Paul Schofield stories, Page 81

Considering the circumstances with the coronavirus, Megan Satira’s first official year as Penn-Trafford’s boys tennis coach has gone better than expected. The Warriors (4-1) entered the week in second place in Section 1-AAA behind Franklin Regional after a 5-0 loss to the Panthers April 6. Satira, who has coached the...

Penn-Trafford saw its hockey season end last week with a quarterfinal-round loss in the PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs. The Warriors dropped a 4-1 decision to Baldwin. After Carson Kress gave the Highlanders a 1-0 lead in the second period, the Warriors evened the score with an even strength goal by...

Murrysville native Michael Kemerer isn’t ready to hang up his singlet just yet. The Franklin Regional graduate and Iowa graduate student announced this week on Twitter that he’s returning for one more season. The four-time All-American and 2021 NCAA runner-up lost in the NCAA Division I finals at 174 pounds...

Anup Nadesan didn’t have any problems winning his second WPIAL Class AAA Section 1 title. He dominated Albert Gallatin senior Nate English in the finals, 6-0, 6-0. But the Franklin Regional senior has bigger goals. He wants to win a WPIAL title and qualify for the PIAA tournament. His previous...

The South Hills Classic track and field meet has a new home — finally. Gateway High School will host the event Saturday, with the girls starting at 9:15 a.m. and the boys at 3:15 p.m. More than 700 athletes and 35 teams will be competing. The meet originally was scheduled...

Ligonier Valley softball coach Mark Zimmerman is learning on the fly during the Rams’ return to the WPIAL. The veteran coach doesn’t know much about his opponents after the Rams spent more than 40 years in District 6. But Ligonier Valley has missed a beat, no matter what district it...

The faster the young Greensburg Salem baseball team learns not to give games away, the faster the Golden Lions will start winning on a consistent basis. Greensburg Salem (1-4, 1-3) dropped a two-game series with Uniontown by literally handing the visitors the game. The Red Raiders (2-2, 2-2) took advantage...

Aaron Giorgi has been named football coach at Waynesburg. Giorgi comes to the Raiders from neighboring Jefferson Morgan, where he compiled a 16-40 record in six seasons. He is a chemistry teacher at Jefferson Morgan. He takes over for Chad Coss, who passed away unexpectedly in December. “It’s all about...

When playing softball for Yough and coach Art ‘Dutch’ Harvey, one thing is for sure: Harvey plays his best players. Yough returns seven players who saw starts in 2019, but some are competing against talented freshmen for playing time. Harvey started five freshmen in the Cougars’ (3-0, 1-0) first three...

Yough opened the 2021 baseball season with consecutive losses to Upper St. Clair and Mt. Pleasant. But sixth-year coach Craig Spisak isn’t too concerned. He saw a lot of good things from a team that returns two starters from a 2019 WPIAL semifinalist. Center fielder/pitcher Vinny Martin and shortstop/pitcher Sean...

If the coronavirus didn’t shut down last season, there was a good chance Penn-Trafford softball would be looking at a three-peat. After winning the 2019 PIAA Class 5A title, the Warriors (23-2, 14-0) returned seven starters including power hitters Brooke Cleland, Allie Prady and Emma Little along with pitchers Morgan...

When Penn-Trafford baseball coach Dan Miller talked in the offseason about his team being young and inexperienced, he wasn’t kidding. Penn-Trafford has one player returning that was on the varsity team in 2019 when the Warriors (18-5) played for the WPIAL Class 6A title and played in the PIAA playoffs....

The Penn-Trafford boys tennis team is off to a 4-0 start with victories against Hampton, Thomas Jefferson, Latrobe and Kiski Area. The Latrobe and Kiski Area matches were both 4-1 section wins. Alex Turowski (3-0) is unbeaten in singles action while Ryan Litzinger (4-0) is undefeated in doubles. Brian Lee...

Vinny Kilkeary Latrobe, so., 113 pounds 2020-21 record: 26-3 Career record: 56-10 Kilkeary won the 2019 PIAA title with a pin in the finals against Erie Cathedral Prep’s Jake Van Dee. This year he placed third, losing in the semifinals. He was the Section 2 and WPIAL 113-pound champion. All...

Mt. Pleasant junior Dayton Pitzer didn’t pin every opponent he faced. It just seemed that way. Pitzer finished his junior season with a state-high 31 pins and his second PIAA Class AA wrestling title. It was a great bounce-back year after a knee injury took away his sophomore season and...

Mac Church Waynesburg, so., 120 pounds 2020-21 record: 29-2 Career record: 76-8 Church was upset in the WPIAL Class AAA 120-pound final, but undaunted, he came back to win a PIAA title. He defeated Chambersburg junior Karl Shindledecker in overtime. He was the WPIAL champion at 106 in 2020. Church...

Early on in Alejandro Herrera-Rondon’s wrestling career at Seneca Valley, he was content to win low-scoring matches. Many of them ended up 1-0 or 2-1 victories. Herrera-Rondon frustrated opponents with his dominance in the top position. If opponents didn’t get off the bottom, they didn’t win. But as the Oklahoma...

Veteran Hempfield softball coach Bob Kalp is facing a daunting task this season. The coronavirus continues to put up numerous obstacles in front of his teams, and an injury to his star pitcher, senior Callie Sowers, has him scrambling. “We have 30 players on the roster, and I only know...

There is a new challenge facing the Hempfield baseball team in 2021: a new section with four new opponents. Class 6A in the WPIAL went from 18 teams to 12 teams for the next two seasons. Section 1 stayed intact with Allderdice, Butler, Central Catholic, North Allegheny, Pine-Richland and Seneca...

Penn-Trafford junior Troy Hohman finished the 2021 season with a PIAA medal. It wasn’t quite the medal he wanted. He’ll look for golden one during his senior season. Hohman (26-6, 68-30) finished fourth at the PIAA Class AAA wrestling championships March 13 by going 2-2 in the tournament. He lost...

Penn-Trafford’s hockey team is looking to finish strong after going through a six-game losing streak. The Warriors improved to 9-8 with wins over Southeast Division rivals Hempfield, 1-0, on March 11 and Latrobe, 3-2, on March 15. Penn-Trafford won three of its last four games heading into its final regular...

Iowa senior Spencer Lee is used to beginning a wrestling match. He’d rather set the tone for his Iowa teammates. But the NCAA wrestling championships had other ideas. They decided to put the 125-pound final at the end Saturday at Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The ESPN broadcast team called...

While practice for the start of the high school baseball season is underway, Westmoreland County District 31 teams are holding sign-ups for the start of their season May 20. There will be 11 teams participating in the league this summer, after the league held an unofficial season in 2020 because...