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Toughness the difference for Mt. Lebanon football team

For Mt. Lebanon, the 2021 football season is akin to a boxing match. The Blue Devils must go 10 rounds before they can even consider the next step.In competing for the WPIAL championship, they will likely face contenders, including Central Catholic, to whom they have already dealt crushing ...

Bethel Park hosts Peters Township

Bethel Park football coach Brian DeLallo and his counterpart at Peters Township, T.J. Plack, like to make a friendly wager before their teams face off.When the Black Hawks and Indians meet for a key Allegheny Six Conference clash at 7 p.m. Oct. 15, the victorious coach may just leave with his ...

South Fayette junior captures WPIAL golf championship

Marissa Malosh was just 10 years old when she first decided to join her father, Greg, and brother, Dom, in their backyard to hit some golf balls.Six years later, the South Fayette junior is tops in the WPIAL.On Oct. 7, Malosh shot an even-par 70 from the white, 5,477-yard tees at Hannastown ...

Peters Township golfer takes WPIAL runner-up honors

Kyle McClintock from Peters Township patiently waited in the clubhouse at Nemacolin Country Club.A senior, he had been in the sixth of 12 threesomes and had carded a 74 during the WPIAL Class AAA boys individual golf championships.As the other groups stumbled in, McClintock climbed the ...

Tennis duos ousted

Four pairs of local doubles tandems were eliminated before the semifinal rounds in the WPIAL Class 3A team tennis tournament held at North Allegheny.Half of the pairs lost in the quarterfinals.After beating Latrobe’s Maya Jain and Emily Pierce, 10-6, in the first round, Upper St Clair’s ...

Running rampant: Tecza characterizes Mt. Lebanon football mantra

When Mt. Lebanon football coach Bob Palko describes Alex Tecza, he doesn’t start with the size, speed or strength that has transformed him into one of the top rushers in the WPIAL.Palko begins with Tecza’s character.“First of all, the thing that really makes you feel good is how good a ...