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Trib HSSN Football Player of the Week for Week 5
No matter how much opposing teams try to slow him down, the man of Steel throws on his maroon and gold cape, takes the football and runs through, around and away from the freshly shredded defenses. Nijhay Burt might not be Superman or even Ironman, but he has put the...
Trib HSSN broadcast listings for week of Oct. 4, 2021
There is nothing quite like another busy week of fall high school sports with a dash of winter scholastic sports sprinkled in during the first full week of October on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 6 of the high school...
Trib HSSN don’t-miss high school football matchups for 2021 Week 5
WPIAL football now enters prime time. October football begins in Week 5 and yes, nearly all of the games are played in the evening. But prime time in this instance is conference play. For the final five weeks of the regular season starting on Friday, all 17 conferences in WPIAL...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 30, 2021: Golf gold up for grabs
To highlight the final day of September, the district is set to distribute golf gold on Thursday as the WPIAL Class 2A boys individual golf championships tee off at the Allegheny Country Club in Sewickley. Seventy-three district golfers hit the links with the hopes of winning a WPIAL championship. The...
Trib 10: New team takes over top spot in WPIAL power rankings
As we hit the midway point of the regular season and September turns to October, there is change in the air in the weekly Trib 10 power rankings. After Belle Vernon scrambled back for two late touchdowns to edge top-ranked Thomas Jefferson, 28-21, in a Week 4 classic, there is...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 29, 2021: First place up for grabs in boys soccer
With just over two weeks left in soccer section play around the WPIAL, each match with first-place implications takes on greater meaning as September winds down. Class 3A in WPIAL boys soccer has a pair of such clashes set for Wednesday. In Section 2-3A, first-place West Allegheny hosts Moon. The...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 27, 2021: Key cross country meets on tap
If you wanted to know which way to run to win cross country gold in WPIAL Class 3A in 2020, the answer was north. In the WPIAL boys cross country team championships, North Allegheny finished first, Butler second and Seneca Valley third. In the girls team championship results, North Allegheny...
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week for Sept. 27, 2021
The Mohawk football team won a combined three games in the last two years. The Warriors finished 1-6 last fall and 2-9 in the most recent full season in 2019. So when Mohawk started this year by winning one of its first three games, few paid attention. Folks are paying...
Trib HSSN Football Player of the Week for 2021 Week 4
He scored the tying touchdown with under five minutes left in the game, then he ran 40 yards for the winning TD with under 10 seconds remaining in a battle between the two top teams in Class 4A of the WPIAL. Belle Vernon senior quarterback Devin Whitlock may not be...
What to watch for Sept. 27, 2021: Boys head to WPIAL golf semis
The district individual golf postseason continues Monday with the WPIAL Class AAA boys semifinals. Seventy-two golfers qualified from the sectionals last week to participate in the district semifinals. District 7 produced the most participants with 19 golfers set to tee off at the Willowbrook Golf Course in Belle Vernon. Section...
Trib HSSN broadcast listings for week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3
We turn the calendar from September to October this week with plenty of high school sports on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 5 of the high school football season with 31 WPIAL, District 6, District 9 and independent high school...
Penn-Trafford gets back on track with big win over Shaler
Saturday marked the sixth meeting between Penn-Trafford and Shaler on the football field. The Warriors were a perfect 5-0 and had outscored the Titans, 257-15 in those wins. Even the return of Saturday homecoming festivities at Shaler couldn’t alter the one-sidedness of this series. Senior running back Cade Yacamelli scored...
Emergence of senior receiver adds another weapon to Chartiers Valley’s offense
Coming into this season, all eyes were on Chartiers Valley junior wide receiver Lamont Payne, and for good reason. Payne recently committed to play at Penn State. He was named to the Trib 25 Preseason All-Star Team. However, Payne isn’t the only weapon causing pain for opposing defenses. After a...
Trib HSSN don’t-miss high school football matchups for 2021 Week 4
For some district football teams, it’s the second week of conference play. For others, it is the final tune-up before conference play is underway for all 17 WPIAL conferences. Welcome to Week 4 of the 2021 high school football season. There is a pair of huge matchups as No. 1...
What to watch for in high school sports on Sept. 23, 2021: City League kicks off Week 4
Ten years ago, the two met in the City League championship game. On Thursday, University Prep and Allderdice square off to kick off Week 4 of the high school football season. The 2011 season was the first year for University Prep after the school was formed upon the closings of...
Trib 10: Friday’s schedule features 2 showdowns between ranked teams
There was little movement in the Trib 10 power rankings after Week 3, but that could change after this weekend. One week after debuting in the Trib 10, McKeesport lost and fell back out, replaced by an Aliquippa team that had been part of the power rankings, exited for a...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 22, 2021: Girls golf moves into sectional spotlight
After most of the individual boys golf sectionals here held earlier this week, it’s time for the girls to tee it up in three sections. The district will hold its girls individual golf sectionals on Wednesday at one Class 3A and both Class 2A sites. Qualifiers will earn a spot...
Trib HSSN State Football Rankings for Sept. 21, 2021
While there were no changes at the top, six teams lost their grip and dropped out of the latest edition of the Trib HSSN state football rankings. Only one classification, Class 4A, remained intact from Week 2. Harrisburg, Upper Dublin, Whitehall, Danville, Richland and Rochester got bounced after Week 3...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 21, 2021: South Hills soccer showdown
Even though the pendulum has swung due north with Seneca Valley and North Allegheny winning the four of the last five WPIAL boys soccer championships in the highest classification, there was a time when gold could be found in a four-mile radius of Route 19 in the South Hills of...
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week for Sept. 20, 2021
In 30 all-time meetings on the football field, Rochester has dominated Class A Big Seven Conference foe Union. The Rams are 25-5 overall. However, Union is now 5-4 in the last nine meetings after Friday’s conference opening stunner. “I don’t think I was the head coach for all those losses,...
Trib HSSN broadcast listings for week of Sept. 20-25
We hit the midway point of the WPIAL football regular season with key conference and nonconference games this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 4 with 33 WPIAL, District 6, District 9 and independent high school football broadcasts Friday...
Trib HSSN Football Player of the Week for 2021 Week 3
His name might not be Michael, but on Friday of Week 3 at Mapletown High School, Carmichaels senior Trenton Carter was truly a Mighty Mike. In a Tri-County South Conference opener between a pair of 2-1 teams, Carter gashed the Maples with both his arm and his legs. “I feel...
What to watch for Sept. 20, 2021: WPIAL golf tournaments begin
While the WPIAL girls singles tennis championships are set for Thursday and Friday, another fall postseason tees off Monday. The district will hold its boys individual golf sectionals Monday at eight Class AAA and nine Class AA sites. Qualifiers will earn a spot in the WPIAL semifinals Sept. 27 In...
Trib HSSN don’t-miss high school football matchups for 2021 Week 3
Finally, conference games have arrived in the WPIAL. For decades, district football teams would have two nonconference games in the first two weeks and Week 3 would mark the official start of conference play around the WPIAL. However, that changed in the last 10 years, with many teams opening up...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 15, 2021: Tennis postseason gets underway
Two days before conference play begins for many teams in WPIAL football, the first postseason event began in district girls tennis. Singles sectionals opened Wednesday, though rain forced the postponement of the start of most section tournaments to Thursday. In Class 2A, Nicole Kempton of South Park rolled to a...
