Paul Schofield stories, Page 13
Local pro, amateur, junior golfers set for 2025 season
The U.S. Open is not the only big golf event in Western Pennsylvania this summer. There are several Tri-State Section PGA and Western Pennsylvania Golf Association events for golf pros and amateurs. The Pennsylvania Golf Association also will host events across the state, and there are numerous junior events, including...
Penn-Trafford boys volleyball sharpens skills vs. top opponents in early season
Penn-Trafford boys volleyball Jim Schall said he saw some encouraging things from his team from the North Allegheny tournament March 22. Despite going 3-5 against some of the top teams in the state — the likes of Central York, Manheim Central, North Allegheny and Canon-McMillan — Schall felt it was...
Greensburg Salem wrestler claims 2 junior state titles to lead long list of Westmoreland County champs
Greensburg Salem’s Colton Writt recently captured two junior wrestling state titles. He was among nine wrestlers from Westmoreland County to win titles at the Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling tournament and/or the Keystone State tournament. Writt won the 8U 75-pound title at the PJW tournament and the 74-pound title in the 7-8...
With 8 starters back, Penn-Trafford softball set for another big season
Penn-Trafford softball’s Denny Little has had quite a run since becoming the Warriors’ head coach in 2016. A perennial playoff participant, the Warriors won a PIAA Class 5A in 2019 and covid may have taken another in 2020. Since then, a powerful Armstrong team has been in the Warriors path....
Penn-Trafford notebook: Dylan Barrett earns PIAA wrestling medal
Penn-Trafford junior Dylan Barrett (38-7, 106-32) earned a seventh-place medal at the PIAA 3A wrestling tournament March 8 at the Giant Center in Hershey. Barrett, competing at 114 pounds, finished second to Hempfield junior Nico Kapusta at the WPIAL tournament and was third at the PIAA West Regional. He opened...
2025 TribHSSN high school wrestling all-stars
Wrestler of the year Maddox Shaw Thomas Jefferson, sr., 152 pounds 2024-25 record: 38-1. Career record: 166-14 A knee injury forced Maddox Shaw to miss almost a month of the season. But it didn’t prevent him from winning a second PIAA Class 3A title or his third WPIAL title. Or...
2025 TribLive Alle-Kiski Valley high school wrestling all-stars
Wrestler of the year Cooper Roscosky Kiski Area, jr., 215 pounds 2024-25 record: 41-8. Career record: 113-23 If it were not for Belle Vernon junior Elijah Brown, Kiski Area junior Cooper Roscosky probably would have been a PIAA 3A champion. But Roscosky just could not solve Brown in five meetings...
2025 TribLive Westmoreland County high school wrestling all-stars
Wrestler of the Year Elijah Brown Belle Vernon, jr., 215 pounds 2024-25 record: 48-1. Career record: 127-19 Belle Vernon junior Elijah Brown has become a cult hero in the school district. And why not? When you are the school’s first WPIAL wrestling champion, people look up to you. The district...
Franklin Regional swimmers wrap up successful season
Franklin Regional swimming coach Dan Taylor talked before the season about a bright future. His girls squad did not disappoint, and the boys are on track to return to power. The girls placed seventh at the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championship on March 12-15 at Bucknell University in Class 2A...
Mt. Lebanon’s Stout brothers make NCAA history by facing off in PhillyVideo
It was a historic night at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Thursday during Day 1 of the competition. It was appropriate that Philadelphia, which is known as the “City of Brotherly Love,” was the site of the first “Battle of Brothers” at the Wells Fargo Center. While brothers...
Rosters announced for 28th Cager Classic all-star festivities
The 28th annual Cager Classic, featuring senior basketball players from Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler and Westmoreland counties, will be held at Highlands High School. Practice is April 3, the skills competition April 4 and the games — 5:30 p.m. for the girls and 7:30 p.m. for the boys — April 5....
Franklin Regional baseball hopes to make title run
Franklin Regional has won three WPIAL baseball titles, the last coming in 2021 when it defeated Bethel Park, 2-1, in the championship game. Is this the year the Panthers add a fourth title? Veteran coach Bob Saddler said he’s excited about this year’s squad, which returns five starters from a...
Wrestling notebook: PIAA individual championships staying in Hershey for now
There was a rumor amongst some wrestling coaches that this was the last year the PIAA individual wrestling championships would be held at Giant Center in Hershey. That rumor is false. While there is a rift between the PIAA and Hershey Entertainment, mainly because the PIAA moved the football and...
Westmoreland H.S. baseball preview: New-look Penn-Trafford eyes another title run
Can the Penn-Trafford baseball team repeat as WPIAL Class 5A champions? History will say no, but that’s OK with third-year Warriors coach Lou Cortazzo. “We were not ranked in last year’s preseason poll, and we won,” Cortazzo said. “And we are not ranked this year. That is OK, I like...
Jeannette pulls away to defeat Northern Cambria
JOHNSTOWN — Jeannette coach Adrian Batts felt his basketball team did not put out great effort in its first two PIAA playoff games. If the Jayhawks have hopes of winning their second PIAA title, things must change. It took Jeannette (25-2) more than a quarter to find a groove Wednesday...
Thomas Jefferson’s Maddox Shaw headlines Pennsylvania team for Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic
Thomas Jefferson senior Maddox Shaw is the only wrestler selected to represent the WPIAL on the Pennsylvania squad in the 51st Pittsburgh Wresting Classic on March 29 at the AHN Arena at Peters Township High School. The Pennsylvania squad will face a powerful United States squad at p.m. Before the...
Fox Chapel gets past Penn-Trafford, heads to final in search of school’s 1st Penguins Cup
Sometimes all you need is a bounce. Fox Chapel got that midway through the third period Tuesday to earn a trip to the PIHL Class 2A Penguins Cup final. Hayden Ferra happened to be at the right spot at the right time. After teammate Lian Wiseman dumped the puck behind...
Mt. Pleasant grad Dayton Pitzer named Most Outstanding Wrestler as Pitt places 2nd at ACC Tournament
It was quite a weekend for the Pitt wrestling team. The Panthers finished second at the ACC Tournament at Duke, had three champions and qualified seven wrestlers for the NCAA Championships set for March 20-22, in Philadelphia. The winning trio were graduate student Reece Heller (184 pounds), Mt. Lebanon grad...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Hockey team rallies for quarterfinal win
The Penn-Trafford hockey team sure surprised a lot of teams during the PIHL playoffs in 2024. The Warriors entered the Penguins Cup tournament in Class 2A and proceeded to defeat No. 1 Thomas Jefferson and No. 4 Norwin. This year, the Warriors were seeded fourth in the tournament, and they...
Penn-Trafford pair earns trip to PIAA wrestling championships
HERSHEY — Penn-Trafford sophomore Luke DeSantis and junior Dylan Barrett earned their way to the biggest stage in high school wrestling this season — the PIAA Class 3A tournament in Hershey. It was a split decision for the Penn-Trafford pair on Day 1 of the tournament March 6 at the...
Central Valley’s Boni takes 2nd in down year for WPIAL Class 2A
HERSHEY — Class 2A wrestlers from the WPIAL did not have a good weekend at the PIAA wrestling championships, which concluded Saturday. Only 10 wrestlers, no champion, earned medals at the Giant Center on Saturday. The WPIAL had one finalist, Central Valley junior Antonio Boni, who lost to Faith Christian...
Belle Vernon’s Elijah Brown beats Kiski Area’s Cooper Roscosky for school’s 1st state title
HERSHEY — Belle Vernon’s wrestling program finally has a state champion. On the school’s sixth try, junior Elijah Brown achieved what five others previously had attempted. Brown defeated Westmoreland County rival Cooper Roscosky of Kiski Area, 4-3, in the Class 3A 215-pound final Saturday at Giant Center. Roscosky scored a...
Wrestlers return from scary scene; Central Valley’s Boni only WPIAL 2A wrestler to reach finals
HERSHEY — It is never a good sight to see an athlete taken from an event on a stretcher. That’s what happened Friday during the early sessions of the PIAA Class 2A boys and PIAA girls wrestling tournaments when two athletes, Derry sophomore Brady Brown and Northeast Bradford junior Anaiah...
Latrobe’s Willochell back in the PIAA 3A wrestling finals after 2-year hiatus
HERSHEY — Latrobe senior Luke Willochell does not have to worry about wrestling Indiana senior Nico Fanella in the finals for a third consecutive week in the postseason. Willochell will be there, but Fanella will not. Willochell defeated Canon-McMillan junior Collier Hartman for the third time in the past two...
WPIAL sends 14 wrestlers to PIAA Class 3A semifinals, including all 4 at 215 pounds
HERSHEY – The 215-pound weight class from the WPIAL lived up to its reputation Friday afternoon as all four quarterfinalists were winners. That guarantees the WPIAL a champion Saturday at the Giant Center. The four wrestlers from the WPIAL were No. 1 through No. 4 in PaPowerWrestling rankings. Belle Vernon...
