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Mt. Lebanon boys lacrosse featured on ESPN’s ‘Senior Night’ segment
The Mt. Lebanon boys lacrosse team has yet to play an official game this spring but received recognition on national television Wednesday night. ESPN’s SportsCenter featured the Blue Devils’ 13 seniors as part of Scott Van Pelt’s nightly “Senior Night” series that is recognizing senior high school and college athletes...
Senior spotlight: Seton LaSalle volleyball’s Manion brings a lot to the table
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. Luke Manion made a name for himself on the Seton LaSalle volleyball team the past three seasons, earning all-WPIAL and all-state honors as a setter for...
Penn Hills to open football season against West Virginia power
Penn Hills announced the opening game on its 2020 football schedule Wednesday night, and it’s a headline-grabber for a variety of reasons. The Indians will meet West Virginia power Martinsburg at 5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29 as part of the WPIAL vs. Everyone season-opening event at Woodland Hills’ Wolvarena. The...
Scott Arnold takes over Franklin Regional girls soccer program
Scott Arnold has spent parts of the past 20-plus years coaching various levels of club soccer. Now, he is getting a chance to coach at the high school level. Arnold was hired Monday night to lead the Franklin Regional girls soccer program. “I knew it was a really good fit...
Big 33, East-West football all-star games still planned for Memorial Day weekend
The Big 33 Football Classic and East-West Game remain scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, according to Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association executive director Garry Cathell. The organization extended its timeline for making a decision on the annual football all-star games to April 15. The continued outbreak of the coronavirus has...
Senior spotlight: West Allegheny catcher misses camaraderie on softball diamond
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. West Allegheny senior Britney Wilson is hoping against hope that there’s a softball season this year, but not because she has a chance to win a...
Belle Vernon’s Callaway rehabbing from knee injury as he prepares to play at Dayton
It wasn’t long ago Larry Callaway questioned if he would play football again. A multi-sport athlete who also excelled on the basketball court at Belle Vernon, Callaway was less than a week into his senior basketball season when it came to a sudden end. Early in the fourth quarter of...
Baldwin’s Dorien Ford draws Arizona offer
Baldwin’s Dorien Ford has scholarship offers from teams in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC. On Tuesday, he completed the tour of the Power 5 Conferences. The junior defensive lineman received an offer from Arizona, which finished 4-8 overall and 2-7 in the Pac-12 Conference last fall. Blessed...
Senior spotlight: TJ tennis standout would like another crack at WPIAL title
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight a WPIAL spring athlete whose senior year has been put on hold by the coronavirus pandemic. If there’s a WPIAL tennis player who most hopes there is a season this year, it just might be Yash Maheshwari. The Thomas Jefferson senior has...
Chartiers Valley headlines Big 56 all-section basketball teams
No team in the WPIAL had as successful a 2019-20 season as the Chartiers Valley girls. The Colts were the only team to emerge from the WPIAL tournament undefeated, and they set a district record by running their winning streak to 57 games. The postseason awards they’re receiving reflect that...
PCN to broadcast 2017 basketball title tilt between Pine-Richland, Reading
Led by Miami recruit Lonnie Walker, Reading High came into the 2017 PIAA Class 6A basketball finals with a caravan of fired-up fans hoping to see the school win its first state title. Led by Notre Dame football recruit Phil Jurkovec, Pine-Richland’s plan was to silence the crowd and claim...
PIAA denies proposal to allow football scrimmage day after heat acclimatization
The PIAA Board of Directors on Monday voted to deny a proposal that would have allowed schools to hold a non-contact scrimmage with an opponent the day after the five-day heat acclimatization period in August. Teams still will be allowed to hold a full-contact scrimmage the following Friday before playing...
PIAA keeps winter championships, spring sports on hold
The PIAA kept the fate of unfinished winter championships and the start of spring sports on hold Monday while awaiting further action from Gov. Tom Wolf’s office and the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Department of Education. During the board of directors meeting, there was no further clarity on winter...
North Catholic’s Isaac DeGregorio to walk on at Kentucky
North Catholic standout Isaac DeGregorio will continue his basketball career at one of the most successful college programs in the country. DeGregorio will attend Kentucky as a preferred walk-on, he announced Saturday afternoon via his Twitter account. A 5-foot-11 point guard, DeGregorio led North Catholic to a Class 3A WPIAL...
Isolated college coaches, players deal with change in recruiting landscape
When it’s time to get serious about next football season, Ethan Carr will get down on the floor and do a series of push-ups and sit-ups, followed by some challenging pull-ups. Then, he might open the front door and run through the mostly deserted streets of Harrison City. It is...
Pitt, Penn State make cut as Peters Township’s Donovan McMillon narrows college choices
After receiving scholarship offers from more than three dozen schools, Peters Township safety Donovan McMillon has narrowed down his choices. Pitt and Penn State were among the schools that made the cut as McMillon announced his favored 15 schools via his Twitter account Friday night. McMillon is also considering Michigan...
Busy week of recruiting for Pine-Richland’s Luke MillerVideo
Pine-Richland playmaker Luke Miller has seen quite and uptick in his recruiting this week. The receiver/outside linebacker reported scholarship offers from Akron, Youngstown State and New Hampshire on Friday. He was offered by Duquesne and Buffalo on Thursday. He also has an offer from Coastal Carolina. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound junior...
Waynesburg wrestling ranked among top 50 high school teams in country
According to trackwrestling.com, one WPIAL school was among the top 50 high school wrestling teams in the country this season. Waynesburg, which won a WPIAL Class AAA team title and finished first in the team race at the WPIAL individual tournament, is the 35th-best high school team in the country,...
Buzzer-beater by Seton LaSalle’s Emma Walsh picked for Maxpreps’ Top 10
High school basketball fans can relive a special moment for Emma Walsh and the Seton LaSalle girls basketball team. Walsh hit a half-court buzzer beater to beat South Park, 54-53 in overtime, in a Section 2-3A game Jan. 13. Video of the shot circulated across various forms of social media...
Central Valley safety Stephon Hall adds WVU, Navy scholarship offers
The coronavirus pandemic has kept Central Valley junior safety Stephon Hall from taking visits to colleges around the region. It hasn’t, however, slowed down college coaches from offering him scholarship opportunities. Hall picked up offers from West Virginia and Navy on Thursday. He also was offered by Boston College this...
Pine-Richland’s Miguel Jackson adds Navy offer
One of the top defensive ends in Western Pennsylvania has made quite an impression on college programs. Pine-Richland junior Miguel Jackson picked up three scholarship offers in the past week, including one from Navy on Thursday. Thankful and excited to receive an offer from The Naval Academy‼️#BuiltDifferent pic.twitter.com/eWq6cpWtUB— Miguel Jackson...
Ohio High School Athletic Association cancels winter sports championships
The winter season is over for high school athletes in Ohio. The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced Thursday that it has canceled the remainder of its winter sports tournaments in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. OHSAA had postponed its wrestling, basketball and ice hockey state tournaments March 12....
Butler’s Ethan Morton named Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year
The Butler boys basketball team still has a shot to win a PIAA Class 6A title if the season continues. If the Golden Tornado take the floor together again, they will do so with the best player in the state. Senior guard Ethan Morton was named the Gatorade Pennsylvania Player...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the year: Canon-McMillan’s Gerrit Nijenhuis
Gerrit Nijenhuis is a dynamic performer and two-time state champion who added another sparkling chapter to Canon-McMillan’s storied wrestling history this season, so it probably is not fair to boil down his high school career to just one number. Then again, it’s a really impressive number. Nijenhuis’ 6-0 victory over...
Tribune-Review Westmoreland County wrestler of the year: Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps
Kurtis Phipps, like everyone in the world, is bored sitting at home watching TV. But that is what has happened with the coronavirus forcing people to take precautions to stay healthy. Phipps is glad the PIAA didn’t stop its wrestling tournament like the NCAA did for the basketball and wrestling...
