{"id":128691,"date":"2026-03-03T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:53:07","slug":"shields-von-kozierowski-earn-first-psac-weekly-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128691\/","title":{"rendered":"Shields, von Kozierowski Earn First PSAC Weekly Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"320\" data-start=\"60\">LOCK HAVEN, Pa. \u2014 With the spring season underway, Indiana (Pa.) collected a pair of Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week honors, as <a href=\"https:\/\/iupathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/derrick-shields\/10603\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10603\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Shields<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iupathletics.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/lea-von-kozierowski\/10521\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10521\" target=\"_blank\">Lea von Kozierowski<\/a> each earned the first weekly award of their Crimson Hawk careers.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"592\" data-start=\"322\">Shields, a senior right-hander from Pittsburgh, delivered a dominant outing on the mound in IUP&#8217;s win over Salem. He tossed six innings of one-hit baseball, shutting out the opposition while striking out four. The lone free pass he allowed came by way of a hit by pitch.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1018\" data-start=\"594\">On the tennis courts, von Kozierowski secured a hard-fought victory at No. 1 singles in a marathon match that lasted nearly three hours. She defeated Findlay&#8217;s Anamarija Kovacevic in three sets, opening with a 7-6 (11-9) tiebreak win in the first set. After dropping the second set 3-6, von Kozierowski rebounded to claim the decisive third set, 6-4. Kovacevic entered the match after earning a national ranking last season.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1100\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"1020\">The weekly honors mark a strong start to the spring slate for the Crimson Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; LOCK HAVEN, Pa. \u2014 With the spring season underway, Indiana (Pa.) collected a pair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-128691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}