Tag: Belle Vernon

Belle Vernon boys prepare for PIAA 1st-round matchup with Hickory

March 8, 2018

It's no surprise it took the Belle Vernon boys basketball team a few days to shake off a WPIAL semifinal loss to eventual champion New

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Westmoreland County PIAA basketball first-round preview capsules

Boys Class 5A First round Highlands (18-5) vs. Franklin Regional (120-5) 6 p.m. Friday at Fox Chapel Winner plays: Winner of Hollidaysburg (16-7) vs. Carrick

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Five things to watch at the PIAA wrestling tournament

March 7, 2018

Pennsylvania's biggest stretch of high school wrestling will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday with the PIAA individual championships at Giant Center in Hershey. There will

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Westmoreland athletes of the week: Belle Vernon’s Robert Spekis, Franklin Regional’s Abigail Ramey

Robert Spekis School: Belle Vernon Sport: Swimming Class: Junior Claim to fame: Spekis set a new WPIAL record in the 100-yard breaststroke after finishing first

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71 WPIAL basketball teams earn spot in PIAA playoffs

March 4, 2018

The WPIAL basketball playoffs have come to an end with 12 champions crowned. They and several other district teams now set their sights on the

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Norwin sophomore Kurtis Phipps wins 2nd WPIAL wrestling title

March 3, 2018

Norwin sophomore Kurtis Phipps wasn't happy with how he earned his second WPIAL/Southwest Regional Class AAA title Saturday at Canon-McMillan. Phipps was awarded a penalty

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Westmoreland H.S. notebook: Penn-Trafford’s Will Mayr picked for Big 33

When a player backed out of the Big 33 Football Classic, Will Mayr's phone rang. And the Penn-Trafford senior is glad he answered. Mayr was

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Kiski Area’s Blumer upsets top-seeded Kemerer in WPIAL quarterfinals

Kiski Area sophomore wrestler Jack Blumer made a prediction Friday night after his quarterfinal victory and backed it up Saturday afternoon in the WPIAL Class

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Zero upsets during fast opening round of WPIAL Class AAA wrestling tournament

March 2, 2018

If fans were hoping for upsets in the opening rounds of the WPIAL Class AAA individual wrestling championships Friday afternoon, they were disappointed because there

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Mt. Pleasant’s Gardner captures 2nd gold at WPIAL swimming championships

Mt. Pleasant swimmer Heather Gardner turned last season's silver medal in the 50-yard freestyle into a gold medal this year with her performance Thursday during

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