By John Sacco Contributing writer A whole lot of shuffling is going on with local girls’ and boys’ basketball teams and a pair of two-county area wrestling programs in the WPIAL’s realignment over the next two-year cycle. Chartiers-Houston girls’ basketball team is moving from Class ...
Canon-McMillan senior Aaron Taylor was the top seed and defending champion in the WPIAL Class 3A 300 hurdles, but he left Thursday with a disappointing finish to his career. Taylor, a Villanova recruit, fell in both the 110 hurdles and 300 hurdle finals and not only did he fail to win at the ...
As Jackson Brunell lines up to make a run to clear the bar in pole vault, he carries advice from his grandfather with him. “He always told me to not get in my own head and just jump,” Brunell said. “Think positively, always.” Those pieces of wisdom meant a lot to him at the time, and ...
CANONSBURG – Waynesburg’s Jackson Brunell had plenty of inspiration going into the Washington-Greene County track and field meet. He’s dedicating his season to his late grandfather, longtime Waynesburg coach Butch Brunell, and did so Friday by winning the pole vault at AHN ...
Thursday night, Howard “Butch” Brunell was probably looking down at the Waynesburg Central High School track and saying “What’s all the to-do about?,” said his wife, Janice Brunell. “He was a very humble person,” she said of her late husband, who died in October. “And he never ...
It was another season and another All-America honor for Slippery Rock’s Drew Layton. A former high school standout at Waynesburg, Layton earned his fourth All-America honor in the pole vault this winter at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships that were held last month in ...
