High School category, Page 862
Yough reaches semis; Latrobe, Young Township eliminated
SIDMAN – Yough put itself in good position by winning its first two games of the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament. And even though Yough dropped a 5-2 decision to Phillipsburg-Osceola on Monday at Forest Hills High School, it finds itself in Tuesday’s semifinals against Beech Creek at 2:30...
Jeannette basketball coach Adrian Batts adds athletic director duties
A familiar face was hired Monday night as the new athletic director at Jeannette. Adrian Batts, a boys basketball coach in the district for 16 years — 13 as the head coach — will take over AD duties immediately. He replaces Ryan Hayden, who resigned from the part-time position after...
Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Deontae Williams, Woodland Hills
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 Thursday during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Deontae Williams is known for making the big play on the football field. One of...
WPIAL football championships will return to Heinz Field this fall — maybe over 2 days
The WPIAL football championships are returning to Heinz Field this fall, maybe for a two-day affair Thanksgiving weekend at the North Shore stadium. The football finals were held at high school venues last season because of the pandemic, but the WPIAL board voted Monday to take four or five of...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Waldier on his way back again
Tristan Waldier is back on the field for the Yough football team, medically cleared after season-ending knee injuries two years in a row. Waldier, who returned to action at the WCCA 7-on-7 tournament last week at Latrobe, tore the ACL in his right knee in Week 4 last season. That...
Latrobe, Yough pick up wins at the American Legion Region 7 tournament
It’s win or go home Monday for Latrobe and Young Township at the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament. The Jethawks bounced back from a tough loss to Claysburg on Saturday by defeating District 31 rival Young Township, 8-2, at Central Cambria. Latrobe will face Beech Creek, which defeated Claysburg,...
State champion wrestler, City League great Godwin Nyama Cutler dies at 27
Former state wrestling champion Godwin Nyama Cutler, an all-time City League great who won the league its first PIAA title less than a decade ago, has died. He was 27. Nyama Cutler went 132-19 in four seasons at Brashear in a standout high school career highlighted by a 120-pound state...
Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Devin Whitlock, Belle Vernon
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 Thursday during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Devin Whitlock plays football in cursive. Whether he is taking a handoff and speed-bursting up...
Norwin alum Metzger expects smooth transition as new coach of girls soccer team
When she begins her new job, Diane Metzger said she will not have to focus on fixing something that isn’t broken. That is for sure. The new Norwin girls soccer coach, who is an alum and former goal-scorer for the Knights, knows what kind of program she is about to...
Westmoreland notebook: Southmoreland duo could become IUP teammates
IUP has an eye on two Southmoreland basketball standouts. The Crimson Hawks landed one and hope to get the other. Rising senior forward Gracie Spadaro gave IUP a verbal commitment Saturday, only days after receiving an offer. Junior point guard Olivia Cernuto, meantime, might mull over her offer a little...
Penn Hills girls soccer eager to get to work in offseason
Seventh-year Penn Hills girls soccer coach Ashley DeVito is always up for an opportunity to keep her team engaged in the offseason. Once the mask restrictions were eased earlier this summer, DeVito was contacted by the Deer Lakes girls soccer coach and invited to participate in a tournament. The Indians...
Penn-Trafford Junior Legion team captures Westmoreland league title
The Penn-Trafford area baseball community continues to find success. Bolstered by players choosing to compete for the community teams, rather than all-star travel programs, the area squads are tearing up summer leagues. Penn-Trafford has formed its only travel teams at the younger levels that compete and regularly beat the travel...
Behun, Loudermilk to lead Quaker Valley girls soccer as co-head coaches
Former Quaker Valley girls soccer coach Jamie Birmingham knew he was going to step down at the end of last season, so he approached assistants Maggie Behun and Rachel Loudermilk and asked them if they wanted to step up into the role. It didn’t take long for the pair to...
Baldwin grad Alina Stahl looks forward to senior season at WVU
Alina Stahl has been an accomplished student-athlete since her freshman year at Baldwin. She maintained that status throughout high school and now through three years of competition on the West Virginia women’s soccer team. Stahl, 21, has been a prized recruit for the Mountaineers, both in the classroom and on...
Carlynton hires new girls volleyball, basketball coaches
While the summer months are down time from actual events going on, coaches and athletes are working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the upcoming season. That preparation is amped up a bit when new coaches are involved. Such is the case at Carlynton after athletic director Nate Milsom...
Pritts, Wilkins led Yough to victory in Region 7 Legion tournament
Kam Pritts hit a two-run double in the sixth inning, Nate Wilkins tossed a three-hit shutout and Yough defeated host St. Michael, 2-0, on Saturday in the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament at Forest Hills High School in Sidman. Yough will face Bedford at 3 p.m. Sunday during Day...
New Spartans coach Brown eager to turn Hempfield football into winners
When he was an assistant at Robert Morris, Mike Brown recruited football players from Hempfield, so he was familiar with the program. That he is a Penn-Trafford grad also added to his knowledge of the success-starved Spartans. Brown knows about the ire of fans and alumni, even the casual observer,...
George Guido: Valley’s PIAA softball title run in 2011 was worth the wait
Valley appeared on its way to a 2010 PIAA softball title. That didn’t happen, but the 2011 state title was worth the wait. The Vikings were undefeated and WPIAL champs in 2010 only to lose to Wilmington in the PIAA quarterfinals, 5-4, in nine innings on a catcher’s balk. It...
Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Anthony Speca, Central Catholic
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. The leading tackler as a freshman at Central Catholic, Anthony Speca immediately became a...
New Franklin Regional coach Lance Getsy pleased with team’s offseason progress
Following a legendary coach is not easy. It takes a special coach to be able to handle that, and Lance Getsy seems ready for the challenge he faces at Franklin Regional. Getsy was hired to replace Greg Botta, who resigned in January after accumulating 177 victories, seven conference titles, 21...
With postseason honors in tow, Bethel Park’s Milliken ready to embark on collegiate career
Bethel Park graduate Reagan Milliken will be taking a loaded resume with her to the Ohio State softball program in the fall. An athletic shortstop who led the Black Hawks to their first WPIAL softball title in school history, Milliken recently was named the Class 6A Player of the Year...
Bethel Park’s Chalus brothers relish final high school season together
The Chalus brothers can almost be considered mirror images. Eric Chalus, 19, stands 6-foot-1, weighs 180 pounds and is a left-handed pitcher. John Chalus, 17, goes 6-foot, 180 pounds as a right-handed hitting catcher. The two were instrumental in the Bethel Park baseball team’s thrilling PIAA championship run in 2021....
Bushy Run resumes Region 6 play Saturday; Region 7 starts
Bushy Run, playing in the Pennsylvania American Legion Baseball Region 6 tournament, had its game suspended Friday in the top of the third inning. Bushy Run was trailing Brighton Township (Beaver County), 1-0, when heavy thunderstorms stopped the game at Hutchison Field in Hopewell. The game will resume at 9:45...
Penn-Trafford’s Trevor Wilson headed for Gardner-Webb
Trevor Wilson was born in Charlotte, N.C., and eventually made his way to Penn-Trafford where he developed into a talented baseball pitcher. He made his mark in Harrison City, but he always will be a Carolina boy. His college commitment will play a part in that assertion. Wilson, a recent...
Plum soccer players head to national tournament with Pittsburgh Hotspurs
Plum rising junior Cami Collins said the Pittsburgh Hotspurs 05 Blue girls soccer season has been one to remember, and the goal is to bring home the gold from next week’s U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships in Bradenton and Sarasota, Fla. “It’s been a lot of fun to play harder...
