Don Rebel stories, Page 78

Happy Halloween! The district postseason treats to its many soccer fans are a handful of girls and boys final four matches on the pitch Monday night. The girls Class 4A postseason has become a bit of a district civil war. Two north teams and two south teams remaining. So the...

Thomas Jefferson winning a big football game in late October is hardly breaking news after nearly 30 years of dominating success. Excuse a few folks though for raising some eyebrows when the final score of the Class 4A Big Seven Conference battle for first place was announced — Thomas Jefferson...

We conclude the stretch run in Week 9 with 12 playoff spots up for grabs and seven games that will decide a conference championship. Don’t forget to check out the Trib HSSN Scoreboard Show between 9:30 p.m. and midnight Friday to find out who is in and whose playoff bubble...

While the WPIAL playoff continue in soccer, volleyball and field hockey, there is gold to be won in them there hills on Thursday. The 2022 WPIAL cross country individual and team championships will take place at Roadman Park on the campus of Cal (Pa). There will be six championship races:...

While some WPIAL football teams are set to play out the string, turn in the uniforms and start to prepare for 2023, many others, including the teams below, are fine-tuning their games in preparation for the postseason. Nine of the 10 power-ranked teams this week will be playing for an...

A year ago, the top eight seeds in the WPIAL boys soccer Class 3A playoffs all advanced to the quarterfinals. This season though, two double-digit seeds were opening-round winners to deny a second straight year of the favorites gathering in the second round. One of the bigger surprises on the...

Call it the regular season calm before the postseason storm. The best 30 PIAA football teams across the state as ranked in the latest Trib HSSN state rankings were a near perfect 26-1 in Week 8 with three teams not playing. The lone team to taste defeat was Class A...

With the preliminary round in the books, the first round is set to go in both Class 4A and Class A in the WPIAL girls volleyball playoffs Tuesday. With the top two seeds in 4A, North Allegheny and Pine-Richland, enjoying opening-round byes, there are only six first-round matches in the...

The Apollo-Ridge football team entered the 2022 season ready to battle for a playoff spot in a new, expanded and much tougher Class 2A Allegheny Conference. The start for the Vikings was a good one, winning in both Week Zero and Week 1, including an impressive victory in the season...

The WPIAL soccer postseason spotlight falls on the Class 3A girls and Class 2A boys opening-round matches Monday. One of the Class 3A girls’ first-round matchups is a rematch from a quarterfinals playoff contest a year ago. Last fall, Franklin Regional was the No. 3 seed and blanked West Allegheny...

As October and the high school football regular season wind down to its final week, football bracketology is in the warmer-than-usual air this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio football coverage of Week 9, with 31 WPIAL, District 6, D-9 and...

With every game he plays, Armstrong quarterback Cadin Olsen continues to climb the ladder of all-time great quarterbacks from the WPIAL. Two weeks ago, Olsen passed the 6,000-yard mark for his scholastic career. After big conference showdown wins over Mars and Highlands, Olsen has eclipsed 7,100 yards at Armstrong after...

There is only one week left in the stretch run of the 2022 WPIAL football regular season. Already, 55 teams have guaranteed a spot on the Playoff Path to the North Shore and to North Huntingdon. That leaves 12 district playoff spots up for grabs heading into the final Friday...

Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side of the net. The move this fall from Class 3A to 2A paid off handsomely for the Chartiers Valley girls tennis team. Both the Colts team and individuals in singles and doubles enjoyed success this season. “The girls had a great...

Paul Bonetti is back for the ninth year of his second stint as head coach of the Chartiers Valley hockey team. He coached the Colts from 2004-2006, then returned in 2016. Even though the Colts did not make the playoffs last season, and he has had offers to coach elsewhere,...

The 2022 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season has come to an end with 73 teams qualifying for the district postseason. 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...

We continue the stretch run of the 2022 football regular season with four games with teams fighting for their playoff lives, one with a conference crown at stake and another that is a nonconference tuneup between rivals gearing up for showdowns in Week 9. Coming into Week 8, one team...

If the rematch for a spot in the City League football championship game is as good as the battle for second place was, then the University Prep against Allderdice matchup Thursday should be a dandy. The Panthers and Ramblers met last week to close out the City League regular season...

We are one week away from the biggest district power struggle of the regular season when Central Valley battles Aliquippa. In fact, Week 9 features plenty of showdown football games with conference titles at stake up and down each of the six classifications. However, every football coach will tell you...

The 2022 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season has one night 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. Trib HSSN’s exclusive coverage of the 2022...

Let the bracketology talk on the pitch begin. The WPIAL soccer playoff field is set with 57 boys and 57 girls teams ready to shoot for eight district championships. There will be at least two new title winners — in girls Class 4A, because 2021 champion Moon moved down to...

As we hit the midway point of October and close in on the start of the district postseason for some, like autumn leaves, a few tradition-rich names have fallen out of the Top 5. There were four changes in the weekly Trib HSSN state football rankings following Week 7. Perennial...

Section play in the 2022 girls soccer regular season is over with one big exception of matches with playoff ramifications set for Tuesday. 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...

The final week of the WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is upon us with most section matches set for Tuesday and Thursday before the brackets are revealed Friday on Trib HSSN. Fifty-seven teams have clinched a district postseason berth with as many as 16 more spots still a possibility. One...

The Seneca Valley football team entered the 2022 season with high hopes and great expectations with several key players returning and many picking the Raiders as the team to beat in Class 6A. Those good vibes continued after a hard fought 15-13 Week Zero victory over Penn Hills, a top-five...