Trevor Kovatch scored his 100th career goal Tuesday, the gamewinner in a 2-1 victory over West Mifflin. Belle Vernon Area boys’ soccer star Trevor Kovatch has had a lot of memorable goals in his stori...

The former Parade All-American passed away Tuesday at 60 after a battle with cancer. Rich Bowen was never a fan of attention. Not as a star football player or a championship coach. Not as a good-natur...

The Commodores’ sweep of California clinched head coach Mandy Hartman’s 17th section title. The Frazier volleyball team celebrated senior night and a section title all in one night Tuesday. The Commod...

After opening the season with a section loss at Laurel Highlands in extra time and drawing two section matches three weeks ago, the Thomas Jefferson boys soccer team seems to have found its stride. Th...

A pair of local golf teams will take part in the WPIAL boys team golf championships Thursday at Cedarbrook Golf Course. The Belle Vernon Area boys, which finished the regular season unbeaten, finished...

KEYSTONE OAKS AT BELLE VERNON PHOTOS BY JENN CODELUPPI

The Golden Eagles move into second place with two goals in a span of 1:54 late in the second half. A couple of blown calls and a missed penalty kick in a wild final eight minutes helped Keystone Oaks ...

By the Mon Valley Independent Bentworth continued their hold on first place by a half game with a win over the Bulldogs (2-9, 1-8) at the Beth-Center multi-use facility Monday. Megan Keturakis had a p...

The Thomas Jefferson and South Fayette girls soccer teams have established themselves as the class of Section 3-3A, but their initial meeting three weeks ago was one-sided in a 7-1 victory for the Lio...

Several important games are left on the schedule before the regular season wraps up. The WPIAL soccer calendar is winding down to the end of its regular season and a few Mon Valley squads find themsel...

Big plays were back for the Leopards in a 68-21 victory. Belle Vernon Area head coach Matt Humbert acknowledged through the opening four games of the Leopards’ schedule, one of the things missing from...

John Jablunovsky plunged in from a yard out to give the Rams a 20-14 road win. It was a night of homecoming festivities for Charleroi, but the Cougars weren’t able to deliver a storybook ending as the...

Quarterback Ryan Messina threw 3 touchdown passes in the 56-14 win. Charlie Nigut scored four total touchdowns to lead Elizabeth Forward in a dominant road 56-14 victory at Derry Friday night. Nigut h...

The Titans’ Armand Hill ran for 258 yards, but McKeesport came away with a 40-20 victory. On a night commemorating the 30-year anniversary of McKeesport’s 1994 WPIAL and PIAA championship football tea...

Allderdice, which is in BVA’s section, can’t play in WPIAL playoffs so the Leopards may qualify. The WPIAL has erased some section wins and losses in boys and girls soccer. Games against Allderdice an...

The Charleroi Cougars have built a reputation as a solid program in boys’ soccer. In football, Bentworth is trying to establish itself as a player in the WPIAL postseason. Charleroi (10-0, 11-0) remai...

The high-scoring Cougars finally broke loose after being frustrated early by Brownsville. Scoring goals has become a pretty easy task for the Charleroi boys soccer team this fall. Through 11 games, th...

In an all-Mon Valley soccer matchup, Bentworth dominated California, 12-0, in Section 2-1A action Thursday night. Ryan Moessner bagged four goals with an assist while Andrew Vipperman and Aiden McMurr...

The Belle Vernon Area football team has struggled through the first half of the season, there’s no doubting that. With a young line, injured skill players and a gauntlet of tough teams to run through,...