Paul Schofield stories, Page 77

Golf fans around the area couldn’t ask for a better week of competition. Monday is the start of the Tri-State Section PGA Open, which will be held at Wildwood Golf Club in Allison Park. Pros and amateurs will compete over two days. Oakmont Country Club pro Devin Gee is the...

Bushy Run’s American Legion baseball team stayed unbeaten in District 31 after winning four games last week. The wins improved their record to 6-0 overall. Bushy Run defeated Kiski Valley, 5-2; Mt. Pleasant, 14-0; Young Township, 11-1; and Latrobe, 4-3. They were scheduled to play five games the past week...

Nicholas Turowski hopes to have his driver’s licenses in a year. But the 15-year-old Penn-Trafford freshman is already a good driver — of the golf ball and not a vehicle, yet. If Turowski wants to become one of the top young golfers in the WPIAL and beyond, he knows it...

Westmoreland County Community College freshman Tommy Kegerreis was named an ABCA/Rawlings All-American. Kegerreis earned third-team honors for NJCAA Division III teams. He helped WCCA win the Region XX title and advance to the Mid-Atlantic regional. Kegerreis, a Franklin Regional grad, batted .453 with seven home runs, 11 doubles, 29 RBIs...

One of the state’s top wrestlers plans to stay close to home for his college career. Mt. Pleasant junior Dayton Pitzer, a two-time WPIAL and PIAA champion, announced on Instagram Friday he was committing to Pitt. Pitzer joins a 2022 Pitt recruiting class that includes Hempfield junior Briar Priest, a...

WINGATE — Sure, it’s not the way the Hempfield baseball team wanted to see its season end. But the Spartans’ season was historic, and the future remains bright. Spring-Ford, the District 1 fifth-place team, used a seven-run second inning and defeated Hempfield, 10-1, in the PIAA Class 6A quarterfinals at...

Every high school athletic team faced some sort of adversity this year. It varied from the coronavirus to injuries to wild weather. Hempfield baseball had its share of injuries to key players. But the Spartans battled through those problems and are in the PIAA Class 6A quarterfinals for the second...

There won’t be any Western Pennsylvania golfers in the 121st U.S. Open this month. There were 11 players with local ties that played in Monday’s U.S. Open Sectionals across the country and their efforts came up short. The players competed at five sites for the chance to participate in the...

Some teams would have collapsed if faced with adversity before a big game. Mt. Pleasant used it as a rallying cry. When Vikings senior third baseman Haylie Brunson dislocated her finger on her throwing hand in pregame warm-ups, it stunned her teammates and forced her coach, also her dad, Chris...

The annual Westmoreland 3-man scramble was held May 29, and, despite tough weather conditions, the trio of Arnie Cutrell, Ron DeNunzio and David DeNunzio shot a 14-under-par 58 at the Madison Club to win the title. An eagle on No. 18 proved to be the difference. The trio edged Brian...

Tim Buzzard and his Hempfield Area baseball team are starting to get used to extended seasons. This is the third time in eight seasons the Spartans have qualified for the PIAA playoffs, and their hope the journey takes them two more weeks and ends with a trip to State College....

PIAA baseball playoffs Monday’s games Class 6A 7-2 Hempfield (15-8) vs. 10-1 McDowell (14-6) 1 p.m. at Mercyhurst University Coaches: Tim Buzzard, Hempfield; Mark Soboleski, McDowell Winner plays: Winner of 3-1 Wilson (22-2)/1-5 Spring-Ford (18-3) game, Thursday at a site and time to be determined in the quarterfinals Players to...

Bushy Run American Legion opened the season with two come-from-behind victories. They defeated Hempfield East, 4-1, on June 1 and downed West Hempfield, 6-4, on June 2. The weekend tournament at Latrobe they were in was postponed because of inclement weather. “Any time you start the season 2-0, you can’t...

The Penn-Trafford boys volleyball team’s appearance in the PIAA Class AAA playoffs ended June 1 after a first-round loss against District 3 runner-up Northeastern. The Warriors dropped a 3-0 decision by scores of 25-20, 25-22 and 25-22. Penn-Trafford reached the PIAA tournament by defeating rival Hempfield in the WPIAL consolation...

This isn’t the Franklin Regional baseball team’s first foray into the PIAA playoffs. The 2019 team, which some of the current players were part of, reached the quarterfinals before losing to Lampeter-Strasburg. The Panthers are 3-4 all-time in the PIAA playoffs, 3-1 in the opening round. The 2019 team defeated...

Derry is looking for a new wrestling coach after Mike Weinell resigned Thursday. Weinell coached at Derry for 19 years, the last 11 as the head coach. During that span he coached eight state champions, two as an assistant, as well as 10 PIAA finalists, and his team made the...

Will the third time be the charm for Seton Hill baseball coach Marc Marizzaldi? He sure hopes so. Seton Hill qualified for the College World Series for the third time, the second time in NCAA Division II, by winning the Atlantic Regional on May 30. The Griffins made the NAIA...

Shenango senior Gabe Yanssens accused Seton LaSalle players of talking too much smack on social media before Wednesday’s WPIAL Class 2A baseball championship game. He figured the best way to shut them up was to beat them, and that’s what Yanssens did. His two-run, two-out single in the top of...

Andrew Muraco took it personally when Bethel Park coach Pat Zehnder decided to intentionally walk Louie Kegerreis with a runner on second base in the bottom of the seventh inning to get to him in the WPIAL Class 5A championship. So the Franklin Regional senior made Bethel Park pay. He...

Baseball Class 2A 1-Seton-La Salle (21-2) vs. 2-Shenango (19-2) 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wild Things Park, Washington Road to the finals • Seton LaSalle — In three playoff wins, Seton-La Salle, the Section 4-2A champ, has outscored its opponents 32-0. The Rebels blanked Serra, 12-0, in the semifinals. • Shenango...

West Virginia senior Mark Goetz was named to the Division I PING All-Midwest Region Team, announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Goetz is the second player in school history named to the PING All-Midwest Region Team. Matthew Sharpstene earned the same honor in 2019. The Greensburg native and...

Seniors Emma Little and Chase Vecchio were two of the 12 finalists for the Westmoreland County Scholar/Athlete Award on May 25. The award, hosted by Judge John J. Driscoll, was presented at the 65th annual banquet at Ferrante’s Lakeview Lounge. The winners were Mt. Pleasant’s Haylie Brunson and Burrell’s Ian...

To qualify for the PIAA Class AAA Track and Field Championships, athletes must finish in the top four of their events or meet the state qualifying standards if they finish in the top eight. Penn-Trafford senior Julia Hauck earned a trip to the May 29 state meet at Shippensburg University...

SHIPPENSBURG — A little more than three inches kept Dan Norris from winning two gold medals at the PIAA Class AAA track and field championships Saturday. Norris kept the Hempfield tradition of great throwers going when he won the discus with a personal-record throw of 195 feet, 10 inches. It...

SHIPPENSBURG – Mia Cochran’s legs went numb during the final three laps of the PIAA Class AAA 3,200-meter run Saturday morning. But it didn’t stop the Moon junior from running away with the title. Cochran pulled away West Chester Henderson junior Jenna Mulhern during the final 800 meters to capture...