Penguins, Tristan Jarry outduel Alex Nedeljkovic, Sharks
During the previous two seasons, Tristan Jarry and Alex Nedeljkovic competed with one another to be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top goaltender. On Saturday, they simply competed. Jarry made 31 saves for the Penguins in a 3-0 win against San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. The...
Fox Chapel grad Bella Urso makes immediate impact on Franciscan women’s soccer team; basketball next
When he arrives on campus early in the morning, Franciscan women’s soccer coach Nick Miller often sees Bella Urso in the gym sharpening her basketball skills. Basketball practice officially started last week, so the Fox Chapel grad is trying to stay sharp until she can join the Barons women’s team...
Westmoreland college cross country runners aiming for all-conference honors
Saint Vincent is accustomed to fielding some of the most competitive men’s and women’s cross country programs in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. Since joining the PAC in 2010, the men’s team has won nine titles — including seven in a row between 2010-16 — and the women consistently have been...
Pitt wins clunker over Syracuse for 3rd straight victory, overcoming injuries, penalties
Following Pitt’s 30-13 win over Syracuse on Saturday at JMA Wireless Dome, coach Pat Narduzzi succinctly summed up the Panthers’ performance. “It was an ugly win, but they all count as one,” Narduzzi said on the field. Narduzzi can say that again. While Pitt (5-2, 3-1 ACC) won its third...
Ness Davis runs for 158 yards, TD to lead Duquesne to shutout of Mercyhurst
Ness Davis ran for 158 yards and a touchdown to lead Duquesne to a 37-0 rout over Mercyhurst on Saturday night. Davis had five carries for 28 yards that helped set up Tyler Riddell’s 20-yard touchdown pass to Joey Isabella on Duquesne’s opening drive. Davis then broke loose on a...
Iowa rallies late, sends Penn State to its 4th consecutive loss
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa quarterback Mark Gronowski rushed for a career-high 130 yards and two touchdowns, and Kaden Wetjen scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 8-yard run with 3:54 to play as the Hawkeyes defeated Penn State, 25-24, on Saturday night. The Hawkeyes (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) trailed 24-19...
Minor league report: Penguins come back to remain undefeatedVideo
A goal and two assists by forward Danton Heinen helped the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins score six unanswered goals and stage a 6-3 comeback win against the Bridgeport Islanders at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday. Forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Ville Koivunen and Sam Poulin all had a goal and...
District college roundup: Cal (Pa.) stings Clarion with last-minute touchdown
Phaeton Hill hit Deontae Williams for a 56-yard touchdown catch with 11 seconds left in the game as Cal (Pa.) defeated Clarion, 31-28, in a PSAC thriller Saturday. Anthony Guercio connected with Holt Egan on a 16-yard TD pass with 1:17 to play to give Clarion a 28-24 lead. Hill...
Robert Morris football slips to 1-6 after loss to Long Island
OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. — O’Shawn Ross Jr. ran for 110 yards with a touchdown, Luca Stanzani added a touchdown pass, and Long Island defeated Robert Morris, 17-7, on Saturday. Long Island (2-5, 1-2 NEC) led 14-0 at halftime after scoring twice in the second quarter. Ross scored on a 6-yard...
Mariners try to put dramatic Game 5 win behind them, focus on Game 6 of ALCS
TORONTO — The Seattle Mariners will be sailing in uncharted waters Sunday night when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. The Mariners can shed the albatross of never having reached the World Series with a victory. They took a 3-2 lead...
MLB playoff bedlam as Mariners homers, Blue Jays meltdown flip ALCS on its head
Baseball’s majesty and misery are almost always intertwined. And in a stunning eighth inning in an unforgettable Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, they were inseparable. For several pulsating minutes at T-Mobile Park, the fates of the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners hung first on a crucial...
McDowell earns pole for crucial NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael McDowell might be competing for a new team this year, but the Spire Motorsports driver still proved himself one of the fastest at a superspeedway. He earned pole position for Sunday’s YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. McDowell turned in a lap of 182.466 mph in the...
WVU remains winless in Big 12 after blowout loss at Central Florida
Tayven Jackson threw a pair of touchdowns to Chris Domercant in the opening quarter on fourth down as UCF rolled to a 45-13 victory over visiting West Virginia on Saturday afternoon in Orlando, Fla. Jackson returned after sitting out last week’s loss with a shoulder injury suffered two weeks ago...
Diego Pavia does it again as No. 17 Vanderbilt beats No. 10 LSU
Diego Pavia ran for two touchdowns and passed for one to help No. 17 Vanderbilt defeat No. 10 LSU, 31-24, on Saturday in SEC play at Nashville, Tenn. Pavia passed for 160 yards and rushed for 86, and the Commodores (6-1, 2-1 SEC) scored on five of their first six...
Tight end Pat Freiermuth no longer an invisible piece of Steelers’ passing game
Erase the final 2 minutes, 21 seconds from existence Thursday night, and Pat Freiermuth authored a storybook performance for the Pittsburgh Steelers in their prime-time matchup at Cincinnati. Invisible for much of the previous three games, Freiermuth caught his second touchdown pass against the Bengals, a 68-yard catch and run...
‘I was in shock’: James Franklin opens up on being fired by Penn State
James Franklin spoke publicly for the first time Saturday since he was fired by Penn State on Oct. 12. Franklin joined the ESPN “College GameDay” set only three weeks after he appeared on the show ahead of the Nittany Lions’ Sept. 27 game against Oregon, back when Penn State was...
Jaromir Jagr is back: At 53, the former NHL great starts his 38th professional season
KLADNO, Czech Republic — At age 53, Jaromir Jagr began his 38th professional season by playing on the fourth line for his hometown Kladno Knights in a 3-1 victory over Vitkovice on Friday night in the Czech league. The former NHL great logged 10:08 minutes of ice time and joined...
Penguins forward Noel Acciari knows ‘you can’t take being here for granted’Video
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Noel Acciari set a career high in games played last year and nearly reached another fairly significant milestone in the process. But a hip flexor cost him the final three contests of the 2024-25 campaign and capped him at 79 games. And as it turned out, it...
Jeff Capel: Panthers a ‘work in progress on both sides of ball’ entering 1st exhibition
Illustrative of Pitt having such a new-look roster was coach Jeff Capel’s mid-week revelation that he has yet to finalize a starting lineup for Sunday’s exhibition at home vs. Providence. Returning forward Cam Corhen is the only player Capel knows for sure will be starting against the Friars at 2...
2nd-half surge leads Montour to pivotal Parkway victory over Aliquippa
Inconsistency is a trait Montour doesn’t usually like, but this time the Spartans were glad their second half looked different than their first. Sophomore quarterback Brandon Bennett tossed two touchdowns and rushed for another as Montour scored all 34 of its points after halftime to defeat host Aliquippa, 34-20, Friday...
High school football roundup for Oct. 17, 2025: David Dennison’s 5 TDs lift Bethel Park past South Fayette
David Dennison ran for 244 yards and four touchdowns and caught a TD pass to lead Bethel Park to a 33-16 victory over South Fayette in a WPIAL Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference game Friday night. Bethel Park (6-3, 2-2) trailed 9-0 in the second quarter before rallying for the...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 17, 2025
High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Central Catholic 48, Seneca Valley 6 Mt. Lebanon 28, Hempfield 6 Norwin 24, Canon-McMillan 21 Class 5A Allegheny Six Bethel Park 33, South Fayette 16 Moon 20, Upper St. Clair 13 Peters Township 61, Baldwin 0 Big East Gateway 27, Latrobe 24...
Trib HSSN’s 2025 Week 8 top performers for passing, rushing, receiving
Top performers for Week 8 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 287 - Cedric Davis Jr., Brentwood (14 of 20) 261 - Mayson Mitchell, Gateway (21 of 29) 258 - Gabe Jenkins, Imani Christian (13 of 19) 239 - Dominic Detruf, Hempfield (27 of 48) 223 - Aaron...
Shohei Ohtani’s historic performance sends Dodgers to World Series
LOS ANGELES — It was a night that will live forever in Los Angeles Dodgers history. There was the Sandy Koufax perfect game. There was the Kirk Gibson home run. And Thursday night, it was The Shohei Ohtani Game, one of the greatest postseason performances in baseball history. Ohtani hit...
Elizabeth Forward blanks previously unbeaten Southmoreland in 1st-place showdown
Elizabeth Forward set the tone early in Friday’s WPIAL Class 3A Interstate Conference first-place showdown against Southmoreland. The Warriors won the toss, and coach John DeMarco decided to put their offense on the field. The decision proved to be a good one. The Warriors put the ball in senior quarterback...
