Sports category, Page 177

Tyvon Edmonds Jr. and Ethan Shine scored on short touchdown runs, Robert Morris allowed just 130 yards, and the Colonials picked up their second shutout of the season, 17-0, over St. Francis (Pa.) on Saturday. Robert Morris (5-3, 4-0 Northeast Conference) remained a half-game ahead of Duquesne in the NEC...

Davis Black scored on a 3-yard run in overtime to give Cal (Pa.) a 16-13 PSAC victory over IUP in the 15th Coal Bowl on Saturday. Nick Andrasi kicked a 39-yard field goal in overtime for IUP (5-3, 2-3). Black threw for 142 yards and a 63-yard touchdown to Eric...

The Pittsburgh Steelers likely will have to wait another week to welcome back Cordarrelle Patterson after a multi-game absence. They won’t, however, have to wait any longer for Damontae Kazee’s return. Kazee, one of the Steelers’ top three safeties, made it through a full week of practice, and on Saturday...

The use of replay review in sports is invariably a hot topic. It gets the calls right. Usually. It slows down the game. Always. In the end, for me, replay review doesn’t quite connect. In the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s NFL game, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold got blatantly...

When Cameron Heyward takes the field for the first snap of Monday night’s game against the New York Giants at Acrisure Stadium, he will become the all-time leader in games played by a Pittsburgh Steelers defensive player. For a franchise with a reputation for defensive brilliance, that Heyward will surpass...

WILKES-BARRE — The Pittsburgh Penguins wasted little time in putting struggling goaltender Tristan Jarry to work in a fresh environment. Jarry, assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on a conditioning loan, started for the American Hockey League club against the Syracuse Crunch on Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena. He made 32 saves on...

In college athletics’ new age of NIL and immediate eligibility for transfers, success can work both ways. No one knows that better than Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi, whose team is 7-0 and a serious contender for its second ACC championship in four years. Interviewed on CBS Sports Radio and Sirius...

What started with a surprise announcement during a Pittsburgh Riverhounds team meeting has turned into a season-long endeavor of valuable lessons for Fox Chapel senior Pablo Linzoain. Linzoain signed a USL Academy Contract in May and has been training with the first team full time ever since. Like many academy...

Trib HSSN writers and broadcasters will analyze the WPIAL football playoff pairings at 3 p.m. Saturday with a live broadcast on the network. Don Rebel will be joined by Chris Harlan and Jerin Steele to break down the pairings and preview the first-round matchups. Watch the broadcast here. Also be...

New Year’s Day morning, 1983, dawned cold and rainy in Dallas, but Tom Flynn had seen worse. He grew up in Western Pennsylvania and had played in similar conditions at Penn Hills High School and Pitt. Later, he played in snowstorms with the Green Bay Packers. Truth be told, the...

There isn’t a lot of mystery to Bryan Rust’s game these days. He skates fast, forechecks like a badger, goes to the net without a molecule of hesitation and isn’t shy about shooting the puck. And he almost exclusively plays on the right wing, typically on the top line with...

Outside of wild cards, the 2024 WPIAL playoff field is set. In the new playoff format, wild card teams are no longer determined by Gardner Points or WPIAL tiebreaker points. So now, 16 additional teams will have to wait until Selection Saturday before the district football committee makes its decisions...

Top performers for Week 9 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 370 - Joey Felitsky, North Catholic (25 of 31) 332 - Jeff Thompson, Clairton (10 of 14) 305 - Michael Pastirik, Seton LaSalle (17 of 22) 288 - Houston Guseman, Jefferson-Morgan (10 of 22) 251 - Jaydon...

Beaver won its first conference title in almost two decades, but coach Cort Rowse didn’t care to ponder whether this was the biggest win in recent history. “Tonight, it is,” he said. That’s all that mattered to him. Fourth-ranked Beaver forced a three-way tie for the Class 3A Western Hills...

At some point this season, the Pittsburgh Penguins likely will assign rookie goaltender Joel Blomqvist to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, if only for procedural purposes related to the salary cap. And such a demotion might be good for Blomqvist. That’s because it’s hard to fathom the...

The Penn-Trafford football team played a game of keep-away Friday at Latrobe. The Warriors were clinging to a four-point lead in the second half at Memorial Stadium, and coach John Ruane decided to put the ball into the hands of running back Tasso Whipple and quarterback Derek Carr. And the...

Here’s a look at teams that have automatically qualified for the WPIAL football playoffs. The WPIAL football committee will choose the wild card qualifiers Saturday. The playoffs begin next Friday. Watch the Trib HSSN playoff pairings show at 3 p.m. Saturday. Class 6A (4 qualifiers) 1. Central Catholic, 2. North...

Facing a top-five opponent for the second consecutive match, the No. 1-ranked Pitt women’s volleyball team had a near-capacity home crowd on the edge of its seats when it was forced to a fifth set. That’s become commonplace for the Panthers against No. 4 Louisville, as their rivalry has extended...

His touchdown last week meant the world to Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Van Jefferson. And not just because it was his first in almost two years. Jefferson’s father, Shawn, serves as wide receivers coach for the New York Jets, the team that fell 37-15 to the Steelers last Sunday in part...