Paul Schofield stories, Page 97

Oakmont Country Club assistant pro Chris Zumpano shot a 2-under par 70 on Monday to grab a three-shot lead at the Tri-State PGA Falling Rock Classic at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. Zumpano, 32, lead Oakmont head pro Devin Gee and Saxonburg’s Joe Boros, who both shot a 1-over 73 on the...

It has been a tough year for people trying to run golf tournaments. The West Pennsylvania Golf Association, Tri-State PGA and Pennsylvania Golf Association have been forced to change their schedules because on the coronavirus pandemic. Because Allegheny County shut down bars and restaurants and restricted gatherings to no more...

The Penn State athletic department will begin a nationwide search for a new softball coach after Amanda Lehotak resigned Monday. Lehotak will be pursuing other professional opportunities outside of softball, the school said. She coached the Nittany Lion softball program for the last seven seasons. She led the 2016 team...

Murrysville’s Nolan Shilling shot a 1-under par 70 to capture the 15-16 age division at the Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Tour on the Cedarbrook Golf Course Red Course on Wednesday. He finished two shots ahead of Gavin Goodrich of Wheeling, W.Va., who shot a 72. Moon’s Justin Scally won the...

John Peters shot a 4-under par 67 during the second round Tuesday to capture the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Junior Boys Championship at the Hershey Country Club. Peters, of Carlisle, shot a 2-over par 73 Monday. First-round leaders Rocco Salvitti of Oakmont and Carson Bacha tied for second with a 1-under...

Oakmont Country Club’s Rocco Salvitti is tied for first place with Carson Bacha after round one of the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Junior Championship at Hershey Country Club. Each shot a 2-under par 69 on the East Course. South Fayette’s Luke Lestini was tied for seventh at 1-over, Fox Chapel’s Adam...

The Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Tour was at Hannastown Golf Club on Monday, and Delmont’s Anthony Nuzzo took the 17-18 division with 4-over 74. Justin Scally of Moon placed second at 5-over 75. Mitchell Sarsfield of Greensburg and Nathan Schachner tied for third at 8-over. Johnstown’s Lukas Cascino took the...

T.J. Kravits has been involved in coaching basketball at various levels for more than 10 years. In one season at Marion Center, he took a team that went 0-22 two years ago to 8-14 last year. Now he hopes to take that success to Mt. Pleasant, where he plans to...

Daniel McCarthy couldn’t be blamed if he went to bed early Monday night. Sunday, he flew from Utah to Detroit and then drove to Pittsburgh to compete in the annual Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational at Pittsburgh Field Club. Despite getting only two hours of sleep, McCarthy was able to...

Alex and Nick Turowski are coming off a productive week on the golf tournament circuit. The Harrison City natives, who are brothers, won consecutive Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Tournaments — at Glengarry Golf Links on Wednesday and South Hills Country Club on Thursday. Alex won the 16-18 age division and...

The last golfer from Western Pennsylvania to win the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational was Mike Van Sickle in 2013. That doesn’t mean the locals haven’t been in the hunt. Michael Gligic needed eight extra holes to defeat Washington native Steve Wheatcroft in 2019. Gligic, Wheatcroft and Michigan native Ryan...

Seton Hill women’s basketball coach Mark Katarski found away to build a solid recruiting class for the 2020-21 season, mainly online. The incoming class includes junior transfer Sonia Sarda of Granollers, Spain. Sarda played the past two seasons at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma, where she averaged 11.2 points as...

The North Allegheny school board voted Wednesday to add girls wrestling to its athletic programs, becoming the first school district in the WPIAL to sponsor the sport. NA will join three other schools in the state to sponsor a team. The others are Easton, J.P. McCaskey and Executive Education Academy....

Hunter Jurica got robbed on Wednesday by one of the new golf regulations put in place because of the coronavirus. The foam insert placed in cups at golf courses denied Jurica his first hole-in-one. Jurica was playing in the Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Golf Tour event at Glengarry Golf Links...

The past week has been a busier than normal for Robert Morris men’s basketball coach Andy Toole since the university made the announcement that the Colonials were leaving the Northeast Conference and upgrading to the Horizon League. The announcement left Toole and his staff scrambling to study the strength and...

The Robert Morris women’s lacrosse team will compete in a new conference starting next spring. The Colonials will join the Mid-American Conference beginning in 2020-21 after the school left the Northeast Conference last week. RMU officials are still searching for a conference for men’s lacrosse team. The women will join...

Two transfers and three freshmen headline the 2020 Penn State women’s basketball recruiting class, which was announced Monday by the university. None of the additional recruits is from Pennsylvania. The Nittany Lions signed Maddie Burke (Central Bucks West, Doylestown), Kaci Donovan (Owego, N.Y.), Nan Garcia (Jeffersonville, Ind.) and Leilani Kapinus...

The Western Pennsylvania Golf Association finally held its first event of the season, and things went without a hitch. The first of two qualifiers for the 120th Amateur Championship was held Monday at The Country Club of Meadville and Parker resident Mike Marron shot a 2-under par 70 to grab...

The longest-tenured athletic director in Westmoreland County has retired. Yough’s Tom Evans, who has been athletic director or assistant AD since 1993, will retire as a teacher on June 30. Evans has also been a PIAA official for more than 35 years and has served on various committees with the...

It looks like the 64th annual Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete banquet is a go. According to banquet host Judge John J. Driscoll, the banquet will be 6 p.m. on July 15 at Ferrante’s Lakeview Lounge in Hempfield. Guests will be limited to scholar-athletes, families, athletic directors and committee members and sponsors....

Jarrod King won an NCAA Division I wrestling title in 2009. On Friday, he joined his brother Matt (2015) as the first family members to be inducted into the Edinboro University Athletic Hall of Fame. The 39th annual Hall of Fame ceremony will tentatively take place Sept. 4. The Connellsville...

Four Waynesburg wrestlers were among a group of 13 from the WPIAL that cracked the top 20 in TheOpenMat.com’s national preseason rankings. Four PIAA returning champions from the WPIAL made the list: Franklin Regional senior Carter Dibert, Seneca Valley senior Alejandro Herrera-Rondon, Waynesburg senior Wyatt Henson and Mt. Pleasant junior...