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Pine-Richland notebook: Heavyweight wrestler among Rams signing with colleges
Five Pine-Richland senior athletes made their college choices official during the May national signing day. Will Albrecht (Westminster/lacrosse), Matthew Carper (United States Coast Guard/swimming), Breanna Franchak (Dickinson/cross county and track), Joey Schneck (Maryland/wrestling) and Elizabeth Shaffer (Carnegie Mellon/swimming) all participated in a signing ceremony at the school. Between the November,...
Dan Boring to resign as Southmoreland athletic director
Dan Boring believes the Southmoreland athletic department is in better shape than when he began overseeing Scotties sports in 2020. “Absolutely,” he said. “We have done some great things over the last three years. We put some new systems in place that have smoothed out some kinks.” Boring, however, will...
Fox Chapel athletes learn from 1st trip to PIAA track championships
Fox Chapel coach Thomas Moul knows from experience that making a first trip to the PIAA Class 3A track and field championships in Shippensburg isn’t a disappointment no matter the results. What was most important for the two Fox Chapel athletes who competed at the state meet was gaining experience...
Fox Chapel notebook: Senior wrestler Trevor Katz named Student Visionary of the Year
Fox Chapel senior wrestler Trevor Katz made a big splash on the mats during his final year at the school. Katz, who qualified for the WPIAL championships at 180 pounds this season after finishing fourth in the section, helped raise $250,000 dollars for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. That is...
Southmoreland softball driven to succeed in state playoffs
As the only senior on the Southmoreland softball team, second baseman Brynn Charnesky has a voice on the field, in the dugout and on drab bus rides home from championship game losses. When she talks, the Scotties listen. After a 5-1 loss to playoff nemesis Avonworth in the WPIAL Class...
Latrobe looks to shake off WPIAL finals loss before state playoffs
Latrobe players tried to keep their heads up when the Pirate Parrot handed them their WPIAL Class 4A runner-up trophy last Tuesday at Wild Things Park. Even the Parrot seemed somber. The season wasn’t over, but it felt like it was to the Wildcats after a tough, 4-3 loss to...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: WCCA awards scholarships
The Westmoreland County Coaches Association gives out several scholarships each year with money raised through different means, including entry fees and 50/50 raffles at its events. This year, the association awarded a record seven scholarships to county athletes in the amount of $12,000. Three annual scholarships, each worth $2,000, went...
Hannah Shaw ends Norwin track career with state medal
Before a jump, Norwin senior Hannah Shaw tells herself, “You know you can do this.” She waited all season to compete for a state medal, and she came home from Shippensburg with one around her neck. Shaw finished tied for fourth at the PIAA track and field championships in the...
Softball team leads Norwin in strong spring sports season
Norwin brought contenders to the WPIAL spring sports season, along with plenty of highlights: home runs, goals, spikes and record times and distances. From the diamond to the jumping pits, the Knights made their mark. Softball With more than 30 home runs, the Knights used the long ball to build...
North Allegheny notebook: Tigers earn postseason volleyball honors
North Allegheny was well-represented on the All-WPIAL Class 3A boys volleyball team. The Tigers, who entered the PIAA tournament with an 11-4 record, had five players honored last week. Seniors Varun Kaveti and Jax Wilhite, a middle hitter and outside hitter, respectively, were named to the first team. Junior setter...
North Allegheny AD Bob Bozzuto looking to revive Murrysville American Legion baseball
Bob Bozzuto loves baseball. He’ll talk all day about the game he loves. He also loves to teach. The WPIAL baseball committee chairman wants to see players develop into stars and enjoy the game. Why else would the Hempfield Township native and North Allegheny athletic director return to coaching American...
Hard-hitting lineup helps Franklin Regional have softball season to remember
The crack of the bat and the swell of crowd noise was a regular thing for the Franklin Regional softball team this season. The Panthers connected on 30 home runs, making them one of the most threatening long-bombing teams in WPIAL Class 5A. But they fell short in the playoffs,...
Hampton runners good as gold at WPIAL, PIAA meets
Hampton track won WPIAL and PIAA gold medals in May with a relay team that got a late start and a miler who had a great finish. The girls 3,200 relay team of Kevyn Fish, Ava Vitiello, Teresa Grimm and Kathleen Milon, who ran together only twice prior to the...
Hampton baseball season punctuated by playoff win
Things looked bleak for the Hampton baseball team at midseason. A 10-6 nonsection loss at Montour on April 20 dropped the Talbots to 3-8 overall, and they had lost three consecutive Section 4-4A games to fall to 2-4. “It was not doing the little things,” senior ace left-haander Ryan Apaliski...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 2, 2023
High schools Baseball PIAA championships First round Monday’s schedule Class 6A Central Bucks West (19-6) vs. Wilson (17-7) at Villanova Ballpark, 4 p.m.; Plymouth-Whitemarsh (16-8) at Father Judge (14-1), 4 p.m.; North Penn (19-5) at Hazleton (18-4), 4:30 p.m.; Liberty (19-4) vs. Avon Grove (17-7) at DeSales University, 7:15 p.m.;...
Belle Vernon senior’s memorable day helps team dedicate WPIAL-title win to coach
Belle Vernon senior Alexa Daniels had quite an eventful WPIAL Class 4A softball championship game Wednesday. It began with a fastball to the foot and ended by jumping into teammate Ava Zubovic’s pool with her uniform on. In between, she took a glove to the face, a fastball to the...
WPIAL champ Hempfield softball team rewarded with PIAA home game
There was more at stake than a WPIAL championship for the Hempfield softball team. When the Spartans topped Seneca Valley, 2-1, in extra inning to win their eighth district title Wednesday at Cal (Pa.) and become the league’s lone representative in the PIAA Class 6A playoffs, they also earned a...
Leechburg boys basketball coach Damian Davies resigns
Damian Davies said it was time to step away as head coach of the Leechburg boys basketball team but said he leaves with many positive moments from the four seasons of his second stint with the program. Davies said he made the decision a couple of weeks ago, ending the...
PIAA reveals sites, times for 1st round of state softball playoffs
Avonworth and Neshannock repeated as WPIAL softball champions this week, but now they’ll try to win back-to-back state titles as well. The state playoffs start Monday. WPIAL 3A champion Avonworth opens the PIAA tournament with a first-round game against Fort LeBoeuf at North Allegheny. Neshannock, the 2A champion, will host...
PIAA announces sites, times for 1st round of state baseball playoffs
The six WPIAL baseball champions will start the state tournament close to home, but nobody will be closer than Riverside. The Class 3A champion Panthers have a home game Monday in the first round of the PIAA playoffs. Riverside hosts Tyrone at 3 p.m. All first-round games are Monday. WPIAL...
Trib 10: WPIAL baseball, softball champions rise in weekly power rankings
Perfection not only brings the gold, it brings a room with a powerful view as we present the district championship edition of the Trib 10. There was only one team change in both the baseball and softball power rankings this week as WPIAL Class A baseball champion Bishop Canevin debuts,...
Trib HSSN state baseball rankings for June 2, 2023
The late, great David Bowie once crooned about “changes,” which we have plenty of on the latest edition of the Trib HSSN baseball rankings before the start of the PIAA baseball playoffs. The end of the district playoffs prompted most of the moves as some ranked teams found the semifinal...
Trib HSSN state softball rankings for June 2, 2023
The larger classifications were hit hard by the district semifinals and finals, prompting plenty of changes in Class 6A, 5A and 4A in this week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings. Those three classes had three changes each, including new No. 1 teams in 5A and 4A. The three lower classes...
Jeannette star from 1930s chosen for new National High School Football Hall of Fame
A former Jeannette running back will be part of a new football hall of fame. He will represent the high school on a national level. The late John “ShowBoat” Crowell, a backfield standout for the Jayhawks in the 1930s, will be inducted into the National High School Football Hall of...
Neshannock softball juggernaut rolls on with WPIAL 2A final win over Laurel
Neshannock’s dizzying 46th consecutive softball victory Thursday turned out to be such a special one. And, oh, don’t the Lancers know it. Earning back-to-back WPIAL championships with a 12-2 rout of crosstown rival Laurel in the Class 2A final at PennWest California’s Lilley Field was enough to set off a...
