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TEHRAN – Iran lost to China 13-11 at the 2025 World Aquatics Men’s U20 Water Polo Championships on Saturday.

Iran defeated New Zealand 15-13, Kazakhstan 16-9 and lost to Germany 23-6, the U.S. 23-5, and Australia 17-13 in the tournament.

Iran finished in 12th place.

Iran are headed by former national team player Ali Piroozkhah.

The World Aquatics Men’s U20 Water Polo Championships took place from June 14 to 21 in Zagreb, Croatia.

By: Bill Beckner Jr.


Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 11:01 AM

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Norwin will remember the 2025 spring sports season for its impressive wins, highlight performances and gold medals.

There was plenty to talk about at year-end banquets.

Track and field was the standard bearer after a banner season.

The boys and girls teams won WPIAL Class 3A championships, the boys celebrating a title for the first time since 1977 and the girls for the first time since 2009.

A plethora of talent carried the Knights, who also produced a WPIAL individual champion in Ryan Schiller, who won the Class 3A 110-meter hurdles.

Runner-up finishers were Brandi Brozeski (triple jump, 100 hurdles) and Annie Czajkowski (1,600, 3,200), while Daniel Maddock (200), Melani Schmidt (400, 200) and the boys’ 400 relay all placed third.

At the PIAA championships, Schiller took second in the 110s while Annie Czajkowski took fifth in the 3,200-meter run.

Norwin’s track and field athletes broke 11 school records this spring, and 12 athletes will continue competing in college, including six at the Division I level.

Other highlights:

• The Knights baseball team also made a deep run in the postseason, reaching the WPIAL Class 6A championship game before finishing second to Seneca Valley.

Nate Silberman and Tristyn Tavares had hits in the WPIAL final, and Ethan Culbertson gave up just four hits in six innings a 1-0 loss to the Raiders.

Norwin, the No. 4 seed, beat Butler, 5-4 in nine innings, in the quarterfinals. The Knights defeated Hempfield, 7-4, in the semifinals.

With only the WPAL champion advancing to the PIAA playoffs in 6A, Norwin had to settle for a 14-9 season, coach Craig Spisak’s third with the team.

Nine seniors will leave the program, including Ben Geissler, Brayden Wardzinski, Culbertson, Silberman, Jake Sincak and others.

• The Norwin softball team reached the WPIAL 6A semifinals.

The Knights finished 10-12 with a team that will lose three seniors in Izzy Deering, Rachel Minteer and Kendall Dudley.

Top returning players will include Maddie Kugler, Diem Wardzinski, Abbie Telli, Miley Harrison, Addison Grimes and Makenna Black.

• Girls lacrosse made a surprising run to the WPIAL 3A quarterfinals.

The 12th-seeded Knights upset No. 5 Fox Chapel in overtime in the first round, 11-10.

They fell to No. 4 Moon in the quarterfinals, 13-7.

Bill Beckner Jr. is a TribLive reporter covering local sports in Westmoreland County. He can be reached at bbeckner@triblive.com.

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China’s women vowed to become the best volleyball team in the world once again, after an impressive 3-1 win over Japan at the Volleyball Nations League in Hong Kong on Saturday.

Roared on by a boisterous home crowd at a sold-out Kai Tak Arena, China served Japan only their second defeat of the season – with the first a 3-2 loss to Italy on Friday.

China’s victory means they are now the highest-ranked team in Asia, stealing Japan’s No 5 spot, with Nippon dropping down to No 6.

“I think every team will have this determination to be the best in the world, we are also hoping that we can again be the best,” Wang Yuanyuan, the middle blocker, said.

“But I think that there are many great teams in the world, and we need to attack every one of them. I believe that in regard to results and world rankings, we won’t think too much, but instead enjoy every match.”

China wasted no time in taking down Japan, establishing a 5-1 lead early in the first set before seeing it out 25-15. The second set was even more straightforward, with China coming out on top 25-12.

-Dan Oliver, Aberdeen

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Girls sports have come a long way

My granddaughters were appalled when I informed them that girls sports were nonexistent when I was in school. I loved watching my daughters — and now my granddaughters — compete in high school sports. I admire them for their faithful commitment to training, teamwork and practice. Female athletics is a pathway to development, opportunity and success for girls and women.

June 23 marks the 51st anniversary of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination in education and athletics. Title IX gave young women the rights and opportunities to compete and earn medals and scholarships in their own sports. Before Title IX, only one in 27 girls participated in school sports; today, every two in five girls participate.

Currently, across the country, policies are now allowing male athletes who identify as women to use women’s private spaces, receive women’s scholarships, break women’s records and win championships. This is an affront to fairness, equality and God’s perfect design.

Never did I think in 2022, that as the state director of Concerned Women for America of South Dakota, I would have to lobby for the passage of Senate Bill 46 in our state Capitol so that we could protect women’s sports in K-12 and higher education in South Dakota. Gratefully, it passed, and I am now proud to celebrate the anniversary of Title IX in a state that still honors women who fought 52 years ago for the rights my granddaughters enjoy today.

-Linda Schauer, Leola, state director of Concerned Women for America of South Dakota

Propaganda, lies sew division, distrust

Propaganda and lies from all sides have brought Americans to the point of division, distrust and hatred. How’d we get here? Basically, it’s big money influencing our government and social media affecting us all. Our legislative branches of government are ineffective. If elected officials were doing their jobs don’t you think that immigration issues could’ve been solved long ago? Would a graduated tax on incomes over $200,000 solve health care (Medicaid and Medicare), Social Security and overall infrastructure issues?

We’re in desperate need of common sense government. There needs to be debates allowing us, as citizens, to know what’s going on and giving our representatives the tools needed to come up with the best solution for all Americans.

We’ve lost sight of the fact that we are a free nation because of our unity — for doing what’s best for all Americans, not just those wealthy few. We’ve been through this several times — slave owners before the Civil War, robber barons after the Civil War, World War I, the roaring 20s followed by the Great Depression, World War II (where we joined the rest of the free world to defeat fascism), Reaganomics, 9/11, the information technology bubble, the housing bubble, the market crashes and the COVID-19 pandemic.

As Americans, we weathered it all and saw each other through trying times. We need to regroup, as Americans, and take back control of our government while we are able. We’re on the verge of becoming the “America” we will be for a long time to come. Will we rise to the challenge or will we, for once in many generations, allow those with power and influence to take control of our republic and drive us towards authoritarian rule?

-Rick Young, Aberdeen