The local boys diving group was not a deep one this year, but one diver stood out.
2020 High School Football Preview
STATE COLLEGE – At one point, West Greene High School’s softball team considered a 4-win season a success.
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West Greene gave up two runs, the final one on a one-out double to the right-centerfield gap by No. 9 hitter Allison Hune that gave Tri-Valley a 2-1 victory and the state's Class A title.
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The ending of another storybook season for West Greene will be written Friday morning, when the Pioneers take on Tri-Valley in the PIAA Class A championship game at Beard Stadium on the campus of Penn State University.
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A 49-minute rain delay in the third inning was just what the Pioneers needed to get their hitters going.
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North Penn pitcher throws 17th shutout of season.
Not in her wildest imagination did Dawnelle Mock think she would be one of the driving forces at The Meadows racetrack and in the harness racing industry.
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AvellaBelle VernonBentworthBeth-CenterBethel ParkBishop CanevinBurgettstownCaliforniaCanon-McMillanCarmichaelsCharleroiChartiers-HoustonChartiers ValleyFort CherryJefferson-MorganKeystone OaksMapletownMcGuffeyMonessenMt LebanonPeters TownshipRinggoldSeton-LaSalleSouth FayetteTrinityUpper St ClairWash HighWaynesburgWest Greene
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Two-run homer in 10th inning caps comeback.
For more than a generation, Dion Jansante has served as the head coach of the Bentworth baseball team.
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West Greene advances by winning an epic game that had more twists and turns than a Greene County back road.
LORETTO – There is probably a smart saying about this Canon-McMillan softball team.
WINGATE – Two Central Mountain pitchers combined on a no-hitter and the Wildcats hit four home runs in one inning Monday en route to a 12-0 five-inning victory over Peters Township in the first round of the PIAA Class 5A baseball playoffs at Bald Eagle Area High School.
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Highlanders held to two hits in first state playoff game in school history.
McMurray – Maybe this was the type of game the West Greene Pioneers needed.
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Bethel Park catcher hits 2 home runs, including a grand slam, in WPIAL Class 6A softball final.
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The early evening, with a gloomy sky, could have turned into a disaster for Peters Township’s Tucker Ferris.
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Union falls to pieces early in WPIAL championship game.
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Highlanders win third-place game, qualify for PIAA playoffs.
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Eden Christian's pitching ends postseason run by Jefferson-Morgan.
Carmichaels finsihes fourth in WPIAL Class 2A
She has been a long-time fan of the popular old sitcom Golden Girls. Takes one to know one – or four.
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SHIIPPENSBURG – The weather was terrible.
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PIAA officials moved the jumping events at the Class 3A Track & Field Championships indoors. But there was a problem every competitor needed an answer for: shoes.
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SHIPPENSBURG – This time, everything fell into place.
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SHIPPENSBURG – Competition, Miranda Schramm is finding out, brings out the best in her.
South Fayette sprinter is O-R Athlete of the Week
WEST MIFFLIN – There was no deep analysis needed for this game.
McKEES ROCKS – After the 2019 season ended, mystery surrounded the future of the four-time defending WPIAL champion West Greene Pioneers.
NORTH HUNTINGDON – Carmichaels gamely fought back to tie the score in the top of the sixth inning, only to have Shenango plate the winning run in the bottom of the inning for a 7-6 victory Tuesday afternoon in the WPIAL Class AA semifinals at Norwin High School.
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Jefferson-Morgan turns three double plays as it teaches Rochester a lesson.
WEST MIFFLIN – Second-seeded Laurel had too much Autumn Boyd for Burgettstown on Monday afternoon.
The inability to find the energy to run a high school football program the way he knows it needs done, and after a second ACL injury to his son Colby, Joe Kuhns recently decided to resign as Beth-Center’s head football coach after five seasons at the helm.
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Errors prove costly to Chartiers-Houston in loss in WPIAL quarterfinals.
Mention the word barn to a farmer, and he will tell you it’s a wonderful place to store bales of hay, keep your tools organized and provide a place to park your tractor.
WEST MIFFLIN – The best baseball season in McGuffey High School history just keeps getting better.
MONTOUR – If a fortune-teller had informed Chartiers-Houston coach Andy Manion at, say, 3:30 Friday afternoon that his team would only give up two hits in its Class 2A quarterfinal matchup with Carmichaels set to start a half-hour later, and said nothing else, Manion would have liked his tea…
Big Macs lead almost the entire way, until a walkoff hit by the Panthers.
WEST MIFFLIN – There are not many baseball teams with 10-10 records still participating in the WPIAL playoffs, which has left Peters Township head coach Rocky Plassio and shortstop Jack Kail to explain the Indians’ presence in next week’s Class 5A semifinals.
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Highlanders add to their historic season by sliding past South Allegheny in playoffs.
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WAYNESBURG – You can forgive Kiley Meek if she let a smile or two escape her lips during Thursday’s WPIAL Class A playoff game against Bishop Canevin.
As a No. 16 seed, and playing a No. 1 seed, Waynesburg knew it’d be up against it facing the Hopewell Vikings.
Ellwood City did all its scoring in two innings and upset third-seeded Waynesburg 7-4 Thursday in the WPIAL Class 3A softball playoffs at Montour High School.
Perhaps the hottest local team in the WPIAL softball playoffs is Chartiers-Houston.
Drake Long and Trenton Carter each drove in three runs, and Gavin Pratt and Dylan Rohrer combined on a two-hitter as third-seeded Carmichaels rolled to a 12-1 win Apollo-Ridge in a Class 2A first-round playoff game Wednesday at Mount Pleasant.
McMURRAY – In the first game of Wednesday’s WPIAL baseball tripleheader at Peters Township’s Peterswood Park, West Greene won its first playoff game in school history.
SLIPPERY ROCK – The only way you can make Amy Allen run faster is to attach an engine to her legs.
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SLIPPERY ROCK – One of these days, Taylor Shriver will bring the right poles to a track meet.
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Few softball programs in the state can boast the winning tradition and coaching stability that Chartiers-Houston has developed.
Riley Pekar went 3-for-3 and scored three times, Devan Clark and Madi Blaker combined on a four-hitter and Mapletown shut out St. Joseph 12-0 Tuesday in the first round of the Class A girls softball playoffs at West Mifflin.
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Burgettstown baseball pitcher and leadoff hitter is the Observer-Reporter Athlete of the Week.
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California's girls softball team saved its best game of the season for the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs.
A loss in the section opener against Immaculate Conception High School April 1, 1986 was certainly no joke for the Fort Cherry High School baseball team.
If any local baseball team is going to win a WPIAL championship this season, then it likely will require knocking off a few higher-seeded teams.
Nobody has beaten the West Greene High School girls softball team in a WPIAL playoff game in the last five years – there was no postseason tournament last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic – and the Pioneers are favored to win a fifth consecutive Class A championship.
Burgettstown completed a two-game series sweep of Fort Cherry by defeating the visiting Rangers 12-2 in six innings Wednesday in Class 2A Section 4.
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