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Woodland Hills tight end Josh Rawlings commits to Virginia over ACC rivalsVideo
Virginia was the first Power 5 program to offer Woodland Hills’ Josh Rawlings a football scholarship in December. Six months later, now holding offers from Pitt, Syracuse, Minnesota and others, the rising senior committed Sunday to the Cavaliers. The 6-foot-6, 235-pound tight end and defensive end announced his decision on...
Ligonier Valley wins linemen challenge at Pitt
It was quite a day for the Ligonier Valley football team. The Rams competed in the University of Pittsburgh’s linemen challenge and took home the title by defeating Ohio power, the Massilion Tigers. So proud of our linemen! Your 2019 Pitt Linemen Challenge Champions! Beat Massillon, Ohio in the finals...
Serra Catholic’s Mark Black named Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Year
The Youghiogheny runs beyond the outfield fence at Boston Field in McKeesport, the home for Serra Catholic baseball. If opponents agree to pitch to him, Eagles star Mark Black might one day launch a home run into the river. He’s already had a few come close, according to folks in...
WPIAL’s youth movement shows in 2019 Trib HSSN baseball all-stars
WPIAL baseball has witnessed an influx of talented freshmen in recent years and their arrival is reflected in the Trib 10. Seton LaSalle’s Drew Lafferty and North Allegheny’s Cole Young, both ninth graders with bright futures, joined a list of talented upperclassmen in this season’s TribLive HSSN all-star selections. Lafferty...
Standout pitchers highlight 2019 Trib HSSN softball all-star team
The one word that best describes the 2019 WPIAL softball season is dominant. Four teams continued to flex their program’s muscles and repeated as district champions this spring. Hempfield won a record-tying fifth straight WPIAL crown in the district’s highest classification, and did so with a 15-0 rout in the...
Elizabeth Forward’s Kailey Larcinese named Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Year
Kailey Larcinese dominated in the pitchers circle for a team that won 19 games in a row, a first WPIAL championship and a runner-up trophy in the PIAA postseason. What stands out about the sophomore’s super season was it was her first year as the starting pitcher for Elizabeth Forward....
Knoch’s Amanda Fischer named Valley News Dispatch Softball Player of the Year
2019 Valley News Dispatch Softball All-Stars Player of the Year Amanda Fischer, Junior, Pitcher, Knoch Amanda Fischer was one of the WPIAL’s top pitchers this spring. It’s no coincidence her Knoch Knights were one of the district’s top softball teams. The junior right-hander was 13-3 with a 1.73 ERA and...
Freeport’s Jarrett Heilman named Valley News Dispatch Baseball Player of the Year
2019 Valley News Dispatch Baseball All-Stars Player of the Year Jarrett Heilman, Junior, Pitcher, Freeport Jarrett Heilman said he and his Freeport baseball teammates are getting noticed more in the community since they lifted the program to its first PIAA playoff appearance since 1998. “I’ll go into Tony’s Pizza in...
Mt. Pleasant’s Alincic named Westmoreland Tribune-Review Softball Player of the Year
2019 Tribune-Review Westmoreland Softball All-Stars Player of the Year Carolyn Alincic, Senior, Pitcher, Mt. Pleasant Pitchers come and go in prep softball, and they approach hitters with differing styles. Some work to induce groundouts and fly balls. Others dabble with curve balls and changeups to catch batters off balance. Carolyn...
Yough’s Bach named Westmoreland Tribune-Review Baseball Player of the Year
2019 Tribune-Review Westmoreland Baseball All-Stars Player of the Year Jarett Bach, Sr., P/1B, Yough There was a reason the Yough baseball program made a huge jump in 2019. His name was Jarett Bach. The 6-foot-5 left-hander was the guiding force for the Cougars as they tied Greensburg Salem for the...
Quaker Valley to honor Class of ’19 in Sports Hall of Fame
The Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame announced the inductees for its Class of 2019. The honorees include the 2006 hockey team and the 2006-07 girls tennis teams, along with three athletes: Justin Hughes, Darren Rogers and Catherine Stewart. “Once again, we are extremely impressed with the qualifications of another...
Pine-Richland’s Lukez commits to wrestle for Army
Nate Lukez still has one more year to build his status as one of the winningest wrestlers in Pine-Richland history. But that didn’t stop the rising senior from solidifying his plans beyond high school as he fulfilled a longstanding goal of his by committing to attend, and wrestle at, the...
Thomas Jefferson’s Fiedor honored for impact on, off the volleyball court
Julia Fiedor, a 2019 Thomas Jefferson graduate, embodies the definition of a positive athlete. On June 17, Fiedor, representing girls volleyball, was the recipient of the Positive High School Athlete Award. The Sen. John Heinz History Center and Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum hosted the eighth annual awards ceremony. Student-athletes representing...
Baldwin’s Ernst earns coveted Division I cheerleading scholarship
Baldwin’s loss is Morehead State University’s gain. Paige Ernst, a 2019 graduate, will continue her cheerleading career at Morehead State. Practice starts this summer. Ernst is the first Baldwin student to land an NCAA Division I scholarship for cheerleading during Taryn Madden’s coaching tenure, which started in 2009. “We are...
Penn-Trafford divers honored by national coaches association
Penn-Trafford departing senior divers Paige Kalik and Logan Sherwin capped their high school careers with prestigious honors. Kalik made National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association Girls One Meter Diving All-America for the third season in a row, and Sherwin made boys All-America for the first time. Kalik, an Akron recruit, repeated...
Pine-Richland’s Alyssa Sarver to play tennis at Lafayette
Former Pine-Richland tennis player Alyssa Sarver has cemented her college decision, planning to continue her athletic pursuits at Lafayette. The recent graduate said she took a considerable amount of time to deliberate on her decision, and ultimately narrowed her prospects to a pair of Patriot League schools before her recent...
Shady Side Academy track logs medal-worthy PIAA appearance
The Shady Side Academy girls track team ended its season at the PIAA championships last month. “It was a very exciting season,” coach Paul Bodnarchuk said. “Especially in the WPIAL and PIAA championships.” With the help of captains Sophia McMahon, Gabby White and Aya Youssef, the team finished the dual-meet...
St. Joseph basketball players adjust to new coach, system during summer workouts
When longtime St. Joseph boys basketball coach Kelly Robinson resigned in April after 21 seasons at the helm, the search began in earnest to find his replacement. A little less than a month later, the Spartans had their man in Hart Coleman, who led the Plum boys team the past...
West Mifflin standout Nahki Johnson among 2 ruled ineligible by WPIAL
West Mifflin’s Nahki Johnson and Gateway’s Diego Bledsoe played football together last season at Steel Valley before each transferred elsewhere. In separate hearings Thursday, the WPIAL declared both ineligible for next football season, ruling that their transfers were motivated at least partially by athletics, WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley said....
WPIAL awards playoff eligibility to Kiski, Gateway football transfers
The WPIAL ruled Kiski Area’s Kenneth Blake and Gateway’s Shane Thrift fully eligible to play football this fall following separate hearings Thursday at the league office in Green Tree. Blake transferred from Central Catholic. Thrift transferred from Seton LaSalle. Both are rising juniors. The WPIAL had previously ruled them eligible...
Shaler Area’s Mbalo seeks to challenge himself, improve high jump
Finding a way atop the medal stand in the WPIAL Class AAA triple jump wasn’t the end of the story for Shaler Area’s Cam Mbalo. A junior season full of strong performances earned Mbalo a full schedule for the summer. When Mbalo went to North Carolina A&T on June 15,...
‘Mentally sound’ France finishes Hampton career on high note
Most high-performing scholar athletes don’t peak during their senior year of high school. They compete in college. But that’s not the case with Campbell France, and she’s just fine with that. The senior reached the podium at WPIALs (third) and PIAA championships (eighth) at Shippensburg in the 800-meter run to...
Hampton players hope to jump-start new Allegheny lacrosse program
Jake Schwarzbach was on varsity lacrosse for four years and emerged as one of the team’s better faceoff players. Alex Winklosky always was on his wing during those faceoffs. That might happen for four years more because both committed to Allegheny. “We’ve been playing with each other ever since freshman...
Visit to father’s former stomping grounds sold North Catholic’s Myers on Duquesne
Tess Myers’ connection with basketball runs deep within her family. By choosing Duquesne, North Catholic’s 5-foot-10 incoming senior guard and Lower Burrell resident chose to follow in her father’s legacy. Joe Myers played in 103 games for the Dukes in the early 1980s and scored more than 1,000 points. Myers’...
Marino hired as Plum boys basketball coach
When Mark Marino joined the men’s basketball coaching staff at Lycoming College in 2008, his first task as a high school talent evaluator was to observe Plum standout Andrew Cressler as Cressler was going into his senior season with the Mustangs. “I sat down, watched him play and took notes...
