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FWIW, Sweat's teammate Mike Yancich committed to PSU (about a week ago, but just went public last night)...

Penn State Lands Trinity LB
TrinityHigh School linebacker MIKE YANCICH, rated by Keystone Recruiting as the No. 11 player in Pennsylvania, made a verbal commitment to PennState tonight at a press conference at the high school.

The 6’2” 220 pound Yancich chose the Nittany Lions over Pitt, West Virginia, MichiganState and Connecticut. Yancich is the second Trinity linebacker to commit to the Big Ten this year, as Yancich’s more heralded teammate Andrew Sweat committed to OhioState a few weeks ago.

But Trinity head coach Ed Dalton had been telling recruiting writers for the past two years that Sweat wasn’t his only top linebacker, and now he has been proven right. Yancich is blessed with excellent speed, strength and athletic ability, and some think his all-around game is even better than that of his teammate.

“He can easily move up by the end of the year,” says Joe Butler of Metro Index. “He’s a horse. He can run like crazy and he’s built like a brick wall.”

Yancich was a WPIAL Class AAA all-Big Seven Conference selection last season. He is PennState’s fourth recruit in the class of 2008, and the third linebacker – all of whom are named Michael. Yancich joins Ohio’s Mike Zordich and Louisiana’s Michael Mauti at linebacker, and BlueMountain offensive lineman Matt Stankiewitch as member’s of PennState’s recruiting class.
Jun 26 2007 by Tony DeFazio