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Central Valley trio announces 1st FBS offers from same MAC schoolVideo
Central Valley teammates Ameer Dudley, Stephon Hall and Myles Walker celebrated a WPIAL football championship last fall at Heinz Field. Now, one college wants to keep them together. The juniors announced offers Tuesday from Central Michigan, giving them their first Division I FBS options. Dudley, the team’s quarterback, earlier announced...
Gateway wideout Chamor Price adds 9th FBS offer this month
Gateway wideout Chamor Price had a breakout season last year and college coaches have taken notice. The 6-foot-1, 175-pound junior announced nine Division I FBS offers this month including his first Power 5 offer from Syracuse. He added Central Michigan on Wednesday to a list that already had Akron, Ball...
PIAA rejects Quaker Valley wrestler Hunter Robison’s request to compete in postseason
Quaker Valley transfer Hunter Robison’s hopes to wrestle this season were dashed by the PIAA. The WPIAL previously ruled the state-ranked sophomore ineligible for the postseason and the PIAA agreed with that decision Tuesday, leaving him unable to compete in team or individual tournaments this winter. The WPIAL Class 2A...
WPIAL Clinched: Boys basketball through Jan. 28.
The WPIAL boys basketball regular season has a week and a half left as January is coming to an end with only three days remaining. The playoff field is starting to take shape. When the regular season ends, at least 76 boys basketball teams will earn a spot in the...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 28, 2020
Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 68, Pine-Richland 63 Central Catholic 47, North Allegheny 29 North Hills 74, Seneca Valley 61 Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 78, Bethel Park 43 Peters Township 74, Baldwin 61 Upper St. Clair 60, Canon-McMillan 42 Section 3 Connellsville 75, Latrobe 74...
High school roundup for Jan. 28, 2020: No. 1 Lincoln Park hitting its stride
With about two weeks left in the regular season, Lincoln Park looks to be hitting its stride. Two days after knocking off Kennedy Christian, the No. 1 Leopards scored a decisive Section 1-3A victory Tuesday night, defeating No. 4 Beaver Falls, 73-53. Isaiah Smith scored 16 points and Andre Wilder...
Butler clinches 1st boys basketball section title since 1992
Basketball coach Matt Clement was a junior on the team’s roster the last time Butler won a section title, but he watched Tuesday night as that 28-year wait finally ended. Clement, his players and the school’s large student section all celebrated as Ethan Morton made two free throws with 5.6...
First round, quarterfinal WPIAL team wrestling playoffs set for Wednesday
Waynesburg, Canon-McMillan, Seneca Valley and Hempfield are the four sites for the WPIAL Class AAA first round and quarterfinals on Wednesday. Waynesburg is the topseed and will host Pine-Richland while Latrobe faces Connellsville. Hempfield hosts Chartiers Valley in a first-round bout while defending WPIAL champion Kiski Area and South Fayette...
Steel Valley team effort leads to win over East Allegheny
Steel Valley guard Cam Polak is the second-leading scorer in the WPIAL, averaging 32 points per game. Polak did not hit his average on Tuesday, but the Ironmen got by with a little help from Cam’s friends. The senior did score a game-high 27 points, but Steel Valley (7-3, 11-6)...
Fox Chapel boys lean on defense for road win over Norwin
Defense. Never leave home without it. That is Fox Chapel’s mantra. It is what they know and what they do best. Defense has helped the Foxes put a stranglehold on Section 3-6A and rise to take their place as the top-ranked team in the WPIAL and state. The team’s calling...
Johnny Crise shakes off injury, leads No. 3 Highlands past No. 1 Knoch
Things didn’t look good in the pre-game for Highlands standout Johnny Crise. Recovering from a knee injury sustained against Allderdice on Sunday night, Crise took just a couple of practice shots and spent the remainder of warm-up time getting worked on in front of the Highlands bench. But Crise was...
North Allegheny girls basketball team snaps Norwin’s 12-game streak
Norwin’s Jayla Wehner found solace in the possibility of having another meeting with the North Allegheny girls basketball team down the road. The Knights were held to a season low in points and shot 2 of 13 from beyond the arc in the first half of a 60-42 road loss...
Westmoreland Athletes of the Week: Norwin’s Ethan Tulenko, Hempfield’s Francesca Nemetz
Ethan Tulenko School: Norwin Sport: Swimming and Diving Class: Senior Claim to fame: Tulenko won the boys 200-yard freestyle with the time of 1 minute, 41.81 seconds at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association swimming and diving championships Jan. 25 at Derry. Tulenko broke a three-year meet record (1:44.28) that was...
A-K Valley wrestling notebook: Burrell’s AJ Corrado pins his way to 100th win
Burrell’s AJ Corrado headed into last weekend’s Thomas Chevrolet wrestling tournament in Bedford on the brink of earning his 100th career win. It didn’t take him long to get it. One minute and 11 seconds into his first match of the tournament, Corrado planted Bedford’s Gavin Habinyak and earned a...
Westmoreland County wrestling notebook: Latrobe collects medals at West Branch
It was another successful tournament for Latrobe, which earned a fourth-place finish at the West Branch Ultimate Warrior tournament. The Wildcats finished with 130.5 points, finishing behind Southern Columbia (210.5), Mifflin County (189.5) and Johnsonburg (131). Gabe Willochell was the Wildcats’ only champion, winning the 132-pound title. Freshman Nathan Roth...
Norwin’s Vince DeAugustine reaches coaching milestone
The Norwin wrestling team presented coach Vince DeAugustine a couple of banners following Monday’s match against West Mifflin. The banners were to commemorate his 250th coaching win. In 15 years as a coach, DeAugustine’s record stands 250-61, including 218-53 in 13 years at his alma mater Hempfield. And while DeAugustine...
Kiski Area looking for redemption after section championship loss
For the past three years, the Kiski Area wrestling team has come home from the WPIAL team tournament with gold in hand. The Cavaliers start their journey toward a fourth straight WPIAL team title on Wednesday when they travel to Hempfield for their first-round matchup against South Fayette. But this...
Alle-Kiski Valley Athetes of the Week: Plum’s Kennedie Montue, Leechburg’s Jake Blumer
Kennedie Montue Class: Junior School: Plum Sport: Basketball Report card: Montue eclipsed 1,000 points for her career with a 23-point effort in a 44-37 win over Franklin Regional last Monday. She also had a game-high 28 points in a 47-43 win over Mars on Friday, helping the Mustangs avenge their...
Trib HSSN WPIAL team wrestling rankings for Jan. 28, 2020
Class AAA Team record LW 1. Waynesburg 9-0 1 2. Seneca Valley 12-1 2 3. Canon-McMillan 11-3 3 4. Hempfield 17-2 4 5. Kiski Area 12-3 5 6. Thomas Jefferson 9-3 NR 7. Connellsville 10-3 7 8. North Allegheny 6-1 9 9. Latrobe 6-2 10 10. Norwin 15-4 6 Class...
Trib HSSN state team wrestling rankings for Jan. 28, 2020
Class AAA Team record LW 1. Nazareth (11) 14-1 2 2. Waynesburg 9-0 3 3. Bethlehem Catholic (11) 9-1 1 4. Seneca Valley 12-1 4 5. Erie Prep (10) 16-1 5 6. Canon-McMillan 11-3 6 7. Hempfield Area 17-2 7 8. Northampton (11) 14-1 8 9. Quakertown (1) 16-0 10...
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings for Jan. 28, 2020
Class AAA 106: 1. Mac Church, fr., Waynesburg (30-3); 2. Briar Priest, so., Hempfield (25-1); 3. Jacob Houpt, so., Canon-McMillan (19-7); 4. Vincent Kilkeary, fr., Latrobe (19-4); 5. Nick Gorman, fr., North Allegheny, (22-2). 113: 1. Carter Dibert, jr. Franklin Regional (26-1); 2. Ethan Berginc, jr. Hempfield (19-3); 3. Nico...
WPIBL regular season winding down to final two weeks
With two weeks left in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League’s regular season, teams and individuals are jockeying for championship-tournament positioning with some still fighting to qualify for the postseason. The WPIBL team championships will be Feb. 12 for the boys at Nesbit’s Lanes in Plum and Feb. 13 for...
George Guido: Special chance to see special player Kobe Bryant
The terrible news that came out Sunday about Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter accident is another example of it being great to be a high school sports reporter and getting to see athletes before they become famous. I was at the old Hersheypark Arena in 1996 when Bryant played...
Two-way Gateway football standout Tui Brown commits to UConnVideo
Gateway senior Tui Brown, a two-way standout for the WPIAL champion, committed Sunday to UConn. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound linebacker and tight end caught a team-best 45 passes for 587 yards and nine touchdowns. He also had 45 tackles, three sacks, an interception and a fumble recovery for a Gateway team...
TJ notebook: Alyssa DeAngelo hits 1,000-point milestone
Thomas Jefferson senior Alyssa DeAngelo scored her 1,000th career point Jan. 13 in a section game at Trinity. DeAngelo, a multiple-year starter who averages 18 points per game, reached the milestone with 2 minutes, 15 seconds remaining in the second quarter of her team’s 61-50 loss to the Hillers. After...
