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West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson announces Pitt, West Virginia offers hours apart
West Mifflin sophomore Nahki Johnson could watch the recruiting version of the Backyard Brawl. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound defensive end/outside linebacker announced scholarship offers about two hours apart Wednesday from Pitt and West Virginia, the latest Division 1 schools to joins his growing list. He now lists five FBS offers. Johnson...
Central Catholic hires college assistant as boys basketball coach
Central Catholic dipped into the college ranks Wednesday and hired Brian Urso as boys basketball coach. Urso is director of basketball administration at Robert Morris, a position he will maintain in a limited role. Previously, the Fox Chapel graduate was an assistant at Chatham in 2015, when the school first...
Greensburg Salem athletes to use familiarity to their advantage at WCCA championships
When the Greensburg Salem track and field team steps off the bus Saturday morning at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium to compete in the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association track and field championships, the Golden Lions will be entering familiar territory. The 97th edition of the meet will mark Greensburg Salem’s third trip...
100 or 105? Confusion over pitch-count rule forces WPIAL baseball team to forfeit
When the PIAA increased the baseball pitch count from 100 to 105 last summer, that change affected only the playoffs. That discrepancy between regular-season and postseason rules has caused confusion and already cost one WPIAL team a win. Laurel notified Neshannock on Wednesday that it would forfeit their game from...
Track and field teams set for annual AIC section championships
After several weeks of head-to-head matchups in dual meets, the track and field teams from Section 7-AA gather Wednesday at Freeport High School to crown champions and award medals at the fifth annual Allegheny Interscholastic Conference individual championships. Individual athletes and relay teams from the host Yellowjackets, Burrell, Apollo-Ridge, North...
High school scores, schedules for April 23, 2019
High Schools Baseball Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 2 Latrobe at Penn-Trafford, ppd. Section 3 Peters Township 10, Baldwin 0 (5 inn.) Bethel Park 17, Brashear 1 (4 inn.) Class 5A Section 1 Gateway 18, Woodland Hills 3 (4 inn.) Kiski Area 6, Fox Chapel 3 Franklin Regional at...
High school roundup for April 23, 2019: No. 1 Blackhawk rallies past Central Valley
Class 4A No. 1 Blackhawk scored twice in the top of the seventh to come back and earn a 3-2 win over Central Valley (4-5, 3-4) in a Section 2 game Tuesday afternoon. Jarrett Wright singled three times and had an RBI, and John Malagise singled, doubled and had a...
Thomas Jefferson topples Belle Vernon in Section 2-4A
For the first four innings of Tuesday’s Section 2-4A contest, the defending WPIAL Class 4A champions and defending Class 5A runner-up played even softball. It wasn’t until the fifth inning when Thomas Jefferson pulled away a bit, while continuing to pitch and defend well, en route to a 5-1 victory...
Quartet of ‘pleasant surprises’ helps Penn-Trafford baseball climb to No. 2 ranking in Class 6A
Even the best baseball teams don’t completely know what they have until the section schedule gets rolling. Some returnees pan out, others fade out. Chemistry takes reps to be uncovered and even more reps to be intensified. Penn-Trafford baseball coach Dan Miller has a group of players he calls his...
Tough nonsection slate paying off for Greensburg Central Catholic baseball
Going into the season with seven new starters, Greensburg Central Catholic baseball coach Dennis Reist beefed up the schedule with an early run of difficult nonsection opponents and hoped Mother Nature would cooperate. Reist wanted to give his younger players a challenge right off the bat to get them up...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Penn-Trafford’s Tyler Horvat, Norwin’s Sydney Lokay
Tyler Horvat School: Penn-Trafford Sport: Baseball Year: Senior Claim to fame: Horvat was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs to lead Penn-Trafford (11-1, 4-1) to an 8-1 win over Latrobe in Section 2-6A on April 16. Horvat allowed two hits and struck out nine in six innings....
Knoch softball rolling through competition in Section 3-4A
The Knoch softball team dug itself a sizable hole in its Section 3-4A opener April 2 at Ambridge. The Knights trailed 6-1 after three innings and 9-4 heading to the seventh. But the team rallied in its final at-bat, scoring six runs to claim a dramatic 10-9 victory. Sophomore Bailey...
PIHL players come together to win America’s Showcase tournament
A group of players from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League came together last week to claim a second straight America’s Showcase tournament. Team Pittsburgh traveled to St. Louis and went 6-0 in the tournament. It averaged nine goals a game and gave up just five overall with three shutouts. It...
Baldwin’s Dorien Ford receives Syracuse, Nebraska offers
The recruiting process continues to pick up for Baldwin’s Dorien Ford. The Highlanders’ sophomore defensive end announced a scholarship offer Tuesday from Syracuse and Wednesday from Nebraska, bringing his total to seven. Blessed to receive an offer from Syracuase University ?@CuseFootball pic.twitter.com/5wz1uZ0ZYm— Dorien Ford (@DorienFord_21) April 23, 2019 Blessed to...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Burrell’s Elizabeth Clark, Leechburg’s Cameron Curfman
Elizabeth Clark School: Burrell Class: Sophomore Sport: Softball Report card: With one out and Burrell trailing by two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Clark sent a 2-1 pitch over the left-field fence for a three-run walk-off homer to lift the Bucs (6-2, 4-1) past Section 1-3A rival...
George Guido: Pennsylvania not only state with public-private sports debate
My goodness! I go on vacation for a week and come back to a major Alle-Kiski Valley upheaval. Kelly Robinson retired as St. Joseph boys basketball coach after 21 seasons. Jerry Concannon stepped down as Springdale girls soccer coach after 12 seasons, and Chuck Debor will no longer be Highlands...
High school roundup for April 22, 2019: Mars blanks No. 4 Shaler
Shane Fox tossed a three-hit shutout and knocked in the lone run of the game as Mars defeated No. 4-ranked Shaler, 1-0, in a Section 2-5A baseball game Monday afternoon. Jon Wetherholt was 2 for 3 with a double and triple for the Fightin’ Planets (8-4, 3-2). Hunter Boyan scattered...
High school scores, schedules for April 22, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Upper St. Clair 8, Canon-McMillan 3 Class 5A Section 2 Mars 1, Shaler 0 Section 3 Laurel Highlands 15, Trinity 0 (4 inn.) Class 3A Section 2 Ellwood City at Shady Side Academy, ppd. Section 3 McGuffey 16, Washington 1...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Frazier
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week played for WPIAL gold in each of the last two seasons and is positioning itself to make another run this spring — the Frazier Commodores. In 2017, Frazier enjoyed a breakout season that included a section championship and, after three playoff wins,...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Connellsville’s Jena Hixson
Jena Hixson School: Connellsville Class: Sophomore In the first seven years of this decade, Connellsville qualified for the WPIAL softball playoffs only once — in 2010. But the Falcons are trying to end the decade with a bang having made the postseason the last two years and sitting a half-game...
Upper St. Clair baseball ends losing skid against Canon-McMillan
What a difference 19 days makes. Three weeks after getting crushed by defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 6A champion Canon-McMillan, Upper St. Clair earned a split of the season series with an 8-3 victory Monday afternoon at Wild Things Park in Washington. The Panthers’ win also ended a six-game losing...
Ringgold avenges loss to Belle Vernon in Section 2-4A
Two Section 2-4A softball teams who entered the season with different expectations met at Washington Township Park on Monday. Two-time defending Class 4A champion Belle Vernon lost a Division I pitcher in Bailey Parshall (Penn State), who also hit .418 last season, among a handful of others, and has struggled...
Coaches association releases latest WPIAL boys volleyball rankings
The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest boys team rankings Monday, and two squads in Class AAA moved into the top 10. Canon-McMillan and Upper St. Clair are slotted at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively. They replaced Pine-Richland and Armstrong. The rest of the Class AAA list...
Mars’ Carmody commits to Polynesian Bowl
Mars junior offensive tackle Michael Carmody has committed to play in Hawaii’s Polynesian Bowl high school all-star game. The January 2020 contest will be at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the former site of the NFL Pro Bowl. The 6-foot-6, 295-pound Carmody is listed as a four-star recruit by 247Sports.com. Carmody, who...
Jeannette softball gaining recognition for section success
As a math teacher at Jeannette, Zac Karas deals with numbers on a daily basis. As the school’s softball coach, he is starting to see things add up. “I was unsure how it would all play out this year,” said Karas, the Jayhawks’ sixth-year coach. “We had a lot of...
