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On Campus: How Erie-area college athletes are faring

-- Bucknell senior Jennifer Grant won the 5,000-meter run at the Bucknell Heptagonal Jan. 19 in Lewisburg.

Grant, a Villa Maria graduate, won in 18 minutes, 51.05 seconds to help the Bison won the seven-team indoor track and field meet.

-- Claire Everhart won the 3,000-meter run Jan. 19 at the Kenyon Kickoff, helping Ohio Wesleyan to the team title at the indoor track and field meet.

Everhart, a sophomore from General McLane, won in 10 minutes, 56.38 seconds.

Sarah Shin, an Ohio Wesleyan sophomore from General McLane, helped the 1,600-meter relay team place first in 4:12.91. And Kat Zimmerly, a freshman from McLane, was second in the 3,000.

-- Clarion's Hadley Harrison is the PSAC wrestler of the week.

The sophomore from General McLane decisioned Edinboro's Daryl Cocozzo in a dual, getting the winning takedown with 7 seconds left in regulation.

Harrison is 14-4 this season.

-- Camden Coppelli of Grove City College is the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's swimmer of the week.

Coppelli, a 6-foot 1-inch freshman from Guys Mills who attended Saegertown and swam for Meadville, won two backstroke events Jan. 19 in Grove City's 180-95 victory over Washington & Jefferson.

Coppelli won the 100 backstroke in 55.64 seconds. He also won the 200 backstroke in 2:01.98, and swam on the winning 400 free relay team.

-- Chelsea Gordon had 14 points in Illinois' 60-58 loss to Iowa on Monday in a Big Ten women's basketball game.

Gordon, a junior guard from Mercyhurst Prep, hit a career-high four 3-point field goals for the Illini.

Gordon was one of three players to have started each of Illinois' first 18 games, averaging 8.5 points and 3.7 rebounds.

-- Mercyhurst College sophomore Meghan Agosta leads Division I women's hockey in goals per game and short-handed goals. Agosta averages 1.29 goals per game and has six short-handed goals, twice as many as two players tied for No. 2 in the country.

Agosta is also in the top 10 in points, power-play goals and game-winning goals.

-- Rachel Stuck, a junior from Fairview, finished fifth on the floor exercise in Kent State's season-opening gymnastics victory over North Illinois on Sunday.

-- Sophomore David Jackson was averaging 5.3 points and 3.4 rebounds in Penn State's first 17 basketball games.

Jackson, a 6-6 red-shirt freshman forward from Farrell who played at Kennedy Catholic, started once.

Jackson was the Erie Times-News District 10 Player of the Year in 2006.

-- Tyler Sekerak scored 10 points in Baldwin-Wallace's 100-96 loss to Heidelberg on Wednesday in Berea, Ohio.

Sekerak, a senior from Corry, is averaging 8.5 points and 3.8 rebounds and shooting 50.5 percent from the field this season. He's first on the team with 38 steals and second with 36 assists.

Baldwin-Wallace (5-11) hosts Capital on Saturday at 3 p.m.

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