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Penn Hills notebook: Shot putter’s strong indoor season continues
Having already qualified for the state indoor track championship didn’t mean Angelo Allen was done stacking up strong results. The Penn Hills senior thrower’s distance of 57 feet, 5 inches won him the Tri-State Track Coaches Association title Feb. 19 at Edinboro University. Allen, who has the top throw in...
Pine-Richland girls end season on high note
The Pine-Richland girls basketball team fell short of reaching the playoffs, but it ended the season on a high note with a pair of victories. The Rams took down Shaler, 60-51, on senior night Feb. 10 and followed that with a 65-51 win over Franklin Regional on Valentine’s Day. Pine-Richland...
Battle-tested Pine-Richland boys basketball better than record suggests
An initial glance at the overall record for the Pine-Richland boys basketball team might not look impressive, but diving into the details can change the perspective. Consider: After a season-opening victory, the Rams’ first three losses were in overtime by a combined eight points. Pine-Richland also went toe-to-toe in early...
Plum’s Kvortek celebrates PA Classic all-around title
Sarah Kvortek returned to the top of the podium in the Intermediate I (Gold) division at the WPIAL gymnastics championships Feb. 12 at Moon High School. The Plum junior claimed her second WPIAL individual title in as many seasons — this time on vault — and added a silver medal...
Norwin notebook: Knights juniors earn trip to state indoor track championships
A pair of Norwin athletes qualified to compete in the Pennsylvania Track and Field Coaches Association Indoor Championships Feb. 27 at Penn State. Juniors Nataiah Robertson-Dutrieuill and Hannah Shaw finished in the top 20 in their events to reach the state finals. Robertson-Dutrieuill earned a spot in the long jump,...
Kiski Area qualifies 11 wrestlers for WPIALs at Section 1-3A tournament
As a wrestler, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done throughout the season. It matters what you accomplish during the postseason. Even though the Kiski Area wrestling program didn’t finish the way it wanted during the WPIAL team championships, the Cavaliers were well represented during the individual Section 1-3A tournament Saturday...
High school scores, summaries and schedule for Feb. 26, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule North Hills (23-0) vs. Mt. Lebanon (16-8) at North Allegheny, 8 p.m.; Fox Chapel (22-1) vs. Central Catholic (18-5) at Peters Township, 8 p.m. Class 5A Semifinals Monday’s schedule Laurel Highlands (23-0) vs. Highlands (18-6) at Peters Township, 8...
High school roundup for Feb. 26, 2022: North Catholic girls reach 8th straight WPIAL final
Alayna Rocco scored 22 points and Anna Waskiewicz added 15 as top-ranked North Catholic defeated No. 5 Waynesburg, 58-29, in the Class 3A girls basketball semifinals Saturday to advance to the WPIAL finals for the eighth straight season. North Catholic (18-5), which led 26-10 at halftime, will face Freedom in...
Connellsville’s Jared Keslar captures 4th section wrestling title, Hempfield’s Briar Priest gets 3rd
Winning section titles aren’t as easy as you think, especially four of them. Connellsville senior Jared Keslar became the school’s seventh wrestler to achieve that goal, and Hempfield senior Briar Priest earned his third Saturday at the WPIAL Class 3A Section 2 tournament at Hempfield. Both Pitt recruits feel winning...
Guido: Not a typo: St. Joseph girls shock Rochester in quarterfinals
I confess. I thought it was a typo. After I filed my Highlands-Penn Hills story Thursday night, I perused the scoreboard to see what the other local teams did. The first time I saw the St. Joseph-Rochester score, I was skeptical. My media colleague sitting beside me agreed that somebody...
Bishop Canevin returns to Class A finals with strong showing against Geibel
Bishop Canevin, after winning its first WPIAL title last season, will be back to defend its Class A crown. The Crusaders earned a spot in the championship game with an impressive 71-36 semifinal victory over Geibel Catholic on Saturday afternoon at Fox Chapel. Senior guard Kai Spears spurred the Bishop...
North Allegheny’s Shi, Schenk sweep WPIAL Class 3A diving titles
Diving in her home pool and winning gold medals has become quite the habit for North Allegheny junior Christina Shi, as she captured her third straight gold medal with a score of 481.45 in the WPIAL Class 3A girls championship Saturday. Unlike the previous two championship meets in which Shi...
Mt. Lebanon girls top Bethel Park to set up showdown with Upper St. Clair
During the regular season, Mt. Lebanon handled Bethel Park twice. The top-seeded Blue Devils (22-1) didn’t take those results for granted, though, as they met their neighbors again in Saturday’s WPIAL Class 6A girls basketball semifinals, but ended with near the same result. Mt. Lebanon defeated the Black Hawks, 52-33,...
Quaker Valley’s Adou Thiero scores 25 in semifinal win despite fractured thumb
Adou Thiero wore tape on the knee he injured last winter and a wrap on the thumb he fractured earlier this week. His junior season was cut short by one injury, costing his team a chance at a WPIAL title, so the Quaker Valley star was determined that this season...
Union keeps Imani Christian at arm’s length, moves on to Class A finals
Union boys basketball coach Mark Stanley likes to tell his team to “enjoy the process.” And the process has become enjoyable enough to earn a spot in the WPIAL Class A finals. The Scotties held a sometimes-slim lead for over three quarters and finished with a 66-54 victory over Imani...
Freshman Rylee Kalocay’s late-game heroics take Upper St. Clair back to WPIAL finals
Upper St. Clair freshman Rylee Kalocay didn’t start Saturday’s semifinal, but she certainly finished it. Kalocay scored her team’s final nine points including a tying 3-pointer, a go-ahead runner with 3.2 seconds left and two free throws with seven-tenths on the clock. Combined, that let No. 3 seed Upper St....
Westmoreland high school notebook: Penn-Trafford football was part of last championship weekend in Hershey
It turns out Penn-Trafford was the last Westmoreland County team to celebrate a PIAA football title in Hershey. The PIAA came out with some shocking news last week, announcing it was moving the state football championships to Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg. The finals have been played at Hershey...
Valley News Dispatch H.S. athletes of the week: St. Joseph’s Anna Kreinbrook, Plum’s Nicholas Daniels
Anna Kreinbrook Class: Sophomore School: St. Joseph Sport: Basketball Report card: Kreinbrook scored the go-ahead basket with 50 seconds remaining and sank two free throws in the final moments to help St. Joseph complete a 19-point comeback in a 57-54 victory over three-time defending Class A champ and top-seed Rochester...
Westmoreland County athletes of the week: GCC’s Ryan Appleby, Southmoreland’s Delaynie Morvosh
Ryan Appleby School: Greensburg Central Catholic Sport: Basketball Class: Senior Claim to fame: Appleby, who’s averaging 12 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2 assists this season, finished with 20 points to lead No. 4 Greensburg Central Catholic (18-3) to a 61-42 win over No. 5 Monessen (18-5) in the WPIAL Class...
Montour holds off Belle Vernon, advances to WPIAL championship game
For the second straight season, Belle Vernon’s chase for an elusive WPIAL title ended in the semifinals. No. 2 seed Montour withstood a few surges by the Leopards to come away with a 64-53 win in a Class 4A game Saturday at Bethel Park, denying Belle Vernon coach Joe Salvino...
High school roundup for Feb. 25, 2022: McKeesport’s Maddie Cherepko hits long-range 3 to knock off Trinity
Maddie Cherepko buried a long-range 3-pointer at the buzzer to lead No. 6 McKeesport to a dramatic 50-49 upset victory over No. 3 Trinity in the WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball quarterfinals Friday night. Rachel Manfredo scored 12 points and Brooke Evans added nine for the Tigers (20-4), who will...
No. 1 North Hills celebrates 4th win over rival North Allegheny in WPIAL quarterfinals
As the saying goes, it’s tough to beat a basketball team three times in one season, but what about four? The sold-out crowd that packed into North Hills’ gym was there to find out. Indians sophomore Royce Parham scored 24 points, senior Alex Smith had 21, and No. 1 seed...
‘I feel the pain and hurt’: Ex-Schenley star D.J. Kennedy playing for Ukrainian team praying for teammates
D.J. Kennedy has played professional basketball in 10 countries over three continents in the past decade, so the 32-year-old former Schenley star wasn’t worried about living in Ukraine until last week. That changed when Russia invaded Ukraine early Thursday, attacking major cities in which he has played for BC Prometey....
Greensburg CC ends Monessen’s winning streak, earns rematch with OLSH in Class 2A
Greensburg Central Catholic’s team size has been a problem for opponents all season. For a few moments early in their playoff game Friday night, the Centurions looked average-sized. But after falling behind, the fourth-seeded Centurions quickly rose to their full height. They went on to dispatch of No. 5 Monessen’s...
Southmoreland enjoys home-court advantage in Class 4A win over Highlands
The Southmoreland girls basketball team continues to thrive on its home court. The Scotties set a school record Friday night for consecutive home victories by any boys or girls basketball program with a dominating 50-24 rout of cold-shooting Highlands to secure their third trip in as many years to the...
