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Central Catholic rights ship with blowout of Penn Hills
Last week, Central Catholic coach Terry Totten felt his defense bent a lot. This week, it corrected course and held Penn Hills to 66 yards in a 48-7 win Friday. The Vikings (1-1) used that defense and pass rush to create offense by winning the field-position battle. Nine Central Catholic...
2021 WPIAL statistical leaders for rushing, passing, receiving in Week 1
Top performers for Week 1 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 353 - Connor Roberts, Trinity (20 of 32) 293 - Gavin Miller, West Allegheny (10 of 17) 273 - Cadin Olsen, Armstrong (21 of 32) 262 - Jaren Brickner, Beaver Falls (13 of 22) 261 - Sam...
Big plays help unbeaten Ligonier Valley past Elizabeth Forward
Ligonier Valley made several big plays and turned the momentum to its favor early in taking down Elizabeth Forward 26-14 in nonconference play Friday night. The Rams (2-0) scored a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, a 68-yard touchdown pass from Haden Sierocky to Grant Dowden. Ligonier Valley coach...
Ringgold football runs to shutout of Yough
Ringgold coach Darwin Manges was looking for his Rams to build confidence after last week’s tough loss to Elizabeth Forward. After a dominating display in Friday’s game against Yough at Joe Montana Stadium, Manges and his Rams are full of confidence. The offense was firing on all cylinders, and the...
Belle Vernon routs Chartiers Valley behind methodical offense, staunch defense
Belle Vernon Area couldn’t have scripted a better start for its Week 1 nonconference matchup against Chartiers Valley on Friday night. The Leopards received the opening kickoff, and three minutes late, they were in the end zone after a nine-play, 80-yard drive. BVA never looked back, racking up 388 yards...
Pirates farm report for Sept. 3, 2021: Altoona’s Mason Martin breaks up no-hit bid in 9th
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 50-55) lost to Iowa (Cubs) 9-7. RHP Cam Vieaux (7.67) started and went 1⅔ scoreless innings, striking out two and walking one. RHP Matt Eckelman (2-5, 4.88) ended up with the loss, allowing three runs (one earned) over 2⅓ innings. He also struck out three and walked one....
Big plays leads Highlands past Valley
Highlands quarterback Chandler Thimons made the most of his pass completions Friday night at Valley. The junior completed three passes — all for touchdowns — as the Golden Rams routed the Vikings, 41-6, in a nonconference game at Valley Memorial Stadium. Thimons threw touchdowns of 45 and 40 yards to...
North Hills football easily dispatches PlumVideo
Robert Dickerson stood outside of his locker room, popped a couple of Hot Tamales candies in his mouth and just kept on smiling. And why not? He doesn’t mind bringing the heat. Dickerson, North Hills’ standout senior receiver, was bottled up on offense all night but pulled off a pair...
Laurel Highlands prevails in toe-to-toe battle with Southmoreland
Southmoreland matched Laurel Highlands score for score, but the rushing attack of Rodney Gallagher and Eric Allen was too much for the Scotties in the Mustangs’ 28-21 victory on Friday at Russ Grimm Field. Gallagher ran for 157 yards on 16 carries and three touchdowns and Allen added 149 yards...
Kiski Area takes advantage of Franklin Regional’s mistakes to come away with win
Kiski Area capitalized on several gaffes by Franklin Regional for a 24-14 win Friday night in a Class 5A nonconference matchup in Vandergrift. Kiski (2-0, 0-0) returned two interceptions for touchdowns and recovered a fumble deep in Franklin Regional (1-1, 0-0) territory,which led to a field goal. The second pick-6...
AP sources: Big 12 moving quickly to add 4 new membersVideo
The Big 12 is moving quickly on an expansion plan that could have the conference at 12 schools after Texas and Oklahoma leave, with BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston as the “most intriguing” candidates. Three people familiar with the Big 12′s talks said Friday the eight schools being left...
Penguins invite Mt. Lebanon’s Matt Bartkowski, veteran forward Brian Boyle to camp
The Penguins are inviting a pair of veteran NHL players, including a Western Pennsylvania native, to training camp in September, the team announced Friday. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski, a Mt. Lebanon native, and forward Brian Boyle will attend camp on professional tryout contracts, hoping to make the team. Bartkowski, 33, has...
Pa. to refund $19M to 109,000 people it overcharged in unemployment error
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — The state Department of Labor and Industry will pay out more than $19 million in refunds after it overcharged...
Laurence Tribe: Sirhan Sirhan was spared the death sentence for assassinating Kennedy, but he doesn’t deserve freedom
I was an idealistic 26-year-old clerking on the United States Supreme Court when Sirhan Sirhan murdered Robert F. Kennedy, then a leading candidate for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. My dreams — like those of millions of Americans — for a humane exit from the Vietnam War, for a brighter...
Penguins assistant coach Todd Reirden named to Mike Sullivan’s Team USA coaching staff
When he was head coach of the Washington Capitals, Todd Reirden was often tasked with figuring out a way to stop Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. At the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February, he’ll be at it again. Reirden, now a Penguins assistant coach, has been named one of...
Sen. Toomey says it’s ‘completely unacceptable’ for GOP to pick Trump in 2024
Don’t make the same mistake twice, GOP. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania conservative who is retiring next year, said that Republicans must not back Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee in 2024 because of his “completely unacceptable” effort to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden. “After what...
Danny Westneat: After a covid skeptic falls to the disease, people ask an awkward question: Should we care?
A reader wrote in with a blunt and honest comment that I want to share, because it alludes to a shift that’s taking place in society as we struggle to deal with this latest surge of the pandemic. “I realized this pandemic is changing me, and not for the better,”...
Board gets heated after Allegheny Co. jail contractor refuses to disclose background
A man hired to provide militaristic training to officers at Allegheny County Jail refused to answer questions about his military service or criminal history during a heated Jail Oversight Board meeting Thursday. “I never touted anything other than my 27 years of law enforcement experience,” said Joseph Garcia, who runs...
Quinn on Nutrition: Is dietary fiber really that important?
Reader B.D. posed this challenge to me this week: “I would appreciate your opinion as a dietitian on this article on dietary fiber.” The article, “Does a high fibre diet prevent disease?” written by Dr. Sebastian Rushworth — a junior physician in Stockholm who graduated from medical school in 2020...
Letter to the editor: We don’t know what’s in our ketchup, either
I can’t understand how minority neighborhoods are being called underserved when clinics are set up in them and the residents don’t come. A recurring excuse is “they did not come for the vaccine because they don’t know what is in it.” Would they come if an ingredient list was published...
Person to Person: How to cope when the honeymoon’s over
Did your marriage start out in a blissful state? Have you been floating on cloud nine, but now thunderstorms are on the horizon? This is normal. No married couple can stay in the honeymoon phase forever. Sooner or later, real life takes over. All of us start out believing our...
Letter to the editor: We need answers from Bush, Cheney
If people think the exodus from President G.W. Bush’s 20-year Afghanistan war is bad, wait until they see our exodus from Bush’s 18-year, multitrillion-dollar Iraq debacle. Everyone is pointing fingers. Why are not the real guilty parties (GWB and Cheney) put on the witness stand and answers demanded from them?...
Lynn Schmidt: Conservative, Republican ideologies intersect less and less these days
English mathematician, logician and philosopher John Venn introduced the Venn diagram in the 1880s. A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles to illustrate the logical relationships between two or more sets of items. Often, Venn diagrams serve to highlight how the items are similar and different. They can also help us...
Letter to the editor: Biden supporters share blame for Afghanistan
President Biden supporters, from mainstream media to die-hard Democrats, and those who found some of Trump’s tweets upsetting, have betrayed our troops and allies around the world. All now share responsibility for the debacle and loss of life in Afghanistan. More lives will be lost because terrorists are now emboldened....
The Stroller, Sept. 3, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Northmoreland Park Labor Day party planned The annual Labor United Celebration will be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and...
