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Beaver Falls has lost in three WPIAL championship games in the past 12 months — two in football (Jeannette and Aliquippa) and one in basketball (Jeannette, eight months ago). Star athlete Todd Thomas has seen enough. After Beaver Falls lost to county rival Aliquippa on Saturday in the Class AA title game at Heinz Field, [...]

The best — make that the second-best — teams in WPIAL Class AAA appear to be reliving history. Thomas Jefferson is back in the championship game for the sixth consecutive season and is looking for its fourth title since 2002. What is so maddening to the rest of Class AAA is that coach Bill Cherpak’s [...]

While the most prepared, talented and, yes, fortunate teams slug their way through the WPIAL playoffs, some schools are in the midst of the less savory business of rebuilding. That includes finding a new football coach at schools such as Ambridge, Moon and Plum, among others, where the coaches won’t be back. At Ambridge, coach [...]

With North Hills’ 31-0 victory over Fox Chapel on Friday, Indians coach Jack McCurry moved into a tie with Pete Antimarino for fifth place on the all-time WPIAL coaching list. McCurry, who’s spent his entire career with North Hills, has 255 wins. Antimarino coached for Gateway, and its predecessor high school, Pitcairn. “I faced Pete [...]

If you presume Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett knows a little about the running back position, Hopewell freshman Rushel Shell is destined for stardom. Dorsett, who graduated from Hopewell long before Shell was born, said he watched the Montour-Hopewell game Oct. 16 on FSN Pittsburgh. In that game, Shell rushed for 219 yards, [...]