Tag: Penn-Trafford
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
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,
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 HSSNThree 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
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
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 theWestmoreland 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.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,
Westmoreland County teams prepare for altered basketball landscape
December 6, 2018
About the only things guaranteed this season in local high school basketball, the only things that haven't changed, are that the ball is round and the rims are 10 feet high. The rest, well, it's all fair game and probably has been subjected in some way to a mass overhaul
Penn-Trafford’s Nguyen gives verbal commitment to Akron
Smarts and skills are often what separate the great soccer players from the almost-great ones. Penn-Trafford junior Sarah Nguyen has both traits and they have propelled her to a Division I scholarship. Nguyen, a speedy midfielder and one of the Warriors' key players the past two seasons, made a verbal
