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Mark Goetz breezes to first Westmoreland County Amateur golf title
Mark Goetz began Sunday’s final round of the 52nd annual Westmoreland County Amateur with a seemingly comfortable five-shot lead. But a problem on the third hole at Totteridge Golf Course near Hannastown gave hope for the rest of the field. Goetz, a Greensburg native and rising junior at West Virginia,...
Plum Legion meets Monroeville with regional tournament berth on line
The Plum and Monroeville American Legion baseball teams split their two-game Allegheny South season series. Plum won the most recent matchup 3-1 seven days ago. The teams meet for the third and final time at 8 p.m. Monday at Gateway High School. The winner advances to the Region 6 tournament...
Wicker leads Hempfield East Legion team to district title game
Matt Wicker hasn’t been asked to pitch much for the Hempfield East American Legion team this summer. Coach Scott Smith was saving him after he threw a lot of innings during the high school season. Wicker, a Greensburg Salem grad and the Golden Lions’ ace this past spring, answered the...
Mark Goetz takes 5-shot lead in Westmoreland County Amateur
Mark Goetz was a late entry into the Westmoreland County Amateur. The Greensburg native and West Virginia golfer entered the field Friday, along with returning champion Brady Pevarnik of Latrobe. Goetz, who led the West Penn Amateur for 53 holes last week, shot a 7-under-par 65 during the first round...
Bushy Run completes sweep of Unity, advances to District 31 Legion finals
Drop by the field before a Bushy Run District 31 baseball game, and it sounds like a rock concert. Speakers blasting 80s music out of the home dugout have set the tone this season for Bushy Run. Bushy Run didn’t need special effects for its stage show Saturday afternoon. The...
Former Ligonier Valley star Maddy Grimm voted an ASBA all-star
Former Ligonier Valley star Maddy Grimm will play in the American Softball Association All-Star Game Saturday night at Pat Hick Field in Alabama. A power-hitting shortstop and third baseman for Team moh-BEEL! USA, Grimm was voted into the game, which will benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. A...
WILL Waves set to defend national Wiffle ball title
For the second straight year, the WILL Waves, a travel Wiffle ball team based out of the Wiff is Life League in Canonsburg, will compete for the National Wiffle League Association National Championship in Morenci, Mich. Last year, the Waves won the national tournament, and Jordan Castelli was awarded the...
West Point Little League trio captures District 26 baseball titles
There was a time the West Point Little League baseball teams took a backseat to the softball teams. Not anymore. The baseball teams are starting to make more noise than the girls. Much of that is because the boys programs continue to survive and are getting players returning to the...
Isaly’s summer-time tour big hit with junior golfers
From chipped-ham sandwiches to sand-wedge chips, the Isaly’s Junior Golf Tour has carved its niche on the Western Pennsylvania junior golf scene by attracting top talent and playing at some of area’s most prestigious courses. “When I took the job in January 2018, I looked at the venues — and...
Christopher continues hometown dominance at Brentwood Firecracker 5K
The final tally is in for the borough winners at the 36th annual Brentwood Firecracker 5K Run. For the fourth consecutive year, Neil Christopher, 24, took first place in the male division. His time was 18 minutes, 19 seconds. His best mark (17:53) was attained in 2017 . He also...
Bolla family makes Firecracker 5K ‘yearly traditional run’
One of the leading competitors at the 2019 Brentwood Firecracker 5K Run was diminutive Gina Bolla, a Whitehall resident and a rising junior at Baldwin. Bolla, 16, placed second in 15-18 female age division with a time of 20 minutes, 27 seconds, behind only Gionna Quarzo, 16, of Vanderbilt, who...
Pine-Richland Palomino players soaking up final summer together
On the heels of winning the WPIAL Class 6A championship this past season, Pine-Richland’s baseball players have very little left to prove on the diamond. So for the Rams team that is playing in the Pittsburgh North Palomino league, coach Rich Bowler decided to take a different approach with his...
Top stars missing from Westmoreland County Amateur golf tournament
The annual Westmoreland County Amateur golf tournament is this weekend, and it is devoid of some of the young talent. Missing from the field at Totteridge Golf Course near Crabtree is returning champion Brady Pevarnik of Latrobe and Palmer Jackson of Murrysville. Pevarnik isn’t playing because he will be competing...
Penn Hills Junior Legion struggles through regular season
After finishing second in the Westmoreland County Youth Legion North Division last year, the Penn Hills Baseball Association Junior Legion team struggled this season as only a handful of players returned from last year’s team. Penn Hills finished the regular season 4-12 and was outscored 112-58 by its opponents in...
Beadling Soccer Club 16U boys heading back to national championships
For the third straight year, the 16U team for Beadling Soccer Club will be competing for the US Youth Soccer national championship between July 21-28, in Overland Park, Kansas. In the last two years, the 16U team has reached the national championship game, but came up just short. Coach Robert...
Hempfield East, Bushy Run Legion teams blank opponents in semis
The top-seeded teams in the District 31 American Legion playoffs opened their semifinal best-of-three series Friday with impressive victories. Andrew Rosenberg tossed a four-hit shutout, and Jack McBride went 3 for 3 as No. 1 seed Hempfield East, the regular-season champion, blanked No. 4 Latrobe, 6-0, at Pitt-Greensburg. No. 2...
West Point cruises past Deer Lakes to win District 26 Little League crown
West Point “doubled” down Wednesday night to win the District 26 Little League championship in the 9/10 division. The team smacked five doubles en route to a 15-5 victory over Deer Lakes at Apollo Lions Club Field. The game was halted after four innings because of the 10-run mercy rule....
Bushy Run, Latrobe advance to District 31 Legion semifinals
Two teams locked up spots in the District 31 American Legion semifinals with victories Wednesday night. No. 2-seeded Bushy Run shut out No. 7 Kiski Valley, 7-0, at Penn-Trafford to sweep a best-of-three first-round series. Max Pici threw a four-hitter with eight strikeouts. Jordan Sabol and Cade Patterson had two...
Former Pirate Neil Walker receives American Legion Graduate of the Year award
Just like many high school players in the Pittsburgh area, Pine-Richland alum and former Pittsburgh Pirate Neil Walker played American Legion baseball. But not every player has received the highest honor American Legion baseball has to offer. In the middle of May, Walker was named the 2019 American Legion Graduate...
Planet Fitness makes $2,500 donation to Educated Athletes First
Nonprofit business ventures — in athletics or otherwise — need pillars of support to maintain stability. A local one is growing as a result of donations. Educated Athletes First, the informative start-up endeavor run by former Jeannette star athlete and current Cincinnati Bengals safety Demetrious Cox and his father, Dorsey,...
Franklin Regional grad Palmer Jackson captures C.R. Miller Match Play title
Palmer Jackson captured the 46th C.R. Miller Match Play Invitational title Tuesday by breezing to victories in the semifinals and finals. The Franklin Regional graduate and Notre Dame recruit defeated Riverside’s Skyler Fox, 6 & 5, in the semifinals, and then rolled to a 7 & 6 win against Elizabeth...
Bushy Run blanks Kiski Valley in Game 1 of District 31 Legion playoffs
During the beginning stages of a first-round game with Bushy Run on Tuesday, the Kiski Valley Legion baseball team seemed like it had everything under control. But Bushy Run (14-4), which has the third-highest run total in District 31, was able to produce six runs between the fourth and sixth...
Former Latrobe standout Austin Butler back to work after surgery
The ball went through the basket — swish — and a smile curled up on the shooter’s face. Yes, this is the stuff. How I’ve missed you, old friend. Austin Butler was out of basketball for the last three months as he recovered from shoulder surgery. But the former Latrobe...
Deer Lakes, West Point to play for District 26 10U baseball title
West Point 10U Little League All-Stars will face Deer Lakes at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Apollo for the District 26 baseball championship. The teams met in pool play, with Deer Lakes defeating West Point, 7-4. West Point is 4-2 in the tournament. West Point advanced by defeating West Shamokin, 17-3,...
West Point 12U claims District 26 baseball title
Sean Walker drove in three runs and had three hits, including two doubles, to help lead the West Point 12-year-old all-star baseball team to a 9-0 victory against Kess in the District 26 championship game. Dylan Firmstone, who pitched 51/3 innings, and Anthony Scarton blanked Kess on only four hits....
