Plum Advance Leader , Page 66

In a Section 5 match with Armstrong late in the regular season, the Hampton girls volleyball team found itself down 2-0. The Talbots were able to mount a rally that night and pull out a win. It helped them finish in a tie for the section title. Hampton was in...

Top-seeded West Allegheny needed a penalty kick from Johnny Dragisich with 6:35 to go to survive an upset bid by No. 4 Plum in the WPIAL Class 3A boys soccer semifinals Monday at North Allegheny. The Indians (20-0) will advance to the title game for the fourth time in five...

Tuesday’s WPIAL soccer playoff games Boys Class 4A Semifinal 5-Fox Chapel (15-3-1) vs. 1-Seneca Valley (16-0-1) 8 p.m. at Newman Stadium, North Allegheny High School, Wexford Winner plays: Winner of 2-Peters Township (15-1-1)/6-North Allegheny (15-5) 5:45 p.m. Saturday at Highmark Stadium. Notes: The Foxes played the Raiders to a 2-2...

Honor Guard to open meeting Unity Golden Age Club Inc. will meet at noon Nov. 15 in the Unity Community Church Café, 215 Unity Trestle Road, Plum. The Honor Guard from Plum American Legion Post 980 will open the meeting with the “Presentation of the Colors.” Soup, crackers and dessert...

WPIAL soccer preview capsules Boys Class 3A Semifinals 4-Plum (16-2-1) vs. 1-West Allegheny (19-0) 8 p.m. Monday at Newman Stadium, North Allegheny High School, Wexford Winner plays: Winner of 2-Hampton (16-1)/3-Franklin Regional (14-3), 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Highmark Stadium Notes: The Mustangs are in the semifinals for the second time...

The Plum slow-pitch softball team entered the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League single-elimination playoffs Oct. 23 hoping to make a run to the title game. As the No. 6 seed, the Mustangs did just that. Plum upended No. 11 Penn-Trafford, 21-12, in the first round, scored an 11-5 win over...

Plum took advantage of four Greensburg Salem fumbles to overcome a 13-point deficit and book a ticket to the Class 4A WPIAL playoffs with a 30-27 win at home Friday. The Mustangs (4-6, 4-3) won four of their final six games in the Greater Allegheny conference to clinch the playoff...

Roseann Graf Alvarez Frankhauser of Plum Borough is the new president of the International Women’s Club of Monroeville. International Women was formed in 1968 by a small group of women from abroad, The Monroeville Center YWCA advisory committee saw the need for women from different countries to come together in...

Local churches are joining in a worldwide effort to make Christmas a little brighter this year. Samaritan’s Purse will be accepting donations of gifts for children in need all over the world as part of its Operation Christmas Child effort. Curbside collections will take place during the week of Nov....

Plum took another step toward a possible third consecutive WPIAL girls soccer final Thursday night with a Class 3A quarterfinal victory over Hampton at Mustangs Stadium. Sophomore midfielder Ava Weleski scored two goals in the first half, and senior forward Marissa Liberto added a late insurance goal to give Plum...

Pittsburgh company Schultheis Bros. is celebrating its 75th anniversary with the Great Roof Giveaway. Schultheis Bros. President Katie Rullo. a third-generation Schultheis, came up with the idea of a roof giveaway to both honor her uncle Bill, and the legacy of her grandfather, Richard J. Schultheis, who began the business...

Before a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal matchup against Thomas Jefferson started Wednesday night, Plum coach Rafal Kolankowski noticed his team was a bit stiff. Nerves were getting to the Mustangs, an expected reaction for a relatively young team playing in big game. Once the game started, though, the nerves weren’t...

For college students, one of the perks is having a writing center and tutors available on campus. This isn’t limited to just helping a student write a report, but anything that can benefit from having a peer’s opinion. This is something pretty unique to colleges though and not typically found...

Seniors in the Holy Family Parish have a new way to get to Mass thanks in part to the parish’s Serving Our Seniors Ministry. Any senior member can get a free ride to church through ACCESS Transportation Systems. ACCESS is sponsored by the Port Authority of Allegheny County, but it...

In the Plum school board race, no candidate was successfully nominated on both the Republican and Democrat ballots despite 12 attempting to do so. With independent and incumbent Republican Joe Tommarrello winning a Democrat nomination back in the primaries, this race has four Republicans, three Democrats, and one independent vying...

Plum Borough students have a voice in their education. Sitting on the Plum Borough School Board is a student representative. While the role has no voting power, it allows a student to share what is happening in school and allows the students to be aware of any changes to the...

Boys Class 3A Quarterfinals 6-Kiski Area (16-3) at 3-Franklin Regional (14-3) 6:30 p.m. at Panther Stadium, Murrysville Winner plays: Winner of 7-Moon (16-2)/2-Hampton (16-1) on Monday (time, site TBD) Kiski Area overcame a slow start and put in four second-half goals to take care of No. 11 Gateway in the...

The Plum varsity hockey team won just one game last year in a 2020-21 season that was unlike any other in the history of the PIHL with delays, restrictions and numerous changes overall because of the covid pandemic. But a new season with new opportunities has begun for the Mustangs,...

Armstrong is in the WPIAL playoffs for the fourth time in the school’s seven-season existence. But holding on for the clincher wasn’t easy. Up by 21 points with 3 minutes left in the third quarter, the River Hawks held off a furious Plum to beat the Mustangs, 35-28, in a...

After the passing of Democratic Plum Borough mayoral candidate Shawn Marcellino this summer, the Plum Democratic Committee tapped David Biondo to challenge Republican incumbent Mayor Harry Schlegel. Here are the candidates and their responses to election questions posed by the Plum Advance Leader. David Biondo Why did you decide to...

There are four Plum council seats open as voters take to the polls in November. Two former councilmen, three incumbents and three newcomers make up the eight-candidate field for the council positions. On the Democratic side, candidates are Michael Creighton, Jennifer Lynn Pusateri, David Odom and Justin Michael Tuskan. Republican...

Plum’s week didn’t start out very well. The Mustangs hope it has a better ending. The WPIAL determined Monday that Plum used an ineligible player during two games earlier this season, with one being a conference game. But a victory over Armstrong on Friday night would keep the Mustangs in...

Garrett King Freeport, Sr., RB/QB/DB Back in the lineup after missing all of last season, King has taken advantage of his opportunity with strong play for the surging Yellowjackets. He owns 39 tackles, a sack and an interception for the Freeport defense, while he has proven to be a threat...

The Springdale and Plum girls soccer teams each captured section championships in the regular season, and both the Dynamos and Mustangs lead the Alle-Kiski Valley with No. 2 seeds for the upcoming WPIAL playoffs. The pairings for each of the four boys and four girls tournaments were released Wednesday afternoon....

Kaitlyn Killinger Class: Junior School: Plum Sport: Soccer Report card: Killinger had a pair of hat tricks last week. Her first one came in a 10-0 win over Penn Hills Tuesday, and she scored all three goals for Plum in a 3-2 win over Oakland Catholic on Thursday. She had...