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There are some things at Plum that need to be broken in. Late last season, the Mustangs unveiled a sparkling new baseball field but were able to play only three home games on the artificial turf. A year later, a talented — yet somewhat inexperienced group — hopes that a...

Norwin senior football player Jacob Young was added to the West roster for the big-school East-West All-Star Game, set for May 29 at Bishop McDevitt in Harrisburg. Young is a two-way lineman who played center, tackle, guard and defensive tackle for the Knights, and also can handle long-snapping duties. The...

North Allegheny didn’t have a girls wresting team two years ago, yet the Tigers saw a girl finish second in the state this winter. The team’s success is a credit to the athletes, coach Dan Heckert said, but also shows how far the program has come and how far the...

Four individuals — Will Retsch, Ben Sheets, Chris Belch and Zach Sutterlin — and all three boys relays at Hampton qualified for the PIAA Class 2A swimming championships, as did Pax Carslaw, a diving specialist. The leader of the pack was none other than Retsch, a senior who won WPIAL...

Hampton’s Kayla Hoehler has been playing basketball for more than half of her life. She started playing at around age 7, continued through her middle school days and was a four-year varsity starter for the Talbots from 2018-22. The 5-foot-8 senior guard plans to extend her career to the next...

LEWISBURG — After winning seven state titles on Day 1 of the PIAA Class 2A swimming championships at Bucknell, WPIAL swimmers are after more gold Saturday evening. Two Friday state champs will go head to head in the girls 100-yard freestyle as Mt. Pleasant freshman Lily King and Northgate sophomore...

LEWISBURG — Friday was a banner day for WPIAL boys and girls swimmers at the PIAA Class 2A championships at Bucknell. The district took home seven individual state titles — four boys and three girls — out of the 12 contested events. Indiana freshman Preston Kessler got the party started....

Mike Wells’ elbow was still hurting him, but that didn’t hide his happiness as New Castle fans rained Hershey’s Kisses on the Red Hurricanes’ postgame celebration. A day after falling hard at practice, Wells shook off the shooting-arm injury and scored a game-high 26 points Friday night with four 3-pointers...

High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Saturday’s schedule Lower Merion (27-3) vs. Roman Catholic (22-4) at Coatesville, 4 p.m. Archbishop Wood (20-7) vs. Fox Chapel (27-1) at Chambersburg, 4 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Friday’s result New Castle 59, Gateway 39 Saturday’s schedule Chester (20-3) vs. Imhotep Charter...

LEWISBURG - Mt. Pleasant freshman Lily King familiarized herself with the top of a swimming medals podium at the WPIAL Class 2A championships earlier this month. She was there four times in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles and also as part of the Vikings’ 200 free and 400 free relays....

As Freedom girls basketball coach John Kaercher would have it, “These dogs had their day.” Talk about March Madness. Instead of falling victim to highly touted North Catholic for a fourth time this season, Freedom decided to stun the Trojanettes, 46-39, in the PIAA Class 3A semifinals Friday night at...

Quaker Valley rallied from an eight-point fourth quarter deficit to advance to the state title game for the second time in school history after a 67-60 win over Archbishop Carroll in the PIAA Class 4A semifinals Friday night. The Quakers trailed 49-41 after three quarters, but Markus Frank tipped in...

LEWISBURG - Freeport freshman Kira Schrecongost swam four times on the first day of the WPIAL Class 2A championships March 3 at Pitt’s Trees Pool. She doubled that during the first day of the PIAA championships Friday at Bucknell. Schrecongost swam two relay and two individual preliminaries and came back...

Burrell’s Lydia Flanagan found a groove and rolled to a state title Friday. Flanagan topped Warwick’s Taylor Miller, 223-156, in the championship match of the Pennsylvania girls singles bowling championship at 222 Dutch Lanes in Lancaster. It was the first time a girl from the western region won a girls...

Welcome to Semifinals Saturday in the PIAA basketball playoffs. Our Lady of the Sacred Heart has beaten many different boys basketball teams these last two years during a winning streak that is now two shy of the state record. The Chargers picked up the “Lemieux” win in the state quarterfinals...

Class 6A Semifinals Fox Chapel (27-1) vs. Archbishop Wood (20-7) 4 p.m. Saturday at Chambersburg Winner plays: Winner of Lower Merion (27-3)/Roman Catholic (22-4) in championship 7:30 p.m. March 26 at Giant Center, Hershey Coaches: Zach Skrinjar, Fox Chapel; John Mosco, Archbishop Wood How they got here: Fox Chapel —...

LEWISBURG — Ligonier Valley senior Nick Roddy missed out on a chance to dive at the Class 2A state championships as a sophomore in 2020 as the PIAA canceled the entire Class 2A meet at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. Last year, as the pandemic continued to toy with...

Ligonier Valley’s first season in the WPIAL was a memorable one for the softball team. The Rams (22-3) won their section, reached the WPIAL Class 2A semifinals and made it to their first PIAA championship, losing to Line Mountain, 1-0, in nine innings. “Us being new to the WPIAL and...

Ligonier Valley has a new man coaching the baseball team, and he brings a lot of experience. Jason Bush, who is the coach of the Latrobe American Legion team and was an assistant at Chatham, takes over after Brett Marabito resigned to become an assistant principal at Ligonier Valley. Bush...

LEWISBURG — After taking the baton from Class 3A, the WPIAL swimmers from Class 2A were off and running Friday morning at the PIAA championships at Bucknell. In the first session, WPIAL boys competitors secured five top seeds for Friday evening’s championship finals. Indiana freshman Preston Kessler secured the top...

LEWISBURG — The PIAA Class 3A boys swimming and diving team title is back with the WPIAL. Seneca Valley captured its first team championship Thursday at Bucknell, and it also ended the two-year reign of District 12’s LaSalle College. The Raiders clinched the title in the final event — the...

Neshannock will get a chance to defend its Division 2 title, but it didn’t come easy. Ringgold scored three unanswered goals to erase a three-goal deficit before Neshannock’s Micah Dejulia scored the eventual game-winning goal late in the third period of a 4-3 victory in the PIHL Division 2 semifinals...

LEWISBURG — The Franklin Regional boys 400-yard freestyle relay team had its sights set on capping the PIAA Class 3A swimming championships Thursday evening at Bucknell with a swim in the finals heat. But the Panthers quartet of senior Owen Holm, sophomores Benjamin Holm and Holden Thomas, and junior Aiden...

High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Saturday’s schedule Lower Merion (27-3) vs. Roman Catholic (22-4) at Coatesville, 4 p.m. Archbishop Wood (20-7) vs. Fox Chapel (27-1) at Chambersburg, 4 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Friday’s schedule New Castle (26-2) vs. Gateway (18-6) at Norwin, 7 p.m. Saturday’s schedule...

Eliza Miller made the most of her first finals swim at the PIAA Class 3A championships. The Kiski Area sophomore, tied for third after her preliminary swim in the 100-yard breaststroke Thursday at Bucknell , came back in the evening and posted a fourth-place finish in a time of 1...