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Breaking down changes to the 2022-23, 2023-24 WPIAL boys basketball alignment
The WPIAL released new section alignments for the next two-year cycle in all sports, and changes will be implemented starting this fall. This summer, the Tribune-Review will break down changes for each of the WPIAL sports. Here’s a look at the upcoming WPIAL boys basketball season: 2021-22 WPIAL championships Class...
St. Louis Cardinals draft former Allderdice pitcher Tanner Jacobson in 10th round
Allderdice graduate Tanner Jacobson on Monday became the first player in the short history of Queens University baseball to be picked in the MLB Draft. The St. Louis Cardinals chose the right-handed pitcher in the 10th round with pick No. 307, a milestone moment for the NCAA Division II baseball...
Baltimore Orioles draft former Canon-McMillan pitcher Cameron Weston
Former Canon-McMillan star Cameron Weston, who helped win WPIAL and PIAA baseball titles in 2018, was selected Monday in the eighth round of the MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Weston was picked 227th overall. The 6-foot-2, 215-pound right-hander finished his junior season at Michigan, where he ranked among the...
Old-school game taking Latrobe’s Emma Blair places
Latrobe’s Emma Blair makes old-school post players proud every time she touches the basketball. And, despite the ever-changing nature of the game, where more traditional “bigs” are being asked to do more away from the rim than under it, college coaches are taking notice. Size and back-to-the-basket ability still mean...
‘Commander on the field,’ ex-Pine-Richland, Penn State catcher Matt Wood selected in 4th round by Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers selected former Pine-Richland and Penn State catcher Matt Wood in the fourth round of the MLB Draft on Monday, perhaps impressed by the take-charge attitude he has cultivated throughout his baseball career. “You’re the commander on the field,” he said from his home in Gibsonia. “You get...
Breaking down changes to the 2022-23 WPIAL wrestling alignment
The WPIAL released new section alignments for the next two-year cycle in all sports, and changes will be implemented starting this fall. This summer, the Tribune-Review will break down changes for each of the WPIAL sports. Here’s a look at the upcoming WPIAL wrestling season: 2021-22 WPIAL championships Class 3A:...
Breaking down changes to the 2022-23 WPIAL swimming alignment
The WPIAL released new section alignments for the next two-year cycle in all sports, and changes will be implemented starting this fall. This summer, the Tribune-Review will break down changes for each of the WPIAL sports. Here’s a look at the upcoming WPIAL swimming season: 2021-22 WPIAL championships Class 3A...
Seattle Mariners select North Allegheny’s Cole Young in 1st round of MLB Draft
Cole Young was introduced to the baseball world as an MLB Pitch, Hit & Run winner in 2014, hinting then that the 10-year-old from Franklin Park might have a bright future ahead. Eight years later, that’s still true. Young heard his name called again Sunday night at another MLB event,...
New coach Skoda eager to help Highlands girls soccer team get back on track
Preseason practices for the girls soccer season at Highlands begin in less than a month, and Matt Skoda said there is much work to be done before that first official workout. The veteran high school soccer coach recently was hired to head the Golden Rams program, and, he said, he...
Hempfield girls basketball heats up during summer months
Success in the summer months doesn’t quite compare to success during the winter high school basketball season, but Hempfield can attest there still is plenty of value to it. And the trophies are just as shiny. Winning as a cohesive unit in July can be a building block for the...
Pine-Richland grad reaches for the stars on Embry-Riddle rowing team
Kristen Vigna wanted to do two things in college: study astronomy and astrophysics and be on a rowing team. She wasn’t quite sure that the two together would be possible. But an internet search revealed a perfect match in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. “There aren’t many schools...
Excitement builds as Plum joins growing girls wrestling movement
When it became official last month that Plum will sanction a girls wrestling program, Saphia Davis was excited, but she was not 100% sure of the validity of the news. “When my dad told me the news, I was like, ‘Are you joking with me?’ But he was being serious,...
Gateway lineman Matt Brooks finds perfect fit with Duquesne
Matt Brooks struck up a strong connection while talking with new Duquesne defensive line coach Reggie Wells Jr. But the Gateway rising senior and two-way standout lineman said he didn’t know that Wells played in the NFL as an offensive lineman for 10 years with the Arizona Cardinals, was a...
Loaded with seniors, Sewickley Academy boys soccer roster looking forward to season
Sewickley Academy’s Michael DiSantis has modest individual goals for the boys soccer season. “My personal goals are to score more than I did last year and stay healthy throughout the season,” DiSantis said. DiSantis and Hudson Colletti paced the Panthers in scoring last year and were complemented offensively by Adin...
Recent Penn Hills grad chosen for international rugby tournament
Penn Hills rugby coach Matthew Rosemeyer doesn’t know where his son, Charlie Joe, gets the motivation to tackle so many different activities. During his time at Penn Hills, the 2022 graduate played on the football, soccer, rugby and golf teams. Of all the sports Charlie Joe played, rugby may be...
George Guido: 1st Willie Thrower QB Camp a success
Even if you’re the returning Willie Thrower Award winner, there’s always more to learn. Armstrong’s Cadin Olsen, one of the state’s top quarterbacks, was back in New Kensington on Saturday for the first Willie Thrower Quarterback Camp and eager to add to his game. Olsen was one of 29 quarterbacks...
Greensburg Salem’s Zahorchak resigns as boys basketball coach
Greensburg Salem will fall into line with similar-sized schools in boys basketball again next winter but the team will play in Class 4A without Mark Zahorchak. The Golden Lions’ head coach resigned after four seasons, the last two when Greensburg Salem played up in Class 6A to reduce travel and...
Franklin Regional teams gearing up for new-look conference alignments
Fall sports will introduce WPIAL teams to a new two-year cycle, which means classifications and sections have been realigned. Here’s what Franklin Regional teams will face in 2022: Beginning with football, the Panthers will remain in the Class 5A Big East Conference, which has undergone change. It now has Franklin...
Amazing year for North Allegheny grad Ayden Owens-Delerme continues at World Championships
Ayden Owens-Delerme appears nowadays on TV commercials in Arkansas for a local hospital system, but the recent NCAA decathlon champion is ready to take his track talents global. On the heels of winning a college national championship, the North Allegheny graduate will compete in the World Athletics Championships on July...
‘Fired up’ Hampton freshmen win summer basketball title
Summer basketball leagues are built around staying in shape and building team chemistry. But bringing home a championship doesn’t hurt. Hampton used a late basket by Andrew Butler to defeat North Catholic, 38-37, on June 30 at Montour to win Pittsburgh Basketball Club summer league freshman championship. “Even though it’s...
Richmond a ‘perfect fit’ for Mt. Lebanon’s Kade Capristo
Kade Capristo was looking for a college football program that shared his mindset — just win football games. Last fall, Capristo and his Mt. Lebanon teammates won a lot of games — all of them, actually. The Blue Devils went 15-0, winning conference and WPIAL championships before capping the campaign...
TribLive HSSN Preseason Football All-Stars gather, excited for fresh faces
Armstrong quarterback Cadin Olsen is a three-year starter, but like many football players across the WPIAL, the senior has a little sense of unfamiliarity heading into the fall. That’s because this is a realignment year, meaning new conferences, new schedules and some new opponents. That leads to more scouting, more...
Latrobe, Young Township, Bushy Run open Region 7 tournament Saturday
After the District 31 American Legion Championship game on Wednesday, Latrobe coach Jason Bush and Young Township coach Ryan Staats both agreed that the title game was a tune-up for what they will face Saturday in the start of the Region 7 tournament. Latrobe edged Young Township, 3-0, in a...
Brashear linebacker Ta’Mere Robinson chooses Penn State after Nittany Lions ‘stuck with me’Video
While on his official visit to Penn State, Ta’Mere Robinson had dinner with other recruits and each was asked to stand and introduce himself. Caught up in the moment, the Brashear senior admits he nearly got carried away. “I got into talking and I almost committed,” Robinson said with a...
Pittsburgh street named after W.Va., Brashear football standout Major HarrisVideo
The irony of having a Pittsburgh street named after a West Virginia Mountaineer football star was not lost on those who showed up for a special ceremony Friday in the Hill District. But everyone seemed to be in agreement that the honor bestowed on former Brashear High School quarterback Major...
