Michael Love stories, Page 137

The WPIAL team track and field semifinal matchups are set, and the four defending champions — the North Allegheny and Riverside boys and the Butler and Shenango girls — now know what they will have to do to get back to the finals. The other participants now are aware of...

The Kiski Area girls high school discus record had a target, figuratively speaking, on its back coming into this season. Senior Jean Starr wanted to put more than two decades of attempts by Cavaliers throwers to rest and establish herself as the record holder. At the Knoch Relays earlier this...

It will be an all-Quaker Valley battle for the Section 2-AA double championship Thursday. Zach Albert and John Watters will face Potter Oliver and Will Sirianni after both teams advanced through Wednesday’s first round, quarterfinals and semifinals. The two Quaker duos also will join the other two semifinal teams at...

Bret Kardos is on a mission. The Leechburg senior hopes to become the first track and field athlete in the five-year history of the Blue Devils program to qualify for the PIAA championships. Kardos, No. 1 this week in the Class AA boys shot put on the WPIAL performance list...

After several weeks of head-to-head matchups in dual meets, the track and field teams from Section 7-AA gather Wednesday at Freeport High School to crown champions and award medals at the fifth annual Allegheny Interscholastic Conference individual championships. Individual athletes and relay teams from the host Yellowjackets, Burrell, Apollo-Ridge, North...

Members of the Quaker Valley boys and girls track and field teams will test their mettle Wednesday at the Midwestern Athletic Conference championships at Mars High School. All field events and the 100-meter dash preliminaries begin at 2 p.m. Medals will be awarded to the top six in each individual...

The Knoch softball team dug itself a sizable hole in its Section 3-4A opener April 2 at Ambridge. The Knights trailed 6-1 after three innings and 9-4 heading to the seventh. But the team rallied in its final at-bat, scoring six runs to claim a dramatic 10-9 victory. Sophomore Bailey...

A group of players from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League came together last week to claim a second straight America’s Showcase tournament. Team Pittsburgh traveled to St. Louis and went 6-0 in the tournament. It averaged nine goals a game and gave up just five overall with three shutouts. It...

The Sewickley Academy softball team has won four straight since a loss to Union in its Section 1-1A opener April 4. The Panthers and Scotties will meet again Tuesday at 4 p.m. Sewickley Academy, No. 5 in the latest Trib HSSN 1A rankings, is 5-1 overall and in section play,...

The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest boys team rankings Monday, and two squads in Class AAA moved into the top 10. Canon-McMillan and Upper St. Clair are slotted at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively. They replaced Pine-Richland and Armstrong. The rest of the Class AAA list...

Mars junior offensive tackle Michael Carmody has committed to play in Hawaii’s Polynesian Bowl high school all-star game. The January 2020 contest will be at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the former site of the NFL Pro Bowl. The 6-foot-6, 295-pound Carmody is listed as a four-star recruit by 247Sports.com. Carmody, who...

After receiving more than two dozen Division I offers, Parkland junior offensive lineman Nicholas Dawkins has chosen to continue his football pursuits at Penn State. The 6-foot-4, 300-pound guard made his decision final Monday afternoon and announced it on his Twitter page. Dawkins tweeted, “Mom I’m staying home!!”, and that...

Two of the top girls lacrosse teams in their respective WPIAL classifications will do battle as Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley play a nonsection match Monday at 7 p.m. at Quaker Valley High School. The Panthers are 7-1 overall and 5-0 in Section 2 of Class AAA. They have won...

Shelly Jones and Sarah Corrie both earned throwing medals at last year’s WPIAL Class AAA track and field championships. The Gateway seniors picked up respective seventh-place finishes — Jones in the shot put and Corrie in the javelin. Now, the veteran duo has their sights set on improving at WPIALs...

Gateway baseball coach Mark Wardzinski said at the start of the season his relatively young team had the pieces in place to make a run at the Section 3-5A championship and qualify for the WPIAL playoffs for the fourth year in a row. So far, the Gators, with just three...

Earlier this month, Aidan Campbell helped the Pittsburgh Pens Elite 16U hockey team capture the USA Hockey Tier I Elite National Championship. Now, after several years in the Pens organization, the Cranberry native will take the next step in his hockey career. The goaltender, a junior at Seneca Valley High...

The Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley track and field teams will join dozens of other squads from all around the WPIAL at the 55th annual Butler Invitational on Thursday at Butler High School. Field events and others on the track will begin at 12:15 p.m. as individuals and relays post...

For the second time in as many games, a Clark delivered for Burrell when it mattered the most. Last week, Sara Clark hit a walk-off home run to lift the Bucs to a 13-12 Section 1-3A victory over Deer Lakes. On Wednesday against Freeport, it was Elizabeth Clark’s turn. The...

In 1959, Bruce Linhart Sr. set a standard in the discus at Penn Hills that has yet to be surpassed: He established a school record of 168 feet, 1 inch. The mark also was the state record for five years. Bruce Jr. set Plum’s discus record in 1982, and younger...

The Sewickley Academy boys tennis team finds itself in playoff position in Section 2-AAA with two section matches remaining. The Panthers are 4-1 in section with 5-0 wins over Butler and Mars, a 4-1 triumph over Seneca Valley and a close 3-2 victory against Pine-Richland. The only setback came against...

Deer Lakes scored eight runs in the top of the sixth inning of Tuesday’s Section 1-3A baseball game at Valley and turned a close game into a rout. The Lancers had 10 hits overall, took advantage of nine walks and rode the arm of senior Greg Geis to a 12-2...

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...