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Pitt’s Jeff Capel ‘excited’ to add Oakland transfer Dan Oladapo
The Pitt men’s basketball program officially added Oakland transfer Dan Oladapo on Wednesday after the rebounding specialist announced his transfer earlier this week. The 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward started all 30 games and averaged 12.9 points and 8.8 rebounds for the Golden Grizzlies this past season as they reached the Horizon...
Pitt volleyball players make program history with All-America selections
Pitt volleyball’s historic season reached another milestone moment Wednesday when two players were named to the All-America second team for the first time in program history. Senior outside hitter Kayla Lund was named to the All-America second team for the second straight season and became the first player in Pitt...
Robert Morris announces 2021 Big South fall football schedule
Robert Morris announced its full Big South Conference schedule for its 2021 fall football season Wednesday. Robert Morris’ first full season as an associate member in the Big South will kick off with a matchup against North Carolina A&T on Oct. 2, in Greensboro, N.C. They also will travel to...
Texas Tech transfer Jamarius Burton announces commitment to Pitt
Pitt men’s basketball coach Jeff Capel has had an eventful 24 hours. After landing a commitment from Oakland University transfer Dan Oladapo on Monday, Texas Tech transfer guard Jamarius Burton announced his commitment to the Panthers via his Instagram account Tuesday night. View this post on Instagram A post shared...
Kiski Area hires alum Corey Smith as new boys basketball coach
Corey Smith is coming home, and he couldn’t be happier. “It’s a great day to be a Cavalier,” Smith said. Smith, who attended Kiski Area from 1999-2002 and played for the Cavaliers as a sophomore, junior and senior, was named Kiski Area’s new boys basketball coach Monday night. The Cavaliers...
Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi sees improvement heading into Blue-Gold spring game
It was cold and gloomy Saturday, but Pat Narduzzi got a clear look at his football team when the offense and defense squared off in a 137-play scrimmage at Heinz Field. In a video conference call with media members Tuesday, Narduzzi said the offense won the scrimmage by a few...
Talbots top Fox Chapel in extra innings to earn key section victory
Redemption was the name of the game Monday night at Hampton High School as the Talbots topped Section 2-5A opponent Fox Chapel, 4-3. With the Talbots (5-5, 5-2) down by one in the bottom of the seventh inning, senior Brock Mattiuz hit a fly ball to the infield and rounded...
Deer Lakes volleyball battles through early-season adversity
A year after the coronavirus pandemic canceled its entire season, the Deer Lakes boys volleyball team still is dealing with the virus. The Lancers aren’t letting it completely nix their season this time around, though. Most recently, Deer Lakes has dealt with a shutdown that will keep it off the...
Competition hits close to home for Quaker Valley’s Sirianni twins
Stepping onto the tennis court to compete for a WPIAL section title is a goal in itself, but imagine stepping onto the court and seeing your twin on the opposite side. Twin brothers Mike and Will Sirianni, who are juniors at Quaker Valley, found themselves in that situation April 8...
Three A-K Valley girls capture titles at Keystone State Championships
Ava Golding, Alaina Claassen and Arianna Bernard wrestle for Team Namaste at Battleground Training Center in Vandergrift, and after the Keystone State Championships in early April, they all can call themselves state champions. The wrestlers won state championships in their respective weight classes during the event held at the Monroeville...
Hot bats leading Sewickley Academy baseball to fast start
The fence at James E. Swartz Memorial Field in Freeport went up three days before St. Joseph and Sewickley Academy faced off April 13 in a Section 3-A matchup, and it didn’t take long for Panthers shortstop Adin Zorn to christen it. Zorn was 5 for 5 at the plate,...
Shady Side Academy baseball focused on winning section title
The Shady Side Academy baseball team has a goal in mind. The Bulldogs want to win a Section 3-2A title and earn a high seed for the playoffs, but they aren’t in any rush to get there. “Our expectation is to compete for the section title for sure,” Shady Side...
Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan picks up first Division I offer
Over the past three years, Fox Chapel junior Eli Yofan has shown what he is capable of on the basketball court. He led the Foxes to back-to-back No. 2 seeds in the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs and has helped them put together two straight 20-plus win seasons. Yofan averaged 22.4...
A-K Valley baseball notebook: Plum captures back-to-back section victories in exciting fashion
The Plum Mustangs have gotten off to a perfect section start, and they’ve done so in a dramatic way. After two wins over Armstrong on April 3 to start their section schedule, the Mustangs earned two comeback victories over Mars this past week to stay undefeated in Section 2-5A play....
Fox Chapel baseball opens season with resiliency, confidence
Heading into this season, Fox Chapel baseball coach Jim Hastings wasn’t sure how his roster would shape up after a year off due to the coronavirus pandemic. He only had one player returning with varsity experience, but he knew that he had a few players with talent and he had...
Indiana, Chartiers Valley roar into Penguins Cup finals in Class A
It didn’t take long for Indiana to take control Wednesday in its PIHL Class A semifinal matchup with Freeport. The Indians peppered Freeport freshman goaltender Tyler Lang with shots from the first whistle and took a lead six minutes into the game with a goal from Tanner Agnello. They added...
A-K Valley youth wrestlers shine at Keystone State Championships
During the first weekend in April, youth wrestlers from around the state converged on Monroeville Convention Center for the Keystone State Championships, and a few young A-K Valley wrestlers came away with medals around their neck. The Hutcherson brothers, Marco and Mario, from Kiski Area, earned top-three finishes in their...
Knoch senior tosses 4-inning no-hitter to secure first section win of season
Knoch senior Brayden Hageter got more than enough run support Monday at Pullman Park as the Knights took on Section 1-4A opponent Burrell for the first time this season. But, as it turned out, he needed only one. Hageter was one walk away from throwing a four-inning perfect game and...
Valley baseball field gets ‘complete overhaul’ during pandemic canceled season
The coronavirus pandemic might have stopped the Valley baseball team from playing last season, but head coach Jim Basilone and assistant coach Brad Wood took advantage of the downtime in a big way and gave the Vikings’ home field a makeover. Over the course of the past year and a...
Quaker Valley boys tennis in title contention with deep lineup
The Quaker Valley boys tennis team went on a run to the PIAA tournament in 2019 and finished with an overall regular season record of 10-2. Before the coronavirus pandemic canceled their season last year, the Quakers were hoping to do it again. Now, for a third straight season, the...
Team effort helps Sewickley Academy girls lacrosse get off to hot start
The Sewickley Academy girls lacrosse team started the 2021 season with back-to-back wins over Peters Township and Shaler, and both wins came in different ways. The win over Peters Township, a tight three-goal victory, came in a typical grind-it-out game as the Panthers battled adversity with the weather and their...
Shady Side Academy boys tennis confident after undefeated start
Shady Side alum Sam Miller took over the school’s boys tennis program before last year and was two weeks into his tenure before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the spring sports season. A change in leadership and lost season haven’t stopped the Bulldogs from getting off to a hot start in...
Fox Chapel boys tennis ready to reset with new starting lineup
Leading up to last season, the Fox Chapel boys tennis team had put together a dominant run, winning four straight WPIAL team titles. But with a canceled season last year because of the coronavirus pandemic and an influx of new players, the Foxes have found themselves resetting in 2021. With...
Small ball helps Shaler sneak past Fox Chapel in Section 3-5A
The Shaler Area softball team has been showing off its power, but after a one-run loss to West Allegheny earlier this week, coach Tom Sorce said the Titans were going to do whatever they could to push runs across the plate. With the score tied 1-1 in the bottom of...
Robert Morris announces 2021 nonconference football schedule
Robert Morris is still finishing up its 2021 spring football season, but its fall schedule is one step closer to being complete after the Colonials announced three nonconference opponents Friday. Before playing eight Big South opponents between Oct. 2 and Nov. 20, the Colonials will kick off their 2021 fall...
