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Sean Knapp wins rain-shortened Senior Amateur
Oakmont native Sean Knapp added another title to his resume. The Hannastown Golf Club member shot a 4-under par 67 to win the rain-shorted Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Senior Amateur at Butler Country Club. The tournament was shortened to one round because rain. Knapp edged St. Clair’s Dave Brown, who shot...
South Park grad Cam Bramer takes BMX talents to Pan-American Games
Cam Bramer was just doing what kids do when he was poking around his parents’ basement as a little kid. Digging through boxes, looking on top of shelves and then he came across a box buried way in the back. As it turns out, the box was loaded with gold....
Slippery Rock senior Robbie Bailey relishes experience cycling across country
Mt. Pleasant graduate Robbie Bailey will complete a cross-country cycling trip Saturday that had a purpose. Bailey, 21, a rising senior at Slippery Rock, participated in the Journey of Hope-Ability Experience event on its TransAmerica Route. Sponsored by the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, the event raises funds and awareness for...
Schenley alum DJ Kennedy earns TBT All-Tournament honors
Schenley alumnus DJ Kennedy has had a pretty successful run at “The Basketball Tournament” over the past five years. His Overseas Elite squad has won the ESPN-sponsored tournament where 64 teams compete in a single-elimination style bracket for the chance to win $2 million four times in its five years...
Hempfield East Legion falls in regional opener
Lyon County scored three runs in the first inning Wednesday morning and held on to defeat Hempfield East, 5-2, in the American Legion Great Lakes Regional in Charleston, Ill. Hempfield East will face Pennsylvania state champion Swoyersville at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Swoyersville defeated Hempfield East twice in the state tournament...
Hempfield East making memories during trip to Great Lakes Regional
Hempfield East’s American Legion Post 981 baseball team boarded a charter bus Tuesday morning at Westmoreland Mall and headed west on a new journey. The team, pioneers for District 31 and Region 7, are headed to Charleston, Ill. to participate in the American Legion Baseball Great Lakes Regional beginning on...
Softball star Maddy Grimm nabs first-team all-league honors
After leading her moh-BEEL!USA team to a championship this season, Maddy Grimm was recognized with a postseason accolade in the American Softball Association. The burgeoning, four-team professional league announced its all-ASBA players and Grimm was a clear first-team selection. A third baseman who hails from Ligonier Valley and Kent State,...
Norwin grad JJ Matijevic makes MLB Pipeline prospect team of week
JJ Matijevic is leaping and hip-bumping teammates, smiling and chomping on wads of gum as he revels in one of the hottest streaks of his professional baseball career. He looks like a kid enjoying the game again. Matijevic, a corner infielder and outfielder for the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Double-A...
Host member Katie James wins WPGA Women’s Amateur
Katie James used home-course advantage to raise a golf trophy Monday. James captured the 12th Western Pennsylvania Women’s Amateur Championship on her home course, Fox Chapel Golf Club, with a steady-as-she-goes round of even-par 73. Sewickley Heights Golf Club’s Madison McDanel, of Central Valley, was a shot back at 74...
Palmer Jackson maintains hot streak with Hannastown club title
Palmer Jackson is one of those rare, up-and-coming amateur golfers who has the uncanny ability to capture lightning in a bottle. Just when you thought the recent Franklin Regional grad from Murrysville couldn’t get any better on the course, he started another hot streak. Some might say Jackson’s favorite club...
Kiski Area’s McGuire finds calling: Pro esports, specifically “Fortnite”
High school athletes across the WPIAL are beginning preparation for the fall scholastic sports season. All will pursue a championship and try to earn a college scholarship with the hopes of turning pro and making the big bucks. Kiski Area rising junior Nick McGuire has them all beat. In a...
Sprint car flips over fence after crash, kills spectator at Williams Grove Speedway
Authorities say a car flipped over the infield fence at a central Pennsylvania speedway and struck a track volunteer, killing him. The Cumberland County coroner’s office said two Sprint car drivers crashed into each other while rounding a turn at Williams Grove Speedway just before 9:30 p.m. Friday. Coroner Charles...
Franklin Regional grad Jackson finishes tied for 7th in Boys Junior PGA Championship
HARTFORD, Conn. — Jack Heath made a 40-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the par-4 18th hole for an 8-under-par 62 and a one-stroke victory Friday in the Boys Junior PGA Championship. “I knew if it went in, I would most likely win, and it went in,” Heath said....
Mt. Pleasant’s Napper wins Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Player of the Year
Mt. Pleasant’s Sam Napper won the Tri-State PGA Isaly’s Junior Boys Player of the Year honors for the 17-18 Division on Thursday at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Mystic Rock Golf Course. Napper shot a 5-over par 77 to edge Meadville’s Ryan Ferry, who shot a 6-over 78. Todd Hangliter of Seven...
Passion for golf grows into career for Norwin grad Vonderkall
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny spark to launch a career path. For 1996 Norwin grad Chris Vonderkall, the spark came early and caught fire. He let his passion for golf lead the way. “As a kid, I was doing a book report and I did it on Arnold...
Penn Hills baseball team finds success in 1st Pony League season
The Penn Hills 13U travel baseball team includes a strong nucleus of players that has played together many years and continues to have success as it navigates different age groups every season. This summer, the team has participated in four tournaments, winning three in its first year in the Pony...
Director Meehan makes North Park Triathlon family affair
The Janney and the Y North Park Triathlon took place July 27-28 at North Park, and for the ninth consecutive year, Matt Meehan kept the event humming as director of both the kids’ competition Saturday and the adult competition Sunday. Meehan’s journey as the race’s director began in 2006 as...
Hannastown Golf Club brings out best from Westmoreland County and beyondVideo
Do the math on this one. Longtime accomplished amateur golfer Sean Knapp lives in Oakmont. He has played some of the best courses in the country. He won a national championship — the U.S. Senior Amateur — two years ago. The 57-year-old Knapp has been one of the country’s top...
Golf notebook: Quaker Valley graduate Chris Tanabe holds on to win amateur title
Chris Tanabe’s biggest win prior to Wednesday was winning the PIAA Class AA title in 2016. Now, the 2017 Quaker Valley graduate has the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Amateur championship on his resume. The Bucknell junior fired a 1-over-par 71 during the final round to finish at 5-under 205 and hold...
Hempfield East comes up short in title game
Hempfield East’s attempt to become the first Westmoreland County American Legion baseball team since Lower Burrell in 1965 to win a state championship came up short Wednesday. Despite outhitting Swoyersville for second consecutive game, Hempfield East committed two costly errors in the fourth, resulting in a 2-1 loss at Showers...
Quaker Valley grad Tanabe leads Pennsylvania Amateur after 2 rounds
Chris Tanabe shot a 5-under-par 65 on Tuesday during Round 2 of the Pennsylvania Golf Association’s 106th annual Amateur Championship and takes a three-shot lead into the final round Wednesday at Aronimink Golf Club near Newtown Square. The 2017 Quaker Valley grad will be a junior at Bucknell in the...
Hempfield East blanks Hopewell; qualifies for Great Lakes Regional
Hempfield East American Legion baseball team continues to make history. Thanks to their win against Hopewell and Swoyersville’s 3-2 victory against South Parkland, Hempfield East has qualified for the Great Lakes Regional tournament in Charleston, Ill. on Aug. 7. Hempfield East bounced back from a tough loss on Monday to...
West Point beats Yough, claims 37th state title
West Point trailed for the first time in the Pennsylvania Little League Softball 11U tournament Tuesday and needed a spark. Pitcher Riley Miller provided it. Miller, who will be a seventh-grader at Hempfield Middle School, struck out the side in the second inning, and West Point erupted for 14 consecutive...
Knoch graduate R.J. Makowski earns master instructor status at taekwondo championships
When R.J. Makowski began his pursuit of taekwondo master instructor status one year ago, he initially thought it would be a similar feeling to when he achieved his six black belt degrees in the Korean martial art. But when the owner of Makowski Martial Arts in Sarver reached the final...
Iron City Homecoming wrestling event a fundraiser for Bruce and Carol Sammartino Foundation
Heroes get remembered but legends never die, and Friday at Pro Sports in Monroeville, Northeast Wrestling, The Pros of Wrestling and superstars from World Wrestling entertainment will come together to honor one of Pittsburgh’s greatest legends, Bruno Sammartino, with a fundraiser for the Bruno and Carol Sammartino Foundation. Iron City...
