC-Pembroke on Feb. 3, three hits and an RBI in a 6-2 triumph over West Virginia State on Feb. 16 and a double and single and two RBI in a 5-4 victory over Mercyhurst on Feb. 17.Used at first base and as the designated hitter, Lipowski has handled 28 chances without an error when she&#8217;s in the field.Lawson named all-conferenceSophomore Lydia Lawson was named to the Landmark Conference first team for her play with the 15-10 Elizabethtown women&#8217;s basketball team. The Holy Redeemer grad averaged 9.8 points and 3.3 rebounds a game and was second in assists (78) and first in steals (46). She connected on 19 of 53 3-point attempts (35.8 percent).Lawson was coming off an outstanding season with the Blue Jays women&#8217;s soccer team. She was named Landmark Player of the Year and was a first-team pick.All-around for PlaksaJunior Gianna Plaksa led the Central Michigan women&#8217;s gymnastics team to a second-place finish in a quad meet last Sunday in San Jose, Calif. The Chippewas had a score of 194.625 to trail the host team but got past Air Force and Seattle Pacific.Plaksa, from Mountain Top (Wyoming Seminary), took all-around honors with a score of 39.050. The effort was aided when she tied for third on uneven bars with a score of 9.825. She tied for eighth on beam (9.775), tied for 10th on vault (9.750) and tied for 16th on floor (9.700)Skrepenak leads the RamsJunior outfielder Chelsea Skrepenak got off to an 0-for-6 start at the plate but has collected eight hits in her last 17 at-bats to lead the Fordham softball team with a .348 average. Skrepenak, from Dallas and a Holy Cross grad, has scored five runs and has four RBIs.She hit .240 in 57 games as a sophomore but closed out the season with an eight-game hitting streak.Second team for MontanaSophomore Taylor Montana was named to the PSAC East second team for her play with the Bloomsburg women&#8217;s basketball team, the Huskies finishing 13-15 overall and 10-12 in league play.The 5-foot-11 forward was second on the team in scoring with a 9.0 average and led the squad in rebounding at 6.1 per game. She also had 23 blocked shots and connected on 107 of 202 shots from the field (53 percent). Bloomsburg saw the season end with a 73-60 loss to Kutztown in the first round of the PSAC playoffs.Injury slows BourdeauSt. Joseph&#8217;s junior sprinter Nathaniela Bourdeau, a Coughlin grad, had a personal best time of 24.65 in the prelims of the 200-meter dash at the ECAC Indoor Track Championships last Saturday in Boston. But an injury prevented her from competing in the finals on Sunday.She also finished 17th in the 60-meter dash (7.83) on Saturday and ran the anchor leg on the 4x400 relay, which finished sixth in 3:48.36.Junior Lindsey Oremus, a Dallas grad, anchored the Hawks&#8217; distance medley relay to a seventh-place finish, the time (11:47.43) over eight seconds faster than the team&#8217;s previous best.<style>
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<div class="neCaption">West Chester&#8217;s Mia Hopkins earned first-team All-PSAC East honors this season, among the team leaders in scoring (15.3 ppg), rebounding (8.8 rpg), assists (107), steals (50) and blocks (25). </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/web1_hopkins-action1.jpg</photo0><caption0>West Chester&#8217;s Mia Hopkins earned first-team All-PSAC East honors this season, among the team leaders in scoring (15.3 ppg), rebounding (8.8 rpg), assists (107), steals (50) and blocks (25). </caption0><photoCredit0>Submitted photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>By Bill ArsenaultFor Times Leader</bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta>Reach Times Leader sports at 570-829-7143 or on Twitter @TLsports</shirttailMeta></div>

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