Chris Harlan stories, Page 110

Four more names joined the list of Division I basketball teams recruiting North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch. The 5-foot-11 junior guard added Toledo, Lafayette, UMass and Charlotte since Saturday, raising her total to a dozen offers. Groetsch, a 2021 graduate, already listed offers from Binghamton, Brown, Colgate, Drexel, Penn, Richmond, Stony...

West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson will learn this month whether he can play football in the fall. Johnson, ruled ineligible by the WPIAL, will have his appeal heard July 30 by the PIAA. The rising junior and Pitt recruit transferred from Steel Valley in December. Steel Valley administrators contested Johnson’s transfer...

Belle Vernon sophomore Devin Whitlock, a two-sport standout who transferred from Monessen, is eligible to play football and basketball this upcoming school year. Whitlock had a hearing Monday before the WPIAL board, which declared him eligible with a split vote, said WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley. The WPIAL originally declared...

The WPIAL’s leading scorer is headed to the Great Plains. Recent Woodland Hills graduate Keandre Bowles, a 28.9-point scorer, announced Sunday his commitment to Barton College in Great Bend, Kan. The team competes in Division I of the National Junior College Athletic Association. The 6-foot-3 guard was a Trib 10...

Bishop Canevin’s Diajha Allen, a rising senior, announced her commitment to St. Francis (Pa.) basketball Sunday. The 5-foot-5 guard averaged 13.2 points for the Crusaders, who went 22-4 last season, reaching the WPIAL semifinals and the PIAA second round. The 2020 graduate revealed her commitment on Twitter. St. Francis hired...

Bethel Park’s Olivia Westphal added several more names to her scholarship list Sunday. The 5-foot-9 rising junior received offers from Charlotte, Miami (Ohio), Toledo and Wichita State, her AAU team announced on Twitter. Westphal, a 2021 recruit, was a 16-point scorer last season for Bethel Park. The Black Hawks went...

Chartiers Valley basketball standout Aislin Malcolm, one of the WPIAL’s top rising sophomores, received an offer Sunday from West Virginia. Her AAU team, the Western Pa. Bruins, announced her offer on Twitter. The 5-foot-10 guard already held offers from Pitt and Kent State. Malcolm was a key contributor this past...

North Allegheny’s Jake Lugg plays left tackle for the Tigers like older brother, Josh, did a few years earlier. With two Division I linemen in the same family, it’s inevitable they’re compared often — maybe too often. “I love being compared to him sometimes,” Lugg said, “and sometimes I feel...

The WPIAL could change the way soccer games are officiated next season, if the PIAA approves. The PIAA board must decide Wednesday whether to let the WPIAL organize a pilot program that transitions its officials to the “diagonal system of control” used by soccer organizations around the world rather than...

Pennsylvania high school baseball teams could play a few more regular-season games next season, if the PIAA baseball steering committee gets its wish. The PIAA board of directors on Wednesday will consider a recommendation from the baseball committee to increase the in-season maximum from 20 to 24 games. “This is...

With Moon and Mars leading the way, it’s safe to say the 2018-19 WPIAL boys basketball season was out of this world. It helps that the two Class 5A rivals combined for one of the most memorable finishes in WPIAL championship history. Andrew Recchia made a game-winning 3-pointer with 2.6...

Basketball star Donovan Johnson will learn next week whether he can play his senior season at Moon. The PIAA has scheduled his appeal hearing for Wednesday, said PIAA administrator Mark Byers. The PIAA board meets that day in State College. The 6-foot-7 standout is ineligible for next season under a...

Northgate football coach Michael Fulmore was headed home after a summer workout when something high in the Bellevue sky grabbed his attention. For the first time in two years, there were light towers above Alumni Field. “I was driving down the street and could see them from the main avenue,”...

The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. West Mifflin’s season opener is only six weeks away, and Nahki Johnson doesn’t know...

Once a Tiger, always a Tiger? The Ivy League added another WPIAL football recruit Wednesday when North Allegheny’s Luke Colella committed to Princeton. The wide receiver and defensive back also listed offers from Central Michigan, Robert Morris, Columbia, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Sacred Heart. Colella announced his commitment...

Central Catholic’s Will Ray is the lastest WPIAL baseball recruit heading south. The left-handed hitting outfielder committed Monday to Wake Forest, continuing a trend that’s seen ACC and SEC schools recruit players from Western Pennsylvania. Among them, Blackhawk graduate Michael Turconi was a freshman for the Demon Deacons this past...

Some sprinters will have an extra 10 meters to make their relay exchange, the National Federation of State High School Associations decided. The NFHS followed the NCAA’s lead and extended exchange zones in the shortest relays from 20 to 30 meters. The change affects only relays with legs of 200...

Woodland Hills’ next boys basketball coach might already work in the school’s athletic department. Athletic director Ron Coursey, who previously coached basketball at Propel Andrew Street and Greater Works, is among the candidates for the job. The school board is expected to make a decision soon. The group meets July...

The Western Pennsylvania vs. Everyone Football Showcase is officially too big for one stadium. The multi-game Week Zero event was held entirely at Woodland Hills’ Wolvarena last season, but this year will grow to include two games at North Allegheny’s Newman Stadium. All combined, there are eight games on Aug....

Two rising seniors in the WPIAL each received their first Division I football offers this week from St. Francis. Baldwin’s Naseer Penn and Bethel Park’s Jehvonn Lewis announced offers days apart from the Red Flash, an FCS program in the Northeast Conference. Lewis (5-10, 160) plays running back and defensive...

The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during Trib HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald noticed a video on Twitter this week that showed...

Pine-Richland pitcher Tommy Beam, who helped the Rams win a WPIAL title this spring, committed Friday to West Virginia. Beam will be a junior in the fall. The 6-foot-5 right-hander went 5-3 with a 1.48 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 47 1/3 innings. He earned the win in the WPIAL...

Fifteen years had passed since Darrelle Revis last played WPIAL football, but his name came up often last December in Hershey. Penn Hills senior Daequan Hardy had a four-touchdown, three-interception effort in the PIAA Class 5A football championship that drew comparisons to the former Aliquippa great. A day later, Revis’...

Ayden Owens enjoyed his freshman year on the West Coast, the warm weather and the Los Angeles lifestyle. But to reach his decathlon dreams, the former North Allegheny track star decided he needed a change. Owens announced Monday that he’ll transfer from Southern Cal to Michigan, leaving the Pac-12 for...

North Allegheny’s Jasmine Timmerson hasn’t started high school but already has a Division 1 basketball offer. The freshman-to-be announced an offer this week from Duquesne coach Dan Burt. The Dukes recruit Western Pennsylvania thoroughly and has five current players with WPIAL roots, but rarely does an incoming ninth grader receive...