Hailey and Nevaeh Wolfe capped their storybook season by helping the Spartans capture the Division II championship over the weekend.

Spring Grove graduates Hailey and Nevaeh Wolfe have now capped four consecutive volleyball seasons with championship celebrations. In their third straight AVCA Small College Beach National Championship, the University of Tampa twins were as dominant as ever.

Tampa ran the table to capture the Division II crown Saturday at the AVCA championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The Spartans went 7-0 at the three-day event, with the Wolfe twins going 7-0 in No. 2 matches to earn AVCA All-America honors as a pair.

The most dramatic triumph came in the championship match against Concordia Irvine, as the twins dropped their first set 21-16 — their only setback of the tournament — before rallying with victories of 21-8 and 15-8. Teammates Madelynn Hokanson and Hailey Peterson clinched the title for the Spartans by winning a 21-13, 20-22, 15-13 thriller in the No. 3 match.

The sisters were named the AVCA Collegiate Beach Pair of the Week on Monday in recognition of their stellar championship performance. They finished 25-4 as a duo this season, primarily at the No. 2 spot in the lineup. Tampa was 21-8 as a team, although seven of its losses came against Division I competition.

After winning the inaugural Sunshine State Conference title on April 12 — the Wolfes were named Pair of the Tournament that weekend as well — the Spartans went unblemished in pool play last week. They defeated Emmanuel 3-0 and Vanguard 3-2 on Thursday, then rolled to 3-0 wins over Eckerd and Texas A&M Kingsville on Friday. Tampa knocked off Colorado Mesa, the 2022 national champ, in 3-0 fashion in Saturday’s quarterfinals. Then came another 3-0 triumph in the semis against Palm Beach Atlantic, which beat Tampa on March 7 before the Spartans swept the ensuing three meetings.

The Wolfe twins closed their high school careers by helping Spring Grove win the PIAA Class 3A girls’ volleyball championship in November 2021. They made an immediate impact on the beach for Tampa, going 16-10 as freshmen and 23-10 as sophomores predominantly from the No. 3 pairing. They reached another level this spring, though, earning SSC Pair of the Year and receiving five of the league’s nine weekly honors during the season.

TruVolley ranks the Wolfes as the No. 66 pair in all of NCAA beach volleyball, including Division I athletes. The only other D-II tandem in the top 100 is Concordia’s No. 1 duo of Kelissa Lemoine and Sara Ostojic at No. 79. The D-I championships are set for May 2-4, also in Gulf Shores.

Tampa will seek not only a four-peat but its sixth D-II title in seven years when the 2026 season commences. The twins will play a starring role in that quest as seniors. What they’ve already achieved, however, is worth remembering for a lifetime.

The NCAA Division III men’s volleyball tournament began with a meeting of local talents last Friday. In No. 8-seed Messiah’s four-set win over Lancaster Bible College, Northern York graduate Jacob Hamm notched 10 kills for the victorious Falcons while York Suburban’s Kevin Bryant had 10 kills for the Chargers. Messiah went on to lose a four-set quarterfinal match Saturday against Southern Virginia, bringing Hamm’s collegiate career to a close.

Two local products have continued to put up big numbers for Lebanon Valley’s lacrosse teams. On the men’s side, senior Jake Bollinger (South Western) reached 40 goals for the third straight season last Wednesday , adding to his school-record point total. Junior Bethany Cohee (New Oxford), meanwhile, recorded her 57th assist of the year for the women’s team Wednesday , tying her for third on LVC’s single-season leaderboard. Cohee also has 99 career assists.

At the D-I level, Boston University’s Jimmy Kohr (Central York) tallied four goals in the Terriers’ 12-7 win over Lehigh on Saturday. The junior has 37 goals this spring with one regular-season contest remaining. Boston U (9-5, 5-2 Patriot League) is No. 15 in the latest coaches’ poll and has NCAA Tournament aspirations.

Millersville baseball’s Bren Taylor (Eastern York) hit his first home run of the season Friday as he continues his quest for history. The graduate student, who took his extra year of eligibility this season after believing his career was over in 2023, reached 300 career hits on April 13 and added three more in the Marauders’ four-game weekend sweep of Kutztown, leaving him three away from tying Chas McCormick’s PSAC record of 306. Taylor is hitting .387 and Millersville (31-6, 17-3) has won seven straight.

York College women’s lacrosse seniors swept the MAC Commonwealth weekly honors Monday, with attacker Gianna Huet named Player of the Week and goalie Bella Garabo taking home Defensive Player of the Week. Huet totaled two goals and 10 assists in last week’s two league wins, while Garabo — a three-time honoree this season — made 11 saves in last Wednesday’s 15-7 triumph over Stevenson. The No. 8-ranked Spartans (12-3, 5-0) clinched a postseason berth with Saturday’s 18-6 rout at Widener.

Cory Bergmann earned MACC Offensive Player of the Week in men’s lacrosse after scoring eight goals in York’s dramatic 20-13 win at Stevenson last Wednesday, including four during the Spartans’ nine-goal fourth quarter. The sophomore added a goal and an assist in Saturday’s playoff-clinching 19-8 victory at Widener. The Spartans (12-3, 5-0) have moved to a season-best 13th in the D-III rankings.

The accolades rolled in on the baseball diamond as well, as York junior Lucas Prendergast was named MACC Player of the Week after going 7 for 18 with three homers and nine RBIs in five games. He went deep twice during Saturday’s doubleheader split against Stevenson. Prendergast was also 2 for 4 with an RBI in Monday’s win at Elizabethtown; the Spartans (18-16, 12-6) snapped the Blue Jays’ 12-game winning streak.

York College softball has taken its lumps against top teams this season, but a key sweep Friday at Stevenson brought the Spartans to 7-5 in the MACC (12-20 overall). Natalie Rietema pitched a complete game to open the doubleheader, allowing one run on five hits in a 4-1 win, while Gretchen Barstad was 4 for 5 with two doubles and two RBIs in the second contest. (Stevenson pitcher Alexis Kirkessner, a freshman from Eastern York, is still 7-5 with a 3.18 ERA despite her struggles against the Spartans.)

Men’s golf senior Matthew Salter shot rounds of 74 and 69 to finish in second place at the Gettysburg Spring Shootout, which concluded Saturday at Penn National Golf Club and earn MACC weekly honors. Fellow senior Gavin Ganter was one behind in third place after consecutive even-par 72s. York finished third out of nine teams in its final regular-season tournament before the MAC Commonwealth championships May 3 and 4 (the women’s MAC tournament is this weekend).

The track and field teams had Easter weekend off after competing in the York College Twilight Meet last Wednesday. Three Spartans won events with school records — Brayden Ecker in the men’s pole vault (4.90m), Angela Nuse in the women’s 100 meters (12.47) and Payton Mann in the women’s 100 hurdles (1:04.41) — while Keziah Boyce (Central York) was runner-up in the women’s 200 meters with a school-record time of 26.19. Shaun Apsley took the men’s 400 hurdles and York also won the men’s 4x800 relay.

Penn State York baseball provided plenty of thrills Saturday, sweeping a doubleheader against Penn State Scranton with walk-off wins of 8-7 and 5-4 at downtown WellSpan Park. Gavin Constein was right in the middle of it all, delivering the clinching single in Game 1 and scoring the winning run in Game 2 for the local Lions (13-18, 7-9 PSUAC).

Both games featured wild pendulum swings. PSY took a 4-0 lead in the opener but surrendered three runs apiece in the fourth and fifth to fall behind 6-4. But a three-run six made it 7-6, and Scranton’s tying sacrifice fly in the seventh was quickly answered by Brian Hauer, who singled and stole two bases before scoring on Constein’s walk-off knock. Game 2 saw the hosts go down 2-0, take a 3-2 lead in the fifth, fall behind 4-3 in the sixth and tie it in the same frame before AJ Miller (Susquehannock) smacked a single that scored Constein and set off another celebration.

Penn State York split Friday’s road doubleheader at Scranton, winning 12-0 before losing 2-1 in 11 innings. Todd Meckley’s Lions have won six of eight games overall, previously taking three of four from Penn State Hazleton on April 13 and 16. PSY hosts Christendom for a doubleheader Tuesday, then has a four-game set against Penn State Wilkes-Barre this weekend. Saturday’s games at WellSpan Park will be part of the two-day Crushing Cancer Baseball Classic, which also features four York-Adams League high school games.