2020 High School Football Preview
Aliya Schraeder scored on a sacrifice fly by Abbhey Girman in the bottom of the seventh inning to give South Fayette a 6-5 victory over Trinity on Thursday in a battle of unbeatens in Class 5A Section 4.
BETHEL PARK – With few outdoor matches under his belt this spring and temperatures more like summer, Jacob Patterson of South Fayette didn’t want to stay out on the tennis courts at Bethel Park High School too long as he battled for the Section 4-AAA singles title.
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Leadoff hitter the catalyst for Pioneers 17-4 win over Carmichaels
Morgan “Mike” Mosser played baseball in the Washington Pony League as a youth. He loved the game, but Washington High School had discontinued its baseball program so Mosser took a swing at track and field.
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Good things came in threes when Trinity senior stepped outside.
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A threat to put up a triple-double on any given night, Devin Whitlock was the driving force behind a powerful Belle Vernon team.
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McDONALD – Western Pennsylvania high school sports fans who don’t know the name Chase Krewson might know it soon.
Bella Hess went 4-for-4 with a triple and double and scored three times in Chartiers-Houston’s 7-3 victory over Charleroi in a non-section game Monday.
Canon-McMillan scored three runs in the top of the first inning and pitchers Matt Gaeber and Brandon Adams made sure they were enough as the Big Macs defeated Seneca Valley 4-2 in a non-section game Monday.
Raiders were unstoppable in the team tournaments
The list of open head football coach jobs at local high schools had dwindled to just one earlier this month when Burgettstown hired Greg Marshall.
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Waynesburg High School wrapped up the PIAA Class 3A Team Tournament title with a convincing 42-3 drubbing of Central Dauphin in the finals at Cumberland Valley High School Saturday.
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Waynesburg two wins away from PIAA title.
The recently concluded WPIAL basketball championships gave fans who were lucky enough to secure tickets to the six games played at Peters Township an early look at the area’s newest high school gymnasium.
Defense, pitching and fundamental offensive baseball were the staples of Fran Celaschi’s Charleroi High School program for many seasons.
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Belle Vernon's Shahan takes home 2 gold medals at PIAA Class AA Swimming Championships.
Some swimmers were already on the Bucknell University campus, while others were in transit when the word came down the Class AA portion of the 2019 PIAA Swimming Championships was going to be shut down because of concerns with the coronavirus.
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McMURRAY – So much has changed since last year’s WPIAL championships.
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McMURRAY – This is becoming a habit.
HERSHEY – He never let them forget about it, even when the schedule chamged.
George Reihner was as respected off the field as he was on the football field, wrestling mat and track.
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WPIAL girls basketball championship rematches set in Class A and Class 5A.
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Waynesburg senior avenges earlier loss to Mifflin County wrestler to win state championship.
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Waynesburg seniors wins 145-pound title at state wrestling tournament, his second PIAA championship.
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HERSHEY – Ray Brinzer had Gumby. Karl Shindledecker had the possum.
Waynesburg best since 1943 team beats out Hempfield, Bethlehem Catholic
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Three area wrestlers take medals home from Hershey
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The title game everybody expected is now official.
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BELLE VERNON – The flowing tears, the agonizing heartache and the wrenching pain told the story.
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Waynesburg set a school record with five medal winners at last year’s PIAA Class 3A Wrestling Tournament.
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New hire was an assistant coach at West Allegheny since 2009
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Mapletown swimmer is the Observer-Reporter's Athlete of the Week.
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Ten days into the WPIAL playoffs, West Greene played its first game of the postseason. The Pioneers wasted no time in eliminating Bishop Canevin.
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The No. 1-ranked team in Class 5A, led by 32 points at the half and coasted to a 59-27 win over Fox Chapel in the WPIAL quarterfinals.
Max Orlowski of Canon-McMillan swims the backstroke because he says he has strong shoulders and weak knees.
BELLE VERNON – The first 99 seconds told the story as Belle Vernon routed South Park Monday night in a WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinal game, 78-52.
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Her school doesn't have a swimming team or even a pool, but Mapletown's Ella Meanear won two WPIAL championships.
INDIANA – No one wanted it to end this way but it did.
Beaver Falls pulls off another surprise, upsetting sixth-seeded Waynesburg in the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball quarterfinals.
Many Waynesburg Central High School wrestlers made their mark in the state wrestling championships through the years.
For a No. 13 seed to beat a No. 5 seed, just about everything has to go right.
ALTOONA – Waynesburg High School wrestling fans were no doubt thrilled with the Raiders’ performance in the semifinals of the PIAA Class 3A Super Regional Tournament, held Saturday at Altoona High School.
Swimming three back-to-back races and winning two of them may be a herculean task but there is nothing ‘heroic’ about the accomplishment, says Ian Shahan. Serving in the military is.
NEW CASTLE – Mairan Haggerty scored 25 of her 29 points in the first half and top-seeded Neshannock rolled to a 72-16 victory over California in the WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball quarterfinals Friday night.
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Laurel stuns Wash High with early three-point shooting and late free throws.
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A 33-0 run erases first-quarter deficit and sends top-seeded Hillers to the Class 5A quarterfinals.
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Quinton Martin, Devin Whitlock and Daniel Gordon make up for sidelined teammate in Leopards' rout.
Luca Augustine wishes he could have wrestled at the Powerade Tournament, just over a month ago, but now realizes that scratching was the best decision he could have made.
Trinity swingman is Observer-Reporter Athlete of the Week
PERRYOPOLIS – It didn’t take long for Eugene Briggs to get Fort Cherry’s boys basketball program headed in the right direction.
Waynesburg ends the game on an amazing 33-0 run to move into the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals.
Burgettstown's fourth-quarter comeback falls short as the Blue Devils fall to Greensburg Central Catholic.
COAL CENTER – Makayla Boda had been in this situation before.
McMURRAY – For multiple reasons, Peters Township needed to beat Pine-Richland Tuesday night.
South Fayette doubled Connellsville up in the middle two quarters in a 48-30 victory over the Falcons in a WPIAL Class 5A preliminary round girls basketball game Monday night on the Lions’ home court.
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