Michael Love stories, Page 137

The Community College of Allegheny County’s Boyce campus baseball team ended a long drought last year as it won its first Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference title since 1985. St. Bernards also advanced to the Region XX tournament with a chance to go to nationals. The team saw its season end...

The Quaker Valley track and field teams will test their mettle Saturday at the 6th annual Knoch Relays at Knoch High School in Saxonburg. The event features the regular relay events seen at invitationals and duel meets and some additional ones such as the 800-meter relay, the 1,000 sprint medley,...

The Quaker Valley boys lacrosse team added to its early-season winning ways with a close 8-7 win over Moon on Tuesday. The Quakers now will put their 3-0 overall record on the line when they take on Class AAA Canon-McMillan in a nonsection game Thursday at 7 p.m. at Big...

Courtney Zezza, a Plum graduate and senior center/forward on the St. Francis (Pa.) women’s basketball team, will take part in a professional combine Saturday at Tampa Prep High School in Tampa, Fla. Zezza joins Red Flash senior teammate Jess Kovatch at the combine and will be evaluated by more than...

The Golden Gloves Boxing Western Pennsylvania finals are set for Sunday afternoon with the Pennsylvania state finals April 13. Both events will be at Pro Sport Monroeville, 856 Macbeth Drive, under the direction of the Western Pennsylvania Police Athletic League. Sunday’s card will start at 2 p.m., and the April...

Kierra Shreffler is on a mission to get to the PIAA Class AAA track and field championships. The Kiski Area senior hoped to break through last year in the 1,600-meter run, her main event, but she fell just short of her goal at the WPIAL championships. Now, she has a...

The Springdale softball team scored a pair of runs in the second inning of Tuesday’s Section 3-A opener with St. Joseph at Kotecki Memorial Park in Lower Burrell. Those runs were enough for Dynamos freshman standout Alexis Hrivnak, who gave up one unearned run, scattered three hits and walked one...

The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 2 boys rankings Monday, and North Allegheny remains at the top in Class AAA. In Class AA, there is a new No. 1 as Derry moves up from No. 3. Each set of rankings is compiled through a vote of the...

The Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team finished its season ranked fourth in the final Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released Sunday. The Crimson Hawks found themselves in the top five 15 of the 18 weeks and spent three weeks at No. 1. IUP...

Lea Coffman remembers the moment all too well. Early last season, the Burrell softball team was one inning away from an important section victory over rival Freeport. The Bucs built a 6-0 lead over the first six innings, and Coffman contributed to the advantage in the big way with four...

The Sewickley Academy baseball team hopes to begin its season Monday against Quigley Catholic at 4:30 p.m. at Nichols Field. Adverse weather and field conditions have postponed or cancelled games on the Panthers’ schedule. Included in that was a cancelled nonsection game from Saturday against South Side Beaver. Sewickley Academy...

Athletes from Deer Lakes and Kiski Area represented the WPIAL on Saturday at the 43rd Altoona Area Igloo Invitational at Altoona’s Mansion Park stadium. The Cavaliers crowned three champions, while the Lancers came home with a pair of first-place finishes. Deer Lakes senior Josh Yourish, a state qualifier last year,...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds and Bethlehem Steel FC played to a 2-2 tie in a United Soccer League Championship Eastern Conference game Saturday evening. It was the Riverhounds’ third of four games on the road to start the season. They now are 0-1-2 overall. Kevin Kerr gave Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead...

The Sewickley Academy girls lacrosse team edged Mars 12-11 in a nonsection road game Friday evening. The 2-0 Panthers again are hoping for big things this season after finishing as the WPIAL Class AAA runner-up to Pine-Richland and qualifying for the state playoffs in 2018. Mars placed fourth in the...

The Gateway varsity boys lacrosse team is an experienced group. Eighteen seniors out of 22 players on the roster speak to that. “We’re basically in win-now mode,” defender and team co-captain Nick Alexander said. “We’re hoping to get back to the playoffs and make history with a win and go...

The Plum girls lacrosse team qualified for the WPIAL Class AA playoffs last year in only its second season as a full WPIAL member. The Mustangs, as the No. 10 seed, fell to Quaker Valley, 13-3, ending a season full of accomplishments. Now, the goal, second-year coach Kayla Platt said,...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds will play the third of four straight road matches to start the 2019 season Saturday when they pay a visit to in-state rival Bethlehem Steel FC. The game is set for 7:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on Pittsburgh’s CW. The teams last met in a United...

The Sewickley Academy boys lacrosse team hopes to make it two wins in as many games to start the season when it travels to Franklin Regional for a nonsection matchup Thursday at 7 p.m. The Panthers kicked off their season Tuesday with a 6-1 Section 2-AA victory at Seton La...

Times, heights and distances recorded during regular-season track and field meets and invitationals again will be used as qualification to the WPIAL championships. For each individual and relay event, a maximum of 24 in AAA and 16 in AA will punch tickets to the WPIAL meet, set for May 16...

The Sewickley Academy and Shady Side Academy boys tennis teams are playing up in Class AAA this season. The Indians are familiar with matches in Class AAA, but it’s a new thing this year for the Panthers, who won 14 straight WPIAL Class AA team titles through last year. Sewickley...

With sunny skies and dry conditions prevailing, the Quaker Valley baseball team is set to open its season Wednesday afternoon at 4 at Chartiers-Houston. The Quakers hope to contend for a playoff spot in 4A after going 5-11 overall and 4-10 in section play last spring. QV is slated to...

Kaylen Sharrow has her sights set on a return to the PIAA championships in the Class AA 300-meter hurdles. The Burrell senior placed third in the 300 at WPIALs last year and challenged for a medal at states. “I trained throughout the offseason, and I think I am ready for...

Central Valley graduate Seairra Barrett, a redshirt senior forward on the Cal (Pa.) women’s basketball team, is a member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Division II All-America team. The team was announced Monday evening. Barrett, who missed last season because of injury, was one of 10 players in the...

The IUP women’s basketball team is putting final preparations in place for Tuesday’s NCAA Division II Elite Eight matchup against Azusa Pacific. The game is set for noon at Ohio Dominican’s Alumni Hall in Columbus, Ohio. IUP (29-3) is seeded third, while Azuza Pacific (28-5) is the No. 6 seed....

Josh Matheny was witness to history at last year’s PIAA Class AAA swimming championships at Bucknell University. The Upper St. Clair sophomore saw the North Allegheny boys 400-yard freestyle relay swim into the record books and establish a new National Federation of High Schools record. On Saturday evening, Matheny had...