Name: Ella Trahan Grade: Senior Sport: Fort Cherry School: Fort Cherry Trahan’s week: Entering Saturday’s WPIAL girls wrestling tournament as a defending champion gave Trahan confidence, but she knew it wouldn’t be easy to repeat. But after a grueling day at Mt. Lebanon the 106-pound ...
Name: Gage Bradley Grade: Senior School: Burgettstown Sport: Wrestling Bradley’s week: For Bradley, winning the 121-pound title at the Class 2A South Sectional was as easy as 1, 2, 3. Well, 3, 2, 1 might be more accurate, because that was the order of the seeds of the wrestlers he took ...
Name: Paige Klodowski Grade: Junior School: Burgettstown Sport: Basketball Klodowski’s week: Klodowski’s preferred method of attack is driving to the rim. But that’s the only way she can score the basketball and she proved that last week. Klodowski was a model of consistency, scoring ...
The state high school soccer championships have a new home and it’s much closer for local teams. On Wednesday the PIAA announced that Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh will be the site of the state boys and girls soccer championships beginning in 2026 and will remain there for the next four ...
Name: Kendra Tharp Grade: Senior School: West Greene Sport: Basketball Tharp’s week: Going into Friday’s game against Avella, Tharp knew how many points she needed to get to 1,000, but the prospects of achieving it were grim, because of foul trouble. That put Tharp on the bench ...
Name: Noah Layhue Grade: Senior School: Beth-Center Sport: Wrestling Layhue’s week: To say Layhue had a big week is an understatement. Not only did he win two high school wrestling tournament titles, the Southmoreland Holiday Classic and TriCADA at West Greene, he also committed to play ...
