Other Local category, Page 68

Two things that can be counted on to take place on the morning of the Fourth of July holiday are: 1) the Brentwood Firecracker 5K Run and 2) that it will be hot and humid. It was more of the same in 2019 at the 5K race Thursday that annually...

For the third consecutive season, the Northern Steel Soccer Club’s 2004 Girls Fire team won the Great Lakes Alliance league championship, clinching an automatic berth for the National Premier Leagues Finals from July 11-15 in Commerce City, Colo. The 2004 Girls Fire is composed of local players 15 and under....

Plum’s Junior Legion baseball team prepped for the playoffs in fine fashion. The Junior Mustangs blanked Riverview, 16-0, and Lower Burrell, 9-0, last week to end the Westmoreland County Youth Legion regular season with a 14-2 record. Plum and Monroeville finished with identical records atop the North Division, but Monroeville...

The Monroeville Junior Legion baseball program hopes to end the summer season batting .500. Monroeville won its first Westmoreland County Youth Legion championship last year in the program’s third year of existence. Another title this summer will make it two in four years. “It was a highly successful season, and...

Humbled and motivated by mistakes, slugger JJ Matijevic is back in the swing of things. Matijevic, a minor leaguer with the Houston Astros, recently returned from a 50-game suspension for violating league rules pertaining to the use of banned drugs. The former Norwin and Arizona star twice failed a test...

The 18-game District 31 Legion baseball season is coming to a dramatic conclusion this week … weather permitting. And like nearly every other season, the seeding for the postseason bracket will be determined in the last few regular-season games. “There’s a lot of parity in the league,” said Yough Legion...

Sean Knapp missed the cut at last weekend’s U.S. Senior Open at Notre Dame’s Warren Gold Course in South Bend, Ind. While the ending to his second straight appearance in the tournament and fourth overall wasn’t what he hoped for, the opportunity again to share the course with the world’s...

Connor Schmidt got his revenge at Oakmont Country Club on Wednesday but needed some help to do so. A year ago, Schmidt lost a five-hole playoff to Tyrone pro Jimmy Gillam at the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Open Championship at Oakmont. Schmidt, 21, played three solid rounds at the 119th...

If Palmer Jackson wants to capture the 119th Western Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Amateur Championship on Wednesday, he knows he has to play better than his first two rounds. The Murrysville native and future Notre Dame golfer shot a 1-under-par 70 on Tuesday at Oakmont Country Club and is even through...

Ryan Anselmino and Noah Rady grew up playing backyard football and Wiffle ball together. They went off to play college baseball together and have been roommates for the past three years. They also traveled home for the holidays with one another. So it is only fitting Bethany junior standouts Ryan...

Gateway coach Mark Wardzinski has taken over Monroeville’s Legion team this summer. There are familiar faces at every position as every member of the club competed for the Gators this spring or have ties to the high school program. After an 8-2 start, Gateway’s varsity team advanced to the WPIAL...

With the summer in full swing in Western Pennsylvania, the Chartiers Valley Baseball Association is back in action. The under-16 league features several teams with players from Chartiers Valley and Carlynton. The Chartiers Valley 2 squad is off to a 3-2 start and battling on top of the South Division....

With their program’s 30th year looming, Chuck and Becci Carter continue to be gratified by assisting and developing youth athletes through the Penn Hills Eagles Track Club. This year, the Penn Hills Eagles Track Club consists of 90 athletes. The team includes members of the Penn Hills community and also...

For their skills in their sport and their commitment in the classroom, Aquinas Academy fencers Harry Hardman and Steven Giacobbe have both been distinguished as members of the 2019 USA Fencing All-Academic Teams. Hardman, a recent graduate, was named to the All-Academic first team, which requires a 3.85 GPA or...

When Sean Knapp woke up Monday morning, his left elbow didn’t feel right. He took anti-inflammatory medication and used ice to try to ease the discomfort. When he arrived at Oakmont Country Club of the 119th Annual Western Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Amateur Champion, he tried to hit shots on the...

Murrysville youth hockey standouts Anthony and Alex Sargo couldn’t help but drift off and daydream while watching the first round of the 2019 NHL Draft a few weeks ago about hearing their names called some day. The twin brothers are on the same path many professional hockey players have travelled....

So how did Oakmont native Sean Knapp spend his Sunday as he prepared to defend his title at the West Open Amateur? By playing against some talented friends at Hannastown Golf Club in Greensburg. The hotly contested match included Latrobe’s Brady Pevarnik, Pittsburgh’s Rick Stimmel, Ligonier’s David Brown, Greensburg’s Kevin...

In baseball, it takes being solid in all three phases of the game to make a serious run at a championship. Playoffs are where weaknesses are exposed. The Kiski Valley District 31 Legion team is set with pitching, but the hitting has been inconsistent and the defense has been suspect...

North Huntingdon native Austen Swankler will be playing much closer to home next season. The 17-year-old winger signed with the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters on Friday. Swankler spent last season in the United States Hockey League, starting in Waterloo, Iowa, before being traded to Sioux Falls, S.D. He had...

Rocco Mediate will playing this weekend. That’s because the Greensburg native made the cut at the USGA U.S. Senior Open on Friday at Notre Dame’s Warren Golf course in South Bend, Ind. Mediate shot a 1-under par 69 and is 1-over for the tournament. He is tied for 53rd. Two...

Fourteen members of the Viola Allegheny Shotokan Karate dojo earned top honors and secured a spot on the prestigious Team USA Karate Kickboxing team after their performances last month in Detroit. The martial artists competed at the World Karate and Kickboxing Commission’s national championships and team trials June 8-9. “In...

Like five other teams in the Westmoreland American Legion baseball standings, Young Township sits in the middle of the pack with six wins. Young Township is 6-4, but it is tied with two other teams for the fewest games played because of weather cancellations. But no matter the amount of...

Pine-Richland rising senior Donnie Professori is looking to tee up a summer’s worth of strong performances on the golf course, and is already off to a productive start as he finished in a tie for fourth place at the 99th Western Pennsylvania Golf Association Junior Championships at Westmoreland County Country...

It’s summertime, but Andrew Stimmel never has been this busy. That comes with the territory when accepting a new job, which the 2006 Franklin Regional graduate did June 14 when he became coach of the Marquette men’s lacrosse program after a highly successful three-year run as offensive coordinator at Yale....

Former Pitt player and Beaver Falls standout Sheldon Jeter will suit up for the inaugural U.S. Pan American Games 3x3 basketball team. Jeter, who plays for the Maine Red Claws of the NBA G-League, is a 6-foot-8 rookie forward. He was chosen by a selection committee after he played in...