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2018 High School Football Preview
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Five storylines entering the high school football season.
CANONSBURG – You might not recognize Canon-McMillan’s Memorial Stadium these days.
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After 123 wins, a berth in the state finals and seven years as the Trinity girls basketball coach, Bob Miles' position was opened during Thursday night's school board meeting.
The PIAA floated a proposal for next year's baseball season schedule that drew a strong reaction from local coaches.
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The McGuffey football team will not be idle in Week 1.
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Donnie Pordash has enjoyed a long, enjoyable career with the Texas Rangers.
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McGuffey will have an automatic win but will be looking for opponent in Week 1.
Despite graduation losses, South Fayette retains target on back because of tradition.
Mike Junko take over as head coach and promises the Panthers will continue tradition of playing physical football.
MT. LEBANON – Whether as the successful coach at West Allegheny or as the new guy at Mt. Lebanon High School, Bob Palko mandates only one thing from his football players.
When Gavin Teasdale walked off the wrestling match 16 months ago in Hershey after becoming the 13th wrestler to win four PIAA titles, the future looked bright.
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How a kid from Sewickley and two from the inner city of Pittsburgh have brought some of most well-known in college basketball knocking on the doors of the Brownson House.
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Trinity standout Riley DeRubbo, now fully healthy from a knee injury, chooses Fordham.
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A change in both high school baseball and soccer could impact teams as early as next season.
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Dayna Holston Wenger moved out of her comfort zone earlier this year, taking a job as an academic adviser after spending more than 22 years working in athletics at Penn State University.
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High school football teams will report to camp in exactly one month. Here are five teams to watch before July quickly turns into August and the season is upon us.
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South Fayette loses strokes to leader but not discouraged entering final round.
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After a devastating knee injury last year, Belle Vernon's Jared Hartman made a rapid recovery and is cleared to return for his senior year.
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In a partnership with the National Federation of High Schools, Trinity High School will begin to stream its athletic events beginning this August.
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West Greene will start its season in a different fashion, playing two games in one week.
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Former Jefferson-Morgan standout Gavin Teasdale announced that he will transfer to Iowa.
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Fifteen local softball players were named to Pennsylvania High School Softball Coaches Association all-state teams.
Daniel Layton never really wanted all the attention.
Dreams became reality in Makenna Marisa’s senior year at Peters Township High School.
It didn’t matter how much opponents schemed to stop Christian Clutter. The McGuffey senior running back made sure all those efforts were unsuccessful. In a breakout final year with the Highlanders, Clutter finished with 1,548 rushing yards and 28 rushing touchdowns out of McGuffey’s flex off…
Markello Apodiakos has been the pivotal player in the rise of Belle Vernon boys soccer. With Apodiakos at forward, the Leopards have become one of the highest-scoring teams in the WPIAL and an annual playoff qualifier. Apodiakos scored 27 goals and had 12 assists this season to help Belle Ve…
The fleetest feet belonged to Emily Carter this track season as the Bethel Park sophomore raced to new heights. During the PIAA Championships held at Shippensburg University, the 16-year-old broke the state record in winning the gold medal in the 3,200-meter run. She won the eight-lap race i…
It was appropriate that Daniel Layton competed in the high hurdles and pole vault because no one had more ups and downs to his track & field season than the senior from Waynesburg. Layton was caught in the web of WPIAL bureaucracy when a simple mistake was made. While finalizing the perf…
Hill is a four-letter word found in Emily Carter’s vocabulary. “Everybody says they hate hills but I tell myself that I love hills, especially while I’m going up them,” she said. That approach proves the difference between Carter and the rest of the pack during a cross country race. The Beth…
While Bethel Park has been one of the best boys volleyball programs in the WPIAL, the Black Hawks reached a new pinnacle this spring. They advanced to the Final Four in the PIAA tournament before finishing with a 20-2 overall record. Max Cooley again played a pivotal role in the Hawks’ rise.…
Considered one of the most polished, complete players to come out of Western Pennsylvania, Makenna Marisa used her senior season as a final curtain call. What an encore it turned out to be. The Penn State recruit led Peters Township as the Indians became the first girls high school basketbal…
John Sramac just completed his junior season of lacrosse. That’s bad news for opponents but positive news for the Mt. Lebanon program. “John’s a heck of a player and he steps up at the right times,” said Blue Devil coach Mike Ermer. “So him being a junior is the best part because we leaned o…
The girls basketball season for Peters Township was dominant from start to finish. And the Indians have two gold medals to show for it and made history doing so. Completing a perfect season (30-0) with a 62-49 win over Garnet Valley in the PIAA Class 6A Championship at the Giant Center in He…
Like the spring weather in Western Pennsylvania, South Fayette’s Luke Lestini got a little better each week during the golf season. That led the South Fayette junior to some impressive finishes. Lestini’s big year began last summer when he won the Tri-State Section Boys Junior PGA Championsh…
Selena Phillips has been spot on at the WPIAL Rifle Championships, which has brought out the best in Waynesburg’s sharp-shooting senior. Phillips successfully defended her WPIAL title at the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in March. Just as she was a year ago, when she won Waynesburg’s …
Mia Gorman proved a fast learner in her first season of varsity tennis. That’s not so surprising, though, because she picked up a racket when she was only three. Last fall, while playing for Bethel Park High School, Gorman demonstrated why she was ranked No. 6 among all freshmen in the state…
Owen Johns saves his best dives for last and the strategy pays off in crucial competition. The Mt. Lebanon senior closed out his career with back-to-back sixth-place finishes at the PIAA Championships. A four-time state qualifier, he missed a medal as a sophomore, finishing in ninth position…
Pitching in Class 6A, especially rugged Section 3, is difficult for any sophomore but Bethel Park’s Eric Chalus made it look easy. A prototypical crafty lefthander, Chalus pitched Bethel Park to the section title, the WPIAL semifinals and a 15-5 record. Chalus had a 5-0 record in the regular…
Caroline McConnell was a model of consistency for South Fayette High School’s girls golf team. The talented freshman played her best golf when it mattered most, finishing tied for third in the WPIAL Championships, second in the West Region and fourth in the PIAA Championships. At the state e…
Anna Vogt’s sport involves ups, downs, twists and turns. The Ringgold High School senior, however, was as steady as a diver could possibly be this season as she went straight to the top of the leaderboard in the postseason and stayed there to the end. Vogt repeated as the WPIAL Class AA divi…
Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Anthony Chiccitt wanted to know only two things: One, would he lose his hair? Two, could he play baseball?
Speed rules in lacrosse. Since Sarah Farnan possesses that attribute, the Peters Township resident dominates the action. The recent Seton LaSalle graduate topped all scorers in the WPIAL with 61 goals. She added 20 assists in 15 games. Farnan scored 153 career goals. While the number ranks f…
Mike Agostinella has coached for 53 years and he’s known all along what the state learned about Patrick Anderson this cross country season. “He’s the best all-around kid that I’ve had,” Agostinella said. “He’s a very, very aggressive runner. We knew that he was going to be pretty good but he…
Ian George named his two sons after warriors. Wyatt George certainly took the moniker to heart. “Because I’m a little below the average (sized) player,” George said noting his 5-7, 157-pound frame, “I have to be a fighter.” George certainly fought hard to become the best. He is one of only t…
As Josh Matheny approached the starting blocks, AC/DC’s Thunderstruck blared throughout the speaker system. Less than a minute later, the Upper St. Clair sophomore astonished everybody in the Bucknell University Kinney Natatorium. In winning his second straight 100-yard breaststroke race dur…
Another school year has passed.
Gerrit Nijenhuis ended two frustrating years in the PIAA Championships with a spectacular finish this year. The junior from Canon-McMillan High School, who came back with the bronze medals the past two seasons, roared through the 170-pound weight class, earning the gold medal with a dominati…
When Daryl Hixenbaugh resigned as the Belle Vernon baseball coach in May, several people applied.
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After 35 seasons as Peters Township High School baseball's coach, and 422 career wins, Joe Maize is retiring.
For three seasons, Kaitlyn Rizor was comfortable and productive on the right side of West Greene’s defensive alignment as the second baseman. She was a key player in three WPIAL championships and two state titles. This spring, however, Rizor was asked to slide over to the key position of sho…
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Devin Whitlock’s freshman year at Monessen High School was quite a success.
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Numbers don't lie with the success of both the Chartiers-Houston High School softball program and the big three — McKenna Lampe, Madison Lampe and Kaitlyn Rizor — from West Greene. Also, keeping up to date with recruiting news for several local high school football players.
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Separating playoffs for public and private schools should be done, but there are better ways to create parity in scholastic sports than what the newest proposed bill would suggest.
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Mike Deegan was one of 12 honorees inducted into the Washington-Greene Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.
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Keeping up with local high school athletics, including a new bill that would change the high school sports landscape in Pennsylvania, South Fayette golfer Luke Lestini qualifying for a national tournament and recruiting news.
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SLIPPERY ROCK — The chances were there, but the West Greene High School softball team couldn't pounce like it usually does.
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