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The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during a HSSN Media Day live broadcast at Kennywood Park. As a youngster at Sto-Rox football games, Eric Wilson watched as...

North Catholic’s Kylee Lewandowski, now in the heart of AAU basketball season, added two more college offers. The 6-foot-1 guard announced offers from Denver and Miami (Ohio) in the past week, pushing her scholarship total to more than a dozen. Lewandowski, a Trib 10 all-star, will be a senior in...

The PIAA believes junior high baseball players shouldn’t throw as many pitches as high school hurlers, so a separate pitch count was established this week. Starting next spring, Pennsylvania’s junior high/middle school pitchers will be limited to 75 pitches in a day and 150 in a calendar week (Sunday through...

Early indications say the WPIAL Class of 2023 will be special. That group is just now entering high school this fall, but at least three basketball players from that incoming freshman class already have Division I offers. Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher, Indiana’s Eve Fiala and North Allegheny’s Jasmine Timmerson all...

The high school baseball regular season will continue to have a 20-game limit after the PIAA denied a request to add more contests. The PIAA board on Wednesday rejected a recommendation from the PIAA baseball committee that would have increased the regular-season maximum to 24 games next season. “The board...

Waynesburg’s Daniel Layton became the most talked about track star in the WPIAL this spring, a situation neither he nor his father could have imagined. Layton drew support from track fans all around Western Pennsylvania who wanted to see the reigning WPIAL 110-meter hurdle champion have a chance to defend...

A year after tearing an ACL, Trinity basketball standout Riley DeRubbo celebrated another milestone Wednesday when she committed to Atlantic 10 champion Fordham. The 5-foot-9 guard will be a senior in the fall. She announced her commitment on Twitter. DeRubbo, who injured her knee in AAU season last summer, missed...

WPIAL soccer referees must keep using the “double dual” officiating system, at least for now. The PIAA board on Wednesday tabled a request for a pilot program in the WPIAL that would have transitioned referees to the “diagonal system of control” used by many soccer organizations worldwide. The PIAA could...

The PIAA hearing scheduled Wednesday for Moon basketball standout Donovan Johnson was postponed. “They informed me first thing this morning that their attorney could not make it, so they were unable to come,” PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said. “We’re going to have to reschedule it.” A new date was...

Maybe the biggest story of track season came months earlier when the WPIAL decided to move the individual championship meet to Slippery Rock. Baldwin had hosted the Class AAA meet 30 out of 32 years since 1987 (excluding 1989-90), and the Class AA competition moved there in 2009. Both relocated...

Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump, one of the WPIAL’s top quarterbacks, announced his third college offer from Dayton. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound rising senior added the Flyers on Monday to a list that already included Howard and Valparaiso. Stump passed for 1,833 yards and 24 touchdowns last season as the Jaguars went...

Four more names joined the list of Division I basketball teams recruiting North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch. The 5-foot-11 junior guard added Toledo, Lafayette, UMass and Charlotte since Saturday, raising her total to a dozen offers. Groetsch, a 2021 graduate, already listed offers from Binghamton, Brown, Colgate, Drexel, Penn, Richmond, Stony...

West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson will learn this month whether he can play football in the fall. Johnson, ruled ineligible by the WPIAL, will have his appeal heard July 30 by the PIAA. The rising junior and Pitt recruit transferred from Steel Valley in December. Steel Valley administrators contested Johnson’s transfer...

Belle Vernon sophomore Devin Whitlock, a two-sport standout who transferred from Monessen, is eligible to play football and basketball this upcoming school year. Whitlock had a hearing Monday before the WPIAL board, which declared him eligible with a split vote, said WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley. The WPIAL originally declared...

The WPIAL’s leading scorer is headed to the Great Plains. Recent Woodland Hills graduate Keandre Bowles, a 28.9-point scorer, announced Sunday his commitment to Barton College in Great Bend, Kan. The team competes in Division I of the National Junior College Athletic Association. The 6-foot-3 guard was a Trib 10...

Bishop Canevin’s Diajha Allen, a rising senior, announced her commitment to St. Francis (Pa.) basketball Sunday. The 5-foot-5 guard averaged 13.2 points for the Crusaders, who went 22-4 last season, reaching the WPIAL semifinals and the PIAA second round. The 2020 graduate revealed her commitment on Twitter. St. Francis hired...

Bethel Park’s Olivia Westphal added several more names to her scholarship list Sunday. The 5-foot-9 rising junior received offers from Charlotte, Miami (Ohio), Toledo and Wichita State, her AAU team announced on Twitter. Westphal, a 2021 recruit, was a 16-point scorer last season for Bethel Park. The Black Hawks went...

Chartiers Valley basketball standout Aislin Malcolm, one of the WPIAL’s top rising sophomores, received an offer Sunday from West Virginia. Her AAU team, the Western Pa. Bruins, announced her offer on Twitter. The 5-foot-10 guard already held offers from Pitt and Kent State. Malcolm was a key contributor this past...

North Allegheny’s Jake Lugg plays left tackle for the Tigers like older brother, Josh, did a few years earlier. With two Division I linemen in the same family, it’s inevitable they’re compared often — maybe too often. “I love being compared to him sometimes,” Lugg said, “and sometimes I feel...

The WPIAL could change the way soccer games are officiated next season, if the PIAA approves. The PIAA board must decide Wednesday whether to let the WPIAL organize a pilot program that transitions its officials to the “diagonal system of control” used by soccer organizations around the world rather than...

Pennsylvania high school baseball teams could play a few more regular-season games next season, if the PIAA baseball steering committee gets its wish. The PIAA board of directors on Wednesday will consider a recommendation from the baseball committee to increase the in-season maximum from 20 to 24 games. “This is...

With Moon and Mars leading the way, it’s safe to say the 2018-19 WPIAL boys basketball season was out of this world. It helps that the two Class 5A rivals combined for one of the most memorable finishes in WPIAL championship history. Andrew Recchia made a game-winning 3-pointer with 2.6...

Basketball star Donovan Johnson will learn next week whether he can play his senior season at Moon. The PIAA has scheduled his appeal hearing for Wednesday, said PIAA administrator Mark Byers. The PIAA board meets that day in State College. The 6-foot-7 standout is ineligible for next season under a...

Northgate football coach Michael Fulmore was headed home after a summer workout when something high in the Bellevue sky grabbed his attention. For the first time in two years, there were light towers above Alumni Field. “I was driving down the street and could see them from the main avenue,”...

The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. West Mifflin’s season opener is only six weeks away, and Nahki Johnson doesn’t know...