Chris Harlan stories, Page 55
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Penn Hills’ Julian Dugger
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Camp is still weeks away, but Penn Hills quarterback Julian Dugger is...
Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan named 2021-22 Trib HSSN Boys Athlete of the Year
As Eli Yofan celebrated on the 18th green at Cedarbrook Golf Course last fall, a thought unrelated to golf came into his head. He’d just shot a 1-under par round, leading Fox Chapel to a WPIAL team title, but his mind was already on winter. “All I was thinking was,...
Trib HSSN top storylines from the 2021-22 school year
Nov. 19-20, 2021 WPIAL soccer teams jump-started the school year by winning five of the eight state championships. For the first time, the WPIAL won three boys titles with victories by Hampton (3A), Quaker Valley (2A) and Winchester Thurston (A). Nov. 20, 2021 The North Allegheny boys and girls swept...
Armstrong quarterback Cadin Olsen commits to Ivy League school
Armstrong’s Cadin Olsen, a dual-threat quarterback and one of the WPIAL’s top passers, committed Friday to Penn. Olsen announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-5, 205-pounder will be a senior in the fall. He passed for 2,051 yards a season ago, third best among all WPIAL passers. He also threw...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Aliquippa’s Cameron Lindsey
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Cameron Lindsey’s favorite play from last season came in the state championship...
Beaver’s Payton List, Mt. Lebanon’s Deirdre Flaherty top all-state softball awards
Mt. Lebanon catcher Deirdre Flaherty and Beaver pitcher Payton List topped the list of players earning all-state honors Thursday from the Pennsylvania High School Softball Coaches Association. Flaherty was named as the state’s top position player, and List shared pitcher of the year honors with North Penn’s Julia Schearer. Two...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: Laurel Highlands’ Rodney Gallagher
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Rodney Gallagher ranked among the WPIAL’s top quarterbacks last season, but the...
2022 Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Year: Bethel Park’s Evan Holewinski
2022 Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Year Evan Holewinski School: Bethel Park Class: Junior Evan Holewinski likes to find video of MLB pitcher Max Scherzer and sync his throwing motion with that of the three-time Cy Young winner. They’re both tall right-handers, each about 6-foot-3, with a knack for...
2022 TribLive HSSN Softball All-Stars
In WPIAL softball, there’s no requirement for underclassmen to wait their turn. Just take a look at this year’s champions. Many of them relied on freshmen and sophomores in key roles on their journey to the WPIAL or state finals. Among them, Neshannock freshman pitcher Addy Frye led the Lancers...
2022 TribLive HSSN Baseball All-Stars
This was a good year around the WPIAL for dominant pitchers and slick-fielding shortstops. North Allegheny’s Cole Young should hear his name called next month during the MLB Draft, but the senior shortstop wasn’t the only impact player around Western Pennsylvania this spring. Among the others, Bethel Park’s Evan Holewinski...
2022 Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star Team: North Allegheny’s Tyree Alualu
Editor’s note: The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized July 15 during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. As a sophomore starter surrounded by seniors, Tyree Alualu’s primary job was...
Evan Holewinski pitches 3-hitter, Bethel Park wins back-to-back PIAA titles
UNIVERSITY PARK — Rarely does a WPIAL baseball team have a chance to win consecutive state titles, so Bethel Park tried to remember and repeat everything that worked a year ago. “We tried to do everything the same,” coach Pat Zehdner said. “We left at the same time. We stopped...
7th-inning rally lifts Montour baseball to 1st state championship
UNIVERSITY PARK — This was a scene Montour senior Ryan Gallagher and his teammates had thought about for years, one where they’re together at Penn State celebrating a state baseball championship on the infield grass. But no one could’ve imagined how they got there. With Gallagher on the mound, Montour...
WPIAL notebook: Class 4A boys basketball crowded with champions after realignment
Lincoln Park and North Catholic have met in the WPIAL boys basketball finals four times in the past six seasons, but they won’t wait that long to face one another again. The WPIAL board on Monday approved a new section alignment for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons that has them...
WPIAL approves new basketball sections without addressing public-private concerns
The WPIAL considered some radical ideas such as splitting public and private school basketball teams into separate sections, but ultimately decided that’s a debate for another day. The WPIAL board on Monday accepted the basketball committee’s recommendation to stick with the status quo approach and approved new sections for the...
Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer commits to Wisconsin
About two months after restarting his recruiting process, Thomas Jefferson’s Jordan Mayer committed Sunday to Wisconsin. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end and defensive end is a senior in the fall. His commitment to the Badgers followed a decision in April to decommit from Boston College, his original college choice. Rivals...
Schalls share final memorable season with North Allegheny boys volleyball
Caleb Schall comes from a family where his parents and two uncles played college volleyball, his grandfather won state volleyball titles as a high school coach and his dad now leads powerhouse North Allegheny. The sport is clearly a Schall family tradition. “Volleyball is just in our DNA, I guess,”...
North Allegheny boys volleyball draws PIAA championship rematch with Central Dauphin
Some things seem to never change. Three-time defending PIAA champion North Allegheny is headed back to Penn State’s Rec Hall for the fifth season in a row, a remarkable run of state final appearances for the boys volleyball team. And waiting for the Tigers this weekend will be the same...
Bethel Park eliminates West Allegheny, keeps alive hopes for PIAA championship repeat
Bethel Park has seen this story before: The baseball team comes up short in the WPIAL playoffs only to bounce back stronger in the state tournament behind a talented pitcher recruited to Kent State. That exact storyline won the Black Hawks a state championship a year ago and they’re now...
Don’t blame ‘WPIAL hangover’ for this PIAA 1st-round loss, says Mt. Lebanon coach
The Mt. Lebanon baseball team was on the practice field for a rare early-morning, split-squad scrimmage Saturday, just a few days after winning the WPIAL title. The Blue Devils had six days to get ready for their state playoff opener and tried to use them to their fullest. “We had...
Neshannock tops Frazier in WPIAL championship clash of undefeated 2A teams
Whenever a Neshannock batter stepped into the Lilley Field batter’s box Friday, a peculiar shout sometimes came from the dugout: Smile. And, no, it wasn’t picture day. “On the bus today, we were saying, if one of us ever gets down in the dumps, it could take the whole team...
WPIAL postpones Thursday softball championship games to Friday
The WPIAL took a look at the weather forecast and decided to postpone its three softball finals from Thursday to Friday. The games will be played at the same site, Lilley Field at Cal (Pa.), and the times remain unchanged. Beaver and Elizabeth Forward will play at noon in the...
West Allegheny outlasts Peters Township to win school’s 5th WPIAL championship
Not much has come easy this season for West Allegheny, a team that battled through injuries and plenty of inconvenience to reach Wild Things Park. So, a four-hour championship fit them well. As Wednesday night threatened to become Thursday morning, West Allegheny’s Anthony Raineri bounced an eighth-inning single past second...
Mt. Lebanon squeezes past Upper St. Clair for 1st WPIAL title since 2006
Mt. Lebanon waited 16 years for this celebration, so another hour and a half didn’t matter. The Blue Devils’ Tyler Smith lined a sixth-inning triple into the right-field corner at Wild Things Park and scored the winning run on Derrick Shields’ sacrifice fly for a 2-1 victory over Upper St....
New Castle’s Maria Owens turns triple jump frustration into PIAA long jump gold
SHIPPENSBURG — New Castle senior Maria Owens was upset with herself a day earlier after a 17th-place finish in the triple jump, disappointed largely by a foul on a big jump. “I couldn’t get over it,” she said. But eventually she decided to take that mistake, turn it into motivation...
