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No. 1 Penn-Trafford rallies past Franklin Regional to stay unbeaten
Franklin Regional pitcher Angalee Beall held No. 1 Penn-Trafford hitless for the first four innings of Tuesday’s Section 1-5A first-place showdown. But things changed quickly in the final three innings, especially with one out in the fifth. Penn-Trafford strung together six consecutive hits, scored four runs, and rolled to a...
Mt. Pleasant softball scratches out victory over Class 6A No. 5 Norwin
Mt. Pleasant softball coach Chris Brunson said he can feel a breakout offensive performance coming from his team. He can sense the bats warming up. Until they do, he will take another scraped-together victory while the Vikings continue to display their other notable talents: pitching and defense. Mary Smithnosky and...
Patience pays off for Deer Lakes baseball against Valley
Deer Lakes scored eight runs in the top of the sixth inning of Tuesday’s Section 1-3A baseball game at Valley and turned a close game into a rout. The Lancers had 10 hits overall, took advantage of nine walks and rode the arm of senior Greg Geis to a 12-2...
A-K Valley baseball teams earn key wins to rebound from slow starts
A seemingly comfortable six-run lead shrank to one for Valley in a handful of minutes during a Section 1-3A baseball game last week at East Allegheny. The host Wildcats had a chance to win the game in the bottom of the seventh inning, as the pressure mounted on Valley. Sophomore...
Fox Chapel’s Shymansky, Indiana’s Palko win WPIAL singles titles
Zachary Palko made history. Robby Shymansky repeated it. Palko, a junior at Indiana, and Shymansky, a senior at Fox Chapel, claimed the WPIAL boys tennis singles tournament championships Tuesday afternoon at Mt. Lebanon High School. Palko became the first WPIAL champion in Indiana’s boys tennis history by dispatching Yash Maheshwari...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Deer Lakes’ Josh Probst, Leechburg’s Aubry Skeel
Josh Probst School: Deer Lakes Class: Senior Sport: Baseball Report card: Probst was key for No. 2 Deer Lakes (4-3, 4-0) last week. A team captain, Probst paced the Lancers’ offense with a bases-clearing double in a 10-6 win over Section 1-3A rival Burrell. Probst also drove in the tying...
Pitt coaches pursue another Baldwin lineman, extend offer to sophomore
From Dave Wannstedt to Jason Pinkston, Baldwin and Pitt have had a number of links through the years. Sophomore lineman Dorien Ford gave a nod to that shared history Tuesday when he announced he’d received a scholarship offer from Pitt. Along with his tweet was a picture of Pinkston from...
Senior pitcher Jarett Bach, Yough baseball in surprising position
Halfway through the high school baseball season, Yough has emerged as a surprise leader in Section 1-4A. And while the Cougars (7-3, 5-1) were expected to challenge for a WPIAL playoff berth, especially behind the left arm of senior Pitt recruit Jarett Bach, they are off to a great start...
George Guido: Freeport grad Clyde Conti remains active in coaching after 46 seasons
Clyde Conti, a stellar athlete in football and track at Freeport in the late 1960s, recently completed his 46th season of coaching football when he stepped down from his role as an assistant coach/academic advisor for Slippery Rock. But he’s not ready to hang up his whistle yet. Conti is...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Franklin Regional’s Mike Klingensmith, Yough’s Kierra Waywood
Mike Klingensmith School: Franklin Regional Sport: Baseball Class: Senior Claim to fame: Klingensmith, who has a 2.33 ERA with 14 strikeouts in 15 innings, threw a two-hitter with eight strikeouts to help Franklin Regional (7-1, 4-0) to a 16-0 win over Woodland Hills in six innings in Section 1-5A action...
Canon-McMillan basketball coach Rick Bell retires after 31 years
Canon-McMillan reached the WPIAL Class 6A basketball semifinals for the first time in 2019. Now the school is looking for a new coach after Rick Bell, who coached the Big Macs for the past 18 years, has decided to retire. Bell, 54, said wanting to watch his son, R.J., play...
Belle Vernon wrestling coach Doppelheuer resigns
Belle Vernon is in the market for a new wrestling coach after the school board Monday accepted the resignation of Mike Doppelheuer. Doppelheuer said late Monday it was just time to part ways. “I thought long and hard last year about resigning, but I decided to come back for one...
High school scores, schedules for April 15, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 10, Butler 0 (5 inn.) Allderdice at North Allegheny, ppd. Seneca Valley vs. Central Catholic, ppd. Section 2 Connellsville at Hempfield, ppd. Latrobe at Penn-Trafford, ppd. Norwin at Plum, ppd. Section 3 Baldwin at Brashear, ppd. Canon-McMillan at Bethel...
High school roundup for April 15, 2019: No. 1 Pine-Richland blanks Butler
Tommy Beam threw five no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts to lead Pine-Richland to a 10-0 win over Butler (2-8, 1-3) in a Section 1-6A baseball game Monday night at Kelly Automotive Park. Troy LaNeve allowed one hit in relief as the top-ranked Rams improved to 9-3 overall and 4-0 in...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Serra Catholic’s Nina Grandley
Nina Grandley School: Serra Catholic Class: Junior Serra Catholic was a perfect 3-0 last week as it soared into second place in Section 2-2A. Eagles coach Denny Willaman is happy with his team’s 5-2 start overall, but knows it’s part of building a solid program. “Expectations continue to grow. It...
Highlands athletic director Chuck Debor resigns
Chuck Debor spent the past handful of years working part-time as Highlands’ athletic director, but he’ll soon go back to doing what he loves full-time. The Highlands school board Monday accepted Debor’s resignation as athletic director and facilities scheduler, effective June 30. He spent the last five years in the...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Hampton Talbots
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week remained undefeated with a pair of wins last week, including one that left them alone in first place — the Hampton Talbots. Last year, Hampton finished fourth in Section 3-5A to qualify for the playoffs, but lost in Round 1 to Connellsville...
North Catholic basketball star Tess Myers receives offer from Colorado
Tess Myers spent the weekend playing basketball in Colorado. She might get a chance to do so for a much longer time than that in the coming years. Myers received a scholarship offer Monday from Colorado of the Pac-12, her first offer from a power conference school. A 5-foot-10 guard...
Pitchers Alincic, Smithnosky help Mt. Pleasant softball build another WPIAL contender
Mary Smithnosky hasn’t compiled a checklist, but she said there is a litany of reasons why the Mt. Pleasant softball team once again has positioned itself as the team to beat in WPIAL Class 4A. “We have a lot of depth,” Smithnosky said. “We have a lot of strength and...
Recovered from knee injury, Radvan bolsters lineup for No. 4 Freeport
Tori Radvan waited and prepared. The Freeport junior, a three-sport standout, had her sights set on April 3 throughout the recovery process from a severe knee injury suffered in a volleyball match at the start of the school year. That date was the first softball meeting between the Yellowjackets and...
Defending champion Shymansky leads field of WPIAL tennis singles finalists
Robby Shymansky has an opportunity to double his WPIAL singles success. The Fox Chapel senior, the defending WPIAL Class AAA singles champion, advanced to the finals again with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over South Fayette’s Jacob Patterson in the semifinals Monday at Oxford Athletic Club North in Wexford. Shymansky will...
Top teams hold their spots in latest WPIAL boys volleyball rankings
Four weeks remain in the WPIAL boys volleyball regular season, and section races, with their battles for playoff positioning, are heating up. The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest rankings Monday based on a vote of all 39 WPIAL coaches. Changes in Class AAA come in the middle...
St. Joseph boys basketball coach Kelly Robinson steps down after 21 seasons
Kelly Robinson believed he was ending his St. Joseph basketball coaching career on a nice, round number of 20 seasons. Then he realized he miscounted by one. “I’m bad with math, and I work in payroll of all things,” Robinson said. Robinson, the longest-tenured coach in the Alle-Kiski Valley and...
2 WPIAL sophomores rank among nation’s top football recruits for 2021
Two WPIAL sophomores were ranked this week among the nation’s top football recruits by 247Sports in the websites list of 2021 prospects. Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald was ranked No. 38 and Gateway’s Derrick Davis was No. 41. They were among eight Pennsylvania recruits to make the 247-player list. Donald (6-2,...
High school schedules for April 15, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at North Allegheny, 7 p.m.; Pine-Richland vs. Butler, Kelly Automotive Park, 7:30 p.m.; Seneca Valley vs. Central Catholic, LaRoche College, 4 p.m. Section 2 Connellsville at Hempfield, 4:15 p.m.; Latrobe at Penn-Trafford, 4 p.m.; Norwin at Plum, 4 p.m. Section 3...
