Michael Love stories, Page 139
PIHL players come together to win America’s Showcase tournament
A group of players from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League came together last week to claim a second straight America’s Showcase tournament. Team Pittsburgh traveled to St. Louis and went 6-0 in the tournament. It averaged nine goals a game and gave up just five overall with three shutouts. It...
Ranked Sewickley Academy softball team hopes to avenge lone loss
The Sewickley Academy softball team has won four straight since a loss to Union in its Section 1-1A opener April 4. The Panthers and Scotties will meet again Tuesday at 4 p.m. Sewickley Academy, No. 5 in the latest Trib HSSN 1A rankings, is 5-1 overall and in section play,...
Coaches association releases latest WPIAL boys volleyball rankings
The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest boys team rankings Monday, and two squads in Class AAA moved into the top 10. Canon-McMillan and Upper St. Clair are slotted at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively. They replaced Pine-Richland and Armstrong. The rest of the Class AAA list...
Mars’ Carmody commits to Polynesian Bowl
Mars junior offensive tackle Michael Carmody has committed to play in Hawaii’s Polynesian Bowl high school all-star game. The January 2020 contest will be at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the former site of the NFL Pro Bowl. The 6-foot-6, 295-pound Carmody is listed as a four-star recruit by 247Sports.com. Carmody, who...
Parkland’s Dawkins chooses Penn State
After receiving more than two dozen Division I offers, Parkland junior offensive lineman Nicholas Dawkins has chosen to continue his football pursuits at Penn State. The 6-foot-4, 300-pound guard made his decision final Monday afternoon and announced it on his Twitter page. Dawkins tweeted, “Mom I’m staying home!!”, and that...
Top WPIAL girls lacrosse teams meet in nonsection clash
Two of the top girls lacrosse teams in their respective WPIAL classifications will do battle as Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley play a nonsection match Monday at 7 p.m. at Quaker Valley High School. The Panthers are 7-1 overall and 5-0 in Section 2 of Class AAA. They have won...
Gateway throwers Jones, Corrie set sights on WPIAL, PIAA success
Shelly Jones and Sarah Corrie both earned throwing medals at last year’s WPIAL Class AAA track and field championships. The Gateway seniors picked up respective seventh-place finishes — Jones in the shot put and Corrie in the javelin. Now, the veteran duo has their sights set on improving at WPIALs...
Gateway baseball making run at Section 3-5A title
Gateway baseball coach Mark Wardzinski said at the start of the season his relatively young team had the pieces in place to make a run at the Section 3-5A championship and qualify for the WPIAL playoffs for the fourth year in a row. So far, the Gators, with just three...
Seneca Valley’s Aidan Campbell commits to Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters
Earlier this month, Aidan Campbell helped the Pittsburgh Pens Elite 16U hockey team capture the USA Hockey Tier I Elite National Championship. Now, after several years in the Pens organization, the Cranberry native will take the next step in his hockey career. The goaltender, a junior at Seneca Valley High...
Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley track and field teams ready to compete at Butler Invitational
The Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley track and field teams will join dozens of other squads from all around the WPIAL at the 55th annual Butler Invitational on Thursday at Butler High School. Field events and others on the track will begin at 12:15 p.m. as individuals and relays post...
Burrell softball gets walk-off homer to end Freeport’s section winning streak
For the second time in as many games, a Clark delivered for Burrell when it mattered the most. Last week, Sara Clark hit a walk-off home run to lift the Bucs to a 13-12 Section 1-3A victory over Deer Lakes. On Wednesday against Freeport, it was Elizabeth Clark’s turn. The...
All in the family: Plum’s Hunter Linhart carries on family discus tradition
In 1959, Bruce Linhart Sr. set a standard in the discus at Penn Hills that has yet to be surpassed: He established a school record of 168 feet, 1 inch. The mark also was the state record for five years. Bruce Jr. set Plum’s discus record in 1982, and younger...
Sewickley Academy boys tennis team hopes to continue surge towards WPIAL playoffs
The Sewickley Academy boys tennis team finds itself in playoff position in Section 2-AAA with two section matches remaining. The Panthers are 4-1 in section with 5-0 wins over Butler and Mars, a 4-1 triumph over Seneca Valley and a close 3-2 victory against Pine-Richland. The only setback came against...
Patience pays off for Deer Lakes baseball against Valley
Deer Lakes scored eight runs in the top of the sixth inning of Tuesday’s Section 1-3A baseball game at Valley and turned a close game into a rout. The Lancers had 10 hits overall, took advantage of nine walks and rode the arm of senior Greg Geis to a 12-2...
Sewickley Academy’s Bedi to battle for tennis state-tournament berth in WPIAL consolation final
Sewickley Academy’s Arjan Bedi will compete Tuesday in the consolation final of the WPIAL Class AAA boys tennis singles tournament. The winner of the match between Bedi and South Fayette’s Jacob Patterson, set for 2 p.m. at Mt. Lebanon High School, will qualify for the PIAA tournament May 24 and...
Recovered from knee injury, Radvan bolsters lineup for No. 4 Freeport
Tori Radvan waited and prepared. The Freeport junior, a three-sport standout, had her sights set on April 3 throughout the recovery process from a severe knee injury suffered in a volleyball match at the start of the school year. That date was the first softball meeting between the Yellowjackets and...
Top teams hold their spots in latest WPIAL boys volleyball rankings
Four weeks remain in the WPIAL boys volleyball regular season, and section races, with their battles for playoff positioning, are heating up. The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest rankings Monday based on a vote of all 39 WPIAL coaches. Changes in Class AAA come in the middle...
Divas topple Passion in matchup of Women’s Football Alliance rivals
The D.C. Divas got the better of the Pittsburgh Passion, 54-22, in a Women’s Football Alliance contest Saturday evening. The Passion got on the board first just 2 minutes, 12 seconds into the game on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Angela Baker to Krystal Cozzo. The Divas responded to take...
Riverhounds score three times, top Hartford Athletic in home opener
An announced crowd of more than 5,000 for the home opener at Highmark Stadium saw the Pittsburgh Riverhounds top Hartford Athletic 3-1 Saturday evening. The triumph put the Riverhounds at 2-1-2. It was their second victory in a row, and their eight points puts them in a tie for seventh...
Highlands grad Bonnett has sights set on U.S. Olympic swimming trials
Bailey Bonnett returned to the Alle-Kiski Valley for a brief stay shortly after the NCAA Division I women’s swimming championships, and it gave her a chance to reflect on her accomplishments over the past season. The Highlands graduate, a sophomore at Kentucky, earned her second first-team All-American honor March 23...
Riverhounds hope to build on first win with home opener
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer Club broke into the win column last weekend with a 1-0 victory at two-time defending league champion Louisville City. The team hopes to build on the victory as it opens the home portion of the 2019 schedule Saturday against Hartford Athletic. The match, set for 7...
Passion, Divas to renew football rivalry
The Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team renews its rivalry with the D.C. Divas on Saturday. A number of the games in the series dating back more than a decade have been decided by one score. Kickoff at the home of the Divas is set for 6 p.m. The Passion kicked...
Plum grad Bucci adjusts to head coaching position at Pitt-Greensburg
Marc Bucci is no stranger to the Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer team. In the fall of 2017, the Plum graduate served as an assistant with the Bobcats under then coach Dan Keefe. Bucci then spent last fall as an assistant an hour east at Pitt-Johnstown, his alma mater. But when Keefe...
Veteran athletes leading Plum track and field team in early going
Maddie Monick knows what it’s like to compete at the PIAA track and field championships. She earned the opportunity as a sophomore in the 300-meter hurdles. Now, as a senior, Monick hopes to represent Plum again at Shippensburg. “Right now, the focus for me us just getting my times down...
Quaker Valley boys tennis hopes to complete undefeated section slate
The Quaker Valley boys tennis team wraps up Section 2-AA play Friday afternoon, weather permitting, against Ambridge at 3:30 p.m. at Hopewell High School. The Quakers are 7-0 in the section and 9-2 overall. QV stepped away from section action Thursday and suffered a 3-2 loss to Thomas Jefferson from...
