Jonathan Bombulie stories, Page 9

Penn Hills announced the opening game on its 2020 football schedule Wednesday night, and it’s a headline-grabber for a variety of reasons. The Indians will meet West Virginia power Martinsburg at 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29 as part of the WPIAL vs. Everyone season-opening event at Woodland Hills’ Wolvarena. The...

The Frontier League announced Wednesday that the start of its season will officially be delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington Wild Things, members of the league since 2002, were scheduled to open their season May 15-17 with a three-game series against the New York Boulders in Rockland County, N.Y....

The Penguins don’t know when their next game will be played. They are pretty sure defensemen Brian Dumoulin and John Marino will be in their lineup when it happens. That is very good news for the Penguins. They were an outstanding team with Dumoulin and Marino in the lineup this...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. West Allegheny senior Britney Wilson is hoping against hope that there’s a softball season this year, but not because she has a chance to win a...

Vincentian Academy grad Brenna Wise, a senior at Indiana, has been named one of the top five student-athletes in NCAA Division I women’s basketball. Wise was selected to the Senior CLASS Award first team, Indiana announced Tuesday. A two-year team captain, Wise has started every game for the Hoosiers over...

Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. If there’s a WPIAL tennis player who most hopes there is a season this year, it just might be Yash Maheshwari. The Thomas Jefferson senior has...

No team in the WPIAL had as successful a 2019-20 season as the Chartiers Valley girls. The Colts were the only team to emerge from the WPIAL tournament undefeated, and they set a district record by running their winning streak to 57 games. The postseason awards they’re receiving reflect that...

The Wheeling Nailers have decided to part ways with coach Mike Bavis. The Penguins’ ECHL affiliate announced Monday it will not renew the contract of Bavis, who coached the team for the past two seasons. The Nailers went 55-61-15 under Bavis. They missed the playoffs last season and were in...

Led by Miami recruit Lonnie Walker, Reading High came into the 2017 PIAA Class 6A basketball finals with a caravan of fired-up fans hoping to see the school win its first state title. Led by Notre Dame football recruit Phil Jurkovec, Pine-Richland’s plan was to silence the crowd and claim...

In a nearly unanimous vote, Iowa’s Spencer Lee was announced Monday as the winner of the Dan Hodge Trophy, college wrestling’s version of the Heisman Trophy. Lee, a junior from Franklin Regional, received 52 of 57 first-place votes. Lee went 18-0 and was the top seed at 125 pounds for...

As event after event was wiped off the professional sports docket by the coronavirus pandemic, one entry remained as if it had been scribbled on the calendar in permanent marker. UFC 249. April 18. Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson. It is one of the biggest fights of the year in...

North Catholic standout Isaac DeGregorio will continue his basketball career at one of the most successful college programs in the country. DeGregorio will attend Kentucky as a preferred walk-on, he announced Saturday afternoon via his Twitter account. A 5-foot-11 point guard, DeGregorio led North Catholic to a Class 3A WPIAL...

There’s a dirty little secret that the handlers who carry the Stanley Cup around every summer don’t necessarily want hockey fans to know. Most years, the best hockey team in the world doesn’t take the famous 35-pound silver trophy home. The NHL started handing out the Presidents Trophy to the...

After receiving scholarship offers from more than three dozen schools, Peters Township safety Donovan McMillon has narrowed down his choices. Pitt and Penn State were among the schools that made the cut as McMillon announced his favored 15 schools via his Twitter account Friday night. McMillon is also considering Michigan...

According to trackwrestling.com, one WPIAL school was among the top 50 high school wrestling teams in the country this season. Waynesburg, which won a WPIAL Class AAA team title and finished first in the team race at the WPIAL individual tournament, is the 35th-best high school team in the country,...

The Penguins were scheduled to wear green St. Patrick’s Day jerseys in warmups before a March 15 home game against the New York Islanders. While the game wasn’t played due to the coronavirus pandemic, some good came out of it anyway. The Pittsburgh Penguins foundation raised $20,000 from the auction...

Pitt-Johnstown’s wrestling team lost out on a legitimate chance at a team title when the NCAA Division II national championships were canceled due to coronavirus. Three of its top wrestlers, all WPIAL graduates, received some consolation Thursday in the form of a postseason award. Brendan Howard, Jacob Ealy and Chris...

Gerrit Nijenhuis is a dynamic performer and two-time state champion who added another sparkling chapter to Canon-McMillan’s storied wrestling history this season, so it probably is not fair to boil down his high school career to just one number. Then again, it’s a really impressive number. Nijenhuis’ 6-0 victory over...

As an assistant coach with Burrell football the last two seasons, Randy Walters watched the Bucs fling the ball all over the field using head coach Shawn Liotta’s up-tempo Air Raid approach. It’s the kind of offense that can stir football passions in a coach, especially an old quarterback, and...

Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford has some of the same thoughts many Western Pennsylvanians do as the coronavirus pandemic has kept people holed up in their homes for extended periods of time. Not macaroni and cheese again. Rutherford spoke with reporters on a conference call Wednesday afternoon shortly after...

By any measure, Iowa’s Spencer Lee has been one of the most dominant athletes in college wrestling this season. On Tuesday, the NCAA made it official. Lee, a Franklin Regional graduate, was named winner of the Most Dominant Wrestler award for Division I. Lee went 18-0 in matches against Division...

If the suspended PIAA basketball playoffs resume, the season won’t end after all the hardware is handed out in Hershey. A Western Pennsylvania all-star tradition will follow. The Roundball Classic is set for April 24-25 at Geneva College with senior all-stars from the WPIAL, City League and District 10 facing...

Given the depth of talent on the court at any given time, it’s hard for any individual player to stand out on the Chartiers Valley girls basketball roster. Sophomore Aislin Malcolm has managed to shine through. The 5-foot-10 guard was named Pennsylvania player of the year by MaxPreps on Tuesday....

The Penn State hockey team will never know how the most promising season in program history would have turned out on the ice. The Big Ten and NCAA tournaments have, of course, been canceled. On paper, though, the Nittany Lions finished as the eighth-best team in the country. Penn State...

Gerrit Nijenhuis is a dynamic performer and two-time state champion who added another sparkling chapter to Canon-McMillan’s storied wrestling history this season, so it probably is not fair to boil down his high school career to just one number. Then again, it’s a really impressive number. Nijenhuis’ 6-0 victory over...