Greg Macafee stories, Page 7

Moon Area native Khama Worthy stepped into the octagon seven months ago and suffered the first loss of his UFC career, now “The Deathstar” is looking to right the ship. On Saturday, Worthy (16-7) will take on Australian Jamie Mullarkey on the UFC 260 Main Card before heavyweights Stipe Miocic...

Two years ago, the Knoch softball team put together one of the best runs in program history. The Knights went 18-3, finished third in the WPIAL Class 4A tournament and made their first PIAA playoff appearance. Now, as the Knights prepare for the 2021 season, third-year head coach Gary Coe...

In his three years at the helm of the Vincentian Academy baseball team, Bradley Bestic put together a successful run. In his first season in 2018, Vincentian Academy went 20-4 and won WPIAL and PIAA titles. A year later, the Royals finished third in the WPIAL and earned another berth...

When the coronavirus pandemic canceled last year’s spring sports season, the Kiski Area softball team lost a lot. Seniors Brooke Bires, Courtney Moyer, and Sarah Clever were three big bats in the lineup, and they had their sights set on doing big things last season. But their hopes were dashed...

Kiski Area baseball coach Aaron Albert is only returning one starter, but the third-year Cavaliers coach is glad it’s senior catcher Derek Hald. The Saint Vincent recruit has been Kiski Area’s backstop for the past three years, and he’s been a calming voice in the dugout, as well. Now, heading...

The Burrell wrestling team has been looking to get the better of Chestnut Ridge since 2014. On Wednesday night, with a trip to the PIAA Class AA semifinals on the line, the Bucs got the job done in a way that no one would’ve guessed. Heading into the 215-pound match...

Heading into last season, the Freeport Yellowjackets were set to return one of the most experienced and talented rosters in the WPIAL. Coach Ed Carr was set to have 11 seniors return from a team that went 15-7, earned a No. 1 seed in the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs and...

The Freeport softball team may be an outlier in 2021. After going 10-4 two years ago and coming up just short of winning the Section 1-3A title, the Yellowjackets will return a majority of their starting lineup after longtime coach Sam Ross utilized a talented group of freshmen and sophomores....

If a high school baseball team wasn’t loaded with freshmen or sophomores two years ago, it’s probably going to lack experience in 2021. Fox Chapel is one of those teams. Senior Dante DiMatteo is the only letter winner returning for fourth-year coach Jim Hastings from a team that went 10-8...

Like every softball team in the WPIAL, Fox Chapel is dealing with a lot of unknowns heading into the 2021 season. Chris Olbrich became head coach before last season after serving as an assistant for a few years, and the Foxes only got one scrimmage in before the season was...

Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman and Kiski Area’s Darren Miller put together special high school careers during their time in the WPIAL, but this past weekend, the pair represented Bucknell at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships. Hartman (13-3), who was making his third NCAA appearance after last year’s tournament was...

Rick Cerra has been waiting for quite a while to coach his first game as the Deer Lakes softball coach. After coaching the junior high team for four seasons, Cerra was given the job ahead of last season after former coach Craig Tialani retired. Tialani had directed the program since...

The last time the Deer Lakes baseball team took the diamond, Justin Brannagan was a freshman and Ryan Rodgers was a sophomore. Now, a year after the coronavirus pandemic canceled the spring sports season, Brannagan and Rodgers are the only two returning letter-winners for the Lancers. Although his team lacks...

Over the past four years, the seniors of the Sewickley Academy girls basketball team have taken the program to a new level. Since the 2017-2018 season, the Panthers have produced a record of 55-34, made three WPIAL semifinal appearances and three PIAA tournament appearances, including the quarterfinals two years ago....

Brian Klisavage, the official scorekeeper for Duquesne basketball since the 1980s, sat next to public address announcer Dominic Errico during dozens of games over the past seven years. No one had a better vantage point to feel Errico’s ability to bring a different level of energy to an arena. From...

Lincoln Park is all about “One More.” The Leopards want to make one more pass, one more rotation, one more effort, and, most importantly, one more win. The motto is painted above their locker-room door and as each player gets set to walk up the stairs and take the court...

Almost a month ago, former Fox Chapel southpaw Patrick Monteverde stood in right field of Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, a day before Texas Tech’s season opener against the Arkansas Razorbacks and just took everything in. Six months earlier, the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Tampa Bay Rays...

The Big South Conference is already making changes to its spring football schedule, and Robert Morris has rescheduled two of its conference games to later this spring, and another game will be moved. The Colonials were originally supposed to play Monmouth this past weekend at Joe Walton Stadium and were...

No team in the WPIAL had a better showing at the PIAA Class AAA tournament this weekend than Waynesburg. The Raiders had five wrestlers reach the finals, which is the second most in program history.They had seven wrestlers reach the finals in 1943 and came away with four champions. On...

After not placing at WPIALs a year ago, Hempfield 132-pounder Briar Priest made a run he never will forget as he won the first PIAA Class AAA title of his career over the weekend. He capped his junior season with a 34-5 record — identical to his record last year...

Almost two months ago, the top-seeded Trinity Hillers did something no other team had done in almost three years. They beat the two-time defending WPIAL Class 5A champion Chartiers Valley Colts in a nonsection matchup and snapped their state-record 64-game winning streak in the process. “They beat us on Jan....

The Sewickley Academy boys basketball team started this season without an identity or a sense of superior athletic talent that could carry them to wins. By the end of the season, though, the Panthers started doing things the old-fashioned way, and it worked. They played hard-nosed defense and limited top-seeded...

In his first year at the helm of the Quaker Valley swimming team, John Nemeth led the girls to a second-place finish at the WPIAL Class AA championships March 6. The Quakers finished with 199 team points, 55 points behind champion Northgate. They also earned gold medal finishes in both...

Coming into this season, Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar had to find a way to replace three senior starters from a team that went 21-2 a year ago and won its first 20 games of the season. He had junior guards Eli Yofan and JP Dockey returning, but...

For the fourth time in five years, the North Allegheny girls basketball team got to lift the WPIAL Class 6A trophy. Behind 24 points from senior Lizzy Groetsch, the top-seeded Tigers (24-1) led No. 2 Upper St. Clair for a majority of the game and utilized two big runs in...