Chris Harlan stories, Page 72

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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Brad Birch is a little like a stranger visiting a foreign land when he...

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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. A TikTok account that pays tribute to the former kid stars of “Friday Night...

North Allegheny’s Cole Young shared hugs and handshakes with teammates near the first base dugout at Penn State’s baseball field, season-ending thank yous to the seniors whose high school careers were ending there. But after falling one run short in the state finals, the junior shortstop added that a return...

Suspended football coach Mauro Monz, facing a one-year ban from the WPIAL over recruiting allegations, said he’s resigning at Seton LaSalle rather than continue to appeal. “It’s too much for the school and too much for my family to take,” Monz said Thursday night, but the first-year coach maintained his...

UNIVERSITY PARK — As a first-time state finalist, Eden Christian will remember Thursday’s game for years to come, even if they’d like to forget the first two innings. Eden Christian committed three early errors, walked in a couple of runs and saw Halifax score eight times in those first two...

At around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Bethel Park pitcher Eric Chalus will take the mound for the PIAA Class 5A championship at Penn State’s Medlar Field and face Red Land’s leadoff hitter. That idea alone has him excited. The fact that Red Land’s leadoff hitter is a projected first-round MLB Draft...

Assistant football coaches Tim Sasson and Ryan Lehmeier were left searching for new jobs when their time together at Pine-Richland abruptly ended. So, they offered themselves as a packaged deal to any school needing an offensive line coach and an offensive coordinator. They found their fit at Seneca Valley. The...

The Butler football program has struggled in recent years, but the Golden Tornado has a Division I talent in rising senior Charlie Kreinbucher. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound tight end committed Tuesday to Akron. Kreinbucher chose the Zips over Division I FCS offers from Robert Morris, Bucknell, Elon, Fordham and Lehigh. He...

The WPIAL heard additional evidence about Seton LaSalle’s suspended football coaches during a lengthy hearing Monday but ultimately reached the same decision. As a result, coach Mauro Monz and assistant Jason Pinkston remain suspended for one year. “The board listen to additional testimony and felt that the sanctions provided on...

Maybe the big-game atmosphere had Anthony Miller feeling ready, seeing hundreds of New Castle fans filter into Neshannock’s baseball field. Maybe it was the fact his Red Hurricanes were one win away from the state finals. Whatever it was, Miller felt fantastic. “He said, ‘Coach, listen, I have it today....

In his 15 years as a teacher, administrator and now baseball coach at the school, Steve Good is often asked: Where is Eden Christian? “The best way I explain it is, you always hear on traffic reports about the 279 and 79 split,” he said. “We are right in the...

The WPIAL is guaranteed to have at least two teams in the state baseball finals and could have as many as five. The PIAA Class 4A and 2A brackets each will have an all-WPIAL semifinal matchup Monday at Neshannock. New Castle and Montour will play at 4 p.m. in the...

The PIAA softball semifinals will feature a pair of WPIAL championship rematches Monday at Mars. In Class 4A, Beaver plays Highlands at 2 p.m., and the 5A semifinal between Armstrong and North Hills follows at 4 p.m. The all-WPIAL matchups guarantee that at least two WPIAL teams will reach the...

Will Pennsylvania high school basketball have a shot clock in 2022? The PIAA will address that question in the coming months, executive director Bob Lombardi said Wednesday, but it hasn’t begun to explore the issue in depth since the National Federation of State High School Associations made that an option...

Penn State will allow full capacity at its baseball and softball stadiums for the upcoming PIAA championships, alleviating worries the softball finals might need to be moved. The games are June 17-18. “We’re very pleased with the dialog that we’ve had with them and the assistance that they’ve given us,”...

Mauro Monz’s status as Seton LaSalle coach remains in doubt, but the WPIAL ruled his son eligible to play football for the Rebels this fall. The WPIAL held hearings Monday for three transfers from South Fayette to Seton LaSalle — Dominic Monz, Alex Boyce and Matt Boyce — and ruled...

Norwin will host an all-WPIAL doubleheader Thursday in the state softball quarterfinals. The PIAA revealed sits and times for its quarterfinal games. Among them, Class 4A teams Beaver and Elizabeth Forward will play at noon at Norwin, followed by Mt. Pleasant and Avonworth at 2 p.m. All games are Thursday....

PIAA baseball quarterfinalists learned Tuesday where they’re playing next. The North Allegheny and Hempfield baseball teams are both traveling east to the same place for a PIAA quarterfinal doubleheader Thursday in Wingate. All quarterfinals are Thursday. The PIAA also scheduled doubleheaders involving WPIAL teams at Latrobe and Slippery Rock. WPIAL...

Serra Catholic is naming its basketball court after longtime girls coach Bill Cleary, the school announced Friday. “William J. Cleary Court” will be dedicated officially in December, said an announcement from associate principal Robert Childs. Cleary is retiring this summer after more than four decades working at the school as...

Notre Dame bought billboard space around Pittsburgh this spring, touting the many Western Pennsylvania football players who’ve joined the Fighting Irish in recent years. Make room for one more. Central Catholic’s Donovan Hinish announced his commitment to Notre Dame on Friday, choosing the same school that recruited his brother, Kurt,...

The six WPIAL softball champions will start their state tournament runs at Norwin, Peterswood Park or North Allegheny next week. The PIAA scheduled doubleheaders at all three venues. All first-round games are Monday. PIAA softball playoffs Class 6A 1-1 Spring-Ford vs. 11-2 Whitehall at Boyertown, 11 a.m. 2-1 Hazleton vs....