Greg Macafee stories, Page 24

You can see the sparkle in his eye, the pep in his step and the excitement in his voice. New Leechburg football coach Randy Walters is happy to be back on a football field. Hired in March, Walters finally got an opportunity to work with his new players in a...

The Pirates fired manager Clint Hurdle last September after his team finished at the bottom of the NL Central with a record of 69-93. Now, the longtime baseball coach and manager has put his Pittsburgh home on the market. Hurdle, 62, who now resides in Florida, lived in the 9,120-square...

Since the start of the Western Pa. Baseball League season, the Kiski Area Golden Cavs have played games on the road. In their first home game of the summer Monday, the Golden Cavs won in exciting fashion when IUP-bound Billy Perroz hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of...

Thirty-two student-athletes, two coaches and one high school were honored Monday as the 2020 Western Pennsylvania Positive Athlete award winners. One athlete was honored from each sport, as well as two multi-sport athletes and two coaches, Mike Shrader from Bentworth and Amanda Anderson from Plum. Mt. Lebanon was named the...

Kiski Area defensive end Jack Dilts had quite the holiday. Before the fireworks went off, Dilts was on the phone with Akron, and the conversation ended with the 6-foot-5, 250-pounder receiving a scholarship offer. Dilts has also received offers from Robert Morris, Albany, Bucknell, Duquesne, Penn and Toledo. “I’ve been...

Baseball will be played at Wild Things Park this summer, after all. Late last week, the Washington Wild Things, along with three other teams, announced a four-team league that will play Thursday through Sunday, starting July 9. Opening Day July 9th at Wild Things Park pic.twitter.com/uOFCIreHCn— Washington Wild Things (@WashWildThings)...

Moon native and local UFC fighter Khama Worthy showed his true colors last Saturday after earning his seventh straight victory and winning a second consecutive UFC fight. After defeating Luis Pena by submission with 2 minutes, 7 seconds left in their lightweight bout, Worthy took to the microphone in his...

After six weeks of preseason training, three season postponements and a few weeks to get back into playing shape, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds are finally ready to take the field in a competitive game for the first time in 2020. They begin their season July 11 against Louisville City FC for...

Knoch football coach Brandon Mowry couldn’t sleep Tuesday night. He was a like a little kid on Christmas morning. He couldn’t stand the anticipation anymore. “I was up at like 6 a.m. (Wednesday) morning, made my coffee and I told my wife I was leaving,” Mowry said with a laugh....

Since they were kids, Schenley alumni D.J. Kennedy and DeAndre Kane have felt at home on the basketball court. From winning a state championship in high school to creating a career for themselves overseas on the hardwood, basketball has taken the duo a lot of places. But over the past...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds and Louisville City FC gave fans an exciting show when they battled in the USL Championship semifinals in front of a record-breaking crowd at Highmark Stadium last season. Louisville City handed the Riverhounds a 2-1 loss on the fateful night in November and ended a magical season....

Since last fall, it has been kind of difficult to keep former Fox Chapel golfer Mike Marsico off the course. Over the past couple of months, Marsico estimated he has played somewhere between 50 and 60 rounds, but the Tri-State Open at Williams Golf and Country Club on June 15-16...

A week and a half ago, former Plum golfer Andrew Reynolds was playing his home course at Willowbrook Country Club when he recorded his first hole-in-one. He used a pitching wedge on the 123-yard 15th hole. “I played well that day, and I’ve kind of just continued to play well...

Kiski Area baseball coach Aaron Albert and the Cavaliers were excited for the 2020 baseball season. They had a roster full of seniors and after making the playoffs last year for the second time since 2016, they had high expectations. Although the coronavirus pandemic brought an end to those hopes,...

While coronavirus restrictions disrupted life all over the country this spring and summer, some people found a way to see positives in it as it gave them time to focus on their craft. Highlands’ Johnny Crise is one of those people. “It kind of helped me in a way because...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds have learned who their group opponents will be for the 2020 USL Championship season. Over the past two days, the USL Championship has been revealing their eight groups for the 2020 season. It was announced on Friday that the Riverhounds will be competing in Group F with...

When the Kiski Area Golden Cavs took on Gateway last Thursday in the Western Pennsylvania Baseball League, they didn’t score until the fourth inning. So, for Thursday’s contest against the Independent Players, Kiski Area coach Aaron Albert asked his team to get started a little quicker and his team answered...

The Independent Players summer baseball team looks like it is going to have a busy summer. “We’re playing about a 25-30 game schedule, so we’re playing almost every day,” said Players coach Jim Basilone, who has run the baseball team since 2000. With a mixture of players from around the...

The USL Championship and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds now know what their 2020 regular season schedule will look like after the league revealed its structure on Wednesday. The season will consist of a 16-game regular season schedule, and there will be an updated single-elimination playoff structure. While some teams started their...

The Frontier League, the baseball league that the Washington Wild Things play in, made things official on Wednesday when it announced its 2020 season is suspended due to gathering and travel restrictions in many of the league’s locations. Frontier League Announces 2020 Plans pic.twitter.com/e3mtROfz2w— Frontier League (@FLProBaseball) June 24, 2020...

Former Shady Side Academy athlete Skyy Moore has a knack for excelling on the football field, no matter the position. Just this past season, during his freshman year at Western Michigan, the former Indians quarterback/defensive back switched to wide receiver, a position he had never played before. In 13 games,...

Fox Chapel’s Aidan Oehrle has been playing golf since he could walk. He followed in the footsteps of his dad and his grandfather, and when Oehrle became a freshman, he started to dream of playing golf at the next level. Just a few weeks ago, Oehrle achieved that dream when...

St. Joseph High School has named Ron Moncrief as its new athletic director. The Saint Joseph High School community would like to welcome Mr. Ron Moncrief as the Spartan Athletic Director! pic.twitter.com/k4tpO3002Y— Saint Joseph HS (@SaintJosephHS) June 23, 2020 Moncrief, who is a Robert Morris alumnus, was the head athletic...

Fox Chapel’s Scott Bitar was one of the top golfers in the WPIAL last season. Now, he’s looking forward to seeing how he stacks up against a different level of competition. Before he heads to Miami (Ohio) to play Division I golf in the fall, Bitar is planning to return...

Four years ago, Robert Morris rowing coaches Nelle Stahura and Carol Schoenecker sat down at a table for breakfast outside of a local restaurant and talked about what the sport meant to them. They talked about everything from the opportunities the sport has provided them over the course of their...