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Riverhounds set to debut new ‘dynamic’ attack in season opener against Tampa Bay Rowdies
Two years ago, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds were the talk of USL Championship as they captured the Eastern Conference title with 68 points. The Black and Gold have changed a lot since that season. Defender Jordan Dover and USL Championship all-time assists leader Kenardo Forbes are the only two players who...
Hundreds rally at Pine-Richland board meeting calling for fired coach to be reinstatedVideo
Hundreds of supporters of Pine-Richland’s ousted head football coach Eric Kasperowicz rallied outside the district’s administrative office, during Monday’s school board meeting, to call for his reinstatement. The sometimes boisterous crowd broke out in chants of “We Are P-R” and jeered as school directors arrived for the monthly planning session,...
Stimmel captures Dressler Memorial golf tournament
Diamond Run golfer Rick Stimmel opened the 2021 local season by winning the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s 80th Dressler Memorial Championship at Valley Brook Country Club. Stimmel used six consecutive birdies in the first round and fired consecutive 3-under-par 69s to finish at 6-under, 138. He was five shots better than...
Future Gateway swimmer Hunter Raymer shines at Keystone Classic meets
Hunter Raymer will be a freshman on the Gateway varsity boys swim team for the 2021-22 season, and in building toward that time, he has been making the most of his recent in-pool opportunities. Representing the Fox Chapel Killer Whales club team, the eighth grader posted several personal-best times and...
Quaker Valley hockey players head to USA Hockey nationals
Two members of the Quaker Valley varsity hockey team earned a trip to the 2021 USA Hockey Youth Tier II National Championships last week with their respective North Pittsburgh Wildcat travel teams. Sophomore Luke Flowers joined the 16U team in Grand Rapids, Mich., and freshman Will Watson is representing the...
Wild Things sign former Baldwin standout Sean Kealey for 2021 season
Another Pittsburgh native has earned a contract with the Washington Wild Things. On Friday, the Wild Things announced the signing of left-handed pitcher Sean Kealey, who played at Baldwin and also recently finished his college career at Allegheny. Kealey pitched at Wild Things Park last summer during pod play with...
Penn State New Kensington softball team eager for postseason
The Penn State New Kensington softball team needed a sweep of Penn State Fayette in its conference finale Sunday to secure its place in the Penn State University Athletic Conference playoffs. The Lions did just that as they scored 9-0 and 12-1 victories to finish the regular season 12-12 overall...
Pittsburgh-area youth hockey teams ready to mix it up at nationals
The North Pittsburgh Tier II 16U boys hockey team had to battle back from an early hole in their Mid-Am District national-qualifying tournament in late March. The Wildcats lost their first game to the Pittsburgh Predators, 4-3, in a double overtime shootout. But they responded with convincing wins over the...
Opening night, Take 2 at Lernerville Speedway
Mother Nature kept the cars off the track at Don Martin’s Lernerville Speedway last week in what was scheduled to be opening night for 2021. “We had much longer precipitation than what was originally anticipated,” first-year Lernerville general manager Mike Lysakowski said. “When we went to bed on Thursday night,...
Mt. Lebanon alum Austin Kitchen to sign with Colorado Rockies organization
The Washington Wild Things are sending another player to a big league organization. The Wild Things announced Wednesday that Mt. Lebanon native Austin Kitchen, who played this past summer with the Steel City Slammin Sammies in pod play at Wild Things Park, will sign with the Colorado Rockies organization. Kitchen...
Lernerville set to open another, more conventional, season
Mike Lysakowski took on the duties of general manager at Sarver’s Lernerville Speedway last October, and he was able to take in several races to close out what was a season unlike any other in the new reality of the covid pandemic. After a flurry of offseason activity, Lysakowski said...
A-K Valley youth wrestlers shine at Keystone State Championships
During the first weekend in April, youth wrestlers from around the state converged on Monroeville Convention Center for the Keystone State Championships, and a few young A-K Valley wrestlers came away with medals around their neck. The Hutcherson brothers, Marco and Mario, from Kiski Area, earned top-three finishes in their...
BMC Cheer Team Rampage wins national championship
The BMC Cheer Team Rampage based out of Brandy Marie Gymnastics in Sarver captured a national championship title at the Encore Championships Pittsburgh Division I and II event March 20 and 21 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The team performed routines for judges both days in the L2...
WPIAL legends come together for Stop the Violence Shootout
It’s not often WPIAL legends have the opportunity to get together and give back to their respective communities, but since 2018, Wilkinsburg alum Taz Williams and co-organizer Drew Schifino have brought some of the best basketball players in WPIAL history together. In 2018, an alumni game between Wilkinsburg and Penn...
Lernerville Speedway delays Test & Tune session because of weather
Mother Nature has struck again. Because of saturated grounds and a cold weather forecast, Lernerville Speedway canceled Friday night’s scheduled Test & Tune session, which was set to kick off the 2021 season. According to the Weather Channel, temperatures are supposed to reach a low of 21 degrees Friday night...
After busy offseason, Riverhounds getting acclimated to new teammates
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds are just over a month away from their first regular season game of the 2021 season and are looking to use every day to come together after a busy offseason. After a covid-19 shortened season, where they finished 11-5-1 and lost to Louisville City FC in the...
Moon native Khama Worthy set to step back into octagon at UFC 260
Moon Area native Khama Worthy stepped into the octagon seven months ago and suffered the first loss of his UFC career, now “The Deathstar” is looking to right the ship. On Saturday, Worthy (16-7) will take on Australian Jamie Mullarkey on the UFC 260 Main Card before heavyweights Stipe Miocic...
Franklin Regional Junior Olympics team qualifies 12 wrestlers for state championships next week
When the Franklin Regional Junior Olympic wrestling team walks onto the floor April 1 for the state championships, it will do so with more wrestlers than any other school in its region. In the KeyStone State Southwest Qualifier, held March 22-23 in Monroeville, FR’s team qualified a dozen wrestlers, and...
Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman, Kiski Area’s Darren Miller represent Bucknell well at NCAA Tournament
Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman and Kiski Area’s Darren Miller put together special high school careers during their time in the WPIAL, but this past weekend, the pair represented Bucknell at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships. Hartman (13-3), who was making his third NCAA appearance after last year’s tournament was...
District 31 American Legion baseball to field 11 teams
While practice for the start of the high school baseball season is underway, Westmoreland County District 31 teams are holding sign-ups for the start of their season May 20. There will be 11 teams participating in the league this summer, after the league held an unofficial season in 2020 because...
Hampton middle schoolers stick with lacrosse
Draven Malcolm is proof that mom knows best. When the Hampton 13-year-old was in fourth grade, his mother, Dawn, suggested he give lacrosse a try. Draven’s passion was dek hockey, and he wasn’t thrilled with the proposal. “My mom kind of said I had to,” he said. “I pretty much...
Swimmers gear up for busy weekend of PIAA, YMCA competition
Penn-Trafford’s Patton Graziano and Mt. Pleasant’s Reegan Brown will have a busy weekend. The two are competing in the PIAA swimming championships on Friday and Saturday with their high school teams and then will represent the Greensburg YMCA in the West Regional Championship. The duo is among the 23 swimmers...
Former Fox Chapel pitcher Pat Monteverde emerges as ace for No. 7 Texas Tech
Almost a month ago, former Fox Chapel southpaw Patrick Monteverde stood in right field of Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, a day before Texas Tech’s season opener against the Arkansas Razorbacks and just took everything in. Six months earlier, the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Tampa Bay Rays...
Behind the scenes, Dave Breth made impact on thousands of baseball players
Much can be accomplished behind the scenes. For Dave Breth, it was getting more than 100 baseball players from the Alle-Kiski Valley and other parts of Western Pennsylvania scouted and sent to colleges. James D. (Dave) Breth, 80, of Cheswick died Tuesday in his home. For Breth, it started with...
American Basketball Hall of Fame’s ‘greatest unsung players’ list includes local standouts
The American Basketball Hall of Fame out of Detroit prides itself on recognizing basketball stars of note who reached the doorstep but did not get into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It is a tweeners’ delight. The new hall, which sprouted in 2019 due in large part to...
