Don Rebel stories, Page 56

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...

There are just under two weeks left in section play in WPIAL boys soccer, so nearly every game has meaning in the fight for section crowns, playoff seeding and a postseason berth. The top four teams in two district sections go head to head Tuesday. In Section 2-4A, first-place Upper...

Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has less than two weeks 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...

There are a lot of “dual” threat football players in the WPIAL, but none are as unique as Mohawk quarterback Jay Wrona. Yes, Wrona can hurt you with his passing and running, but he can also do damage with his woods and irons too. The senior is participating and shining...

The district will be dishing out golf gold Monday with the final round of the 2023 WPIAL boys Class 3A and 2A individual golf championships. The boys 3A final round will take place at the ValleyBrook Country Club in McMurray with 39 golfers participating. Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turkowski has the...

For the Moon football team, it’s not hard to guess what rides they gravitate toward when they visit Kennywood Park. The way things have gone the last two and a half years, they are lined up for one of the park’s roller coasters. In 2021, the Tigers reached great heights...

The second half of the high school football regular season kicks off October football this weekend on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of Week 6 with six WPIAL football games on Friday, plus links to plenty of other video streams. The WPIAL football scoreboard...

Week 5 of the WPIAL high school football season allows us all to exhale after a huge week of showdown football last week. Not that there aren’t any big games this weekend, some of which are previewed below, but there aren’t the ranked clashes that dominated the district in Week...

Last fall, the Deer Lakes and Shady Side Academy boys soccer teams split their two regular season matches and ended up as co-champions in Section 2-2A. SSA was the No.3 seed in the WPIAL 2A playoffs and was upset by Beaver in the district quarterfinals while the No. 4 Lancers...

With so many big games around the WPIAL, there was some shuffling of the deck in the latest Trib 10 power rankings, including a new team at No. 1. There were three head-to-head battles between ranked teams last week, including the much-anticipated showdown in 6A with a rematch of the...

The logjam atop WPIAL Section 1-A girls soccer might be clearer after Wednesday’s action on the pitch … or not. Riverview, Springdale and Greensburg Central Catholic are all tied for the top spot with 5-1 section records. The three are two games in front of both Serra Catholic and Seton...

Following so many big showdowns across the state last weekend, things are set to settle down a bit as we hit the midway point of the regular season. In all, the 30 teams ranked in last week’s Trib HSSN state football rankings were a combined 24-5 with one team not...

Last week, Seneca Valley met North Allegheny for first place in their section in both boys and girls soccer. The boys match ended in a tie while NA defeated SV to take over first place in Section 1-4A girls soccer. On Tuesday, the Raiders and Tigers prepare to meet with...

Central Catholic junior running back Elijah Faulkner entered the Class 6A No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown at North Allegheny as the Vikings leading rusher. He left Newman Stadium with rave reviews and a tad sore after his monstrous performance in front of thousands in attendance and tens of thousands...

Now that we are into the second half of section play in WPIAL girls soccer, there are a definitive top two teams being chased by others in many of the district sections. However, there are a couple of sections where the fight for first place is a lot murkier. In...

The high school football regular season hits the midway point as we say so long to September football with Week 5 action this weekend on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of Week 5 with five WPIAL football games Friday plus links to plenty of...

On the Shady Side Academy football roster, senior Deacon Durham is listed as a wide receiver, cornerback and free safety. Perhaps the initials LR should be added to identify him as a lethal returner. Durham returned two punts for touchdowns as Shady Side Academy took care of business and defeated...

It may say September on the calendar, but Week 4 of the WPIAL football season has more of a November feel to it with big games here, there and everywhere. Friday features not one, not two, but three games pitting top-ranked teams against teams rated No. 2 in the latest...

They are the two most dominant football programs in recent City League history and on Thursday, they meet to open up Week 4 of the high school football season. It’s the ‘Dice battling the ‘House. Since 2017, Allderdice and Westinghouse have combined to win all six City League football championships....

We still have two high school football weekends left in September, but Week 4 will have a November football feel to it. No, the weather will be just fine, but the quality of football should be playoff-like with big matchups here and there across all six classifications. The best example...

Youth was served last fall when Penn-Trafford freshman Amelia Williams won the 2022 WPIAL Class 3A singles tennis championship. Williams is back to defend her crown and is joined by numerous underclassmen as the field is set for the 2023 district girls tennis singles championships Wednesday. Half of the Class...

On Tuesday, there was a boys soccer battle between Seneca Valley and North Allegheny. On Wednesday, it will be a Class 4A girls soccer first-place showdown with the Raiders and Tigers. In the last 10 years, these two programs have dominated the highest classification. Seneca Valley won district gold in...