Ray Fisher stories, Page 11

The girls 3,200-meter relay team’s performance at the 50th annual Baldwin Invitational is one senior Mackenzie Hirt won’t soon forget. If ever. Hirt, a fourth-year competitor for the Baldwin girls track and field team, and sophomores Molly Gorman, Mackenzie Bowen and Julianne Ott, took first place at the invitational May...

Addison Arndt, a two-sport standout at Thomas Jefferson, is attending Penn State in the fall. She will take a 3.9 GPA with her to the University Park campus. “I am committed to Penn State,” Arndt said. “I am going in as an undecided major, but I am very interested in...

Sewickley Academy senior midfielder Libby Eannarino needed three scores at home against Quaker Valley on May 7 to reach 200 career goals in girls lacrosse. She ended up with seven to lead the Panthers to an exciting 15-11 win against their rivals. Eannarino’s younger sister Emma, a freshman midfielder/attacker and...

As the reigning WPIAL Class 2A team champion, the Quaker Valley track and field program was well-represented at the WPIAL individual championships. “I’m very proud of the number of boys and girls we qualified for WPIALs,” QV coach Jared Jones said. “We had 29 total athletes competing in 34 individual...

The National Federation of State High School Associations has made new rule changes for wrestling in the offseason. • Beginning next season, wrestlers will be considered in bounds with only one point of contact by either competitor inside or on the boundary line. • Another change is three points for...

Mason Miller is the pride of the Bethel Park baseball community. The 25-year-old flame-throwing right-handed hurler has been referred to as the most electric pitcher in baseball. Through his first 13 games as the closer for the Oakland A’s this season, Miller has eight saves and a 1.10 ERA. He...

Keaira Griffiths and Julia Hoppe are just two of the many integral athletes on the Bethel Park girls track and field team. The displayed their mettle at the Tri-State Track Coaches Association outdoor championships at West Mifflin in April. Griffiths, a junior, took third place in the javelin event with...

Bethel Park’s girls 1,600-meter relayers waited patiently all day. It finally was their turn to compete May 3 at the rain-soaked 50th annual Baldwin Invitational at Baldwin Stadium. Bethel Park seniors Artemis Conaboy and Jenna Lang were joined by freshmen Katelyn Coates and Iyonna Sloan in the relay event, and...

Football and baseball are the two main sports for Bethel Park’s junior super athlete Ryan Petras. Petras led the Bethel Park football team in receiving and scoring last fall and ranked second in rushing. He has received offers from some Ivy League schools to play college football. But it’s on...

They say good things come in small packages. Mt. Pleasant’s Olivia Kovach and Hempfield’s Ava Hickman are emblematic of that long-standing and well-known adage. Both girls are talented athletes who train at Ultimate Gymnastics in Delmont, where they are coached by Renee Ruggeri, a former competitor and lifetime gymnastics enthusiast....

Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley are located just a few miles apart. It’s a breeding ground for high school boys tennis. Sewickley and QV advanced to the WPIAL Class 2A championship match off their winning performances in the postseason. One team was expected to be there; the other, not so...

Kendall Sykes is a talented, multiple-sport athlete at Sewickley Academy. The 5-foot-7 Sykes is a senior attacker on the Sewickley girls lacrosse team and one of the leading players in the WPIAL Class 3A ranks. She averages five goals per game. A fourth-year varsity player and Chapman (Calif.) University commit,...

Both Quaker Valley track and field teams ended their regular season as undefeated section champions. Both topped that impressive feat May 7 by winning WPIAL Class 2A team titles at Confluence Financial Partners Stadium on the campus of Peters Township Middle School. “The entire coaching staff and I are very...

Emily Reiner racked up her 400th career save for the Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team May 6 against Knoch. The Quakers defeated Knoch at home by a score of 15-4 thanks in large part to Reiner, a 6-foot-1 junior and intimidating presence in front of the net. “Emily is an...

The third week in May is an important time for the Quaker Valley football team. QV will hold its annual “spring ball” program from May 20-23 with daily practices at Chuck Knox Stadium running from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Helmet distribution will take place May 19 at the field house....

Sewickley Academy won its second consecutive section title in boys tennis and 27th in school history this season. Sewickley racked up a 6-0 record in Section 4-2A, brushing aside Beaver, Beaver Falls, Blackhawk, Central Valley, Ellwood City and Riverside by 5-0 scores and went into the postseason with a 10-0...

Sewickley Academy’s boys lacrosse team is extremely young. It may be the youngest squad in the WPIAL. There are no seniors listed on the 2024 team roster, and defenseman Caleb McAdams is the lone junior. “My expectation for the team this year is that we continually improve, day by day,”...

Kudos to Quaker Valley sophomore Oumou “Mimi” Thiero for being named third team all-state in Class 4A girls basketball. A 6-foot-4 guard/forward, Thiero led the Quakers in almost every statistical category in 2023-24 including points (19.2 ppg), field goal percentage (40%), rebounds (14.1 rpg), blocked shots (4.7 avg), steals (1.6...

The athletes in the Quaker Valley track and field program have the dates May 1 and May 7 circled on their spring calendars. The semifinal round of the WPIAL 2A team championships will take place May 4 at four sites, followed by the finals May 9 at Peters Township. Last...

Libby Eannarino’s distinguished three-sport career at Sewickley Academy continues. The 5-foot-9 senior was a high-scoring backcourt player in basketball, a midfielder in soccer and currently is a midfielder on the Sewickley girls lacrosse team. She has served as captain in all three sports. Eannarino also competes for Sky Walkers Lacrosse...

The top four doubles competitors in Section 4-2A boys tennis this season proved to be Sewickley Academy athletes. In an all-Sewickley final, freshmen Max Kopf and Ben Terrell won the doubles championship by knocking off seniors Jackson Quigley and Tejas Mitra, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Kopf and Terrell were seeded second...

The Thomas Jefferson baseball team began the season with three wins and a 29-run outburst at the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach. The Jaguars returned home and continued their winning ways. TJ rang up a 10-0 record through the first month of the season, outscoring the opposition by an 82-12...

Baldwin coach Ed Helbig has been battling serious health issues since June. But he received great news away from the hospital setting this past winter. Helbig was selected for induction into the Baldwin Athletic Hall of Fame. “I was totally surprised,” Helbig said. “When I found out the group that...

The Sewickley Academy track team kicked off its 2024 schedule April 4 in a seven-team meet at Hampton. The Panthers ended the meet with 23 medal-worthy performances, led by sophomore Herlynn Niepa’s first-place finish in the girls 100-meter dash thanks to her time of 13.16. Niepa also placed fifth in...

The Quaker Valley track and field program is thriving. Big time. The QV girls team has won the past two WPIAL Class 2A championships. The Quakers defended their title with ease last year at the WPIAL finals at Peters Township, rolling past Winchester Thurston, Knoch and Derry. The QV girls...