High School category, Page 455
WPIAL runner-up finish caps strong season for Quaker Valley boys track
Quaker Valley’s boys track and field team emerged from the shadow of its counterpart girls squad this season. The QV girls captured their second consecutive WPIAL Class 2A team title in 2023. The QV boys also capped a successful team season with a runner-up finish at the WPIAL championship meet....
Quaker Valley 3-sport standout Nora Johns picks Ohio Wesleyan
Quaker Valley’s loss is Ohio Wesleyan’s gain. QV graduate Nora Johns has opted to continue her athletic and academic careers at Ohio Wesleyan, where she will compete on the women’s basketball team and in the track and field program. Johns, a three-sport standout in soccer, basketball and track in high...
Royce Parham leaves North Hills to play senior year at Ohio prep school
One of the top high school basketball players in Pennsylvania is leaving the WPIAL and the state for his upcoming senior year. North Hills junior Royce Parham is transferring to Western Reserve Academy, a prep school in Northeast Ohio. The Marquette recruit said the idea of playing his high school...
Shaler softball falls in state finals on 9th-inning play at the plate
In a game full of heart-stopping moments, Saturday’s PIAA Class 5A championship contest between Shaler and District 3 champion Northern York at Penn State’s Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park came down to a play at the plate. With the teams tied 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth...
Mt. Lebanon’s 7th-inning rally falls short in state finals loss to Father Judge
UNIVERSITY PARK – The Mt. Lebanon baseball players left the state championship game with silver medals, but the Blue Devils’ coach insisted he’d always remembered this team as golden. When they started the year with eight consecutive losses, nobody could’ve predicted then they’d reach the state finals. Yet their dream...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 17, 2023
High schools Baseball PIAA championships Class 6A Championship Saturday’s result Father Judge 4, Mt. Lebanon 1 Class 4A Championship Saturday’s result Bellefonte 7, Dallas 1 Class 2A Championship Saturday’s result Bald Eagle Area 11, Mount Union 0 Lacrosse PIAA championships Boys Class 3A Championship Saturday’s result Radnor 8, Springfield 1...
Marple Newtown stops Mars lacrosse’s repeat bid in final seconds of state championship game
The Mars Fightin’ Planets were looking for history to repeat itself. The Marple Newtown Fightin’ Tigers were looking for revenge. It was a fight Marple Newtown won, earning an 11-10 comeback victory over Mars in the PIAA Class 2A boys lacrosse championship game Saturday at Penn State. The Planets and...
Keystone Oaks defensive back Clinton Robinson commits to Syracuse
Keystone Oaks defensive back Clinton Robinson, who’ll be a senior in the fall, has committed to Syracuse. He announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-1, 195-pound safety chose the Orange over offers from West Virginia, Bowling Green, Howard, Kent State, Miami (Ohio), Monmouth, Ohio, Temple and Western Michigan. The recruiting...
Parkland knocks off Shaler, takes PIAA boys volleyball title east
UNIVERSITY PARK — For the first time since 2017, there will be a new PIAA Class 3A champion in boys volleyball. Parkland moved the trophy east for the first time in years with a 3-0 sweep of WPIAL champion Shaler on Saturday at Rec Hall at the Penn State University....
District 31 Legion teams catching up after success of high school programs
It is catch-up time for baseball teams in District 31 American Legion. Four teams’ seasons — Bushy Run, Homer City, Latrobe and Unity — were delayed to varying degrees by the success of the Indiana, Latrobe and Penn-Trafford high school programs. All three qualified for the PIAA tournament, and Indiana...
Back from ankle injury, Aaron Donald happy to work with kids at 4th annual camp
Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald had a new topic to talk about during his Living in the Pocket Youth Skills Football Camp on Saturday at Highmark Stadium. How to recover from an injury. The Penn Hills and Pitt product is on the mend for the first time in...
Scrappy Plum Junior Legion team shows promise under new coach
The Plum Junior Legion baseball team picked up a key Westmoreland County league victory June 14 with a 10-9 triumph over Connellsville at Plum High School. It was the third win for Plum this season and one head coach Markus Cestra hoped would help the team build additional momentum towards...
Norwin notebook: Knights to compete in Cunningham Memorial tournament
Norwin will once again have a team in the third annual Tre Cunningham Memorial Basketball Tournament June 22-24 at Jeannette. The boys’ varsity-level event honors the memory of Cunningham, a terrific three-sport athlete at Jeannette who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2020. Norwin will open against Yough at...
North Allegheny grad finds success as baseball coach in West Virginia
Brad Comport, a 2009 North Allegheny graduate, is coaching one of the up-and-coming programs in West Virginia high school baseball. Comport is wrapping up his second season as head coach at University High School near Morgantown. Comport led the Hawks to their first playoff appearance since 2004, reaching the state...
Hampton boys lacrosse adds to winning culture with playoff season
When Andy DeMichiei took over the Hampton boys lacrosse program, he wanted to build the culture that would restore the Talbots program to the success it had for over a decade. The Talbots have continued to build that culture as Hampton finished third in the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs this...
Fox Chapel athletes wrote success stories during 2022-23 school year
Fox Chapel had plenty of team and individual successes during the 2022-23 school year. When it comes to the Foxes sports programs, there were plenty of memorable moments to reflect on and a few somber moments for the school’s supporters. Here’s a look at a few notable events that happened...
After building Leechburg boys soccer program, coach moves on to Freeport
Brad Walker admitted it was difficult to part with a Leechburg boys soccer program he had built from the ground up, but, at the same time, he is excited for a new opportunity. After four years with the Blue Devils, Walker will be the new boys soccer coach at Freeport...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Belle Vernon’s Quinton Martin endorses fragrance line
Football is leading Quinton Martin to dollars and scents. The Belle Vernon star verbally committed to Penn State in April and took his official visit to State College earlier this month. In between, Martin signed a name, image and likeness deal with a men’s fragrance company. Martin will endorse smell-goods...
Successful 2nd season for PIHL girls league ends with Southeast on top
In the second season of PIHL girls hockey, the Southeast team enjoyed a playoff bonanza. Southeast entered the postseason with a 5-6-0-1 record after back-to-back losses to its East and Northeast opponents in the last two games of the regular season. The odds seemed stacked against the Southeast girls, who...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 16, 2023
High schools Baseball PIAA championships Class 6A Championship Saturday’s schedule Father Judge (17-1) vs. Mt. Lebanon (16-10) at Penn State, 4:30 p.m. Class 4A Championship Saturday’s schedule Bellefonte (19-5) vs. Dallas (17-7) at Penn State, 1:30 p.m. Class 2A Championship Saturday’s schedule Bald Eagle Area (21-4) vs. Mount Union (24-2)...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on June 17, 2023: Mars lacrosse, Shaler volleyball go for gold
The final day of the 2022-2023 high school sports season got a little busier after wet weather led to the postponement of five state baseball and softball games Friday. Check out our front page for previews of the two PIAA championship games involving WPIAL teams: Shaler softball in 5A and...
Highlands’ Reigard, Fox Chapel’s Katz, Kiski Area honored with Positive Athlete awards
Each year, Positive Athlete Western Pennsylvania seeks out those high school student-athletes who are making a difference in the arena of their chosen sport and also in the classroom and in their community. The Alle-Kiski Valley is home to many of those whose goal it is to make where they...
Historic year for Union girls ends with loss to Tri-Valley in PIAA softball championship game
UNIVERSITY PARK – A historic softball season — and a historic year for Union girls athletics in general — came to an end Friday afternoon as the Scotties lost the PIAA Class A softball championship game to Tri Valley, 6-3, at Penn State’s Beard Field. The Scotties (20-4) were appearing...
After title game loss, Hempfield vows to ‘come out on fire next year’
UNIVERSITY PARK — As Hempfield players made their way through the outfield and back to their waiting charter bus early Thursday evening, they took one last panorama of Beard Field at Nittany Lion Softball Park. As they left Penn State, they could have chanted, “We Are!” As in, “We Are!”...
Due to rainy weather, PIAA postpones Mt. Lebanon baseball, Shaler softball title games
Due to rainy weather in the forecast, the PIAA has postponed until tomorrow five of the six baseball and softball championship games scheduled for Friday. The one game that will go on as scheduled Friday will see Class A WPIAL champion Union (20-3) take on Tri Valley (23-2) at 11...
