Westmoreland County high school notebook: Ice standouts picked for PIHL all-star games
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Saturday, December 28, 2024 | 11:01 AM
Penn-Trafford goalie Tyler Funk works in goal against Fox Chapel on Nov. 21 at Alpha Ice Complex in Harmar.
Westmoreland County will have a number of representatives in this year’s PIHL All-Star Games.
The five-game schedule and player selections have been announced for the games Jan. 26 at the RMU Island Sports Center on Neville Island.
The games are as follows:
• Division 2 Gold vs. Division 2 Blue, noon
• Class A Gold vs. Class A Blue, 1:50 p.m.
• Class A2 Gold vs. Class A2 Blue, 3:40 p.m.
• Class 2A Gold vs. Class 2A Blue, 5:30 p.m.
• Class 3A Gold vs. Class 3A Blue, 7:20 p.m.
Local all-star selections are:
Class 3A — Liam Copeland, Nick Matus and Brandon Yohe of Franklin Regional
Class 2A – Dane Busch, Nick Crupie, Austin Herron and JJ Williams of Hempfield; Don Cerilli, Parker Toth and Cade Zeravica of Norwin; Joey Crimboli, Bryant Dummich, Dylan Morris and Brock Pflugh of Latrobe and Kyler Doran, Aiden Drotos, Tyler Funk and Camden Kiste of Penn-Trafford
Class A – Luke Dieter, Jake Fink and Cooper Outly of Greensburg Salem and Jacob Kraus and Dylan Matenkosky of Kiski Area
Division 2 – Julian Kemp, Luke Mink, Michael Morascyzk and Kooper Price of Burrell
Dusi commits
Belle Vernon junior tennis standout Gabby Dusi announced she has made a verbal commitment to play at St. Francis (Pa.), a Division I program in the Northeast Conference.
Dusi has won back-to-back WPIAL singles championships and last season reached the PIAA semifinals.
Stein has surgery
Jeannette ace softball pitcher Grace Stein is recovering from surgery on the ACL of her left knee.
Stein, a junior, was injured while playing for the soccer team in September and had surgery in October.
Stein said she can return to training next month. She does not expect the injury to her “drag” leg to affect her pitching.
“I have been told that this would strengthen my legs, since I have been doing a lot of leg and core exercises three times a day,” she said. “This has given me the opportunity to work on more of my spin drills while I have been off. Overall, I think I will come off of this injury stronger and have a good junior year.”
WCCA calendar
With the sixth boys basketball shootout in the books, the Westmoreland County Coaches Association will turn its attention to one of its most popular events, the wrestling championships.
The event, which added girls wrestling last year, will be Jan. 10-11 at Greensburg Salem.
After that, the county coaches will host the boys and girls bowling championships Jan. 18 at Hillview Lanes in Greensburg.
To cap the winter slate, the WCCA girls and boys swimming championships will be Jan. 24-25 at Derry.
Hockey talk
Penn-Trafford is second in the PIHL Class 2A with 62 goals, and Latrobe is third with 53. The Warriors have more goals in the third period than any team in the classification with 27.
Bill Beckner Jr. is a TribLive reporter covering local sports in Westmoreland County. He can be reached at bbeckner@triblive.com.
Tags: Belle Vernon, Burrell, Franklin Regional, Greensburg Salem, Hempfield, Jeannette, Kiski Area, Latrobe, Penn-Trafford
