Chris Harlan stories, Page 120

The Quaker Valley boys basketball team and coach Mike Mastroianni experienced a heartbreaking state championship loss to Annville-Cleonas 20 years ago this winter. If they’re ready, they can rewatch it March 9 at 7 p.m. PCN announced Tuesday that it will re-air some of the great PIAA basketball championship games...

North Hills athletic director Amy Scheuneman will resign this summer and accept an administrative position with the WPIAL. Scheuneman will become associate executive director, the WPIAL announced Monday, a newly created position in the administration just below executive director Tim O’Malley. The position puts Scheuneman in line to potentially succeed...

Pine-Richland junior Luke Meckler, a two-way standout for the WPIAL champion Rams, added his first FBS offer. Meckler announced an offer from Kent State on Thursday. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound running back and safety already had an Ivy League offer from Dartmouth. Meckler rushed for 1,492 yards and scored 21 touchdowns...

Aliquippa junior Zuriah Fisher, a standout linebacker on a state championship defense, added his first Big 10 college offer. Fisher announced a Minnesota offer Friday. The Gophers joined a scholarship list that already included Syracuse, Ball State, Bowling Green, Kent State, Toledo, Temple, UMass and Youngstown State. Rivals ranks Fisher...

Pitt recruit A.J. Woods, a cornerback from Germantown, Md., was among the 38 high school football players chosen to represent Maryland in the Big 33 Football Classic. West Virginia recruits Leighton Bechdel and Osita Smith were also on the all-star game roster announced Saturday. The game is May 27 at...

Class 6A boys Mt. Lebanon (21-3) vs. Butler (20-4) 9 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 3 Mt. Lebanon (21-3) Coach: Joe David No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 4 Hayden Mitchell, G, 6-2, Sr. 10 Blaine Gartley, G, 5-9, Jr. 20 Mike Palmer, G, 5-10, Sr. 22 Sean...

Class 4A boys New Castle (20-4) vs. Quaker Valley (20-3) 1 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 1 New Castle (20-4) Coach: Ralph Blundo No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 3 Michael Wells, G, 5-9, Fr. 5 Payne Prowell, G, 5-11, Sr. 10 Donte Burnett, G, 6-0, Sr. 11...

Andrew Recchia was the only person at Petersen Events Center who already knew how this WPIAL championship would end. “I dreamt about it last night, actually,” he said. The Mars senior saw the ball in his hands, the clock running down and him making the winning shot. “Call me a...

Class 5A boys Mars (23-1) vs. Moon (23-1) 9 p.m. Friday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 1 Mars (23-1) Coach: Rob Carmody No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 2 Khori Fusco, F, 6-3, Sr. 3 Michael Carmody, F, 6-6, Jr. 13 Andrew Recchia, G, 5-11, Sr. 21 Joseph Craska, G,...

Class 2A boys Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (21-2) vs. Serra Catholic (20-3) 5 p.m. Friday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 1 OLSH (21-2) Coach: Mike Rodriguez No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 1 Ricco Tate, F, 6-3, Sr. 11 Dante Spadafora, G, 5-11, So. 13 Daren DiMichele, G,...

The final minute was so emotional, so unbelievable, that it seemed like an eternity to Ethan Morton and his Butler teammates. “It felt like forever,” he said. “I couldn’t even look.” With 60 seconds left Wednesday night, Butler held a 14-point lead over Pine-Richland in a sold-out semifinal at Fox...

Class 3A boys Lincoln Park (21-4) vs. North Catholic (21-4) 9 p.m. Thursday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 1 Lincoln Park (21-4) Coach: Mike Bariski No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 2 Johnnie Bryant, G, 6-0, Jr. 5 Isaiah Smith, G, 6-0, Jr. 10 Andre Wilder, F, 6-3, Jr. 11...

Two years ago, a star basketball player transferred home to Moon, reunited with his childhood friends and led the Tigers’ run to the WPIAL finals. Now comes the sequel. Seven months after switching schools, Donovan Johnson is following the same script. The 6-foot-6 junior scored 20 points and grabbed 14...

Chuck Crummie will no longer coach on Chuck Crummie Court. The longtime Central Catholic boys basketball coach said he was fired on Monday, an unexpected exit for one of the WPIAL’s winningest coaches after more than four decades at the school. Last February, Central Catholic named its basketball court after...

As the old saying goes, it’s hard to beat a team three times in one season. But is that true in WPIAL boys basketball? Ambridge, Pine-Richland, Mt. Lebanon and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart certainly hope not. Those four boys basketball teams have WPIAL semifinal matchups against section rivals...

Penn calls the other side of the state home, but the Quakers football coaches know their way around Western Pennsylvania. Peters Township junior Josh Casilli is the latest WPIAL standout to draw an Ivy League offer from Penn. The 6-foot, 180-pound wide receiver announced his offer Sunday after attending the...

Recruiting-wise, this was a busy week for Central Catholic junior A.J. Beatty. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound defensive end announced eight more Division 1 offers this week including his first from Power 5 schools. Beatty started his week with Pitt, added Purdue on Wednesday and finished with Rutgers and Boston College on...

North Allegheny’s Zach Kinne and Hempfield’s Mackenna Orie celebrated state track titles Sunday at the PTFCA indoor championship at Penn State. Kinne and North Allegheny teammate Dan McGoey placed first and second in the boys 3,000-meter run. A Duke recruit, Kinne won in 8:33.83, a time that ranks fourth-best nationally...

Deamontae Diggs averaged a double-double for McKeesport’s basketball team this winter, but now college football coaches are starting to take an interest in him. The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Diggs announced his first Division 1 football offer this week from Youngstown State. He played wide receiver for the Tigers last fall and...

West Allegheny lost one WPIAL champion coach but quickly added another. Laura Montecalvo, who led Chartiers-Houston to a WPIAL girls basketball title in 2017, was hired to coach West Allegheny’s track team, athletic director Dave McBain said. Montecalvo replaces Bob Palko, who was West A’s football coach for 24 seasons...

Lincoln Park’s Keeno Holmes made a 3-pointer on the opening possession and Isaiah Smith added another seconds later as the Leopards scored the first 14 points in Thursday night’s 82-54 victory over Beaver Falls in a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal at New Castle. Holmes scored a game-high 30 points for...

M.J. Devonshire was taking his official recruiting visit to Kentucky when Aliquippa lost to Neshannock in January, a loss that bothered him hundreds of miles away. “I started calling people on Facetime to watch the game while I’m out to eat,” he said. “My coach from Kentucky was like, ‘Are...