Greg Macafee stories, Page 13

The Sewickley Academy hockey team may have a small roster made up of just 13 players, but they make up for their lack of depth with hard work and talent, and they have gotten off to a hot start this season. Through four games, the Panthers have already matched their...

The Quaker Valley girls basketball team has great expectations this year. They want to lift WPIAL gold and hang a championship banner in their gym. In order to do that, though, coach Tom Demko and the Quakers knew that they would have to get a few signature wins throughout their...

In recent years, the Fox Chapel boys basketball team has shaped its identity around success on the defensive end. Four years ago, when the Foxes finished 19-4, they allowed an average of 53.4 points, and they haven’t allowed an average higher than that since. They look to keep opponents under...

After suffering a pair of disappointing losses and some crucial injuries earlier this season, the Fox Chapel girls basketball team persevered for their first victory of the season Jan. 12 when they took down Section 2-5A foe Hampton, 58-49. Fox Chapel’s first two games resulted in a seven-point loss to...

Three Highlands players are getting one more opportunity to show what they are capable of on the football field. This weekend, seniors Kaleb White, Jeremiah Saunders and Jeremiah Nelson will travel to Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Ala., to compete in the DREAM All-American Bowl. Players from 25...

Heading into this season, Highlands boys basketball coach Tyler Stoczynski knew he was going to have to ask sophomore point guard Jimmy Kunst to carry the scoring load. On Friday night, when the Golden Rams (1-0, 1-0) visited No. 1-ranked Mars (3-1, 2-1), Kunst stepped up big. After erasing an...

Former Clairton and Penn State star Lamont Wade is heading to the NFL. On Thursday, Wade announced that he was declaring for the NFL draft on his Twitter account after four seasons in State College. Galatians 6:9“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we...

For the past few years, the Fox Chapel boys basketball team has taken pride in its success on defense, but through three games this season, the Foxes haven’t quite lived up to their expectations. After allowing only three teams to score more than 50 points last season and finishing with...

Knoch junior Ryan Lang may have been the best kept secret in the WPIAL heading into this season, but through the Knights’ first three games, the sharp-shooting guard is starting to make a name for himself. Since Knoch’s opener with Mars on Dec. 11, before Gov. Tom Wolf shut down...

The matchup between WPIAL Class 2A No. 1 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and No. 2 Springdale on Tuesday was a year in the making. Both teams but together fantastic seasons last year, but Springdale’s was derailed by Winchester Thurston in the WPIAL quarterfinals before OLSH went on to...

With a new coach and a rejuvenated attitude, the Knoch wrestling team is ready to surprise teams this year as the Knights drop down to WPIAL Class AA and gain a few new wrestlers. Bob Waldron, who is originally from the New Jersey area and has been around wrestling his...

The Burrell wrestling team got its season started off on the right foot this weekend when it traveled to the North Allegheny Wright Automotive Invitational. Out of 13 weight classes, the Bucs had two first-place finishers, one second, two thirds and three fourths. Each weight class had between seven and...

During the North Allegheny Wright Automotive Invitational this weekend, the No. 1 or No. 2 seeded wrestler won 11 of the 13 weight classes. That allowed Burrell freshman Cooper Hornack to stand out in his first varsity competition. The 113-pounder was given the No. 4 seed and worked his way...

Seneca Valley wrestlers started their season with two impressive wins at the Reynolds Duals this past weekend, securing victories over powerhouse Reynolds and Saegertown. Eight different Raiders wrestlers won both their matches Saturday, with Alejandro Herrera-Rondon, Chanz Shearer, Tyler Chappell, Connor Smith, TJ Border and Antonio Amelio leading the way....

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds are hoping to help improve soccer in western Pennsylvania and they are looking to do it in a big way. On Tuesday, the Riverhounds announced the launch of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds Tournament Series, which is a grouping of tournaments that will take place over the course of...

Before Gov. Tom Wolf put a three-week pause on high school athletics across the state, the Sewickley Academy boys and girls basketball teams were able to reward their players for all their hard work with a game. The boys won a nonsection matchup over Cornell, 68-40, and the girls did...

In the first five minutes of practice on Jan. 4, Quaker Valley girls basketball coach Tom Demko could tell his girls were excited to be back. “We usually warm up with some layups and that told us right there. Wow,” Demko said. “They went hard in the first five minutes,...

Unlike most teams around Western Pennsylvania, the newly named Shady Side Academy Bulldogs didn’t get an opportunity to start practices on Jan. 4. After taking covid-19 tests that day, the date that teams were permitted to return to practice, the Bulldogs had to wait 48 hours for their results before...

When the Highlands boys basketball team won its first WPIAL basketball title since 1995 last season, the Rams did so with three talented seniors and several important role players who clicked when the time was right. Current senior Dom Pesci was forced to watch from the bench because he missed...

Another Women’s Premier Soccer League team is coming to the city of Pittsburgh, ahead of the 2021 season. On Saturday, the WPSL, which is entering its 23rd season and is the largest women’s soccer league in the world with more that 130 clubs in 35 states, announced Century United would...

The winter sports offseason is when players and teams can use their extra time to improve for the following season. They get together, play in fall leagues, hold open gyms and attend summer team camps in order to become more of a team. The time is important as players learn...

Springdale boys basketball coach Aaron Epps was expecting his team to be sloppy Friday night as it opened its season with a nonsection matchup against Northgate at Donald C. McGhee Fieldhouse. So, when the Dynamos only scored nine points in the first quarter, compared to Northgate’s six, Epps wasn’t surprised....

For the past 30 years, Kiski Area wrestling coach Chris Heater has spent most of his winter vacation in the wrestling room, putting his athletes through practices and preparing them for tournaments and future matches. This year has been different, though. With the three-week pause that was put into place...

The Washington Wild Things have found their next manager in Tom Vaeth, who was a longtime assistant for the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association. Washington also announced the hiring of pitching coach Alex Bosher in a news release Wednesday. “Tom brings a wealth of knowledge from his time in...

Penn State’s men’s basketball game scheduled for Wednesday at Ohio State has been postponed due to positive covid-19 tests in the Nittany Lions program. “Individuals with a positive test have been put into isolation. In addition to isolation, contact tracing procedures have been implemented, which includes quarantine and testing for...