Welcome to Huskies On The Horizon, a weekly update where we will provide a brief recap of last week's sporting events and preview the week ahead so you can follow along with your favorite Bloomsburg University athletic teams!

After a week off from competing, the men's and women's cross country teams will compete at the Ed Window Memorial Invitational at Mansfield on Saturday, October 8. The event will begin with the women running at 11:15 AM, then the men will compete at 12:15 PM. 

The field hockey team will be back in action this week after a two-game week that saw the Huskies beat Mercyhurst 3-0 on Tuesday before falling to Millersville 4-2 on Friday.

Against Mercyhurst, the Huskies received goals from Sydney Derr, Meghan Longenhagen and Carlee Williams to pull off the shutout win. In goal, Abby Shaffer had a pair of saves to record her fourth shutout of the season. 

The Huskies will play Mercyhurst again this week at home on Saturday, October 8. The contest is will be the Alumni Welcome Back game and it is scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM at Steph Pettit Stadium.

Defense and special teams led the football team to a huge 21-16 victory over West Chester at home on Saturday.

The Huskies took an early lead over the Golden Rams in the first quarter when quarterback KJ Riley connected with Kaleb Monaco for a 58-yard touchdown on the team's opening possession of the game. Then in the second quarter, the special teams came up big for the Huskies when Ryan D'Ambra blocked a punt and Hakeem Bacon scooped the ball up and ran it back 27 yards for a score to put Bloomsburg up 14-0.

West Chester got on the scoreboard with a field goal during its next possession, but the first-half fireworks weren't over. In the closing minute of the second quarter, West Chester took the ball all the way down to Bloomsburg's six-yard line and threatened to make it a one-possession game before the break. However, a fumble by West Chester's quarterback led to a huge momentum swing as Bloomsburg defensive lineman William Martin III picked up the loose ball and ran it back 88 yards for a score with two seconds left before the half. 

The big play before half made the contest 21-3 at the break, and the Huskies defense was able to hold West Chester's offense to 13 points in the second half as Bloomsburg came away with a 21-16 victory. 

Bloomsburg (2-3, 1-1 PSAC East) will be back in action with a road contest at Kutztown (3-2, 1-1 PSAC East) on Saturday. The game is scheduled to kick off at 12:00 PM.

Last week, the men's golf team placed sixth at the Alvernia Invitational on Tuesday. 

The team finished with a score of 326 and the Huskies were led by Jarred Berish, who finished tied for eighth place in the individual standings with a 77. Jason Uebelacker was second on the team with a score of 81. Matt Pulcinella and Jake Taylor were the third-highest finishers for the Huskies as both golfers finished with an 81, and Connor Toussaint rounded out the scores with an 86. 

The men's golf team is competing today at Grove City College in the final day of a two-day event. 

Following today's competition, the Huskies will be back on the course next weekend with its only home event of the fall. The home event will be the Husky Invitational at the Frosty Valley Golf Course in Danville on Monday, Oct. 10. 

The women's golf team won the Ursinus Fall Invitational last week as the squad finished +51 with a score of 335, which was over 100 strokes better than the next competing team.

Gianna Pelzer led the Huskies to the first-place finish as she finished first overall in the individual standings after shooting a 77 (+6). Olivia Martinez finished fourth overall with her score of an 85, and a pair of teammates were right behind her as Sarah Vietmeier shot an 86 and Ryleigh Faust finished with an 87. Grace Green rounded out the top five with a 94.

After leading the Huskies to a first-place finish, Pelzer was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) East Women's Golf Athlete of the Week.

The women's golf team is back in action today at Kutztown to finish its two-day event. 

Next Monday, the women's team will close out its fall season at the Husky Invitational at the Frosty Valley Golf Course in Danville. 

The men's and women's tennis teams will host the PSAC Individual Championships this weekend at the Burt Reese Tennis Center in Bloomsburg. 

The three-day event was originally supposed to take place this past weekend, but it was postponed by the conference on Thursday due to impending weather. 

The PSAC Championships will begin this weekend on Friday, October 8, and the event will run through Monday, October 10. 

The men's soccer team will be back in action with two games this week after going 2-0 this past week as the Huskies pulled off a pair of impressive wins over Shippensburg (W, 4-3) and Millersville (W, 2-1).

Against Shippensburg in a game full of action, Patrick Walsh had a pair of goals while Anthony Schlee and Stephen Hollis both finished the game with a goal and assist apiece to lead Bloomsburg's huge offensive performance. 

Against Millersville on Saturday, the Huskies pulled off a 2-1 victory against Millersville despite the Marauders getting off 16 shots during the contest. Goalkeeper Brady Rimple recorded 8 saves to keep the Marauders offense at bey, and the Huskies received goals by Alex Wilsterman and Kody Besser to pull out the road win. 

The two victories give Bloomsburg four consecutive wins, and with West Chester falling to East Stroudsburg on Saturday, the Huskies are now in a two-way tie with the Golden Rams for first place in the division. 

The Huskies will be back in action this week with a conference game on Wednesday. In their only contest of the week, Bloomsburg will travel to a hot East Stroudsburg team that's coming off a big victory over West Chester.

The women's soccer team will be back in action this week after dropping  games to East Stroudsburg and No. 5 West Chester this past week.

Both games could have gone either way, but a single goal by both opponents turned out to be the only scores of the 90-minute games as the Huskies fell in both games by a final score of 1-0.

The women's team will host Mansfield on Wednesday at 7:00 PM before playing host to Shepherd on Saturday at 3:30 PM. 

The men's and women's swim teams began its 2022-23 season with the Maroon & Gold Meet on Saturday at the Nelson Field House in Bloomsburg. The intrasquad meet saw six meet records broken in the annual event.

The women's 400-medley relay team of Grace Beierschmitt, Anna Sugra, Maggie Shaffer and Rylee Wenzel set the Maroon & Gold Meet record with a time of 4:02.30. Beierschmitt, Wenzel, Shaffer and Madi Osanitsch also broke the women's 200 free relay record with a time of 1:40.79. In the women's 200 breast, Taleah Ruben broke the meet record with a time of 2:30.80. 

On the men's side, Tony Goulstone set a meet record in the 200 IM and Dan Mueser broke the meet record in the 200 fly. In the 500 free, Luke Scoboria set a meet record with his time of 4:54.37

The men's and women's teams will open up PSAC competition this coming weekend with a meet at Shippensburg on Saturday, October 8.

The women's volleyball team lost a couple of close contests last week, but the Huskies will have two opportunities this week with a pair of road conference matches at Shippensburg and Shepherd.

The Huskies will play at Shippensburg on Friday before heading to Shepherd on Saturday.