The Observer-Reporter has learned that Trinity football coach and athletic director Ed Dalton is a finalist for the varsity football coaching position at Norwin High School.Norwin finished 5-5 in 2009 with a 2-4 record in the Class AAAA Foothills Conference.
Dan Conwell previously coached at Norwin.
* With the recent transfers of Dylan Bongiorni (pictured) from Burgettstown to West Allegheny, which happened Friday, and Terrance Stepoli from Monessen to Greensburg Central Catholic, expect significant backlash.
It's already begun in Burgettstown, which, arguably, lost its best high school athlete.
Bongiorni started at quarterback as a freshman and sophomore for the Blue Devils and, with Burgettstown moving up to Class AA, his absence will be felt. Through 10 games with the Burgettstown basketball team, Bongiorni averaged 19.7 points per game.
Burgettstown is not expected to sign off on the transfer, which means a meeting with the WPIAL Board of Control is likely to determine if the transfer was for athletic intent. Burgettstown athletic director Jon Vallina and boys basketball coach Brendan Cypher both said that the move to West Allegheny was something they've heard since Bongiorni's freshman year, repeatedly.
Monessen athletic director John Sacco said the school won't contest the transfer of Stepoli, who was kicked off the boys basketball team during a loss at Washington on Jan. 5. Stepoli, like Bongiorni, was also a starting quarterback for the football team.
Since Stepoli's departure, Monessen is 7-0.
* Got to feel bad for the Ringgold girls basketball team and chances are head coach Nick Mandich feels jinxed.
First, standout forward Alina Selby suffers a season-ending knee injury five games into the season. Selby didn't play as a junior with a knee injury suffered last the 2008 volleyball season. Then, Ringgold lost point guard Alana Resanovich with a knee injury. Resanovich also missed time last year due to injury.
With those two, Ringgold looked primed to contend for third or fourth place in Section 4-AAAA behind heavyweights Mt. Lebanon and Bethel Park.
16 comments:
Bongorni is a good athlete. But him and his family think he is better then what he is. If he moves to West Alleghany he will not start durin football and he won't be putting up numbers like he did at burgettstown. If your kid is good enough to go to a college the college will see him, you don't need to take him away from his school and his friends.
A good athlete and better young man, Mark Jones of Chartiers-Houston is out for the remainder of the basketball season and the baseball season. He had
knee surgery
A good athlete and better young man, Mark Jones of Chartiers-Houston is out for the remainder of the basketball season and the baseball season. He had
knee surgery
Good Luck Ed Dalton because they are definitely out to ruin you at Trinity.
A/AA are a lot different than AAA/AAAA.
Taking nothing away from Bongorni...but he was a good athlete on some bad teams. He is middle of the road AT BEST in West A.
If I was Dalton, I would get the heck out of this district ASAP. These board members are sooo vindictive! They are ruining this district. The good thing is that there will be a couple removed VERY SOON!
Wait until you see what is happening. Lawsuits for racism, lawsuits for threats against a student by a board member, and countless lawsuits for harrassment by the board and one specific "lady" who thinks she is a writer, but was removed by the Weekly Recorder. Exactly how bad do you have to be to get let go at a volunteer job!
You make Kenny Bonnell look like Ernest Hemmingway!!
For those that will be attending the next board meeting, please practice singing the following jingle as we will be joining together, possibly holding hands, and rejoycing as several board members will be receiving their walking papers!
Sing with me everybody: NA NA NAAAA NAAA....NA NA NAAA NAAAA....HEY HEY HEYYYYYY.....GOODBYE!!!!
Funny thing happened today. I stopped by Uniontown School District and they said they have no record of a Tom Bodnovich graduating from Uniontown in the early 1960's.
Even more interesting is the fact that when we looked through the Uniontown yearbooks, Bodnovich is nowhere to be found in the basketball team photos or rosters.
And even MORE interesting is the fact that there is a Tom Bodnovich that graduated from BROWNSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT in 1963.
So why would Mr. Bodnovich claim he played on the Uniontown State Basketball championship team....
Mike, can you verify this for us. He proudly states that he graduated from Uniontown and was a guard on the state championship team!
Don't mean to hurt your feelings but I don't care if Bodnovich graduated from Turkeyfoot but claims he played football and basketball with Jeff Hostetler at Conemaugh Township.
Uniontown did win PIAA AAA titles in 1962 and 1964.
Mike:
You may not care but speaking as a parent who has kids in this district, and from someone who has witnessed first hand the actions of this new board at the meetings, I find this post VERY INTERESTING!!
This is the same man that is trying to fire Ed Dalton and other coaches and has claimed that his Championship background at Uniontown is why he is an expert on sports.
I hope this man isn't claiming to be someone that he isn't. Especially after the actions of another board member towards a student last week.
This would be yet another black eye for the board!
So good athlete bad athlete. Let's go with the moron that pushed him to his snapping point. DAD How about the coach Ed Goetz, game hime a starting position his freshman year, said he will get the job done. The fans saw so many mistakes that B made, never taken out of game but, forbide if another player did. OK YOU SIT NOW CAUSE YOU CANT MAKE THE PLAYS. BUT LET B MAKE A MISTAKE OH WELL ITS OK, DO BETTER NEXT TIME. WPIAL, PLEASE DO NOT LET HIM START TILL HIS SENIOR YEAR, IT IS AN ATHLETIC INTENT.
B-TOWN KNOWS DIFFERENTLY. BY THE WAY WHO'S TAX DOLLARS ARE SENDING HIM TO WA? AND HE NOW IS TAKING AWAY FROM ANOTHER PLAYER, WHO WORKED PROBABLY HARDER THAN HIM.
Now add the Sunshine Law issue that is in the paper today to your list of controversial decisions by the Trinity School Board.
What is going on up there on the hill?! Can anyone make a rational decision? I keep hearing just horrible things from a board member threatening to stop a student from attending West Point, to others lying about their background, to other members causing a scene during the school day. What are these people doing?!
Obviously these people do not have the best interest of the kids in mind.
I really hope Dalton takes the job at Norwin. He would be able to leave this circus that has been created by these new board members.
Such a shame that an entire school district can be brought to humiliation by just a couple of uneducated people. The shame that this district will have to endure due to lawsuits and other ramifications is absolutely embarrassing.
What a sad, sad era for such a historically rich district. Thanks to the school board for making Trinity the laughing stalk of Washington County.
Rumor around North Huntingdon is that Dalton isn't interested anymore.
According to my sources, Dalton was the front runner and the job was his if he wanted it! Wish he was coming because we could use someone who can turn a program around.
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