Penn-Trafford Star category, Page 3

Rising redshirt senior Ian Korn, who had an exceptional season for Seton Hill, is transferring to West Virginia for a season of Division I baseball. Korn, the NCBWA Division II National Pitcher of the Year, went 11-2 with a 1.81 ERA and 83 strikeouts in 84 innings this year. Opponents...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Joshua Holizna sold property at 2523 Collins Road to Hunter Shreffler and Olivia Bitting for $265,000. Thomas Antonacci sold property at 2513 Creekedge Drive to April Simpson for $242,500. Ashleigh Renee Bartges sold property at 1507 Williamsburg Place to Diana Payne for $199,900. Jan Swensen sold property...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Giuliana Youngo might have played her last softball game Friday night. The Penn-Trafford senior right fielder, though, probably will be back at Penn State’s Beard Field, the site of the Warriors’ 2-0 win over Greencastle-Antrim in the PIAA Class 5A championship. She has enrolled at Penn State....

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn-Trafford has won two PIAA softball championships without ever winning a WPIAL title, and that is just fine with coach Denny Little. “Sometimes you have to eat your dessert first,” Little said Friday night after the Warriors captured their second state title in six years with a...

Penn Area Library plans puppet show Penn Area Library in Penn Township will host a puppet show for children, performed by the Children’s Institute, from 1 to 2 p.m. June 16. Titled “Kids on the Block,” the puppet show teaches children about conditions such as cerebral palsy, blindness and deafness....

Penn-Trafford tax bills will raise $84 annually on average following the school board’s decision Monday to implement a 3-mill tax hike. The board approved a $70 million budget with about $69.9 million in revenue Monday night. District tax rates will be 93.75 mills for Westmoreland County residents and 14.39 mills...

Penn-Trafford softball coach Denny Little was under the weather Sunday night and was not sure he would be able to make his team’s PIAA Class 5A semifinal against West Allegheny on Monday. The perfect prescription was an all-around solid effort by the Warriors that left the Indians feeling ill. Penn-Trafford...

A woman who crashed her vehicle over a hillside along Paintertown Road in Penn Township Monday morning is in stable condition, according to Ed Grant, Penn Township Ambulance operations director. The vehicle went over a steep embankment, rear end first, shortly after 10:45 a.m., traveling about 30 feet down from...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Estate of Anna Reabe sold property at 125 Wilkins Ave. to AAE Engineering LLC for $63,000. Churchill Timothy Mullins sold property at 12 Lewin Ln to Bryce Cooper for $390,000. Cedar Brook Properties Funding 1 LLC sold property at 140 Thornberry Drive to Robert and Jeannette Fisher...

North Allegheny boys volleyball coach Dan Long said he didn’t want the Tigers to look at themselves as a finished product Saturday. A surprising result during the second set of a 3-1 win over Penn-Trafford during a PIAA Class 3A quarterfinal at AHN Arena provided some clarity on why they...

WINDBER — Sophomore Annabell Carvajal spent some extra time in the batting cage with coach Denny Little this week in preparation for the PIAA Class 5A quarterfinals. Penn-Trafford’s top pinch-hitter turned the reps into a walk-off winner. Carvajal sent a two-out single to right field in the bottom of the...

STATE COLLEGE — Penn-Trafford’s run through the PIAA boys volleyball playoffs continued Tuesday evening in State College, as the Warriors defeated the Little Lions in straight sets to advance into Saturday’s quarterfinal round. “They were tough,” Penn-Trafford coach Jim Schall said. “They were without their big hitter, and he probably,...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Anise Petite sold property at 134 Parkway Ave. to Frank Smart Family Realty LLC for $25,000. Churchill Jack Williams sold property at 2283 Elmhill Road to Samuel Isac and Carla McNulty Teasdale for $476,850. Forest Hills Estate of Carlena Yvonne Harris sold property at 1987 Centurion Drive...

When the Penn-Trafford softball team won its only PIAA Class 5A title, it had not won the WPIAL title. The Warriors lost to Connellsville in the WPIAL semifinals and then had to defeat Franklin Regional in the third-place game to qualify for the 2019 state tournament, which they did, 6-2....

The mark of a good team is how much it improves during the season. Penn-Trafford boys volleyball finished third in Section 2-3A, but after an upset win against section champion Latrobe and a win against Pine-Richland in the WPIAL third-place game, the Warriors found themselves in the PIAA playoffs, scheduled...

Freshman Addison Aleski singled home junior Jayla Antomachi in the top of the 11th inning to help No. 2 Shaler defeat No. 1 Penn-Trafford, 2-1, in the WPIAL Class 5A softball championship game Thursday at North Allegheny. It was the fourth time Shaler has won a WPIAL title and first...

Traffic will be reduced to one lane overnight along a portion of Route 130 in Penn Township starting June 8 while Peoples Natural Gas works to replace aging pipelines. The project is part of the gas company’s decades-long plan to replace 3,000 miles of pipelines to make their system more...

WPIAL Class 5A softball final No. 1 Penn-Trafford vs. No. 2 Shaler 3:30 p.m. Thursday at North Allegheny On the air: Audio: Trib HSSN; Video: NFHS Network WPIAL titles: Penn-Trafford 0; Shaler 3 (2014, ’05, 1982) Penn-Trafford (20-2) Coach: Denny Little Projected starting lineup 18, Rilie Moors, LF, Jr. 32,...

Latrobe boys volleyball coach Drew Vosefski said he was concerned about playing Penn-Trafford for a third time. Even though Latrobe had won the previous two section matches, the Wildcats faced a different Penn-Trafford squad in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals May 15 and Vosefski’s worries became reality. The sixth-seeded Warriors...

When a team reaches the second round of the PIAA Class 5A playoffs in consecutive seasons and is the reigning WPIAL champion, losing in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs is not acceptable. But the 2025 Penn-Trafford baseball team has to live with it, and the returning members of...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Estate of Justine West sold property at 2630 McCrady Road to Mark Thomas and Cheryl Marie Bedmarz Chang for $235,000. Forest Hills Eric Small sold property at 227 Elmore Road to Steven Avers and Hanann Marawi for $230,000. Monroeville Kristine Chusko sold property at 114 Elmwood St....

Towns often want to honor native sons and daughters who served in the armed forces, whether it’s through a banner, a veterans memorial or something similar. But it’s not always easy to get a complete list of names. “A lot of times, there isn’t an official record, especially the farther...

Trib HSSN softball team of the week – Penn-Trafford Warriors Coach: Denny Little (ninth year) Record: Penn-Trafford captured the Section 2-5A crown with a perfect record of 12-0, finishing three games in front of runner-up Franklin Regional. The Warriors have a current overall record of 20-2 with three straight wins...

Overwhelming. Gratifying. Those were the words Operations Director Ed Grant used to quantify his emotions May 8 as Penn Township Ambulance was named the EMS Agency of the Year by a statewide organization. The Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council, an advisory board with more than 200 members, recognized the ambulance...

Jordan Hoover desperately wants to be part of the Seneca Valley boys volleyball team that kicks down the door and wins a WPIAL Class 3A championship. The 6-foot-5 senior middle hitter and his teammates needed a strong fifth set to make sure they didn’t fall over the front stoop on...