Sports

Participants of the 2024 summer youth baseball camp conducted by Sewickley Academy coach Andrew Petruska pose for a group photo.
Sewickley Academy baseball overcomes obstacles to earn playoff berth
June 30, 2024
The Sewickley Academy baseball team produced a successful squeeze play in 2024 at the end of its section schedule.

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Spencer Caravaggio Granger, a 2013 graduate, is a member of the Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024.
Quaker Valley announces hall of fame Class of 2024, induction weekend festivities
The 2024 Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame weekend will take place in October.

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Eden Christian’s Caleb Emswiler caps memorable season with Class A player of the year honors
Caleb Emswiler capped an outstanding baseball career at Eden Christian Academy with a top individual honor.

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Londyn Tomman of the Penn Hills Eagles track club broke a 22-year-old Three Rivers Association 800-meter record in the 11-12 age group by five seconds with a run time of 2:25.08.
Penn Hills Eagles track club runner smashes record, leads contingent to regional meet
Londyn Tomman was nervous and excited for the USATF Three Rivers Championship at Slippery Rock University. The uncertainty of an event with such a deep field of competitors was an exciting challenge for her.

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Pine-Richland’s Isabelle Hoppe hist against North Allegheny’s Marin Dunaway and Ariana Schiller on 
Oct. 19, 2023.
Big summer for Pine-Richland volleyball ace includes Pitt commitment, spot on national team
The month of June has been pretty exciting for Isabelle Hoppe.

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Coach Dan Heckert, North Alegheny’s Leyna Rumpler and Knoch’s Miranda LaJevic celebrate Pennsylvania Blue’s national title at the Air Force Special Warfare Junior National Duals.
WPIAL wrestlers boost Pennsylvania to 1st girls junior national duals title
North Allegheny’s Leyna Rumpler has been traveling to Tulsa, Okla. for the past four years to compete with wrestlers from around Pennsylvania in the Air Force Special Warfare Junior National Duals.

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Franklin Regional coach Jesse Reed talks with his team during a timeout in their PIAA Class 5A state semifinal against Moon on March 18.
Franklin Regional notebook: Panthers to move into new-look basketball section
The WPIAL announced its winter sports realignment for the next two-year enrollment cycle.

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Seneca Valley pitcher Lexie Hames pumps her fist after getting her final strikeout to defeat Hempfield on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024, in Jackson.
2024 TribLive HSSN Softball Player of the Year: Seneca Valley’s Lexie Hames
June 29, 2024
It’s not always easy being the most dominant pitcher in the area, playing for a team with WPIAL title expectations.

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Mt. Lebanon pitcher David Shields prepares to pitch against Hempfield on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Mt. Lebanon.
2024 TribLive HSSN Baseball Player of the Year: Mt. Lebanon’s David Shields
David Shields will likely hear his name called at the MLB Draft in a couple of weeks, but the Mt. Lebanon senior isn’t counting the days. Instead, he’s in South Florida getting a start on his college education at Miami.

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Kiski’s Eliza Miller take third in the Class 3A 1,600-meter run during the WPIAL Track and Field Championships on May 15 at Slippery Rock University.
Kiski Area 3-sport star Eliza Miller 3-peats as Valley News Dispatch girls athlete of the year
Reflecting on her time at Kiski Area brought a realization of the rapid pace the high school years went by for Eliza Miller.

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Freeport’s Michael Braun leads Mohawks’s Jaxon Schoedel finishes third in the boys 1,600 during the PIAA Class 2A Track and Field Championship on May 24 at Shippensburg University.
Freeport runner Michael Braun named Valley News Dispatch boys athlete of the year
Michael Braun had a couple of major goals he set for his junior year at Freeport.

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Mt. Pleasant’s Lily King exits the stage with the runner-up team trophy during the WPIAL Class 2A swimming championships March 1 at Pitt’s Trees Pool.
Mt. Pleasant swimming star Lily King repeats as TribLive Westmoreland girls athlete of the year
Lily King got her first taste of the Olympic experience last week and she’s anxious to take her swimming to another level.

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Greensburg Central Catholic’s Tyree Turner (5) reacts after drawing an and-one call on Jeannette’s Elijah Jones (4) in a PIAA Class 2A second-round game Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at Norwin.
Greenburg Central Catholic competitor Tyree Turner named TribLive Westmoreland boys athlete of the year
While he lives in Indiana, Tyree Turner often feels more like a Greensburg kid because he spent so much time in and around the city.

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Yough’s Terek Crosby flies past the Deer Lakes defense to make a layup Dec. 8, 2023.
Westmoreland County high school notebook: Latrobe girls golf to debut; Terek Crosby picks Saint Vincent
The new fall season will come with a new varsity sport at Latrobe.

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Frazier’s Rune Lawrence wrestles Austin Johnson in the 215-pound finals during the PIAA wrestling championship March 9 at the Giant Center in Hershey. Lawrence won his fourth championship.
2023-24 parade of individual champions in WPIAL sports
There is no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in the word individual … and impressive.

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Belle Vernon coach Matt Humbert gets doused with the coolers late in the PIAA Class 3A championship game against Northwestern Lehigh on Dec. 9, 2023, at Cumberland Valley.
2023-24 parade of team champions in WPIAL sports
What better way to honor the top teams from the 2023-2024 school year than to march the WPIAL champions in a victory parade stretching from Lawrence County down to Greene County.

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Canon-McMillan’s Valarie Solorio reacts after winning her match against Neshaminy’s Grace Nesbitt in the 100-pound finals of the PIAA girls wrestling championship March 9 at the Giant Center in Hershey.
Top stories of the 2023-24 school year in WPIAL sports
Here’s a look back at the biggest high school sports stories of the 2023-24 school year.

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Mt. Pleasant softball coach Chris Brunson
Championship softball coach Chris Brunson leaving Mt. Pleasant for Waynesburg University
June 28, 2024
Championship softball coach Chris Brunson is making the jump to the college level as he leaves the Mt. Pleasant high school team to head to Waynesburg University.

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New Highlands boys basketball coach Bill Flow
Highlands goes with the Flow, finds new boys basketball coach teaching English class
Highlands likes to play fast, up-tempo basketball. It always has, even when a new coach took over.

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Southmoreland quarterbacks Caden Matthews (left) and Anthony Smith.
Fierce QB competition brewing at Southmoreland between Caden Matthews, Anthony Smith
June 27, 2024
There is a good old-fashioned quarterback competition brewing in Alverton, and the top preseason storyline for Southmoreland football already has people chewing the fat at gas stations and mini-marts.

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