Football
Mars football has won its last two games in the final seconds. Butler and Freeport have largely dominated three straight opponents.
And this week features arguably th...
September 11, 2025
Sports
There have been a couple of surprises through two weeks of high school football.
Karns City starting 2-0 is not one of them. The Gremlins have plastered their first two o...
September 04, 2025
Sports
This week has felt a little more like fall.
Temperatures in the 60s and low-70s. A breeze. Chilly mornings. Smells like football.
Week 2 of the PIAA high school football ...
August 29, 2025
Sports
ADAMS TWP — A Sheetz and GetGo sit across from one another beside the Mars Athletic Complex, where Eric Kasperowicz’s Planets play their home football games. The nearest ...
August 28, 2025
Sports
BEAVER — When the freezing air is biting and the stakes are higher, Mars football will look back on Friday night’s 42-7 win at Beaver as its defensive outline.
With time ...
August 22, 2025
Sports
It wasn’t exactly hot this week during heat acclimatization, but the sounds of pads, panting and whistles filled the air around Butler County.
Those sounds portend the qu...
August 22, 2025
Sports
It isn’t exactly fall weather yet, but football season is here.
Week 1 of the PIAA high school football season begins Friday night, with all 11 Butler County-area teams t...
August 21, 2025
Sports
Head coach Chris Rizzo is set up pretty well heading into his third season in charge at North Catholic. He had his hand in designing an offense that averaged 30.3 points ...
August 15, 2025
Sports
UNITY TWP — Years before North Catholic’s Tommy Arth was catching touchdown passes at J.C. Stone Field, he hauled in passes at a much more vaunted venue.
While riding bac...
August 15, 2025
Sports
Head coach Eric Kasperowicz and Mars football have reached back-to-back WPIAL Class 4A semifinal games, but have been upended by Aliquippa and McKeesport.
There’s not a f...
August 13, 2025
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