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Waynesburg wrestling ranked among top 50 high school teams in country
According to trackwrestling.com, one WPIAL school was among the top 50 high school wrestling teams in the country this season. Waynesburg, which won a WPIAL Class AAA team title and finished first in the team race at the WPIAL individual tournament, is the 35th-best high school team in the country,...
Buzzer-beater by Seton LaSalle’s Emma Walsh picked for Maxpreps’ Top 10
High school basketball fans can relive a special moment for Emma Walsh and the Seton LaSalle girls basketball team. Walsh hit a half-court buzzer beater to beat South Park, 54-53 in overtime, in a Section 2-3A game Jan. 13. Video of the shot circulated across various forms of social media...
Central Valley safety Stephon Hall adds WVU, Navy scholarship offers
The coronavirus pandemic has kept Central Valley junior safety Stephon Hall from taking visits to colleges around the region. It hasn’t, however, slowed down college coaches from offering him scholarship opportunities. Hall picked up offers from West Virginia and Navy on Thursday. He also was offered by Boston College this...
Pine-Richland’s Miguel Jackson adds Navy offer
One of the top defensive ends in Western Pennsylvania has made quite an impression on college programs. Pine-Richland junior Miguel Jackson picked up three scholarship offers in the past week, including one from Navy on Thursday. Thankful and excited to receive an offer from The Naval Academy‼️#BuiltDifferent pic.twitter.com/eWq6cpWtUB— Miguel Jackson...
Ohio High School Athletic Association cancels winter sports championships
The winter season is over for high school athletes in Ohio. The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced Thursday that it has canceled the remainder of its winter sports tournaments in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. OHSAA had postponed its wrestling, basketball and ice hockey state tournaments March 12....
Butler’s Ethan Morton named Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year
The Butler boys basketball team still has a shot to win a PIAA Class 6A title if the season continues. If the Golden Tornado take the floor together again, they will do so with the best player in the state. Senior guard Ethan Morton was named the Gatorade Pennsylvania Player...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the year: Canon-McMillan’s Gerrit Nijenhuis
Gerrit Nijenhuis is a dynamic performer and two-time state champion who added another sparkling chapter to Canon-McMillan’s storied wrestling history this season, so it probably is not fair to boil down his high school career to just one number. Then again, it’s a really impressive number. Nijenhuis’ 6-0 victory over...
Tribune-Review Westmoreland County wrestler of the year: Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps
Kurtis Phipps, like everyone in the world, is bored sitting at home watching TV. But that is what has happened with the coronavirus forcing people to take precautions to stay healthy. Phipps is glad the PIAA didn’t stop its wrestling tournament like the NCAA did for the basketball and wrestling...
Leechburg hires new football coach, athletic director
As an assistant coach with Burrell football the last two seasons, Randy Walters watched the Bucs fling the ball all over the field using head coach Shawn Liotta’s up-tempo Air Raid approach. It’s the kind of offense that can stir football passions in a coach, especially an old quarterback, and...
Scholarship offers piling up for Peters Township’s Corban Hondru
Peters Township junior Corban Hondru has been active this week … on social media, at least. With most of the world homebound and quarantined because of the coronavirus pandemic, Hondru has taken to social media like thousands of other high school students. Rather than posting push-up or dance videos, Hondru...
Early-season track and field invitationals canceled
Two of the area’s marquee track and field invitationals have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The annual South Hills Classic was scheduled to be held Saturday at Baldwin Stadium. In addition, the Lady Spartan/Wildcat Invitational, scheduled for April 9 at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium, has been canceled, according to...
If PIAA playoffs resume, these WPIAL stars can look forward to Roundball Classic
If the suspended PIAA basketball playoffs resume, the season won’t end after all the hardware is handed out in Hershey. A Western Pennsylvania all-star tradition will follow. The Roundball Classic is set for April 24-25 at Geneva College with senior all-stars from the WPIAL, City League and District 10 facing...
Chartiers Valley’s Aislin Malcolm wins Pennsylvania player of year honors
Given the depth of talent on the court at any given time, it’s hard for any individual player to stand out on the Chartiers Valley girls basketball roster. Sophomore Aislin Malcolm has managed to shine through. The 5-foot-10 guard was named Pennsylvania player of the year by MaxPreps on Tuesday....
Guido: A look at other times high school sports shut down
The coronavirus pandemic is threatening to do what World War II, the Spanish flu and the Asian flu couldn’t do: shelve an entire high school sports season. With the schools closed and everything else virtually shut down, some are still hoping a semblance of a 2020 spring sports season could...
Pine-Richland softball focused on adding punch at the plate
Pine-Richland softball coach Gary Shepard has always emphasized pitching and defense as the core tenets of his philosophy for winning games on the diamond. However, this season, the Rams coach is tweaking his approach to incorporate more work at the plate in an effort to increase his team’s scoring output....
PIAA extends postponement of spring sports, winter championships
There’s still hope for high school sports to be held this spring. In response to Gov. Tom Wolf’s directive that all schools in Pennsylvania remain closed for at least two more weeks, PIAA officials have extended the postponement of the possible restart of the winter basketball and swimming championships and...
Local AAU squad deals with ‘so many question marks’ with season in limbo
Normally at this time of year, Tom Droney and his fellow AAU coaches would be gearing up for the first weekend of practice to get ready for the opening tournament on the Adidas 3SSB national circuit. But the word normal has taken on new meaning in recent weeks as the...
Valley News Dispatch wrestling all-star team
Jack Blumer Kiski Area, sr., 160 pounds 2019-20 record: 39-4 Blumer finished his senior year as runner-up in the WPIAL and earned a fourth-place finish at states. He became Kiski Area’s all-time pins leader with 107. Jrake Burford Highlands, so., 132 pounds 2019-20 record: 30-8 Burford was a key contributor...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the year: Canon-McMillan’s Gerrit Nijenhuis
Gerrit Nijenhuis is a dynamic performer and two-time state champion who added another sparkling chapter to Canon-McMillan’s storied wrestling history this season, so it probably is not fair to boil down his high school career to just one number. Then again, it’s a really impressive number. Nijenhuis’ 6-0 victory over...
Trib HSSN 2019-20 wrestling all-star team
Here’s a look at the 2019-20 Trib HSSN wrestling all-star team: Ethan Berginc Hempfield, jr., 113 pounds Record (2019-20, career): 37-6, 90-34 Berginc won the PIAA championship by defeating Cedar Cliff’s Aiden Lewis, 3-2, in the finals. He placed third in the WPIAL. He was the only wrestler who competed...
Tribune-Review Westmoreland County wrestling all-star team
John Altieri Norwin, jr., 138 pounds Record (2019-20, career): 40-7, 72-16 Altieri reached the PIAA semifinals before losing to North Hills senior Sam Hillegas. He ended up finishing fourth. He was the WPIAL third-place finisher. Ethan Berginc Hempfield, jr., 113 pounds Record (2019-20, career): 37-6, 90-34 Berginc won the PIAA...
Tribune-Review Westmoreland County wrestler of the year: Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps
Kurtis Phipps, like everyone in the world, is bored sitting at home watching TV. But that is what has happened with the coronavirus forcing people to take precautions to stay healthy. Phipps is glad the PIAA didn’t stop its wrestling tournament like the NCAA did for the basketball and wrestling...
Local ballplayers trying to stay sharp during coronavirus’ spring shutdown
Max McDowell was set to begin his sixth season in the minor leagues. A catcher for the Biloxi Shuckers, the Double-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, McDowell couldn’t wait to start another year of dream-chasing on the diamond. But the Norwin graduate ended up disappointed. As slack-jawed as any athlete...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: Penn-Trafford baseball honoring Maclean Maund
The late Maclean Maund was the ace of the Penn-Trafford pitching staff last season. He helped lead the Warriors to a runner-up finish in WPIAL Class 6A and was named a Tribune-Review All-Star. Maund was set to play for Seton Hill this spring but was killed in a vehicle accident...
Mohawk joins 6 other WPIAL teams in HSSN girls basketball state rankings
An old song had lyrics that proclaimed “one is the loneliest number.” That is true if you are the one team that got bumped in each class from the Trib HSSN state rankings. Four teams in each classification won their second-round PIAA playoff game last week and advanced to what...
