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New Kensington to host 51st Pennsylvania Karate Championships
A tradition unlike any other in the Alle-Kiski Valley or Pittsburgh region continues this weekend. The 51st Pennsylvania Karate Championships, a keystone event since the early 1970s, returns Saturday to the grand ballroom of the Quality Inn in New Kensington. It is where the event began all those years ago....
Plum grad Max Matolcsy works way through ranks at Penn to earn more regular role on defense
Max Matolcsy could have gone to any number of schools to play football. But the allure of an Ivy League education was too good to pass up for the Plum grad. Matolcsy opted for Penn, where he enrolled in the prestigious Wharton School, established in 1881 as the world’s first...
Penn-Trafford grad Gay signs with professional indoor football team
John Gay IV always said with conviction that he would play pro football. While the Indoor Football League is not the NFL, it is considered a pro league, and Gay is about to embark on a post-college career. The running back out of Penn-Trafford recently signed with Fishers Freight, an...
Organizer thrilled with inaugural Quaker Valley Fall Fest 5K
Quaker Valley junior River Capek created, planned and directed the 2024 Fall Fest 5K fun run/walk race in Leetsdale as his self-development school project. Things went well at the Oct. 13 event at Quaker Valley High School, the 16-year-old Capek said. “Things went fantastically well,” Capek said. “We were a...
Bill Fralic among athletic greats to be inducted into Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame
Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania will be well represented as the Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame Committee welcomes 11 new members at a banquet ceremony Saturday evening at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center hotel Downtown. Legendary Pitt athletes Bill Fralic, Ralph Cindrich and Tim Grgurich will be joined by Penn...
Former boxing world champion Paul Spadafora hospitalized in Las Vegas after dog attack
Former IBF lightweight world champion Paul Spadafora is hospitalized in Las Vegas after being attacked by his dog, his wife confirmed to TribLive. Nadine (Russo) Spadafora said the McKees Rocks-based boxer severed an artery in his left arm when his pit bull bit him Sunday night, which required a two-hour...
Valley grad B.J. Flenory inducted into New Hampshire’s Diversity Hall of Fame
Baron “B.B.” Flenory’s namesake is following his father’s legacy. But in a different sort of way. B.B. Flenory, the former Duquesne University basketball star whose life experiences continue to amaze, is himself amazed at the path his son, Baron “B.J.” Flenory, a former University of New Hampshire football star, has...
Pittsburgher 100 returns with larger purse at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway
The Pittsburgher 100 has been on the dirt racing calendar for 36 years, but the goal for a new ownership group at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway in Imperial is to put the event back on the map. The new owners, Blair and Tabby Cress, are doing so by making this...
Joe Como’s weight-loss strategy inspires 2 generations of runners at Norwin
Joe Como looked in the mirror and didn’t like what he saw. Como, who lives in Irwin, had reached his 40s and, as often happens to people at that age, he had started to retain some unwanted weight. So Como decided to take up running as a way to shed...
Gateway youth football teams contending for Big East Youth Football League titles
Gateway was one of only two programs in the Big East Youth Football League — Penn-Trafford was the other — to have all four of its teams make the playoffs in 2023. The Gators’ flag (ages 5-6), Termites (7-8), Mites (9-10) and Midgets (11-12) teams turned in successful regular seasons...
Plum Midget Football Association teams relish competition in return to Big East Youth Football League
The Plum Midget Football Association was on the move after the 2023 season. Playing in the Allegheny Youth Football League for the past several years, the PMFA board and coaches felt it was in the best interest of the organization to move back to the Big East Youth Football League...
Defending champions look to extend their records at annual Great Race
Jennifer Bigham won last year’s Richard S. Caliguiri City of Pittsburgh Great Race 10K for her second back-to-back triumph in eight years. One of the fastest masters runners in the country, she also won in 2016 and 2017 and finished first in 2019. Bigham’s five Great Race 10K titles are...
Valley student wins 2nd national boxing championship
Traveling from New Kensington to Downtown Pittsburgh hardly would seem like a picnic, especially by bus. “I usually come every day, weekdays and weekends,” Valley High School sophomore Gea Fultz said as she wrapped up running a warmup mile on a treadmill at the 3rd Ave. Gym, the training site...
Quebec beats Washington Wild Things for Frontier League title on walk-off homer
Anthony Quirion hit a walk-off, three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Quebec Capitales the Frontier League championship with a 7-6 victory over the Washington Wild Things in Game 4 of the best-of-five final series Saturday night. Quebec scored five times in...
Tyler Courtney holds off Apollo’s Sye Lynch to win High Limit Commonwealth Clash at Lernerville
Saturday night’s High Limit sprint car race at Lernerville Speedway turned into a battle of survival for the leader. First it was Corey Day, who crashed while leading. Then, Brent Marks suffered a flat tire and lost the top spot. The final test, however, was left for Tyler Courtney. Courtney...
Washington Wild Things move to brink of elimination in Frontier League Championship Series
The Washington Wild Things moved to the brink of elimination with an 8-6 loss to the Quebec Capitals in Game 3 of the Frontier League Championship Series on Friday night. Washington looks to even the best-of-five set in Game 4 at 7:05 p.m. Saturday in Quebec City. The Wild Things...
Quebec jumps on Washington Wild Things to even Frontier League Championship Series
The Quebec Capitales scored seven runs in the second inning and rolled to an 11-6 victory over the Washington Wild Things in Game 2 of the Frontier League Championship Series on Wednesday night. The best-of-five series is tied 1-1. Game 3 is set for Friday night in Quebec. When Quebec...
Washington Wild Things take Game 1 in Frontier League Championship Series
The Washington Wild Things scored in five consecutive innings, including a homer by shortstop Ethan Wilder, to defeat the Quebec Capitales, 5-2, in Game 1 of the best-of-five Frontier League Championship series Tuesday night. Game 2 is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. Wednesday in Washington. Kobe Foster started and went six...
Sanctuary Boxing Club earns medals at women’s championships as gym builds momentum
The Sanctuary Boxing Club in New Kensington continued its impressive run, earning national recognition at the USA Boxing women’s championships Aug. 17-20 in Lafayette, La. Makya Wade, 10, and Kabrynna Wiley, 8, won gold, and Katie Kerecz, 12, secured a silver and won the mitt competition with coach Rich Cantolina....
On cusp of reaching UFC, Plum grad Justin Patton to fight at Brawl in the Burgh 23
Justin Patton is on a roll in his professional mixed martial arts career. The 2012 Plum graduate has won six of his last seven fights and is on the doorstep of making it to the Ultimate Fighting Championships. He faces the No. 3-ranked featherweight in Pennsylvania, Ryan Cafaro, at 247...
Washington Wild Things roar into Frontier League Championship Series
Washington Wild Things catcher Ricardo Sanchez chose to come to Southwestern Pennsylvania because liked what the team had to offer. Following two seasons with the Trois-Rivieres Aigles, Sanchez believed he had a purpose with the Wild Things. During Washington’s 10-0 win over the Lake Erie Crushers on Saturday night in...
Coliseum Combat Zone hosting MMA competition in Monroeville
The All-American Field House in Monroeville will play host to an evening of mixed martial arts competition on Sept. 14, and Allen Levine, the founder of Pittsburgh-based Coliseum Combat Zone, is excited to host what he feels will be a full evening of intense fight action. “I love promoting people...
Peters Township’s Jimmy Ellis, Franklin Regional’s Palmer Jackson bow out at U.S. Amateur
Stroke-play medalist Jimmy Ellis, a Peters Township alum, was ousted in his opening match at the 124th U.S. Amateur on Wednesday at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. Ellis, who shot 10-under 132 to take the top seed, including a 9-under 61 in his second round, was upset by...
Peters Township grad shoots 61 to take medalist honors at U.S. Amateur
Peters Township graduate Jimmy Ellis began the week with little to no expectation at the 124th U.S. Amateur Championship. Ellis, who now lives in Atlantic Beach, Fla., had to buy golf balls and a glove from the pro shop for the second round of stroke play. The stakes began to...
Texas team ends Mon Valley’s run in Pony League World Series
The Mon Valley Pony baseball team saw its Pony League World Series journey come to an end Monday morning with an 11-4 loss against Palmview, Texas, but the team left with their heads held high. Despite giving up four runs in the bottom of the sixth and entering the final...
