Tag: Plum
A-K Valley basketball notebook: Big day approaches for Leechburg’s Smith
February 7, 2019
Leechburg is playing its biggest game of the season Friday night, but Blue Devils coach Corey Smith has an important item on his schedule earlier that day. Smith and his fiancee, Ashley, will welcome their third child that morning with a scheduled C-section at West Penn Hospital. Then, Smith will
Woodland Hills, Plum boys to play game in Cleveland Cavaliers’ arena
February 6, 2019
Pittsburgh may not have an NBA franchise, but that won't stop a pair of WPIAL teams from getting an opportunity to play in a professional arena. Woodland Hills and Plum will meet in a nonsection game at 3 p.m. Monday at Quicken Loans Arena, home to the Cleveland Cavaliers. After
A-K Valley lookahead for Week of Feb. 4, 2019
February 3, 2019
MONDAY Girls basketball: The Section 1-4A playoff race is muddied, with Apollo-Ridge (14-5, 6-5) and Knoch (8-10, 6-5) holding on to the last two spots and Greensburg Salem (10-9, 6-5) right behind. Apollo-Ridge visits Highlands (2-16, 0-12), Knoch visits Freeport (14-3, 6-5) and Greensburg Salem hosts Indiana (7-13, 5-7). Leechburg
A-K Valley notebook: St. Joseph grad stars in Super Bowl commercial
February 2, 2019
A former St. Joseph boys basketball standout will get a shining moment on professional football's biggest night. Chris Conroy, a 2005 St. Joseph graduate, is starring in a Super Bowl commercial for Mercedes Benz's A-Class model. In the ad, which was posted online Thursday and is titled andquot;Say The Word,andquot;Plum bowling teams wrap up season in playoff position
February 1, 2019
Plum's boys bowling team has proven its talent this season by having five of the top six bowlers, by average, in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League's East Division. But the team's success goes beyond stats. The majority of the Mustangs have been bowling together since middle school, and some
Dilonardo takes over as coach of Plum softball team
Phil Dilonardo spent the past eight seasons as an assistant coach with the Plum varsity softball team. So, when the head coaching position opened with the resignation of Jim McGrath at the end of the 2018 campaign, Dilonardo staked his claim to stay with the program he's grown to care
A-K Valley H.S. lookahead: Week of Jan. 28-Feb. 2
January 27, 2019
Monday Girls basketball It's a big night for Freeport as the Class 4A No. 4 Yellowjackets (14-2, 9-1) visit No. 1 North Catholic (14-1, 10-0) in a battle for first place in Section 1-4A. North Catholic won the first matchup against Freeport, 75-63, thanks largely to an early 14-2 run
Victory from team’s lone senior helps Plum wrestling take down Gateway
January 25, 2019
Colin Stecik is the lone senior on the Plum wrestling roster. So it seemed fitting that on senior night against Gateway on Jan. 23 Stecik would earn the deciding victory in a match that finished tied at 36 and went to the first criteria: most matches won. andquot;Colin's been with
Plum boys hope to close games, regular season strong
Plum boys basketball coach Hart Coleman had seen the same scenario play out too many times this season: Play strong for three quarters and take the lead only to see that lead -- and the victory -- slip away in the fourth. After a 55-52 loss at Armstrong last Friday,
Plum girls look to finish strong in hopes of returning to WPIAL playoffs
January 23, 2019
At the midway point of the fourth quarter of Tuesday's Section 2-5A game against Franklin Regional, the Plum girls basketball team held a 46-45 lead and hoped to hold on for the victory. However, the Panthers, second in the section behind frontrunner Gateway, grabbed the lead back and pulled away
