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Plum’s Logan Parker improves on indoor shot put record
At the third Youngstown State open high school meet of the indoor season Feb. 13, Plum senior Logan Parker threw further than anyone else in the shot put. He recorded a heave of 57 feet, 6½ inches to claim the title, outdistancing regional rival Connor Vass-Gal, a senior from Wilmington...
Norwin notebook: Krevokuch lands football scholarship from Fairmont State
Recruiting can be an odd thing. Timing can play a key part in determining where a prospect plays in college. Sometimes the stars have to align. Norwin senior football player Tanner Krevokuch is a prime example. After he lost a Division I scholarship offer, he began to explore other options....
North Journal notebook: North Allegheny girls basketball keeps rolling
It was 16 up and 16 down for the North Allegheny basketball, which started the season 16-0 after recent victories over Class 5A power Chartiers Valley, as well as Baldwin and Pine-Richland. Jasmine Timmerson scored 18 points and freshman Kellie McConnell had all 11 of her points in the second...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 20, 2021: Mars, Highlands meet for section lead
Last year, they played for a WPIAL boys basketball crown in two different classifications. One found a pot of gold at The Pete while the other settled for silver after a two-year championship run. On Saturday, No. 3 Mars travels to No. 4 Highlands in a battle not only of...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 19, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 73, North Allegheny 47 Seneca Valley at North Hills, ppd. Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 66, Canon-McMillan 36 Section 3 Norwin 67, Greensburg Salem 21 Class 5A Section 1 Laurel Highlands 58, Thomas Jefferson 56 Connellsville 49, West Mifflin...
High school roundup for Feb. 19, 2021: Pine-Richland boys storm past North Allegheny
Luke Shanahan scored 20 points and Pine-Richland blew open a game that was tied at halftime, rolling to a 73-47 Section 1-6A boys basketball victory over No. 4 North Allegheny on Friday night. Jameson O’Toole added 13 for the Rams (9-4, 6-3), who got 12 from Joey Petcash and 11...
Rodney Gallagher’s winner lifts Laurel Highlands over Thomas JeffersonVideo
Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher already has accomplished more than most sophomores, but the Mustangs star added two more firsts to his list. With time ticking away, Gallagher pulled up in the right corner and made the first winning jumper of his high school career Friday night, sinking a contested shot...
Elizabeth Forward stops Mt. Pleasant for 5th straight win
Elizabeth Forward turned a home economics classroom at Mt. Pleasant into a makeshift locker room Friday night. There certainly weren’t too many cooks in that kitchen. Two players did all the heavy lifting for the Warriors, scoring 88% of the team’s points in a 42-38 victory over the Vikings in...
Late surge carries Shady Side Academy boys past Apollo-Ridge
Even after Shady Side Academy sustained a 30-point loss in the opening round of last year’s WPIAL playoffs, coach David Vadnais felt good about his program going forward. His confidence has paid off this season as the Bulldogs moved a step closer to the Section 3-3A title Friday night with...
Mt. Pleasant junior flexes muscles at WPIAL Class AA section wrestling tournament
Mt. Pleasant junior Noah Gnibus has had a successful high school career, but he’s yet to make it to Hershey. Gnibus hopes that changes this season. He looked sharp Friday, winning his second section title, and now he moves to the WPIAL Class AA championship Saturday at Canon-McMillan. Gnibus (25-8,...
Plum’s Proviano to play soccer at Division I Long Island University
Plum senior Gina Proviano scored 70 goals and had 33 assists over four years as one of the WPIAL’s top girls soccer players. The last two years, the All-WPIAL performer helped the Mustangs capture back-to-back section titles and earn WPIAL Class 3A runner-up finishes. Now, Proviano, the Valley News Dispatch...
Bethel Park’s Travis Zeis claims WPIAL rifle championship
Travis Zeis became the first Bethel Park student to win a WPIAL rifle title in almost 20 years, edging Hempfield’s Lydia Dunn and Waynesburg’s Tayler Burnfield at the individual championships Friday at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen Club. Zeis, Dunn and Burnfield finished with scores of 200-18x. Zeis had six centers,...
Kiski Area’s Brayden Roscosky and Sammy Starr get 100th wins
After this week’s WPIAL Class AAA Section 1A individual subsection meet, Kiski Area’s Sammy Starr and Brayden Roscosky joined a long line of Kiski Area wrestlers to win 100 career matches. Coming into this season, not knowing what it might hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, one Kiski Area wrestling...
Franklin Regional ready to hire football, soccer coaches
Franklin Regional plans to hire head coaches Monday night to fill vacancies in football and boys soccer. According to the school board agenda, Franklin Regional will recommend Lance Getsy for football and Thomas Louisy for boys soccer. Getsy, an assistant under longtime coach Greg Botta who resigned in January after...
Latrobe linebacker Tucker Knupp picks Lehigh
Latrobe senior Tucker Knupp will play college football in the Patriot League. Knupp gave a verbal commitment to Lehigh, a Divison I-FCS program. Lehigh was his only Division I option, but he also had interest from Carnegie Mellon. A 6-foot, 220-pound inside linebacker, Knupp was a Class 5A Big East...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 18, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys Thursday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Fox Chapel 79, Greensburg Salem 34 Class 5A Section 3 Kiski Area 61, Franklin Regional 53 Class 4A Section 2 Quaker Valley 72, Lincoln Park 64 Section 3 South Park at Uniontown, ppd. Class 3A Section 3 Apollo-Ridge at...
High school roundup for Feb. 18, 2021: Quaker Valley gets its revenge
Markus Frank scored 31 points to lead No. 4 Quaker Valley to a 72-64 victory over No. 2 Lincoln Park in Section 2-4A boys basketball Thursday night, avenging a loss from earlier in the week. Adou Thiero added 26 for Quaker Valley (9-3, 8-2). Dakari Bradford and Brandon Cummings scored...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 19, 2021: Seeds up for grabs in Class 6A hoops
In the last week, both of these boys basketball teams defeated Section 1-6A front runner North Allegheny to cut the gap between the Tigers and the field. Now, North Hills will host Seneca Valley on Friday with seeding implications in play in the upcoming 6A open postseason tournament. The Indians...
No. 2 Upper St. Clair girls use 3-point barrage to sink No. 3 Bethel Park
Tied at the end of three quarters, Upper St. Clair finally came up with a way to score against a suffocating Bethel Park defense. Shoot over it. The Panthers hit four 3-pointers in the final quarter, including on three straight possessions midway through the fourth that turned a one-point deficit...
Southmoreland cuts it close, beats Belle Vernon to clinch share of section title
Talk about cutting it close. Southmoreland knew it was going to bring out the ladder and scissors and cut down the net if it defeated Belle Vernon on Thursday night to clinch at least a share of back-to-back section championships. Belle Vernon didn’t know about the Scotties’ plans but played...
Valley, Leechburg opt out of WPIAL girls basketball playoffs
Earlier this week, Valley girls basketball coach Ernie Sipolino said he was optimistic his team, despite only having five players able to take the court, would enter the open WPIAL Class 4A playoffs. However, one of those five, freshman guard Ryleigh Kasten, has been trying to play through a condition...
Greensburg Salem girls repeat as WPIBL champions
For the second year in a row, the Greensburg Salem girls bowling team is the WPIBL champion. The Golden Lions prevailed over top-seeded Butler, 2-1, in a best-of-three title match Thursday afternoon at Sims Lanes in Beaver Falls. Greensburg Salem won the first game of the finals, 215-156, while Butler...
Four years later, St. Joseph’s Andrew Sullivan continues to score
For the past four years, St. Joseph senior guard Andrew Sullivan has been a mainstay in the Spartans program and has given the team a leader to look to when things get tough. Even as a sophomore, Sullivan helped the Spartans capture a Section 3-A title and make a run...
A-K Valley boys basketball notebook: All 14 boys teams opt into WPIAL playoffs
The WPIAL basketball playoffs are approaching, and teams had until Thursday afternoon to decide whether they were going to play in this year’s open tournament format. In December, after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf put a three-week pause on winter sports, the WPIAL decided to use an open tournament format that...
Westmoreland boys basketball notebook: Everyone going to playoffs
All 18 boys teams from Westmoreland County will enter the WPIAL basketball playoffs. The WPIAL is having an open tournament this year where all teams are invited to compete. The league deadline to opt in was 3 p.m. Thursday. Southmoreland was undecided going into Wednesday night’s game against Geibel but...
