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High schools WPIAL Baseball Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at North Allegheny, 7 p.m. Seneca Valley at Pine-Richland, 4:15 p.m. Section 2 Central Catholic at Baldwin, 4 p.m. Hempfield at Canon-McMillan, 4 p.m. Norwin at Mt. Lebanon, 4 p.m. Class 5A Section 1 Armstrong at Gateway, 7...

Belle Vernon Evan Pohlot Sports: Basketball and football Parents: Mark and Jeannie Pohlot Class rank: 16 of 153 GPA: 4.325 College: Duquesne Extracurricular activities and honors: He played four years each on the football and basketball teams. He was a team captain on the WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A championship...

If you ever attend a Hempfield track and field practice, you would swear the coach conducting calisthenics was a U.S. Marine Corps officer. No, it’s just LaRoyal Wilson, who is the 2023 recipient of the Mike and John Ferrante Memorial Award. It’s an honor that usually goes to head coaches...

Shane Valko knows the Pitt-Johnstown wrestling program and its traditions inside and out. A 2010 Division II national champion with the Mountain Cats, Valko, who works with the Young Guns wrestling program, later served as an assistant coach at UPJ under legendary coach Pat Pecora. It was that knowledge and...

The Gateway baseball team got a daily double April 3 with some timely offense and strong pitching and defense in a 3-1 victory over Franklin Regional at the newly refurbished field at the Gateway Sports Complex. Senior Nate Demchak tripled home three runs in the bottom of the fourth, while...

Small steps. “The program is building up again as our roster has increased from nine to 13 players this year,” said Win Palmer, who is coaching the Sewickley Academy softball team this season. “Bob Sirko, a familiar name to Beaver County softball and who coached at Carlow College, has joined...

Quaker Valley’s girls volleyball program is receiving national attention. Four members of the girls varsity team — Annica Kagle, Molly MacDonald, Vanessa Pickett and Nora Hammond — will be competing in the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championships this summer. The tournament will take place June 28 to July 6...

Penn-Trafford defeated Hempfield in a boys track and field dual meet for the first time in 51 years April 12. The meet, which was tied 75-75, was decided on the most second-place finishes. Both teams won nine events so the tiebreaker was most runner-up finishes. Winning for the P-T boys...

The Penn-Trafford girls lacrosse team dropped two tough matches April 11-12, but that hasn’t cast a shadow on what has been accomplished. The Warriors are in the midst of their best season since the program began in 2016. They are 6-4 overall and 3-2 in Section 1 and are in...

Lee Zelkowitz is excited to see the Penn Hills track season heat up. Where the Indians will really excel is with their relay teams. Penn Hills competed in a triangular meet with Gateway and Plum in early April and is gearing up for the invitational part of its schedule. The...

Ashley Banner would be the first to say that Penn Hills softball’s result against North Hills wasn’t what the team hoped to get out of the contest. For the second straight game, Penn Hills was on the wrong side of a lopsided loss. What the results have highlighted for Banner...

As the halfway point of a 16-game Section 1-6A slate neared, the Pine-Richland softball team put itself in the mix for a top-six section finish and a spot in the playoffs. If the Rams find their way in, it’ll likely be with the powerful aluminum sticks they carry to the...

Pine native Ty Voit has gained a reputation as the best passer in the Ontario Hockey League, tallying a league-leading 81 assists in 56 regular season games. He’s continued setting up his teammates at an astounding rate in the postseason. Voit, 19, had six assists to help the Sarnia Sting...

High schools WPIAL Baseball Saturday’s results Nonsection Ambridge 12, Ellwood City 8 Avonworth 8, Alliance (OH) 2 Ringgold 5, Morgantown (WV) 1 Seneca Valley 16, Quaker Valley 1 Serra Catholic 9, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 1 South Fayette 10, Chartiers Valley 0 Lacrosse Saturday’s results Boys Nonsection North...

Upper St. Clair sprinter Dani Prunzik, the defending WPIAL 100 meters champ, was at it again Saturday, winning the 100- and 200- meter dashes at the TSTCA Outdoor Championships at West Mifflin. Prunzik, a Penn State recruit, won the 100 in 11.79 and the 200 in 24.90, and Upper St....

Sydney Selker Class: Junior School: Freeport Sport: Softball Report card: Selker played a key role in two victories this week. She hit a walk-off RBI double in the seventh inning to lead Freeport to a 3-2 victory over Burrell in Section 1-3A softball Wednesday and also held the Bucs to...

Sandy Felice will tell you she does not have to do much to get her swimmers ready at Mt. Pleasant. The coach is well aware the team has assembled some of the top talent in the state. But sometimes the accolades go to the person in charge. Felice was honored...

Carson Shuglie School: Hempfield Class: Junior Sport: Baseball Claim to fame: In four games this week, Shuglie went 5 for 11 with four home runs, including two grand slams, six runs scored, a walk and 13 RBIs. His performance helped Hempfield win two three-game series, going 2-1 against Central Catholic...

Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 9-0, 1 2. North Allegheny 5-2, 2 3. Pine-Richland, 9-3, 4 4. Hempfield, 7-3, NR 5. Butler, 5-5, 3 Out: Central Catholic (3-5, 5) Class 5A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Shaler, 9-1, 1 2. Bethel Park, 6-3, 5 3. North...

Tom Slosky’s decorated career as a distance runner and coach earned him a call to the hall. The Highlands and Duquesne graduate is among those scheduled for induction into the Alle-Kiski Sports Hall of Fame on May 20 at the Pittsburgh Shrine Center in Harmar. A few weeks after the...

Mars girls basketball coach Dana Petruska is retiring after 37 years and more than 500 wins, in part because there were too many wannabe coaches in the stands. Petruska said this was a frustrating winter for various reasons, some being nobody’s fault. The team lost a top player to a...

The Plum softball team found itself in a hole at Shaler in a Section 1-5A game April 12. The Titans led 7-0 after two innings and threatened to blow out the youthful Mustangs. But Plum didn’t fold its tent and mounted a rally, drawing to within four in the sixth...

Last year, the Plum baseball team lost seven games. Five of the seven were decided by two runs or less, including a two-run setback to Shaler in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. The Mustangs also won four of their 12 games by one run. Plum has...

After a slow start, the Norwin baseball team is regaining its footing. The Knights opened the season with four straight losses but rebounded by winning two out of three games against Baldwin in a three-game Section 2-6A series. Chris Slatt went 3 for 4 with a double and three RBIs,...

Norwin missed out on the WPIAL Class 3A boys lacrosse playoffs last year, but there is optimism around the team that a postseason return could be imminent. A young team is growing into its uniform. “We believe we have a great group with quality leaders, young talent and solid veterans,”...