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Penn Hills’ Snell benefits from offseason development
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during a HSSN Media Day live broadcast at Kennywood Park. Trips to camps at Pitt and Penn State last month were...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2019 boys volleyball season
North Allegheny capped an undefeated 23-0 season with its second straight PIAA Class AAA championship and seventh overall, sweeping three games from Central York at Penn State’s Pegula Ice Arena. The Tigers also extended their overall winning streak to 46 games. NA succeeded against Central York after five previous state-final...
Coach Kolankowski right fit for Plum boys soccer
The Plum athletic department didn’t go far to find the next coach of the boys soccer team. Rafal Kolankowski, an assistant the past three seasons under former coach Anthony Russo, was elevated to the top spot in the Mustangs program in May when Russo joined the coaching staff of the...
Plum Senior, Junior Legion teams set for regional tournaments
The Plum Senior and Youth American Legion baseball teams are on a mission for a regional sweep. The Senior squad, the Allegheny South playoff champion, kicks off the Region 6 tournament Friday at Blackhawk’s Chippewa Park, while the Plum Youth team, co-champion of the Westmoreland County league with Uniontown, begins...
With college plans in place, Woodland Hills’ Rawlings ready for special senior season
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. At tight end, Joshua Rawlings said he has sometimes been compared to former Woodland...
Plum grad Ashley Amato hopes to end career on high note at Akron
The Akron women’s soccer team is one of the youngest at the Division I level. Only one senior is on the 2019 roster: Plum graduate Ashley Amato. Amato, entering her fourth year as a starting defender, understands her time on campus is winding down, and she wants to do whatever...
Plum tops Monroeville for Allegheny South Legion title and trip to regionals
The Plum and Monroeville Senior American Legion baseball teams met for the third time this season Monday evening at Gateway High School, and the rubber match between the squads was for the Allegheny South playoff championship and a spot in the Region 6 tournament. Plum scored twice in the top...
Springdale QB Ausk gets head start on sophomore season
Legend Ausk enters his sophomore football season at Springdale in the running to take over the varsity starting quarterback job left vacant from the graduation of multi-year starter Josh Jones. A scout team signal-caller last fall, Ausk knew his future with the Dynamos held the potential to take over the...
Plum Legion meets Monroeville with regional tournament berth on line
The Plum and Monroeville American Legion baseball teams split their two-game Allegheny South season series. Plum won the most recent matchup 3-1 seven days ago. The teams meet for the third and final time at 8 p.m. Monday at Gateway High School. The winner advances to the Region 6 tournament...
Despite 1st-round exit, Murrysville Legion finds positives in return to District 31
The Murrysville Senior American Legion baseball team knew it was going to be a tall playoff task against top-seed Hempfield East in the best-of-three District 31 first-round series. Coach Chas Brncic said despite the tough postseason matchup — Hempfield East scored a two-game series sweep July 8-9 — he was...
Seneca Valley’s Kaltenberger focused on returning to WPIAL title game
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Josh Kaltenberger didn’t feel the need to wait. The 6-foot-5, 285-pound rising senior at...
Burrell boys basketball coach Shawn Bennis resigns
In his six seasons as coach of the Burrell boys basketball team, Shawn Bennis appreciated the hard work his players put in preparing and game planning for every opponent. “The players worked so hard to be ready to play, no matter the situation,” he said. “We were always competitive. No...
Knoch grad Jordan Geist looks to maintain momentum at USATF championships
Jordan Geist will throw the shot put July 26 at the U.S. Track and Field Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, and he heads into the event with momentum from a gold medal and a new record at a recent meet in Mexico. Geist, who also earned All-American honors with...
WPIAL swimmers earn spots on All-American lists
Upper St. Clair’s Josh Matheny set a National Federation of High Schools record of 52.52 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke at the PIAA Class AAA championships in March at Bucknell University. So, it came as no surprise Wednesday when the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association All-American lists for the 2018-19...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 WPIBL bowling season
Competitors from the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League made an impact at all levels during the 2018-19 season. Small is big at states Plum’s Shannon Small led the WPIBL with a fourth-place finish (202.5 average/six games) out of 24 in the girls singles qualifier at the Pennsylvania High School State...
Plum grad Courtney Zezza signs pro basketball contract with team in Greece
Plum and St. Francis (Pa.) graduate Courtney Zezza will begin her professional basketball career in Greece. The Red Flash’s all-time leader in blocked shots (299) signed a contract with Kronos Agiou Dimitriou, a member of the Greek C Basketball League. The league has been in operation for 35 years. Kronos...
Unity blanks Young Township to open District 31 Legion playoffs
Unity held serve in the opener of the District 31 American Legion baseball playoffs. The No. 3 seed Bulldogs jumped ahead early and went on to defeat Young Township, 14-0, on Monday at Whitney Field in Unity Township. The game was halted after five innings because of the 12-run mercy...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 boys swimming and diving season
For the second year in a row, a National Federation of High Schools record fell at the PIAA Class AAA swimming championships at Bucknell University. Upper St. Clair’s Josh Matheny, now a rising junior, established an all-time mark of 52.52 seconds in the boys 100-yard breaststroke, surpassing the previous NFHS...
Legion teams prep for playoffs after condensed regular season
Weather issues and other scheduling variables over the past month-and-a-half altered the original District 31 American Legion game plan, and that made for a compacted stretch run to the playoffs. Teams playing two games in one day on the weekend was commonplace. Kiski Valley and Young Township concluded the regular...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls swimming and diving season
One of the closest races at the PIAA Class AAA championships at Bucknell University in March saw Butler junior Laura Goettler edge Fox Chapel freshman Zoe Skirboll by 10 one-hundredths of a second for the title in the finals of the girls 100-yard breaststroke. Skirboll, however, would capture state gold...
Penn State football lands 20th verbal commit in 2020 class
The Penn State football program continues to add to its 2020 verbal commitment list. Bryce Mostella, a 6-foot-6, 230-pound weak-side defensive end from Kentwood High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., gave a verbal commitment to the Nittany Lions on Friday. Rivals ranks Mostella three stars. He made an official visit...
West Allegheny’s Hendrick selected to High School All-Star Game
Austin Hendrick, a rising senior at West Allegheny and a Mississippi State baseball verbal commit, will compete in the inaugural High School All-Star Game on Saturday at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Major League Baseball and USA Baseball released the rosters Friday. Forty players, selected from the 80-player Prospect Development Pipeline...
New coach, offseason workouts provide optimism for Highlands boys soccer
Jason Norris was on a plane to Los Angeles when he found out he was hired as coach of the Highlands boys soccer team. “When the athletic director called me to tell me the news, the people on the plane were telling us to put our phones away, and I...
U.S. Senior Open experience memorable for Oakmont’s Sean Knapp
Sean Knapp missed the cut at last weekend’s U.S. Senior Open at Notre Dame’s Warren Gold Course in South Bend, Ind. While the ending to his second straight appearance in the tournament and fourth overall wasn’t what he hoped for, the opportunity again to share the course with the world’s...
Penn State lands defensive back, wide receiver with verbal commits
The Penn State football program has added two more commitments to its Class of 2020. Virginia’s Joseph Johnson, an athlete/defensive back from Chester Life Christian Academy, and Texas’ Parker Washington, a wide receiver from Fort Bend Travis High School, both gave verbal commitments to the Nittany Lions on Tuesday evening....
