Chris Harlan stories, Page 115

Rarely does the WPIAL have a basketball star whose recruitment stretches nearly coast to coast. Butler’s Ethan Morton had options nationwide and chose somewhere in the middle. The 6-foot-5 junior guard committed to Purdue on Thursday night, making his college announcement on Twitter. He had nearly two dozen scholarship offers...

North Allegheny, Penn-Trafford, Mt. Pleasant, Avonworth, Chartiers-Houston and West Greene received No. 1 seeds Thursday when the WPIAL revealed softball playoff brackets. The playoffs start Tuesday for Class 5A, 3A and A. The other three classifications begin play Wednesday. The championships are May 29-30 at Peterswood Park in Peters Township....

North Allegheny and Mars received the top seeds Thursday when the WPIAL revealed brackets for the boys lacrosse playoffs. The playoffs begin Monday for Class 3A and Tuesday for Class 2A. The championships are May 24 at Robert Morris. Defending champion Mars earned the top seed in Class 2A followed...

Former Northgate, Deer Lakes and Penn-Trafford football coach T.J. Wiley is headed to Bishop Canevin. Canevin announced Wiley’s hire Wednesday on Twitter. He replaces Chris Lucas, who left Canevin for West Allegheny after one season as the Crusaders’ head coach. “Of the 14 candidates interviewed and many more considered, Coach...

Two weeks after defeating section-leading Hopewell, Beaver Falls gave the victory back. Beaver Falls became the third WPIAL baseball team to forfeit a victory this season after violating pitch-count rules, the teams announced Tuesday. The PIAA upped the single-game limit to 105 pitches this season but only for the playoffs...

Butler basketball star Ethan Morton holds nearly two dozen scholarship offers, having added one after another since Cleveland State gave him his first three summers ago. Now, it’s time to choose. The 6-foot-5 junior will announce his college choice Thursday night from a long list that includes regional schools Pitt,...

A week-long recruiting shutdown starts Monday for NCAA women’s basketball coaches, but North Catholic teammates Tess Myers and Kylee Lewandowski each pulled in an offer just before the deadline. Myers announced an offer Saturday from Temple, and Lewandowski added Fairfield on Friday. They rank among the WPIAL’s top juniors. A...

Public school advocates are planning another statewide summit this summer to further their campaign to create separate PIAA playoffs. In an email Sunday to supporters, the Pennsylvania Athletics Equity Committee announced that it will hold a summit July 30 at a site to be determined. The group organized the PA...

May isn’t typical football season in Western Pennsylvania, but it is for 68 seniors from across the state who will gather Sunday in Altoona. Rather than spend their spring weekends relaxing in the sun or getting ready for graduation, they have chosen to take part in the PSFCA East-West all-star...

Here are this week’s Trib HSSN baseball rankings: Baseball Class 6A Team, record, previous 1. Penn-Trafford, 14-2, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 13-3, 2 3. North Allegheny, 12-5, 5 4. Peters Township, 11-5, — 5. Bethel Park, 12-3, 4 Out: Seneca Valley (9-5, 3) Class 5A 1. West Allegheny, 15-2, 1 2....

The Pittsburgh Pirates have called the National League home for more than a century, but recent interleague results might make them want switch leagues. “We’ve been really good the last couple years (against the American League),” said manager Clint Hurdle, whose team entered Friday with a 16-4 record at home...

The PIAA’s new pitch-count rule forced another WPIAL baseball team to forfeit. Chartiers Valley notified the WPIAL that its April 17 victory over Trinity must be forfeited because its player threw more pitches than allowed, CV athletic director Angie Potthoff said. The loss leaves the Colts (3-10, 3-5) in fifth...

A.J. Beatty’s scholarship total has climbed for weeks, but the Central Catholic junior will start narrowing his options soon. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound defensive end revealed this week that he’ll announce a list of “top schools” on June 1. In the meantime, Beatty continues to add Division I schools. He collected...

Elliot Donald’s uncle ranks among Pitt’s all-time greats, but that didn’t stop West Virginia from recruiting him. The Central Catholic sophomore announced offers this week from West Virginia and Syracuse, raising his scholarship total to 14. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound defensive tackle ranks among the WPIAL’s top recruits in the 2021...

Nebraska’s football roster lists 75 players from the Cornhusker State and a number of others from the midwest, but coach Scott Frost’s staff is making a push in Pennsylvania. Four WPIAL standouts announced offers this week from Nebraska: Aliquippa junior Zuriah Fisher, Baldwin sophomore Dorien Ford, Gateway sophomore Derrick Davis...

Here’s a look at this week’s Trib HSSN WPIAL baseball rankings: Baseball rankings Class 6A 1. Penn-Trafford, 12-1, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 10-3, 2 3. Seneca Valley, 9-3, 3 4. Bethel Park, 10-2, 4 5. North Allegheny, 9-5, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. West Allegheny, 12-2, 1 2. Franklin Regional,...

Latrobe sprinter Zakharee Williams always has considered himself a strong finisher. So, making his final appearance on his home track, the senior won four events Saturday and earned MVP honors at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association championship meet. Williams won individual medals in the boys 100 and 400 meters, and...

As Burrell’s Kaylen Sharrow stood at the starting line, the hurdlers in the other lanes weren’t what concerned her most. “The first thing that came to my head was, ‘Oh my god, the wind!’ ” said Sharrow, who starred down 20-mph gusts Saturday at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association championship...

The public address announcer gave Moses Malone a Roundball Classic introduction of Biblical proportions. “Thou shall not enter the lane, thou shall not block my shot, and the place roared,” said John Giammarco, once a ball boy for the original Roundball Classic and now owner of the Pittsburgh Basketball Club....

JB Shuck rubbed his sore shoulder in the clubhouse Thursday, the shoulder that crashed into the PNC Park wall while stealing a home run. It is a price he was willing to pay. The Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder made a running, twisting, leaping catch that should rank among this season’s...

Arizona Diamondbacks ace Zack Greinke sliced a line drive into the right-field corner Thursday and legged out a triple as the ball rolled to the Clemente Wall. That one extra-base hit, his first career triple, was more than he allowed all afternoon. The Pittsburgh Pirates managed two singles in seven...

West Mifflin sophomore Nahki Johnson could watch the recruiting version of the Backyard Brawl. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound defensive end/outside linebacker announced scholarship offers about two hours apart Wednesday from Pitt and West Virginia, the latest Division 1 schools to joins his growing list. He now lists five FBS offers. Johnson...

Central Catholic dipped into the college ranks Wednesday and hired Brian Urso as boys basketball coach. Urso is director of basketball administration at Robert Morris, a position he will maintain in a limited role. Previously, the Fox Chapel graduate was an assistant at Chatham in 2015, when the school first...