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Peters Township wins WPIAL girls golf championship again

Synclaire Stroyne finally got her WPIAL golf championship. A WPIAL runner-up twice in the team competition during her scholastic days, Stroyne coached Peters Township to its fifth consecutive title on Oct. 13 at Cedarbrook Golf Club. “Absolutely, very different,” Stroyne said. “ It's ...

Bethel Park duo capture WPIAL doubles title

With a berth in the state tournament already secured, Mackenzie Smock and Cassie Sierka of Bethel Park played with a “nothing-to-lose” attitude in the WPIAL Class 3A doubles championship match. “We knew that we were already going to states. We were already qualified. So we just came ...

Hearing loss no handicap for Peters Township golfer

All golfers have a handicap – a numerical measure of their playing ability that allows different skill levels to compete fairly against each other, but Betty Glyptis’ physical handicap affords her an edge. While she passed her newborn hearing screening, she found out when she was 3 that ...

Upper St. Clair visits Bethel Park

Upper St. Clair enters hostile territory Oct. 9 when the Panthers visit Bethel Park for an Allegheny Six Conference football showdown. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. “Bethel Park does a great job of making their place a difficult place to play,” said USC skipper Mike Junko. “They have great ...

Football grows on Upper St. Clair junior

Evan Smirniw stands 6 feet, 5 inches tall but the Upper St. Clair junior is not a basketball player. “I should be,” he admitted. Smirniw, however, had other plans. During his youth, he tried every sport, except lacrosse, and as he approached high school, he mapped out a strategy with ...

Bethel Park netter finishes runner-up in the WPIAL

There’s never a dull, nor free, moment in Cami Fisher’s life and the Bethel Park High School senior would have it no other way. “I’m in a lot of things and I kind of stretch myself out too thin a few times here and there,” she admitted. “It’s all fun to me though. ...