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Central Valley’s Mark Lyons nominated for NFL high school coach of the year
Central Valley’s Mark Lyons was among 32 nominees announced Thursday for the Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year award. Each NFL team can recommend one candidate and Lyons’ was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ nominee. Lyons, who’s entering his 12th season at Central Valley, won WPIAL and PIAA Class...
WPIAL graduates give back by organizing, working football clinic in WilkinsburgVideo
The voice was as loud and distinctive as it was during his three seasons at Pitt. Only, this time, it was a bit playful. Clearly, Paris Ford was enjoying himself. A few boys weren’t getting in a straight enough line to suit Ford, one of five NFL players with WPIAL...
2021 Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Year: Eric Chalus, Bethel Park
2021 HSSN Baseball Player of the Year Eric Chalus School: Bethel Park Class: Senior Bethel Park’s Eric Chalus is rather stoic on the mound, rarely showing emotion after a batter strikes out or walks. But after throwing the final pitch of his high school career, an inning-ending strike in the...
2021 Trib HSSN Softball Player of the Year: Payton List, Beaver
2021 HSSN Softball Player of the Year Payton List School: Beaver Class: Junior After missing out on her sophomore season in 2020, Payton List had the perfect return to action for her junior campaign this spring. List was exceptional in the circle and at the plate in leading Beaver to...
Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team: Tyreese Fearbry, Perry
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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. When Tyreese Fearbry stands next to Pat Narduzzi — and you can bet Pitt’s...
Week Zero football showcase returns to Wolvarena in August
Week Zero is back on the football schedule this fall, and with it returns the Western Pa. vs. Everyone football showcase hosted by Woodland Hills. The multi-game event Aug. 27-28 matches a WPIAL or City League team against an opponent from either Eastern Pa. or a neighboring state. The six...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Robert Dickerson, North Hills
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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Robert Dickerson’s idea of a summer vacation is maybe taking a couple sips of...
Diane Metzger to take over Norwin girls soccer team
Diane Metzger is the new girls soccer coach at Norwin. A former player for the Knights, she was a member of the 1996 PIAA championship team before graduating in 2000. A goal-scorer from the midfield, she played college soccer at Grove City. Metzger replaces Lauren Karcher, who resigned after seven...
Butler basketball’s Devin Carney commits to Elon
One of college basketball’s stingiest defenses added some scoring power Thursday when Butler’s Devin Carney committed to Elon. The 6-foot-1 combo guard averaged 30 points per game last winter and led Butler to the WPIAL Class 6A semifinals. He ranks among the WPIAL’s top players in the 2022 graduating class....
District 31 American Legion baseball season winding down
The District 31 American Legion baseball season wraps up Sunday, but the final four days are turning out to be a race between the final eight playoff teams. Teams are jockeying for positions as the season wraps. The top four teams in the league earn home-field advantage in the opening...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Joey Daniels, Mt. Lebanon
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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Mt. Lebanon quarterback Joey Daniels vividly remembers every interception he threw last season. That’s...
Mark Madden: From Pine-Richland to Robert Morris, fighting the power is futile
Pine-Richland school district fired Eric Kasperowicz as its high school football coach almost three months ago. Kasperowicz won four WPIAL championships and two state titles in eight seasons as Pine-Richland coach. The excuse for his dismissal was vague, inexact hazing allegations. Personal resentment of Kasperowicz by certain Pine-Richland administrators seems...
Talented young players headline Trib HSSN Softball All-Stars
The 2021 WPIAL softball season proved two things were true. First, diamond action was sorely missed after the 2020 season was canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Second, the future of district softball has a very bright future. Half of the TribLive HSSN Softball All-Star Team is underclassmen. So while...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Nick Bryan, Thomas Jefferson
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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. A long-standing tradition of the renowned Thomas Jefferson football program is the dominating play...
Fox Chapel’s Zoe Skirboll competes with nation’s best swimmers at Olympic qualifiers
Zoe Skirboll went into this year’s Olympic swimming trials with the attitude of enjoying the moment and gaining experience for the future. She didn’t make the Team USA swim team, but she produced one of the her best efforts and gained confidence she could one day be an Olympian. Skirboll,...
Former Franklin Regional boys basketball coach opens up about opioid abuse
Steve Scorpion admits he almost died. “I stopped breathing three times and coded twice,” the former Franklin Regional boys basketball coach and standout player said. “I thought it was all over for me. When I woke up, I knew God saved me because he had a greater purpose for me....
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Patrick Body, Gateway
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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. A year ago, Gateway’s Patrick Body and Derrick Davis formed one of the most...
Pine-Richland’s Jeremiah Hasley commits to Duke
Like many local athletes, Jeremiah Hasley’s recruiting process started with phone calls and Zoom meetings with college coaches last year with campus visits restricted due to the covid-19 pandemic. Once Hasley got the green light to go on some visits this summer, Duke was on his list, and he immediately...
Hempfield’s Nickal finishes 7th, Latrobe’s Green 8th at Olympic trials
Maddie (Holmberg) Nickal placed seventh in the heptathlon and Latrobe’s Hanna Green was eighth in the 800-meter run when the U.S. Olympic trials concluded late Sunday night in Eugene, Ore. Competition was delayed several hours because of excessive heat with temperatures surpassing 100 degrees. Nickal wrapped up competition Sunday with...
Moon lineman Trent Fraley commits to Marshall
Moon’s Trent Fraley, the son of a former NFL lineman, announced his commitment Sunday to Marshall. The 6-foot-2, 290-pound two-way tackle chose the Herd over offers from St. Francis and Robert Morris, his father Hank’s alma mater. The rising senior announced his commitment on Twitter. Fraley earned first-team all-conference honors...
WPIAL, PIAA champions among 2021 TribLive HSSN Baseball All-Stars
Among the six teams crowned WPIAL baseball champions this spring, their individual stories varied greatly. A few were first-time winners. Others won their first title in a decade or two. Another, North Allegheny, won its eighth WPIAL title, setting a record for most championships in league history. It was a...
Riverview basketball coaches Paul Sapotichne, Keith Stitt retire
It will be a different look on the sidelines for Riverview basketball next season. Boys coach Paul Sapotichne and girls coach Keith Stitt recently retired from their posts. Sapotichne guided the Raiders the past six seasons as part of a 41-year coaching stint. Stitt handled the girls program for the...
TribHSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Brad Birch, Gateway
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 22 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Brad Birch is a little like a stranger visiting a foreign land when he...
Thomas Jefferson’s Nick Bryan commits to Kent State
After a frenzied five-month recruiting stretch, Thomas Jefferson senior lineman Nick Bryan offered a verbal commitment to Kent State on Saturday. A dynamic 6-foot-3, 275-pound tackle, Bryan made three visits to the Kent State campus, two football related and one for academics. He projects to play on the interior for...
Plenty of bright spots for young Chartiers Valley baseball roster
Five years ago, Chartiers Valley was on top the of WPIAL Class AAA mountain. The Colts stunned top-seed Laurel Highlands in the quarterfinals, and then went on to beat No. 3-seed Blackhawk in the championship game, 4-3, for the school’s only WPIAL baseball championship. While there were no vision of...
