Jake Merda Adams came to the Butler Eagle in May 2024 as its new sports editor.
A Temple University graduate and native of Northampton, PA, he previously worked as the sports editor of The Carlisle Sentinel, sports planning editor for the Wisconsin State Journal and assistant/interim sports editor for the Louisville Courier Journal. He moved back to the Keystone State in 2023 and now lives in Mars with his fiancée and their dog and cat.
Adams has led award-winning sports coverage at the national and state level and covered PIAA champions, state record-breakers and Big Ten football and basketball.
Outside of the office, he likes to run, do yoga, play the occasional video game, try new restaurants and get back to the City of Brotherly Love whenever he can.
The PIAA Girls Soccer Championships begin Tuesday, Nov. 11, and for the first time in decades will conclude in Pittsburgh with the finals at F.N.B. Stadium.
Two Butler Co...
The PIAA Boys Soccer Championships begin Tuesday, Nov. 11, and for the first time in decades will conclude in Pittsburgh with the finals at F.N.B. Stadium.
Two Butler Cou...
The PIAA Girls Volleyball Championships begin Tuesday, Nov. 11, and will wrap up in two weeks at St. Francis University.
Butler County’s Freeport (Class 3A) and North Cat...
Week 10 is over, and now the PIAA football postseason kicks off in full force.
The WPIAL and District 9 announced the district playoff brackets Saturday, with several...
The postseason has arrived.
The 2026 WPIAL Girls Soccer Championships kick off Saturday, Oct. 24, with the finals set to be held in two weeks. Districts 9 and 10 will be ...
This is what it’s all led up to.
The 2026 WPIAL Boys Soccer Championships kick off Thursday, Oct. 22, and Districts 9 and 10 will open their playoffs in short order.
The ...
Some of the PIAA’s best girls volleyball teams reside in Butler County.
Now it’s time for them and the rest to prove themselves in the playoffs. The 2026 WPIAL girls voll...
PETERS TWP, Washington County — North Catholic has been knocking on the door for the last four years.
Nobody is yet to answer.
No. 1 Peters Township won its second straig...
PETERS TWP, Washington County — Head coach Tom Phillips has known for a while this Freeport core had a chance to be something special.
Others around him also foretold it ...
It’s a championship night in two kinds of football.
Eagle reporters will be at two pigskin-related games tonight — the District 9 Class 2A championship between Karns City...
