Paul Schofield stories, Page 51

An early end to the WPIAL baseball playoffs for Westmoreland County teams has allowed the District 31 American Legion season to begin on time for a change. No county team reached the semifinals this season after two teams, Hempfield and Franklin Regional, were in the 2021 finals. There are 10...

The South Park baseball team has been on a mission since losing in the 2021 WPIAL Class 3A championship game. They completed part of the mission by winning the school’s second WPIAL baseball title Wednesday, defeating Mohawk, 11-1, in the Class 3A title game at Wild Things Park in Washington....

Westmoreland County Golf Association held its first event of the season on Saturday, and the team of Arnie Cutrell, David DeNunzio and Ronald DeNunzio won the 3-Man Scramble at Totteridge Golf Course. The trio fired an 18-under-par 54 to edge out the team of Vince Zachetti, Ryan Sikora and Mark...

West Mifflin did some unconventional things during the WPIAL Class 4A baseball championship game Tuesday at Wild Things Park in Washington. West Mifflin, at times, had four outfielders and three infielders. It over-shifted and played Montour to pull the ball. It had batters switching to the other batter’s box after...

After months of debate, the PIAA Board of Directors decided to keep the number of qualifiers per region the same as the previous two-year cycle. The PIAA originally planned to take an individual qualifier away from the WPIAL in Class 3A because seven teams from the district dropped to Class...

SHIPPENSBURG — Quaker Valley’s Nora Johns shocked herself when she won the Class 2A 300-meter hurdles at last year’s PIAA track and field championships. Johns said she continued to shock herself by winning her second consecutive title Saturday at Shippensburg University’s Seth Grove Stadium. The junior edged Bedford sophomore Autumn...

SHIPPENSBURG — Now that Hempfield junior Liz Tapper has two PIAA gold medals on her resume, what’s in store next? “I want to repeat and add state records in both events,” Liz Tapper said with a grin on her face. “I was so close this year. I have to fix...

Josh Shields and Nico Megaludis aren’t ready to hang up their headgear just yet. The Franklin Regional grads recently competed in the U.S. Open freestyle wrestling tournament and the World Team Trials and just came up short of making the team. But they’re looking for another shot down the road...

SHIPPENSBURG – On the wall in the lobby of the Hempfield field house are pictures of all the school’s PIAA champions. Hempfield athletic director Brandon Rapp now has to find room for Liz Tapper. The junior became the ninth thrower in school history to win a PIAA title when she...

SHIPPENSBURG — Jolena Quarzo prefers running in the morning. The Brownsville junior was pleased when the PIAA announced that it was splitting the 1,600- and 3,200-meter events and running the 1,600 final as the first race Friday morning. Quarzo won her first PIAA Class 2A 1,600 title Friday with a...

NCAA Division II World Series Thursday at Denver First round 1 p.m.: No. 1 UT Tyler (45-7) vs. No. 8 Cal State Dominguez Hills (41-21) 3:30 p.m.: No. 4 Southern Indiana (49-11) vs. No. 5 Rogers State (53-10) 6 p.m: No. 2 Adelphi (47-13) vs. No. 7 North Georgia (48-11)...

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say the Seton Hill softball team has a “Mile High” feeling. That’s because the Griffins are headed to Denver, the Mile High City, to participate in the NCAA Division II World Series. They’ll open with No. 3 seed Auburn Montgomery (48-11) at 8:30 p.m....

Saint Vincent College announced it was adding a men’s wrestling program in March. Tuesday, the school named a coach. Hempfield graduate Dominick Nania was hired as the school’s newly relaunched program. He was selected from a large list on candidates. Nania has more than six years of wrestling coaching experience...

Madi Stoner will be spending her summer in Florida, and not necessarily lying in the beach. The Hempfield and Hillsdale College grad will be joining her Hillsdale coach, Kyle Gross, in Bradenton coaching in a softball league for high-level college softball players. She will be assisting Gross at the Lakewood...

It’s back to the WPIAL Class 3A boys volleyball finals for North Allegheny. The second-seeded Tigers have won 21 titles, including 15 of the past 18 under coach Dan Schall. They will go after No. 22 Wednesday at Robert Morris after defeating No. 6 Penn-Trafford, 3-0, by scores of 25-14,...

Pittsburgh native Paul Ajak III will be trying to defend his Tri-State Section PGA Amateur Championship title Thursday at Indiana Country Club. He is among the field of 68. Ajak III shot a 3-under par 67 to capture the 2021 title at Hannastown Golf Club. Scott Bitar of Pittsburgh was...

Frank B. Fuhrer Jr., who owned one of the largest beer distributorships in the country and owned professional sports franchises in Pittsburgh, died Saturday at UPMC St. Margaret in Aspinwall. He was 96. A family member said Fuhrer died of congestive heart failure. He lived in Fox Chapel with his...

A late season surge helped give the Gateway baseball team some confidence entering the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. Even though the Gators (9-11) were seeded No. 15, they gave No. 2 Bethel Park all it could handle in the opening round of the playoff tournament before falling 6-5 on a...

It wasn’t the way the Franklin Regional softball team wanted to end the 2022 season after a promising start. But losing a starting pitcher with two games left in the season is tough to overcome. That’s what happened to the Panthers when junior pitcher Carli Ramchandran sustained a broken right...

Morgan Ryan and Jenna Osikowicz are no strangers to the big stage. In Little League, they helped West Point win a Junior League World Series title in 2014. They helped Hempfield win consecutive PIAA Class 6A titles, and now they’ve helped the Seton Hill softball team reach the NCAA Division...

Before this week, the Seton Hill baseball team struggled offensively. Things sure have changed at the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional at West Chester. After pounding out 19 hits against Slippery Rock on Thursday, the Griffins added 21 hits on Friday and routed West Chester, 18-7. Omar Ward (The Kiski...

The Penn-Trafford volleyball team is picking a good time to play its best. After finishing third behind Hempfield and Norwin in the difficult WPIAL Class 3A Section 3, the Warriors have put together two solid performances in the WPIAL playoffs. The Warriors defeated Fox Chapel, 3-1, in the opening round...

You couldn’t have asked for a better volleyball match than the one between No. 6 Penn-Trafford and No. 3 Hempfield in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals Thursday. It was a classic battle between Section 3 rivals that went five games before the Warriors stunned the Spartans, 3-2, by scores of...

The Seton Hill softball team moved a game closer to qualifying for the NCAA Division II World Series on Thursday by defeating host Kutztown, 7-0, in the Atlantic Super Regional Championship. Morgan Ryan, the Notre Dame transfer who played at Hempfield, threw a six-hit shutout and helped her cause with...

They might not be able to compete against each other in events, but that doesn’t stop Hempfield throwers Liz Tapper and Peyton Murray from battling at practice. The top WPIAL Class 3A discus throwers brought home gold medals at the WPIAL track and field championships Wednesday at Slippery Rock University....