Paul Schofield stories, Page 48

With nine starters returning on defense and seven on offense, the Seton Hill football team could be looking for a banner season in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in 2022. Led by preseason All-American defensive back Damonte Pratt, the Griffins will look to build off a season in which they...

If Brady Walker has anything to say about it, the Saint Vincent football team will be hoisting up the Presidents’ Athletic Conference trophy at the end of the season. The veteran quarterback, a four-year starter from Gateway, completed 192 of 323 passes for 2,738 yards and 22 touchdowns in helping...

Amateur Jimmy Ellis of Venetia birdied the final two holes and rallied to win the Pittsburgh Classic at St. Clair Country Club. Ellis was trailing first-round leader Greensburg amateur Kevin Fajt when he made the final charge. Ellis shot a 3-under par round 69 and finished 8-under 136. Fajt, who...

For the second consecutive season, a team from Westmoreland County has won the American Legion Junior state title. This year it was Murrysville, which defeated Upper Perkiomen, 8-3, in the championship game Tuesday at First Commonwealth Bank Field in Homer City. Penn-Trafford was the champion last season. This was the...

District 31 American Legion regular-season and playoff champion Latrobe had eight players named to the league’s All-Star team announced Friday. Bushy Run and Yough had two players each and Unity and Young Township one each. The Jethawks named were pitchers Rayce King and Peyton Henry; catcher Logan Short; infielders Lou...

Abington Little League bounced back Monday to defeat Morrisville and win the Pennsylvania Little League 8-10 state title at West Point. A three-run fourth inning helped Abington rally for a 4-2 victory. Shane Goldberg and Jerry Jordan had clutch two-out RBI singles for the winners. Jake Kwiatkowski had an RBI...

Holden Perry singled home Seamus Burke in the top of the seventh inning, and Morrisville defeated Newton, 5-4, in the Pennsylvania Little League 8-10 State Tournament on Saturday at West Point. It was the second time Morrisville defeated Newtown in the tournament. Morrisville now will face Abington in the championship...

District 31 American Legion regular season and playoff champion Latrobe had eight players named to the league’s All-Star team announced Friday. Bushy Run and Yough had two players each, while Unity and Young Township one each. The Jethawks named were pitchers Rayce King and Peyton Henry; catcher Logan Short; infielders...

The field is down to four at the Pennsylvania Little League 8-10 State Tournament following Thursday’s results at West Point. Newton kept the Hermitage bats silent in a 9-0 victory in one of the loser’s bracket games. Newton will now face Blue Mountain, which held on to defeat Somerset in...

Robbie Ellis’s RBI hit drove in the winning run to highlight a five-run top of the sixth inning to lead Morrisville to a 9-4 victory against Blue Mountain in the Pennsylvania Little League 8-10 State Tournament on Wednesday at West Point. The hit drove in Gavin Reilly, who walked and...

Central Catholic 2019 grad and future Ohio State player Neal Shipley shot a 3-under-par 67 during the final round to win the 109th Pennsylvania Golf Association Amateur Championship on Wednesday at Llanerch Country Club in Philadelphia. It was the second huge win this season for the St. Clair Country Club...

Anthony Amato singled and tripled, and Blue Mountain breezed to a 10-0 victory Tuesday in the Pennsylvania Little League 8-10 state championship tournament at West Point. The Blue Mountain squad broke the game open with a seven-run fourth inning to end the game. Amato was the winning pitcher. Landon Clemas...

Oakmont Country Club’s Nathan Piatt shot a 2-under-par 68 during the second round of the 109th Pennsylvania Golf Association Amateur tournament Tuesday and is tied for lead with Rij Patel of the Country Club of York at 3-under. The duo own a two-shot lead heading into the final round at...

Chris Baloga of Briarwood Golf Club shot a 3-under-par 67 Monday and takes a one-shot lead at the 10th Annual Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Amateur at Llanerch Country Club in Philadelphia. He leads St. Clair Country Club’s Neal Shipley, who shot a 2-under 68, and Oakmont Country Club’s Nathan Piatt and...

When Penn Township captured the 2021 Junior Legion Western Regional and state title, the Warriors defeated Connellsville four times. Connellsville exacted a little revenge Monday, defeating Penn-Township, 4-2, in the regional championship game behind a strong pitching performance from Mason Miller. “The pitcher wasn’t overpowering, but he did a good...

The final arrangements have been made, and now it’s time to play baseball at the West Point Little League Complex in Hempfield. Eight teams from across the state have convened in Westmoreland County for the start of the Pennsylvania Little League 8-10 state championship. Action gets underway at 10 a.m....

When Bushy Run American Legion manager Scott Peyman talked about his team prior to the season, he did so glowingly. Despite being young, Peyman said he knew this year’s team had the potential to be good. Peyman nailed it. Bushy Run ended the season 23-6-1 and was a win away...

Brady Pevarnik is coming off the biggest victory of his career after winning the 122nd Western Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Amateur Championship on Tuesday at Butler Country Club. Pevarnik, a senior at Bowling Green and a 2019 Latrobe graduate, shot a 3-under-par, 217. Now he hopes to keep that momentum going...

Penn Township is the returning Pennsylvania Youth American Legion Western Regional and state champion. It opens defense of the Western Regional at 5 p.m. Friday at the White Township Complex in Indiana against Indiana County champion Brookville. Pool play format will be played Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the top...

Brady Pevarnik was sort of in a slump the past few seasons. Once an up-and-coming player alongside the likes of Palmer Jackson and Mark Goetz, Pevarnik’s game had slipped a little. A broken right wrist suffered while playing pick-up basketball sidelined him for more than a year and a half....

The Bushy Run American Legion baseball team needed to win two games Tuesday if it hoped to qualify for the state tournament at Boyertown on Saturday. The day started well as Bushy Run used two big innings — a three-run first inning and a four-run eighth inning — to defeat...

When West Point Little League president Tom Rennie inquired about hotel availability in the last week of July for the Pennsylvania State Little League 8-9-10 tournament, which is being hosted by the league, he got a chuckle from management. That’s because Pittsburgh Steelers training camp at Latrobe starts on the...

Latrobe graduate Brady Pevarnik used a strong first round and shares the lead with South Hills Country Club Darin Kowalski at the 122nd Western Pennsylvania Golf Association Amateur tournament at Butler. The duo shot an even-par 140 for two rounds, both played Monday. The field was cut to the low...

District 31 American Legion champion Latrobe and third-place finisher Bushy Run advanced to the Pennsylvania Region 7 semifinals Tuesday despite losing their first games. Latrobe split its two games, defeating host Bedford, 2-1, and falling to Beech Creek, 8-6, on a walk-off grand slam by Ty Houtz. Pool A was...

Brody Hoffman hit a grand slam on a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, and Bushy Run walked off with a 7-5 victory against Young Township on Sunday in the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament at Bedford. Hoffman’s blast highlighted a five-run seventh...