Ted Sarneso stories

When Angela Seman took over as head coach of the Pine-Richland girls volleyball team in 2021, she wanted to teach her players more than just the game. She wanted the girls to learn life skills and make sure they understood that “volleyball and sports end for everyone at some point”...

Coming into the 2025 season, the Pine Richland football team knew what it had on offense. Top statistical leaders in passing (Aaron “Oobi” Strader), rushing (Maclane Miller) and receiving (Jay Timmons) all returned to an offense that averaged 35.6 points a game last year. More on them later. But the...

The Kiski School football team opened the season with a unique opportunity, getting the chance to showcase its talents overseas in a game in Dublin against the National U19 team of Ireland on Aug. 22 as part of the Global Ireland Football Tournament (GIFT), an annual international invitational tournament. The...

Peyton Los School: Freeport Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Peyton scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Burrell on Monday. The Yellowjackets then defeated Knoch, 3-0, on Wednesday evening. Freeport (14-1, 10-0) sits atop Section 2-2A and is getting ready for the playoffs. Tell me about...

For Penn-Trafford junior running back Ben Grabowski, it was a near-perfect game. The junior saw plenty of green in front of him and was barely touched Friday night as he carried the ball four times for 172 yards (a 43-yards-per-carry average) and scored on three of those carries. That helped...

Clara Koteski School: Fox Chapel Class: Junior Sport: Golf Claim to fame: Koteski finished fourth in the WPIAL Class 3A girls golf final with a 7-over-par 79 at Sewickley Heights Golf Club on Wednesday. The top seven finishers qualified for the PIAA championships Oct. 20 at Penn State. Her nine-hole...

After last season’s 3-0 loss in the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals to Fox Chapel, Plum girls soccer coach Jamie Stewart knew his team needed to face more quality opponents. The one school that came to mind was Norwin out of Class 4A. “We wanted to see where we stacked up...

Normally a homecoming elicits feelings of remembrance and allows for reflection of years gone by. Dustin Shoaf, Southmoreland’s coach and Yough’s all-time leading rusher, downplayed most of those feelings as his team rolled into Cougar Mountain in Herminie and came away with a win. “It was just another game for...

It didn’t begin well, but it ended all the same. The Mt. Lebanon girls tennis doubles duo of seniors Jackie Tang and Michelle Yang appeared a little off Thursday to start the WPIAL Class 3A final, which was a rematch of last year’s contest as the Blue Devils once again...

Bryanna Simonetti School: Deer Lakes Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Simonetti scored a pair of goals in a Deer Lakes (10-1, 5-1) shutout win over Yough on Wednesday. The Lancers sit in second place in Section 4-2A and have won five games in a row for the second...

The opening Class 3A Interstate Conference game between Elizabeth Forward and Greensburg Salem was a one-score contest through a quarter and a half. The Warriors (5-1, 1-0) proved to be bigger and faster, pulling away for a 49-7 victory over the Golden Lions (2-4, 0-1) at Offutt Field in Greensburg....

Over the past two-plus years, Cullen Vereb has been an assistant coach on the Peters Township girls soccer team under his father Pat, who is the head coach. When Cullen was contacted by former Chartiers Valley girls volleyball coach Mackenzie Greene about taking the head coaching position with the Colts,...

Jillian Bloch School: St. Joseph Class: Junior Sport: Volleyball Claim to fame: Bloch, the Spartans libero, has stepped up when needed. On Tuesday against Springdale, she had to slide into the setter role because of a number of players being out sick. On Thursday, she produced 21 digs to lead...

Coming off a tough loss to Woodland Hills last week, the expectation was for Penn-­Trafford to rebound at home against a struggling Kiski Area team. The Warriors (4-1, 1-1) wasted no time putting up 35 points in the first half en route to a 42-0 drubbing of the Cavaliers (1-4,...

It all began Thursday, June 12, when the Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame selection committee convened to review numerous submitted nominations for its 2025 class. After careful consideration and adherence to the committee’s bylaws that state five individual athletes and one team must be chosen, the committee had their selections....

The Pine-Richland girls golf team is coming off a brilliant 2024 campaign that included a 12-1 overall record and 11-1 mark in Section 1-3A. The squad finished fifth in the WPIAL team championships. That led coach Jared Slimm to borrow a quote from Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni when speaking...

As the summer air gives way to a brisker, autumn feel, the regular season begins to wrap up in high school golf and the postseason picture begins to come into focus. The Pine-Richland boys golf team has been playing well all season and has held on firmly to the second...

Derry and Burrell performed some late-game magic in their games last week against Deer Lakes and Mt. Pleasant, respectively. When the teams squared off Friday night at Trojan Stadium at Derry, all anyone had to do was sit patiently and wait for the last minutes of the fourth quarter. The...

Emily McKee School: Fox Chapel Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: McKee scored a pair of goals in a 7-0 win versus Penn Hills on Tuesday and recorded a hat trick as Fox Chapel (4-1, 2-0) routed Obama Academy, 10-0, on Wednesday night. McKee has scored 45% of the...

Mt. Pleasant came into its game against Burrell happy to have one half of its running back tandem back in the starting lineup. But what the Bucs brought offensively was something the Burrell fans hadn’t seen in a long time. Sophomore quarterback Antonio Perkins put on a show for the...

Mary Quinlan School: Riverview Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Quinlan is on fire to begin the season. On Monday, she scored a pair of goals as the Raiders (2-0, 2-0) defeated Greensburg Central Catholic 9-1 to open Class 1A Section 4 play. Two days later, she scored a...

What a difference a week makes. Coming into their matchup Friday night at Norwin Knights Stadium, the hosts and visiting Kiski Area Cavaliers would experience opposite outcomes from how they finished the week prior. Kiski Area (1-1) came into the game after shutting out Knoch despite racking up more than...

After spending the past couple of years in the wilderness due to field renovations, the Chartiers Valley boys and girls soccer teams are glad they can finally play and practice on their home turf. “The construction created so many challenges with us as far as busing players to another field,...

Not a bad start for Kiski Area and new coach Colin Haugh. It wasn’t as clean as they would have liked, but the Cavaliers (1-0) persevered through their mistakes in a 21-0 win over Class 4A foe Knoch (0-1) at Richard Dilts Field at Kiski Area High School. Despite miscues,...

It’s not often that an opportunity like the one the Kiski School Cougar football team will experience comes along. The coaches and players understand that, and the excitement at the school is palpable. “I’ve never been outside the country,” said junior Levi Porter. “It’s pretty cool to get the chance...