Jerin Steele stories, Page 31
Kiski Valley Pony League team celebrates perfect season
The Kiski Valley 14-and-under Pony League baseball team was an example of perfection this summer. Not only did they finish 19-0 and win the Allegheny River League Championship, but they dominated every aspect of the game. Kiski Valley outscored opponents 185-21 and recorded a 3-1 victory over Kiski 2 in...
Points leader finds Sweet spot in World of Outlaws Silver Cup at Lernerville
Brad Sweet beat the field — and the weather — Tuesday night at Lernerville Speedway. With lightning flashing in the distance, Sweet, the current World of Outlaws points leader and two-time defending series champion, took the lead from local favorite Sye Lynch on Lap 12 and cruised to a $25,000...
World of Outlaws drivers look to top last year’s dramatic finish in Silver Cup at Lernerville
In a 2020 World of Outlaws season that had plenty of close finishes, last year’s Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup was near the top of the highlight reel. Ten-time series champion Donny Schatz, two-time defending champion Brad Sweet and Kyle Larson waged a battle over the last 15 laps. Schatz...
Husband-wife team ready for best at Lernerville
For their first date, Michael Bauer took his future wife, Shannon, to a sprint car race he was competing in at Mercer Raceway Park and the night couldn’t have gone any better. “We won the heat and the feature,” Michael said. “It was kind of funny because I had to...
Behun, Loudermilk to lead Quaker Valley girls soccer as co-head coaches
Former Quaker Valley girls soccer coach Jamie Birmingham knew he was going to step down at the end of last season, so he approached assistants Maggie Behun and Rachel Loudermilk and asked them if they wanted to step up into the role. It didn’t take long for the pair to...
Coach Lilley not pleased with Riverhounds’ play despite 1-0 victory
The good news for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on Saturday night was they won their third straight game at Highmark Stadium with a 1-0 victory over Loudoun United F.C. and moved into a first-place tie in the USL Atlantic Division. Their play however, in the eyes of coach Bob Lilley, left...
Quaker Valley Hall of Famer takes reins of school’s girls basketball program
Quaker Valley has been a focal point in many chapters of Ken Johns’ life. He was a three-sport athlete at the school, coached at the youth and middle school levels and has watched his children make their athletic impact with the Quakers. Now he’s ready to add to his Quaker...
Fox Chapel basketball gets boost from summer competitions
Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar looks at summer team camps as a good way to self scout and grow as a unit in a more relaxed environment compared to the grind of a WPIAL basketball season. Winning is always good too, no matter where the ball is being...
Young Township jumps on Murrysville in American Legion playoffs
Young Township struck for seven runs in the fourth inning, and then lightning struck. Rain soon accompanied the lightning, and the inclement weather eventually forced a suspension of Thursday’s District 31 American Legion quarterfinal with No. 4 Young Township leading No. 5 Murrysville, 7-1, in the bottom of the fourth...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Jeremiah Hasley, Pine-Richland
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. Jeremiah Hasley went on a visit to Duke in late June and left with...
Riverhounds finally get victory vs. Charlotte
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds celebrated the Fourth of July weekend by finally beating Charlotte Independence. After going winless in their first dozen tries against Charlotte, the Riverhounds broke through with a 1-0 victory Saturday night at Highmark Stadium. The Riverhounds had seven losses and five draws against the Independence, but Anthony...
Highlands grad has no regrets, plenty of good memories from U.S. Olympic swim trials
Bailey Bonnett left the U.S. Olympic swimming trials a couple weeks ago knowing she gave everything she had. The belief that she left everything in the pool and being around her Kentucky teammates made her second trip to the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., an enjoyable experience despite coming within...
Fox Chapel’s Zoe Skirboll competes with nation’s best swimmers at Olympic qualifiers
Zoe Skirboll went into this year’s Olympic swimming trials with the attitude of enjoying the moment and gaining experience for the future. She didn’t make the Team USA swim team, but she produced one of the her best efforts and gained confidence she could one day be an Olympian. Skirboll,...
Pine-Richland’s Jeremiah Hasley commits to Duke
Like many local athletes, Jeremiah Hasley’s recruiting process started with phone calls and Zoom meetings with college coaches last year with campus visits restricted due to the covid-19 pandemic. Once Hasley got the green light to go on some visits this summer, Duke was on his list, and he immediately...
Quaker Valley 6th grader excels at Junior Olympics swim meet
At age 5, Amelia Suhayda started swimming just for fun. Never did she or her parents imagine that six years later, she’d become one of the top swimmers in the country in her age group. Suhayda, a rising sixth grader in the Quaker Valley School District, recently won two events...
Brandon Overton shakes off contact, wins 2nd Firecracker 100 at Lernerville
Brandon Overton won his second Firecracker 100 on Saturday at Lernerville Speedway, but he had to overcome a close call to do so. While under caution on lap 51, Brent Larson came out of the infield work area and while driving by the field to assume his spot at the...
World of Outlaws feature win at Lernerville brings back memories for Brandon Overton
Lernerville Speedway has plenty of sentimental value for Brandon Overton. He won his first World of Outlaws feature at the Buffalo Township race track in 2016, and it was a launching pad for his career. Overton won the Firecracker 100 in 2017 and recently pocketed $273,000 for winning the 2021...
Brandon Sheppard takes 1st on opening night of Firecracker 100 weekend at Lernerville
Brandon Sheppard found his win in Thursday night’s preliminary feature for the Firecracker 100 encouraging for several reasons. For starters, it was just nice to get a win in general after going a month and a half without one on tour. The other reason was that the track was slick,...
Lernerville leader Colton Flinner eyes big Firecracker 100 weekend
Colton Flinner has had a consistent year at Lernerville Speedway with a pair of second- and third-place finishes and is leading the super late model championship point standings. Those are all good things for Flinner, but he wants nothing more than to break through for his first super late model...
2-time Lernerville champ Michael Norris eyes hometown win in Firecracker 100
In the last few years, Michael Norris has fared pretty well when the World of Outlaws Late Model Series has come to town for the Firecracker 100 weekend. Norris won a preliminary feature in 2018 and ’19, which were special moments for the two-time Lernerville Speedway track champion. Now he...
Gibsonia-based driver Kohan aiming for spot in Lernerville’s Firecracker 100
Kelvin Kohan is in his third full season of racing super late models at Lernerville Speedway in Buffalo Township, and every time he hits the track with his bright red No. 15 car, he’s still learning. That’s the nature of the beast when trying to wrestle an 800-plus horsepower engine...
Pine-Richland crew team closes season with strong results
The Pine-Richland crew team had to navigate plenty of obstacles that came with the covid-19 pandemic like mandated shut downs and having athletes train individually at home, but at the end of the year they finished with some strong results. At the biggest event of the year, the Midwest Scholastic...
Pine-Richland softball program builds on playoff victory
With a 6-1 win over Mt. Lebanon in the quarterfinals, the Pine-Richland softball team scored a historic achievement. For the first time in nearly two decades the Rams could say they were a winner in the postseason. It was the cherry on top in a season that featured some memorable...
Riverhounds work Miami FC to draw at Highmark Stadium
Pittsburgh Riverhounds coach Bob Lilley was much more pleased with the energy and overall fight his team showed Saturday compared to the first two home games it had this season. The positive that came from the inspired effort was its first home goal of the season. That first home victory,...
After long wait, North Allegheny volleyball ready for shot at 3rd straight state title
North Allegheny boys volleyball coach Dan Schall described this season as “a journey without a road map.” Considering the Tigers hadn’t played for a year and were playing through the covid-19 pandemic, there were a few more obstacles than usual to navigate. In the end, though, they arrived at a...
