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Obremski places 27th in PGA Tour LatinoAmerica event
Penn-Trafford graduate and Irwin native Dan Obremski put together four under-par rounds to finish tied for 27th in his second PGA Tour LatinoAmerica event. Obremski, who began the final round tied for 35th, finished the four-day event with a 6-under-par 278 at the Abierto de Chile 2019 presentado por Volvo...
Changes coming to District 31 American Legion landscape
Things continue to change in District 31 American Legion: Murrysville is back, and Jeannette is out. Murrysville returns after missing the 2018 season, and Jeannette is out after a disappointing end to its season. The league will begin playing May 17 and run through July 5. Hempfield East is the...
Rocco ‘humbled’ to enter Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame
Former Fox Chapel standout, Penn State quarterback and Highlands coach Frank Rocco is just a VHS tape away from his Alle-Kiski Valley roots. Rocco, a high school football coach and athletic director at Liberty Christian Academy in Virginia, was looking ahead to the 2019 football season and realized next year’s...
Greensburg native Rocco Mediate in 2nd going into final round of Champions event
Greensburg native Rocco Mediate is in position for his fourth PGA Tour Champions victory, but he will have to catch Scott McCarron to get it. McCarron birdied the par-5 18th hole Saturday to take a three-stroke lead over Mediate in the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. The 53-year-old McCarron...
North Huntingdon native Austen Swankler ends USHL’s longest playoff game with goal
Irwin native Austen Swankler ended the longest game in United States Hockey League history Thursday morning by scoring the game-winning goal at 2:57 of the fourth overtime to give Sioux Falls a 3-2 victory against Sioux City. The game lasted 122 minutes and 57 seconds. THE GAME THAT WOULD NOT...
Shaler grad Stephen Borgen helps Thiel men’s volleyball capture AMCC title
During its decade in the Continental Volleyball Conference, the Thiel men’s team appeared in the championship match four times. The Tomcats lost them all. This spring was Thiel’s first in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, where it joined Geneva, Wittenberg and Hiram as affiliate members. Those additions enabled the AMCC...
Former IUP, Jeannette coach Carl Davis dies
Former IUP and Jeannette basketball coach Carl Davis died Tuesday, according to WCCS Radio in Indiana. He was 85. An IUP and Indiana County hall of famer, Davis had 10 winning seasons in 13 years at IUP, posting 199 wins and nine playoff trips. He won more than 300 games...
Cox’s Educated Athletes First plans tour of Saint Vincent
Educated Athletes First, the nonprofit business owned and operated by former Jeannette football standout Demetrious Cox and his father, Dorsey, is making headway. Demetrious Cox, a defensive back with the Cincinnati Bengals, hopes to be a tour guide of sorts for aspiring college athletes and students, giving them, and their...
YWCA Westmoreland County honors women for accomplishments
When the YWCA Westmoreland County started honoring female athletes 25 years ago, Sue Waldrop thought women’s sports had come a long way. Waldrop, who was recognized for the third time by the YWCA on Monday, said she’s amazed how much further women have advanced. She was one of the winners...
Saint Vincent coach Kevin Wanichko helps fellow runner finish Boston Marathon
It was a simple gesture, yet it probably meant more to Kevin Wanichko than placing 1,116th — or perhaps even finishing a grueling, 26-mile jaunt around historic Beantown. Wanichko, the women’s cross country coach at Saint Vincent College, ran the Boston Marathon on Monday morning and gained notoriety after he...
Inspired Seton Hill women’s volleyball team earns YWCA award
The word special will forever be etched into the 2018 women’s volleyball season at Seton Hill. The Griffins endured tough times but rose to the occasion, turning hardship into motivation, to string together their best season — one thrilling match at a time. They played with reverance and resolve for...
Oakmont, Pitt grad Dennis Persin kept up tradition in football
Growing up in Oakmont as the youngest of four brothers, Dennis Persin often found himself in the backyard playing football and learned lessons that helped shape his life. Each of his brothers played college football, and Persin was determined to forge his own path in the sport. Persin, 71, was...
Divas topple Passion in matchup of Women’s Football Alliance rivals
The D.C. Divas got the better of the Pittsburgh Passion, 54-22, in a Women’s Football Alliance contest Saturday evening. The Passion got on the board first just 2 minutes, 12 seconds into the game on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Angela Baker to Krystal Cozzo. The Divas responded to take...
Riverhounds score three times, top Hartford Athletic in home opener
An announced crowd of more than 5,000 for the home opener at Highmark Stadium saw the Pittsburgh Riverhounds top Hartford Athletic 3-1 Saturday evening. The triumph put the Riverhounds at 2-1-2. It was their second victory in a row, and their eight points puts them in a tie for seventh...
Riverhounds hope to build on first win with home opener
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer Club broke into the win column last weekend with a 1-0 victory at two-time defending league champion Louisville City. The team hopes to build on the victory as it opens the home portion of the 2019 schedule Saturday against Hartford Athletic. The match, set for 7...
Passion, Divas to renew football rivalry
The Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team renews its rivalry with the D.C. Divas on Saturday. A number of the games in the series dating back more than a decade have been decided by one score. Kickoff at the home of the Divas is set for 6 p.m. The Passion kicked...
Quaker Valley grad Tanabe hopes to build on first collegiate golf victory
Michael Binney thought the jinx was over. During a fall-season match, the Bucknell men’s golf coach watched two of his players, Connor O’Brien and Quaker Valley grad Chris Tanabe, get into a four-man playoff for the title at the Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge in Vermont. A Bucknell golfer hadn’t won...
Pair of Quaker Valley students does Sewickley Diving Academy proud
Quaker Valley sixth-graders Ruby Olliffe and Ruby Krotine have been gems for a youth diving program run out of Sewickley Valley YMCA. Olliffe and Krotine, members of Sewickley Diving Academy, qualified for the AAU Red-White-Blue National Championships on May 24-27 in Coral Springs, Fla. Olliffe (173.55 points) and Krotine (139.50)...
Pennsylvania’s respected Golden Gloves tradition renews Saturday night in Monroeville
Twenty-six amateur boxers will meet at Pro Sports Center in Monroeville at 7 p.m. Saturday night to compete at the Pennsylvania State Golden Gloves Finals, a competition that decides who will compete for a national championship in Tennessee in May. Throughout the history of the Golden Gloves tournament, Pennsylvania has...
Plum’s Oravitz prepares for next phase of hockey career
As Cole Oravitz prepared for the Madison Capitols in their United States Hockey League weekend series against Green Bay, part of his focus was tuned to Buffalo, N.Y, and the NCAA Frozen Four. The Plum junior committed to UMass last month, and the Minutemen were taking part in Thursday’s national...
East Region all-star squad wins 2019 Junior Roundball Classic
Offense was the name of the game at the Junior Roundball Classic held recently at Seton LaSalle. The East Region all-star squad won the 2019 championship, defeating the South and North in the two-night event. The two teams clicked for a total of 23 field goals from 3-point range East-North...
Spencer Lee honored at Iowa State Capitol
Former Franklin Regional star Spencer Lee enjoys repeats. Repeat trips to the NCAA wrestling finals. Repeat national championships. And repeat visits to the Iowa State Legislature. Lee, a sophomore at Iowa, was honored for the second year in a row Wednesday at the Iowa State Capitol Building in Des Moines...
Latrobe Legion’s Bush gets call to state hall of fame
Longtime Latrobe manager Jason Bush is going into the Pennsylvania American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame. Bush, set to begin his 21st season with the Jethawks (15 as manager), has 316 wins and has won Region 7 and District 31 championships. He has guided Latrobe to the playoffs 14 times....
Whitehall’s Quallich finishes 8th at Drive, Chip & Putt
There was a Pittsburgh-area presence at the annual Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Whitehall native Michael Quallich finished eighth in the boys’ 7-9 age division. It was his third time competing but first trip to the finals. Quallich, 9, is...
Trip to Tarentum football game changed Paul Killian’s life
Long before he became a doctor and a football star, Paul Killian was just a kid from West Tarentum looking for a way out. Killian remembers the moment when he was a child and his father, Paul, took him to Tarentum’s Dreshar Stadium for a Friday night football matchup between...
