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Penn-Trafford linebacker Daniel Tarabrella commits to Duquesne
Home is where the commitment is. Penn-Trafford senior football player Daniel Tarabrella wanted to continue his football career close to home so he could remain near family and friends — so those people could come and watch him play. That is why he chose Duquesne over a number of other...
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: 10 Armstrong players, coach Frank Fabian earn Greater Allegheny honors
WPIAL passing leader Cadin Olsen earned first-team all-conference honors in the Class 4A Greater Allegheny, along with his top two receiving targets. Wide receivers Isaiah Brown and Ian Olsen helped the Penn-bound quarterback pass for 3,210 yards and 43 touchdowns as the River Hawks won the conference title with a...
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: Aliquippa, coach Mike Warfield lead Parkway honors
Aliquippa players received a dozen first-team spots on the Class 4A Parkway all-conference team, including six claimed by a trio of linemen honored on both sides of the ball. Naquan Crowder, Neco Eberhardt and Jason McBride were instrumental in the Quips winning the conference title before adding another WPIAL championship....
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: 2-way standouts lead Big Seven postseason honors
McKeesport teammates Bobbie Boyd and Jahmil Perryman were two-way stars for the Tigers this season, but they weren’t the only players in the Class 4A Big Seven pulling double duty. Coaches also named Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher, Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer and Trinity’s Ty Banco all-conference on both sides of...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 15, 2022
High Schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Thursday’s results Class 4A Section 2 North Catholic 75, Ambridge 48 Nonsection Brashear 61, Cornell 34 Derry 81, Greensburg Salem 68 Ellwood City 56, Western Beaver 45 Jefferson-Morgan 48, Frazier 47 Knoch 51, Valley 42 Mapletown 57, Avella 35 Mars 80, Kiski Area 63 Propel...
High school roundup for Dec. 15, 2022: Norwin girls go to 6-0; Ellwood City’s Joe Roth scores 1,000th point
Lauren Palangio scored 15 points, and Kendall Berger added 10 as Norwin won its sixth straight game to start the season, defeating reigning WPIAL Class 5A champion South Fayette, 43-40, on Thursday night in nonsection girls basketball. Trailing 28-22 at halftime, Norwin (6-0) outscored South Fayette 21-12 in the second...
Greensburg Salem girls roll past Derry in section opener
Greensburg Salem girls basketball players and coaches turned an old storage closet at their home gymnasium into a makeshift locker room. Derry felt like it was confined to an even smaller space Thursday night when the teams met in the Section 1-4A opener. Using pressure defense to set up offense...
Furious fourth-quarter rally lifts Mars girls past Kiski Area
With 5 minutes, 14 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s nonsection girls basketball game between Kiski Area and Mars, the Cavaliers led by nine and had designs on putting the game away. But the Planets had other ideas. Mars regrouped with a timeout and proceeded to outscore Kiski...
Pitt gets commitment from ex-Peters Township, Florida safety Donovan McMillon
While losing quarterback Kedon Slovis and facing the possibility of safeties Brandon Hill and Erick Hallett II moving on, Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi did what any college coach would do in this era of free agency — he turned to the NCAA transfer portal. Let’s go Home… time to get to...
Woodland Hills seeks to replace football coach Tim Bostard
After 22 years of coaching Woodland Hills football, first as an assistant and later head coach, Tim Bostard says he often joked that he’d be there until they kicked him out. “I guess they did what I said,” said Bostard, who learned Thursday that the school district was opening his...
Rosters set for Saturday’s WPSCA boys all-star soccer games
The Western Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association All-Star Games are set for Saturday at North Allegheny. There are two matchups featuring the top senior boys from the WPIAL. At 11 a.m., the Class A all-stars will play a 2A team. Class 3A will meet 4A at 1 p.m. Tickets are $5...
Westmoreland County boys basketball notebook: Scorpion’s road to recovery stops at Franklin Regional
Former Franklin Regional boys basketball coach Steve Scorpion is coming back to coach against his old team. That he is coming back at all is borderline miraculous. Scorpion’s position was opened in spring 2021 after his longtime opioid addiction came to light. The final straw was a blackout episode that...
Westmoreland County boys basketball scorers fill nets from multiple spots in lineup
When Latrobe ran into foul trouble in a game earlier this season, causing a thin front line with no center, boys basketball coach Brad Wetzel did not panic. He knew what to do. “We had no bigs, so we moved Landon (Butler) to the five (center),” Wetzel said. “We knew...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 14, 2022
High Schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results Nonsection Beaver 58, South Fayette 53 Charleroi 74, California 68 Gateway 57, Woodland Hills 51 Indiana 51, Punxsutawney 47 Jeannette 69, Apollo-Ridge 33 New Brighton 38, Hopewell 37 Penn Hills 78, Steel Valley 42 Penn-Trafford 75, Trinity 51 Riverside at Shenango, (n) Shaler...
High school roundup for Dec. 14, 2022: Waynesburg holds on to beat Canon-McMillan in mat showdown
Jake Stephenson (160) won by fall and Joe Simon (133), Roan Tustin (172) and Rocco Welsh (189) won by major decision as Class 3A No. 1 Waynesburg held on to defeat No. 2 Canon-McMillan 30-27 in a nonsection wrestling showdown Wednesday night. Nate Jones (152) and Eli Makel (285) also...
Frazier wrestling team logs upset over Southmoreland
Frazier began a wrestling program in 2016, and Buck Watkins has been coaching the program for the past six seasons. The Commodores were known only for the Lawrence brothers (Thayne and Rune), each of whom has won two PIAA titles. But this isn’t those Frazier teams. No. 8 Southmoreland found...
Burrell wrestling team snaps Kiski Area’s winning streak
In a sense, it was a welcome-to-varsity-wrestling moment for Julian Bertucci. The freshman 121-pounder found himself in a spot to clinch the match for Burrell and end a 10-match winning streak for Kiski Area in the battle of Alle-Kiski Valley rivals. Bertucci said there were some nerves, but he dug...
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: North Allegheny coach Art Walker joins 9 players on 6A team
The WPIAL classification for the biggest schools was the league’s smallest overall with only five teams. Yet, the schedule was maybe the most competitive in the WPIAL, with only North Allegheny going undefeated in conference play. The Tigers were rewarded with nine first-team spots on the all-conference team and Art...
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: Penn-Trafford has 7 spots on Big East 1st team
Penn-Trafford’s size up front was a strength this season and opposing coaches recognized that group favorably when voting for the all-conference team. The Warriors, who led the Big East with seven first-team spots, had four linemen chosen: center Joe Enick, guard Mike Paterra, offensive tackle Zach Tomosovich and defensive end...
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: Penn Hills, Pine-Richland lead Class 5A Northeast honors
The playoff race in the Northeast was among the most competitive in the WPIAL, depth that showed in the all-conference team. Penn Hills saw a conference-best eight players earn first-team honors including quarterback Julian Dugger and running back Amir Key, despite narrowly missing the postseason. Pine-Richland, the eventual WPIAL and...
2022 WPIAL All-Conference Football: Upper St. Clair places 10 on Allegheny Six team
Upper St. Clair’s Aidan Besselman and Mark Banbury earned first-team honors on both sides of the ball, helping the Panthers claim 10 spots on the Allegheny Six all-conference team. Besselman, a wide receiver and defensive back, and Banbury, a two-way lineman, helped Upper St. Clair reach the WPIAL Class 5A...
Westmoreland County girls basketball notebook: Norwin winning with stingy defense
Norwin takes more pride in the other team’s score than its own these days. Sure, the Lady Knights care plenty about offense, but it has been their defense that has propelled them to a 5-0 start. Norwin has yet to allow more than 28 points in a game. The only...
With star Emma Blair injured, Latrobe coach’s final season takes new direction
As he sat in a hotel room in Fairfax County, Va., last Saturday morning, Mark Burkhardt had his team’s next move on his mind. The Latrobe girls basketball coach was ready to patch together a reconfigured lineup and introduce a tweaked playbook, all while doing so with a stiff upper...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 13, 2022
High Schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Nonsection Allderdice 72, West Mifflin 43 Aquinas Academy 95, Leechburg 92 Bethel Park 56, Baldwin 54 Bishop Canevin 81, Belle Vernon 42 Brashear 61, West Allegheny 59 Brentwood 58, Albert Gallatin 55 Burrell 59, St. Joseph 28 Carlynton 70, Burgettstown 38 Central Valley...
High school roundup for Dec. 13, 2022: Bethel Park beats Baldwin in thriller
A steal by Ben Guffey and a bucket by Michael Mathias with 2.3 seconds left lifted Bethel Park to a 56-54 victory over Baldwin in nonsection boys basketball Tuesday night. Guffey and Shawn Davis each scored 19 points for the Black Hawks (4-0). James Wesling scored 17 points and Nathan...
