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Five things to watch at the PIAA Class AA girls track championships
The PIAA track and field championships begin Friday at Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg. The two-day event concludes Saturday. There are numerous WPIAL athletes competing, and many are capable of bringing home medals. Here are things to look for in the Class AA girls meet: Flying Falcon Brownsville junior Gionna...
Five things to watch at the PIAA Class AAA girls track championships
The PIAA track and field championships begin on Friday at Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg. The two-day event concludes Saturday. There are numerous WPIAL athletes competing, and many are capable of bringing home medals. Here are things to look for: Going for 2 Hempfield senior Mackenna Orie won the shot...
Cal (Pa.)’s Conte named regional NCBWA Coach of the Year
Cal (Pa.)’s record baseball season under Mike Conte helped the coach earn the Atlantic Region Coach of the Year honor by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association on Thursday. The Vulcans posted 37 wins and 15 losses. Conte earned the honor for the first time since 2010 after being named...
PIAA approves weight class reduction in wrestling
The PIAA Board of Control passed the wrestling committee’s proposal to reduce the weight classes from 14 to 12 for the 2020-21 season. The PIAA will advance the proposal to the National Federation of High School Association to see if it will consider the change. If it says no, the...
Hempfield track qualifiers ready to hit their boiling point at PIAA meet
During the WPIAL team track championships, the Hempfield boys’ team was inspired by a motivational speech from assistant coach LaRoyal Wilson. His speech focused on the number “212.” He told the athletes water boils at 212 degrees. At 211, it does nothing, and for the team to reach a boiling...
Norwin wrestling coach on ballot to become Hempfield School Board member
It was a big week for Norwin wrestling coach Vince DeAugustine. On Tuesday, he was voted onto the November ballot in both parties (Republican and Democrat) for a possible seat on the Hempfield Area School District’s school board during Tuesday’s elections. And on Monday be became a father when his...
Penn-Trafford baseball ousts Upper St. Clair, moves to semifinals
Penn-Trafford didn’t panic when Upper St. Clair took an early lead in Tuesday’s WPIAL Class 6A quarterfinal at West Mifflin. The No. 1-seeded Warriors stayed patient and took advantage of No. 8 Upper St. Clair’s mistakes in a 7-3 victory. Penn-Trafford used a pair of three-run innings to chase USC...
PIAA board to consider reducing number of weight classes for wrestling
Could the PIAA be reducing the number of weight classes in wrestling? The PIAA Board of Directors will consider the proposal at their meeting Wednesday in Chambersburg. On the agenda is reducing the number of weight classes from 14 to 12 on the high school level and from 18 to...
Greensburg Salem, New Castle to continue quarterfinal game Tuesday
Greensburg Salem baseball coach Bill Wisniewski knew being seeded No. 1 in the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs wouldn’t be easy. He just looked back to last season when his Golden Lions knocked off top-seeded Blackhawk to reach the semifinals. If Greensburg Salem wants to reach the semifinals this season, it...
Injury doesn’t slow down Derry’s Justin Huss in WPIAL gold medal runVideo
Justin Huss will be one of Derry’s top running backs in the fall. He would have been this past season if it wasn’t for a broken left leg that required surgery to implant a plate and screws. Huss missed the first four games and returned in Week 4 against North...
Franklin Regional’s Huczko tries ‘something new,’ wins WPIAL pole vault title
Winning the WPIAL Class AAA pole vault title was the furthest thing on Jo-Michelle Huczko’s mind when she decided to compete on the track and field team this spring at Franklin Regional. “I was looking for something fun to do, so I decided to give track a shot,” Huczko said....
Penn-Trafford’s Colligan takes 6th at WPIAL championships
Penn-Trafford’s Chris Colligan came up short in his bid for a trip to Shippensburg for the PIAA track and field championships Friday and Saturday. The Warriors senior finished sixth with a mark of 6 feet, 3 inches in the high jump at the WPIAL Class AAA championships last Thursday at...
Norwin’s Kolesar qualifies for PIAA championships in 3 events
Norwin senior Jessica Kolesar will be busy Friday at the PIAA Class AAA track and field championships at Shippensburg. That’s because the Cornell commit will be competing in three events after earning four medals at the WPIAL meet last Thursday at Slippery Rock. Kolesar finished second in the 200-meter dash,...
Major medal haul for Hempfield at WPIAL track and field championships
There were several reasons why the Hempfield boys track team won its seventh WPIAL Class AAA team championship on May 6. Their names were Jared Bannon, Jacob Boord, Nathan Roby, Gavin Mayo, Daniel Norris, Ryan Crooks, Luke Sternick, Connor Prola, Trevor Verkleeren, Caden Spehar and Ryan Barnhart. The Spartans standouts...
Mt. Pleasant baseball stuns No. 5 Ringgold
Mt. Pleasant picked a good time to play its best baseball game of the season. The Vikings combined clutch pitching, solid defense and timely hitting to stun returning PIAA Class 4A champion No. 5 Ringgold, 8-0, in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs on Wednesday at Seton Hill. The...
Five things to watch at the WPIAL Class AAA boys track and field championships
The WPIAL track and field championships are Thursday at Slippery Rock, the first time at the venue after the event spent more than 20 years at Baldwin. Action begins at 11 a.m. with running preliminaries and early field events. The afternoon field events are scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m....
Beaver’s List drives in 6 in WPIAL 1st-round rout of Derry
Beaver freshman Payton List turned in quite of a performance in her first WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. List clubbed a pair of two-run home runs and finished with six RBIs to help the No. 5 Bobcats to an 18-3, three inning victory against No. 12 Derry in the first round...
Greensburg Central Catholic softball ousted via mercy rule vs. Bishop Canevin
Bishop Canevin coach Karen Seitz-LaFianza said she wasn’t nervous about Tuesday’s WPIAL Class A first-round game, and neither were her young Crusaders. With three freshmen starting their first playoff game, the Crusaders didn’t blink. They took advantage of three walks and an error in the opening inning and rolled to...
Five things to watch in the WPIAL Class AAA girls track and field championships
The WPIAL track and field championships are Thursday at Slippery Rock, the first time at the venue after the event spent more than 20 years at Baldwin. There are numerous returning Class AAA girls champions who are looking for a return trip to the PIAA championships May 24-25 at Shippensburg....
Hempfield sophomore pole-vaulter Barnhart ready to soar
Tanner Barnhart was bummed watching the Hempfield boys track team win the school’s seventh WPIAL team title May 6 at Peters Township. He was disappointed because a sprained left foot prevented him from pole vaulting. Hempfield’s best vaulter sat and cheered on Rylan Kauffman and Lukas Kissel, who won the...
Latrobe junior wrestler Willochell commits to Edinboro
Latrobe junior Gabe Willochell announced on Twitter on Monday that he committed to wrestle at Edinboro. The Fighting Scots are a member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and Mid-American Conference in NCAA Division I. Let’s get it pic.twitter.com/KOHDScptdY— Gabe Willochell (@gabe_willochell) May 14, 2019 Willochell is a two-time PIAA...
Birdie wins Westmoreland County 3-man scramble
The team of Arnie Cutrell, Kevin Fajt and Palmer Jackson birdied the fourth sudden-death playoff to capture the Westmoreland County Golf Association’s 3-man Scramble. The winning team defeated Billy Clark, Brandon Ledoux and John W. Clark. Both teams shot 60 at Hillcrest Country Club in Lower Burrell. Placing third a...
Oakmont pro Gee among 4 players to advance to U.S. Open Sectional
Two PGA Tour LatinoAmerica players and two from Western Pennsylvania claimed the four spots at the U.S. Open First Stage qualifier at The Club of Nevillewood on a damp and dreary Monday. Raoul Menard, a native of Granby, Quebec City, Canada, shot a 5-under-par 67 to grab medalist honors. The...
Five things to watch at the WPIAL Class AA boys track and field championships
The WPIAL track and field championships are Thursday at Slippery Rock, the first time at the venue after it was contested for more than 20 years at Baldwin. There are numerous returning Class AA boys champions who are looking for a trip to the PIAA championships May 24-25 at Shippensburg....
Norwin junior standout wrestler Phipps commits to Bucknell
Norwin junior Kurtis Phipps announced on Twitter on Monday that he will follow his brother, Drew, and wrestle for Bucknell. Phipps made the choice after visiting numerous colleges while he recovers from surgery on his left foot. He had surgery March 22. Recovery time is five months. Committed?? pic.twitter.com/gZEs9QpwOv— kurt...
