Paul Schofield stories, Page 91

It was quite a performance by WPIAL wrestlers in the first True Power and PA Power Wrestling exhibition on Saturday in Tyrone. Waynesburg wrestlers Mac Church (122 pounds), Luca Augustine (170) and Cole Homet (140) each collected victories for the Green team. Also collecting wins for the Green were Franklin...

Rockwood senior Vileska Gelpi lost the PIAA Class A girls individual championship in a playoff in 2019. She wasn’t about to let history repeat itself at Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York. Gelpi and 2019 champion Lydia Swan of North East were in a close battle Monday before Gelpi parred...

Penn-Trafford senior Alex Turowski shot a 1-under par 71 at the WPIAL Class AAA team semifinals, but it wasn’t enough help the team advance to the WPIAL team championship Oct. 15. The Warriors finished fourth, and the top three teams advanced. They had a score of 414 behind Central Catholic...

There is a week left in the high school football season, and there is a lot of uncertainty about the playoffs. Usually, there would be a clear picture of the playoff scenarios. Not this year, thanks to the coronavirus. The WPIAL and the football committee met this week to determine...

Franklin Regional’s girls tennis team enjoyed another good season. The Panthers reached all their goals according to coach Howard Fisher, who has been coaching tennis at Franklin Regional for 41 years. Franklin Regional (8-2, 7-1) finished second to Latrobe in Section 1-AAA. The Panthers reached the WPIAL playoffs where they...

Friday’s first-place showdown in the WPIAL Class 3A Interstate Conference was decided by big plays. No. 3 Elizabeth Forward (5-0, 4-0), led by senior Nico Mrvos, made a few more and escaped No. 5 Mt. Pleasant with a 16-14 victory. Mrvos, who played quarterback and receiver, raced 70 yards for...

The Penn-Trafford field hockey team has won four consecutive WPIAL Class AA titles. Is a fifth in store in 2020? Coach Cindy Dutt thinks it could be. Penn-Trafford is unbeaten and has a shot at its first perfect regular season. After a five-day layoff because students at the high school...

Dylan Gustafson Latrobe, sr., RB/FS The senior had an impressive game against Connellsville on Friday, rushing for 171 yards and three touchdowns in the Wildcats’ 29-26 victory. He has rushed for 417 yards, caught seven passes for 134 yards and scored nine touchdowns. Tanner Krevokuch Norwin, sr., TE/LB The 6-foot-5,...

When Jason Fazekas took over the Mt. Pleasant football program, his goal was get the Vikings back to competing for conference titles. Now in his fourth season as coach, Fazekas has the Vikings in position to win the WPIAL Class 3A Interstate Conference for the first time since 2013. Fazekas...

Greensburg Salem School District’s hired Frank Sundry as its new athletic director. The vote was 6-3. He replaces Mike Burrell, who resigned to become the new athletic director at Norwin. Sundry is a 2004 graduate of Greensburg Salem, where he earned seven varsity letters (three in cross country, three in...

Add Southmoreland to the list of Westmoreland County high schools shutting down athletics because of covid-19 cases. Friday’s homecoming football game against Brownsville has been postponed and could be made up after the final regular season game on Oct. 23, according to Southmoreland athletic director Dan Boring. Southmoreland recorded its...

West Virginia, Ohio State and Dayton are among a strong field that will compete in the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Nov. 25-27. The Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic is a new event. Others in the field are Creighton, Memphis, Texas...

Hempfield girls cross country coach Jeff Mayo was surprised to learn the Spartans had won only two section titles before the 2020 season. After going 8-0 in Section 1-AAA, the Spartans now have three. The previous two were in 2002 and ’13. Hempfield is led by seniors Lily Schmadel and...

Pitt volunteer assistant wrestling coach Luke Pletcher, former Panther heavyweight Demetrius Thomas and junior Nino Bonaccorsi competed in the 2020 USA Wrestling Senior Nationals on Sunday in Coralville, Iowa. Bonaccorsi (Bethel Park) completed in the 97 kilos weight class in Greco, while Thomas and Pletcher (Latrobe/Ohio State) competed in men’s...

The first True Power Wrestling tournament, sponsored by PA Power Wrestling, will feature some of the top wrestlers (high school, junior high, girls and collegiate) in the state on Oct. 17 at Tyrone. The event is closed to the public because of covid-19 concerns. There will be 15 boys’ bouts,...

Penn-Trafford girls volleyball coach Jim Schall predicted he’d learn a lot about his team the last week of September. His squad met a tough challenge, including two matches against Section 3-4A leader Oakland Catholic and a match against rival Norwin. Penn-Trafford went 2-2 during the week, defeating Hempfield and Norwin...

Things didn’t go as planned for the Turowski brothers at the WPIAL Class AAA individual golf championships Oct. 6 at South Hills Country Club. Both had tough rounds and fell short of finishing in the top 10 to advance to the PIAA championship Oct. 19. Alex Turowski, a senior, was...

Franklin Regional opened Friday’s WPIAL Class 5A Big East Conference game against Woodland Hills with a trick play. It caught Woodland Hills’ defense by surprise. The end-around pass from wide receiver Mario Sarnic to fellow wide receiver Jeffrey Downs had the Woodland Hills defense fooled. It was designed to be...

Mason Basinger Southmoreland, sr., WR/OLB The 5-foot-10 senior had an impressive performance at Derry in Week 4. He caught three passes for 108 yards and two touchdowns. Basinger is another offensive weapon for quarterback Zach Cernuto. Toby Cline Jeannette, sr., WR/DB Cline caught three passes, all touchdowns, for 76 yards...

Class 6A Hempfield (1-3, 1-3) at Baldwin (1-1, 0-1) 7 p.m. Friday, Baldwin Stadium, Whitehall Hempfield slid to its third straight loss, falling to No. 3 Canon-McMillan, 45-14, as Big Macs tailback Ryan Angott ran for 261 yards and five touchdowns. The Spartans are allowing a conference-high 37.3 points per...

Fox Chapel boys golf coach Bryan Deal feels the competition for the Class AAA team title will be tight next week. “There are some teams that are good enough to win that won’t make it through the semifinals,” Deal said. “There are seven or eight teams that have a shot...

Greensburg Central Catholic’s girls golf team added another WPIAL Class AA title to the school’s trophy case Monday. The Centurions won their sixth straight district championship by shooting an impressive 320, crushing the competition at Connoquenessing Country Club in Ellwood City. Geibel finished second, 99 shots back, with a 419....