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Franklin Regional notebook: Wrestling team celebrates big season
It was quite year for the Franklin Regional wrestling program. The Panthers (22-0) won their second consecutive WPIAL 3A team title, fourth overall, and claimed their third PIAA championship. They defeated rival Norwin in both the WPIAL and PIAA finals. The season concluded in Hershey at the individual championship and...
Special 2-year run for Shady Side Academy girls ends in state semifinals
Shady Side Academy girls basketball coach Jonna Burke didn’t think the pressure was on the Bulldogs during the PIAA Class 4A semifinals. Shady Side Academy had already proven three times it could beat Greensburg Central Catholic. She didn’t think winning a fourth time would be easy, but didn’t feel the...
Fox Chapel Herald notebook: WPIAL football realignment doesn’t favor Foxes
The changes to how the WPIAL handles football scheduling didn’t move in the direction Fox Chapel hoped it might. When new conferences were announced last week, things were still set up strictly by classification. The Foxes had proposed a system that would shake things up for teams and move things...
Talented Fox Chapel baseball lineup looking for new leaders to emerge
The Fox Chapel baseball team has the pieces to be competitive in the WPIAL’s Class 5A classification. What the Foxes will have to figure out is how to replace some of the leadership that led them to the postseason last year. Fox Chapel coach James Hastings said the group that...
Bethel Park girls ‘swam their hearts out’ at successful WPIAL meet
The Bethel Park girls team dove headfirst into the 2025-26 swim season. “I am very proud of the girls team,” coach Kathy Strock said. “We had a small team, but they showed up at every dual meet. Starting off with diving, we had 10 girl divers this season, and eight...
Norwin’s Landon Sidun leads 2026 TribLive Westmoreland County boys wrestling all-stars
Wrestler of the Year Landon Sidun Norwin, jr., 121 pounds 2025-26 record: 51-1. Career record: 124-3. When Norwin junior Landon Sidun lost in the finals of the PIAA Class 3A West Regional, he did not pout. He addressed the media and talked about what he needed to do the next...
Kiski Area’s Mario Hutcherson headlines 2026 Valley News Dispatch boys wrestling all-stars
Wrestler of the year Mario Hutcherson Kiski Area, so., 189 pounds 2025-26 record: 48-1. Career record: 91-8. It didn’t take too long for sophomore Mario Hutcherson to be named the Valley News Dispatch’s wrestler of the year. Given his track record, his rise to stardom at the high school level...
High school roundup for March 20, 2026: 9th-inning homer lifts Valley past Serra Catholic
Dom Dunkel hit the go-ahead home run in the top of the ninth to lead Valley to a 3-2 victory over Serra Catholic in nonsection baseball Friday. Nikolas Heakins threw four scoreless innings to earn the win and Brady Moore and Jaron Minford singled and doubled for the Vikings (2-0)....
Legendary Hempfield softball coach Bob Kalp dies at age 80
“Let’s go to work.” Bob Kalp would say those words when an inning turned over, and his Hempfield softball teams took the field to play defense. No matter the opponent, score or situation, he would clap his hands, set his fielders and nestle into the coaching box at third base...
Greensburg Central Catholic girls revel in state championship victory after tough WPIAL final loss
HERSHEY — Asked how long it would take her to eat the 1-pound chocolate bar that was tucked under her arm like a math textbook, Jayla Peterson pulled back. “I don’t even like chocolate,” the senior guard from Greensburg Central Catholic said. “They can all have it.” But what about...
Valley High School grad Callahan lived football dream of suiting up for Pitt, Steelers
From Pitt’s Dan Marino to the Steelers’ Mike Webster, Bill Callahan shared a locker room with some of Pittsburgh’s legendary football players. But it was the time Callahan spent with his high school teammates that created the most enduring memories for the former Valley Vikings star. “I’ve played on some...
2026 PIAA Class 5A girls basketball championship breakdown: South Fayette vs. Archbishop Wood
PIAA Class 5A girls basketball final South Fayette vs. Archbishop Wood 6 p.m. Saturday, Giant Center, Hershey On the air: PCN; NFHS Network PIAA titles: South Fayette 1 (2025); Archbishop Wood 9 (2024, ’23, ’22, ’21, ’17, ’16, ’12, ’11, ’10) South Fayette (29-1) Coach: Bryan Bennett Projected starting lineup...
Sewickley Academy cruises past Old Forge to secure 4th PIAA championship
HERSHEY — Sewickley Academy won the fourth state title in program history with a 52-36 victory over Old Forge in the PIAA Class 2A boys basketball final at Giant Center on Friday afternoon. The Panthers (30-1) had 11-0 runs in both the first and third quarters to build a comfortable...
2026 PIAA Class 4A girls basketball championship breakdown: Oakland Catholic vs. Neumann-Goretti
PIAA Class 4A girls basketball final Oakland Catholic vs. Neumann-Goretti Noon Saturday, Giant Center, Hershey On the air: PCN; NFHS Network PIAA titles: Oakland Catholic 4 (1993, 2001, ‘03, ‘05); Neumann-Goretti 6 (2015, ‘16, ‘17, ‘18, ‘22, ‘25) Oakland Catholic (25-2) Coach: Henry Schechter Projected starting lineup No., Name, Ht.,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 19, 2026
High schools Baseball Thursday’s results Nonsection Avella at Western Beaver, ppd. Baldwin 5, West Mifflin 4 Beaver Falls at Northgate, (n) Blackhawk 3, West Allegheny 0 Burrell 11, Knoch 1 California 5, Carmichaels 3 Canon-McMillan 5, Ringgold 0 Cary Christian 2, North Hills 1 Chartiers-Houston 2, Geibel Catholic 1 Derry...
High school roundup for March 19, 2026: 4 Plum pitchers combine on no-hitter
Braden Kemmerer, Greg Huff, Dom Lauletta and Brennan Ryan combined on a no-hitter as Plum blanked Seneca Valley, 6-0, in nonsection baseball Thursday. Kemmerer started and went two innings, Huff pitched the third and Lauletta and Ryan followed with two innings each, striking out three apiece. Enzo Mele, Max Vollmer...
Devon Prep tops Obama Academy, extending City League drought
HERSHEY – When the state basketball tournament started, there was one glaring record in the Class 4A boys bracket. Devon Prep (5-18). Yes, five wins entering the state tournament. To the Tide’s credit, they turned it on when the lights got brighter. Jaden Craft scored 21 points to lead three...
Experience pays off as Plum’s Owen Proskin wins pentathlon at Nike Indoor Nationals
Owen Proskin was no longer the fresh face at the Nike Indoor Nationals. Being a veteran among the group competing in the pentathlon had its perks for the Plum senior. Proskin was able to take a better picture of what he was up against. “It was nice seeing another type...
Greensburg Central Catholic girls win program’s 2nd state title
HERSHEY — Greensburg Central Catholic girls basketball coach Chris Skatell is an attorney whose face appears on two billboards on Route 30 in Westmoreland County. It was his players who had their name up in lights Thursday night, state champions for the first time in 29 years. Senior standouts Erica...
Penn-Trafford hockey goes viral with ‘Fake Michigan’ play from PIHL championship game
In the 1996 NCAA hockey tournament, Michigan forward Mike Legg successfully executed a trick play. From behind the net, he picked the puck up on his stick blade and scored on a lacrosse-style wraparound. The play became known as “The Michigan.” Penn-Trafford coach Brian Zagorac saw a similar play where...
Westmoreland softball notebook: Hempfield twins showing promise early
Two games is a small sample size, but if it is any indication of the impact the Luft twins are going to have on Hempfield softball, opponents are in trouble. Jayelyn and Jocelyn Luft, the twin daughters of coach Tina Madison, came out swinging at the season-opening KSA Spring Training...
2026 PIAA Class 2A boys basketball championship breakdown: Sewickley Academy vs. Old Forge
PIAA Class 2A boys basketball final Sewickley Academy vs. Old Forge 2 p.m. Friday, Giant Center, Hershey On the air: PCN; NFHS Network PIAA titles: Sewickley Academy 3 (1997, 2010, ‘17); Old Forge 1 (1932) Sewickley Academy (29-1) Coach: Mike Iuzzolino Projected starting lineup No., Name, Ht., Cl., Pos. 2,...
Sankofa Freedom avenges loss, takes down Neighborhood Academy in PIAA Class A final
HERSHEY — A run at a second straight state championship came up a little short for Neighborhood Academy on Friday afternoon, as the Bulldogs dropped a 55-52 decision to Sankofa Freedom in the PIAA Class A boys basketball finals at Giant Center. Neighborhood Academy led in the opening minute of...
Neshannock falls short to Berlin Brothersvalley in PIAA Class 2A championship game
HERSHEY — Luann Grybowski clenched the medal around her neck. Neshannock’s veteran high school girls basketball coach who built herself and several programs from the ground up then took a moment to reflect on the season that was. “It is about the journey. I send (the team) a text every...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 18, 2026
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s schedule Nonsection Bethel Park 4, Potomac 1 Bethel Park 16, West Greene 0 Franklin Regional 1, DePaul Catholic 0 Franklin Regional 6, Glenelg 0 Latrobe 6, Connellsville 2 Cary Christian 1, South Allegheny 0 Charleroi at Monessen, ppd. East Allegheny at Greensburg Central Catholic, ppd. Fort...
