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Moon’s Mancini, Woodland Hills’ Wolford selected for USA Rugby training camp
Two members of the West Pittsburgh Foxes Rugby Club are heading north for a major event. Moon rising senior Sofia Mancini and Woodland Hills rising senior Vanessa Wolford were invited to the USA Rugby Girls High School All-American East training camp this week in Ontario, Canada. At the East and...
Franklin Regional grad Palmer Jackson’s run at U.S. Amateur ends
Palmer Jackson’s run at the U.S. Amateur ended Friday. The Murrysville native and Notre Dame commit fell to Vanderbilt junior John Augenstein 3-and-2 in the quarterfinals at Pinehurst No. 2 at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club at the Village of Pinehurst, N.C. Jackson struggled with his driver throughout the match,...
Latrobe’s Hanna Green awarded track & field grant on heels of world championships
Latrobe native Hanna Green, who ran to a runner-up finish in the 800-meter run last month at the Toyota USA Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, received a financial boost as she prepares for her next elite race. A little green never hurts. Green was one of 25...
Franklin Regional grad Palmer Jackson advances to quarterfinals at USGA Amateur
Palmer Jackson is having the time of his life at the United States Golf Association’s Amateur Championship at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in Pinehurst, N.C. The 2019 Franklin Regional graduate advanced to the quarterfinals by taking down two recent college graduates Thursday. He earned a 1-up victory over Auburn...
Franklin Regional grad Palmer Jackson advances at USGA Amateur
Palmer Jackson had his troubles on Pinehurst No. 2 during the second round of stroke play qualifying at the United States Golf Association’s Amateur on Tuesday. He shot a 6-over 76 and saw his consecutive rounds in the 60s end at nine. It was a different story for the 2019...
Belle Vernon grad Kaitlyn Slagus to carry on basketball career in Ireland
Kaitlyn Slagus isn’t ready to throw her high-tops over the telephone wires quite yet. The former Bucknell and Belle Vernon star forward has plans to continue her basketball career overseas. Slagus, who recently graduated from Bucknell, was awarded a Victory Scholarship from the Sport Changes Life Foundation and will attend...
Jackson’s 60s streak ends, but he advances to Match Play at U.S. Amateur
Palmer Jackson’s consecutive streak of rounds in the 60s ended on Tuesday at the 119th U.S. Amateur. But the 2019 Franklin Regional graduate and Notre Dame commit was safely in the field of 64 that will advance to Match Play competition beginning Wednesday at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in...
Harrison City native Dave Antill makes ace at USGA Mid-Am qualifier
Dave Antill did not qualify for the U.S. Mid-Amateur, but the former Hannastown Golf Club member made a lasting memory in his attempt to play in the national championship. Antill, playing in a USGA qualifier Monday at Pinnacle Golf Club in Grove City, Ohio, made a hole-in-one on the 198-yard,...
Former Pirate Neil Walker to receive Graduate of the Year award in Pittsburgh
In the middle of May, Pine-Richland alum Neil Walker, a former Pittsburgh Pirate and current Miami Marlin was named the 2019 American Legion Graduate of the Year, an award given to a former Legion baseball player and current major leaguer for his character, leadership, playing abilities and community service. As...
Hannastown trio set for USGA Amateur at Pinehurst
The 119th USGA Amateur Championship begins Monday at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in North Carolina, and five Western Pennsylvania golfers, including three from Hannastown Golf Club, will be participating. The tournament takes place on Course No. 2 and No. 4. Murrysville native Palmer Jackson, who recently posted seven consecutive...
Former GCC state champion Zambruno finishes 2nd at Pa. women’s amateur
Olivia Zambruno put together quite a week on the other side of the state at the 83rd Pennsylvania Golf Association Women’s Amateur. But she came out on the wrong side of the final match. The former three-time PIAA champion from Greensburg Central Catholic reached Saturday’s 18-hole final in the championship...
Former Seton Hill pitcher DellaValle suspended for 2nd failed drug test
Former Seton Hill ace pitcher Perry DellaValle has to serve a 50-game suspension in the minor leagues after a second positive test for a drug of abuse. The suspension was levied in late July. DellaValle, 23, is in his rookie season with Palm Beach Cardinals, the Class A affiliate of...
Lipari, Domanic capture Fleet Feet Liberty Mile titles
“Runner’s World” calls the event “one of America’s most iconic races,” and elite runners showed exactly why on Friday night. More than 1,100 runners took to the one-mile course of the Fleet Feet Liberty Mile, as spectators lined the course that weaved through the streets of the Cultural District in...
Ward, Oberdorf help Martella’s return to AAABA semifinals
Martella’s Pharmacy is not ready to give up its national championship trophy. The lively baseball team from Johnstown is back in the semifinals of the 75th All-American Amateur Baseball Association (AAABA) Tournament, a step away from another finals appearance. They advanced with a 5-4, walk-off win over Zanesville Junior Pioneers...
Greensburg Central Catholic grad Olivia Zambruno reaches semifinals of state amateur
Rising Penn State junior golfer Olivia Zambruno remained in the chase for a title at the 83rd Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Militia Hill course. A Greensburg Central Catholic graduate, Zambruno downed Julia McLaughlin of Saucon Valley Country Club, 5 & 4, in a quarterfinal match Friday...
Nemacolin Woodlands to host PGA Jr. League Championship qualifier
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington is one of 12 qualifying sites for the PGA Jr. League Championship this fall. On Sept. 14-15, Nemacolin, the host for Region 5, will welcome four, co-ed all-star teams consisting of junior golfers (ages 13 and under). They will compete for 12 spots available for...
Penn Hills Eagles Track Club sends trio to national championships
With their 30th year around the corner, the Penn Hills Eagles Track Club had a handful of athletes in the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships on July 22-28 at California State University-Sacramento. Though the Eagles had more than a dozen athletes qualify for the meet, only three participated because of...
NA grad Wright already making splash for Virginia swimming program
North Allegheny graduate and Virginia rising freshman swimmer Jack Wright has yet to set foot on campus and already has contributed. Wright, 18, qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, one of 30 Cavaliers expected to do so. “I know it was a focus for him for this summer...
Miller, Zambruno advance at women’s state amateur
Former WPIAL and PIAA golf champions Katie Miller and Olivia Zambruno moved on at the rain-hampered 83rd Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur. Miller, a three-time champion who starred at Hempfield at North Carolina, defeated Julianne Lee, 2-up, holding off a back-nine rally by the unaffiliated Lee Thursday at Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Militia...
Hempfield East Legion comes up short in Great Lakes Regional
Swoyersville has Hempfield East’s number this season. For the third time in two weeks, Swoyersville beat the District 31 and Region 7 champions, this time 4-1 on Thursday in the American Legion Great Lakes Regional at Eastern Illinois in Charleston, Ill. The loss ended Hempfield East’s season. Swoyersville was the...
South Park’s Randy Dobnak gets called up to the big leagues
The last few years have been quite the journey for South Park graduate Randy Dobnak. On Thursday, that journey reached its peak as Dobnak was called up to the big leagues by the Minnesota Twins. Welcome to the Show, @Dobnak_! pic.twitter.com/AcSmHsrI6W— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) August 8, 2019 Congrats Randy! We...
Fleet Feet Liberty Mile returns to Downtown Pittsburgh
Runner’s World calls it “one of America’s most iconic races,” and on Friday night it will be returning to Downtown Pittsburgh. The Fleet Feet Liberty Mile, which is Downtown Pittsburgh’s only evening road race, will return to the Cultural District tomorrow night with races beginning at approximately 7 p.m. The...
Knoch grad Jordan Geist claims shot put silver at Pan American Games
Knoch grad Jordan Geist captured a silver medal in the men’s shot put Wednesday evening at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. In third after the three throws of the opening round and fourth overall after the first two throws of the finals, Geist unleashed a throw of 20.67...
Several locals in chase for title at women’s state amateur
Rain caused a suspension of play and ultimately rained out the first day of stroke play Wednesday in the 83rd Pennsylvania Golf Association Women’s Amateur at Philadelphia Cricket Club in Plymouth Meeting. A number of local players are in the 42-player field in the Amateur Division, including former Hempfield and...
With help from fellow Olympians, Harmotto Dietzen, Give It Back Foundation hosting volleyball camp at Moon
Volleyballs will be flying through the air and hitting the floor at Moon High School on Friday and Saturday as the Give It Back Foundation’s annual girls volleyball camp makes its way to Western Pennsylvania for the first time. Christa Harmotto Dietzen, a Hopewell graduate and one of six former...
