Paul Schofield stories, Page 94
Pitt-Greensburg women’s basketball coach resigns
Pitt-Greensburg is looking for a new women’s basketball coach after Hayley Schaetzle resigned Tuesday. Schaetzle stepped down to join her husband Thurman, who is an assistant coach at Canisius College, and is moving with him in Buffalo. She was named the 2019-20 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year...
OLSH basketball standout Dante Spadafora picks West Liberty State
Dante Spadafora helped Our Lady of the Sacred Heart to consecutive WPIAL Class 2A titles, but he still has some business to finish. The senior would like to make it three titles in the winter. The team also was denied a shot at PIAA title because of the coronavirus and...
Penn-Trafford girls volleyball adjusts to condensed schedule
The Penn-Trafford girls volleyball has quickly moved into the heart of its section schedule. The Warriors opened the season 2-1 before taking on Hempfield, Oakland Catholic and Norwin in Section 3-4A. They are set to play the Eagles again Thursday. Penn-Trafford rebounded to defeat Connellsville after dropping a hard-fought 3-2...
Penn-Trafford’s Barber advances to WPIAL girls golf championship
Lauren Barber took top honors at the WPIAL Class AAA Section 3 girls golf qualifier at Murrysville Golf Club on Sept. 23. Barber shot a 7-over 81 to breeze to the title. She was among seven girls from the section to advance to the WPIAL individual championship set for Oct....
New technology makes for efficient high school football practices
All football teams have a “go route” — a deep pass — in their playbook. But not all high school teams are using a new teaching tool called “Go Rout” in their practices. Only six teams across Pennsylvania are using the new technology, including Pine-Richland and Ligonier Valley in the...
Franklin Regional girls golf program reaching new heightsVideo
It’s been a memorable season for the Franklin Regional girls golf team. And the way things are going, after winning their first section title since 2003, they have the WPIAL Class AAA finals in their sights. After stringing together consecutive victories over Penn-Trafford, Indiana and Connellsville in the third week...
Freeport follows Lane to win against Derry
The way Ben Lane played Friday night, you would have thought he played quarterback his entire life. But the converted tailback was forced to switch when starting quarterback Garrett King was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Lane, a sophomore, ran for three touchdowns, returned a kickoff 95 yards for a score...
Westmoreland County football players to watch for Week 3
Landan Carns Latrobe, Sr., QB Carns directed to Wildcats to their first win of the season at Mt. Pleasant last week. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound senior connected on a 64-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tucker Knupp. He also rushed for 88 yards and completed 8 of 17 passes for 138...
After years on losing end, Southmoreland trying to turn tide in rivalry with Mt. PleasantVideo
Their schools are a 5 miles apart. Students live across the street from one another where Mt. Pleasant borough and East Huntingdon Township meet. But since Mt. Pleasant (1-1, 1-0) and Southmoreland (1-1, 1-1) began playing football in 1964, their programs have been miles apart. Mt. Pleasant, which leads the...
Hempfield brings back wrestling coach Vince DeAugustine
Hempfield Area School District board hired a familiar face to coach its wrestling team at Monday’s meeting. By a vote of 7-0, the board hired board member Vince DeAugustine as its coach. DeAugustine did not vote on the motion. DeAugustine coached at Norwin the past two seasons, where he helped...
Penn-Trafford’s Ford on record-breaking run: ‘It’s crazy to think no one can break it’
When Brad Ford lined up at quarterback in the wildcat formation against Latrobe at the Penn-Trafford 1-yard line, all he was looking for was some yardage to get the offense away from its own end zone. “It was 128 X Go; it’s supposed to be a pass play,” said Ford,...
Penn-Trafford girls golf showing marked improvement
It’s a game plan Penn-Trafford girls’ golf coach Ed Herbst has followed for years. “I just want them to improve every time they step on the course,” Herbst said. “It’s rare that we start the section season with two losses, but we did. But we defeated one of those teams.”...
Historic win No. 700 long time coming for Greensburg Salem
They started playing football at Greensburg High School in 1894. That first game didn’t go so well. Greensburg lost 12-4 to Mt. Pleasant Institute. The team went by Underwood High in honor of the late Morrison Underwood, a local attorney-philanthropist who made a substantial donation to the school. Greensburg recorded...
Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson rounding into form after tough summer
Palmer Jackson didn’t have the summer he planned. The 2019 Franklin Regional grad and Notre Dame sophomore was supposed to play in a lot of big events, but the coronavirus cut short his freshman season and the United States Golf Association cut the U.S. Open qualifier he was supposed to...
Latrobe defeats Mt. Pleasant in teams’ 1st meeting since 1995
Most coaches believe the most improvement a team makes during a season is between the first and second games. That might be the case Friday as Latrobe ran over Mt. Pleasant, 35-7, in a nonconference matchup between a Class 5A program and a Class 3A program. Latrobe (1-1) converted two...
Westmoreland County high school football players to watch for Week 2
Dom Barca Norwin, Jr., RB Barca scored both touchdowns for Norwin in its loss to Hempfield. He opened the scoring with a 1-yard run in the first quarter, and then added a 46-yard jaunt in the third quarter. He finished with nine carries for 100 yards. Last year as a...
Improvement, not revenge, is sole focus for Penn-Trafford in meeting with No. 3 Peters Township
Peters Township ended Penn-Trafford’s season in the WPIAL playoffs the past two seasons. Will revenge be the motivation for Penn-Trafford when the teams collide in a nonconference matchup Friday at No. 3 Peters Township? Not exactly. When Penn-Trafford coach John Ruane addressed his team Monday, his focus was on improving...
Red, White and Blue Classic cross country meet has new home
The Red, White and Blue Classic, an annual cross country meet that is typically run in early September at the Schenley Park Oval, has a new home for 2020. The annual event will be contested at White Oak Park in White Oak for at least this year. Classic director Rich...
Longtime high school baseball coach Tim Banner dies at 64
Tim Banner, the first baseball coach at Chatham University, died on Wednesday. Banner, 64, coached several area high school programs and at Chatham for three seasons before retiring in 2019. He was hired in 2014, but the team’s first season was 2015-16. “We’re losing a great guy,” North Allegheny athletic...
Team mentality guides Hempfield in opening win vs. NorwinVideo
There is no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in winning. That’s what NBA legend Michael Jordan once told his coach, as revealed in the documentary “The Last Dance.” No matter where you put the “I,” Hempfield football proved the value of teamwork Friday when it banded together...
Christian Zilli, Mario Perkins help Hempfield past Norwin
Christian Zilli made himself known Friday in his return to football at Hempfield after taking two seasons off. The senior basketball and baseball player threw for one touchdown and ran for another to help Hempfield defeat rival Norwin, 28-14, in the WPIAL Class 6A opener for both squads. The season...
Greensburg Salem grad Paul Matthews joins Ave Maria coaching staff
Greensburg Salem graduate Paul Matthews has joined the Ave Maria University men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach. Ave Maria is located in Florida. “I am ecstatic to join the Ave Maria community and Coach Copeland’s staff,” Matthews said in a release. “I believe that Ave Maria is an incredible...
Penn-Trafford boys golf looks to contend for section title
At the midpoint of WPIAL golf season, the Penn-Trafford boys team was in the thick of the Section 1-AAA race after defeating Latrobe and Indiana. After losing to Norwin in a first-place showdown Sept. 10 to fall to 4-2, the Warriors were just behind the Knights (5-1) and Indiana (4-1)....
Penn-Trafford Little League team finds success by sticking together
Travel baseball and softball teams have a reputation for swiping players from community teams and leaving the local leagues scrambling for talent. But not at Penn-Trafford. The Penn Township rec leagues have found ways to thrive and keep players home. Those players have also found great success in recent seasons....
Westmoreland County high school football players to watch for Week 1
Zach Cernuto Southmoreland, sr., QB Cernuto is a four-year starter who has thrown for 3,731 yards by completing 257 of 493 passes with 34 touchdowns and 31 interceptions. He lost his top receivers from a year ago and will break in a few new ones, including returning tight end Anthony...
