Darcie Vincent, the architect of one of the country's premier NCAA Division II women's basketball programs at California University of Pennsylvania, is the new head coach at Division I Appalachian State.

The official announcement will be made at a news conference Thursday at Appalachian State, located in Boone, N.C., and a member of the Southern Conference.

In eight seasons at California, Vincent's Vulcans made seven tournament appearances and won the national championship in 2004 with a 35-1 record. California was 27-7 this season and reached the Elite Eight after winning the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship for the fourth time.

"It was a hard decision to make to leave a place that gave me such a great opportunity as a young coach," said Vincent, who had a 212-47 record at California. "But I'm ready to hit the ground running."

Vincent will inherit an Appalachian State team that was 8-22 and tied for seventh in the Southern Conference at 5-13.

Vincent was a three-time All-Atlantic 10 Conference selection at Duquesne, where she earned a bachelor's degree in business marketing in 1992 and a master's degree in business administration in 1994. She remains the university's third all-time scorer in women's basketball with 1,538 points and was inducted into the Duquesne Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.

Grove City won its 18th consecutive Presidents' Athletic Conference men's tennis championship, and the Wolverines won all eight of the singles competitions and two of the three doubles titles. John Moyer, a junior from Shady Side Academy, captured the No. 1 singles title and was named the PAC player of the year. He lost just one game in four sets in the semifinals and finals after a first-round bye.

Grove City's players didn't lose a set in any singles match, with No. 2 Peter Davis, No. 3 Ricky Garrett, No. 4 Jeremy Dwyer, No. 5 Chris Baker and No. 6 Marc Mentzer winning titles.

Grove City's Kyle Johnson and Baker won No. 2 doubles, and Dwyer and Bill DeRocha won at No. 3, but Washington & Jefferson's Christopher Faulk and Jeff Tomaino won No. 1 doubles.

Waynesburg finished second in the team competition.

• Thiel's Eric Boylan, a junior left fielder from Sto-Rox, had his school-record 26-game hitting streak end when he went 0 for 4 in a 10-6 victory against Geneva in the second game of a doubleheader Saturday. For the season, he has a .409 average with four home runs and 35 RBIs.

• Lock Haven junior Kristin Erb had her NCAA Division II-record of 86 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings come to an end in the seventh inning of a 7-1 victory against Edinboro in the second game of a recent doubleheader. She is 29-6 with a 0.39 earned run average and 293 strikeouts in 231¹/₃ innings this season. Erb also has a .348 batting average with three HRs and 24 RBIs.

• Shippensburg senior Justin Garber set a school career record with 261 hits that is second all time in the PSAC. He is hitting .438 with six HRs and 31 RBIs for the season.

• Thiel junior Chris Dunham has set school records for a season with 12 HRs and 48 RBIs.

• The Saint Vincent softball team has set a school record for wins in a season with a 17-11 record with 10 games remaining. The Bearcats are led by junior Mollie Stock (8-5, 1.73 ERA), who threw three consecutive no-hitters earlier this season, and Maura Wahl (.355 batting average).