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Pine-Richland pitcher Tommy Beam commits to West Virginia
Pine-Richland pitcher Tommy Beam, who helped the Rams win a WPIAL title this spring, committed Friday to West Virginia. Beam will be a junior in the fall. The 6-foot-5 right-hander went 5-3 with a 1.48 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 47 1/3 innings. He earned the win in the WPIAL...
Scholar-athlete distinction surprises Brentwood’s Winkowski
Julianna Winkowski participated in two sports in high school. But there’s no doubt about which one she enjoyed the most. “My favorite sport was swimming,” said Winkowski, a recent Brentwood graduate. “The amount of peace and relaxation that being in the water brings me is impossible to describe. I love...
Quaker Valley’s Blaugrund earns U.S. Lacrosse All-American honors
Quaker Valley departing senior Katherine Blaugrund put in hours to lacrosse, and she has been rewarded. Blaugrund, a midfielder, was named a US Lacrosse Girls High School All-American for Western Pennsylvania. “To be honored with this title is such an incredible way to end my high school career,” said Blaugrund,...
Penn-Trafford’s Faith Anthony eager to play collegiate hockey at Franklin Pierce
The Franklin Pierce women’s hockey team hasn’t been around long. Just like every fledgling sports program, the Ravens took it on the chin the first few years but have built a winning program over the past seven seasons. Now, all the Ravens need is a little Faith, as in Penn-Trafford...
Shady Side Academy’s Lau, O’Connor earn lacrosse All-American honors
Shady Side Academy departing senior lacrosse player Emmie Lau topped a historic season with an impressive honor. Lau, a midfielder, was named a US Lacrosse Girls’ High School All-American for Western Pennsylvania. The 6-foot-1 Lau, who lives in Fox Chapel, scored 60 goals and had 14 assists. She led the...
McKeesport’s Diggs adds different dimension to Tigers’ run-heavy offense
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Once known for a lethal ground attack featuring the hard-to-stop triple option flexbone, McKeesport’s...
West Allegheny’s Hendrick selected to High School All-Star Game
Austin Hendrick, a rising senior at West Allegheny and a Mississippi State baseball verbal commit, will compete in the inaugural High School All-Star Game on Saturday at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Major League Baseball and USA Baseball released the rosters Friday. Forty players, selected from the 80-player Prospect Development Pipeline...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls gymnastics season
Just like most of the gymnasts performing their routines, the 2018-19 gymnastics season had a lot of twists and turns that ultimately made it an extraordinary campaign. For the first time in the short history of its program, Thomas Jefferson captured a WPIAL championship. After losing to Moon by a...
Deabner ready to help Thomas Jefferson back to top of WPIAL Class 4A
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Everything was status quo for Thomas Jefferson heading into last year’s WPIAL Class 4A...
New coach, offseason workouts provide optimism for Highlands boys soccer
Jason Norris was on a plane to Los Angeles when he found out he was hired as coach of the Highlands boys soccer team. “When the athletic director called me to tell me the news, the people on the plane were telling us to put our phones away, and I...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 WPIAL rifle season
Not much changed from the 2018 finals to the 2019 WPIAL team and individual rifle championships. Hempfield tied Butler for the Section 3 title in the regular season. In the championship match, the Spartans left their opponents fit to be tied. Hempfield scored a perfect 800-62x to win the 2019...
Former Penn Hills athlete Jalen Hood-Schifino gains college attention on summer circuit
The Schifino name is well known in the athletic circles of the Penn Hills community. The family tradition of basketball success continues as Jalen Hood-Schifino is getting national attention similar to his uncle, Drew Schifino. Hood-Schifino, who now resides in Charlotte, N.C., recently was ranked No. 23 as a five-star...
Hampton football works to improve during offseason training
As the football program inches through the summer months, Hampton is looking for the sort of gradual improvement that often takes patience. Sometimes, the patience of someone who loves football in June waiting for fall. “This is a large group of seniors,” coach Jacque DeMatteo said. “I think the key...
Shaler’s Cordera reaps rewards of switch to 1st base
Kelsey Cordera had an opportunity to do some different things during her senior year at Shaler Area. Instead of taking her usual position in center field, Cordera was asked to play first base. It was the first time in three or four years she had played the position regularly. “I...
South Hills notebook: Baldwin graduate Dadig dazzles as George Mason shortstop
Notebook items from around the Baldwin campus: • Baldwin graduate Taylor Dadig secured a starting job at shortstop in her freshman season on the George Mason softball team. A four-year starter in high school, she led all shortstops in the Atlantic 10 with a .960 fielding percentage on 179 total...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 wrestling season
Kiski Area and Burrell again dominated the WPIAL team wrestling tournament this past season. Kiski Area defeated Seneca Valley to win the Class AAA title and Burrell took down Freedom in Class AA. It was the third consecutive season Kiski won the title, and Burrell won for the 13th consecutive...
Gateway’s Derrick Davis hopes to carry team back to states
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during a HSSN Media Day live broadcast at Kennywood Park. When Derrick Davis gets into a rhythm carrying the football,...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 girls tennis season
The Sewickley Academy girls tennis team had won its only previous Class AA state championship in 2011, and the Panthers were gunning for a second title in Hershey to cap the 2018 season. That title seven years prior also was the only other time the school had reached the championship...
Greensburg Central Catholic’s Colbert puts offseason focus on fundamentals
It’s been nearly six months since Bret Colbert was hired to lead the Greensburg Central Catholic football team to its next era of gridiron glory. Spend a few minutes talking football with the rookie head coach and one will immediately get a sense the former college wide receiver is in...
Shady Side Academy softball looks to grow in offseason
The Shady Side Academy softball team made the WPIAL playoffs in 2018 and, with many starters returning, coach Dave Havern was full of optimism for this season. But things didn’t quite work out. “This season looked disappointing on paper,” he said. “We posted a 3-9 record against some much better...
Knoch’s Gourley honored by recognition from Pa. softball coaches
Monica Gourley collected three hits in four at-bats, one being a triple, and also drove in two runs in the Knoch softball team’s 7-2 victory over Thomas Jefferson in the WPIAL Class 4A third-place game. The victory propelled the squad to its first PIAA tournament appearance. The senior shortstop’s production...
George Guido: Kiski Area to add 8 inductees to Hall of Fame
Kiski Area is getting ready to induct its 14th sports hall of fame class. Eight former Cavaliers athletic standouts will be inducted at 6 p.m. Aug. 31, at the Greek Social Hall in Oakmont. Here are this year’s inductees, with their graduation years in parentheses: • George Argyros (1970) —...
First Love’s Jett Roesing starting to stack up Division I offers
In a matter of 24 hours, former Sewickley Academy guard Jett Roesing added four more Division I offers to an ever-growing list. After announcing offers from both Canisius and Towson last week, Roesing pulled in offers from Manhattan, Delaware, UMass and Youngstown State on Monday and Tuesday. Blessed and thankful...
Highlands’ Crise continues to catch attention of college coaches
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during a HSSN Media Day live broadcast at Kennywood Park. Johnny Crise announced his arrival on the high school football...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 football season
Fifteen years had passed since Darrelle Revis last played WPIAL football, but his name came up often last December in Hershey. Penn Hills senior Daequan Hardy had a four-touchdown, three-interception effort in the PIAA Class 5A football championship that drew comparisons to the former Aliquippa great. A day later, Revis’...
