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Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 girls volleyball season
For the second straight year, the North Allegheny girls volleyball team went undefeated and captured both a WPIAL and PIAA championship. BACK-TO-BACK STATE CHAMPS!!!@nagirlsvb @NorthAllegheny @Big56Conference @TribLiveHSSN @astockeyWTAE pic.twitter.com/SLAzCLdNs3— NATigers (@NATigers18) November 18, 2018 Match winning point for North Allegheny to beat Baldwin in the girls 4A volleyball championship game...
Leechburg brings back Damian Davies to head boys basketball program
After parting ways with boys basketball coach Corey Smith last week, the Leechburg School Board found its new coach, and the members didn’t have to look far. On Wednesday, Damian Davies, was approved by the board to return to the program for the 2019-20 season. “We went through our evaluation...
Ex-Blackhawk baseball star Brendan McKay making major league debut
As the Trib’s player of the year in 2014, Blackhawk’s Brendan McKay was asked to predict where he saw himself in five years. “Hopefully playing baseball somewhere,” he answered. “In the minor leagues, probably. Maybe even close to the major leagues.” Accuracy always was a strength for the talented left-hander....
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 cross country season
There is a reason gold is in North Allegheny’s team colors. Gold is usually given to first place teams or individuals, and North Allegheny’s boys and girls cross country teams earned gold medals and trophies for winning the PIAA Class AAA championships last fall. The North Allegheny boys outdistanced La...
Hampton grad Harper Cook joins American U soccer
Perhaps four years from now, Harper Cook will understand the reason he will be spending his college years in Washington, D.C., instead of New Jersey. Cook, the only Division I recruit of Hampton boys soccer coach Matt McAwley’s six-year tenure, had committed to Rutgers. But when the Scarlet Knights coaching...
Youth camp helps build foundation for Shaler football program
James Ryan didn’t want to see any momentum the Shaler Area football team gained fade. The third-year Titans football coach was able to see tangible progress at the school’s annual football camp. Recently, the school saw 109 kids participate in a summer camp at the high school aimed at getting...
Plum’s Montue taking advantage of AAU success
For the past two seasons, Kennedie Montue has been a staple in the starting lineup for the Plum girls basketball team. She has led the team in scoring since she was a freshman, and over the course of her sophomore season her game started to come together completely. She finished...
Central Catholic’s A.J. Beatty grows along with expectations
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 A.J. Beatty arrived at Central Catholic last summer, defensive coordinator Dave Fleming saw...
Class 2A Trib HSSN Sports Cup title defense bolstered by 3 WPIAL titles
A year after winning the closest Trib HSSN Sports Cup chase in the 15-year history of the event, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart took a slightly different path to victory the second time around. Last year, OLSH charged to the Class 2A Sports Cup title without winning a single...
Team Pa. snaps losing skid in Penn-Ohio Classic
For the first time in three years, Team Pennsylvania came away victorious in the annual Penn-Ohio All-Star Football Classic as it defeated Team Ohio, 21-0, Wednesday night at Geneva College’s Reeves Field in Beaver Falls. Although Pennsylvania was loaded with players who had success on the ground all season, such...
North Allegheny grad Ayden Owens leaving Southern Cal after stellar freshman year
North Allegheny grad Ayden Owens, who earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Year track honors this spring, announced Wednesday that he’s transferring from Southern Cal. Owens, who revealed his decision on Facebook, didn’t say where he would transfer. “I want to thank the University of Southern California, USC track and field,...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 girls golf season
The theme during the 2018 girls golf season in the WPIAL was quite similar to that of the boys: Teams and individuals were reluctant to hand over titles. North Allegheny and Greensburg Central Catholic each cruised to their fourth straight WPIAL championships at Cedarbrook. Congratulations to the North Allegheny Girls...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 boys golf season
Sewickley Academy has set the standard in WPIAL boys golf. The Panthers won an unprecedented sixth consecutive district team championship last fall to pace a series of repeat performances in the WPIAL postseason. Dynasties continued on the links. Turtle Creek had the boys record for consecutive team titles, winning five...
North Allegheny lineman Jake Lugg chooses Ivy League football
The Ivy League added a top WPIAL lineman for the second time in two days when North Allegheny’s Jake Lugg committed Wednesday to Harvard. The 6-foot-3, 255-pound rising senior had more than a dozen Division 1 offers, many from Ivy, Patriot and Mid-American schools. He announced a Harvard offer May...
Brentzel hired as Penn-Trafford wrestling coach
When A.J. Brentzel and his wife, Alicia, attended a Penn-Trafford wrestling match last season, Brentzel told her he really wanted to give back to the program. “I felt I could help out and had something to make the program better,” Brentzel said. “I felt I could make a difference.” When...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 girls soccer season
Freedom was fearless — and Sharpless — on the way to a WPIAL girls soccer championship and a PIAA runner-up finish in Class A last fall. Freedom offense dominates Bentworth for WPIAL Class A girls soccer title #WPIAL #TribHSSN @FASDBulldogs TribLive HSSN (@TribLiveHSSN) November 3, 2018 Led by the...
Trio of WPIAL championships help secure Class 3A Trib HSSN Sports Cup
Shady Side Academy has hoisted the Trib HSSN Sports Cup in the past and came very close to winning it all a year ago, finishing second to North Catholic by less than 20 points. However, the bridesmaid from last year is back to being a blushing bride as the Indians...
Ellis School’s Poerio participates in national all-star game
Tegan Poerio took her place among some of the top field hockey players in the country on Tuesday. A rising junior at The Ellis School, Poerio was selected for and participated in the Stars and Stripes All-Star game that concluded the National Futures Championship U16 girls field hockey tournament in...
Leechburg heads in ‘different direction,’ parts ways with boys basketball coach Corey Smith
After two straight state playoff appearances, Leechburg School Board members have decided to go in a different direction with their boys basketball program. On Friday morning, they notified head coach Corey Smith that they would not be renewing his contract for the upcoming season. “I received a call from the...
Thomas Jefferson lineman Mac Duda commits to Ivy League championVideo
Thomas Jefferson lineman Mac Duda, who counted all eight Ivy League schools among his offers, committed Tuesday to Princeton. The 6-foot-4, 275-pound rising senior earned all-conference honors last season at offense tackle in the WPIAL Class 4A Big Eight Conference. He listed nearly 30 college offers in all, including many...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 WPIAL boys soccer season
West Allegheny turned WPIAL title game disappointment into PIAA glory. The Indians bounced back from a razor-thin, 1-0 loss to Franklin Regional to win four consecutive state playoff games — including a 4-0 win over Strath Haven in the finals for their 14th shutout of the season — to celebrate...
Peters Township’s Joe Maize resigns as baseball coach after 35 years
A sign in Joe Maize’s game room reminds visitors that “Baseball Lives Here,” an item he picked up while visiting Cooperstown, N.Y. “I used to have it over our entrance way when you walked into our house, and my wife after about five years finally said that needs to go...
Pair of WPIAL titles part of successful school year for Class 4A Trib HSSN Sports Cup champ
In July, America celebrates the 50th anniversary of arriving on the moon with the famous narrative, “the Eagle has landed.” South Park also is celebrating this summer as the Eagles have landed the Class 4A Trib HSSN Sports Cup. A steady stream of success across the board, along with championship...
Pa. squad aims to snap losing skid at 40th annual Penn-Ohio All-Star Football Classic
Football players from Pennsylvania and Ohio will square off at Geneva College’s Reeves Field in Beaver Falls on Wednesday for the 40th annual Penn-Ohio All-Star Football Classic. The two teams will kick off around 7 p.m., and the Pennsylvania squad will be looking for its first win in three years....
George Guido: Class of ’14 was special group of WPIAL athletes
Let’s give a big shout out to the WPIAL Class of 2014. Why would we want to salute a graduating class that’s been gone for five years? That’s because, for the first time history, an athlete from a WPIAL school has been selected in the first round of the NFL,...
