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Knoch’s Gourley earns POY honors from state coaches association
Knoch senior shortstop Monica Gourley has been selected the state’s Class 4A Softball Player of the Year by the Pennsylvania High School Softball Coaches Association. Gourley was the only WPIAL player to earn the player of the year recognition in the six PIAA classifications. Each candidate for the player-of-the-year designation...
Peters Township’s Casilli ready to build on breakout ’18 season
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. Whether he is torching opposing defenses with his hands and deceptive speed, or he’s...
Burrell’s Oswalt competes on national stage
Burrell’s Ian Oswalt was ranked among the best wrestlers in his weight class this past season. But the talented sophomore, who lost twice all season, fell in the PIAA semifinals to Notre Dame-Green Pond’s Ryan Crookham, the eventual state champion. “I was pretty upset after that,” Oswalt said. “That drove...
Former North Allegheny track star Ayden Owens transferring to Michigan
Ayden Owens enjoyed his freshman year on the West Coast, the warm weather and the Los Angeles lifestyle. But to reach his decathlon dreams, the former North Allegheny track star decided he needed a change. Owens announced Monday that he’ll transfer from Southern Cal to Michigan, leaving the Pac-12 for...
Trinity basketball’s Riley DeRubbo adds St. Francis offer
Trinity’s Riley DeRubbo, who missed most of her junior basketball season after knee surgery, has added another Division 1 offer. DeRubbo announced a Fordham offer earlier in June and added St. Francis, Pa. this week. Her AAU program, the Western Pa. Bruins, announced her latest offer. The 5-foot-9 guard will...
Mars O-lineman Michael Carmody looking to fine tune blocking before college
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. Mars offensive lineman Michael Carmody has been one of the most well-known players in...
2 WPIAL schools honored nationally in preseason football rankings
WPIAL football teams Penn Hills and Pine-Richland were recognized by High School Football American in its national preseason rankings. Neither school cracked the Top 125 released Friday, but both were included in a list of 100 honorable mention selections. Three Pennsylvania teams were ranked. St. Joseph’s Prep was fourth overall,...
Freeport’s Sidney Shemanski named Valley News Dispatch Girls Athlete of the Year
Since she was a freshman, Freeport’s Sidney Shemanski has been a key contributor in three sports. She began her high school career by starting as freshman in soccer and contributed to a run in the state tournament. Then, in basketball, she was named a captain and earned a spot in...
Aliquippa’s Devonshire named Trib HSSN Boys Athlete of the Year
MJ Devonshire might be too humble to rank himself among the high school greats from Aliquippa, but his accomplishments speak for themselves. As a senior, he guided the Quips to a state football title, led his basketball team to the WPIAL playoffs and won two gold medals at the PIAA...
North Allegheny’s Martindale named Trib HSSN Girls Athlete of the Year
In her senior year at North Allegheny, all Rachel Martindale did was average nearly 14 points per game on the hardwood and hit nearly .480 on the softball diamond while helping the Tigers to the district title games in both sports. Not bad for two seasons that at one point...
Looking back at the top 15 high school sports stories of the 2018-19 school year
8.6.18 The WPIAL receives a wave of paperwork from athletes hurrying to beat an Aug. 6 deadline for a new PIAA rule that makes transfers automatically ineligible for the postseason. 9.6.18 Connellsville defeats Penn Hills, 6-1, in a boys soccer game marred by allegations of racial slurs. The accusations against...
Looking back at the WPIAL’s state champions for 2018-19
PARADE OF CHAMPIONS Here’s a look at state champions from the WPIAL during the 2018-19 school year: Boys basketball Moon (5A) Lincoln Park (3A) Girls basketball Peters Township (6A) Chartiers Valley (5A) Competitive spirit Bethel Park (small division) Butler (coed division) Boys cross country North Allegheny (3A) Greensburg Salem (2A)...
Hempfield’s Mackenna Orie named Tribune-Review Westmoreland Girls Athlete of the Year
Mackenna Orie took up track and field, throwing events in particular, because she watched her sister, Sam, heave heavy objects during meets. It looked fun. Challenging and burdensome, maybe, but something she wanted to try. Four years later, Orie is following in her sister’s footsteps as a Division I thrower....
Palmer Jackson named Tribune-Review Westmoreland Boys Athlete of the Year
Franklin Regional senior Palmer Jackson has played some of the top golf courses across the United States. The list includes Oakmont Country Club, Baltusrol, Pebble Beach and Valhalla, and that was in 2018. But one course he never has played could be the best in Western Pennsylvania: Laurel Valley in...
Springdale’s Michael Zolnierczyk named Valley News Dispatch Boys Athlete of the Year
Michael Zolnierczyk has been front and center in maintaining two of the Alle-Kiski Valley’s most enduring sports legacies: Springdale Dynamos soccer and basketball. The soccer program has won nine WPIAL titles and several runners-up. The basketball team has won mor than 1,100 games and has made 34 WPIAL playoff appearances....
Trib HSSN Rewind: A look back at the 2018 field hockey season
All teams seek the glory of capturing a WPIAL championship, whether it be in football, baseball, softball or field hockey. No matter what the sport, the feeling is always the same for any team that comes into contact with the WPIAL hardware. Three field hockey teams got to experience that...
Tui Brown returns as 2-way playmaker for Gateway football
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. There is good news and bad news coming out of Gateway football camp this...
Hempfield’s Fintan Brose gets bigger, stronger
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. When Hempfield senior Fintan Brose wants to get away from football, he will grab...
South Hills notebook: Zang, Karcher shined at plate for Thomas Jefferson softball
Notebook items from around the Thomas Jefferson campus: • The final numbers are in. The TJ softball team advanced to the WPIAL playoffs for the fourth year in a row and fifth time in six seasons this past season. The Jaguars finished second in Section 2-4A, then advanced to the...
Quaker Valley’s Dominic Reiter to play soccer at Pitt
Dominic Reiter was in disbelief, so he called his twin brother, Fritz, to share that Pitt soccer coach Jay Vidovich offered him a spot on the team. The shock didn’t wear off for about a week — the time it took for Dominic to commit to his dream school —...
Injuries derail promising season for Shady Side Academy boys track and field team
Although the Shady Side Academy boys track and field team posted an impressive 5-1 record and made it to the WPIAL Class AA team playoffs, it was a season of high hopes that were swept away by injury. “There were some disappointments during the season with the biggest being injuries,”...
Fox Chapel baseball eager for 2020 season
Fox Chapel baseball coach Jim Hastings felt his team made some strides this past season. “We qualified for the WPIAL playoffs for the second year in a row. Though we lost in the first round, it was to a really strong Mars team,” Hastings said. The Foxes, who finished 10-9...
Thomas Jefferson’s Wagner leaves mark with school record
Zach Wagner knows how to make a grandiose exit. At the final meet of his high school track career at Thomas Jefferson, Wagner broke a 27-year-old record at the WPIAL Class AAA championships at Slippery Rock. Wagner posted a time of 22.26 seconds in the 200-meter dash to narrowly beat...
Mars basketball’s Bella Pelaia commits to Mount St. Mary’s
For the third time in three years, the Mars girls basketball team has a Division 1 recruit. Bella Pelaia, a 6-foot forward and rising senior, announced her commitment to Mount St. Mary’s on Friday. She follows former teammates Tai Johnson (Bucknell) and Lauren Wasylson (Xavier) as D1 recruits. Johnson was...
Class A Trib HSSN Sports Cup champions continue winning ways
Even though one of the longest championship runs in WPIAL history came to an end this spring, it did not slow down that school from winning yet another Trib HSSN Sports Cup. Sewickley Academy won two WPIAL championships and one PIAA crown in the 2018-19 school year to cruise to...
