Paul Schofield stories, Page 122

It has been another banner season for the Ligonier Valley track and field team, especially for a couple of senior sprinters. Elliott Rost and Zach Beitel recently opened some eyes at a couple of big meets. Rost won the 100-meter dash at the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association meet April 27...

Greensburg Salem announced on Sunday the site of Monday’s baseball game against Knoch was switched to Seton Hill at 5 p.m. After the game, Greensburg Salem will honor the seniors. The Golden Lions (12-2, 8-2) are a half-game behind Yough (11-5, 9-2) for the Section 1-4A lead. Greensburg Salem will...

Penn State freshman Chelsea Bisi was named the softball team’s Offensive Player of the Year. The Derry graduate, who had two doubles Saturday against Indiana, hit .319 with 46 hits, 10 doubles, 13 home runs and a team-high 37 RBIs. Congratulations to our team award winners! ?Offensive POY: @chelseabisi25?Defensive POY:...

The Robert Morris softball team concluded the regular season Saturday by dropping two games to Sacred Heart in Northeast Conference action. But in the second game, senior Taylor Bartlow achieved a rare feat: She concluded her collegiate career by playing at nine positions in her career. Bartlow started in center...

The high school track and field season is about to wrap up. The WPIAL team competition is Monday at Peters Township, and the WPIAL individual championships are May 16 at Slippery Rock. Because the WPIAL eliminated the area qualifiers in Class AAA and Class AA and takes the top 24...

South Park senior Maura Huwalt was determined to shine Friday at the 46th annual Baldwin Invitational. The Auburn commit, who dominates the WPIAL Class AA throwing events, won two titles and placed second in another against outstanding competition from one of the top Class AAA throwers, Hempfield senior Mackenna Orie....

Sometimes athletes change their strategy on the fly. That’s what Norwin’s Dominic Spatolisano did during the McKinney Mile Friday at the 46th annual Baldwin Invitational. Halfway through the race, Spatolisano realized he had a shot at winning, so he changed his pace. “It was an accomplishment to win it,” Spatolisano...

Rain is in the forecast for Friday. That means its time for the Baldwin Invitational. The prestigious track and field event will be held for the 46th time, and it seems the weather is always an issue. But that won’t stop 69 high schools and thousands of athletes from Western...

When Franklin Regional played Fox Chapel back on April 5, the Panthers rallied for an extra-inning victory. There would be no late-inning rally needed in the rematch Thursday. The first-place Panthers, ranked No. 2 by Trib HSSN, jumped on Fox Chapel early and often and rolled to an 8-1 Section...

Norwin sophomore Jayden Walker won’t be pitching anytime soon. The 6-foot-3 left-hander will have surgery to repair a torn left labrum after the season in June. Walker was supposed to be one of Norwin’s top pitchers this season. He won’t be able to pitch for six to eight months while...

Baseball can be a cruel game. Just ask Hempfield. The Spartans needed one out to secure a key Section 2-6A victory against rival Norwin on Wednesday, but they threw it away in a 5-2 loss. After starting pitcher Shane Stuchell reached the 100-pitch limit with two outs in the top...

It has been 11 years since the Norwin girls track and field team won a WPIAL title. It was the end of four years of dominance by the Knights, who won the Class AAA title from 2005-08. The 2019 Knights want to end that drought Monday at Peters Township against...

There’s a good chance the 2019 Westmoreland County Scholar Athlete Award winners will see the world — one by serving her country, the other by playing a sport at which he excels. Southmoreland’s Maggie Moore and Franklin Regional’s Palmer Jackson were named this year’s winners of the Excellence Award at...

Colin Jonov, a cornerback, has been invited to attend Buffalo Bills rookie minicamp, according to his Twitter account. The 2014 Franklin Regional graduate spent the past season as a graduate transfer at Pitt, where he played in 11 games, mainly on special teams. Congrats to FSQ Athlete @ColkyJonov10 on his...

Irwin native and Penn-Trafford graduate Dan Obremski played baseball in high school. He was an outstanding second baseman for Ron Evans’ squad. But Obremski is playing professional golf and doubles in golf are not good for the score. Too many doubles early in Round 1 at Cordoba Golf Club in...

Penn State senior Bo Nickal won five consecutive matches on his way to winning the 92 kg U.S. Open National Championship in Las Vegas. He defeated 2018 197-pound NCAA champion Mike Macchiavello in the semifinals and then beat Hayden Zillmer, 13-3, in the finals. Nickal, who recently became a three-time...

BELLE VERNON Lindsay Steeber Sport: basketball QPA: 4.532 Class rank: 1 of 188 Did you know: Steeber will attend Duquesne. … She recently played in the Roundball Classic. … She played softball for three years and ran track in 2018. … She had scholarship offers from Duquesne and Seton Hill....

Former Greensburg Salem athletic director Lynn Jobe is enjoying retirement while figuring out her next adventure. After spending 35 years as a teacher, coach and athletic director, Jobe called it quits after the 2017-18 school year. She spent her final eight years as the Golden Lions’ athletic director. Her next...

Penn-Trafford graduate and Irwin native Dan Obremski put together four under-par rounds to finish tied for 27th in his second PGA Tour LatinoAmerica event. Obremski, who began the final round tied for 35th, finished the four-day event with a 6-under-par 278 at the Abierto de Chile 2019 presentado por Volvo...

Things continue to change in District 31 American Legion: Murrysville is back, and Jeannette is out. Murrysville returns after missing the 2018 season, and Jeannette is out after a disappointing end to its season. The league will begin playing May 17 and run through July 5. Hempfield East is the...

The Foothills Football Classic isn’t the only local football all-star being postponed this season. The Tri-County Coaches Association game has been canceled because of a lack of interest. McGuffey football coach and athletic director Ed Dalton said the game is being suspended for one year. The coaches were having a...

Irwin native Austen Swankler ended the longest game in United States Hockey League history Thursday morning by scoring the game-winning goal at 2:57 of the fourth overtime to give Sioux Falls a 3-2 victory against Sioux City. The game lasted 122 minutes and 57 seconds. THE GAME THAT WOULD NOT...

Seneca Valley sophomore Alejandro Herrera-Rondon was the only WPIAL wrestlers named to the USA Today’s boys wrestling all-Sstar first team. Herrera-Rondon is a two-time PIAA champion, winning the 113-pound Class AAA title in March. He has won one WPIAL title. The publication, with the help from TheOpenMat.com website picked three...

Alaina Whipkey hit an RBI double in the bottom of the fifth inning to break a tie, and the No. 1-ranked North Allegheny softball team held on to defeat Hempfield, 4-3, in Section 2-6A on Wednesday. Rachel Martindale gave North Allegheny a 3-0 lead with a three-run homer in the...