TJ girls aiming for big things with loaded roster
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By By LIAM BELAN MVI Sports 
November 28, 2025
The only setback has been Kaylee DeAngelo’s ACL tear. The Thomas Jefferson girls basketball team is eager to start the new season as one of the favorites in Class 5A. Last year, with the likes of Magg...
West Mifflin hit by heavy graduation losses
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 28, 2025
Jose Perez and Julian Dewberry, who both started as freshmen, will try to keep the program successful. While the West Mifflin boys’ basketball team will be young this season, it won’t necessarily be i...
New coach wants Titans to be ‘difficult to play’
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 28, 2025
Justin Walther has a long track record of success, but this is his first time coaching a girls team. The West Mifflin girls basketball team faces difficult matchups in Class 5A, up a level from the bo...
New coach promises ‘different team’ this season
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By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 28, 2025
Devin Owens blames “laziness” for last year’s 1-21 finish. A year ago, Yough’s boys basketball team suffered through a miserable 1-21 campaign. Enter a new coach — and a new outlook. Devin Owens, in h...
Playoff spot may be within reach for Yough girls
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By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 28, 2025
Brian Znavor is hoping to build a program that can compete with the best teams in the section. In 2024-25, Yough finished fifth in Section 3-4A on its way to a 12-12 season. Third-year coach Brian Zna...
Championship flashback: Leps own 4A
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November 28, 2025
Excitement builds for MVI Shootout Classic
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I’M JUST SAYIN‘
By JEREMY SELLEW 
November 26, 2025
Can you smell it? That’s the smell of local gymnasiums with freshly surfaced floors, all prepared to start hosting games as basketball season is literally just days away here in the Mon Valley. Join u...
15th title a special one for Clairton
High school, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 26, 2025
After Clairton outlasted Laurel in a gutsy 8-6 win to capture the school’s 15th WPIAL championship — the second most in district history behind Aliquippa, which also won this season — nine seniors too...
Commodores small on numbers, big on quality
High school, Sports
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 25, 2025
The Frazier wrestling team has only six wrestlers on its varsity roster this season. Frazier doesn’t have the longest-running wrestling program, but the Commodores have had their share of success stor...
Bears win 15th WPIAL championship
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 24, 2025
Clairton recovered a Laurel fumble late to preserve an 8-6 win over the Spartans. With the clock nearing zero at Acrisure Stadium on Saturday, Laurel looked to be in prime position to continue its pos...
Bears still ‘bad news’
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SPORTLIGHT
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 24, 2025
Clairton has won so often and in such dominating fashion over the years, that sometimes when they win, it can feel like a loss. The Bears, who have been “Bad News” for the opposition for over two deca...
Peters Township stuns Pine-Richland for 5A crown
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By By CHRIS HARLAN TribLive 
November 24, 2025
The Indians trailed the Rams, 19-0, at halftime before scoring 20 unanswered in the 2nd half. The fireworks glittering over the Pittsburgh skyline seemed like an early celebration for an inevitable Pi...
Avonworth dominates Imani Christian for 3A title
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By By BILL BECKNER JR. TribLive 
November 24, 2025
The WPIAL Class 3A football championship was considered the marquee matchup among four games Saturday because both high-scoring teams came in undefeated. It had the makings of a classic. That’s what i...
Three local schools awarded athletic grants
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By By MEGAN TROTTER TribLive 
November 22, 2025
McKeesport ($250K), West Mifflin ($250K) and Clairton ($100K) will all benefit from Team UP grants. Augustine Hanover spent last season with the Obama Academy boys soccer team practicing on a beat-up ...
Lippert’s hat trick lifts Rams to overtime win
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By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
November 21, 2025
Brady Lippert’s third goal was the game-winner in the extra period for a 4-3 win. In a back-and-forth matchup between Ringgold and Burrell on Thursday night, it was the heroics of Brady Lippert that s...
‘No concerns’ for Bears as they look for 15th WPIAL title win
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By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 21, 2025
No. 2 Clairton will face No. 4 Laurel at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Class 1A championship game. It may be hard to believe, but the Clairton Bears have not won a WPIAL football title since 2019. For a pro...
Local players honored with All-Conference nods
High school, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
November 20, 2025
The Big 6 Conference released its 2025 All-Conference football teams this week, and Belle Vernon, Thomas Jefferson and Ringgold were each well represented across both the First and Second Teams. Belle...
‘Thoroughbred’ Peterson one of three Rams to reach NFL
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SPORTS STEW
By By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports 
November 20, 2025
Ringgold High School football star Anthony Peterson was, in the words of his coach Joe Ravasio, “a thoroughbred.” His rise from Mon Valley standout to NFL linebacker is the story of an unassuming kid ...
Commodores’ duo sign letters of intent
High school, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
November 19, 2025
Maddy Salisbury and Addison Schultz could face off in non-conference games the next few years. Two volleyball players from Frazier will continue playing collegiately after signing letters of intent la...