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The State College Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a silver Lexus SUV that was reported stolen from East Beaver Avenue early Wednesday morning. Pictured is a silver Lexus SUV which was reported stolen on Wednesday, April 30 2025 in State College, Pa. Courtesy of the State College Police Department According to […]
The State College Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a silver Lexus SUV that was reported stolen from East Beaver Avenue early Wednesday morning.
Pictured is a silver Lexus SUV which was reported stolen on Wednesday, April 30 2025 in State College, Pa.
Courtesy of the State College Police Department
According to a media release, the vehicle was taken at approximately 1 a.m. on April 30. At the time of the theft, the SUV was displaying Pennsylvania license plate HKD5885.
Police have released an image of the vehicle and are urging anyone with information about its whereabouts or the theft to come forward.
Authorities remind residents to lock their vehicles and report any suspicious activity immediately. Updates will be provided as the investigation continues.
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FOXBOROUGH, MASS. – Top-seed North Carolina women’s lacrosse will battle No. 3 Northwestern in the NCAA Championship game on Sunday, May 25. First draw is set for noon at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The Heels match-up with the Wildcats will air on ESPN with Jay Alter, Sheehan Stanwick Burch, Charlotte North and Dana Boyle on the call. […]
FOXBOROUGH, MASS. – Top-seed North Carolina women’s lacrosse will battle No. 3 Northwestern in the NCAA Championship game on Sunday, May 25. First draw is set for noon at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
The Heels match-up with the Wildcats will air on ESPN with Jay Alter, Sheehan Stanwick Burch, Charlotte North and Dana Boyle on the call.
Game Info
Who: (1) Carolina vs. (3) Northwestern
Where: Foxborough, Mass. – Gillette Stadium
When: Sunday, May 25 – Noon
Links: ESPN | Live Stats | Tickets
Ten Things to Know
North Carolina has gone 45-22 over its 25 NCAA Tournaments. UNC has won three National Championships (2013, ’16, ’22), played in the title game six times and reached the semifinals 14 times, which is tied for the third most all-time. The Tar Heels are the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament for the third time. They also entered the tourney as the top seed in 2021 and ’22.
UNC has won eight ACC Tournament titles and 11 ACC regular-season championships, including eight outright.
With a win, HC Jenny Levy would move into a tie for second in all-time DI wins with Princeton’s Chris Sailer at 433.
UNC is the only undefeated team in the country after snapping Boston College’s 21-game winning streak earlier this season and Florida’s 17-game streak on Friday. The Tar Heels current 21-game winning streak is the longest in the nation, 10 games ahead of Northwestern’s 11-game streak. The 21-game streak is the third longest in program history and the 21 wins are the second most in a season for Carolina.
Through 21 games, Carolina has outscored its opponents 372-143 (+229). The 372 goals are a single-season program record. Its 10.9 scoring margin per game ranks first nationally. UNC ranks first in both the ACC and NCAA in scoring offense at 17.7 goals per game.
Carolina’s defense has held opponents to 6.8 goals per game, which ranks first in both the ACC and NCAA. The team has only allowed four double-digit scoring efforts all year. UNC has kept its opponent scoreless in 18 quarters across 21 games, including the final three quarters of the NCAA Semifinal versus Florida.
Betty Nelson and Lexi Zenk have combined to give UNC a .509 save percentage, which ranks fourth in the country. Nelson’s 7.33 goals-against average ranks first nationally.
The Humphrey sisters are the 12th and 13th Tewaaraton Award finalists in UNC history and Chloe is the first freshman to become a finalist for the women’s award. This is the third time UNC has had two finalists (2021: Moreno/Ortega | 2022: Ortega/Mastroianni).
Chloe Humphrey has scored 86 goals (4th NCAA) this season, setting a new NCAA record for goals by a freshman. She set a career high with seven goals vs. Florida and set a new UNC single-season record for goals, passing Jamie Ortega, who had 82 in 2021. Humphrey has scored at least five goals nine times this season and has tallied hat tricks in 17-of-21 games.
Ashley Humphrey has tallied 254 career assists between Stanford and UNC, setting a new NCAA record. Her 86 assists this season lead the country and set UNC’s single-season mark. Humphrey’s 117 points also set UNC’s single-season record and she’s currently third on UNC’s all-time assists list (124). Ashley’s 16 assists in three games of the NCAA Tournament are tied for the all-time record with Hannah Nielsen (NW, 4g, ’09) and Kenzie Kent (BC, 5g, ’17).
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Four-star Ethan Taylor making good on potential in gym filled with NBA legacies
KANSAS CITY, Kans. – The coaches are back at home this weekend, but grassroots basketball never stops. After making stops in the great Phoenix area and Memphis this spring, Nike made its way to Kansas City and the sparkling Homefield KC facility as the swoosh holds the third spring stop of its loaded EYBL. While […]
KANSAS CITY, Kans. – The coaches are back at home this weekend, but grassroots basketball never stops. After making stops in the great Phoenix area and Memphis this spring, Nike made its way to Kansas City and the sparkling Homefield KC facility as the swoosh holds the third spring stop of its loaded EYBL.
While several elite prospects took the floor on Friday night – including 2026’s No. 1-ranked player Tyran Stokes – it was the breakout performance from a four-star big man, who has been knocking on the door of taking his recruitment to a new level, that stole the show.
247Sports had National Director of Basketball Eric Bossi and national analyst Travis Branham on hand to track all of the action. Below are notes and analysis on 2026 center Ethan Taylor, 2027 point guard Anthony Brown, 2027 guard Anderson Diaz, 2026 forward Jasiah Jervis, 2026 big man Adonis Ratliff, 2026 forward Aziz Olajuwon, 2026 wing Elijah Williams, 2026 forward Cole Cloer, and Stokes, the No. 1 player in the 2026 class.
Keegan O’Toole, Helen Hu and Shannon Welker were among Mizzou’s best in 2024-25
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Two Mizzou athletes, two comebacks. Wrestler Keegan O’Toole had the kind of injury that keeps most athletes on the shelf for a year but no plans to let that get in the way of his quest for silverware. Helen Hu had ground herself through recovery from an ACL tear, walking away from […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Two Mizzou athletes, two comebacks.
Wrestler Keegan O’Toole had the kind of injury that keeps most athletes on the shelf for a year but no plans to let that get in the way of his quest for silverware. Helen Hu had ground herself through recovery from an ACL tear, walking away from gymnastics with nothing left in the tank.
Both came back to their sports in different ways, and both made the most of it, putting together the most captivating performances by Missouri athletes in the 2024-25 sports cycle. Their comebacks — and the heights that came with them — make them the Post-Dispatch’s choices for MU men’s and women’s athlete of the year, part of the newspaper’s annual honors capping the year in sports at the school.
Missouri’s Keegan O’Toole celebrates after defeating Iowa State’s David Carr in the championship round at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships on Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla.
Ian Maule, Tulsa World
Men’s Athlete of the Year: O’Toole, wrestling
A couple of weeks after finishing as the Big 12 champion and national runner-up at 174 pounds, O’Toole posted a picture from a hospital bed, his left knee bandaged and stabilized with a beefy brace.
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He’d had finally had surgery to repair a torn ACL, but only after wrestling — in dominant fashion — through the normally debilitating injury.
O’Toole first hurt the knee during a mid-November meet at Virginia Tech, when he felt a little pop somewhere inside the joint.
“It kind of hurt for a minute, but the pain went away,” he told FloWrestling. “I just thought that I popped my calf or something.”
About a month later, O’Toole felt an odder sensation in that knee during a match: something he described as the tissue connecting bones finally giving way. The next morning, he needed help getting out of bed. An MRI revealed he’d torn his ACL.
The immediate option, which most athletes probably would’ve taken, was to undergo surgery to repair the ligament. That would’ve ended O’Toole’s season, though, and he wanted no such thing.
Instead, he stopped competing for two months but put off surgery. As swelling went down in the injured knee, he started to get some strength back. O’Toole returned for the final dual of the regular season, a short run-up to the postseason.
He looked neither rusty nor badly injured during the Big 12 championships, winning all four of his matches en route to a conference title. He then went 4-1 at the NCAA Championships, which was good for second place and an All-American nod — the fifth of his career.
All that, with a torn ACL.
“I still had fun,” O’Toole said.
Shortly after his surgery, Mizzou coach Brian Smith announced that O’Toole has been hired as an assistant.
In the running: Triple jumper Jonathan Seremes won a national title with a personal-best 17.04-meter effort at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship in March. … Football right tackle Armand Membou was Mizzou’s highest-selected player in the NFL draft in more than a decade. … Men’s basketball’s Mark Mitchell earned third-team All-SEC honors while leading the team in scoring, and Caleb Grill was the league’s Sixth Man of the Year after an incredible 3-point shooting run.
Missouri’s Helen Hu, right, celebrates with a coach after competing on the balance beam during the NCAA Championships on Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Tony Gutierrez, Associated Press
Women’s Athlete of the Year: Hu, gymnastics
The first time Helen Hu left Mizzou gymnastics, she was burned out and hurting. The second time she did so, she was a national champion. It was a good thing she came back in between.
Hu had been one of the Tigers’ best gymnasts the first time around, returning from an ACL injury to star on the balance beam. But she’d had enough after the 2023 season, in which she earned second-team All-American honors but no perfect 10 score.
After a year of globetrotting around Central America, Europe and Asia, gymnastics coach Shannon Welker pitched Hu, back in Columbia for a former teammate’s wedding, the idea of returning to use her final year of eligibility.
“I took it as a joke,” Hu said, but it wasn’t.
She earned her elusive 10 during a meet at Oklahoma, then added another in the regular-season finale at Arkansas. Hu then added another during the second round of the NCAA Tournament, driving the Tigers into the late stages of the postseason by closing out meets with clutch routines.
Hu won the national beam title at the NCAA Championships, where Missouri finished third in the team competition.
“When I decided to come back, I did not have it in my mind to accomplish so much that I did this year,” she said. “It was really quite a shock.”
In the running: Volleyball outside hitter Mychael Vernon was named a third-team All-American after ranking third in the SEC in kills. … Gymnasts Elise Tisler and Mara Titarsolej joined Hu as first-team All-Americans. … Softball catcher Julia Crenshaw made the All-SEC first team after leading the Tigers with a .343 batting average and sound defensive work.
University of Missouri head gymnastics coach Shannon Welker gives some advice to Amari Celestine during a practice session Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, at Mizzou’s gymnastics training facility in Columbia, Mo.
David Carson, Post-Dispatch
Coach of the Year: Welker, gymnastics
In the immediate aftermath of Mizzou gymnastics advancing narrowly out of an NCAA Championship semifinal and into the finals for the first time in program history, Welker was running late to his news conference.
“Sorry I’m late,” he joked to reporters on site in Fort Worth, Texas. “I was renegotiating my contract.”
He did get a new contract with Missouri, albeit near the start of a 2025 season that goes down as one of the most impressive in recent MU athletics history. It’s much deserved for the coach running the school’s highest-performing team at present.
Welker’s 12th season coaching the Tigers netted the aforementioned third-place finish, plus the program’s first national champion (Hu), most perfect 10s in a season (five) and first team score of 198 in a meet. He built that success through recruitment and development of a senior class that made two runs to the NCAA Championships, well-timed transfers and wooing Hu out of retirement for one more year — the kind of roster building necessary in today’s college sports environment.
Welker was named both the national gymnastics and SEC coach of the year for his efforts.
In the running: Volleyball coach Dawn Sullivan captured regional coach of the year honors after leading the Tigers to the Sweet 16 in her second season. … Eli Drinkwitz became the second-ever MU football coach to win 10-plus games in back-to-back seasons. … Dennis Gates brought Mizzou men’s basketball back to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in his three years at the helm.
Standing on the first tee of the Black Desert Championship last October in Ivins, Utah, Kihei Akina caught a glimpse of his future. With a large crowd gathered around him, BYU’s prized five-star golf recruit took out his driver and readied himself to make his PGA Tour debut. “I was fine and felt normal,” Akina […]
Standing on the first tee of the Black Desert Championship last October in Ivins, Utah, Kihei Akina caught a glimpse of his future. With a large crowd gathered around him, BYU’s prized five-star golf recruit took out his driver and readied himself to make his PGA Tour debut.
“I was fine and felt normal,” Akina told the “Y’s Guys” podcast this week. “But I put the tee in the ground and as I stood over the ball, my legs went to jelly. I couldn’t feel my hands. I couldn’t feel anything. I thought, ‘Oh crap! Just make contact!’ Somehow, I hit it down the fairway.”
By the third hole, Akina was back to being his confident self and over the course of two days he went toe-to-toe with the professionals and made eight birdies and finished just outside the cut line at 4 under par.
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“It was definitely different from junior golf and high school golf,” said the three-time state champion at Lone Peak High. “I just tried to learn as much as I could from those guys.”
Akina hails from an athletic family. His older sister, Kiani, played rugby at Harvard, and older brothers Keanu golfed at BYU and Kawika played basketball at NYU in Manhattan. Now it’s his time to shine.
When it came time to decide on a college, Akina received offers and NIL pitches from 50 programs, including BYU, which presented a competitive proposal — and an environment that has less to do with golf and more to do with the golfer.
“I wanted to surround myself with likeminded people. People in the church who have the same beliefs as me,” Akina said. “I think it will help build me and help build my testimony of the Savior and help me be a better person and get to where I want to be in life.”
Akina also wants to win. Bruce Brockbank’s current Cougars are competing this weekend at the NCAA championships in Carlsbad, California, where BYU is chasing its first national title since 1981.
“I also wanted to come in and build the program up and I want to compete for a national championship,” Akina said. “At BYU you represent so much. You represent the church and this great state of Utah. It’s really cool to be able to do that. Hopefully we can make a run next year.”
Akina is a big piece of an unprecedented wave of prized prep recruits bringing their talents to Provo, including No. 1 recruit AJ Dybantsa (basketball), No. 1-ranked Jane Hedengren (women’s cross-country), No. 1-ranked Daniel Simmons (men’s cross-country) and the No. 5-ranked tight end Brock Harris (football).
“BYU is on the rise for sure. It’s really cool to see. Everything is building up with every sport,” Akina said. “I’m excited to be a part of it. I’ve been itching to get to campus for the last year and a half.”
Dave McCann is a sportswriter and columnist for the Deseret News and is a play-by-play announcer and show host for BYUtv/ESPN+. He co-hosts “Y’s Guys” at ysguys.com and is the author of the children’s book “C is for Cougar,” available at deseretbook.com
Oklahoma surges to first round lead at the 2025 NCAA DI men’s golf championships
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA – Oklahoma surged to the first round lead at the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships, carding an 8-under-par 280 to lead by five strokes at the finals being played at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa North Course (7,528 yards/par 72). Texas A&M senior Phichaksn Maichon is alone atop the […]
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA – Oklahoma surged to the first round lead at the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships, carding an 8-under-par 280 to lead by five strokes at the finals being played at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa North Course (7,528 yards/par 72).
Texas A&M senior Phichaksn Maichon is alone atop the individual leaderboard, carding a bogey-free round of 66 (6-under-par). One-stroke back at 67 are Vanderbilt senior Jackson Van Paris, Georgia junior Carter Loflin and Texas junior Tommy Morrison.
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After the first 18 holes, the Sooners have a five-stroke team lead over Florida State, Florida and Texas, with each school recording a 285. Arizona State, Illinois and defending national champion Auburn are six strokes back at 286. The Sooners were led on Friday by scores of 4-under 68 from Clark Van Gaalen, 3-under 69 from Jase Summy, 2-under 70 from Drew Goodman and 1-over 73 from Ryder Cowan.
“Today was a great start for our group,” said Oklahoma head coach Ryan Hybl. “Last year we got off to a tough start, so coming out strong on day one this time around was huge for us. It’s a long week and we still have a lot of work ahead, but this was a solid beginning. Our guys are feeling confident, and we’re ready to get back after it tomorrow morning.”
Starting on hole No. 1, Maichon had a clean card with six birdies (holes 2, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 16) along with 12 pars.
“It was good,” Maichon said. “I hit a lot of fairways and greens. I made a couple putts along the way. It wasn’t anything special. It wasn’t like I was hitting it super close or anything. I just kind of kept it in front of me. It’s a championship golf course and it’s tough, so you just have to play smart shots and limit your mistakes.”
Morrison fired a 5-under 67 in the afternoon wave, tallying six birdies (holes 1, 2, 6, 9, 10 and 11) against just one bogey (hole 4). This marked his 17th round in the 60s this season (37 total rounds).
“Everything was pretty solid today and I kept it right in front of me,” said Morrison. “It wasn’t necessarily all out of the middle of the face, but it was going where I was looking for the most part. I made some nice putts early which was important, as you need to get off to a good start here. I played with nice freedom.”
“I love it out here,” Morrison continued. “Since we first saw it last year, I’ve been a big fan of the golf course, the design and what they did with it. The rough is slightly more down than last year. The greens firmed up really nice today, and the course still showed its teeth.”
Loflin recorded the top individual score in the morning wave at 5-under 67. Starting on hole 10, he had a clean card with five birdies (holes 12, 18, 2, 6 and 7) and 13 pars. He tied his collegiate career-low 18-hole score with his 67 (set twice before).
“Bogey-free rounds are fun,” said Loflin. “I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be this morning. Our entire group of coaches talk a lot about mental approach and just making sure that expectations aren’t too high, which obviously really helps. I’ve been trending in the right direction for a few weeks now so you know I know my golf game is good but it’s really just all about not making it too big of a deal. I can shoot the scores at home but doing it when the lights on is a completely different thing or at least you can make it that way so it feels good.”
The second round of the championship will tee off on Saturday, May 24 at 6:30 a.m. PST.
Finals play for the 2025 championships consists of three days of stroke play over 54 holes on Friday thru Sunday (May 23-25), after which the top 15 teams and nine individuals not on an advancing team will be determined. That is followed by a final day of 18 holes of stroke play (Monday, May 26) to determine the top eight teams that will advance to match play as well as the 72-hole individual champion. The team national champion will be determined by a match-play format that will consist of quarterfinals and semifinals conducted on Tuesday, May 27, followed by the finals on Wednesday, May 28.
