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The last golfer from Western Pennsylvania to win the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational was Mike Van Sickle in 2013. That doesn’t mean the locals haven’t been in the hunt. Michael Gligic needed eight extra holes to defeat Washington native Steve Wheatcroft in 2019. Gligic, Wheatcroft and Michigan native Ryan...

The USL Championship and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds now know what their 2020 regular season schedule will look like after the league revealed its structure on Wednesday. The season will consist of a 16-game regular season schedule, and there will be an updated single-elimination playoff structure. While some teams started their...

The Frontier League, the baseball league that the Washington Wild Things play in, made things official on Wednesday when it announced its 2020 season is suspended due to gathering and travel restrictions in many of the league’s locations. Frontier League Announces 2020 Plans pic.twitter.com/e3mtROfz2w— Frontier League (@FLProBaseball) June 24, 2020...

Former Shady Side Academy athlete Skyy Moore has a knack for excelling on the football field, no matter the position. Just this past season, during his freshman year at Western Michigan, the former Indians quarterback/defensive back switched to wide receiver, a position he had never played before. In 13 games,...

The Western Pennsylvania Golf Association finally held its first event of the season, and things went without a hitch. The first of two qualifiers for the 120th Amateur Championship was held Monday at The Country Club of Meadville and Parker resident Mike Marron shot a 2-under par 70 to grab...

Alaina York began a summer job Monday as a nursing assistant at UPMC Presbyterian. The next couple of months will build on her experiences studying nursing at Robert Morris. While she makes strides towards her career field, the Burrell graduate also is focused on her opportunities for the Robert Morris...

The average fastball thrown by pitchers in the opening wave of games in the All-American Baseball Collegiate League popped at 91 mph. That’s about how fast league commissioner Connor Perry has been moving lately to get the newly formed league off the ground. A former Norwin and Pitt standout, Perry...

Because it is his home course, Franklin Regional rising senior Michael Wareham has played Willowbrook Country Club a time or two. So when he took to the 6,431-yard layout Wednesday for the 36-hole Tri-State Junior PGA Championship, he had a little extra confidence. “I mean, I know where to miss...

There is a surprise leader after Round 1 of the Tri-State Open on Monday. Rocco Salvitti, who just finished his freshman year at Central Catholic, is leading at Williams Golf and Country Club. Salvitti shot a 5-under par 67 that included six birdies. He soared into the lead by making...

This year’s MLB Draft, as short and sweet as it was, is in the books. But it is never too early to look ahead to next year. One player to keep an eye on plays at Boston College but has ties to Westmoreland County. Rising junior Sal Frelick, who attended...

Fox Chapel graduate and former WPIAL champion Gregor Meyer shot 3-under-par 67 Monday on his home course to earn medalist honors at an 18-hole Pennsylvania Amateur qualifying tournament. Meyer, a member at host Hannastown Golf Club and a rising sophomore at High Point, made three birdies and one bogey to...

Allegheny Township resident Steve Vak knows his way around a golf course. Although he didn’t start playing the sport until he was in his 40s, Vak has had a lot of success on the links. Just last week, the 73-year-old former Kiski Area superintendent carded the sixth hole-in-one of his...

A first will happen Monday during Day 1 of the annual Tri-State PGA Open. Even though Father’s Day isn’t until Sunday, three fathers will have their sons competing against them at Williams Golf and Country Club in Weirton, W.Va. “We’ve had a father and son play before, but not three,”...

Cousins Katie Miller and Mark Goetz teamed up Saturday to win the Westmoreland County Golf Association’s Better Ball tournament at Greensburg Country Club. Miller, a three-time PIAA Class AAA champion from Hempfield and North Carolina grad, and Goetz, a member of the West Virginia golf team, shot a 5-under 65....

Take a six-player core of veteran guys, stir in some newcomers and sprinkle in a dash of talent from four other programs that won’t field teams this summer, and you have the Murrysville senior “Legion” baseball team. Now, subtract the Legion part. “We have some guys that have been with...

After a nearly three-month hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, live harness racing is returning to the Meadows Racetrack. On Friday, The Meadows Racetrack & Casino announced live harness racing will be returning Monday, with a new first post of 12:45 p.m. The 10-race card will feature two carryover bets....

Members of the Mt. Pleasant high school baseball team had a feeling they could accomplish something this spring with the experience and talent they had developed the past three years. When the coronavirus pandemic forced the PIAA to cancel all spring sports, the Vikings saw those hopes for a successful...

Striker Seon Ripley, a former standout at Seton Hill, is headed for a semi-professional soccer stint in the Northern Premier League, which covers all of Northern England and parts of the Midlands. Ripley signed with Ossett United F.C., a team that plays in the Division One North West. The Sheepicorns...

When Gov. Tom Wolf announced Westmoreland County could enter the green phase of his coronavirus reopening plan Friday, Latrobe baseball coach Jason Bush and his team couldn’t have been happier. They were so eager to get started, Bush scheduled a doubleheader Sunday at Latrobe’s Legion-Keener Field against Hollidaysburg. And what...

It is a challenge, but Melvin Fox does his best to stretch his memory back — way back. Six decades back, to a time when a ticket to a minor league baseball game went for six bucks, a sharp suit cost $75 and groups of farmhands lived with host families...

Wexford’s Gene Walter birdied the first playoff hole and won his second-consecutive Tri-State Section PGA event on Monday, this time at the Galaxy Golf Open at Connoquenessing Country Club in Ellwood City. He won the Golf Max Head Pro Championship on June 3. Walter edged Allegheny Country Club pro John...

Cole Ferri shot an even-par 72 to capture the 52nd annual Tom Mailey Memorial Junior Golf Tournament on Monday at the Latrobe Elks Golf Club. The Latrobe resident edged Latrobe’s Darick Hrtyanksi and Penn-Trafford’s Alex Turowski, each tying for second with a 2-over 74, to win the senior division (ages...

With counties throughout southwestern Pennsylvania moving forward in the green phase of coronavirus recovery, next month’s Freeport International Baseball Invitational also continues to move forward with its mission to host the 26th annual event. FIBI president Chuck Sarver said Wednesday that while field locations continue to be finalized, more and...

Zach Kokoska might be on a baseball field or camped out at a Marriott hotel in South Florida on Wednesday and Thursday during the MLB Draft. Either way, the power-hitting outfielder will have his cell phone turned on. The former Latrobe star and Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year has...