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Quaker Valley’s Kimmy rises to occasion at world indoor rowing championships
Quaker Valley junior Ben Kimmy was a bit overwhelmed but rose to the occasion in his first C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championship on Feb. 17 at Boston University. Kimmy, 16, improved his time to 6 minutes, 32.2 seconds to place 16th of 86 in the junior men 14-18 age...
Quaker Valley wrestling program continues meteoric rise
Quaker Valley’s wrestling program has made its mark three years into its existence. The Quakers will send a school-record six wrestlers, two of whom are Class AA WPIAL champions, to the WPIAL Southwest Regionals. Quaker Valley was the only team with at least four wrestlers in the WPIAL Class AA...
Quaker Valley girls remain alive for PIAA berth
The Quaker Valley girls basketball pulled off one playoff upset last week but fell short of a second Thursday night. Bri Spirnak’s 23 points sparked No. 5 Elizabeth Forward to a 46-38 victory over Quaker Valley in the WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinals at North Hills. Bailey Garbee had 19 points,...
Pine-Richland gymnastics team finishes 3rd at WPIALs
The Pine-Richland gymnastics team’s strong season ended Feb. 15, when the Rams secured third place at the WPIAL team championships at Moon. It was the program’s highest finish in the event since 2014. The Rams (6-2) recorded a total score of 144.265, finishing behind champion Thomas Jefferson (146.375) and second-place...
Multisport athlete McMahon eager for WPIAL swim meet, grateful for SSA teammates
As a forward on the Shady Side Academy girls soccer team, senior Sophia McMahon has experienced much success. The team finished second at the PIAA championships in 2016, won it all in ‘17 and made it to the semifinals last season. “I was blessed to have amazing offensive players on...
Herald spotlight athlete: Fox Chapel’s Ellie Schwartzman
Ellie Schwartzman, a sophomore on the Fox Chapel girls basketball team, helped the team’s turnaround this season as she averaged 9 points and 8 rebounds. She’s been playing basketball since first grade and is also on the volleyball team. Here’s a closer look at this week’s Spotlight Athlete: If you...
Plum girls basketball team looks ahead to promising future
Plum girls basketball coach Steve Elsier saw growth in his young team from his inaugural season with the program last year to this recently concluded campaign. The Mustangs bettered their WPIAL playoff seeding in Class 5A and increased their overall win total by five games. Elsier now hopes his squad...
Norwin bowler Dutka rolls 300, sets WPIBL series record
It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. No, it was so quiet you could hear 10 pins drop. On Feb. 4, at the Swissvale Bowl-A-Rama, Norwin sophomore Ethan Dutka rolled a 300 game, the only perfect game in the last two WPIBL seasons, en route to an...
Thomas Jefferson gymnasts claim PA Classic Gold Division title
The Thomas Jefferson gymnastics team continued its winning run Friday night by claiming the state title at the PA Classic competition held at Moon. The Jaguars won the Gold Division championship with a score of 148.557, edging Moon (146.25) and Altoona (142.842). Central Valley (140.917), Baldwin (140.017) and West Allegheny...
Kropp lifts No. 2 Penn Hills to Class 5A quarterfinal win over Montour
With the game up for grabs early in the second half, Penn Hills needed a lift. The No. 2-seeded Indians got it when 6-foot-4 sophomore Wes Kropp scored five points in 11 seconds and nine for the third quarter. Penn Hills then shot 11 of 11 from the free-throw line...
Michael Carmody’s double-double carries No. 1 Mars past Shaler in Class 5A quarterfinals
Michael Carmody’s future in college athletics is likely as an offensive lineman in football, but Friday night he showed he can do plenty of damage on a basketball court with his 6-foot-7, 270-pound frame. Carmody had 23 points and 30 rebounds to lead top-seeded Mars to a 74-52 victory over...
A-K Valley basketball preview capsules: Games of Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019
Boys basketball Class 6A Quarterfinals No. 3 Mt. Lebanon (19-3) vs. No. 6 Fox Chapel (16-7) 3 p.m. Saturday at Canon-McMillan Winner plays: No. 2 Latrobe (18-2) or No. 7 Canon-McMillan (15-8) on Wednesday in the semifinals. Coaches: Joe David, Mt. Lebanon; Zach Skrinjar, Fox Chapel Points scored/allowed: Mt. Lebanon,...
Moon, Lawson lead No. 2 Serra Catholic past Sto-Rox in Class 2A quarterfinals
Second-seeded Serra Catholic used its size to its advantage Friday night as it earned its first trip to the WPIAL semifinals in nine years with a 71-61 victory over No. 7 Sto-Rox in a Class 2A quarterfinal game at Peters Township. The Eagles (19-3) were led by their pair of...
High school roundup for Feb. 22, 2019: No. 1 OLSH cruises past Shenango in quarterfinals
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart looked every bit like the No. 1 seed in the WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball playoffs Friday night. Austin Wigley had 23 points to guide the Chargers to a 85-54 victory over No. 9 Shenango in the quarterfinals at Ambridge. Jake DiMichele had 17...
Sewickley Academy maintains mastery of Jeannette, reaches semifinals
Sewickley Academy led from start-to-finish in dispatching Jeannette from the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs Friday night at Canon-McMillan, but the Panthers weren’t skating to victory. In the fourth playoff meeting in as many years between the schools, defending Class 2A champion Sewickley Academy survived Jeannette’s furious fourth-quarter rally to come...
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 22, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s schedule Pine-Richland (20-2) vs. Peters Township (16-7) at North Hills, 3 p.m.; Upper St. Clair (19-3) vs. Butler (18-4) at Canon-McMillan, 1:30 p.m.; Latrobe (18-2) vs. Canon-McMillan (15-8) at Norwin, 3 p.m.; Mt. Lebanon (19-3) vs. Fox Chapel (16-7) at...
No. 3 Moon boys push past Franklin Regional in Class 5A quarterfinals
Franklin Regional and Moon had to wait a few extra minutes to take the court Friday night while the crowd from the first game of the playoff doubleheader cleared out at West Allegheny. Moon wouldn’t get out of the Panthers’ way, either. In a matchup of defensive-minded teams, the third-seeded...
Defense leads Norwin girls past Mt. Lebanon, rematch with North Allegheny awaits
Norwin girls basketball coach Brian Brozeski walked down the hallway outside of the Knights locker room Friday night when out of nowhere a loud roar emerged from the locker room as the door closed. Brozeski smiled. “That’s a nice sound to hear,” Brozeski said. Brozeski had plenty to smile about....
Chartiers Valley slows WPIAL’s top scorer in quarterfinal win over Woodland HillsVideo
Chartiers Valley threw an ever-changing zone defense at Woodland Hills star Keandre Bowles, hoping to hold the WPIAL’s leading scorer well below his 29-point average. After three quarters, the senior had four points. “He’s a great player, hats off to him, but we had to take care of business,” said...
Beaver’s Cestra, Ringgold’s Vogt capture WPIAL Class AA diving titles
The processes of crowning the WPIAL Class AA diving champions Friday at South Park proved to be polar opposites. In the girls championships, Ringgold senior Anna Vogt led at the end of the all three rounds to win her second-straight gold medal. During the boys championships, however, Beaver senior Andrew...
Derry’s DeLuca reaches 150 wins, has eye on bigger prize at Southwest Regional
Derry senior Dom DeLuca chuckled when he was tossed a bag of muffins from his mother after his quarterfinal-round match at the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional Friday at IUP’s Kovalchick Athletic Complex. With his pin of McGuffey senior Marshall Mounts, and his earlier pin of Philipsburg-Osceola junior Tyler Anderson...
Top-seeded Peters Township girls roll past Fox Chapel in Class 6A quarterfinals
The Peters Township girls basketball team averaged 70 points a game in the regular-season, built an undefeated record and ascended to No. 1 rankings in both the WPIAL and state. The Indians finished Friday’s WPIAL Class 6A quarterfinal matchup with Fox Chapel well under their scoring average, but their defense...
Balanced scoring leads Quigley Catholic girls past GCC in Class A quarterfinals
Greensburg Central Catholic kicked off its WPIAL Class A girls basketball quarterfinal contest piping out, knocking down its first four shots. Then, Quigley Catholic brought out the hose to secure a 71-55 victory. After GCC ran out to a 13-0 lead, the Spartans (14-10) outscored the Centurions, 49-19, over the...
Five things to watch during Saturday’s Class AAA section wrestling tournaments
Individual tournaments begin Saturday for WPIAL Class AAA wrestlers. This is just the start of their three-week journey, which they hope ends with a trip to the PIAA championships March 7-9 in Hershey. The section tournaments will be held at four sites: Kiski Area (Section 1), Connellsville (2), Fox Chapel...
No. 2 North Allegheny gets defensive to upend Upper St. Clair in Class 6A quarterfinals
The offense was cold for North Allegheny’s girls basketball team Friday night. However, the defense was hot. The Tigers overcame a sluggish offensive performance to stave off Upper St. Clair’s upset bid with a 33-26 win in a WPIAL Class 6A quarterfinals at West Allegheny. North Allegheny (22-1), the two-time...
