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All-state girls basketball: Ellis’ Natalie Jasper, Canevin’s Diajha Allen receive Class 2A honors
Ellis School junior Natalie Jasper and Bishop Canevin senior Diajha Allen, who led their teams deep into the playoffs, earned all-state honors Wednesday in Class 2A girls basketball. Jasper was named to the second team and Allen made third team in a vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. Bishop Canevin went...
All-state girls basketball: Rochester teammates share statewide honors in Class A
Rochester teammates Alexis Robison and Corynne Hauser, who repeated as WPIAL girls basketball champions, drew statewide recognition Wednesday by earning all-state honors in Class A. Robison, a junior, made the first team and Hauser, a sophomore, made second team in a vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. Rochester went 26-1 and...
Charleroi names athletic director Brady Barbero as new football coach
Charleroi didn’t have to search far and wide to find its new football coach after Lance Getsy tendered his resignation near the end of February. Current Charleroi athletic director and former California head coach Brady Barbero was hired Tuesday with a unanimous vote of the school board. “This is something...
Southmoreland girls basketball coach Brian Pritts steps down after banner season
Every day during the stay-at-home era, Brian Pritts has seen firsthand why he put space between himself and basketball. He wakes up at 6 a.m., drinks a tall glass of water, works out and reads. But first, he does a head count of his blessings: his wife, Kristin, and his...
Penn Hills’ Collins preparing for a 2-sport college career
AJ Collins is seeing with double vision as he will join both the men’s soccer and baseball teams at Penn State New Kensington. Baseball always has been the first love for the Penn Hills senior as he started to play the sport at a young age. Soccer came later —...
Derry hopes to hire football coach within month
When Derry hired Tim Sweeney as its football coach in 2013, athletic director Brett Miller considered it a home run. Sweeney took a struggling program and made it a winner, which brought excitement back to Friday nights in eastern Westmoreland County. But Miller knew with that success and Sweeney’s desire...
Together again: Highlands guards commit to Point Park for basketball
Since they were young, Luke Cochran and Korry Myers have developed a special bond on the basketball court. From youth leagues to middle school to this winter, when they brought Highlands its first WPIAL championship since 1995, the guards have created an endless amount of memories. Most on-court relationships like...
All-state girls basketball: Mohawk’s Karly McCutcheon, Carlynton’s Jada Lee honored in Class 3A
Mohawk’s Karly McCutcheon and Carlynton’s Jada Lee, whose girls basketball teams met twice in the playoffs this winter, each earned all-state honors Tuesday in Class 3A. They were the only WPIAL players selected in 3A in a statewide vote of Pennsylvania sports writers. Both earned third-team honors. Lee is headed...
All-state girls basketball: North Catholic’s Tess Myers, Kylee Lewandowski among 6 WPIAL players selected in 4A
North Catholic teammates Tess Myers and Kylee Lewandowski, who extended their team’s WPIAL title streak to four, shared first-team all-state girls basketball honors Tuesday in Class 4A. Blackhawk senior Mackenzie Amalia also earned first-team honors, giving the WPIAL three of the top six roster spots. Myers is a Duquesne recruit,...
Senior spotlight: Seton LaSalle hoops standout won’t forget good times on diamond
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Seton LaSalle’s Michael Bigley is a basketball guy at heart. He averaged 18.2 points per game this season, going over the 1,000-point mark for his career, and...
Beaver Falls RB/LB Josh Hough commits to SyracuseVideo
Beaver Falls junior Josh Hough, who saw his recruiting stock rise quickly in recent months, committed Monday to Syracuse. The 6-foot-2, 240-pound running back and linebacker announced his decision on Twitter. Hough drew nearly 20 Division I offers and received them all since Jan. 10. Syracuse offered him a scholarship...
Horse or no horse, Penn Hills football schedules scrimmage at Aliquippa
Jon LeDonne is taking his Penn Hills football team to Aliquippa to scrimmage at his alma mater’s stadium this fall. With one condition. “I told them to make sure they’ve still got the horse and the flaming spear,” said LeDonne, a 2001 Aliquippa graduate who witnessed the Quips’ pregame tradition...
Peters Township hires new coaches for boys, girls basketball teams
Peters Township filled two vacant coaching jobs Monday night by hiring Joe Urmann to lead the boys basketball team and Bob Miles to lead the girls. Urmann coached the Baldwin boys for seven seasons from 2011-18 and was previously an assistant at Mt. Lebanon for four. His Baldwin teams went...
All-state girls basketball: 8 WPIAL players, coach Tim McConnell earn statewide honors in 5A
Chartiers Valley teammates Aislin Malcolm and Megan McConnell earned first-team all-state honors along with Gateway’s Lexi Jackson as WPIAL girls basketball players dominated the statewide Class 5A vote Monday. In all, eight of the 18 all-state roster spots went to WPIAL players, and Chartiers Valley’s Tim McConnell was named Coach...
All-state girls basketball: NA’s Lizzy Groetsch, Spencer Stefko lead WPIAL’s 6A selections
North Allegheny junior Lizzy Groetsch and coach Spencer Stefko saw their PIAA girls basketball title hopes dashed by the coronavirus outbreak, but both earned statewide recognition Monday. Groetsch, a Penn commit, earned first-team all-state honors in Class 6A, and Stefko was named Coach of the Year in Pennsylvania’s largest classification....
Senior spotlight: North Catholic infielder takes pride in defense, accomplishments of classmates
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Even under stay-at-home restrictions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not hard for softball players to get a few swings in. Between setting up a tee...
Senior spotlight: WPIAL high jump gold medalist had more championship aspirations
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Sami Taoufik was supposed to be standing atop a podium in his home stadium Friday night. The Butler senior and reigning WPIAL Class AAA high jump champion...
Senior spotlight: Spring sports cancellation has WVU-bound Burrell track star weighing options
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. The cancellation of the spring sports season has Burrell senior Liv Kelly rethinking some things about her college career. Not where she’s going to school. West Virginia-bound...
Scholarship offers start flowing in for Kiski Area defensive end Dilts
College football coaches aren’t saddled with leading spring practices or monitoring workouts or even attending daylong meetings on campus during the coronavirus pandemic. Many are stationed at home, hunkered over a computer screen, scouring highlights of high school athletes from around the country. Apparently, a junior defensive end from Kiski...
WPIAL Top 10: Longest basketball playoff streaks
Here are lists of the Top 10 schools with the longest WPIAL basketball playoff streaks: Boys School, Playoff streak, Years covered 1. Monessen, 39, 1982-2020 2. Blackhawk, 31, 1984-2014 3t. Aliquippa, 24, 1997-2020 3t. Chartiers Valley, 24, 1994-2017 5. Penn Hills, 22, 1980-2001 6. Sewickley Academy, 20, 2001-20 7. Jeannette,...
Area freshmen garner offers from Michigan
A pair of Western Pennsylvania freshmen have stepped into the recruiting spotlight this week. After receiving football scholarship offers to Pitt and Penn State earlier this week, Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher and Brashear’s Ta’Mere Robinson received offers from Michigan on Friday. Robinson, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound safety, reported offers from Syracuse,...
Senior spotlight: Burrell pitcher uses off-the-wall method to keep throwing
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Burrell pitcher Jack Henderson wants to keep his arm loose even as the coronavirus restrictions that canceled the high school baseball season keep him at home, but...
Pitt football makes offer as recruiting frenzy for freshman phenom Rodney Gallagher heats up
Before it’s done, the recruitment of Laurel Highlands freshman sensation Rodney Gallagher might wake up the echoes of the mad 2008 pursuit of Jeannette star Terrelle Pryor. It’s become clear Gallagher is going to receive dozens of scholarship offers from the top programs in the country in both basketball and...
Pitt extends scholarship offers to Beaver Falls’ Josh Hough, Brashear’s Ta’Mere Robinson
Pitt extended scholarship offers to two area prospects Thursday. Beaver Falls junior running back Josh Hough, who scored a touchdown an average of every 7 1/2 carries last season, and Brashear freshman safety Ta’Mere Robinson (6-3, 190) announced the offers on their Twitter accounts. Blessed to receive an offer from...
WPIAL Top 10: Most basketball championships won
Here are lists of the Top 10 schools with the most WPIAL basketball championships: Boys School, Championships, First, Most recent 1t. Farrell, 13, 1951, 1992 1t. New Castle, 13, 1927, 2019 3t. Aliquippa, 12, 1949, 2016 3t. Duquesne, 12, 1928, 2005 5. Beaver Falls, 10, 1970, 2016 6. Blackhawk, 9,...
