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St. Joseph’s Julie Spinelli headlines Valley News Dispatch girls basketball all-stars
Player of the Year Julie Spinelli 5-11, Sr., G, St. Joseph The St. Joseph girls basketball team took several steps forward in the 2023-24 season and met or surpassed goals and expectations set for themselves at the start in late November. Two of the goals were met on a single...
WPIAL softball rankings: Week ending March 31, 2024
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Hempfield, 3-0, 1 2. Seneca Valley, 5-0, 2 3. Pine-Richland, 2-3, 4 4. Norwin, 2-2, 3 5. North Allegheny, 0-1, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Shaler, 3-0, 1 2. Armstrong, 2-0, 2 3. West Allegheny, 6-1, 3 4. Trinity, 4-1, 4 5....
TribLive H.S. baseball rankings for March 30, 2024
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 3-0, 1 2. Mt. Lebanon, 3-0, 3 3. Seneca Valley, 2-1, 2 4. Hempfield, 4-0, 4 5. Pine-Richland, 4-1, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Shaler, 2-0, 1 2. West Allegheny, 2-0, 2 3. Bethel Park, 1-2, 3 4. North Hills,...
Franklin Regional’s Cam Rowell headlines TribLive Westmoreland boys basketball all-stars
Player of the Year Cam Rowell, Sr., G, Franklin Regional The state championship game looked like it was getting away from Franklin Regional. But just then, Cam Rowell growled. The senior guard took a pass from Colin Masten, who came up with a steal, and broke into the open court...
Norwin’s Lauren Palangio tops list of TribLive Westmoreland girls basketball all-stars
Player of the Year Lauren Palangio, Sr., F, Norwin For teams to play the type of jagged-edged schedule that the Norwin girls played this season, they must have talented players to compete accordingly. Lauren Palangio was one of those players for Norwin, bringing multiple threats to the floor, including old-school...
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Curtain call for Norwin stars
The Norwin girls will get the band back together for one last performance. Three senior players — Lauren Palangio, Ava Kobus and Bailey Snowberger — will join their coach, Brian Brozeski, on the Class 6A all-star basketball team at the Roundball Classic on May 26 at North Allegheny. The foursome...
Westmoreland County high school athletes of the week: Southmoreland’s Maddie Brown, Greensburg Central Catholic’s Ian Shipley
Maddie Brown School: Southmoreland Class: Junior Sport: Softball Claim to fame: Brown, the Scotties’ stalwart in the pitching circle for the last few years, has helped the team to a 5-0 start. To boot, the Scotties have yet to allow a run. They have outscored teams 52-0, and only one...
Versatile lineup helps Fox Chapel boys tennis to strong start
Ben Hallman didn’t want to coast during his senior season. When Hallman had the opportunity to compete for a singles spot with the Fox Chapel tennis team, he was happy to be locked into a competition with his fellow seniors for one of the three singles spots. Hallman, who previously...
Championship WPIAL soccer coach to follow father into A-K Valley Sports Hall of Fame
Throughout his life, Mark Perry has followed in his father’s footsteps. On May 4, he will do it once again as he joins his father in the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame. “My father was the soccer coach at Fox Chapel when I was in high school,” Perry said....
Young Fox Chapel lineup gears up for Section 1-5A play
Fox Chapel softball coach Chris Olbrich was happy to have a runway before the start of section play. The Foxes have a young team and scheduled seven games before their Section 1-5A opener with defending PIAA Class 5A runner-up Shaler. While the temperamental Western Pennsylvania weather prevented some of those...
Norwin notebook: Baseball team wins opener
Jackson Huss went 2 for 3 and drove in four runs to pace the Norwin baseball team to a 9-4 victory on the road at Pine-Richland. Matt O’Neil added a hit and two RBIs for Norwin in the season-opening victory. The Knights were primed to begin section play, where teams...
New coach brings energy, ‘tough love’ to Norwin girls soccer program
If there is one promise Ashley DeVito can make to her new Norwin girls soccer players, it is this: “Tough love,” she said. “I am going to push them and challenge them to reach their greatest potential; however, I’ll always provide them the support that they need to do so....
Despite early-season loss, Hampton boys lacrosse has high expectations
The opening week of the 2024 spring season proved something about the Hampton boys lacrosse team. The Talbots aren’t the best team in the WPIAL Class 2A, but they very well could turn into the second-best. Hampton sandwiched a 20-6 loss to seven-time defending WPIAL champion Mars with blowout victories...
Hampton girls lacrosse plans to spread scoring wealth
The Hampton girls lacrosse team this season is relying on balance rather than brilliance. After a three-year stretch that featured two of the most prolific goal-scorers in program history, the Talbots are looking for a well-distributed, roster-wide attack. “Not relying on one person to score is going to be an...
Riverview baseball leans on experienced lineup, starts 3-0
Riverview senior pitcher and infielder Jack Loughren is an island unto himself in that he’s the only senior on a youthful Raiders baseball team. The team’s senior day ceremony will be brief. But Loughren is not alone in terms of players in the lineup who have varsity experience. Eight seniors...
After impressive postseason, Plum bowlers head to national championships
Plum was the only WPIBL program to have both its boys and girls bowling teams qualify for the Pennsylvania state championships. The Mustangs’ representation at Leisure Lanes in Lancaster on March 16 was the destination of a journey that took the squads through the WPIBL and Western Regional tournaments. But...
Behind ‘softball sisters,’ North Allegheny hopes to return to WPIAL finals
North Allegheny has a roster full of “softball sisters,” even though most of the girls aren’t actually related. It’s an informal mentorship program coach Morgan Vescovi adopted a year ago, pairing an upperclassman with a younger teammate from the varsity or junior varsity. The players are able to bond while...
North Allegheny notebook: Tigers volleyball among top-ranked teams
North Allegheny’s boys volleyball team is off to a strong start to the season in its quest to add to its WPIAL-leading total of district titles (22). The Tigers are ranked second in the latest Western Pa. Volleyball Coaches poll behind defending WPIAL champion Shaler, which ended North Allegheny’s run...
Deer Lakes’ Billy Schaeffer leads Valley News Dispatch boys basketball all-stars
Player of the Year Billy Schaeffer 6-2, Sr., G, Deer Lakes Billy Schaeffer was a 3-point artist last year, playing a role that helped Deer Lakes win its first WPIAL basketball championship. But as the lone returning starter coming into his senior season, he knew he had to evolve his...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 29, 2024
High schools Baseball Friday’s results Nonsection Beaver 9, Highlands 2 Laurel 8, West Middlesex 5 South Allegheny 3, McKeesport 2 Saturday’s schedule Nonsection Northern Garrett (Md.) at Albert Gallatin, noon Softball Friday’s results Nonsection Baldwinsville (NY) 3, Moon 2 Buckeye Local (OH) 2, Moon 0 Eastlake North (OH) 8, Beaver...
High school roundup for March 2024: Plum softball rallies to win in 7th
Jaiden Gentile singled and scored on a Liana Yusko sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning as Plum rallied for a 9-8 victory over Highlands in nonsection softball Friday. Yusko went 3 for 5 with two doubles and Gentile also doubled and drove in a pair of runs...
TribLive’s Paul Schofield to take place in Southwestern Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame
Before he started as a full-time sports writer out of college in 1980, Paul Schofield’s exposure to high school wrestling was minimal. As a kid, he remembers watching the state finals on WQED-TV, hearing about far-away places such as Tyrone or Shikellamy or Shickshinny and wondering what they were like....
Frazier’s Rune Lawrence set for anticipated rematch at Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic
Rune Lawrence’s senior season almost ended in the semifinals of the Ironman Tournament in December. The Frazier star was in a battle against two-time Ohio state champion Max Shulaw and was decisively winning when the PIAA four-time champion hurt his knee on a questionable move by Shulaw, according to Frazier...
Again searching for new boys basketball coach, Plum seeks stability, return to prominence
For the second time in less than two years, Plum is looking for a new boys basketball coach. Justin Walther tendered his resignation last month, and it was accepted by the district. Athletic director Drew Karpen said Wednesday that in a short time after the position was advertised, there were...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 28, 2024
High schools Baseball Thursday’s results Class 3A Section 1 Shenango 16, Beaver Falls 1 Riverside 12, Ellwood City 2 Mohawk 6, Quaker Valley 3 Section 3 Burrell 10, Valley 8 Shady Side Academy 4, Deer Lakes 3 Section 4 Yough 13, Brownsville 3 Class 2A Section 1 Washington 12, Bentworth...
