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Mars’ Khori Fusco headed to prep powerhouse for post-graduate season
Mars basketball standout Khori Fusco, who was a senior last season, announced Tuesday he’s headed to a powerhouse prep school near Shippensburg. Fusco will attend Scotland Campus, he announced on Twitter. The Franklin County school has produced a number of Division I recruits under coach Chris Chaney, who just finished...
George Guido: Plum football’s game at Hempfield takes on larger significance
Plum’s football game at Hempfield on Oct. 25 now is a conference game — kind of. The change is part of necessary tweaking with the WPIAL Class 5A playoff qualification criteria. The change was necessitated by Albert Gallatin leaving the WPIAL, which left Class 5A with 23 teams competing for...
Hempfield’s Roby, Perkins ready to carry the load in backfield
When Hempfield quarterback Blake Remaley said the offense will have a different look — the Spartans plan to focus on the run game — two players’ eyes lit up. That change is fully endorsed by senior running back Nathan Roby and junior Mario Perkins. That duo, along with the other...
Fox Chapel’s Brown on mission to return team to WPIAL playoffs
Sam Brown is on a mission. It is two-fold with personal and team goals in mind. The Fox Chapel senior running back and linebacker received his first Division-I offer last week from Dayton. He expects other offers in the coming months. Brown also wants to make a major impact in...
WPIAL football position-by-position breakdown: Scouting the running backs
High school football has become a pass-oriented game, but that doesn’t mean teams across Western Pennsylvania have abandoned running the football. Eight of the 12 teams that reached WPIAL championships last year had at least one 1,000-yard rusher. Three of the finalists — Rochester, Steel Valley and Derry — had...
Bob Palko brings ‘tough love’ to Mt. Lebanon as football teams open camp
Bob Palko compared the first day of football camp to planning a beach vacation, even though the only deep blue in sight Monday was Mt. Lebanon’s helmets and his new Blue Devils shorts. “You dream all year about getting to the beach,” he said. “What’s it going to look like?”...
Physical play highlights opening of camps for H.S. football teamsVideo
The sun hadn’t even risen above the horizon Monday morning, and Franklin Regional coach Greg Botta was enthusiastically putting his team through drills. Botta was having fun interacting with his players as they prepared for the “Oklahoma drill.” The first official day of football camp across the WPIAL and PIAA...
Greensburg Salem football faces rugged regular-season schedule
High school football training camps officially began Monday, but for Greensburg Salem’s Golden Lions, the season started the minute the 2018 campaign concluded with a first-round WPIAL playoff loss to South Fayette. It was the Lions’ first postseason appearance in seven years, and they’re hungry to extend this year’s season...
Mars’ Carmody picked for All-American Bowl, 4th WPIAL player in 4 years
For the fourth year in a row, the WPIAL had a high school football player chosen for the All-American Bowl. Mars senior Michael Carmody announced Monday that he’d accepted an invitation to the all-star game in San Antonio. The game, which features players from across the country, will be Jan....
A-K Valley football teams take it up a notch with start of preseason campsVideo
Brandon Mowry has experienced numerous opening days of preseason camp with the Knoch football team, but Monday morning’s start, he said, had a different feel. Mowry, a longtime assistant with the Knights, oversaw his first two-a-day workout as head coach of one of 13 Alle-Kiski teams to don pads for...
Always one to lighten mood, Deer Lakes’ Hollibaugh got lighter to improve his play
Deer Lakes football coach Tim Burk is never exactly sure what his tight end Jack Hollibaugh is going to say when he enters the locker room, but he knows it likely will be something funny. “He’s the team jokester, and he lights up a room,” Burk said. “His personality is...
WPIAL football position-by-position breakdown: Scouting the quarterbacksVideo
WPIAL passing records have fallen one after another over the past five years, a sign high school football in Western Pennsylvania has changed. South Fayette’s Brett Brumbaugh set the WPIAL career yardage record in 2014. Gateway’s Brady Walker broke the WPIAL single-season yardage record in 2017. And last year, Sto-Rox’s...
Penn State, Rochester product Derek Moye takes over Western Beaver
Derek Moye walked into the office of Western Beaver athletic director Ryan Matsook to check on preparations for the upcoming football season. Moye was informed some equipment had arrived, and Matsook presented him with a large cardboard box. Moye, the Golden Beavers’ first-year coach, hoisted the box up his still-athletic...
Johns looking to lead Franklin Regional football
If Justin Johns decides to attend the Air Force Academy, don’t look for the Franklin Regional senior to become the next “Top Gun.” “I think I’m too big to be a pilot,” Johns said, a 6-foot-1, 230-pound senior. “It’s a great offer though.” While flying airplanes isn’t in his future,...
Apollo-Ridge’s Logan Harmon eager for camp after injury-shortened 2018 season
When turning his attention to Monday morning — the start of official preseason practices for high school football teams throughout the WPIAL — a big smile came across Logan Harmon’s face. “I don’t know how much I will be able to sleep (Sunday night),” the Apollo-Ridge junior said. “I will...
Thomas Jefferson notebook: Kulish coaches prep for boys soccer opener
News from around the Thomas Jefferson campus: • Michael “Doc” Kulish is beginning his 27th year as coach of the boys soccer program. He has 364 wins in his career at TJ. His son, Michael Jr., is starting his 18th season as the junior varsity coach. Michael Jr. has registered...
Former Thomas Jefferson volleyball players recap busy summers
Three senior volleyball players at Thomas Jefferson from last season — defensive specialists Julia Fiedor, Mia Como and Julia Micklo — were lauded in April as Outstanding Young Citizens by Trib Total Media. Fiedor and Micklo were three-year letter-winners in volleyball. Como earned two varsity letters. I was able to...
Fox Chapel cross country teams must fill several spots opened by graduations
Fox Chapel cross country coach Tom Moul will have a lot of running shoes to fill on the girls and boys squads this season. “On the girls side, we lost three of our top five runners in Annika Urban, Sareena Seeger and Anna Folkerts,” he said. “Annika and Sareena were...
Quaker Valley HOF tennis teams dominated opposition
Quaker Valley’s girls tennis program has been a dominant force in the 21st century. The Quakers won four straight WPIAL Class 2A team titles from 2004-07. The final two championship teams (’06, ’07) gained additional honors as they will be inducted into the Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame on...
Quaker Valley’s 2006 hockey team set program standard
Quaker Valley’s hockey team has developed into one of the PIHL’s most consistent programs over the past two decades. The 2005-06 team set the standard, though, when it captured the first Class A Penguins Cup and Pennsylvania Cup championships in program history. That group will be recognized further when it...
Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame announces 1st class
The Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame announced its first class of inductees as decided upon by the Pine-Richland Athletic Hall of Fame Committee. The inductees will be honored at 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 4 before the football team’s WPIAL Class 6A game against Canon-McMillan at Pine-Richland Stadium. A banquet will...
Plum’s Kelly balances sports, music as key cog on soccer team
Cole Kelly does his best to split his time for his two passions — soccer and music — because he loves them equally. Kelly, a rising senior at Plum, was an All-WPIAL defender last year and plays saxophone in the marching band. Every once in a while, the disciplines nearly...
The Herald Spotlight Athlete: Brooke Krally, Fox Chapel
Brooke Krally, a senior on the Fox Chapel cross country team, is entering her fourth year on the team. She was a member of the team that won the PIAA title two years ago. She hopes to keep running in college, and she is considering Duquesne, Pitt, W&J and a...
Linemen Malis, Adams ready to lead the way for Derry
If the Derry football team wants to challenge for a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 3A Interstate Conference title, it will be the guys in the trenches who will pave the way. Seniors Max Malis and Gavin Adams have been anchoring the Trojans offensive and defensive lines for three seasons and...
Upper St. Clair’s Matheny to swim at World Junior Championships
Upper St. Clair rising junior Joshua Matheny will be among the world’s best under-18 swimmers at the FINA World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Aug. 20-25. Matheny, 16, was one of 45 boys and girls named Thursday to represent Team USA. Matheny placed third in the men’s 200 long-course...
