Chris Harlan stories, Page 114

Jarett Bach’s first-round start didn’t meet his high standards, but Monday’s was surely one of his best. The Yough left-hander struck out 10, walked only one and kept South Park off balance to win 3-1 in a WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinal at West Mifflin. With an MLB scout watching from...

Plum sophomore Kennedie Montue, the team’s leading scorer two years in a row, announced her first Division 1 basketball offer Sunday from Marshall. The 5-foot-11 forward is a versatile scorer who can play multiple positions. She averaged 18.4 points and 7.1 rebounds last season for Plum, a WPIAL Class 5A...

Western Pennsylvania football fans probably know Colorado State as the alma mater of former Steelers linebacker Joey Porter. But the school is becoming much more familiar across the region. The Mountain West program recently offered scholarships this week to offensive linemen Kevin Meeder and Josh Kaltenberger of Seneca Valley and...

College recruiters are chasing after Westinghouse’s Dayon Hayes, but he’s not the only Division 1 football prospect in the City League. University Prep junior Michael Snowden, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound linebacker, announced his first FBS offer Saturday from Akron. Snowden also played wide receiver and running back last season, and has...

Former Pine-Richland and West Allegheny football standout Kenny White, now a junior college freshman, announced a scholarship offer from Akron. White listed several Division 1 offers while starring in the WPIAL including Iowa State, but this offer from the Zips was his first since enrolling at Garden City (Kan.) Community...

Former North Catholic linebacker Nikhai Hill-Green, who ranked among the WPIAL’s top college recruits before transferring out of state, announced a Top 5 list Friday that included Pitt and four Big Ten schools. Along with the Panthers, Hill-Green narrowed his list to Wisconsin, Michigan, Purdue and Indiana. The 6-foot-2, 205-pound...

Central Catholic junior A.J. Beatty, who leads WPIAL football recruits with more than 40 combined FBS and FCS offers, narrowed his lengthy list Friday. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound defensive end announced a Top Seven that included West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Central Florida, Purdue, North Carolina State and Maryland. Rivals...

Brendan O’Malley’s twin brother Bailey won WPIAL gold last season and defended his shot put title again Thursday. So now that his brother owned two gold medals, Brendan knew exactly what he had to do. “I had to win three,” said the senior, who won the boys 200, 400 and...

As a six-time WPIAL champion, South Park’s Maura Huwalt now ranks among the most accomplished throwers in WPIAL history. But the senior doesn’t consider herself your prototypical thrower. “A lot of people that I’ve met, they always want to be the best thrower, the best thrower, the best thrower —...

Breaking a WPIAL record made M.J. Devonshire smile, but what he liked most was that he’d supplanted a fellow Quips great. “Another Aliquippa guy does it again,” said Devonshire, who won the 100 meters in 10.67 seconds at the WPIAL Class AA track and field championship Thursday at Slippery Rock...

Waynesburg hurdler Daniel Layton tried not to think about his stressful week when standing at the starting line. “I tried to block it out as much as I could,” Layton said, “but honestly it gave me a little bit more energy because now I had something to prove.” Layton, who...

A clerical error will not prevent Waynesburg’s Daniel Layton from defending his WPIAL title in the 110-meter hurdles, the PIAA decided Wednesday. A PIAA appeals panel voted 5-0 to overturn a WPIAL decision and allow Layton to compete in the event at Thursday’s WPIAL championships even though his coach had...

Hours after earning all-state player of the year honors, Moon’s Donovan Johnson received a scholarship offer from North Carolina. The Tar Heels offered Johnson on Tuesday, said his father Gil. The 6-foot-7 junior already held offers from Pitt Arizona, Ohio State, TCU, Xavier and others. What makes North Carolina more...

Moon’s Donovan Johnson was named as the state’s Class 5A boys basketball player of the year Tuesday and Adam Kaufman was named coach of the year after leading the Tigers to a PIAA title in March. Johnson averaged 22.6 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.3 steals and 1.5 blocks per game as...

The WPIAL board voted Monday to schedule hearings for two basketball programs facing recruiting allegations. The board wants to hear from Central Catholic boys basketball coach Brian Urso, McKeesport assistant girls coach Troy Blackwell and athletic administrators from both schools, said WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley. Information was presented to...

Waynesburg’s Daniel Layton won’t be able to defend his WPIAL hurdles title unless the PIAA intervenes. The senior was accidentally scratched from the 110-meter hurdles by his father/coach Rick Layton, a clerical error that Waynesburg asked the WPIAL to fix before the district championships arrive Thursday. But the WPIAL board...

Football season is still months away, but USA Today released its “Way-Too-Early” high school rankings this week. Defending PIAA Class 6A champion St. Joseph’s Prep was the only Pennsylvania team ranked in the Top 25. The Hawks were ranked No. 21. St. Joseph’s defeated defeated Pine-Richland in the state semifinals...

One of the WPIAL’s smallest schools features one of the WPIAL’s biggest sophomores. Union’s Aaron Gunn, a 6-foot-4, 305-pound lineman, announced his second Power 5 conference offer from West Virginia. The Mountaineers join Kentucky, which offered Gunn his first Division 1 scholarship last summer. He was named as a first-team...

Class 6A Favorite: Penn-Trafford has never won a WPIAL baseball title, but the Warriors enter this year’s playoffs as the No. 1 seed. Section 2 champion P-T owns early-season wins over North Allegheny (6-5) and Pine-Richland (13-2). Senior Mario Disso leads with a .351 average. Challengers: Pine-Richland won Section 1...

Oakland Catholic and Upper St. Clair earned the No. 1 seeds in the WPIAL girls lacrosse brackets revealed Friday. USC claimed the top spot in Class 3A followed by Shady Side Academy, Fox Chapel and Bethel Park. In Class 2A, Quaker Valley was seeded second, Hampton was third and Seton...

Penn-Trafford, West Allegheny, Greensburg Salem, Freeport, Shenango and California received No. 1 seeds Friday when the WPIAL revealed baseball playoff brackets. Play begins Wednesday and Thursday. The championships are May 28-29 at Wild Things Park in Washington. Class 6A Thursday’s games No. 1 Penn-Trafford – bye No. 8 Upper St....

The WPIAL doesn’t produce an abundance of major-college men’s basketball recruits, but it has seen its share of three- and four-star prospects in recent years. The latest to pick a college, Butler junior Ethan Morton, committed Thursday night to Purdue. Rivals ranks the 6-foot-5 guard as a four-star recruit. He...