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Sheffield Wolverines

What a year

I made my return to the Times Observer a little more than a year ago. I knew coming in the county had some high caliber athletes. Little did I understand just how good they are. Having arrived just after the end of the 2017 spring sports season, I was sure I’d have to wait until August to get my first chance to see what all the hype was about. Nope. The Post 135 junior legion team decided they wanted to welcome me back in grand style and made a fantastic run to a third-place finish in the state tournament. Once the varsity season got underway, the performances just kept ...

Sheffield’s Grubbs Times Observer Scholar-Athlete of 2018

Sheffield senior Mya Grubbs is one of those people you notice immediately when she walks in a room. Outgoing, fun, positive – those words could be used to describe her, but she is also an intense competitor both in the classroom, in the athletic arena and in the community. Those are ...

Albaugh an all-star

Sheffield’s Cale Albaugh has been selected to take part in the third annual Frank Varischetti All-Star game in Brockway June 29. The game pits teams consisting of graduated seniors from the Allegheny Mountain League and Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference, who were nominated and selected ...

Sheffield outlasts Eisenhower in extra innings

Just before Sheffield came to bat in the seventh inning Monday, senior shortstop Mya Grubbs gathered her teammates and asked them a single question. “How do you want this game to end?” The Wolverines, trailing by a run at the time, responded by tying the game in the seventh, before ...

Sheffield, Eisenhower softball fall

RIDGWAY, Pa. – For much of the 2018 softball season, Sheffield has hung with teams only to see a close game blown open by one big inning. Such was the case again Thursday in Ridgway as the Wolverines saw a 2-run game turn into a blowout as Johnsonburg scored nine runs in the third inning to roll to a 17-3 win. “This was just one for a short memory,” Sheffield coach Mark Maines said. The Rams opened the scoring with a five run second inning, but the Wolverines came right back and scored three in the third. A Tori Childress walk followed by a Mya Grubbs single put runners on ...