High School category, Page 273

The athletes in the Quaker Valley track and field program have the dates May 1 and May 7 circled on their spring calendars. The semifinal round of the WPIAL 2A team championships will take place May 4 at four sites, followed by the finals May 9 at Peters Township. Last...

Libby Eannarino’s distinguished three-sport career at Sewickley Academy continues. The 5-foot-9 senior was a high-scoring backcourt player in basketball, a midfielder in soccer and currently is a midfielder on the Sewickley girls lacrosse team. She has served as captain in all three sports. Eannarino also competes for Sky Walkers Lacrosse...

The top four doubles competitors in Section 4-2A boys tennis this season proved to be Sewickley Academy athletes. In an all-Sewickley final, freshmen Max Kopf and Ben Terrell won the doubles championship by knocking off seniors Jackson Quigley and Tejas Mitra, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Kopf and Terrell were seeded second...

Penn-Trafford seniors Patton Graziano and MacKenzie Keenan were the school’s nominees for the Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete Excellence Award and awere among 12 finalists. Graziano was a two-time PIAA medalist in swimming and a WPIAL Class 3A 100-yard freestyle champion. Keenan was an outstanding softball and field hockey player. Penn-Trafford boys...

Talk about making a huge leap. Penn-Trafford junior Logan Kerstetter wasn’t his team’s best javelin thrower coming into the season. That honor was held by senior Matt Sarnowski. But things have changed dramatically, and Kerstetter has taken his game to another level. Heading into May, he has the top throw...

Purchasing new equipment has helped the Penn Hills baseball team raise its collective batting average. If the Indians want to build on that success and win games, they will have to string those hits together. Penn Hills has only produced 23 runs in its first 11 games. “We have quite...

Ronald Porter didn’t think much about the long jump at first. Entering his first track and field season at Penn Hills, the junior wanted to help get his time in the 100 dash down to earn bragging rights with his football teammates. But Indians coach Lee Zelkowiz and his staff...

Tom Evans retired as a teacher and athletic director from the Yough School District in 2020. But he really hasn’t stepped away completely from the high school sports scene. Evans has been an event coordinator at Hempfield and remains on the WPIAL board of directors, most recently as the junior...

High schools Baseball Saturday’s results Homer-Center tournament Consolation Apollo-Ridge 4, Penns Manor 2 Championship Homer-Center 11, Derry 10 Nonsection Carrick 8, Brentwood 4 Ellwood City 13, Union 3 Gateway 4, Seneca Valley 2 Knoch 4, Deer Lakes 0 Softball Saturday’s results Class A Section 2 Carmichaels 5, Jefferson-Morgan 2 Nonsection...

Dylan Vojnik hit a bases-clearing double in the bottom of the fifth inning to lead Gateway to a 4-2 victory over Seneca Valley in nonsection baseball Saturday at PNC Park. Elliot Sterner worked a scoreless fifth to earn the win for the Gators (1-12), who picked up their first win...

Melani Schmidt School: Norwin Class: Junior Sport: Track & field Claim to fame: Schmidt was named the track MVP at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association Championships at Latrobe, collecting four medals, including gold in the 200- and 400-meter dashes (in 25.11 and 58.88 seconds). She also anchored the winning 400...

Daiveon Taylor wasn’t traveling to Morgantown this weekend just to watch West Virginia’s annual Gold-Blue spring game. He was there to commit. “I had it planned all week,” said Taylor, a 6-foot-2, 227-pound sophomore linebacker who recently transferred from Bishop Canevin to Aliquippa. Taylor shared his decision with WVU head...

Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Mt. Lebanon, 13-3, 3 2. North Allegheny, 12-3, 1 3. Pine-Richland, 13-3, 4 4. Hempfield, 12-4, 2 5. Seneca Valley, 7-6, 5 Out: none Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. West Allegheny, 10-2, 2 2. Shaler, 11-3, 1 3. Penn-Trafford, 12-1, 3...

Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 14-0, 1 2. Hempfield, 12-1, 2 3. North Allegheny, 8-4, 4 4. Pine-Richland, 7-7, 3 5. Norwin, 7-8, 5 Out: none Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Armstrong, 12-1, 3 2. North Hills, 10-2, 4 3. West Allegheny, 14-2, 2...

The Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame has been honoring the best of the best in local athletics for more than a half century. During that period, the organization has welcomed nearly 400 individuals into its ranks. For the first time, the A-K hall will admit teams: • The 1946...

Riley Stephans School: Plum Class: Sophomore Sport: Softball Report card: Plum sophomore Riley Stephans tossed two no-hitters and a two-hitter this week in leading the Mustangs (9-4, 6-3) to three victories. On Monday, she allowed zero hits and struck out 10 in four innings in a 15-0 win over Oakland...

Imani Christian junior R.J. Sledge won his third straight PIAA boys basketball title in March, but his ability to win a fourth next winter is in limbo. The WPIAL has scheduled a hearing for May 6 to decide whether the all-state player is eligible for his senior year. Imani has...

Five section games in five days? No problem for the Pine-Richland baseball team. The Rams swept the week, winning three against Seneca Valley and two makeup games over Allderdice. Those victories set up a Section 1-6A championship showdown with North Allegheny. The two teams were scheduled to play a three-game...

After a season to remember, Franklin Regional senior basketball player Cam Rowell made his college decision. The 6-foot-5 guard announced he will play at Washington & Jefferson. Rowell recently was named to the Pennsylvania Sports Writers Class 5A All-State Second Team. The TribLive Westmoreland player of the year showed his...

With a couple of weeks left in the regular season, the Pine-Richland softball team finds itself in a similar situation to last year. The Rams are in the middle of the pack in the lone WPIAL Class 6A section and fighting to get into the postseason. They were in fifth...

The Plum girls lacrosse team has made adjustments as the season has progressed. When the Mustangs’ young attacks needed time to grow into their roles, Plum counted on its upperclassmen to help carry the fight in the midfield. The Mustangs have been scoring at an impressive clip this season. While...

The Plum boys lacrosse team routed Winchester Thurston earlier this month and did it with 17 goals, the most in the nearly decadelong history of the program. Juniors C.M. Sillman and Noah Parente each scored four goals, while junior Dom Colamarino and senior Caden Anderson added two goals apiece in...

While he sees it as “just doing his job,” others saw what Dave Snowberger did as a superhuman act. Snowberger helped to save a man’s life earlier this year, and his rush to action earned him a lofty honor in sports training circles. Snowberger received the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society...

North Allegheny’s rowing team opened the spring season by earning four medals and taking third place at the Huron River Sprints in Kensington, Mich., on April 20. The men’s novice 4x of Nikhil Kshirsagar, Neil Pore, Grady Stoll and Max Disque with coxswain Abby Berger finished second. The women’s JV...

North Allegheny’s boys lacrosse team began the season with five consecutive losses. Since April 5, they’ve won six of their last seven, but according to coach John Rullan, they still have yet to play a full 48 minutes. “We weren’t putting that full four quarters together,” Rullan said. “We always...