Don Rebel stories, Page 132

Nathan Milsom has climbed the ladder at Carlynton as he prepares for the winter season of his ninth year as district athletic director. He started as a substitute teacher in the school district in 2005 and in the next 16 years, he has been a teacher, coach and AD. He...

The fall sports season was a challenge for all involved. However, the biggest obstacles to overcome in order to get a full season in the books may have been for those playing the only indoor sport in the fall, girls volleyball. A pair of local teams did a great job...

Central Valley vs. Wyomissing 3:30 p.m. Friday, Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey On the air: TV: PCN; 1020 AM, 100.1 FM, 1460 AM, 1230 AM, 99.3 FM, 92.1 FM; audio streamed on TribHSSN.triblive.com PIAA titles: Central Valley 0 (third appearance), Wyomissing 1 (2012) Central Valley (11-0) Player to watch Landon Alexander,...

Experience matters. Or does it? That is one of the big questions heading into Friday afternoon’s battle of the unbeatens in Class 3A as WPIAL champion Central Valley (11-0) squares off with District 3 champion Wyomissing (9-0) in the PIAA finals. It has been eight years since Wyomissing appeared in...

In 33 years of PIAA football playoffs, the WPIAL has never had more than three state champions crowned in a single year. It has been a unique season in so many ways, so why not wrap up the football season with four District 7 teams winning state gold? WPIAL champions...

Two WPIAL champions are spectators while the four others are Hershey bound, looking to add to their golden seasons. Four times in the 33-year history of the PIAA football playoffs has the WPIAL captured three state football championships in a year. In 2001, ‘05, ‘07 and ‘17, three WPIAL teams...

The Road to Hershey will have eight football teams headed to Chocolate Town this holiday weekend hoping a golden football will be part of their Thanksgiving Day leftovers. It is the next-to-last Trib HSSN state rankings of the 2020 high school football season. All six top ranked teams from a...

Talk about a 180-degree swing. A week after playing in an instant classic, a nail-biting overtime victory over Aliquippa in the WPIAL 4A championship game, Thomas Jefferson earned a berth in the PIAA title game with the total domination of Oil City in the state semifinals. “I wasn’t sure what...

Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Nov. 22. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA Seneca Valley, 2-0-0 = 4 Mt. Lebanon, 2-1-0 = 4 North Allegheny, 2-1-0 = 4 Peters Township, 2-1-0 = 4 Bethel Park, 2-2-0 =...

All season, Pine-Richland jumped on teams early and took control of football games in the first quarter on its way to a perfect regular season and another WPIAL championship. However, the Rams were a champion on the ropes early in both halves Saturday and need a comeback to win. Thanks...

A wild and unique fall sports season comes to an end with the high school football state championships this week only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Help celebrate your holiday weekend with a four-course meal of WPIAL champions in Hershey playing for state gold. We will have coverage...

While moving down in classifications after four years of struggles in Class 5A to Class 4A this fall, it was one small step for the Chartiers Valley football. However, the season itself was one giant leap for the Colts program. “Overall, we made strides as a program,” Chartiers Valley coach...

Since coming to South Fayette in 2007, coach Joe Rossi has turned the Lions into a perennial power. It’s a program that has won four WPIAL and two PIAA championships in those 14 years. However, something strange happened to South Fayette this fall. Its season ended before the calendar changed...

Boys Class 4A Seneca Valley (16-1-1) vs. Neshaminy (13-1-2) 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey Coaches: George Williams, Seneca Valley; Tom Foley, Neshaminy State titles: Seneca Valley 0 (second appearance); Neshaminy 3 (1982, 1984, 1994) How they got here: Seneca Valley defeated State College, 6-0, and Cumberland Valley, 1-0; Neshaminy...

The Mars boys and girls soccer teams take their undefeated records into the final game of the season. Each will play for a state championship Friday at Hersheypark Stadium. Girls soccer Class AAA Championship Mars (18-0) vs. Villa Joseph Marie (15-0) 4 p.m. Friday, Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey Coaches: Blair Gerlach,...

Six teams earned WPIAL championships in this unique 2020 season, and while one already knows state gold is not in the cards, five others begin their two-week journey on the Road to Hershey. Central Catholic’s hopes of adding a PIAA title to its Class 6A district crown ended before it...

Like most of the WPIAL football champions crowned this past weekend, Trib HSSN is showing some mercy as more changes have come to the state rankings following the state quarterfinals round. We show mercy to two of the three teams that had to forfeit in the state elite eight due...

After being competitive with the defending champion Clairton on the opening night of the season with a freshman quarterback making his debut, Jeannette was confident going into Saturday’s rematch in the WPIAL Class A championship game. But did they think they would win by 31 points? “No, I did not...

Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Nov. 15. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA Peters Township, 2-0-0 = 4 Bethel Park, 2-1-0 = 4 Pine-Richland, 1-0-0 = 2 Seneca Valley, 1-0-0 = 2 North Allegheny, 1-1-0 = 2...

In hockey, they call it the spin-a-rama. The action of making a full turn while skating with the puck. Central Valley junior running back Landon Alexander turned Martorelli Stadium into his personal ice rink Friday in helping his team to a second straight WPIAL Class 3A football championship. Alexander spun,...

As the fall sports seasons winds down, the focus is on the PIAA football, soccer, volleyball and field hockey state playoffs this week only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Week 11 of the high school football season features the five remaining WPIAL football champions as they hit the...

The PIAA has released the sites and times for Tuesday’s semifinal matches in boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball and field hockey. WPIAL champions opened the PIAA postseason strong in all three sports, going a combined 12-0 in state quarterfinal matches in boys soccer, girls soccer and girls volleyball Saturday...

The PIAA has released the dates, sites and times for the semifinal football games coming up Friday and Saturday. Of the five WPIAL champions crowned this past weekend, two will be home, one will be playing at the home site of their opponent and two will play at neutral sites....

With district football championship games being split between Newman Stadium at North Allegheny and Martorelli Stadium in West View, this is the first time no title games have been played at either Heinz Field or Three Rivers Stadium since 1982. Thirty-eight years ago, the district crowned North Hills the Division...

The WPIAL champion playing in the highest classification has usually hit the Road to Hershey by heading east. In the last dozen years, whichever team won the 6A (or prior to 2016, the Class AAAA) football championship went on to face the District 6 champion, usually State College, 10 of...