High School category, Page 1208
Fox Chapel boys tennis sets sights on 4th straight WPIAL title
Fox Chapel’s senior class proved over the last three years it belonged in a different class than their Class AAA competitors. And with three WPIAL championships in hand, the Foxes can finish up a clean sweep. The top-seeded Foxes (12-0) began the WPIAL Class AAA tournament Wednesday against Latrobe with...
Runners Yourish, Shemanski set sights on WPIAL track medals
Deer Lakes senior Josh Yourish and Freeport junior Sidney Shemanski are two of the top middle distance runners in the state. Success from both previous seasons and this spring have put targets on their backs as ones to beat with the WPIAL championships two weeks from today. Both, however, are...
Pitch-count confusion forces another WPIAL baseball team to forfeit
The PIAA’s new pitch-count rule forced another WPIAL baseball team to forfeit. Chartiers Valley notified the WPIAL that its April 17 victory over Trinity must be forfeited because its player threw more pitches than allowed, CV athletic director Angie Potthoff said. The loss leaves the Colts (3-10, 3-5) in fifth...
Central Catholic’s A.J. Beatty adds 40th offer, sets date to announce favorites
A.J. Beatty’s scholarship total has climbed for weeks, but the Central Catholic junior will start narrowing his options soon. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound defensive end revealed this week that he’ll announce a list of “top schools” on June 1. In the meantime, Beatty continues to add Division I schools. He collected...
Matchups set for WPIAL team track and field finals
Sixteen track and field teams remain alive for WPIAL titles after Tuesday’s semifinal meets determined the finalists for the championships Monday at Peters Township. All four meets will begin at 4 p.m. The four defending champions — the North Allegheny and Riverside boys and the Butler and Shenango girls —...
High school scores, schedules for April 30, 2019
High Schools Baseball Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at Butler (n) Seneca Valley at Pine-Richland, ppd. Class 5A Section 1 Woodland Hills 4, Armstrong 0 Fox Chapel at Franklin Regional, ppd. Section 2 South Fayette 6, Mars 5 (8 inn.) Shaler at Moon, ppd. Section 3 Chartiers...
High school roundup for April 30, 2019: Chartiers Valley blanks Trinity
Jason Orzechowski threw a five-hitter with five strikeouts to guide Chartiers Valley to a 3-0 win over Trinity (8-8, 4-5) in a Section 3-5A baseball game on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. Griffin Beattie, Jason Orzechowski and Frank Peluso all had extra-base hits for Chartiers Valley (3-10, 3-5), which is in...
Obama Academy player wins City League singles title
Sachin Thiagarajan kept Obama Academy’s City League tennis dominance going. Thiagarajan, a junior, claimed his first City League singles championship Tuesday with a straight-sets victory over Brashear’s Michael Varlotta at the Mellon Bubble. The finals performance capped a dominant run for Thiagarajan, the tournament’s top seed. He won his first...
Southmoreland’s Moore, Franklin Regional’s Jackson named Excellence Award winners
There’s a good chance the 2019 Westmoreland County Scholar Athlete Award winners will see the world — one by serving her country, the other by playing a sport at which he excels. Southmoreland’s Maggie Moore and Franklin Regional’s Palmer Jackson were named this year’s winners of the Excellence Award at...
No. 2 Leechburg rebounds from 1st loss, defeats No. 3 Springdale
The Leechburg softball team had a quick turnaround after suffering its first loss of the season, a nonsection setback to Apollo-Ridge on Monday. The Blue Devils came back Tuesday and took advantage of the opportunity to get back on track with a 12-2 victory over Springdale in a Section 3-A...
No. 2 Yough holds off No. 4 Knoch in Section 1-4A showdownVideo
Yough scored three runs in the fifth inning and added a run in the sixth before holding off a rally to defeat Knoch, 4-1, in a Section 1-4A baseball game Tuesday afternoon at Kelly Automotive Park in Butler. The fourth-ranked Knights loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom...
A-K Valley baseball teams enter home stretch on playoff bubble
Aaron Albert used some recent indoor practice time to put Kiski Area’s baseball reality in writing. The Cavaliers’ first-year coach grabbed a marker and jotted down the Section 1-5A standings on a whiteboard, showing his players in black (or color) and white what lay in front of them in the...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Latrobe’s Zakharee Williams, Greensburg Salem’s Malia Anderson
Malia Anderson School: Greensburg Salem Sport: Track and field Year: Senior Claim to fame: Anderson, a Georgetown commit, won the 800 meters (2:18.52) and ran anchor for the 1,600 relay (4:13.71) and 3,200 relay (9.53.24) at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association championship meet April 27 at Latrobe. “It was a...
Shady Side Academy, Quaker Valley teams win WPIAL doubles titles
The WPIAL Class AA doubles final Tuesday turned into something of a Quaker Valley intrasquad scrimmage, pitting the Quakers’ tournament entrants against each other. Zach Albert and John Watters won the team bragging rights, beating Potter Oliver and Will Sirianni in straight sets (6-3, 6-2) at Oxford Athletic Club to...
George Guido: Umpiring runs in Hoffman family
If you attend a high school softball game in the Alle-Kiski Valley, chances are a Hoffman is umpiring. There are three generations of Hoffmans umpiring after Connor, 18, got his PIAA arm patch this season. It all started in 1961 when Joe began what’s become a family tradition. “I started...
Fox Chapel draws top seed in WPIAL tennis playoffs
Fox Chapel will go for a WPIAL tennis four-peat from the top line of the Class AAA tennis bracket. The three-time defending WPIAL Class AAA champion Foxes drew the top seed in the playoffs and will host Latrobe in the first round at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Shady Side Academy, which...
A-K Valley high school athletes of the week: CJ Thimons and Marleen Meyer
CJ Thimons School: Highlands Class: Junior Sport: Track Report card: Thimons has emerged as one of the favorites to stand atop the podium at this month’s WPIAL Class AAA track championships at Baldwin. He took first (2 minutes, 01.53 seconds) in the 800-meter run at Saturday’s Mars Invitational. Thimons has...
High school scores, schedules for April 29, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice 6, Seneca Valley 1 North Allegheny 12, Butler 0 Pine-Richland 9, Central Catholic 1 Section 2 Hempfield 7, Penn-Trafford 6 Norwin 11, Connellsville 4 Plum 5, Latrobe 0 Section 3 Mt. Lebanon 5, Baldwin 0 Peters Township 5, Bethel...
High school roundup for April 29, 2019: Neshannock edges No. 1 Shenango
Preston Turk registered the game-winning two-out, two-run double in the fifth inning, and Matt DuBois closed out the contest on the hill to give Neshannock an 8-7 win over Class 2A No. 1 Shenango in a Section 2-2A baseball game Monday. DuBois got the win in relief, throwing 2 2/3...
Belle Vernon’s Martin wins four events at annual Mid Mon Classic
Belle Vernon’s Hunter Martin captured four individual titles, and the Leopards won the boys team title Monday at the Scott Frederick Mid Mon Classic at Charleroi High School. Martin placed first in the 110-meter hurdles (15.12 seconds), the 300 hurdles (42.46), the long jump (20 feet, 7.5 inches) and the...
Peters Township edges No. 4 Bethel Park in 10 innings
There is no clause in the Section 3-6A baseball rule book that calls for overtime pay for players performing after the regulation seven innings. Although you can’t help but wonder if that’s not the case when Peters Township and Bethel Park hook up on the high school diamond. For the...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week for week of April 29, 2019
Sydney Calderaro School: Vincentian Academy Class: Junior The Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week is Vincentian Academy junior Sydney Calderaro, who was 5 for 9 with four extra-base hits in three section wins last week. Calderaro began the week with a bang … actually, a couple of bangs as...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week for week of April 29, 2019
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week is Ambridge, a team that leapfrogged the two teams it beat last week in Section 3-4A. The Bridgers won 11-2 Tuesday at New Castle, before cruising past Central Valley, 15-0, a day later. “Our kids knew that we needed to have big...
No. 1 Mt. Pleasant hangs on, beats No. 2 YoughVideo
A large ice wrap resting heavily on her right shoulder in the dugout after the game was a stark contrast to the heat lamp of pressure that radiated down on Carolyn Alincic. Mt. Pleasant softball’s only senior took the pitching circle on senior day to face a menacing opponent with...
Defending champions Dua, Gramley advance to WPIAL doubles final
Nathan Dua and Colin Gramley can double up in WPIAL doubles. Shady Side Academy’s doubles tandem, the defending champions, advanced to the finals of the WPIAL Class AAA doubles tournament, which will take place Tuesday at Oxford Athletic Club North in Wexford. Dua and Gramley will square off against Peters...
