Jerin Steele stories, Page 38

Lucy Ream School: Fox Chapel Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Report card: Ream recorded a hat trick, including the winner in double overtime in a 3-2 win over Butler last Wednesday. She also scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Penn-Trafford in the season opener and added a goal in...

North Allegheny coach Art Walker earned his 200th win Friday night, but he won’t remember the game, because of the milestone number. He’ll remember it for the grand heist his team pulled off in the final three minutes. With the Tigers trailing for the duration their offense struggling, Percise Colon...

Franklin Regional’s Chuck Tragesser and Michael Wareham spend a lot of their free time playing golf together at Willowbrook Country Club in Apollo. On match days, they are paired. Needless to say, the duo is around each other a good amount, and they always are looking for to improve upon....

Nick McRandal spent most of his sophomore year at Mercyhurst rehabbing a minor arm injury before returning just in time to pitch in the Division II World Series. Getting in a few innings at Mercyhurst was the first step back. But McRandal, a Fox Chapel graduate, wanted a test in...

The Franklin Regional girls volleyball team was one of the feel-good stories of the WPIAL last season. The Panthers were winless in section play in 2017. A year later, they not only made the playoffs, but notched the first postseason win in program history. This year, Franklin Regional hopes to...

When Knoch boys soccer coach Malcolm Cook looked back at last season, the overarching theme was that there were too many holes in the lineup to find the right combination to be competitive. Early signs in training camp point to that no longer being an issue. Cook feels he has...

Knoch girls soccer already was low on players, but three season-ending injuries before the first practice made the roster even thinner. The Knights have only 14 healthy players going into the season, but the player shortage hasn’t dampened spirits around the team. Players say it brought them closer together, and...

Plum went into its Week Zero matchup at Highlands hoping to take some positive momentum into Class 5A Foothills Conference play and the Mustangs got it in all three phases of the game. The Mustangs produced a 70-yard punt return from Reed Martin, sprinkled in some big yardage plays on...

There have been plenty of good on-field moments the last few years for Freeport boys soccer, but one thing that always has stuck out for coach Dave Teorsky didn’t happen in a game. “One of the cool lines I can remember from a year or so ago was one player...

Sidney Shemanski will begin the first leg of the three-part finale to her Freeport athletic career this fall with the girls soccer team. It has been a decorated career in soccer, basketball and track and field for the reigning Valley News Dispatch Female Athlete of the Year. While it is...

South Park football coach Marty Rieck isn’t one to make excuses for shortcomings, but the fact of the matter is that his team was young last season. The Eagles had only four seniors a year ago and as a young team they went through trials and tribulations en route to...

Tim Burk is a Deer Lakes guy through and through, so he took great pride in watching the Lancers’ boys soccer team make a run to the state championship game and the boys basketball team win the first PIAA playoff game in school history and advance to the quarterfinals. Now...

When you come as close to playing for a championship as North Catholic football has only to see it slip away, it’s hard not to look back at the small moments that swayed the game. Two years ago, it was a tight, 19-14 loss to Washington in the Class 2A...

It took only two weeks for Frank Fabian to realize he made a mistake after resigning as Armstrong’s coach. Fabian, the only football coach in the River Hawks’ four-year history, will be back in his spot in the coach’s booth this fall for a fifth season, guiding a team he...

Deer Lakes football coach Tim Burk is never exactly sure what his tight end Jack Hollibaugh is going to say when he enters the locker room, but he knows it likely will be something funny. “He’s the team jokester, and he lights up a room,” Burk said. “His personality is...

Cole Kelly does his best to split his time for his two passions — soccer and music — because he loves them equally. Kelly, a rising senior at Plum, was an All-WPIAL defender last year and plays saxophone in the marching band. Every once in a while, the disciplines nearly...

Alexa Sarsfield spent a few years in the corporate world after her soccer career at Robert Morris ended in 2013, but her passion for the game was always in the back of her mind. Ever since she started kicking a ball around she knew she wanted to stay involved with...

Tsugu Tatekawa is making his third appearance at the Freeport International Baseball Invitational this week for the Tri-Con Roos and what keeps him coming back from his home country of Japan every year is a little bit of everything that captures the spirit of the event. “We have a nice...

Sprint cars don’t have rear-view mirrors, so David Gravel couldn’t see how far he was pulling away from the field. Had he been able to look behind his No. 41 machine, all he would have seen was the dust coming off his rear tires. Gravel rolled through lapped traffic with...

When the World of Outlaws come to Lernerville for the Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup, they bring a challenging field of cars. With the potential of NASCAR driver Kyle Larson returning to defend his win from last year, competition rises. Add Danny Dietrich and Logan Wagner from the PA Posse...

Every year, Ed Lynch Jr. gathers with family and friends to watch his win in the 2002 Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup at Lernerville, but he doesn’t need the video to recall every detail of the night he beat the World of Outlaws. “I remember it like it was yesterday,”...

Last week, the Apollo-Ridge girls soccer team held its fifth annual youth skills camp, which has become a benefit not only for the future of the program, but the present, as well. The skills camp is one of the fundraisers for the Vikings, who are not sponsored by the school...

One man’s heartbreak was another man’s fortune Saturday at the Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway. World of Outlaws Late Model rookie Ricky Weiss looked poised to win one of the series’ crown jewel events, but suffered a flat right rear tire with six laps to go, which opened the door...

The “Crusher Kid” did it again. A year after thrilling the hometown Lernerville Speedway fans with an upset victory over the World of Outlaws, Michael Norris provided an encore Friday night by winning the 30-lap $6,000-to-win preliminary feature in Night 1 of the Firecracker 100 weekend. Norris, a 2010 Knoch...

Last year, Michael Norris stood on top on top his car waving the checkered flag to a chorus of cheers from the Lernerville Speedway crowd after successfully beating the World of Outlaws touring regulars in the Friday night 30-lap preliminary feature during the Firecracker 100 weekend. It was a popular...