Greg Macafee stories, Page 33

Deer Lakes boys clinch 4th straight trip to WPIAL playoffs with win over Valley

For the second time in school history, Deer Lakes is heading to the WPIAL basketball playoffs for a fourth straight year. Thanks to an intense defensive effort in the second half Tuesday at Valley, the Lancers (11-8, 6-5) were able to hold off an inspired Vikings (3-17, 2-9) squad and...
Burrell wrestling looking to prove it belongs with the best at state tournament

The Burrell wrestling team has been in this position a time or two. In fact, for the 14th straight year, the Bucs are heading to the Giant Center in Hershey as the WPIAL Class AA champions. Over the past decade and a half, they’ve built a certified dynasty, and the...
Trib HSSN wrestling team of the week: Waynesburg

The Raiders were trailing Saturday in the WPIAL Class AAA team championship at Canon-McMillan. With three bouts remaining, Waynesburg needed three wins and they needed bonus points in the process. Decisions by Nate Stephenson (152 pounds) and Luca Augustine (160) put Waynesburg in position, trailing by three points. Freshman Eli...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the week: Waynesburg’s Eli Makel

Waynesburg was in need of a big victory in the final match of the WPIAL Class AAA team championship Saturday afternoon at Canon-McMillan and 170-pound freshman Eli Makel answered the call. The Raiders had just gotten back-to-back wins from Nate Stephenson and Luca Augustine to cut Seneca Valley’s lead to...
A-K Valley boys basketball notebook: Kiski Area’s Will Saunders earns 300th win

Three hundred coaching wins is a big number, and Kiski Area coach Will Saunders hit that milestone with the Cavaliers’ 58-49 win over Burrell last Friday. “It was pretty exciting, and I was just so focused on the game, I wasn’t thinking of that, per se,” Saunders said. “Then, Kiski...
Led by Johnny Crise, Highlands is taking a turn after win over No. 1 Knoch

Big-time players make big-time plays in big -time games, and earlier this week when No. 3 Highlands needed a player to step up, senior Johnny Crise answered the call. The senior forward scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Golden Rams (17-2, 7-1) got revenge for one of...
CCBC freshman Yazid Powell scores 81 points in honor of late Kobe BryantVideo

Community College of Beaver County freshman Yazid Powell has been a Kobe Bryant fan for his entire life. He idolized the Los Angeles Lakers legend growing up. He went to high school a stone’s throw from the playground where Kobe played. He mimicked his moves any chance he could, and...
A-K Valley wrestling notebook: Burrell’s AJ Corrado pins his way to 100th win

Burrell’s AJ Corrado headed into last weekend’s Thomas Chevrolet wrestling tournament in Bedford on the brink of earning his 100th career win. It didn’t take him long to get it. One minute and 11 seconds into his first match of the tournament, Corrado planted Bedford’s Gavin Habinyak and earned a...
Kiski Area looking for redemption after section championship loss

For the past three years, the Kiski Area wrestling team has come home from the WPIAL team tournament with gold in hand. The Cavaliers start their journey toward a fourth straight WPIAL team title on Wednesday when they travel to Hempfield for their first-round matchup against South Fayette. But this...
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week for week of Jan. 27, 2020

Burrell 152-pounder A.J. Corrado turned in a solid performance at the Thomas Chevrolet tournament in Bedford this past weekend, taking home first place with a 4-0 record and four pins. None of Corrado’s matches got out of the first round. Corrado was the No. 1-seed heading into the tournament and...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week for week of Jan. 27, 2020

Following a 17th straight section championship last week, the Burrell wrestling team traveled to Bedford for the Thomas Chevrolet tournament. Burrell placed second behind Chestnut Ridge and scored 225.5 points. Three Bucs — Ian Oswalt (132 pounds), AJ Corrado (152) and Ricky Feroce (195) — earned individual titles at the...
Slippery Rock’s Shawn Lutz, Roland Rivers awarded NCAA Division II honors

The 2019 Don Hansen NCAA Division II All-American team was announced on Monday, and Slippery Rock quarterback Roland Rivers III and coach Shawn Lutz were among the top honorees. Rivers, who threw for 4,460 yards and 52 touchdowns this year, was named the Offensive Player of the Year, and Lutz...
A-K Valley football teams happy with WPIAL realignment

The WPIAL has released its newest football alignments for the next two years. Before releasing the updated alignments, which will affect a few teams throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley, the WPIAL presented football coaches and athletic directors throughout the district with two options. One option was presented as a regionalization approach,...
Pitt freshman Justin Champagnie could be key in disrupting Syracuse zone

The Pitt men’s basketball team faces a tough task. The Panthers (13-6, 4-4 ACC) play at Syracuse on Saturday for a matchup with the notoriously zone-heavy Orange (12-7, 5-3). In years past, Pitt has struggles for an answer for the extended 2-3 zone that has stifled so many teams. The...
Burrell football coach Shawn Liotta leads national team to International Bowl win

Burrell football coach Shawn Liotta is known around the WPIAL for his creative offensive mind. But over the past few years, Liotta has started to gain attention at the national level. Aaron Ingram, the director of the U.S. national team, has been trying to get Liotta involved with the USA...
Balanced scoring effort leading Leechburg boys down the stretch

The Leechburg boys basketball team has been experiencing a bit of success over the past few seasons, and it could be partly attributed to the contribution from a core group of players. Seniors Jake Blumer and Connor McDermott, along with junior point guard Dylan Cook, have given the Blue Devils...

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