Michael Love stories, Page 100

The Summer Rams (Highlands) baseball team saw its run in the Western Pennsylvania Summer Baseball League playoffs come to an end in the quarterfinals Monday evening. Garrett Greco singled home Martin Marion in the bottom of the seventh to lead Belle Vernon to a 3-2 walk-off victory at John Divirgilio...

The Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League announced Monday morning it has canceled its 2020 season. A message on Twitter said the decision was made after the league’s board of representatives expressed and discussed concerns over several months and also presented ways to possibly have a season amid the ongoing coronavirus...

Mike Wilder knows the track at The Meadows very well. The harness racing veteran and Washington resident also knows what it is like to compete for one of the sport’s premier championships. Wilder, who owns more than 8,000 career victories, had previously recorded a trio of fourth-place finishes in the...

When one door closed, another opened for the Plum 12U Cooperstown baseball team. When the team found out its spring Cooperstown, N.Y., tournament trip was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, it hoped to find other opportunities to compete. One opportunity came in the form of a tournament at the...

The Summer Rams (Highlands) baseball team stayed alive in the Western Pennsylvania Summer Baseball League playoffs Thursday evening with a come-from-behind 8-6 victory over Thomas Jefferson in a second-round game halted after six innings because of darkness. The umpires made the decision to call the game, and after a rules...

USA Swimming in late June released a comprehensive plan for a return to competition for local clubs throughout the country after the national organization halted events in March in the wake of the burgeoning coronavirus pandemic. Racer-X, a member of Allegheny Mountain Swimming, is one of the first clubs in...

The Irwin Area summer baseball team doubled its pleasure Thursday evening at Gateway High School, and it now is just two wins away from a Western Pennsylvania Baseball League tournament title. It started with an 11-0 victory over Plum and completed the sweep with a 5-2 quarterfinal win over the...

Despite the absence of one of harness racing’s fastest and most decorated horses, Saturday’s $375,000 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids at the Meadows in Washington is shaping up to be a competitive race. Papi Rob Hanover was the likely favorite after setting a world record (1:47.1) for 3-year-old...

Playing their first game in more than two weeks, the Summer Rams (Highlands) topped Bethel Park, 9-5, on Wednesday at Gateway High School in a first-round contest in the Western Pennsylvania Summer Baseball League playoff tournament. The Summer Rams, now 9-6 overall this summer, advance to the second round and...

After two seasons away from coaching high school hockey, Cory Sakolsky is back. The Plum and Cal (Pa.) graduate and former Butler assistant and head coach is the new man in charge at Shaler, and he is excited to see where the Titans program can go. “I’ve not seen any...

The chalk that surrounded home plate and trailed down the first- and third-base lines at Freeport Borough’s James Swartz Memorial Field hadn’t begun to fade away before Freeport International Baseball Invitational officials were thinking ahead to next year’s weeklong event in the Alle-Kiski Valley. “There’s a lot of positive energy...

For the first time in the nearly seven decades of youth baseball and softball in the communities that serve the Baldwin-Whitehall School District, players will compete under the umbrella of a single organization. The Baldwin Whitehall Athletic Association has agreed to merge into the Greater Baldwin Whitehall Athletic Association, effectively...

Allegheny Mountain Swimming recently announced its swimmers who earned scholastic All-American honors for the 2018-19 academic year based on requirements set by USA Swimming. The All-American recognition combines the swimmer’s accomplishments in the pool for his or her club programs as well as achievements in the classroom. To make the...

Joe Rice stepped to the plate and swung for the fences. He made contact with a second-inning offering from pitcher Rob Toy. The ball sailed into shallow center and dropped in for an RBI single. While he didn’t crush the ball, it turned out to be an effective at-bat. For...

Another deep field featuring 21 top 3-year-old colts and gelding pacers are set for Saturday’s Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids at The Meadows. The 54th edition will have an estimated purse of $450,000 on the line. The field will be split into a trio of elimination races, each...

From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Youngstown Class B league held to its intention to be a place for scholastic-age players, including numerous from the WPIAL, to go this summer. Veterans of the league and newcomers have made the most of the season since early last month, when...

The Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, East Boros Chapter, announced Tuesday it has canceled its annual induction banquet scheduled for Oct. 8 at Edgewood Country Club. The covid-19 pandemic and the logistics of hosting a ceremony of that size, East Boros president Bob Ford said, was the main reason for...

Several WPIAL swimming standouts recently were honored as All-Americans by the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association for times recorded during the 2019-20 season. The lists are compiled based on individual and relay times recorded at sanctioned high school meets during the season and submitted by the programs during the application...

For nearly four months, Freeport International Baseball Invitational officials closely monitored updates on the coronavirus pandemic. All the while, the 26th annual event, set to begin Tuesday and continue through Saturday, remained alive. Now, on the eve of the start of a full slate of games involving nearly two dozen...

West Virginia senior defensive lineman Darius Stills has garnered a great deal of preseason attention. Just a few days after being named to the watch list for the Bednarik Award, which each year honors the top defensive player in college football, Stills was selected by the media the Big 12...

When the coronavirus pandemic shut down all MLB operations in March, Chase Rowe began to think about his future in professional baseball. A month earlier, the Knoch graduate and former Slippery Rock standout began work as a minor league hitting instructor with the Detroit Tigers, a dream position for the...

When Trevor George was hired as the head coach of the Riverview football team, he hit the ground running with workout and conditioning sessions that helped him get to know better the players with whom he would be working. The Carlynton grad said momentum built over the few weeks from...

New Kensington’s Skyy Moore, a Shady Side Academy graduate and rising sophomore wide receiver at Western Michigan in the Mid-American Conference, has been named to the preseason Biletnikoff Award watch list. The Biletnikoff Award is presented each year to the nation’s top college receiver by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation....

Michael Marisco walked the golf course as often as possible over the past couple of months. The Fox Chapel graduate built a measure of momentum with successful results and made the field for the West Penn Amateur at Allegheny Country Club with a first-place finish in a qualifier last month....