Paul Schofield stories, Page 126

The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship is less than three weeks away the allocations for each league were recently released. Pitt is hosting to the 2019 tournament March 21-23 at PPG Paints Arena. There will be two sessions each day as 330 college wrestlers will come to the city looking...

Frazier junior Thayne Lawrence is headed to Hershey on Thursday to compete in the PIAA Class AA wrestling championships. He is the returning 152-pound champion. His younger brother, Rune, a seventh grader, already picked up his state title in the Pennsylvania Junior High tournament in Johnstown. Now, the Lawrences have...

The PIAA released the pairings for the individual wrestling championships, which begins Thursday at Giant Center in Hershey, and nine WPIAL wrestlers earned No. 1 seeds. The PIAA used a new point system to determine the top seeds from the regional champions. Returning PIAA champions from the WPIAL, Seneca Valley...

Franklin Regional senior Colton Camacho never had beaten Kiski Area senior Darren Miller prior to Saturday’s 126-pound final at the Class AAA WPIAL/PIAA Southwest Regional championships. That string ended as Camacho used two first-period takedowns to defeat Miller, 4-2, to win his second WPIAL title at Canon-McMillan. Miller had won...

Brashear senior Joe Mwete earned a trip to Hershey by finishing second at the Class AAA PIAA Northwest Regional at Altoona. The PIAA Wrestling Championships begin on Thursday at Giant Center. Mwete (30-3) reached the 145-pound final, but lost to Cathedral Prep’s Paniro Johnson, 6-5. He advanced to the finals...

Tribune-Review individual wrestling rankings Class AAA 106: 1. Carter Dibert, Franklin Regional (34-1); 2. Dylan Chappell, Seneca Valley (35-4); 3. Mason Prinkey, Connellsville (28-5); 4. Vince Citrano, Plum (27-4); 5. Briar Priest, Hempfield (27-8); 6. Costa Moore, Canon-McMillan (23-6); 7. Tyler Diggins, Moon (27-5); 8. Troy Hohman, Penn-Trafford (19-15). 113:...

West Virginia football coach Neal Brown continued to add to his staff on Tuesday, hiring Tyler Hancock as the senior analyst (special teams) and former Seton Hill assistant Scott Gasper as the offensive recruiting coordinator. “Tyler and Scott bring a lot of football experience and are strong additions to the...

A broken right hand will keep Shaler senior Ryan Sullivan, the returning WPIAL and PIAA Class AAA 113-pound champion, from defending his titles. Sullivan (28-1), seeded No. 1 at 120 pounds, was pulled from the WPIAL Class AAA tournament bracket Tuesday, according to WPIAL wrestling chairman Frank Vulcano. “It was...

Top prospect Mitch Keller started and allowed three hits and two runs in an inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates lost 6-5 to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. It was the Pirates’ first loss in Grapefruit League action. Relief pitcher Michael Feliz worked two scoreless innings, and...

One returning champion definitely won’t be adding another WPIAL Class AAA wrestling title to his resume this weekend. What’s because Norwin junior Kurtis Phipps, a two-time champion at 106 pounds, and Shaler senior Ryan Sullivan, last season’s 113-pound winner, both are in the 120-pound weight class at the WPIAL/PIAA Southwest...

Left fielder Melky Cabrera played the first five innings and went 1 for 2 with a double, third baseman Colin Moran doubled and scored in the first inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates improved to 3-0 with a come-from-behind victory against Boston (2-1) on Monday in Bradenton. Shortstop Kevin Newman had...

Cal (Pa.) recently unveiled a new logo for its athletic teams. The new logo is part of a multi-phase rebranding to capture the spirit of the university and give it a fresh, new look. It will tell of story about the past and what the university is today. “We invited...

Hempfield senior MacKenna Orie knew if she wanted to win a state indoor title, she needed a quick start. She did just that, breaking the school indoor record in shot put with a winning throw of 47 feet, 7 1/2 inches on her first attempt Sunday at the Pennsylvania Indoor...

Burrell sophomore Ian Oswalt had one goal in mind at the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional: He wanted to dominate. That’s exactly what he did in capturing the 120-pound title Saturday at IUP’s Kovalchick Complex. Oswalt (45-2 this season, 92-12 career) achieved his goal by picking up two pins on...

Hopewell senior Jacob Ealy has placed at the PIAA wrestling championships before. He finished fifth at 126 pounds in Class AAA in 2018. Now, because of Hopewell’s lower enrollment, Ealy is wrestling in Class AA and is wiping out the competition. Ealy (37-2) advanced to the finals of the PIAA...

Derry senior Dom DeLuca chuckled when he was tossed a bag of muffins from his mother after his quarterfinal-round match at the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional Friday at IUP’s Kovalchick Athletic Complex. With his pin of McGuffey senior Marshall Mounts, and his earlier pin of Philipsburg-Osceola junior Tyler Anderson...

Individual tournaments begin Saturday for WPIAL Class AAA wrestlers. This is just the start of their three-week journey, which they hope ends with a trip to the PIAA championships March 7-9 in Hershey. The section tournaments will be held at four sites: Kiski Area (Section 1), Connellsville (2), Fox Chapel...

Valley senior heavyweight Dave Schuffert’s high school wrestling career came to a dramatic end on Thursday when he informed his coaches to scratch him from the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional at Indiana University’s Kovalchick Athletic Complex on Friday. Schuffert (28-4) was seeded No. 4 after falling to Burgettstown junior...

For the wrestlers in Class AA from the WPIAL and Districts 5 and 6, this is the final chance they have to earn a trip to the PIAA individual wrestling championships March 7-9 in Hershey. Over the next two days at the PIAA Southwest Regional at IUP’s Kovalchick Complex, 224...