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Annual Freeport International Baseball Invitational set to begin
Chuck Sarver pored over the schedule Friday morning, checking on the nearly two dozen teams that will descend on Freeport and its surrounding communities this week for the annual Freeport International Baseball Invitational. The FIBI president said the schedule — which includes the return of the Aussie Drop Bears organization...
Golf notebook: Penn-Trafford grad Nick Turowski qualifies for US Amateur; Neal Shipley leads again
West Virginia sophomore and 2024 Penn-Trafford graduate Nick Turowski qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship in San Francisco by placing third in the final local qualifying at The Club at P.B. Dye in Ijamsville, Md., on Thursday. The U.S. Amateur will be played Aug. 11-17 at the Olympic Club. Turowski...
Neal Shipley closing in on PGA Tour card
Neal Shipley has almost secured a spot on the PGA Tour in 2026. Another win for the Mr. Lebanon native on the Korn Ferry Tour this season would earn him an automatic promotion to the PGA Tour, effective for the next full-field event. Shipley shot an 8-under par 64 on...
Turf Wars II delivers hard-hitting outdoor card to Highmark Stadium crowd
Light rain briefly fell during Turf Wars II on Saturday at Highmark Stadium, but there were no light punches in the forecast for the seven fights on the card. Four of the bouts ended via TKO. The main event of the evening featured the event’s promoter, Bill “Hutch” Hutchinson (21-3-4,...
Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley scores comeback win on Korn Ferry Tour
BERTHOUD, Colo. — Trailing by seven shots entering the final round, Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley won The Ascendant for his second Korn Ferry Tour victory of the season and his career, shooting an 8-under 64 on Sunday for a one-stroke margin. The 24-year-old Central Catholic graduate finished at 18-under 270...
America’s Mile race draws thousands of runners to North Shore
Just a short distance from the first night of the annual Picklesburgh festival on the Roberto Clemente (Sixth Street) and Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) bridges, a couple thousand runners and walkers took to a North Shore road course Friday evening as P3R and VisitPITTSBURGH hosted the America’s Mile. This year,...
Murrysville evens District 31 Legion series; Unity surprises Latrobe
What a difference a day makes. After playing one of its worst games of the season, Murrysville responded with one of its better games. Pitcher Ethan Raver allowed five hits and an unearned run to lead Murrysville to a 4-1 victory against Bushy Run in Game 2 of their best-of-three...
Roush wins Falling Rock Classic; Hansberry, Severns win match play titles
West Virginian Ty Roush posted an even par during the second round Tuesday at Nemacolin Woodland Resort’s Mystic Rock to win the Falling Rock Classic. Roush finished with an even par 144. He won by two strokes over John Aber, Easton Renwick and first round leader Devin Gee of Oakmont...
Pittsburgh boxer tests undefeated record during all-female ‘Taylor vs. Serrano 3’ fights on Netflix
Pittsburgh boxer Mary Casamassa is still trying to fully absorb the notion that her next fight will not just take place at the legendary Madison Square Garden, but will also go out live to the world on Netflix. “I don’t know if it’s entirely sunk in yet, to be honest,”...
Latrobe clinches District 31 Legion baseball title; playoffs begin Monday
Latrobe clinched the District 31 American Legion regular-season title by defeating Bushy Run, 8-3, on Sunday. The Jethawks won their final two games to win the title. They defeated Unity, 3-2, on July 4. Bushy Run halted Lower Burrell’s seven-game winning streak with a 5-4 win Saturday. Hempfield clinched second...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: WWE’s Monday Night Raw color men from Western PA at center of debate
Pittsburgh has a rich pro wrestling tradition: Kurt Angle, Bruno Sammartino, Larry Zbyszko, Shane Douglas, me. But now, internal debate in WWE involves two Pittsburgh-born talents: Pat McAfee and Corey Graves. Plum’s McAfee had been the color analyst on flagship telecast Monday Night Raw since January. He succeeded Monroeville’s Graves,...
Short-handed Riveters defeated in inaugural playoff game
Piper Coffield would have loved to have six of her teammates alongside her during the Pittsburgh Riveters USL W Central Conference semifinal playoff game Friday at Highmark Stadium. But the Mars graduate knows how things work in the summer at the pre-professional level. As the summer gets later, players have...
Norwin grad JJ Matijevic keeps slugging in Mexican Baseball League
To follow JJ Matijevic online in the Mexican Baseball League, fans might have to make an extra click to translate the league website into English. No translation is needed when it comes to Matijevic still chasing his dream of playing at the game’s highest level. Watch him swing a bat...
Lower Burrell American Legion stays hot, blanks Hempfield East
The Lower Burrell American Legion baseball team picked a great time to get hot. Lower Burrell knocked off the top team in the District 31 standings for the second consecutive day. On Monday it was Latrobe (11-4), and Tuesday it was Hempfield East (11-4-1). Jake Smith tossed an eight-hit shutout,...
District 31 American Legion teams jump into busy final week of regular season
It is going to be a busy week for baseball teams in District 31 American Legion. There is a week left in the regular season, and teams are scrambling to get in all their games before Sunday. District 31 President and Latrobe coach Jason Bush said things are proceeding smoothly....
‘I just wanted to come back and show love:’ Skyy Moore hosts Before Your Eyes Summer Jam
Sunday marked the fourth time Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Skyy Moore gave back to his hometown of New Kensington. He returns each time for the kids, hoping to inspire the younger generation. “It’s all about the kids that look up to me,” Moore said. “For everybody that had a...
Quaker Valley graduate Adou Thiero headed to Lakers in 2nd round of NBA Draft
Quaker Valley graduate Adou Thiero is headed to the Los Angeles Lakers. Thiero was chosen with the sixth pick of the second round of the NBA Draft on Thursday night, 36th overall. The Lakers were apparently eager to pick him, moving up from 55th with a pair of trades to...
West Mifflin’s L.J. Mooney is eager to make his own path into the NHLVideo
The comparisons are always going to be there. And frankly, L.J. Mooney and cousin Logan Cooley don’t do much to dissuade them. They have been working out together for several years, even after Cooley made the jump to the NHL in 2023. And that habit hasn’t changed in the early...
Westmoreland Elite team to play in national girls volleyball tournament
It has been a season to remember for the Westmoreland Elite 14 Purple girls volleyball team. The squad began playing in October and honed its game throughout the year to make history. The 14 Purple team qualified for the 2025 USAV Girls Junior National Championship, becoming just the second team...
Soccer star, Pine-Richland graduate Meghan Klingenberg announces retirement
Meghan Klingenberg, Western Pennsylvania’s most accomplished soccer player, anounced her retirement Wednesday. She made the announcement in an open letter on her Instagram page. “This isn’t a surprise. But it still feels big to say,” she wrote. “I’m retiring from football.” Klingenberg went on describe her soccer career as “the...
Excitement builds for Pitt’s Lola Abraham as return from torn ACL draws nearer
Lola Abraham is amped up for the start of the Pitt women’s soccer team’s fall season. “We’re going to have a newer, younger team,” the Panthers sophomore forward and Riverview graduate said. “All of the coaches and returning players are super excited. We have a lot of potential with how...
Former Washington Wild Things OF Chris Carter chosen for Frontier League Hall of Fame
Former Washington Wild Thing outfielder Chris Carter will enter the Frontier League Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2025. Carter played four seasons in the Frontier League from 2003-06, two with the Wild Things from 2005-2006. He batted .318 with over 180 RBIs and earned postseason...
Monroeville Junior Legion team hopes to make playoff push this summer
The Monroeville Junior Legion baseball team dropped the first two games of its Westmoreland County Youth Legion season but quickly got on the winning track in what is expected to be a competitive run to the playoffs. Wins over Bushy Run, 3-2 on May 29; Uniontown, 10-2 on June 2;...
Aspiring body-builder, Plum grad Sarah Kvortek uses advice to reach goals at 2nd competition
Sarah Kvortek fared well in her first bodybuilding competition March 30 at a show hosted by Slippery Rock University. The Plum graduate and SRU student placed third in the figure division and was rewarded for all the work put in since deciding to start training 12 months earlier. But at...
Alabama high schooler wins Sunnehanna Amateur with record score
High school phenom Tyler Watts took the Sunnehanna Amateur by storm Saturday, shooting his second straight 6-under 64 to set a tournament record with a 19-under total and win the 84th edition of the historic tournament in Johnstown. Watts, a 17-year-old rising senior from Huntsville, Ala., became the youngest player...
