The Pitt-Greensburg women’s basketball team is on fire, having won nine of their past 10 games. The Lady Bobcats are now playing how many expected them to all season, erasing a slow start to the season.

Head coach Carol Gelet thinks she’s figured out the reason for the the slow start.

“We were not in game shape, the players did not gel as a group on the court and this in turn led to lack of confidence and trust on the floor,” Gelet said. “And also the other teams were ready to compete and unfortunately, we were not ready.”

They are know.

In their second season, the Pitt-Greensburg ice hockey club is poised to make a run at the championship.

With only three games left before the playoffs, the Bobcats are 12-6-1, and head coach Tim Baldwin expects his players to head into the playoffs with the right mindset.

“The team has played great all year,” Baldwin said. “Now we just need to enter the playoffs with a strong want for the championship and the will to win.”

Heading into the season, head coach Jeromy Yetter knew his team’s youth and inexperience at the collegiate level would be make this season a bit of a roller coaster ride.

With six games left before playoffs, the Bobcats mens basketball team is holding onto the eighth and final playoff spot with a record of 8-11 (6-8).

“I would say the season is going how I expected it to. With as many new guys and with the conference how it is, it doesn’t do our young guys any favors. Inconsistency — as frustrating as it is — is part of the learning process and freshman year,” Yetter said.

The Lady Bobcats have lost three of their past four games, and the defending conference champs don’t look like the team that many people expected to repeat.

Hosting Altoona on Monday, the Lady Bobcats, 3-4 overall and 2-2 in conference play, led practically the entire game but suffered their second home loss in a row.

The men’s basketball team has dropped two of its past three games after establishing a nice three-game winning streak earlier in the season.

The Bobcats dropped a tough conference game to Penn State Altoona on Monday night by the score of 64-68. The Bobcats trailed for most of the first half but took a lead entering halftime. The second half was a back-and-forth contest that featured five ties and five lead changes. Altoona took a one-point lead at the 6:15 mark and never looked back as they closed the game on a 11-5 run.

The men’s basketball team is looking to surprise a few teams this year with its height and work ethic.

Kelsey Wilcox

Kelsey Wilcox

The Lady Bobcats will have every player return except one from last year’s team that went 24-3 (17-1 in conference) en route to a conference championship and an appearance in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament.

The Lady Bobcats are loaded with talent and experience this year. They return with six seniors, including Kelsey Wilcox, the reigning player of the year in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, and Amanda Sheaffer, who was an honorable mention selection for the AMCC all-conference team last year.

Men’s hoops: The men’s basketball team is looking to surprise a few teams this year with its height and work ethic.

The Pitt-Greensburg men’s basketball is getting ready to open up their 2009-10 season, and a new year brings a new look to the team.

The Bobcats have a lot of new faces this year, as second-year head coach Jeromy Yetter welcomes two talented transfers and six true freshmen. The new players bring something that Pitt-Greensburg has lacked in recent years — height.

At 6’8” and 6’7”, respectively, transfer Justin Burgess and freshman David Palmer will be counted on to try to fill the void left by Daniel Waajid, the conference’s reigning player of the year who graduated in April.

The Pitt-Greensburg men’s basketball team dropped the first game of the season to Muskingum College on Tuesday evening in front of a packed Chambers Hall crowd of 515. The Bobcats jumped out to a quick 6-2 lead but their inexperience got the best of them as they turned the ball over 11 times in the first half and shot just 33.3 percent from the floor.

Muskingum had a lead as big as 20 points. The Bobcats were able to cut it to eight before falling by the score of 68-53. Rashad Davison led the Bobcats with 17 points and six boards, while freshman David Palmer added 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

The Bobcats will return to action this weekend when they participate in the Geneva College Tip-Off Tournament. Their first game in the tournament will be against Marymount University on Friday at 6 p.m.