Noah Beveridge, runner for Butler, picks Orange
Tri-State Sports & News Service
One of the country’s top collegiate running programs came to Western Pennsylvania to secure a commitment from a high school star.
Because of that, a Beveridge is now Orange.
Butler’s Noah Beveridge will be wearing a lot of orange in the upcoming years after committing to run track and cross country at Syracuse. Beveridge, a senior and one of the best distance runners in the state, chose the Orange over Georgetown. He visited both schools, along with Florida State and Eastern Kentucky.
Syracuse won an NCAA cross country title in 2015 and is ranked No. 4 in the country this season. The school’s track and field program is also very strong. Beveridge has a goal of running professionally one day, and said he is excited to join a program that recently saw senior distance runner Justyn Knight finish ninth in the 5,000-meter run at the IAAF World Championships.
“I think some people are intimidated to go to a big school where they’re not the best right away or the guys are really talented. But if you take it to the level that I want to take it, there are always going to be really talented people around me,” Beveridge said.
As a junior at Butler, Beveridge won the 3,200 at the WPIAL Class 3A championships and placed fifth at the PIAA championships. In cross country, he finished second in the WPIAL and fifth in the state.
Lancaster McCaskey graduate Nathan Henderson, last year’s PIAA champion in the 3,200, is a freshman at Syracuse. Four former WPIAL stars run for the Syracuse women’s team -- North Hills’ Mary and Shannon Malone, North Allegheny’s Madeleine Davison and Mt. Lebanon’s Kelsey Potts.
Beveridge said he strongly considered Georgetown. He went on his official visit the same weekend as Winchester Thurston distance standout Tristan Forsythe. The two are good friends. Forsythe recently committed to Georgetown.
First offer
If there was an award for WPIAL comeback player of the year, Mt. Lebanon’s Aidan Cain would probably be a shoe-in. Late last week, Cain received his first scholarship offer when Seton Hill offered the 6-foot senior wide receiver. Several Ivy League schools have also shown interest in Cain, who has already set the WPIAL regular-season record for receiving yardage with 1,449 yards (on 81 catches) and, with one game remaining, could break the regularseason receptions record of 86. Cain missed all of his sophomore and junior seasons with knee injuries.
Another eighth-grader
Basketball season is still more than a month away, but one thing has already been determined … the Moon Middle School girls team is going to be very good. For the second time in two weeks, a Moon eighth-grader picked up a scholarship offer from Duquesne. Emma Theodorsson, a 5-foot-11 forward, joins point guard Reilly Sunday as Tigers’ eighth-graders with offers from Duquesne coach Dan Burt. Theodorsson and Sunday play AAU for the Western Pa. Bruins.
Commitments
• Penn-Trafford senior soccer player Austin Kreutzberger to Radford.
• South Park senior baseball player Tyler Bywalski to California, Pa.
• Thomas Jefferson senior baseball player Luke Warhola to California, Pa.
• Valley senior baseball player Jake McNabb to Pitt Bradford.
• Riverside senior baseball player Gunnar Boehm to Tiffin.
• Penn-Trafford senior track and field athlete Cameron Elma to Tiffin.