The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, after a period of review, on Sunday presented a record certificate to Nicholson, who lives in Connellsville, describing his catch as an “outstanding angling achievement.”
The previous Pennsylvania record, held by Mike Holly of Bradford, was the 1980 catch of a 17-pound, 9-ounce walleye on the Allegheny River.
For the sake of comparison, the world record stands at 25 pounds. That fish was reeled from Tennessee’s Old Hickory Lake in 1960.
–Image showing Richard Nicholson with his record walleye is courtesy of Nicholson, via the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
Who will be hooping it up for the Irish this season?
It feels like college basketball remains far away, but Midnight Madness just happened, so it’s closer than you think. To that end, we should look at who makes up Notre Dame’s roster for the upcoming season. Many believe this is the team that can get the program out of the doldrums and back on track towards respectability. A major step in getting people to believe that would be the Irish’s first NCAA Tournament selection since 2017, which also was the last year they finished above .500 against ACC opponents.
This will be the 22nd iteration of the Irish with Mike Brey as coach. Despite having more wins than anyone in program history, he has two losing seasons in the past three and three losing conference records over the past four years. If he isn’t able to get this group to reach its full potential, questions about his future in South Bend certainly will arise. Here are the players who could determine where both Brey and the program headed going forward:
A Pittsburgh-area developer John LaCarte confirmed the situation this week while discussing plans with Gannett Media
NEW BEAVER, Pa. — The Stonecrest Golf Course will remain open through 2022 while its new owners plan a business park for the site off Route 18.
Pittsburgh-area developer John LaCarte confirmed the situation this week while discussing plans with Gannett Media for the property, which he took control of on March 1.
He said the project is now in the civil engineering, as well as the permitting phase, and looking to get utilities, such as sewage and water, to the site.
As previously reported, the goal of the project is to turn the golf course property into a business park for industrial, distribution and manufacturing businesses and companies, which would be a minimum of 130 acres.
LaCarte said he has already received inquiries from some large companies about moving into the space once it is completed.
He said the business park could have up to 1.5 million square feet of vertical construction space and could create up to 1,000 jobs.
While LaCarte couldn’t give a specific timeline of when everything will be done, he said he would like to finish all the permitting, engineering and outside utilities into the park by 2022, and to begin building the buildings on-site in spring 2023. As such, LaCarte said the golf course will remain open for all of 2022.
The total cost of the project is expected to be around $7.4 million.
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Reason for choosing the location
LaCarte said he chose the location for the business park for a few reasons.
One of which is its general location to not only some major highways, but also to areas like Pittsburgh and Youngstown.
LaCarte said it also will be close to the Shell Chemicals complex in Potter Township, Beaver County, which is set to finish construction in 2022. He said once the cracker plant is complete, businesses will want to take advantage of access to a facility with such a large operation.
LaCarte said the project has gotten tremendous support from New Beaver, which approved a 10-year Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act (LERTA) abatement on the property; Lawrence County Commissioners; the Mohawk Area School District; the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce; and the Lawrence County Economic Development Corporation.
The latter helped secure $5 million in state Business in Our Sites funding – $3 million in loans and $2 million in grants.
Nicholas Vercilla is a staff reporter for the Beaver County Times and Ellwood City Ledger. He can be reached at nvercilla@leadertimes.com. Beaver County Times reporter Chrissy Suttles contributed to this report.
Only then did it truly begin to make sense: The 36-year-old teaching pro at the Country Club of York had just won $100,000. It’s the largest winning check of any tournament in the 41 PGA of America sections.
Philadelphia PGA / Matt Frey
And Price only got himself in position for a playoff by storming through the back nine with four birdies, including two impressive bunker saves. He and two others ended regulation at 4 under 68.
They were among 120 golfers who started the day.
“One of my best rounds of the year that fell on the correct date. It’s timing,” said Price, a Taylorsville, North Carolina, native who has worked at the York club for two years.
He admits that the scope of his victory is still resonating, gradually. His biggest previous golf pay check was $2,400.
Price had golfed at Cape Fear Community College in North Carolina before trying to make it as a pro working grueling PGA mini-tours, surviving one tournament at a time.
He left the game for six years to work in sales.
But golf kept luring him back, and he landed an assistant teaching pro job in York in 2019. He was promoted to director of instruction this year.
Now, he’s getting married in April and is looking to buy a home in the York area.
“People don’t understand that the best thing that ever happened to me was the position at the Country Club of York,” he said. “I don’t know if I finally grew up, but things have just really started to go well for me.”
Especially this one round of golf this week.
On the first playoff hole, Price stared down his 25-foot putt, the longest in the group. He had missed a nearly identical putt on this same No. 18 hole during regulation.
The three men knew the winner would take home $100,000. The others would each pocket only $3,175.
Price adjusted, swung and delivered the richest, adrenaline-rushed putt of his life.
Philadelphia PGA / Matt Frey
He’s still processing it all since returning to town, teaching more lessons and helping run run another local tournament at the club.
“It’s just, ‘This is incredible,’ he said, searching for the right way to describe it all.
“It’s just really hard to even put those emotions into words.”
Frank Bodani covers sports for the York Daily Record and USA Today Network. Contact him at fbodani@ydr.com and follow him on Twitter @YDRPennState.
No, we never cover fencing on this site, but it’s always worth mentioning whenever Notre Dame a national championship in any sport.
No, we never cover fencing on this site, but it’s always worth mentioning whenever Notre Dame a national championship in any sport. The latest came Sunday from the men’s and women’s fencing program, which earned the honor for the 11th time in University Park, Pennsylvania. The title was clinched when the Irish’s Miriam Grady defeated Penn State’s Axelle Wasiak in morning round robin play. The program last won a national title in 2018 in what was the second of a back-to-back.
With the victory, the fencing program has tied the football program for the most national championships won in any sport at Notre Dame. Talk about how no program ever should have caught up with football in this category if you must. Say that this is an indictment of Notre Dame football since its last championship in 1988 if you must. However, that does nothing to lessen this achievement, which is very impressive.
Congratulations to Gia Kvaratskhelia and his staff for getting the most out of a roster with student-athletes from 10 different countries. That they’ve been able to attract so much talent both domestically and abroad is a testament to the program’s success. Here’s to more national championships in the years to come.
The NFL announced Wednesday afternoon that the Steelers vs. Ravens game, originally scheduled for Thanksgiving night, would be moved to Sunday, Nov. 29.
To make matters worse, fans who had tickets for the Thanksgiving game will not be allowed to attend the Nov. 29 game. The State of Pennsylvania’s new occupancy orders, announced earlier this week, go into effect Friday, Nov. 27.
The new policy wasn’t supposed to affect Heinz Field fan attendance until the Dec. 6 game against The Washington Football Team, but since the Steelers-Ravens game was delayed to Nov. 29, fans won’t be permitted due to the new state mandate.
The Vols might have a shot to land this 5-star forward.
Tennessee basketball is in the mix to land an elite talent in the 2022 recruiting class, as 5-star power forward Brandon Huntley-Hatfield released his top five schools on Friday.
Tennessee is competing with Auburn, Ole Miss, Kansas and Wake Forest for Huntley-Hatfield’s signature.
Huntley-Hatfield is a 6-foot-9, 220-pound forward that is rated as the No. 1 power forward in his class, and the No. 6 player nationally by the 247Sports Composite.
Although he plays his high school basketball at Scotland Performance Institute in Scotland, Pennsylvania, Huntley-Hatfield is a Clarksville, Tennessee native.
A lot of time will pass before Huntley-Hatfield’s recruitment comes to an end, as the Vols are looking to add to its 2021 recruiting class, as well. Tennessee is still in the running and will have an entire recruiting cycle to convince him in coming to Knoxville in 2022.
Next week’s game at Pitt will be open to a small amount of the general public if you’re interested in getting in the car and getting to PA.
Unless you’re a Notre Dame student, staffer or family member of a football player at Notre Dame or on one of their opponents to date, you haven’t been able to see the Irish in person so far this season.
That will change next week though as Notre Dame will be taking their first road trip of the season, traveling to Pittsburgh to take on the Panthers next Saturday.
Pitt released a statement this week announcing that despite it not being the case to start the season, that the University would be allowing fans in their games against Notre Dame and Virginia Tech. Notre Dame travels to Pitt next weekend while Virginia Tech is due in western Pennsylvania on November 21, the final home game of the year for the Panthers.
“Per the health and safety directives provided by the Governor’s office, Heinz Field will be limited to a total of 7,500 people. In addition to fans, this number includes players, coaches, staff and stadium personnel. All fans at Heinz Field are required to wear masks and abide by social distancing protocols. Due to CDC guidelines, tailgating is prohibited in the parking lots.”
Pitt says that roughly 5500 fans will be allowed to purchase tickets with season ticket holders and students being the first to be allowed to purchase tickets.
Georgia Tech will also have fans in the stands on October 31 when Notre Dame travels to take on the Yellow Jackets.
Notre Dame has had fans in the stands in each home game to date this season but unless you’re part of a select few communities, you’re left on the outside looking in on game day in South Bend.
Kemp is a junior at Upper Dublin High School, and does not hold a rating on the 247Sports Composite, but does have offers listed from Kansas, UMass and Ole Miss.
The 6-foot-4, 205-pound linebacker typically plays on the outside, and just received his second SEC offer.
Tennessee has one prospect committed to the 2022 recruiting class, in 3-star defensive end Jimmy Scott. Scott is 6-foot-3, 250 pounds and from St. Francis High School in Hamburg, New York.
