Don Rebel stories, Page 26

The high school football regular season is in the rearview mirror and the new focus becomes the district playoffs. Some of the district tournaments will continue for the next three or four weeks; others will conclude as early as next week. The district postseason sets the field for the PIAA...

Welcome to Semifinals Tuesday in the WPIAL soccer and girls volleyball playoffs. In each of the past four postseasons, Fox Chapel has trotted into the WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer semifinals. Each time, however, the Foxes could not advance to the championship match. On Tuesday, in the second game of...

Welcome to Semifinals Monday in three of the eight brackets in the WPIAL soccer playoffs. Two years ago, Moon squared off against Bethel Park in a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal and cruised to a 6-0 victory. Last fall, Franklin Regional was an underdog as it traveled to Mars in a...

The roads to North Huntingdon and the North Shore begin with the start of November high school football this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has audio coverage of seven WPIAL football playoff games, plus a couple of video streams and other audio broadcasts of the...

Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The new point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. Class 3A Team, Wins – Losses – Overtime Wins-Overtime...

Welcome to Week 9 of the high school football season, the final Friday in October and the last regular season weekend of the 2024 campaign. There are 65 WPIAL football playoff berths this season, with 49 spots guaranteed to be clinched by the end of Friday in the six classifications,...

Quarterfinal soccer continues in the 2024 WPIAL playoffs. The lone boys tournament taking center stage Thursday will be Class 2A, where the left side of the bracket was busted up in the opening round. Top-seeded South Park advanced in the first round, but the No. 4, 5 and 8 seeds...

It wasn’t like playing Yahtzee, where players shake the dice, dump them and see what comes up, but there was some major movement at the top of the Trib 10 this week. Two big-time showdowns shook up the power rankings and when the dust cleared, a third different team sits...

Wednesday marks the first dip into the second round of the 2024 district soccer playoffs. Class 3A and Class A boys hit the pitch for quarterfinals action. All of the remaining seeds in the 3A elite eight are single-digit seeds with one exception. No. 14 Chartiers Valley (9-8) has stampeded...

As we head into the final Friday in October and the final weekend of regular season high school football, something truly scary appears to be happening. The top teams across the state appear to be getting better. It was another dominant week for the teams in last week’s Trib HSSN...

The last of the WPIAL soccer first-round matches take place Tuesday. The only boys soccer tournament that has not yet begun is Class 4A, where five matches are set while Plum, Peters Township and Fox Chapel enjoy opening-round byes. A year ago, Norwin started the 4A playoffs as the No....

Welcome to a busy Monday of WPIAL soccer first round matches, district girls volleyball preliminary round action and the opening round of the PIAA golf championships. In the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer Class 4A first round, Upper St. Clair hosted Butler in the 7-10 matchup, with the Panthers blanking the...

Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The new point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. Class 3A Team, Wins-Losses-OT Wins-OT Losses = Total Points...

The stretch run of the WPIAL football season concludes with the final week, plus the start of district soccer and volleyball postseasons this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 9 with more than 25 WPIAL, independent and District...

One week remains in the 2024 WPIAL football regular season with plenty of postseason berths and conference crowns still up for grabs. It’s also one week closer to the new-look WPIAL football playoffs, or at least how some spots are determined. Wild card berths have expanded and are no longer...

The WPIAL girls volleyball regular season has come to an end with 69 district teams advancing to the postseason. The top four teams in each of the sections with seven or more teams and the top three teams in each of the sections with six teams or fewer qualified for...

Welcome to Week 8 of the high school football regular season as the stretch run continues entering the final two weeks of the 2024 WPIAL campaign. Only 49 WPIAL football playoff spots are guaranteed up and down the six classifications with another 16 wild card spots to be determined by...

The final night of the WPIAL girls volleyball regular season brings a lot of intrigue with multiple matches set to determine district playoff berths. • One playoff spot is up for grabs in Class 4A. In Section 4, Kiski Area (4-5) hosts Fox Chapel (5-4). The Foxes have clinched and...

For the second straight week, the Trib 10 seas were calm with only one change near the bottom of the rankings. However, that may have been the calm before the storm as we have two head-to-head contests between power-ranked teams in Week 8. Top-ranked Pine-Richland faces a stern test when...

The 2024 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is down to one more night as Thursday will close out section play. Heading into the final night, 60 teams have clinched a postseason berth. A correction to the playoff format this year is below. The top four teams in each of the...

The postseason can’t begin without a little bracketology. The 2024 WPIAL soccer playoffs will likely begin Saturday and continue through the eight championship matches slated for Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at Highmark Stadium in Station Square. The brackets for the four boys and four girls tournaments will be unveiled Wednesday afternoon....