Tag: Southmoreland

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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Westmoreland basketball notebook: Hempfield boys, Southmoreland girls take pride in ‘D’

January 24, 2019

The Hempfield boys and Southmoreland girls basketball teams have something common, and it isn't that you can get to both schools via the Amos K. Hutchinson Bypass. The similarity is in the numbers. Both teams lead their respective WPIAL classifications in defensive scoring average. Hempfield holds the lowest points-against average

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Kiski Area, Burrell earn top seeds for WPIAL wrestling tournament

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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Southmoreland wrestling reaches WPIAL playoffs

January 23, 2019

Things didn't start so well for the Southmoreland wrestling team Wednesday evening. After driving for more than hour to get to Highlands, the team bus pulled up to the wrong school, and first-year coach Dan Boring hoped it wasn't a sign of things to come. andquot;I'm like, 'We're already starting

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Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week: Serra Catholic’s Jimmy Moon

January 21, 2019

Jimmy Moon School: Serra Catholic Class: Senior This has turned out to be the year of the Moon in WPIAL boys basketball. The Moon Tigers are the only undefeated boys team left in the WPIAL as they sit at 14-0 and in first place in Section 2-5A. Then there is

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High-scoring junior Comforti soaring for Southmoreland

Riley Comforti wants to dunk the basketball in a game. Throw one down and make the crowd ooh and aah. The Southmoreland junior swingman can slam, he just has not had the right moment to get separation from the pack, sprint down the floor and stuff it through the rim.

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WPIAL section tournaments set for Wednesday

January 18, 2019

The section team wrestling tournaments in Class AAA and Class AA will get underway at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Kiski Area is the returning WPIAL champion in Class AAA and Burrell in Class AA. Burrell has won 12 consecutive Class AA titles. The top two teams in each subsection, which have

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Westmoreland high school basketball notebook: Brozeski subs fast and furious

January 17, 2019

Norwin girls basketball coach Brian Brozeski joked he has a timing mechanism in his pocket during games that alerts him when to substitute players. Watch a Knights game, and it's like hockey line changes: three in, three out; four down, four up. While a number of teams like to whittle

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Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week: Waynesburg

January 15, 2019

Team of the week: Waynesburg The Raiders chose to win again at the Winner's Choice Tournament in Fairmont, W.Va. Waynesburg went into the tournament as the defending champion and once again claimed the title, finishing with 208.5 team points, well ahead of second-place East Fairmont. Four Waynesburg wrestlers won individual

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Westmoreland high school notebook: Hempfield’s Remaley out for season

January 12, 2019

Hempfield two-sport athlete Blake Remaley will miss the remainder of the basketball season after having surgery on his left shoulder. A 6-foot-2, 215-pound junior, Remaley said the procedure was to andquot;clean things upandquot; after he injured his labrum last football season. He is the Spartans quarterback. The surgery was to

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