Paul Schofield stories, Page 129
Latrobe graduate Biss earns PSAC East honor
For the second time this season, Shippensburg sophomore point guard Jake Biss, a 2017 Latrobe graduate, earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Men’s Basketball Player of the Week honors. Biss averaged 23.5 points as he helped the Raiders to victories against Millersville and Lock Haven. He scored 24 points...
WPIAL dominates the top seeds in PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional pairings
The PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional pairings were released Sunday, and the WPIAL had nine of the 14 top seeds. Heading the list is returning PIAA champion Thayne Lawrence of Frazier. The three-time WPIAL champion, who wrestles at 160 pounds, will be looking for his first regional title. He dropped...
Looking back at PIAA team wrestling tourney for Burrell and Kiski Area
While the Burrell and Kiski Area wrestling teams came up short of their goals at the PIAA championships, both had memorable moments at the Giant Center in Hershey over the three days of the tournament. Burrell, competing in Class AA, was one win away from earning a top-four spot in...
Gateway football will play national power Massillon next fall
There is another WPIAL school that will be following Penn-Trafford to Massillon, Ohio this upcoming football season to play the Washington High School Tigers. Gateway will be playing the Tigers on Oct. 11. It will replace a matchup with Albert Gallatin, which withdrew from the WPIAL in football to play...
Mt. Pleasant’s Pitzer denies Miller shot at 3rd title in WPIAL semifinals
Freedom senior Bryson Miller was hoping to become a three-time champion at the WPIAL Class AA wrestling championships Saturday at Canon-McMillan. But Mt. Pleasant freshman Dayton Pitzer wouldn’t allow it. Pitzer pancaked Miller with less than a minute remaining in their match for a five-point move and an 11-6 victory....
Mt. Pleasant freshmen wrestlers capture Section 3-AA titles
Mt. Pleasant freshmen Luke Geibig and Dayton Pitzer wrestled like veterans in their first Section 3-AA tournament Friday at Canon-McMillan. They both captured their first section title with impressive decision wins. Geibig downed Derry senior Kace Sabedra, 6-2, to win the 106-pound title. Geibig, who was pinned by Sabedra during...
W&J favored to win PAC baseball title
The Washington & Jefferson baseball team picked up eight of nine first-place votes and was the Presidents’ Athletic Conference coaches’ pick to win the conference. The Presidents were 28-16-1 overall and 16-2 in the conference in 2018, made their 10th consecutive trip to the conference tournament and finished second to...
Saint Vincent favored to win PAC softball title
The Saint Vincent softball team has been tabbed as the team to beat in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference on a vote by the conference’s nine coaches. The Bearcats were 22-10 overall and 12-5 in the PAC in 2018 and qualified for a fourth consecutive PAC tournament. Saint Vincent returns two...
5 things to watch at Saturday’s WPIAL Class AA wrestling championships
The WPIAL Class AA individual wrestling championships began Friday with preliminary round bouts at Canon-McMillan. The tournament resumes Saturday. The finals are slated for 5 p.m. The top seven finishers in each of the 14 weight classes will advance to the PIAA Southwest Regional at IUP’s Kovalchick Complex on Feb....
Derry sophomore Cymmerman captures second WPIAL wrestling title
Ty Cymmerman ended up with a bloody lip from the WPIAL Class AA Individual Wrestling Tournament on Saturday at Canon-McMillan. It’s not the only thing he earned. The Derry sophomore won his second consecutive gold medal, this time in the toughest weight class (126 pounds) of the tournament. Cymmerman, who...
Several Western Pa. grads among NCAA wrestling leaders
The NCAA honors wrestlers in each Division (I, II and III) annually in three categories — for their dominance, most pins and technical falls — during the season at their championships in March. Currently in Division I, three Penn State national champions lead as most dominant. Bo Nickal (197 pounds)...
Ligonier Valley sending 4 players to Ken Lantzy All-Star game
Four Ligonier Valley football players have been picked to play in the 49th annual Ken Lantzy All-Star game June 14 in Johnstown. St. Francis (Pa.) recruit and state-record holding wide receiver Aaron Tutino heads the list that includes quarterback John Caldwell, defensive back Zack Beitel and lineman Blake Bridge. Tutino...
Gaul, Ward look to become four-time section champions
While some wrestling coaches in Class AA would like to see the section tournaments eliminated, there are just as many who think the section tournaments are important to the athletes. The WPIAL wrestling committee agrees, and because the PIAA southwest regional at IUP’s Kovalchik Center can be contested only Feb....
Wrestling notebook: Burrell, Kiski Area early favorites to repeat as WPIAL team champs
Now that Burrell has won 13 consecutive WPIAL Class AA titles and Kiski Area has won three straight in Class AAA, it’s hard to imagine them not winning again next year. While both teams lose good wrestlers to graduation, they do return a lot of talent, which makes them early...
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings for week of Feb. 11, 2019
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings Class AAA 106: 1. Dylan Chappell, Seneca Valley (32-4); 2. Carter Dibert, Franklin Regional (30-1); 3. Vince Citrano, Plum (24-3); 4. Mason Prinkey, Connellsville (24-5); 5. Dylan Coy, North Allegheny (28-3). 113: 1. Alejandro Herrera-Rondon, Seneca Valley (36-1); 2. Kyle Burkholder, Hempfield (25-5); 3. Finn...
Trib HSSN final state wrestling rankings
Trib HSSN state team wrestling rankings Class AAA Team (district), record, previous 1. Bethlehem Catholic (11), 16-1, 1 2. Northampton (11), 21-4, 3 3. Kiski Area (7), 19-1, 2 4. Council Rock South (1), 15-2, 6 5. Cedar Cliff (3), 19-2, 5 6. Bethlehem Liberty (11), 19-4, 4 7. Canon-McMillan...
WVU football coach adds Trickett to staff
West Virginia’s new football coach Neal Brown has hired Travis Trickett, the son of former Mountaineer assistant Rick Trickett, to his staff. The younger Trickett will be on the offensive side of the ball. His assignment will be decided on a later date. Ricky Trickett was a student assistant at...
Pitt-Johnstown Hall of Fame to induct Carrie Ferguson, Isaac Greeley
Carrie Ferguson was a standout basketball at Greensburg Salem in the late 1980s, and Isaac Greeley is an assistant wrestling coach at Burrell. They will be two of the five members of the 2019 Hall of Fame class at Pitt-Johnstown. The others to be honored April 6 are Matt Lushko...
Saint Vincent adding men’s volleyball
Saint Vincent College announced Monday the school will sponsor a men’s volleyball team. The school plans to begin competing at the NCAA Division III level in 2019-20. The school is seeking a coach and plans to have someone in place this month. The men’s volleyball program will become the 24th...
Seton Hill baseball tabbed preseason favorite in PSAC west
Seton Hill baseball is the preseason favorite to win the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West Division. The Griffins, reigning two-time PSAC champions, earned five first-place votes from the head baseball coaches in the league. Mercyhurst received three first-place votes and was second, followed by Slippery Rock, Gannon, Cal (Pa.), Indiana,...
Jefferson-Morgan grad Teasdale leaves Penn State wrestling program
Fans won’t be seeing Gavin Teasdale in a Penn State singlet at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in March. That’s because the four-time PIAA Class AA state champion from Jefferson-Morgan High School has left the Penn State program for a second time. Penn State coach Cael Sanderson informed reporters...
Seton Hill baseball players among NCAA Division II’s Top 40 prospects
Four junior members of the Seton Hill baseball team were named to the Perfect Game NCAA Division II Top 40 prospects list. Outfielder Craig Lewis was ranked No. 2, pitcher Kenny Wells was ranked ninth, pitcher Patrick Monteverde (Fox Chapel) was 15th and pitcher Cole Masik was 27th. Lewis played...
