On September 28, Ben Avon is welcoming the community to a fall festival for an autumnal afternoon filled to the brim with games, coffee, and excitement for the upcoming season. From 10 am to 3 pm, booths will be along Church Avenue, Forest Avenue, and Hilands Avenue with 50+ vendors ranging from arts & crafts,…
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2024 Senior Edition Out Now
Physical Copies distributed to the graduates in the class of 2024 during graduation rehearsal, held indoors due to rain on Wednesday, May 29th! To read an online PDF, click here Additional coverage on Instagram. Thanks to Editor-In-Chief Zion Schenk, pictured bottom left with oncoming editor-in-chief Emma Noss, for many many unexpected hours of layout and…
Avonworth becomes Section Champ After Pulling Through a Nail-Biting 14-Inning Win at Wild Things Park – 2024 Boys Baseball
Seeded 7th in a championship matchup against top-ranked Riverside, Boys Baseball lived up to the expectations many of the seniors had as they started the season in late March. Win the section. It took 14 innings, over 4 hours and 3 minutes, but the hardware was theirs on Tuesday, May 28th. The championship is now…
2024 Girls Softball – 6 Seniors Finish Out Careers In WPIAL and PIAA Playoffs
The six seniors from the class of 2024 pictured below take a state championship, multiple state playoff wins, section championships, WPIAL honors, hundreds of hits and pitchers taking over 600 strikeouts with them as they graduate Friday, May 31st. With the early ending of 23-24 due to construction on the HS campus, the last game…
Hallway Beat 2024 – Day 2, 3, 4 (and 5)
Today’s beat is actually a 3 for 1, as unexpectedly I was not in class the past two days. When I left attendance was already a problem for senior’s last week of school and for the past two days, I have been contributing to that. Tuesday was just an early afternoon early dismissal that produced…
Paul Skenes Beat Day 5: Pitching Into Contention In the NL Central?
Paul Skenes started his 3rd MLB game yesterday against the San Fransico Giants. Skenes threw 6 innings while letting up 1 run and struck out 3. The Pirates for the second day in a row got up 5-1 in the game. However, the Pirates bullpen handed the game away in the late innings for the…
Paul Skenes Beat Day 3: Jones and Skenes
Paul Skenes will pitch in his 3rd start at 12:35 tomorrow. The San Fransico Giants have to face Jared Jones and Paul Skenes back-to-back days. The rookie phenoms are tough for any team to face. I went around the halls of Avonworth High School to ask students about their thoughts about the rookie’s pitching. Senior…
What’s On Your Earbuds, 2024- Day 2
Today, we find out what kind of music students are enjoying nowadays and what they might be listening to on their earbuds. We’ve got 5 students who shared their music tastes “I like to listen to electro music. I’m not a huge fan of lyrical music, so I just listen to the actual music parts…
What’s On Your Earbuds, 2024- Day 1
No matter where you go around Avonworth, you’ll more than likely see people listening to music with their earbuds in. But have you ever wondered what they were listening to? Well, you’re about to find out what 3 students listen to when they listen to music. Let’s see what they had to say “Right…
Paul Skenes Beat Day 2 – Students Went to PNC Park To See His Debut
Paul Skenes has remained in the news since my last beat. There was a video of him purposely avoiding Rowdy Tellez’s hand after a Pirates Victory. The video is now presumed to be a joke between two new teammates. This has brought a nice image of how the team chemistry is playing out. With the…