Free agent sports reporter // Previously: @PittsburghPG // @ThePUPNews // @ThePittNews // Articles featured in: @PghSportsNow // @SInow
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Apr 30
Today I learned this will be my last week working at the paper I grew up reading. Telling the stories of high school athletes all across Western PA has truly been a privilege and a joy.
Thank you all for following along for the ride. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did โ๏ธ
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Congratulations to the Mars Planets! ๐ช
Only the second WPIAL team to win a state title since the PIAA championships began in 2009, joining the Mars team from 2022. And this after winning its 10th consecutive WPIAL title just a couple weeks ago. What a dynasty @planetslax ๐๐ฅ๐
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Jun 13
Greencaste-Antrim, having overcome a combined 14 runs down over these last three games, has won the PIAA 5A baseball title in the longest state championship game in Pennsylvaniaโs history.
Unbelievable, all-time run from the Blue Devils.
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Jun 13
RT @PIAASports: Going to the 14th inning!
DuBois and Greencastle-Antrim are still tied 4-4 in the PIAA Class 5A Baseball Championship.
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The 2026 PIAA 6A Softball Champions: Hempfield Area Spartans. #5๏ธโฃ
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Jun 12
Congratulations to the Hempfield Spartans on winning their fifth PIAA softball title โ breaking a tie with Neshannock for the most of any WPIAL school! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
This is also the first Class 6A title for any WPIAL team since Hempfield won back-to-back crowns in 2017-18 ๐๐ฅ๐
PIAA 6A Softball Championship
FINAL: Hempfield 5 Owen J. Roberts 4
The Spartans win STATE CHAMPIONSHIP NUMBER ๐๏ธโผ๏ธ
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Jun 9
Word is Seneca Valley has picked a new boys basketball coach, and heโs a guy who has won four WPIAL and two PIAA titles โ former Blackhawk girls coach Steve Lodovico. ๐๐ฅ
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Jun 12
Congratulations to Player of the Game Riley Balcom and the Laurel Spartans on claiming their first PIAA softball championship in school history! ๐ฅ๐
Balcom silenced Char-Houstonโs bats to lead Laurel to a 7-1 win in the first PIAA championship game between two WPIAL schools:
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Jun 12
If you want to know what itโs like to hit a game-ending grand slam to clinch a state championship for your team, just ask Haley Machajewski @Machajewski2026
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Back-to-back PIAA Class 1A champs! ๐๐
Congratulations to the Scotties!! ๐๐ฅ
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Jun 12
Union Area defeats Holy Cross (7-3) to become the PIAA 1A Softball Champions!
#PIAASoftball
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Jun 11
What an unbelievable run! Back-to-back Class 4A state champions ๐๐
Congratulations @IASDAthletics โพ๏ธ๐
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Jun 11
RT @PIAASports: The 2026 PIAA Class 4A Baseball Championship belongs to Indiana Area! The Indians defeat Holy Ghost Prep 6-5 to secure theโฆ
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Jun 11
Congratulations to the PIAA Class 5A champion Shaler Titans on an incredible season!
First state title in 20 years and third overall โ and those heartbreaking memories of their extra-inning loss in the 2023 state final are nothing but a distant memory now.
#RememberTheTitans ๐
Jun 11
Shaler defeats Abington Heights (10-0) to become the PIAA 5A Softball Champions!
#PIAASoftball
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Jun 11
Shaler defeats Abington Heights (10-0) to become the PIAA 5A Softball Champions!
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This was a game I wonโt soon forget.
After 11 epic innings between two star-studded lineups and fearless ace pitchers who refused to back down, Shaler finally vanquished TJ to punch its ticket to Penn State for the PIAA final.
Full recap for @PennLive: tinyurl.com/7xj9s3uv
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Hereโs one final video before signing off โ a heartfelt postgame speech from Shaler ace and @IndianaSB recruit Bria Bosiljevac to the rest of her team:
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Camryn Noderer looked like she might walk it off for TJ with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, but Shaler had other plans.
A perfect relay throw from right field and a great tag by Alyssa Schaffol cuts down the would-be game-winning run at the plate.
Onto the ninth we go:
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Alyssa Schaffold* with the tag not Schaffol ๏ฟผ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Time to call it a night โ but first, hear from our co-Players of the Game from Shaler, catcher Alyssa Schaffold and ace pitcher Bria Bosiljevac.
These two have played together since they were 6 years old. Now theyโll play their last high school game together in the state finals:
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FINAL SCORE: Shaler 5, Thomas Jefferson 3.
After one of the greatest state playoff games in PIAA history, the Titans come out on top in 11 innings to clinch a trip to the state finals for the second time in four years.
Kudos to TJ and congrats to Shaler. Unbelievable ballgame:
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