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What to watch for in high school sports for Sept. 25, 2025: City League powers to collide
Week 5 of the high school football season begins with two games Thursday, including one of the biggest contests in the District 8 regular season. It has been nearly 10 years since the last time a City League football championship game was played that did not include Westinghouse or Allderdice....
Trib 10: Changes loom in power rankings with big games dead ahead
You could call it the calm before the storm. There was very little movement in the latest Trib 10 as 19 of the 20 district teams ranked last week were winners in Week 4. The lone exception was in the small school power rankings as Hopewell slipped out after a...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 24, 2025: Girls soccer section frontrunners to square off
As we get closer to the stretch run of the WPIAL girls soccer regular season, races are heating up not only for section titles, but also for a spot in the upcoming district playoffs next month. The top four teams in each section qualify for the WPIAL playoffs. On Wednesday,...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school football rankings for Sept. 23, 2025
As summer has turned to autumn, the elite high school football teams in the PIAA keep stacking the wins. Of the 28 teams that played last week from the Trib HSSN state rankings, all but one was victorious. The lone exception was Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast from District 12, which lost...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 23, 2025: WPIAL girls golf tournament tees off
The 2025 WPIAL girls individual golf championship field is now set as golfers prepare to tee off for the first of two rounds Tuesday. Both the Class 3A and 2A girls golfers will play the first 18 of the 36-hole championship Tuesday at the Seven Oaks Country Club in Beaver....
Trib HSSN football team of the week for Sept. 22, 2025Video
Trib HSSN football team of the week – Aliquippa Quips Coach: Mike Warfield (seventh season overall, first season back after taking time off in 2024) Result: Aliquippa 21, Penn Hills 16 Record: 3-1 overall, 0-0 in the Class 4A Parkway Conference #Earned: All the rumors of the demise of the...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Sept. 22, 2025
We celebrate the first full week of autumn with plenty of high school football and other WPIAL fall sports action this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 5 of this high school football season, with over 25 WPIAL, District...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 22, 2025: Golf postseason gets underway
The 2025 WPIAL boys individual golf championship field is now set following last week’s sectional qualifiers as golfers prepare to tee off for the first of two rounds on Monday. The Class 3A boys golfers will play the first 18 of the 36-hole championship Monday at the Willowbrook Country Club...
Trib HSSN football player of the week for Sept. 21, 2025
Trib HSSN football player of the week – David Dennison School – Bethel Park Class – Senior Height/weight – 6-foot-2, 190 pounds Position – Running back, outside linebacker #Earned – Bethel Park running back David Dennison sat and waited his turn. Oh, he got his fair share of playing time...
Trib HSSN don’t miss high school football matchups for 2025 Week 4
Welcome to Week 4 of the 2025 WPIAL football regular season and another Friday night of warm weather at kickoff. Which stands to reason, since it’s the final night of high school football for the summer of 2025. Conference play continues in 12 of the 17 conferences in the WPIAL....
What to watch for in high school sports on Sept. 18, 2025: City League action kicks off weekend
Week 4 of the high school football season and the final weekend of games of the summer kicks off with an old City League rivalry renewed on the South Side of Pittsburgh. The first of two District 8 contests over the next two days at Cupples Stadium pits Allderdice against...
Trib 10: 1st losses by top teams shake up football power rankings
Hard to believe, but we are knocking on the door of the midway point of the 2025 WPIAL football regular season. As we prepare for Week 4: There was some shuffling of the deck for teams in the mid to lower range of last week’s Trib 10. In the big...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 17, 2025: Montour, Moon collide in girls soccer duel
It’s officially the halfway point of section play in WPIAL girls soccer with plenty of action on the pitch Wednesday. Of the 15 district sections in girls soccer, only one section is deadlocked at the top at the midway point. In Section 2-3A, both Montour and Moon have defeated West...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school football rankings for Sept. 16, 2025
It should be no surprise that the elite high school football teams in the state remain hot since we are still in the waning days of summer. There were not a lot of surprises in the Top 5 from last week. In fact, the only team to drop out of...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 16, 2025: Top teams jockey for position in Class 3A boys soccer
As we get closer to the midway point of section play in WPIAL boys soccer, the fight for first place in two Class 3A sections intensifies Tuesday. The top four teams in Section 2-3A square off when Thomas Jefferson (7-0-1) visits Trinity (4-2) and Bethel Park (4-1-1) travels to Laurel...
Trib HSSN high school football team of the week for Sept. 15, 2025Video
Trib HSSN football team of the week – Avella Eagles Coach: Ryan Cecchini (15th season) Result: Avella 18, West Greene 7 Record: 1-0 in the Class A Tri-County South, 4-0 overall #Earned: From 2015-2024, the Avella football program finished with more than three wins in a season twice with five...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 15, 2025: Section showdowns set in Class 4A girls soccer
A new week of WPIAL girls soccer begins in grand style with first place in all three Class 4A sections up for grabs on Showdown Monday. In Section 1-4A, Penn-Trafford is 3-0 in the section and 3-2-1 for the season as it prepares to host a Norwin team that is...
Trib HSSN football player of the week for Sept. 14, 2025Video
Trib HSSN football player of the week: Scoop Smith School: Woodland Hills Class: Senior Height/Weight: 5-foot-6, 150 Position: Wide receiver, cornerback #Earned: The dynamic senior wide receiver has been known to do some special things on the football fields, basketball courts and tracks around Western Pennsylvania, and in a big...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Sept. 15, 2025
As we hit the midway point of September, we also hit the halfway mark of section play in district high school soccer and volleyball this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 4 of this high school football season,...
Trib HSSN don’t miss high school football matchups for 2025 Week 3
Week 3 of the regular season will feature the opening of conference play for 12 of the 17 WPIAL conferences. So in that dozen of sections that kick off conference play this weekend, how did their collective teams fare in three tune-up weeks filled with nonconference action? Class 6A was...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 11, 2025: Thursday night MACtion kicks off Week 3
Week 3 of the WPIAL football season kicks off a day early with a rare Thursday night game featuring a Class 2A Midwestern Athletic Conference opener. It was 40 years ago that Riverside was crowned WPIAL Class 2A champions with a victory over Swissvale, 21-15. It is the Panthers’ lone...
Trib 10: Preseason favorites drop out of weekly power rankings
Two teams with high expectations that began the season ranked No. 1 in their respective classifications have now been bumped out of the power rankings. Two straight losses by banged-up McKeesport dropped the Tigers out of the big school Trib 10 while a second loss in three games by Steel...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 9, 2025: Fox Chapel, Hampton girls battle for top spot
The Fox Chapel girls soccer program is used to the spotlight. The Foxes were WPIAL Class 4A champions in 2023, and after relocating to Class 3A last season, won the Section 1-3A title and were the No. 1 seed in the 2024 Class 3A playoffs before falling in the title...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school football rankings for Sept. 9, 2025
After a week of turmoil and surprises in the Top 5, the elite teams in the state got their mojo back in a big way in Week 2. With two ranked teams not playing, the other 28 teams were a combined 27-1 in the first weekend of September. The only...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Sept. 9, 2025: Undefeated teams to meet in Class 4A boys soccer
Two weeks into the new WPIAL boys soccer season, one of the top games of the young season highlights the Tuesday schedule. Two of the three undefeated teams in Class 4A are set to collide for first place in Section 2-4A when Canon-McMillan hosts Peters Township. Playoff teams from a...
