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Kayden Cahall went 2-for-3 from the bottom half of the order, scored twice, doubled and stole a base in Seneca Valley baseball’s 10-3 win Friday over Avonworth. Danny Dre...
May 08, 2026 Sports
The WPIAL released its boys volleyball playoff brackets Friday, and three Butler County teams will be in action beginning next week. In Class 3A, Butler (14-4) is seeded ...
May 08, 2026 Sports
Butler has been one of the best baseball teams in the WPIAL and was rewarded as such with the top seed in the Class 6A tournament. The district playoff brackets were rele...
May 08, 2026 Sports
North Catholic girls lacrosse closed the season with a dominating 19-5 victory against host West Allegheny on Thursday. Kate Geary scored three times for the Trojanettes ...
May 07, 2026 Sports
In its quest for a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 2A championship, Mars girls lacrosse was tabbed as the top seed in the district playoff tournament. The brackets were re...
May 07, 2026 Sports
Butler County boasts four teams in this season’s WPIAL softball playoffs, which get underway next week. Seneca Valley, seeded No. 2 in Class 6A, received a bye to the sem...
May 07, 2026 Sports
Wednesday night was an apt showcase of what Josh Forbes’ bunch is capable of. Against defending WPIAL Class 4A baseball champion Indiana — a co-champion of its section th...
May 06, 2026 Sports
Freeport girls lacrosse erupted in a 20-6 victory over Yough on Wednesday. Sophia Glass led the onslaught with seven goals. Macey Edwards added three goals and six assis...
May 06, 2026 Sports
North Catholic girls track and field coach Terry Fisher believed his 4x400-meter relay team had not yet reached its potential. Maybe the Trojanettes will go on to post a ...
May 06, 2026 Sports
Stainton Forbes and Andrew Gettinger were the engine of Butler’s boys basketball team over the past two seasons. With the former landing on Slippery Rock University as hi...
May 06, 2026 Sports
Quaker Valley beat reigning champion North Catholic to claim the WPIAL Class 2A Boys Tennis Team Championship title Tuesday at Washington & Jefferson College. The No. 5 Q...
May 05, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — A 4-0 halftime lead suits most coaches just fine. Not Canon-McMillan boys lacrosse coach Scott Gebhart. “That wasn’t us in the first half,” Gebhart said. “We...
May 05, 2026 Sports
WEST MIFFLIN — Winning a WPIAL team track championship is not easy. It certainly didn’t figure to be for Butler’s boys Tuesday, but the Golden Tornado combined eight over...
May 05, 2026 Sports
Mady Bell and Addyson Caruso both had two hits and two RBIs as Freeport softball downed Greensburg Salem 13-0 in six innings Monday. Lauren Clark also homered for the Yel...
May 04, 2026 Sports
Kevin Trost’s eighth season as head coach of Seneca Valley boys varsity basketball will be his last. He resigned from the position April 27 according to Seneca Valley ath...
May 04, 2026 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — For Slippery Rock, charity definitely began at home. The Rockets took advantage of 10 walks, three hit batsmen and an error — being handed 14 runners ...
May 04, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — Michelle Jacobson just missed qualifying for the WPIAL Track and Field Championships last year in the shot put with a season high of 32 feet, 8 ½ inches. A r...
May 04, 2026 Sports
They say too much of anything is bad. Flexibility on a sports team is certainly an exception, and Karns City has a heavy dose of it in Addison Burrows and Abigail Dunlap....
May 04, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, May 4 Baseball 4 — Freeport at Southmoreland 4 — Mars at Shaler 4 — Sharon at Slippery Ro...
May 04, 2026 Sports
Butler’s Julianna Lockwood placed third in the discus (110-0) and Slippery Rock’s Samantha Montgomery had a third-place finish in the triple jump (36-3) at Friday’s Pine-...
May 03, 2026 Sports
This week, voters across America will determine whether Mars Area High School’s beloved mascot, the Fightin’ Planet, is the best in the nation. Mars is competing in the f...
May 03, 2026 Local News
A quartet of Butler boys made history Friday at the Pine-Richland Track and Field Invitational. In the 4x800-meter relay, Alex Motonis, Logan Rogers, Mateo Saspe and Land...
May 01, 2026 Sports
A season-ending injury is, physically and mentally, a bitter pill for an athlete to swallow. The adversity that struck Graysen Rottman is far worse. Last summer, the curr...
May 01, 2026 Sports
Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom of the fourth inning, Karns City softball rallied to earn a 5-3 victory over Butler on Thursday at Diehl Stadium. The decisive frame came...
April 30, 2026 Sports
The high school track and field season continues on, with the postseason already here. Take a look at the Butler County-area track and field leaders in each event as of A...
April 30, 2026 Sports
A group of Butler athletes signed to continue their careers in college on Wednesday. Take a look at the gallery below to see who’s going where. ...
April 30, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — Butler girls lacrosse coach Abbie Roetering was not happy about Wednesday’s 11-9 loss to North Hills that closed the WPIAL Section 2-3A slate, but she apprec...
April 29, 2026 Sports
Weston Cook had a pair of hits, including three RBIs, as Moniteau downed Clarion-Limestone 10-0 in five innings of baseball action on Wednesday. Ian Ross, Carson Minnear ...
April 29, 2026 Sports
Clarion’s pitchers gave a little. The Bobcat hitters took a lot. Trailing 9-1 in the fourth inning Wednesday night at Pullman Park, Karns City pulled within three runs in...
April 29, 2026 Sports
Ava Kamenski won two individual events (100-meter hurdles, 300 hurdles) and was part of two relay victories, helping Karns City’s girls track and field team to its fourth...
April 28, 2026 Sports
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