Michael Love stories, Page 136

Sewickley Academy’s Arjan Bedi will compete Tuesday in the consolation final of the WPIAL Class AAA boys tennis singles tournament. The winner of the match between Bedi and South Fayette’s Jacob Patterson, set for 2 p.m. at Mt. Lebanon High School, will qualify for the PIAA tournament May 24 and...

Tori Radvan waited and prepared. The Freeport junior, a three-sport standout, had her sights set on April 3 throughout the recovery process from a severe knee injury suffered in a volleyball match at the start of the school year. That date was the first softball meeting between the Yellowjackets and...

Four weeks remain in the WPIAL boys volleyball regular season, and section races, with their battles for playoff positioning, are heating up. The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest rankings Monday based on a vote of all 39 WPIAL coaches. Changes in Class AAA come in the middle...

The D.C. Divas got the better of the Pittsburgh Passion, 54-22, in a Women’s Football Alliance contest Saturday evening. The Passion got on the board first just 2 minutes, 12 seconds into the game on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Angela Baker to Krystal Cozzo. The Divas responded to take...

An announced crowd of more than 5,000 for the home opener at Highmark Stadium saw the Pittsburgh Riverhounds top Hartford Athletic 3-1 Saturday evening. The triumph put the Riverhounds at 2-1-2. It was their second victory in a row, and their eight points puts them in a tie for seventh...

Bailey Bonnett returned to the Alle-Kiski Valley for a brief stay shortly after the NCAA Division I women’s swimming championships, and it gave her a chance to reflect on her accomplishments over the past season. The Highlands graduate, a sophomore at Kentucky, earned her second first-team All-American honor March 23...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer Club broke into the win column last weekend with a 1-0 victory at two-time defending league champion Louisville City. The team hopes to build on the victory as it opens the home portion of the 2019 schedule Saturday against Hartford Athletic. The match, set for 7...

The Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team renews its rivalry with the D.C. Divas on Saturday. A number of the games in the series dating back more than a decade have been decided by one score. Kickoff at the home of the Divas is set for 6 p.m. The Passion kicked...

Marc Bucci is no stranger to the Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer team. In the fall of 2017, the Plum graduate served as an assistant with the Bobcats under then coach Dan Keefe. Bucci then spent last fall as an assistant an hour east at Pitt-Johnstown, his alma mater. But when Keefe...

Maddie Monick knows what it’s like to compete at the PIAA track and field championships. She earned the opportunity as a sophomore in the 300-meter hurdles. Now, as a senior, Monick hopes to represent Plum again at Shippensburg. “Right now, the focus for me us just getting my times down...

The Quaker Valley boys tennis team wraps up Section 2-AA play Friday afternoon, weather permitting, against Ambridge at 3:30 p.m. at Hopewell High School. The Quakers are 7-0 in the section and 9-2 overall. QV stepped away from section action Thursday and suffered a 3-2 loss to Thomas Jefferson from...

As Cole Oravitz prepared for the Madison Capitols in their United States Hockey League weekend series against Green Bay, part of his focus was tuned to Buffalo, N.Y, and the NCAA Frozen Four. The Plum junior committed to UMass last month, and the Minutemen were taking part in Thursday’s national...

The Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team exploded for 19 goals in a rout of Trinity on Monday. The Quakers go for their third win in a row Thursday evening as they travel to Chartiers Valley for a 7:30 Section 2-AA matchup. QV’s defense was on point against Trinity as it...

Last year, Kiera Cutright was the hunter. Now, the Deer Lakes senior is the hunted. After placing sixth in the 300-meter hurdles at the WPIAL Class AA track and field championships as a sophomore, Cutright ascended to the top last year as champion. She hopes defend her title this spring,...

The Quaker Valley baseball team hopes to stay undefeated in Section 2-4A and overall when it hosts section foe Blackhawk on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. at Esmark Field at Bouchard Family Park. The Quakers are 4-0 overall and 1-0 section play. QV has outscored its opponents 30-6 and toppled 5A...

Sewickley Academy’s Arjan Bedi qualified for the WPIAL Class AAA singles tournament with a pair of pro-set victories Monday at the Section 2 tournament. The top four from each of the four AAA sections punch tickets to WPIALs next Monday and Tuesday. Bedi remains alive Tuesday afternoon for the section...

Even before Leechburg’s Morgan Pierce, a four-year starter in the circle, graduated, plans were in place to find her successor. Enter sophomore Emma Ritchie, who has taken the pitching reins for the Blue Devils as they seek a 33rd straight playoff appearance. Ritchie, who pitched mostly in junior varsity games...

Auveonna Perkins connected on a two-run homer in the bottom of the fourth to put the Vikings ahead of Deer Lakes in Monday’s Section 1-3A softball matchup at Valley. But the visiting Lancers responded in a big way when they returned to the plate. Deer Lakes scored eight runs in...

The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 3 boys rankings Monday, and North Allegheny and Derry remain at the top in Class AAA and AA, respectively. Each set of rankings is compiled through a vote of the WPIAL’s 39 head coaches. Also in Class AAA, Bethel Park, Shaler...

The Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team rallied twice in the first half of Saturday’s season opener against Women’s Football Alliance foe the Cleveland Fusion. The Passion extended a lead in the third quarter and held off the Fusion challenge the rest of the way to score a 26-20 victory at...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds scored just once in Saturday’s United Soccer League Championship matchup at Louisville City. But that was all that was needed as the Riverhounds scored a 1-0 shutout victory. The win was the first of the season for Pittsburgh, which owned a loss and two ties over its...

The Pittsburgh Passion women’s semi-pro football team will face the Cleveland Fusion on Saturday to kick off its 17th campaign. The game, set for West Allegheny’s Joe P. DeMichela Stadium, will kick off at 6 p.m. Gates open at 5:30. Tickets for all Passion home games are $15 for adults...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds will try to break into the win column Saturday evening as they will visit Louisville City for a United Soccer League Championship matchup. The Riverhounds own two draws in three matches this season. Included in the start was last Saturday’s 2-2 tie against Bethlehem. Saturday’s game, set...

The Franklin Regional baseball team fell behind by four runs after three innings of Friday’s Section 1-5A matchup at Fox Chapel. The Panthers took the lead in the sixth and saw the Foxes tie it in the bottom of the seventh. But a one-out RBI single from Bryce Harper in...

Emily Reiner wears a No. 13 jersey for her Pens Elite and Arctic Foxes 12U girls hockey teams. But the number selection is not bad luck for the sixth grader at Quaker Valley Middle School. Reiner, 11, a Glenfield resident, is one of 100 female 2007 birth-year players from around...