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Western PA Bruins earn No. 5 seed for 16U national tournament
In the first year of its girls basketball league-style AAU circuit, the Under Armour Association has been providing players from around the country a unique opportunity they didn’t quite have before. Since April, elite travel teams nationwide have participated in league sessions in Manheim and Westfield, Ind. Not only have...
5 things to watch at WCCA 7-on-7 football tournament
The ninth Westmoreland County Coaches Association seven-on-seven passing tournament will be Thursday at Latrobe’s Rossi and Graham-Sobota fields on the high school campus. The competition begins at 9 a.m. with the championship game — between the winners of two divisions — set to begin around 2:15 p.m. A record 16...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2019 boys tennis season
The streak is over. The second-longest championship run in WPIAL history quietly ended in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA boys team tennis playoffs when Sewickley Academy lost to Upper St. Clair, 3-2, in May. The loss ended a 15-year WPIAL championship run by the Panthers, second only...
Youth camp helps fund Apollo-Ridge girls soccer team
Last week, the Apollo-Ridge girls soccer team held its fifth annual youth skills camp, which has become a benefit not only for the future of the program, but the present, as well. The skills camp is one of the fundraisers for the Vikings, who are not sponsored by the school...
With college plans in place, Woodland Hills’ Rawlings ready for special senior season
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. At tight end, Joshua Rawlings said he has sometimes been compared to former Woodland...
Trinity’s Riley DeRubbo commits to Atlantic 10 champion Fordham
A year after tearing an ACL, Trinity basketball standout Riley DeRubbo celebrated another milestone Wednesday when she committed to Atlantic 10 champion Fordham. The 5-foot-9 guard will be a senior in the fall. She announced her commitment on Twitter. DeRubbo, who injured her knee in AAU season last summer, missed...
Franklin Regional keeper Jeremy Lucas commits to St. Francis (Pa.)
When initial plans to continue his soccer career at Penn State fell through in the winter, Jeremy Lucas reshaped his post-prep plans. The recent Franklin Regional grad would take a gap year, keep playing for his club team and take courses at Penn State New Kensington until a larger-scale soccer...
PIAA doesn’t support ‘diagonal’ pilot program for WPIAL soccer officials
WPIAL soccer referees must keep using the “double dual” officiating system, at least for now. The PIAA board on Wednesday tabled a request for a pilot program in the WPIAL that would have transitioned referees to the “diagonal system of control” used by many soccer organizations worldwide. The PIAA could...
PIAA eligibility hearing for Moon’s Donovan Johnson postponed
The PIAA hearing scheduled Wednesday for Moon basketball standout Donovan Johnson was postponed. “They informed me first thing this morning that their attorney could not make it, so they were unable to come,” PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said. “We’re going to have to reschedule it.” A new date was...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls outdoor track season
Maybe the biggest story of track season came months earlier when the WPIAL decided to move the individual championship meet to Slippery Rock. Baldwin had hosted the Class AAA meet 30 out of 32 years since 1987 (excluding 1989-90), and the Class AA competition moved there in 2009. Both relocated...
Zach Snyder named Mt. Pleasant wrestling coach
Mt. Pleasant has a new wrestling coach. It’s former Hempfield assistant Zach Snyder, who was hired at Monday’s school board meeting. Snyder replaces Zach Sheridan, who was not rehired after serving as coach for the past five seasons. Mt. Pleasant coaches work on a one-year contract. Snyder was an assistant...
Thomas Jefferson QB Shane Stump adds 3rd Division I offer
Thomas Jefferson’s Shane Stump, one of the WPIAL’s top quarterbacks, announced his third college offer from Dayton. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound rising senior added the Flyers on Monday to a list that already included Howard and Valparaiso. Stump passed for 1,833 yards and 24 touchdowns last season as the Jaguars went...
North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch adds 4 more basketball offers
Four more names joined the list of Division I basketball teams recruiting North Allegheny’s Lizzy Groetsch. The 5-foot-11 junior guard added Toledo, Lafayette, UMass and Charlotte since Saturday, raising her total to a dozen offers. Groetsch, a 2021 graduate, already listed offers from Binghamton, Brown, Colgate, Drexel, Penn, Richmond, Stony...
George Guido: Last living member of Ken High’s dream backfield dies
The last living member of the Ken High dream backfield from the 1946-47 WPIAL football championship teams has died. George “Cubby” France, one of the key players in Ken High’s 26-game unbeaten streak, died Monday at Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Cabot. He was 88. France was the quarterback in coach...
Montour’s Padezanin hopes to drive Spartans toward success
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. What a difference a year makes. In his sophomore season, George Padezanin was a...
PIAA schedules eligibility hearing for West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson
West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson will learn this month whether he can play football in the fall. Johnson, ruled ineligible by the WPIAL, will have his appeal heard July 30 by the PIAA. The rising junior and Pitt recruit transferred from Steel Valley in December. Steel Valley administrators contested Johnson’s transfer...
Waynesburg’s Welsh, Seneca Valley’s Herrera-Rondon earn All-American honors at Fargo
The Pennsylvania Freestyle wrestling team captured the Cadet National Championship at Fargo, N.D. over the weekend. Waynesburg freshman Rocco Welsh and Seneca Valley junior Alejandro Herrera-Rondon earned medals for the Keystone squad. Welsh defeated Garrett Grice of Nebraska, 12-2, to capture the fifth-place medal at 120 pounds. Herrera-Rondon, a two-time...
WPIAL declares two-sport Belle Vernon transfer Devin Whitlock eligible
Belle Vernon sophomore Devin Whitlock, a two-sport standout who transferred from Monessen, is eligible to play football and basketball this upcoming school year. Whitlock had a hearing Monday before the WPIAL board, which declared him eligible with a split vote, said WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley. The WPIAL originally declared...
Speedy Luke Meckler has high expectations for 2-time defending champion Pine-Richland
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 23 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Luke Meckler will be doing something this season that is rare at Pine-Richland —...
Springdale QB Ausk gets head start on sophomore season
Legend Ausk enters his sophomore football season at Springdale in the running to take over the varsity starting quarterback job left vacant from the graduation of multi-year starter Josh Jones. A scout team signal-caller last fall, Ausk knew his future with the Dynamos held the potential to take over the...
Buddy Valinsky aims to make Norwin boys basketball ‘a proven program’
Buddy Valinsky bought a new hybrid SUV to abate his trek from Squirrel Hill to North Huntingdon. The new Norwin boys basketball coach has been driving back and forth quite a bit this summer and will continue to do so in the coming months. His motor is running like new,...
WPIAL leading scorer Keandre Bowles commits to junior college in Kansas
The WPIAL’s leading scorer is headed to the Great Plains. Recent Woodland Hills graduate Keandre Bowles, a 28.9-point scorer, announced Sunday his commitment to Barton College in Great Bend, Kan. The team competes in Division I of the National Junior College Athletic Association. The 6-foot-3 guard was a Trib 10...
Bishop Canevin’s Diajha Allen commits to St. Francis (Pa.)
Bishop Canevin’s Diajha Allen, a rising senior, announced her commitment to St. Francis (Pa.) basketball Sunday. The 5-foot-5 guard averaged 13.2 points for the Crusaders, who went 22-4 last season, reaching the WPIAL semifinals and the PIAA second round. The 2020 graduate revealed her commitment on Twitter. St. Francis hired...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2019 softball season
Late-round WPIAL playoff losses can do plenty to motivate teams for the state playoffs. Finality has its place, but it can wait. Penn-Trafford (Class 5A) and Frazier (2A) showed just how valuable a second chance can be as both rebounded to win PIAA championships to highlight the 2019 softball season....
Bethel Park’s Olivia Westphal adds 4 more basketball offers
Bethel Park’s Olivia Westphal added several more names to her scholarship list Sunday. The 5-foot-9 rising junior received offers from Charlotte, Miami (Ohio), Toledo and Wichita State, her AAU team announced on Twitter. Westphal, a 2021 recruit, was a 16-point scorer last season for Bethel Park. The Black Hawks went...
