Category Archives: Local Sports

Steelers assistant head coach John Mitchell has retired after a coaching career spanning the past fifty years, the last 29 of them in Pittsburgh. The 71-year-old was the team's defensive line coach fr...

IUP BASEBALL With good weather in the forecast, IUP switched its non-conference baseball game against Mount Aloysius to yesterday and beat the Mounties, 15-10. IUP hit six home runs in the game, by si...

District 6 will announce its basketball tournament brackets today after last night's action completed the regular season. Homer-Center's boys were in action, dropping a game to Punxsutawney, 60-27.

The Penguins were coming off a dismal 6-0 shutout by Los Angeles last weekend, but they rebounded last night in San Jose, and it was Sidney Crosby's top line which led the way. Paul Steigerwald has th...

All five starters were in double figures, led by Blake Hinson's 21 points, as the Pitt Panthers knocked off Boston College, 77-58 last night at the Petersen Events Center. Hinson was 6-for-11 on three...

The IUP Crimson Hawks return home for a doubleheader tonight against Edinboro. It is the next-to-last doubleheader of the regular season, with a Saturday twinbill against Slippery Rock closing out the...

Pirates pitchers and catchers report to Bradenton today for the first day of Spring Training. The full squad will report on Monday but many of the position players are already at camp, ready to go. Th...

HOCKEY Indiana traveled to Johnstown yesterday and beat Westmont Hilltop, 6-2. Indiana scored twice in the second minute of the game, on goals by Landin Wilson and Sam Barley. They took a 3-0 lead ear...

Two Heritage Conference basketball players etched their name in the history books Monday night. On the girls' side, River Valley's Ava Persichetti notched her 1,000th career point in the Panthers' 66-...

The Penguins wrap up their three-game trip on the west coast tonight with a matchup against a hot San Jose team. Goaltender Tristan Jarry returned to the ice for light workouts yesterday while Casey D...