Tag: Penn-Trafford

Westmoreland high school notes: Local basketball teams set for holiday events

December 22, 2018

Christmas break means holiday basketball tournament time. Spectators will have several options on the local schedule this week. Most tournaments are round-robins, which means there is no championship and consolation, and will be played across Thursday and Friday. The Jeannette boys team is used to traveling over the break, but

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Derry’s Justin Flack named Westmoreland Tribune-Review Football Player of the Year

PLAYER OF THE YEAR JUSTIN FLACK RB/QB/DB, Senior, 5-foot-8, 160 pounds, Derry Area Justin Flack's senior season turned out better than he or anyone expected. The Derry senior running back said he never dreamed rushing for 1,334 yards and scoring 38 touchdowns. Because of injuries to Colton Nemcheck and Justin

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Westmoreland basketball notebook: Prep work paying off for Derry boys

December 20, 2018

Preparation is everything for Derry boys basketball. The Trojans aren't sparing a single detail this season. From the four-page scouting report each player gets days before every game, to intensive film-breakdown, first-year coach Tom Esposito has his team doing its homework on opponents. andquot;A lot has changed since the last

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No. 1-ranked Kiski Area uses 8 pins to take down Penn-Trafford

December 19, 2018

Kiski Area's wrestlers turn pins into something of a competition, with an award given at the team banquet to the wrestler with the most falls and T-shirts for each pin under 30 seconds or a minute. Beyond that, the Cavaliers have made the pins into something of an art form,

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PIHL Player of the Week: Montour’s Ritchy Froehlich Jr.

December 16, 2018

Oh Captain, My Captain. Whether it's a quote from the movie andquot;Dead Poet's Society,andquot; or describing the play of the captain of the highest-scoring team in the PIHL, the picture is the same. It's the senior captain of the Montour Spartans standing above the rest as the first Trib HSSN

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Three Franklin Regional wrestlers win at King of the Mountain tournament

December 15, 2018

Franklin Regional had three wrestlers win titles Saturday at the King of the Mountain tournament at Central Mountain High School. Carter Dibert (106 pounds), Colton Camacho (132) and Mason Spears (138) were winners for Franklin Regional. The Panthers finished fifth in the team standings and had five placewinners. Freshman Finn

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Trio of scorers pacing Penn-Trafford hockey during early-season stretch

December 14, 2018

Ben Leslie doesn't check Class AA scoring leaders on the PIHL website too often, so he was surprised to learn that entering Thursday he was a part of a group of players tied for second in the league with 23 points. andquot;I knew I was having a good season, but

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Hough’s first win lifts Franklin Regional wrestling past Penn-Trafford

December 12, 2018

The Franklin Regional wrestling team needed a stopper during Wednesday's WPIAL Class AAA Section 1A match at Penn-Trafford. So Panthers coach Matt Lebe called on Charlie Hough, not the former Major League Baseball pitcher whose main pitch was the knuckleball, to be that person. Hough, who was 0-21 during the

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Westmoreland high school notebook: Wickstrom takes over Monessen softball

December 8, 2018

Monessen has made significant strides in the softball postseason the last few years. If the Greyhounds are going to continue their upswing, however, they will do so with a new coach. And a young coach at that. The school recently named Carlee Wickstrom coach after Bo Teets' resignation last month.

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Penn-Trafford bowlers looking to snap postseason drought

It's been a while since the Penn-Trafford bowling team has reached the postseason. To be exact, the girls have been absent since 2011 and the boys haven't graced a bracket since the debut of the iPhone. andquot;This has been a building process with this team,andquot; said Penn-Trafford coach Bud Cummins,

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