Greg Macafee stories, Page 17

Sometimes all it takes for a team be successful is a solid senior class, a few key players and a team-first mentality. This fall, the Sewickley Academy girls soccer team has experienced all three as they hold a record of 8-2-1 with one game left in the regular season. The...

A year ago, the Quaker Valley boys soccer team had a talented senior class that led them to WPIAL and PIAA Class 2A titles. Eight of them, including Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year Dom Reiter and his twin brother Fritz, combined to score 119 of Quaker Valley’s 175 goals....

Friday night was an important night for Leechburg football. Thirty-seven years after the program earned its 300th win, the Blue Devils earned No. 400 and did so in a big way. Sophomore running back Braylan Lovelace ran for 397 yards and four touchdowns on 19 carries as the Blue Devils...

In the past four years, the Shady Side Academy girls soccer team has solidified itself as one of the best teams in Class A. They won two WPIAL titles and one PIAA title, made three PIAA finals appearances and won 70 games. They turned in their best season last year...

Shady Side Academy’s Sam Farner is just a junior, but coach Ed Ellsworth says it seems like the talented midfielder has been around the program forever. It’s probably because he has been around longer than most. Between his seventh and eighth grade years, Farner got accustomed to the program by...

Freeport came into its Allegheny Seven Conference matchup against Burrell on Friday with a chip on its shoulder and a determined attitude. After missing consecutive games because of a covid-19 exposure, the Yellowjackets (3-1, 3-0) were ready to go, and it showed. Burrell quarterback Alex Arledge scored the first six...

Quaker Valley has canceled its football game Friday night with Keystone Oaks. “Out of an abundance of caution, Quaker Valley School District is not playing tonight’s football game at Keystone Oaks School District due to recent exposure to covid-19,” the school district said in a statement on its website. In...

Just two days after taking down No. 3 Quaker Valley, 3-2, in overtime, the No. 5 North Catholic boys soccer team is in quarantine after a possible coronavirus exposure. The Diocese of Pittsburgh released a statement Friday afternoon that all 27 people involved with the North Catholic boys soccer team...

When the 2020 high school basketball season kicks off in a few months, the Knoch boys basketball team will have a new coach on the sidelines. The South Butler School Board approved the hiring of Alan Bauman as boys basketball coach on Wednesday. Bauman, who graduated from Freeport in 1991...

The Franklin Regional boys golfers had a feeling 2020 might be their year. Turns out the Panthers’ intuition was on the money. Led by senior Michael Wareham, who shot a 6-over-par 78, Franklin Regional captured its first WPIAL Class AAA boys team golf championship Thursday at Cedarbrook Golf Course. Chuck...

When Burrell and Freeport met last season for their annual football contest they put on a show for fans in attendance. The Bucs came away with a 36-35 victory, winning on a 2-point conversion in overtime. A lot of time has passed since that clash. Both teams lost large senior...

Throughout his high school career, Deer Lakes senior Mike Sullivan has been known for taking over games. Wednesday night’s Section 2-2A contest against rival Shady Side Academy was no different. The fleet-footed forward scored two goals, with the first coming just 44 seconds before the end of the first half,...

At some point during the season, each winning team starts to hit a stride that carries it on a successful run. Since Sept. 28, the Kiski Area Cavaliers (10-2-1, 10-2) have been on a midseason run that not many teams can match. Since defeating Woodland Hills, 7-0, Sean Arnold and...

In the program’s second year, the Leechburg boys soccer team has put itself in position to make its first playoff appearance. That’s a rapid rise for a program coach Brad Walker started from scratch in 2019. After forming a co-op agreement with Apollo-Ridge, the Blue Devils were thrust into a...

Swimming coach John Nemeth is ready for the new opportunity in front of him. On Oct. 2, Quaker Valley announced the hiring of Nemeth, who also is a physical education teacher at the middle school, as the new varsity swim coach. Nemeth, who was a team captain and eight-time All-American...

When the WPIAL Class AA field left Allegheny Country Club on Oct. 1, Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley golfers had won district gold. Quaker Valley’s Eva Bulger captured her second straight girls title, shooting a 4-over-par 77 to cruise past twin sisters Meghan (79) and Ella (82) Zambruno from Greensburg...

For the second straight year, Louisville City FC sent the Pittsburgh Riverhounds home in the first round of the USL Championship playoffs. Louisville City FC scored in the 17th and the 86th minutes to earn a 2-0 victory and punch its ticket to the Eastern Conference semifinals. Louisville defeated the...

Burrell quarterback Alex Arledge lit up the airways last season, throwing for 2,462 yards and 27 touchdowns. But at the end of the season, Arledge’s arsenal emptied as the Bucs graduated nearly every skill-position player, and Burrell coach Shawn Liotta had to find a way to replace 3,600 yards of...

Fox Chapel’s Lucy Ream remembers the chants like they were yesterday. She was just a freshman, getting some of her first varsity minutes in a playoff game, and she had just done something that made the Fox Chapel student section go crazy. “I went in in the second half, and...

After 31 years as the athletic director at Shady Side Academy, Gene Deal has decided to move on to his next venture. On Oct. 2, the school announced Deal, who is SSA’s fifth athletic director, will transition to his new role as alumni engagement officer at the end of the...

WPIAL girls basketball teams have had a hard time stopping Ellis School guard Natalie Jasper over the past few years. Now, she’ll be the Big East’s problem. The senior guard verbally committed to Georgetown and announced her decision via her Twitter account Friday. Childhood dream come true. 110% committed!? #HoyaSaxa...

When the Pittsburgh Riverhounds travel to Louisville for their first-round USL Championship playoff match with Louisville City FC at Lynn Family Stadium, some might remember a similar contest at this time last year. The Riverhounds had just won the Eastern Conference and were building a buzz in Western Pennsylvania. LouCity...

When Eastern Conference opponents Springdale and Jeannette meet Friday at Veterans Memorial Field, it might have a different feel compared to years past. The situation was somewhat similar last year. The Dynamos and Jayhawks came into the matchup undefeated, but the Jayhawks were on a higher level as they cruised...

It’s a recurring headline Springdale has become accustomed to reading the past few years. Whether it’s losing a standout goalkeeper who recorded 14 shutouts in a season or losing its top two goal scorers and a top defender, the narrative usually is the same. “We’re used to the headline being...