High school, Sports
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP
By JEREMY SELLEW 
October 10, 2024
Franklin Regional picked up a Section 4-3A win to hold firm in the No. 2 playoff spot with one game remaining in the regular season. Halle Beatty, Grace Copeland, Eden Williams and Natalie Keough each...
Cortes, Keturakis earn top honors
High school, Sports
WEEKLY HONORS
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
October 10, 2024
This week’s selections as Player of the Week and Athlete of the Week have some things in common. Not only are they talented athletes, but they are both leaders and difference makers on the field. In s...
Sports
October 10, 2024
2013 • An interesting turn of event means that both the Elizabeth Forward and Belle Vernon Area girls soccer teams will be advancing to the playoffs from the Section 4-AA. The two teams are advancing ...
Sports
October 10, 2024
Cougars still unbeaten The Charleroi Middle School football team remained unbeaten on the season with a 54-0 win over Ringgold. Jaxson Klinger finished with three touchdown passes and Brody DeUnger ca...
Kovatch breaks BVA scoring mark in win
High school
By ADAM BREWER MVI SPORTS 
October 9, 2024
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...
Former Serra Catholic football coach Rich Bowen dies
High school, Sports
By By BILL BECKNER JR. Trib Total Media 
October 9, 2024
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...
Frazier seniors celebrate fourth straight section title
High school, Sports
By JEREMY SELLEW 
October 9, 2024
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...
Jaguars hold off scrappy Rams
High school, Sports
By By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com 
October 9, 2024
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...
Steelers’ hot start has cooled
NFL, Sports
October 9, 2024
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Fields paused, trying to think of the right words. When they didn’t come, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t think we’re one of those teams l...
Ravens’ o ense rolling with Jackson, Henry
NFL, Sports
October 9, 2024
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry have become one of the most formidable duos in the NFL, and that’s a primary reason the Baltimore Ravens are back where they expect to be: atop...
High school, Sports
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP
By JEREMY SELLEW 
October 9, 2024
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...
Bill introduced for ‘Miracle on Ice’ team to receive medals
Olympics, Sports
October 9, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team that defeated the heavily fa...
Dodgers’ Roberts calls Machado’s toss ‘bothersome’
MLB, Sports
October 9, 2024
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said it was “bothersome” and “unsettling” that a ball San Diego third baseman Manny Machado threw into the Dodgers dugout seemed intended for him duri...
Kansas City fans have attention divided with Chiefs and Royals
MLB, Sports
October 9, 2024
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of cars lined up at the gates to the Truman Sports Complex early Monday afternoon, nearly seven hours before the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs were to play th...
McCarthy: Tomlin’s time out helped Cowboys
NFL, Sports
By By TIM BENZ Trib Total Media 
October 9, 2024
After the Steelers lost to the Dallas Cowboys (20-17) Sunday night, I wrote that I disagreed with Mike Tomlin’s decision to use his last timeout prior to the Cowboys’ fourth-down snap at the goal line...
Panthers’ defense roars when it matters most
NCAA, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
October 9, 2024
Back when Pat Narduzzi was playing linebacker for Youngstown State and Rhode Island, he knew a third-down stop meant success. Series over, offense trudging to the bench, punt or field-goal try upcomin...
Penguins’ Sullivan pushes back against critics
NHL, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH Trib Total Media 
October 9, 2024
During his time as a defenseman with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Matheson had a way with words. Especially when it came to those who had a way with words. Like his coach at that time, Mike Sullivan....
Sports Snapshots
High school, Sports
October 9, 2024
KEYSTONE OAKS AT BELLE VERNON PHOTOS BY JENN CODELUPPI
LIFE-LONG TEAMMATES
NCAA, Sports
October 9, 2024
Sports
October 9, 2024
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. - ESPN2 — New Mexico St. at Jacksonville St. COLLEGE GOLF 4:30 p.m. - GOLF — NB3 Collegiate: Match Play, Twin Warriors Golf Course, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. COLLEGE SOCCER (WO...