Greg Macafee stories, Page 10
Patrick Cutchember becomes 4th Quaker Valley wrestler to win WPIAL title
In the short history of Quaker Valley’s wrestling program, only three wrestlers had the opportunity to have a WPIAL gold medal placed around their neck before this season. On Feb. 20, after trips to the finals the past two years, 189-pound junior Patrick Cutchember joined the ranks as he captured...
Quaker Valley’s Adou Thiero is embracing a bigger role
For the past three years, Adou Thiero’s role for the Quaker Valley boys basketball team has been evolving. He started as a freshman and averaged 7.5 points per game by being a shooter and distributor for a team that went on to make its third-straight WPIAL finals appearance. Then, as...
Mt. Pleasant’s Dayton Pitzer captures 2nd Regional title, continues strong junior year
Mt. Pleasant junior Dayton Pitzer continued his hot run Saturday at the PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional tournament at IUP’s Kovalchick Complex. The 215-pounder picked up three pins, with his third coming in 2 minutes, 11 seconds in the championship match against Carlynton’s Collin Milko to claim the second regional...
Burrell freshman Cooper Hornack wins Southwest Regional wrestling title
A week after capturing his first WPIAL title, Burrell freshman Cooper Hornack left IUP’s Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex with his first PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional title. Hornack took the 106-pound weight class by beating fellow freshman Landon Bainey of West Branch in the second ultimate tiebreaker after an...
Shady Side Academy boys beaming with confidence after big wins, playoff seeding
At the beginning of this season, no one expected the Shady Side Academy boys basketball team to be much of a threat. The Bulldogs only had three seniors and a few starters returning from last year, but they were also going to be very young. At times this season, they...
Fox Chapel basketball teams prepare to make run through WPIAL playoffs
When the WPIAL announced seedings for the girls and boys basketball tournaments Feb. 23, both Fox Chapel teams found themselves in unique positions. For the second straight year, the boys were awarded the No. 2 seed after putting together a record of 17-2 through 19 games. Their only two losses...
A-K Valley basketball playoff capsules: Games for Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021
Saturday’s games Boys Class 5A Preliminary round 18-West Allegheny (7-6) at 15-Plum (8-5) Noon, Saturday Coaches: Andrew Tsangaris, West Allegheny; Mark Marino, Plum Winner players: At 1-New Castle (16-2), 6 p.m. Wednesday About West Allegheny: The Indians won two of their final three games and put together a five-game winning...
A-K Valley boys basketball notebook: Andrew Sullivan’s becomes all-time leading scorer in St. Joseph boys basketball historyVideo
Senior guard Andrew Sullivan has a been big-time player for the St. Joseph boys basketball team. On Thursday, he solidified his legacy. With 5 minutes, 30 seconds left in the second quarter of St. Joseph’s matchup with Bethel Park, Sullivan made a trip to the line and hit two free...
Leechburg looks to continue playing fast as playoffs approach
Throughout this season, the Leechburg boys basketball team has set out to do one thing: Get out and run. Leechburg coach Damian Davies and the Blue Devils (7-4, 6-3) always want to take advantage of their athleticism by getting up and down the court and putting up as many attempts...
A-K Valley wrestling notebook: Three Kiski Area wrestlers nab No. 2 seeds for WPIALs
No wrestler from the Alle-Kiski Valley will enter the WPIAL Class AAA tournament as the No. 1 seed, but three Kiski Area Cavaliers will have the next-best thing at Canon-McMillan on Saturday. Enzo Morlacci (160), Sammy Starr (172) and Brayden Roscosky (189) earned No. 2 seeds. Both Starr and Morlacci...
Apollo-Ridge’s Logan Harmon searching for WPIAL title
Over the last four years, Apollo-Ridge senior Logan Harmon has been a catalyst for the Vikings football team, leading the group to its best season in school history. But for all his accomplishments on the gridiron, Harmon has been just as good on the wrestling mat. Apollo-Ridge doesn’t have a...
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week for Feb. 23, 2021: Ian Oswalt, Burrell
Ian Oswalt, a 138-pound senior, accomplished something only 31 wrestlers have as he won his fourth WPIAL title on Saturday with a 10-5 decision over Ligonier Valley’s Ryan Harbert in the championship match. Norwin’s Kurtis Phipps and Frazier’s Thayne Lawrence accomplished the feat last season, and Oswalt was one of...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week for Feb. 23, 2021: Laurel Spartans
Sophomore Grant Mackay and senior Mitch Miles carried the Spartans this past weekend as they both brought home individual WPIAL and section titles. Along with Mackay (152) and Miles (285) winning section titles, Charles Krepp (138), Chase Tinstman (172) and Colin Bartley (113) all finished in second in their respective...
20 WPIAL players selected to big school East-West All-Star Game
For the first time in the history of the event, there will be two PSFCA East-West all-star football games. On Sunday, May 30, the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association will host two games at Central Dauphin’s Landis Field, which will be split by classification and pit all-stars from the Eastern...
5 WPIAL players selected for small school East-West All-Star Game
For the first time in the history of the event, there will be two PSFCA East-West all-star football games. On Sunday, May 30, the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association will host two games at Central Dauphin’s Landis Field, which will be split by classification and pit all-stars from the Eastern...
With defensive identity, Sewickley Academy boys finding rhythm heading into playoffs
As the WPIAL playoffs approach, Sewickley Academy boys basketball coach Win Palmer is confident with where the Panthers are. Since the beginning of February, the Panthers (6-7, 3-5) have played No. 3 Springdale, No. 1 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Shenango, which has won seven of its past 10,...
Former Quigley Catholic guard Hailey Drutarosky fitting right in at Sewickley Academy
Not many high school athletes change schools before their senior season, but when Quigley Catholic closed at the end of last school year, Hailey Drutarosky set off on a path she never expected to take. “Nobody ever thinks about transferring schools their senior year of high school,” said Drutarosky, who...
Shady Side Academy’s Maeve Kelley is picking up where she left off
Shady Side Academy sophomore swimmer Maeve Kelley wasn’t sure how this season would go. After the coronavirus pandemic disrupted her regular training schedule last March, Kelley came into this season not really knowing what to expect. She couldn’t train at all from March until June and then couldn’t restart her...
Fox Chapel girls looking to peak at right time with playoffs approaching
The Fox Chapel girls basketball team hasn’t won a playoff game since its last extended playoff run to the WPIAL Class 4A semifinals when it took down Pine-Richland and Norwin. That was seven years ago. Now, after winning seven of their past eight games heading into a Section 2-5A matchup...
Kiski Area’s Brayden Roscosky and Sammy Starr get 100th wins
After this week’s WPIAL Class AAA Section 1A individual subsection meet, Kiski Area’s Sammy Starr and Brayden Roscosky joined a long line of Kiski Area wrestlers to win 100 career matches. Coming into this season, not knowing what it might hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, one Kiski Area wrestling...
Four years later, St. Joseph’s Andrew Sullivan continues to score
For the past four years, St. Joseph senior guard Andrew Sullivan has been a mainstay in the Spartans program and has given the team a leader to look to when things get tough. Even as a sophomore, Sullivan helped the Spartans capture a Section 3-A title and make a run...
A-K Valley boys basketball notebook: All 14 boys teams opt into WPIAL playoffs
The WPIAL basketball playoffs are approaching, and teams had until Thursday afternoon to decide whether they were going to play in this year’s open tournament format. In December, after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf put a three-week pause on winter sports, the WPIAL decided to use an open tournament format that...
North Allegheny boys win program’s 1st WPIBL team title
The North Allegheny Tigers took down top-seeded Butler in the WPIBL boys team finals on Wednesday at North Versailles Bowling Center to capture the first team championship in program history. The Tigers, who were the No. 2 seed after the qualifying round, beat Butler, 2-1, in the championship match with...
Central Catholic tops Highlands in overtime
Throughout this season, teams have learned they need to be ready on any given day, and Central Catholic was an example of that Tuesday. After learning about their matchup with No. 4 Highlands earlier in the day, the Vikings (10-6, 4-4) squeaked out a 55-53 nonsection overtime victory over the...
Shady Side Academy announces ‘The Gene Deal Fields’ project to honor longtime Athletic Director
Shady Side Academy is set to honor longtime athletic director Gene Deal. On Tuesday, Shady Side Academy announced the plans for “The Gene Deal Fields,” a new $1.75 million multi-sport turf field complex. In October, Deal announced his 31-year tenure as the Shady Side Academy athletic director will conclude at...
