Ray Fisher stories, Page 12

Youth is being served this season in the Brentwood track and field program. Brentwood’s Daysaun Spencer and Meghan Schruben were a triple medalists April 13 at the Chartiers-Houston track invitational. Spencer won both the boys long jump and triple jump events with distances of 21 feet, 1.5 inches and 41-4,...

Artemis Conaboy’s favorite track and field event is the 400-meter dash. “I love the length of the race and the how anyone can win and catch up at different points of the race,” said the athletic Bethel Park senior. Well, Conaboy picked up where she left off last season at...

Bethel Park athletes Ryan Petras and Eddie Cebula recently were cited as players of the week on back-to-back days in their respective sports. Petras, on April 7, was named Trib HSSN baseball player of the week. A day later, Cebula was lauded as a Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association player...

Severin Harmon has been the top singles player for the Sewickley Academy boys tennis team for three seasons. Now, he reigns as the WPIAL’s No. 1 player in Class 2A. Harmon defeated Aquinas Academy senior Jackson Gillespie, 6-3, 6-3, in the WPIAL singles championship match April 10, at Glen Creek...

The 2023 season was viewed as a dress rehearsal for 2024 for the Quaker Valley boys tennis team. “If last year was a rehearsal, then this year is show time,” coach Christi Hays said. QV won the Section 5-2A championship with a 10-0 record in 2023, then defeated Burrell, 5-0,...

Four Quaker Valley girls advanced with their teams to the 2024 USA Hockey national championships in various cities across the country. QV senior Sydney Hewitt, junior Emily Reiner, freshman Isabel King and seventh-grader Grace Keisel recently competed with their Steel City Selects girls hockey team as MidAm champions in their...

Quaker Valley’s boys lacrosse team proved to be a tough nut to crack in the second half of last season. QV won four in a row down the home stretch and six of seven after April 14 to lock up a WPIAL playoff berth. The seventh-seeded Quakers rallied to an...

Sewickley Academy’s girls lacrosse team should have an outstanding one-two punch this season in Libby Eannarino and Ashley Close, both senior midfielders and co-captains. Both were lacrosse all-stars in Section 1-3A last year. “We want to build on what we started last year and set the tone for the future,”...

Three Sewickley area athletes have been named to participate in the annual Roundball Classic basketball games, set for May 22-26 at North Allegheny. Top senior players from the WPIAL, City League and District 10 were selected to play in the all-star weekend. Quaker Valley guard Joe Coyle was chosen to...

The University of Idaho is located in the city of Moscow in the North Central region of the state. Along with the rest of the Idaho panhandle, Moscow, population 25,000, is in the Pacific Time Zone and sits 2,297 miles from Pittsburgh. The panhandle is bordered by the state of...

The Quaker Valley baseball team is looking for a return to the postseason. The Quakers have qualified for the WPIAL playoffs eight times in the past 10 seasons that have been played and were section champs from 2013-16. QV finished fifth in Section 1-3A last year behind Riverside (12-0), Neshannock...

His statistics are not gaudy. Thomas Jefferson’s Vinnie Heller caught five passes for 79 yards in 2023, averaging 15.8 yards per reception. But it’s approach to the game and dedication to the TJ football program that caught the attention of players and coaches. A senior wide receiver/hybrid linebacker, Heller was...

It ranks as one of the best basketball seasons in school history. Thomas Jefferson’s boys basketball team rolled to a 21-3 record before having the wind knocked out of its sails in the WPIAL Class 5A semifinals. “Our kids did everything I asked,” coach Dom DeCicco said. “We came up...

It appears the Sewickley Academy baseball team will have a nice mix of experience and talented underclassmen this spring. “Overall, with the combination of experienced leadership, new talent and improved facilities, the team has the potential to have a memorable and successful season in 2024,” coach Andrew Petruska said. “We’re...

Two Quaker Valley girls, senior Emily Connors and junior Margaret Getty, qualified for the PIAA Class 2A championships in four events. Connors, a UNC Wilmington recruit, advanced in the 50-yard freestyle and 100 butterfly off her third-place showing in both at the WPIAL finals. She also competed on the Quakers’...

A two-time WPIAL champion, Thomas Jefferson’s Maddox Shaw advanced to the PIAA Class 3A tournament in Hershey again this year where he took first place in the 139-pound weight division. Shaw became TJ’s second state champion in the past three years and second under coach Michael Ladick. “For 730 days...

Mason Kernan ended his four-year reign on the mats at Bethel Park with a 124-18 record. A 133-pound senior and West Virginia recruit, Kernan captured a WPIAL Class 3A championship and placed third in the state this season. “Mason competed hard this season and gave everything he had,” Bethel Park...

Bethel Park has won two PIAA baseball championships and two WPIAL runner-up trophies over the last three years. The Black Hawks were WPIAL finalists in 2023 but saw their two-year run as PIAA 5A champions end with a 2-1 playoff loss to Bonner-Pendergast out of District 12. “We graduated 14...

One is a senior and the all-time leader in wins at Quaker Valley; the other is a sophomore star who displayed his mettle all season. Jack Kazalas and Bruce Anderchak both advanced to the PIAA Class 2A wrestling tournament at Giant Center in Hershey and both finished the year reaching...

Quaker Valley softball coach Kaci Hott has a new title but is not new to the program. A middle school math teacher in the school district, Hott was an assistant for the Quakers last year and previously coached at Trinity Middle School. She officially was named QV’s head coach at...

Quaker Valley captured first place in the PIHL Class A Gold Division during the regular season. The Quakers skated to a 16-3-1 record, good for 33 points, and outscored the opposition 94-37. QV led all Class A teams in goals allowed, giving up less than two per game, and limited...

Mike Scerbo knows he has big shoes to fill. But he is undaunted with the task of stepping in for Win Palmer, who died last year after a lengthy career as Sewickley Academy’s director of athletics. In the interim, Heather Border and Kelly Carioto have been serving as assistant athletic...

A winning season. Two victories in the Holiday Bash tournament at North Allegheny. A fourth-place finish and a WPIAL playoff berth out of Section 1-2A. All solid reasons why the Sewickley boys basketball team enjoyed a successful 2023-24 season. “When reflecting on the season based on the initial circumstances and...

Five of the top athletes in the Quaker Valley track and field program displayed their resolve during the 2023-24 indoor season. Senior Ellie Cain and juniors Jay Olawaiye, Davin “Macky” Gartley, Clark LaLomia and Thomas Debelak all advanced to the Tri-State Track Coaches Association indoor state championships Feb. 25 at...

It’s been a succession of firsts for Quaker Valley swimmer Adlan Hifri. “This school year is my first year living in the United States, my first time to attend a public school, and my first experience on a U.S. swim team,” said Hifri, a junior. “I started my journey of...