Don Rebel stories, Page 105

Welcome to the 2021 WPIAL football playoffs. The postseason kicks off Friday with one game on the Road to Norwin in 6A, and 28 games on the Highway to Heinz. There are 15 district teams that can relax and enjoy the first Friday of November as they earned a bye...

A pair of WPIAL schools will be playing for the Triple Crown this week. Both North Catholic and Greensburg Central Catholic have teams playing for WPIAL championships in boys soccer, girls soccer and girls volleyball Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A year ago, the Mars and Greensburg Central Catholic boys and...

The regular season is in the books and playoff fever is spreading throughout the district. However, for the Trib 10 teams, Week 10 is like a Billy Squier song: Lonely is the Night. Eight of the 10 teams in this week’s power rankings have byes this weekend and will be...

A pair of WPIAL schools will be playing for the triple crown this week. Both North Catholic and Greensburg Central Catholic have teams playing for WPIAL championships in boys soccer, girls soccer and girls volleyball Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A year ago, the Mars and Greensburg Central Catholic boys and...

A pair of WPIAL schools will be playing for the triple crown this week. Both North Catholic and Greensburg Central Catholic have teams playing for WPIAL championships in boys soccer, girls soccer and girls volleyball Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A year ago, the Mars and Greensburg Central Catholic boys and...

Four teams lost their grip and slipped out of the Trib HSSN weekly state football rankings in the final week of the regular season. Gone are McDowell in Class 6A, Valley View in 4A, North Schuylkill in 3A and Serra Catholic in 2A, replaced by Garnet Valley, Northwestern Lehigh, Scranton...

Sixteen teams are one win away from playing for district gold this Saturday at Robert Morris University. On Tuesday, that chance to play for a WPIAL title is up for grabs with eight semifinals matches. Once again, the volleyball committee has done a great job as 12 of the 16...

Cadin Olsen has accomplished a lot in his brief scholastic career as the starting quarterback at Armstrong. He has been one of the top passers in the district as a sophomore last year and now in his junior season. The one thing he hasn’t accomplished is playing in a WPIAL...

November gets off to a golden start as the WPIAL fall sports postseason goes prime time this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of the first round of the high school football postseason with 29 WPIAL games and action from the...

The day after Halloween is one several district soccer teams hope is filled with golden treats instead of sour tastes. The WPIAL soccer semifinals will take place Monday in boys 3A, boys 2A, girls 4A and girls A. In Class 3A boys, the two teams meeting in the bottom of...

Last week, we celebrated the end of a 33-year playoff drought for Leechburg. Not quite as long between postseason games, our salute this week goes to South Allegheny. The Gladiators clinched their first WPIAL football playoff berth since 2012 with a 21-7 victory Friday over Mt. Pleasant. The win forced...

The 2021 WPIAL playoff field is nearly set. One playoff berth in both 2A and A will be determined Saturday, hours before the brackets are unveiled on the WPIAL Football Playoff Pairings Show on Trib HSSN on Saturday at 6 p.m. Here is a rundown of the teams that have...

Welcome to Week 9 and the final two days of the WPIAL regular season. Fifty-seven district football teams have punched their ticket to the 2021 WPIAL playoffs with 16 more clinching this weekend. Don’t miss the 2021 WPIAL Football Playoff Pairings Show, set for Saturday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m....

In the last two decades, the WPIAL has moved the district cross-country championships to various venues across the area. The century started with the event being held at Slippery Rock University, then it was switched to the nearby Coopers Lake course in Butler County for over a decade. In 2018...

My, how the top cats from a year ago have fallen in 2021. Defending WPIAL champions Pine-Richland in 5A, Beaver Falls in 2A and Jeannette in A struggled out of the gate, and while the Rams and Tigers have rebounded, they remain absent from the Trib 10. Now 4A defending...

The opening round of the 2021 WPIAL girls volleyball playoffs concludes with first-round matches in Class 3A and 2A. What a difference a year makes, especially for the top seeds in the district 3A girls volleyball playoffs. Last year, Beaver was the top seed and reached the semifinals before falling...

Eight might be great, but nine is fine as scholastic high school football teams prepare to conclude October football and their regular season this weekend. Only two teams lost their grip on a spot in the HSSN state weekly rankings with Week 8 losses: defending PIAA champion Thomas Jefferson in...

Class 4A and A will take the stage Tuesday with opening-round boys soccer playoffs in both classifications. With four first-rounds byes, only four first-round matches are slated in 4A. Two of them are recent rematches. Two weeks ago, Fox Chapel edged visiting Penn-Trafford in a nonsection match, 3-1. The teams...

The year was 1988. President Ronald Reagan was concluding his eighth year in office while turning the White House over to George H. W. Bush. A gallon of gas was 91 cents, the price of a dozen eggs was 65 cents and the cost of a movie ticket was $3.50....

The stretch run of the 2021 fall high school sports season concludes as district soccer, volleyball and field hockey playoffs begin in this final week of October. Trib HSSN has coverage video and audio coverage of Week Nine of the high school football season with 36 WPIAL, District 6, District...

Monday, weather permitting, is the last day on the links for scholastic golfers in 2021. Last week was the PIAA individual championships; Monday is the state team finals, taking place at the Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York. WPIAL champion Fox Chapel will be one of six local boys teams...

During the Bill Cherpak era, there aren’t many teams that with an edge against Thomas Jefferson. McKeesport is one of the few. Having never played prior to 2020, McKeesport has back-to-back wins over the defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 4A champions. On Friday, the Tigers defeated the Jaguars, 42-28, to...

The final week of the 2021 WPIAL football regular season is upon us. Fifty-seven district teams have clinched playoff spots, leaving 16 postseason berths still up for grabs on the final weekend of conference play. Sixty-eight football teams from Class 5A down to Class A will be riding again on...

Lamont Payne has lived up to his surname, as he has been a big pain for opposing coaches to game plan around. The Chartiers Valley junior is always looking to help his team on offense at wide receiver or on defense as a cornerback. The one thing Payne is no...

Sometimes you have to take a step back to take two steps forward. When building a high school program, that is often the case, especially when a coaching change is part of the mix. After missing the playoffs for the last three years, averaging five wins per season, it appears...