Salem youth track club

SALEM — The Salem Youth Track and Field Club (SYTFC), a new youth organization, hosted its first annual Pumpkin Run Series throughout the month of October at Waterworth Memorial Park.

Students in grades PreK-6 met weekly to practice stretching, plyometrics and distance running. The series concluded with 1000-meter and 2-mile races on Oct. 29.

High school and middle school cross country athletes volunteered to help coach and encourage the young runners.

Sebring names new hall of famers

SEBRING — The Sebring McKinley Athletic Hall of Fame will hold a Class of 2025 induction ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 13, when the Sebring basketball team hosts Southington.

Members of the new class include the 2010 and 2011 OASSA Division IV mount cheerleading state champions and Dakota Wagner, Class of 2012.

The induction ceremony will take place immediately follow the junior varsity game, which will start at 11a.m. Previous inductees are welcome and will be recognized.

The game will be dedicated to long time community member and Trojan. supporter, Lloyd “Bud” Cobbs, who recently passed away. Cake and punch will be served in Brook Gym immediately following the varsity game.

The public is welcome.

Sirianni notches 200th victory

WASHINGTON, Pa. – Washington & Jefferson College football head coach Mike Sirianni collected his 200th career victory in a 28-17 win over Case Western Reserve at Cameron Stadium on Saturday night.

Sirianni is the sixth active NCAA football head coach to reach 200 wins and 94th all-time in NCAA history.

“200 means nothing without 201, that’s what I’m focused on,” he said. “Reaching 200 wins means I’ve had a lot of great players and coaches throughout my career.”

Following the victory, Washington & Jefferson president Dr. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls and assistant dean of students and director of athletics Scott McGuinness gifted Sirianni a 200 career victories football. Sirianni then gave the ball to his father, Fran, who was in attendance for the milestone.

Sirianni is 200-48 (a winning percentage of 80.6) in 23 seasons as head coach.

He was a starting wide receiver on Mount Union’s first NCAA Division III national championship team in 1993 and is the older brother of Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni.

The Presidents will play at Geneva at 1 p.m. Saturday at Reeves Field. Washington & Jefferson can clinch a share of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference title with a win. The Presidents are 5-0 in the PAC with two games to play, while Geneva and Grove City are both 5-1.

Steelers sign Super Bowl champ

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers signed wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling to the practice squad on Tuesday, reuniting him with former teammate Aaron Rodgers.

The well-traveled Valdes-Scantling played alongside Rodgers from 2018-21 when they were both in Green Bay.

The 31-year-old Valdes-Scantling, who won a pair of Super Bowls with Kansas City in 2022 and 2023, was most recently with the San Francisco 49ers, catching four passes for 40 yards before being released last month.

Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin downplayed Valdes-Scantling’s arrival, which came a week after reports that Valdes-Scantling’s signing was imminent, only for him to hold off while waiting for a chance to join a 53-man roster instead of taking a practice squad spot.

That opportunity did not materialize, and now Valdes-Scantling finds himself on his fifth team since 2023. His most productive stop during that stretch came in New Orleans, where averaged 22.6 yards per catch and scored four touchdowns in eight games with the Saints.

“He is a really special guy, and I think MVS can still really play,” Rodgers said last week. “You saw last year when he was in New Orleans, he had opportunities. He had a lot of big touchdowns. He can still run.”