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Hopewell’s Ealy among 11 WPIAL wrestlers to reach Class AA Southwest Regional finals
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’s DeLuca reaches 150 wins, has eye on bigger prize at Southwest Regional
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...
Five things to watch during Saturday’s Class AAA section wrestling tournaments
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 heavyweight pulls out of SW Regional
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...
Five things to watch at the Class AA Southwest Regional wrestling tournament
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...
Hempfield grad Bewak named captain of prostyle wrestling team
Paul Bewak is considered the top wrestler in John Hopkins history after finishing his career in 2015 as a three-time NCAA Division III All-American with a 135-24 record. He is the winningest wrestler in school history. The 2011 Hempfield grad on Thursday was named team captain of the Pennsylvania Great...
West Virginia adds to football coaching staff
West Virginia football coach Neal Brown announced Wednesday the hiring of Coleman Barnes as the associate athletics director for football external affairs. Barnes will work together with the athletics administration and external units to further the WVU brand. He will promote new ideas, development and growth to help position the...
Penn State announces date for Blue-White game
The annual Blue-White game at Penn State will be held at 3 p.m. April 13 at Beaver Stadium. The game will air live on the Penn State Sports Network and GoPSUsports.com, and will be tape-delayed on Big Ten Network at 8 p.m. This will be an interesting spring for the...
3 former UPJ wrestlers to be inducted into Division II Hall of Fame
Three Pitt-Johnstown national champions are part of the 2019 class that will be inducted into the Division II National Wrestling Hall of Fame on March 7 in Cleveland. Penn-Trafford graduate Lee Schickel, Shad Benton and Shane Valko are part of the six-member class. The others being inducted are Antonio Guerra...
Pitt-Greensburg baseball duo land on AMCC watch list
Two members of the Pitt-Greensburg baseball team were listed as players to watch in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference preseason poll. Senior first baseman Tyler Holland (Baldwin) and senior left fielder Chris Common (Penn-Trafford) were named. Holland was a first-team AMCC all-star last season. He batted .364 with nine home...
Franklin Regional uses big run to secure playoff win over South FayetteVideo
Franklin Regional used a strong third quarter, which included a 16-0 run that carried into the fourth quarter, and pulled away for a 46-35 victory Tuesday against South Fayette in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs at Keystone Oaks. It was the first playoff victory for the...
Derry wrestler Baker already a champion after winning battle with cancerVideo
No matter what happens the rest of Jason Baker’s high school wrestling career, he already is a champion. The Derry senior has accomplished something many his age have never done: recover from a brain tumor and beat cancer. “He may be the first wrestler to beat it,” said Baker’s dad,...
High school wrestling notebook: Seven wrestlers looking for 3rd section title in Class AAA
As the WPIAL Class AA wrestlers head to Indiana this weekend, the Class AAA wrestlers begin their journey toward Hershey. The Class AAA section tournaments will be held Saturday at four sites — Kiski Area (Section 1), Connellsville (2), Fox Chapel (3) and Chartiers Valley (4). There are three returning...
Trib HSSN indiviudal wrestling rankings for week of Feb. 18, 2019
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings Class AAA 106: 1. Dylan Chappell, Seneca Valley (32-4); 2. Carter Dibert, Franklin Regional (31-1); 3. Vince Citrano, Plum (25-3); 4. Mason Prinkey, Connellsville (26-5); 5. Dylan Coy, North Allegheny (30-3). 113: 1. Alejandro Herrera-Rondon, Seneca Valley (38-1); 2. Kyle Burkholder, Hempfield (26-5); 3. Finn...
Canon-McMillan wins WPIAL Junior High title; Latrobe has 4 champions
Canon-McMillan took home the team title at the 2019 WPIAL Junior High championships Saturday at Norwin, but the Latrobe Black team had the most individual champions with four. The two-day event had 55 schools and more than 620 wrestlers competing for the 18 titles. Canon-McMillan finished with 277.5 points and...
Mid Mon Valley Hall of Fame announces Class of 2019
Monessen grad Charel Allen and Belle Vernon grad Marlon McIntyre headline the 2019 Mid Mon Valley Hall of Fame Class of 2019, which was announced Friday. Allen, a 2004 graduate of Monessen, scored 3,110 points and led the Greyhounds to a state championship. She was the Class A Player of...
WPGA holding 2019 rules of golf workshops
Golf has seen numerous rules changes implemented this year, and the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association will be conducting 10 Rules of Golf Workshops over the next three months explaining the 31 major changes. These workshops are to help educate golfers on the changes. All WPGA members are welcomed unless noted....
Latrobe graduate Biss earns PSAC East honor
For the second time this season, Shippensburg sophomore point guard Jake Biss, a 2017 Latrobe graduate, earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Men’s Basketball Player of the Week honors. Biss averaged 23.5 points as he helped the Raiders to victories against Millersville and Lock Haven. He scored 24 points...
WPIAL dominates the top seeds in PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional pairings
The PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional pairings were released Sunday, and the WPIAL had nine of the 14 top seeds. Heading the list is returning PIAA champion Thayne Lawrence of Frazier. The three-time WPIAL champion, who wrestles at 160 pounds, will be looking for his first regional title. He dropped...
Looking back at PIAA team wrestling tourney for Burrell and Kiski Area
While the Burrell and Kiski Area wrestling teams came up short of their goals at the PIAA championships, both had memorable moments at the Giant Center in Hershey over the three days of the tournament. Burrell, competing in Class AA, was one win away from earning a top-four spot in...
Gateway football will play national power Massillon next fall
There is another WPIAL school that will be following Penn-Trafford to Massillon, Ohio this upcoming football season to play the Washington High School Tigers. Gateway will be playing the Tigers on Oct. 11. It will replace a matchup with Albert Gallatin, which withdrew from the WPIAL in football to play...
Mt. Pleasant’s Pitzer denies Miller shot at 3rd title in WPIAL semifinals
Freedom senior Bryson Miller was hoping to become a three-time champion at the WPIAL Class AA wrestling championships Saturday at Canon-McMillan. But Mt. Pleasant freshman Dayton Pitzer wouldn’t allow it. Pitzer pancaked Miller with less than a minute remaining in their match for a five-point move and an 11-6 victory....
Mt. Pleasant freshmen wrestlers capture Section 3-AA titles
Mt. Pleasant freshmen Luke Geibig and Dayton Pitzer wrestled like veterans in their first Section 3-AA tournament Friday at Canon-McMillan. They both captured their first section title with impressive decision wins. Geibig downed Derry senior Kace Sabedra, 6-2, to win the 106-pound title. Geibig, who was pinned by Sabedra during...
W&J favored to win PAC baseball title
The Washington & Jefferson baseball team picked up eight of nine first-place votes and was the Presidents’ Athletic Conference coaches’ pick to win the conference. The Presidents were 28-16-1 overall and 16-2 in the conference in 2018, made their 10th consecutive trip to the conference tournament and finished second to...
Saint Vincent favored to win PAC softball title
The Saint Vincent softball team has been tabbed as the team to beat in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference on a vote by the conference’s nine coaches. The Bearcats were 22-10 overall and 12-5 in the PAC in 2018 and qualified for a fourth consecutive PAC tournament. Saint Vincent returns two...
