Bill Beckner stories, Page 52

Westmoreland softball notebook: Hempfield comes back strong

Hempfield put together quite a four-game stretch last week — a positive and productive answer to its first loss of the season. After dropping a 2-0 decision to Seneca Valley in a game where they were no-hit, the Spartans went 4-0 last week and outscored their opponents 42-0. Hempfield labeled...
Franklin Regional fends off Latrobe in section slugfest

Franklin Regional measured up in its latest softball victory. Toryn Fulton launched a towering, opposite-field home run in the bottom of the first inning that traveled around 200 feet. In the second, third baseman Ceana Copeland made a laser throw 60 feet across the diamond to complete a double play....
With ace Cheyenne Piper putting up zeroes, Ligonier Valley jumps back into contention

Section 3-3A softball coaches are wary of the movement on Cheyenne Piper’s pitches. The spin. The rise and drop. The changes in speed. Piper’s team also has thrown a curveball at opponents with a resounding message that has reverberated through the standings and painted the outside corner: “Remember us?” Piper,...
Mt. Lebanon alone in 1st place after wild, sloppy win over Hempfield

It was a long day at the ball yard for Mt. Lebanon and Hempfield as the middle game of their Section 2-6A series flirted with dusk. By the time the sun went down, Mt. Lebanon was in first place by itself. “It was one of those last-man-standing kind of games,”...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: UPG’s Melanie Mienke sets program strikeout record

Junior softball pitcher Melanie Mienke (Plum) etched her name into the Pitt-Greensburg record book. The veteran righthander became the Bobcats’ all-time leader in strikeouts when she fanned 11 in a 6-3 victory over Wells Express. Her total climbed to 241. The previous record was held by Marley Lafferty, who pitched...
Penn-Trafford holds on for tight victory over Franklin Regional

No matter how up or down the Penn-Trafford softball team is each year — usually up — it has a tendency to play tight games at Franklin Regional. It’s like clockwork, that short trip to Murrysville. “We’ve had some crazy games here,” Penn-Trafford coach Denny Little said. “I don’t know...
Westmoreland high school athletes of the week: Southmoreland’s Amarah McCutcheon and Penn-Trafford’s Matt Sarnowski

Amarah McCutcheon School: Southmoreland Class: Senior Sport: Softball Claim to fame: McCutcheon is one of the premier power hitters in the WPIAL, and she proved it with a career-high three home runs in a 15-0 win over South Allegheny. In that game, the Scotties launched seven homers, including four in...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Jeannette soccer star picks college

Jeannette soccer star Jordan Taylor will take his goal-scoring prowess to the NCAA Division II level. The senior forward committed to play at Wheeling (W.Va.), which competes in the Mountain East Conference. Taylor, a shifty scoring machine since he first took the pitch four years ago, finished his prep career...
Norwin notebook: Track team swarms medal stand

Norwin had a number of athletes competing at the Tri-State Coaches Association Championships at West Mifflin. Most of them made it to the medal stand. Luke Denny won the 400-meter run in 50.53 seconds, and Nick Puskar was the pole vault champion (19-1), while the Knights’ 1,600 relay of Nicholas...
Norwin lacrosse standout earns spot on Hungarian national team

It is a chance to play the game he loves on a national stage and, at the same time, pay his respects to genealogy. Norwin senior Griffin Bartos has himself a win-win situation. Bartos was selected to the Hungarian national team that will play in the World Box Lacrosse Championships...
Bats heat up for Greensburg Central Catholic in win over Jeannette

For a team that struck out 19 times against Brentwood earlier this week, Greensburg Central Catholic looked pretty confident at the plate when it finally got to play rival Jeannette after multiple postponements. “We didn’t strike out once today,” Centurions coach John Boyle said. Instead, every hitter in the lineup...
Draft prospect David Shields shows stuff to MLB scouts in win over Norwin

More than a dozen pro scouts crammed together above the brick backstop at Norwin and raised their radar guns in tandem each time Mt. Lebanon’s David Shields kicked up his leg to throw a pitch. They aimed through the chain-link fence and zapped each glove-popping delivery. A top-50 MLB draft...
Latrobe baseball takes team-first mentality to heart

The team concept in sports is often overstated and cliche, trendy at times and even hyperbolic. But the Latrobe baseball program thrives on it. You might say the Wildcats have cornered the market on taking one for the team. In fact, the word “Team” is stitched into or printed on...
Westmoreland County high school baseball notebook: Seniors power Jeannette surge

Jeannette took its lumps the last three seasons, which meant the Jayhawks were due to dish out some payback. Perhaps patience has played the biggest part in this team’s turnaround. After winning just four games last season (4-13), three the previous year (3-10) and two the year before that (2-13),...
Serra Catholic overpowers Greensburg Central Catholic in Section 2-2A softball

Kelly Morrisey has been looking to contribute more to the Serra Catholic softball batting order, but the sophomore said she fell into a lull of late. A bump-up from the No. 6 spot to No. 3 in the lineup has done wonders for her confidence and has her barreling the...
Freshman, sophomore pitchers make early impact for Westmoreland County teams

Grace Stein acknowledges she had a freshman season to remember for Jeannette softball. She wears a badge of pride. But it’s the encore the super sophomore wants to focus on now. If there is a rising star in the WPIAL who is resting on her laurels, it is not Stein....

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