Don Rebel stories, Page 55

Section play in the regular season is winding down and concludes Tuesday in WPIAL boys soccer. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for the postseason. The playoff...

Welcome to the 2023 edition of the “stretch run,” otherwise known as the final three weeks of the high school football regular season. The leaves are turning, the air is crisp and teams up and down the six classifications are fighting for conference championships, home-field advantage, playoff seeding and district...

The WPIAL boys soccer playoff field is set in Class 4A and A; however, there are still some missing pieces to the postseason puzzle in 3A and 2A. Some if not all of them may fall into place Thursday. In Section 1-3A, Indiana (4-6) has a slim half-game lead over...

Surprise, surprise, as a couple of eyebrow raisers in Week 6 of the WPIAL football season shook up the top half of the Trib 10 this week. Central Catholic’s stay at the top of the power rankings lasted only two weeks as the Vikings were dropped by defending district and...

Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season concludes for most teams Monday. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for the postseason. The postseason field...

Win and you’re in. Those four words mean a lot is at stake in a particular contest. That will be the case for two WPIAL girls soccer teams as the playoffs essentially begin early for McGuffey and West Mifflin. South Park (9-0), Shady Side Academy (7-2) and Keystone Oaks (5-3-1)...

It was a strong start to the final month of the regular season for teams ranked in the Trib HSSN PIAA football rankings. Last week’s 30 top teams went a combined 26-4 in Week 6. Two of the teams that lost fell out of the weekly state rankings. Thomas Jefferson...

Section play in the regular season is winding down with one week left in the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer season and a few postseason spots up for grabs. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head...

Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has just one week remaining. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for the postseason. Here is the...

With one week left in section play, there are several key matches in a fight for a WPIAL boys soccer playoff spot on the 10th day of the 10th month of the year. There are also two big matches Tuesday between teams that have already punched their postseason ticket and...

Coming off a 35-point loss to North Allegheny the previous week, there were not many people outside of the Pine-Richland locker room that gave them a chance in Week 6 against the No. 2 Class 6A team in the state, undefeated Central Catholic. Proof again of why they line up...

The 2023 WPIAL girls team tennis playoffs begin with first-round matches Monday in Class 3A and Tuesday in 2A. Mt. Lebanon is the defending WPIAL Class 3A champion while Knoch won Class 2A gold. The Knights will try to win a third team tennis title in the last four years...

Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has just over one week remaining. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for the postseason. Here is...

Section play in the regular season is winding down with one week left in the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for...

The fight for WPIAL girls soccer playoff spots enters its final week. What’s more exciting than two teams fighting for a postseason berth? Well if a couple of district sections are any indication, three teams in the mix to play on the playoff pitch in late October could be better....

The three-week stretch run of the high school football regular season kicks off this weekend on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of Week 7 with six WPIAL football games Friday, plus links to plenty of other video streams. The WPIAL football scoreboard show wraps...

Section play in the regular season is winding down with one week left in the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for...

September football this season provided tremendous weather and lots and lots of points. So as the calendar turns and October football begins, what can we expect over the next four weekends? The weather won’t be the same, at least for this weekend, as we cool off and bring a serious...

In the Greb household, winning tennis gold is a family affair. Two years ago, Knoch sophomores Emily and Lindsey Greb won the WPIAL Class 2A girls tennis doubles championships. Last year, Lindsey Greb teamed with Ally Bauer to win the district doubles title again. Now reunited as a team, Lindsey...

Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has just over one week remaining. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for the postseason. Here is...

Following a week of major shuffling among the top WPIAL football teams, including a change at No. 1 after Week 5, things settled down with only one change near the bottom of the Trib 10 this week. Nine of the 10 teams in last week’s power rankings were victorious with...

The top district girls golfers return to Sewickley for the final round of the WPIAL girls Class 3A and 2A individual golf championships Wednesday. The girls final round will take place at the Diamond Run Golf Club in Sewickley with 26 golfers from Class 3A and seven from Class 2A...

Section play in the regular season is winding down with less than two weeks left in the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer season. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all...

The best teams in the state finished September strong. Teams ranked in the Trib HSSN PIAA football rankings were a combined 27-3 with most of those 27 wins coming in runaway victories as 18 of the winning teams scored 40 points or more. The 27 ranked teams from a week...