The Belle Vernon girls, Clairton boys and Bentworth girls will also participate in the team championships. Six local track and field teams will participate in the WPIAL Track & Field championships nex...

As Judge Michael J. Stewart II addressed the audience at the 70th Annual Westmoreland County Scholar-Athlete banquet Tuesday at Ferrante’s Lakeview, he said “I thought last year’s class was talented. ...

Nora Lindley had three hits with a pair of doubles to lead the Bentworth offense. It was business as usual for the Bentworth softball team in a nonsection matchup against visiting McGuffey on Thursday...

AUTO RACING 7 p.m. - FS1 — NHRA: Qualifying, zMax Dragway, Concord, N.C. BASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE 11 a.m. - NBATV — Club Africain Tunisia vs. ASC Ville de Dakar 2 p.m. - NBATV — FUS de Rabat Morocco v...

Cardinals take Notre Dame’s Love with third pick TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals bucked recent draft wisdom when they selected Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love with the No. 3 overall pick in the ...

Belle Vernon erupted for nine runs in the first inning and never looked back in a 12-2 win over Charleroi in a nonsection game at Vets Field. The Leopards (9-3) wasted no time taking control. After Ch...

PHILADELPHIA — In the view of at least one member of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the process of turning their first-round series with the rival Philadelphia Flyers into a more competitive entanglement wa...

After the Elizabeth Forward offense spent a few innings hitting hard line drives right at the West Mifflin defense in Section 2-4A action Wednesday, they broke through in the fourth and fifth innings ...

You can use plenty of adjectives to describe Bentworth junior pitcher and LSU recruit Sydney Gonglik this spring. Dominant. Relentless. Unhittable. Undeniable. You can add one more to the list — immac...

PennLive.com via TribLive Penn State is replacing two of the most productive running backs in program history — Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton. James Peoples wanted to play for a program that was co...

The WPIAL doesn’t begin charging admission for baseball and softball games for a few more weeks. If it had, Wednesday’s nonsection matchup between visiting Frazier and Mt. Pleasant would have been wel...

For the Pittsburgh Steelers’s bad luck with this weak quarterback draft class, they seem to have more than made up for it at another important offensive position of need. Over the past couple years, t...

Mike Tomlin will remain involved with the NFL after all, just not on the sidelines. Tomlin, who stepped down as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach in January, has been hired as a studio analyst for N...

NEW YORK (AP) — The flailing Mets returned home Tuesday to a quieter reception than manager Carlos Mendoza and his players anticipated with the club trying to snap an 11-game losing streak. The tone c...

COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. - ACCN — North Carolina at Duke 7 p.m. - ESPN2 — Alabama at Tennessee 8 p.m. - SECN — Arkansas at Missouri COLLEGE FOOTBALL 8 p.m. - BTN — Indiana Spring Game: From Bloomington...

Cruz’s homer in 9th slams the door on Rangers ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Oneil Cruz had the hardest-hit homer in the majors this season, a threerun shot off the top of the right-field foul pole in the ni...

California scored the game-winning run on a fielder’s choice in the home half of the 8th. California was one out away from securing another key Section 1-2A win at Malden Yards when Frazier mounted a ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a twopart story, who passed away Monday. Speer Ruey was a fine athlete and perhaps an even better student, taking classes such as Latin at Donora High School and se...

By the Mon Valley Independent Derek Tudek had three hits and drove in two runs, and Justin Dillon struck out five over five innings to lead West Mifflin past Laurel Highlands, 8-3, in a Section 2-4A g...

The Cougars and Frazier had a number of top finishes at the Section 8-2A championship meet. By the Mon Valley Independent Noah Jurcevich of Yough won both the 1,600 (4:57.82) and 3,200 (11:07.14) to h...