Greg Macafee stories, Page 7

Almost a month ago, former Fox Chapel southpaw Patrick Monteverde stood in right field of Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, a day before Texas Tech’s season opener against the Arkansas Razorbacks and just took everything in. Six months earlier, the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Tampa Bay Rays...

The Big South Conference is already making changes to its spring football schedule, and Robert Morris has rescheduled two of its conference games to later this spring, and another game will be moved. The Colonials were originally supposed to play Monmouth this past weekend at Joe Walton Stadium and were...

No team in the WPIAL had a better showing at the PIAA Class AAA tournament this weekend than Waynesburg. The Raiders had five wrestlers reach the finals, which is the second most in program history.They had seven wrestlers reach the finals in 1943 and came away with four champions. On...

After not placing at WPIALs a year ago, Hempfield 132-pounder Briar Priest made a run he never will forget as he won the first PIAA Class AAA title of his career over the weekend. He capped his junior season with a 34-5 record — identical to his record last year...

Almost two months ago, the top-seeded Trinity Hillers did something no other team had done in almost three years. They beat the two-time defending WPIAL Class 5A champion Chartiers Valley Colts in a nonsection matchup and snapped their state-record 64-game winning streak in the process. “They beat us on Jan....

The Sewickley Academy boys basketball team started this season without an identity or a sense of superior athletic talent that could carry them to wins. By the end of the season, though, the Panthers started doing things the old-fashioned way, and it worked. They played hard-nosed defense and limited top-seeded...

In his first year at the helm of the Quaker Valley swimming team, John Nemeth led the girls to a second-place finish at the WPIAL Class AA championships March 6. The Quakers finished with 199 team points, 55 points behind champion Northgate. They also earned gold medal finishes in both...

Coming into this season, Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar had to find a way to replace three senior starters from a team that went 21-2 a year ago and won its first 20 games of the season. He had junior guards Eli Yofan and JP Dockey returning, but...

For the fourth time in five years, the North Allegheny girls basketball team got to lift the WPIAL Class 6A trophy. Behind 24 points from senior Lizzy Groetsch, the top-seeded Tigers (24-1) led No. 2 Upper St. Clair for a majority of the game and utilized two big runs in...

The Beaver girls basketball team could’ve packed it in during the WPIAL Class 4A championship game Friday when they trailed section rival Quaker Valley early and things weren’t going their way. But the Bobcats had been through too much. The senior class had suffered a WPIAL championship loss on a...

One year ago, Kiski Area wrestler Sammy Starr found himself at the state tournament for the first time. He lost his first-round matchup to Nazareth senior Nathan Stefanik in a close 4-3 decision. Then, after winning two matches in the 152-pound consolation bracket, Starr fell to Pine-Richland’s Cole Spencer, 8-3,...

Three Burrell wrestlers and Knoch’s Eli Reese are heading to Hershey on Friday for the PIAA Class AA individual wrestling tournament, and they’re all hoping to come home with a gold medal around their neck. A year ago, Burrell seniors AJ Corrado and Ian Oswalt came home with runner-up finishes...

The last time Carrick won a City League championship, head coach Walter Milinski was an assistant coach for the Raiders as they won back-to-back titles in 1993-94. Now, 27 years later, Milinski has a City League title of his own. Behind 14 points from senior guard Vashon Howard and 12...

Pine-Richland boys basketball coach Bob Petcash came into this season with a plan, and it revolved around his team hitting their peak at just the right time. After a 12-point win over Peters Township, a four-point win over No. 3 Hempfield and Tuesday’s 76-63 victory over No. 2 Fox Chapel...

This past weekend, the Seneca Valley wrestling team left Altoona High School with three super regional champions, the most of any team in attendance. Alejandro Herrera-Rondon, Dylan Chappell and Tyler Chappell, who also won WPIAL titles a week ago, captured West super regional titles Saturday and punched their tickets to...

Not many wrestlers have had the type of season that Dayton Pitzer has had this year. The 215-pounder from Mt. Pleasant dominated the PIAA Class AA West Super Regional this past weekend with three pins, extending his pin streak to 13 in contested matches. After winning the regional tournament with...

The Lincoln Park boys basketball team is like a train: Once it gets moving, it normally can’t be stopped. On Monday, in a WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinal game, No. 10 Deer Lakes (10-4) tried to slow down the No. 2 Leopards (16-5) as much as possible, but it didn’t last...

Here’s a look at Tuesday’s WPIAL basketball playoff games involving A-K Valley teams: Boys Semifinals Class 6A 6-Pine-Richland (13-5) at 2-Fox Chapel (20-2) 6 p.m. Tuesday Coaches: Bob Petcash, Pine-Richland; Zach Skrinjar, Fox Chapel Winner plays: Winner of 5-Butler (12-8) at 1-Upper St. Clair (18-1), 8 p.m. Friday in WPIAL...

Here’s a look at Monday’s WPIAL basketball playoff games involving A-K Valley teams: Boys Class 4A Quarterfinals 10-Deer Lakes (10-3) at 2-Lincoln Park (15-5) 6 p.m. Monday Coaches: Terence Parham, Deer Lakes; Mike Bariski, Lincoln Park Winner plays: Winner of 6-Central Valley (11-5) at 3-Montour (13-7), 6 p.m. Thursday About...

The Sewickley Academy hockey team is leading the PIHL Class A Northwest Division with a record of 4-1 and an overall mark of 5-9, and the play of junior Jack Gordon and sophomore Matt McEnroe has been a major reason for the success. With 30 goals and 12 assists, Gordon...

From 2016-19, John Rocco Kazalas put his stamp on the Quaker Valley wrestling program. He earned two section championships, three third-place finishes at the regional tournament, and found a place on the PIAA podium twice. He also won the first WPIAL title in program history as a senior. Now, his...

Over the past three weeks, Mt. Pleasant 215-pounder Dayton Pitzer has been dominating, and that continued Saturday at the PIAA Class AA West Super Regional tournament. Pitzer extended his pin streak to 13 in contested matches by pinning all three of his opponents at IUP’s Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex...

AJ Corrado did something Saturday at IUP’s Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex no other Burrell wrestler has done. He also hopes he is the only one to do it. With a 3-2 ultimate tiebreaker decision over Johnsonburg’s Cole Casilio in the PIAA Class AA West Super Regional 160-pound championship, Corrado...

Throughout this season, the Fox Chapel boys basketball team has gotten contributions from several players. Junior Eli Yofan has been the go-to-guy, averaging 22 points a game, but JP Dockey, Kent Baldauf, Jake DeMotte and Russell Fenton have all come up big at times as well. “That’s the unique thing...

The Fox Chapel boys basketball team couldn’t have drawn it up any better. Behind 22 points from junior guard Eli Yofan, all five Fox Chapel starters scored in double digits, and the No. 2 Foxes (20-2) took advantage of an early first-quarter run to knock off No. 7 North Allegheny,...