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Westmoreland athletes of the week: Franklin Regional’s Mike Klingensmith, Yough’s Kierra Waywood
Mike Klingensmith School: Franklin Regional Sport: Baseball Class: Senior Claim to fame: Klingensmith, who has a 2.33 ERA with 14 strikeouts in 15 innings, threw a two-hitter with eight strikeouts to help Franklin Regional (7-1, 4-0) to a 16-0 win over Woodland Hills in six innings in Section 1-5A action...
Canon-McMillan basketball coach Rick Bell retires after 31 years
Canon-McMillan reached the WPIAL Class 6A basketball semifinals for the first time in 2019. Now the school is looking for a new coach after Rick Bell, who coached the Big Macs for the past 18 years, has decided to retire. Bell, 54, said wanting to watch his son, R.J., play...
Belle Vernon wrestling coach Doppelheuer resigns
Belle Vernon is in the market for a new wrestling coach after the school board Monday accepted the resignation of Mike Doppelheuer. Doppelheuer said late Monday it was just time to part ways. “I thought long and hard last year about resigning, but I decided to come back for one...
High school scores, schedules for April 15, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 10, Butler 0 (5 inn.) Allderdice at North Allegheny, ppd. Seneca Valley vs. Central Catholic, ppd. Section 2 Connellsville at Hempfield, ppd. Latrobe at Penn-Trafford, ppd. Norwin at Plum, ppd. Section 3 Baldwin at Brashear, ppd. Canon-McMillan at Bethel...
High school roundup for April 15, 2019: No. 1 Pine-Richland blanks Butler
Tommy Beam threw five no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts to lead Pine-Richland to a 10-0 win over Butler (2-8, 1-3) in a Section 1-6A baseball game Monday night at Kelly Automotive Park. Troy LaNeve allowed one hit in relief as the top-ranked Rams improved to 9-3 overall and 4-0 in...
Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Week: Serra Catholic’s Nina Grandley
Nina Grandley School: Serra Catholic Class: Junior Serra Catholic was a perfect 3-0 last week as it soared into second place in Section 2-2A. Eagles coach Denny Willaman is happy with his team’s 5-2 start overall, but knows it’s part of building a solid program. “Expectations continue to grow. It...
Highlands athletic director Chuck Debor resigns
Chuck Debor spent the past handful of years working part-time as Highlands’ athletic director, but he’ll soon go back to doing what he loves full-time. The Highlands school board Monday accepted Debor’s resignation as athletic director and facilities scheduler, effective June 30. He spent the last five years in the...
Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week: Hampton Talbots
The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week remained undefeated with a pair of wins last week, including one that left them alone in first place — the Hampton Talbots. Last year, Hampton finished fourth in Section 3-5A to qualify for the playoffs, but lost in Round 1 to Connellsville...
North Catholic basketball star Tess Myers receives offer from Colorado
Tess Myers spent the weekend playing basketball in Colorado. She might get a chance to do so for a much longer time than that in the coming years. Myers received a scholarship offer Monday from Colorado of the Pac-12, her first offer from a power conference school. A 5-foot-10 guard...
Pitchers Alincic, Smithnosky help Mt. Pleasant softball build another WPIAL contender
Mary Smithnosky hasn’t compiled a checklist, but she said there is a litany of reasons why the Mt. Pleasant softball team once again has positioned itself as the team to beat in WPIAL Class 4A. “We have a lot of depth,” Smithnosky said. “We have a lot of strength and...
Recovered from knee injury, Radvan bolsters lineup for No. 4 Freeport
Tori Radvan waited and prepared. The Freeport junior, a three-sport standout, had her sights set on April 3 throughout the recovery process from a severe knee injury suffered in a volleyball match at the start of the school year. That date was the first softball meeting between the Yellowjackets and...
Defending champion Shymansky leads field of WPIAL tennis singles finalists
Robby Shymansky has an opportunity to double his WPIAL singles success. The Fox Chapel senior, the defending WPIAL Class AAA singles champion, advanced to the finals again with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over South Fayette’s Jacob Patterson in the semifinals Monday at Oxford Athletic Club North in Wexford. Shymansky will...
Top teams hold their spots in latest WPIAL boys volleyball rankings
Four weeks remain in the WPIAL boys volleyball regular season, and section races, with their battles for playoff positioning, are heating up. The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its latest rankings Monday based on a vote of all 39 WPIAL coaches. Changes in Class AAA come in the middle...
St. Joseph boys basketball coach Kelly Robinson steps down after 21 seasons
Kelly Robinson believed he was ending his St. Joseph basketball coaching career on a nice, round number of 20 seasons. Then he realized he miscounted by one. “I’m bad with math, and I work in payroll of all things,” Robinson said. Robinson, the longest-tenured coach in the Alle-Kiski Valley and...
2 WPIAL sophomores rank among nation’s top football recruits for 2021
Two WPIAL sophomores were ranked this week among the nation’s top football recruits by 247Sports in the websites list of 2021 prospects. Central Catholic’s Elliot Donald was ranked No. 38 and Gateway’s Derrick Davis was No. 41. They were among eight Pennsylvania recruits to make the 247-player list. Donald (6-2,...
High school schedules for April 15, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at North Allegheny, 7 p.m.; Pine-Richland vs. Butler, Kelly Automotive Park, 7:30 p.m.; Seneca Valley vs. Central Catholic, LaRoche College, 4 p.m. Section 2 Connellsville at Hempfield, 4:15 p.m.; Latrobe at Penn-Trafford, 4 p.m.; Norwin at Plum, 4 p.m. Section 3...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Keystone Oaks
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week picked up two section wins this past week and left their opponents feeling blanked as we salute the Keystone Oaks Golden Eagles. After splitting their first four games and their first two section contests, Keystone Oaks was looking to shut down Washington and...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Elizabeth Forward’s Jacob Schmidt
Jacob Schmidt School: Elizabeth Forward Class: Junior Elizabeth Forward began this decade with a bang on the diamond, reaching the district postseason in four of the first five years, highlighted by a WPIAL baseball championship in 2011. However, the program has hit a bit of a wall, failing to reach...
WPIAL switches 2 Class A nonconference football matchups
The WPIAL let four Class A football teams flip their Week 9 nonconference opponents to create better matchups. Now, on Oct. 25, Riverview will play at Chartiers-Houston and Sto-Rox hosts Imani Christian. The WPIAL updated the schedule this week. Riverview was initially paired with Sto-Rox while Chartiers-Houston played Imani Christian....
High school sports broadcasts on tap this week on Trib HSSN
Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity, hoppity, Easter and another great week of high school sports coverage is on its way on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has WPIAL baseball and softball section coverage with multiple live and archived video streams. The network...
Franklin Regional’s Nadesan gears up for tennis test at WPIALs
Franklin Regional sophomore Anup Nadesan breezed through the section but will have his work cut out for him at the WPIAL Class AAA boys tennis singles championship tournament starting Monday at the Oxford Athletic Club in Pine. “He sees four or five athletes (who) he would have the toughest challenge...
A-K Valley notebook: Perfect start for Freeport softball
Freeport finished the 2018 regular season as one of only two undefeated softball teams in the WPIAL, and the Yellowjackets are picking up where they left off. Entering Monday, Freeport stood as one of 11 WPIAL softball teams, including three in the Alle-Kiski Valley, with undefeated records. Knoch and Leechburg...
Winless Plum boys volleyball team strives to reach potential
The Plum boys volleyball team held its annual invitational tournament Saturday. For a team that has yet to win a set in section play, the tourney acted as a midseason break, an opportunity to get out of section play and try new things against some of the WPIAL’s top teams....
Alle-Kiski Valley lookahead for Week of April 15, 2019
Monday Baseball: The Section 1-3A race is getting interesting, with five teams — Deer Lakes, Steel Valley, Freeport, Burrell and Valley — competing for four playoff berths. Two games loom large as section leader Deer Lakes (5-4, 4-0) visits Valley (2-6, 2-2), which posted two section wins to get back...
Trib HSSN boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse power rankings for week of April 14, 2019
For the first time, the TribLive High School Sports Network is compiling weekly Power Rankings for boys and girls lacrosse. We run down the Top 5 teams in the WPIAL. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the first rankings for the 2019 season with overall records. GIRLS LACROSSE...
