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Former Franklin Regional boys basketball coach opens up about opioid abuse
Steve Scorpion admits he almost died. “I stopped breathing three times and coded twice,” the former Franklin Regional boys basketball coach and standout player said. “I thought it was all over for me. When I woke up, I knew God saved me because he had a greater purpose for me....
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Patrick Body, Gateway
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. A year ago, Gateway’s Patrick Body and Derrick Davis formed one of the most...
Pine-Richland’s Jeremiah Hasley commits to Duke
Like many local athletes, Jeremiah Hasley’s recruiting process started with phone calls and Zoom meetings with college coaches last year with campus visits restricted due to the covid-19 pandemic. Once Hasley got the green light to go on some visits this summer, Duke was on his list, and he immediately...
Hempfield’s Nickal finishes 7th, Latrobe’s Green 8th at Olympic trials
Maddie (Holmberg) Nickal placed seventh in the heptathlon and Latrobe’s Hanna Green was eighth in the 800-meter run when the U.S. Olympic trials concluded late Sunday night in Eugene, Ore. Competition was delayed several hours because of excessive heat with temperatures surpassing 100 degrees. Nickal wrapped up competition Sunday with...
Moon lineman Trent Fraley commits to Marshall
Moon’s Trent Fraley, the son of a former NFL lineman, announced his commitment Sunday to Marshall. The 6-foot-2, 290-pound two-way tackle chose the Herd over offers from St. Francis and Robert Morris, his father Hank’s alma mater. The rising senior announced his commitment on Twitter. Fraley earned first-team all-conference honors...
WPIAL, PIAA champions among 2021 TribLive HSSN Baseball All-Stars
Among the six teams crowned WPIAL baseball champions this spring, their individual stories varied greatly. A few were first-time winners. Others won their first title in a decade or two. Another, North Allegheny, won its eighth WPIAL title, setting a record for most championships in league history. It was a...
Riverview basketball coaches Paul Sapotichne, Keith Stitt retire
It will be a different look on the sidelines for Riverview basketball next season. Boys coach Paul Sapotichne and girls coach Keith Stitt recently retired from their posts. Sapotichne guided the Raiders the past six seasons as part of a 41-year coaching stint. Stitt handled the girls program for the...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Brad Birch, Gateway
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Brad Birch is a little like a stranger visiting a foreign land when he...
Thomas Jefferson’s Nick Bryan commits to Kent State
After a frenzied five-month recruiting stretch, Thomas Jefferson senior lineman Nick Bryan offered a verbal commitment to Kent State on Saturday. A dynamic 6-foot-3, 275-pound tackle, Bryan made three visits to the Kent State campus, two football related and one for academics. He projects to play on the interior for...
Plenty of bright spots for young Chartiers Valley baseball roster
Five years ago, Chartiers Valley was on top the of WPIAL Class AAA mountain. The Colts stunned top-seed Laurel Highlands in the quarterfinals, and then went on to beat No. 3-seed Blackhawk in the championship game, 4-3, for the school’s only WPIAL baseball championship. While there were no vision of...
Bishop Canevin baseball takes step forward with playoff berth
There was a time when making the playoffs was no big deal for Bishop Canevin baseball. It was expected as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Three times in the last two decades, the Crusaders played in a WPIAL championship baseball game, last winning gold in 2000. However,...
Quaker Valley 6th grader excels at Junior Olympics swim meet
At age 5, Amelia Suhayda started swimming just for fun. Never did she or her parents imagine that six years later, she’d become one of the top swimmers in the country in her age group. Suhayda, a rising sixth grader in the Quaker Valley School District, recently won two events...
Bethel Park closer Cody Geddes wraps up state title with clutch performance
Bethel Park’s Eric Chalus and Evan Holewinski proved to be one of the most dynamic pitching tandems in the state this season. Chalus, a left-handed senior headed to Kent State, racked up an impressive 11-0 record and 0.97 ERA, striking out 91 in 72 innings while issuing only four walks....
Bethel Park baseball checked all boxes en route to a state championship
The foundation of a state championship high school baseball team is an outstanding pitching corps, paced by a strong one-two punch. The club also needs solid, clutch hitting. Defensively, it must be steady. All are facets coordinated by a dedicated coaching staff. Bethel Park’s baseball squad successfully checked off all...
Highlands’ Jaycee Haidze named Valley News Dispatch Softball Player of the Year
2021 Valley News Dispatch Softball All-Stars Player of the Year Jaycee Haidze Highlands, Jr., P At the start of the 2021 season, Jaycee Haidze set goals for herself and helped establish them for her team. The Golden Rams were young with only three seniors, and with 2020 wiped out, the...
Valley’s John Luke Bailey chosen as Valley News Dispatch Baseball Player of the Year
2021 Valley News Dispatch Baseball All-Stars Player of the Year John Luke Bailey Valley, Sr., P Valley senior pitcher John Luke Bailey came into his final high school baseball season motivated. After a sophomore season where he didn’t necessarily perform to the standards he wanted to, he got to work...
Mt. Pleasant’s Haylie Brunson honored as Tribune-Review Westmoreland Softball Player of the Year
2021 Tribune-Review Westmoreland Softball All-Stars Player of the year Haylie Brunson Mt. Pleasant, Sr., IF Haylie Brunson has to be filed under “toughest softball players to get out in the state.” The Mt. Pleasant senior, who hit second in a fully loaded lineup that propelled the Vikings to WPIAL and...
Franklin Regional’s Louie Kegerreis named Tribune-Review Westmoreland Baseball Player of the Year
2021 Tribune-Review Westmoreland Baseball All-Stars Player of the year Louie Kegerreis Franklin Regional, Sr., SS Franklin Regional senior Louie Kegerreis received a lot of interest and some offers from college teams during his senior baseball season. An injury hindered his sophomore season and the coronavirus pandemic canceled his junior season,...
Green gets Olympic reprieve; Williams, Wiltrout come up short
Latrobe native and graduate Hanna Green received good news late Friday at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. Her appeal in the 800-meter semifinals was upheld, and she went from missing the finals Sunday to becoming the ninth runner in the field. Green finished fourth in her heat of...
George Guido: 50th anniversary of the Great High School Disappearing Act
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Great High School Disappearing Act. Six Mon Valley high schools — most making up one basketball section — vanished overnight to become part of mergers. Here’s what happened: Braddock, North Braddock Scott, Rankin, Homestead, Munhall and East Pittsburgh high schools all officially...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: GCC’s Joe Blahovec on the rise
Behind the scenes, Joe Blahovec could be carving out a path to a Division I football career. The incoming senior at Greensburg Central Catholic has been raiding prospect camps as the summer forges ahead toward a new season, and recently he caught the eye of an FCS program that recruits...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Landon Alexander, Central Valley
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. A TikTok account that pays tribute to the former kid stars of “Friday Night...
Oakland Catholic, area student-athletes honored as 2021 Positive Athlete award winners
Positivity wasn’t the easiest character trait to maintain over the past year. The plights of the coronavirus pandemic tested even the most jovial high school student-athletes. Still, many persevered and went above and beyond the call of duty in leading their teams and making an impact in their school and...
Norwin long snapper Xander Smith garnering national attention
Xander Smith is chasing a dream to play college football at the highest level possible. But his vehicle to get there differs from most. While the sophomore at Norwin plays wide receiver and defensive back, his specialty is long snapping. He lives it, breathes it and works tirelessly at it....
South Hills Record notebook: Senior sees potential in Baldwin softball squad
Catching up with some notebook items from the grounds of the Baldwin and Thomas Jefferson athletic programs: Baldwin • Lindsay Bonetti, one of three seniors on the Baldwin softball team, manned the second base position for the past three years. Bonetti foresees a bright future for the Highlanders. “We had...
