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High school notebook: Early invitationals to showcase area athletes

 By Paul Schofield
Quality, not quantity, will be on display at the 21st annual Lady Spartan and 11th annual Greater Latrobe Wildcat Invitational on Saturday at Spartan Stadium. While only 16 teams have entered the track and field meets, there still will be plenty of talent on hand. Teams entered, along with hosts …
High school notebook: PIHL stars highlight Team Pittsburgh roster for America’s Showcase
By Staff Reports
Pittsburgh will have the attention of plenty of hockey fans this week thanks to the NCAA Frozen Four being held at Consol Energy Center. Those fans also can head west to Robert Morris University’s Island Sports Center on Neville Island and see some additional high-level hockey. Some of the nation’s …
South Fayette downed by Central Valley guard’s big performance
By Nathan Smith
South Fayette girls basketball coach Matt Bacco didn’t shy away from complimenting Central Valley guard Madi Rowan after the Warriors defeated the Lions, 59-50, in …
Kittanning wins 2 straight playoff games for 1st time since 1925
By Bill West
Stressed by the man-to-man, full-court pressure Central Valley presented in the opening minute of Tuesday’s WPIAL Class AAA first-round game, Kittanning senior Sterling Henry turned …
Trib Cup: Central Valley boys gain momentum heading into playoffs
By Brian Graham
There’s always a moment in a season when a coach can look at his team and emphatically say this is when the season turned around. …
Despite Pitt pressure, Foster won’t reconsider Alabama commitment
By Kevin Gorman
If Robert Foster was going to change his commitment from Alabama to Pitt, Friday would have been the day. Panthers assistant coaches Bobby Engram and Desmond Robinson visited Central Valley in a last-ditch effort to convince him to pick Pitt. Then Foster attended the Mercury Award banquet at the Pittsburgh …
Transfers bolster Central Valley girls in loaded section
By Chris Adamski
The Central Valley School District formed 31⁄2 years ago out of a merger between Center and Monaca. The Warriors’ girls basketball team that is experiencing …
Gorman: Foster follows his heart to Alabama
By Kevin Gorman
Robert Foster sat between his mother and father, holding their hands tightly, then paused in mid-sentence and bowed his head to compose himself. The Central …
Central Valley wide receiver Robert Foster chooses Alabama
By Jerry Dipaola
The cheering and applause for Robert Foster had faded, and most students had gone home for the holiday when his mother, Sherrice Clements, walked into …
Gorman: Shell will sell Pitt to WPIAL recruits
By Kevin Gorman
Not much prodding is needed to get Rushel Shell to dish on his daydream of playing on a Pitt team where the tailback is surrounded …
West Mifflin football earns OT win over Central Valley
By Mark Kaboly
DiAngelo Mitchell knew exactly what the situation meant as it unfolded. Central Valley’s all-everything Robert Foster broke into the open field in a tie game with no time on the clock after Stanford band-like laterals, and the Warriors were about to pull off one of the most miraculous victories in …
WPIAL Class AAA semifinal matchup: West Mifflin vs. Central Valley
By Josh Yohe
Class AAA semifinals: (7) West Mifflin (10-1) vs. (3) Central Valley (9-2), 7:30 p.m. Friday at North Allegheny If contrasting styles make for compelling fights, …
High school football notebook: Fantastic finish might earn Clairton’s Boyd state record
By Chris Harlan
Clairton senior Tyler Boyd would need to score 22 more times to reach the PIAA’s career touchdown record, an enormous number that few score during an entire season. Yet, Boyd might have a chance, at least mathematically. His senior season would have six more games should Clairton reach the PIAA …
Gorman: ‘You can’t let things go to your head’
By Kevin Gorman
This wasn’t how college football fans envisioned Robert Foster and Dorian Johnson sharing the same field. They might have imagined seeing Central Valley’s Foster, ranked …
High school football notebook: Hosts with grass fields meet WPIAL deadline
By Chris Harlan
When a maintenance worker reported standing water at the stadium, Sto-Rox athletic director Bill Minear knew the outlook was bleak. The football team had hoped there would be a playoff game this weekend in McKees Rocks, but finally abandoned those plans Wednesday. Instead, the Vikings will make North Hills’ Martorelli …
Home teams might have to hit the road for WPIAL 1st round
By Chris Harlan
Despite undefeated seasons, stadiums in Aliquippa and Clairton are likely to sit empty when the WPIAL football playoffs arrive, if those teams are pushed elsewhere …
Central Valley survives shootout vs. South Park
By Chris Adamski
Olivia Pritt was mad. Coach Mark Perry was given a yellow card for arguing with an official. The whole exhausted Central Valley bench was upset. …
Central Valley girls golf wins state title
By Paul Schofield
YORK — The WPIAL didn’t get shut out from a gold medal at the PIAA golf championships after all. The Central Valley girls, who have won three consecutive WPIAL Class AA titles, made their first team trip to the championships a memorable one Wednesday at Heritage Hills Golf resort by …
WPIAL golfers fall just short of titles at PIAA championship
By Paul Schofield
YORK — No PIAA individual golf championship gold medals will be heading west this year. But the WPIAL was well represented in the medal count at the annual tournament that finished Tuesday at Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York. Leechburg junior Matt Barto (Class AA) and Peters Township senior Tommy …
Freshmen step in to help Central Valley girls to another section title
By Chris Adamski
Molly Delostrino wasn’t concerned. Perhaps that’s because she personally knew better than most. Delostrino was part of the Central Valley girls soccer team that last …
Central Catholic celebrates WPIAL boys golf championship in water hazard
By Bill Beckner Jr.
Corey O’Connor kept his promise. At the completion of play Thursday, after his team had the WPIAL Class AAA boys golf championship wrapped up, the …
Recruiting: Meyer’s persona no Urban legend
By Kevin Gorman
Ohio State is attractive to Western Pennsylvania prospects for a multitude of reasons, from its status as a perennial power in close proximity to Pittsburgh …
Girls set to take aim at WPIAL golf gold today
By Paul Schofield
Central Valley junior Macky Fouse would like to win the WPIAL Class AA title Monday, but she’s focused on leading her team to a third …
Central Valley storms past West Allegheny
By Brian J. Duermeyer
Paul Chryst and members of his Pitt staff watched from the sideline Friday night as No. 2 Central Valley hosted No. 4 West Allegheny at …
Gorman: Foster, Kincade positives for Pitt
By Kevin Gorman
While watching them play against each other Friday, it was hard not to wonder what it would be like to see Blackhawk’s Chandler Kincade throwing …