HERSHEY – Bacterial meningitis took his leg but it couldn’t take his spirit.Deven Jackson has been handed a crate full of lemons in his young life and he is busy turning them into heaping glasses of lemonade.Jackson, a senior wrestler at West Perry High School, lost parts of both legs to ...
HERSHEY – There is a sign that hangs on the wall of Rocco Welsh’s bedroom that says simply “Second Sucks.”No one knows that better than Welsh, a junior at Waynesburg High School.Welsh has been a PIAA runner-up twice now and he’s sick of it.“Every time I walk in this arena, I think ...
McMURRAY – You don’t have to tell Chris Vargo what one loss can do to your dreams of winning a state wrestling title.Vargo lost only once last year and it turned a possible gold medal in the PIAA Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center in Hershey to bronze.That’s why Vargo is serious ...
CANONSBURG – Jacob Houpt and Andrew Binni had hoped to move down a weight class for the postseason tournaments, but a misinterpretation of the weigh-in rules by Canon-McMillan’s coaching staff kept the two at the weight class they had competed in during the regular season.Both began the ...
CANONSBURG – To say the Sentipal brothers are competitive with each other is like saying the sun will go down tonight.Burgettstown’s Parker and Joey Sentipal are incredibly competitive from seeing who is better at video games to who has to take the most breaks during the marathons they run ...
Though I have yet to meet Amy Scheuneman, who last year took over as executive director of the WPIAL, when I do, I will give her a big thank you for what she proposes to do for wrestling.In a memo circulated to the organization’s athletic directors, she is offering a change to high school ...
