Tag: Norwin

Westmoreland County high school notebook: WPIAL rushing champ Shoaf pledges to Mercyhurst

January 26, 2019

The two-time WPIAL regular-season rushing champion has a college destination. Yough senior running back Dustin Shoaf, who racked up 5,053 yards during his highlight-packed career, announced Friday he has committed to Mercyhurst. Shoaf made a short video to declare his school of choice and posted it to Twitter with the

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Norwin girls extend winning streak to 8 with rout of Hempfield

With only a Jan. 4 loss to Class 6A top-ranked North Allegheny blocking Norwin's path to an unbeaten season so far, the fourth-ranked Knights have been met with little resistance as their climb continues back to WPIAL relevance in girls basketball. The journey took another step Saturday with a 61-28

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WPIAL girls basketball rankings for week of Jan. 26, 2019

Rankings Girls basketball Class 6A 1. North Allegheny, 17-0, 1 2. Peters Township, 16-0, 2 3. Bethel Park*, 14-1, 3 4. Norwin, 16-1, 4 5. Seneca Valley, 11-5, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Chartiers Valley, 18-0, 1 2. Oakland Catholic, 15-2, 3 3. Gateway, 14-3, 4 4. Penn Hills,

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Norwin reaches WPIAL wrestling tournament for 6th time in program history

January 25, 2019

When Vince DeAugustine took over the Norwin wrestling program, he wanted to make the team relevant. He wanted to build a program that didn't accept being mediocre. Since the WPIAL began the holding a team tournament in 1979, Norwin had qualified only five times before this season. The Knights are

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Norwin’s Pampus changes college soccer programs

Kendra Pampus was signed and ready to join the women's soccer program at Indiana University in Bloomington when a coaching change sent her plans sideways. Pampus, a senior at Norwin who only played on the varsity team there for two years, announced a new intention Friday with a verbal commitment

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Kiski Area, Burrell earn top seeds for WPIAL wrestling tournament

January 24, 2019

The WPIAL wrestling committee on Thursday awarded Kiski Area (Class AAA) and Burrell (Class AA) the No. 1 seeds for the upcoming team tournament, which begins Monday with Class AAA preliminary-round matches. Kiski Area (11-0), ranked third in the state in the Trib HSSN rankings, has won the past two

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Kiski Area rallies to defeat Hempfield for 24th section title

January 23, 2019

As the Kiski Area wrestling team was lining up for a photo after winning its 24th section title, assistant coach Chuck Tursky turned to the squad and said, andquot;this never gets old.andquot; Kiski Area, the No. 1 team in the Trib HSSN Class AAA rankings, claimed the title by rallying

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Mars boys, North Allegheny girls stay atop Trib 10 basketball power rankings

Every Wednesday during the 2018-19 WPIAL basketball season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings during the WPIAL Roundball Report at 6:30 p.m. Then, after the show, we post the Trib 10 online at TribHSSN.TribLive.com. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the week

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Hempfield boys hold off Norwin to end five-game losing streak

January 22, 2019

For a third time in a row, Hempfield and Norwin traded boys basketball victories in a season on one another's court. Marcus McCarthy scored 13 points, and Reed Hipps added 11 to lead Hempfield to a 45-41 win Tuesday at Norwin, the Spartans' first Section 3-6A victory. Hempfield (8-8, 1-5)

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Norwin’s DeAugustine set to face former team Hempfield in Section 1 semifinals

Norwin wrestling coach Vince DeAugustine knew this day would come. The day the first-year Norwin coach sat across the mat from the team he coached for the past 13 seasons. DeAugustine compiled a 218-52 record at Hempfield before resigning last summer to take over a Norwin program that had rarely

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