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Greensburg Central Catholic grad Olivia Zambruno reaches semifinals of state amateur
Rising Penn State junior golfer Olivia Zambruno remained in the chase for a title at the 83rd Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Militia Hill course. A Greensburg Central Catholic graduate, Zambruno downed Julia McLaughlin of Saucon Valley Country Club, 5 & 4, in a quarterfinal match Friday...
Nemacolin Woodlands to host PGA Jr. League Championship qualifier
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington is one of 12 qualifying sites for the PGA Jr. League Championship this fall. On Sept. 14-15, Nemacolin, the host for Region 5, will welcome four, co-ed all-star teams consisting of junior golfers (ages 13 and under). They will compete for 12 spots available for...
Penn Hills Eagles Track Club sends trio to national championships
With their 30th year around the corner, the Penn Hills Eagles Track Club had a handful of athletes in the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships on July 22-28 at California State University-Sacramento. Though the Eagles had more than a dozen athletes qualify for the meet, only three participated because of...
NA grad Wright already making splash for Virginia swimming program
North Allegheny graduate and Virginia rising freshman swimmer Jack Wright has yet to set foot on campus and already has contributed. Wright, 18, qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, one of 30 Cavaliers expected to do so. “I know it was a focus for him for this summer...
Miller, Zambruno advance at women’s state amateur
Former WPIAL and PIAA golf champions Katie Miller and Olivia Zambruno moved on at the rain-hampered 83rd Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur. Miller, a three-time champion who starred at Hempfield at North Carolina, defeated Julianne Lee, 2-up, holding off a back-nine rally by the unaffiliated Lee Thursday at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Militia...
Hempfield East Legion comes up short in Great Lakes Regional
Swoyersville has Hempfield East’s number this season. For the third time in two weeks, Swoyersville beat the District 31 and Region 7 champions, this time 4-1 on Thursday in the American Legion Great Lakes Regional at Eastern Illinois in Charleston, Ill. The loss ended Hempfield East’s season. Swoyersville was the...
South Park’s Randy Dobnak gets called up to the big leagues
The last few years have been quite the journey for South Park graduate Randy Dobnak. On Thursday, that journey reached its peak as Dobnak was called up to the big leagues by the Minnesota Twins. Welcome to the Show, @Dobnak_! pic.twitter.com/AcSmHsrI6W— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) August 8, 2019 Congrats Randy! We...
Fleet Feet Liberty Mile returns to Downtown Pittsburgh
Runner’s World calls it “one of America’s most iconic races,” and on Friday night it will be returning to Downtown Pittsburgh. The Fleet Feet Liberty Mile, which is Downtown Pittsburgh’s only evening road race, will return to the Cultural District tomorrow night with races beginning at approximately 7 p.m. The...
Knoch grad Jordan Geist claims shot put silver at Pan American Games
Knoch grad Jordan Geist captured a silver medal in the men’s shot put Wednesday evening at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. In third after the three throws of the opening round and fourth overall after the first two throws of the finals, Geist unleashed a throw of 20.67...
Several locals in chase for title at women’s state amateur
Rain caused a suspension of play and ultimately rained out the first day of stroke play Wednesday in the 83rd Pennsylvania Golf Association Women’s Amateur at Philadelphia Cricket Club in Plymouth Meeting. A number of local players are in the 42-player field in the Amateur Division, including former Hempfield and...
With help from fellow Olympians, Harmotto Dietzen, Give It Back Foundation hosting volleyball camp at Moon
Volleyballs will be flying through the air and hitting the floor at Moon High School on Friday and Saturday as the Give It Back Foundation’s annual girls volleyball camp makes its way to Western Pennsylvania for the first time. Christa Harmotto Dietzen, a Hopewell graduate and one of six former...
Sean Knapp wins rain-shortened Senior Amateur
Oakmont native Sean Knapp added another title to his resume. The Hannastown Golf Club member shot a 4-under par 67 to win the rain-shorted Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Senior Amateur at Butler Country Club. The tournament was shortened to one round because rain. Knapp edged St. Clair’s Dave Brown, who shot...
South Park grad Cam Bramer takes BMX talents to Pan-American Games
Cam Bramer was just doing what kids do when he was poking around his parents’ basement as a little kid. Digging through boxes, looking on top of shelves and then he came across a box buried way in the back. As it turns out, the box was loaded with gold....
Slippery Rock senior Robbie Bailey relishes experience cycling across country
Mt. Pleasant graduate Robbie Bailey will complete a cross-country cycling trip Saturday that had a purpose. Bailey, 21, a rising senior at Slippery Rock, participated in the Journey of Hope-Ability Experience event on its TransAmerica Route. Sponsored by the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, the event raises funds and awareness for...
Schenley alum DJ Kennedy earns TBT All-Tournament honors
Schenley alumnus DJ Kennedy has had a pretty successful run at “The Basketball Tournament” over the past five years. His Overseas Elite squad has won the ESPN-sponsored tournament where 64 teams compete in a single-elimination style bracket for the chance to win $2 million four times in its five years...
Hempfield East Legion falls in regional opener
Lyon County scored three runs in the first inning Wednesday morning and held on to defeat Hempfield East, 5-2, in the American Legion Great Lakes Regional in Charleston, Ill. Hempfield East will face Pennsylvania state champion Swoyersville at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Swoyersville defeated Hempfield East twice in the state tournament...
Hempfield East making memories during trip to Great Lakes Regional
Hempfield East’s American Legion Post 981 baseball team boarded a charter bus Tuesday morning at Westmoreland Mall and headed west on a new journey. The team, pioneers for District 31 and Region 7, are headed to Charleston, Ill. to participate in the American Legion Baseball Great Lakes Regional beginning on...
Softball star Maddy Grimm nabs first-team all-league honors
After leading her moh-BEEL!USA team to a championship this season, Maddy Grimm was recognized with a postseason accolade in the American Softball Association. The burgeoning, four-team professional league announced its all-ASBA players and Grimm was a clear first-team selection. A third baseman who hails from Ligonier Valley and Kent State,...
Norwin grad JJ Matijevic makes MLB Pipeline prospect team of week
JJ Matijevic is leaping and hip-bumping teammates, smiling and chomping on wads of gum as he revels in one of the hottest streaks of his professional baseball career. He looks like a kid enjoying the game again. Matijevic, a corner infielder and outfielder for the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Double-A...
Host member Katie James wins WPGA Women’s Amateur
Katie James used home-course advantage to raise a golf trophy Monday. James captured the 12th Western Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur Championship on her home course, Fox Chapel Golf Club, with a steady-as-she-goes round of even-par 73. Sewickley Heights Golf Club’s Madison McDanel, of Central Valley, was a shot back at 74...
Palmer Jackson maintains hot streak with Hannastown club title
Palmer Jackson is one of those rare, up-and-coming amateur golfers who has the uncanny ability to capture lightning in a bottle. Just when you thought the recent Franklin Regional grad from Murrysville couldn’t get any better on the course, he started another hot streak. Some might say Jackson’s favorite club...
Kiski Area’s McGuire finds calling: Pro esports, specifically “Fortnite”
High school athletes across the WPIAL are beginning preparation for the fall scholastic sports season. All will pursue a championship and try to earn a college scholarship with the hopes of turning pro and making the big bucks. Kiski Area rising junior Nick McGuire has them all beat. In a...
Sprint car flips over fence after crash, kills spectator at Williams Grove Speedway
Authorities say a car flipped over the infield fence at a central Pennsylvania speedway and struck a track volunteer, killing him. The Cumberland County coroner’s office said two Sprint car drivers crashed into each other while rounding a turn at Williams Grove Speedway just before 9:30 p.m. Friday. Coroner Charles...
Franklin Regional grad Jackson finishes tied for 7th in Boys Junior PGA Championship
HARTFORD, Conn. — Jack Heath made a 40-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-4 18th hole for an 8-under-par 62 and a one-stroke victory Friday in the Boys Junior PGA Championship. “I knew if it went in, I would most likely win, and it went in,” Heath said....
Mt. Pleasant’s Napper wins Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Player of the Year
Mt. Pleasant’s Sam Napper won the Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Boys Player of the Year honors for the 17-18 Division on Thursday at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Mystic Rock Golf Course. Napper shot a 5-over par 77 to edge Meadville’s Ryan Ferry, who shot a 6-over 78. Todd Hangliter of Seven...
