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Pitt picked up a commitment from one of the state’s top distance runners as Norwin senior Annie Czajkowski pledged to the Panthers for track and cross country. Czajkowski chose Pitt over other offers from Rutgers, Delaware and Duquesne. She also talked to Penn State and Georgia. Her brother, Noah, is...

The WPIAL will release playoff brackets around 1 p.m. Wednesday on Trib HSSN. The local field of teams is set at 11. They are: Norwin (14-2), Penn-Trafford (9-6-1) and Latrobe (8-6) in Class 4A; Franklin Regional (14-3) and Kiski Area (7-3) in 3A; Belle Vernon (13-4-1), Burrell (9-5-2), Mt. Pleasant...

High schools Field hockey Monday’s results Class A Aquinas Academy 1, Ellis School 0 Nonsection Mt. Lebanon 1, Peters Township 0 Penn-Trafford 6, Norwin 0 Hockey Monday’s results Class 2A Latrobe 6, Norwin 4 Deer Lakes 3, Connellsville 2 Class A West Allegheny 7, South Park 2 North Hills 11,...

Tuesday marks the final day of the WPIAL soccer regular season with one boys soccer match taking place for all the section marbles. The Section 4-2A crown is up for grabs when Mt. Pleasant hosts Charleroi at 7:30 p.m. Both the Vikings and Cougars have 13 total wins and they...

Layla Anthony scored a pair of goals to lead Chartiers Valley to a 3-1 victory over Trinity in Section 2-3A girls soccer Monday night, sending the Colts to the WPIAL playoffs for the first time since 2017. Bella D’Eramo also scored for Chartiers Valley (6-9-2, 4-6-2). Cassidy Arthur scored for...

Section play in the 2025 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has ended and 61 teams have qualified for the upcoming district postseason. The top four teams in each section qualified for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot where head-to-head did not break the tie all qualified...

If all goes as planned, Chase Sikorski will be fielding ground balls one day and coming out of the bullpen the next when he heads off to play college baseball. The Hempfield senior believes he will be a utility man — a pitcher and infielder — at Mercyhurst, where he...

A slate of big games in Week 7 led to more big blowouts than big battles. Seven games matched opponents with undefeated conference records, and only one was decided by fewer than three touchdowns. Southmoreland held off Mt. Pleasant, 14-0, on Friday to stay atop the Interstate Conference standings. Elsewhere,...

High schools Hockey Monday’s schedule Class 2A Latrobe vs. Norwin at Palmer Imaging Arena, 7:10 p.m. Connellsville vs. Deer Lakes at Alpha Ice Complex, 8:30 p.m. Class A South Park vs. West Allegheny at Baierl Ice Complex, 7 p.m. Westmont Hilltop vs. North Hills at RMU Island Sports Center, 7:15...

Section play in the 2025 WPIAL boys soccer regular season is down to the final two days, with 59 teams having already qualified for the upcoming 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...

Section play in the 2025 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has reached the final day, and 58 teams have qualified for the upcoming 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 2025 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is winding down with only one week remaining, and 58 district teams have clinched a postseason berth. 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...

Two weeks remain in the 2025 WPIAL football regular season with most of the district postseason berths and conference crowns still up for grabs. This is the second year of the new look WPIAL football playoffs where wild card teams have expanded and are no longer figured out by mathematical...

As we enter the final night of section play in WPIAL girls soccer, 14 of the 15 section titles have been decided. The only one going down to the wire is for the crown in Section 2-3A. The Monday schedule will be highlighted by Montour at Moon in a battle...

The “Stretch Run” of the high school football season continues while the regular season ends and the playoff brackets are revealed in WPIAL soccer and volleyball this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 8 of high school football season,...

Add Imani Christian’s Gabe Jenkins to the growing list of Penn State football commits reconsidering their futures. Jenkins, a highly recruited defensive back, decommitted on Sunday, following similar decisions this week by Pine-Richland wideout Khalil Taylor and McKeesport running back Kemon Spell. All three are juniors. Jenkins’ decision came after...

WPIAL soccer rankings Through Saturday’s games Girls Class 4A Team, record, previous 1. North Allegheny (11-3-2) 3 2. Seneca Valley (9-2-2) 1 3. Pine-Richland (13-2-1) 2 4. Peters Township (13-1-2) 4 5. Norwin (14-2) 5 Out: None Class 3A 1. South Fayette (13-1-1) 1 2. Fox Chapel (13-1-1) 2 3....

In the annual “Battle for the Bell’ against rival Gateway, Penn-Trafford rallied in the second half to win the game and retain the Victory Bell. The Warriors outscored the Gators, 26-0, in the second half for a 33-23 victory. The Gators led 13-0 and 23-7 in the first half. Ben...

Not many people can say they appeared in Sports Illustrated. But Melanie Morgan Miller’s photos and her swimming accomplishments at the high school level were featured in the magazine’s “Faces in the Crowd” segment in 1988. But the Gateway graduate was not just any face in the crowd. She won...

Gateway baseball coach Andy Hoover welcomed more than two dozen players to fall workouts and scrimmages at the end of August. It was a fresh start for a group with high expectations and goals to make it back to the WPIAL playoffs. The second-year coach said the past few weeks,...

In honor of National Coaches Day last week, the PIAA announced the selections for the 2024-25 PIAA Coaches of the Year. Quaker Valley track and field coach Jared Jones was among 25 coaches across 13 boys and girls sports to be recognized. He was honored for his work with the...

The Sewickley Academy Sports Hall of Fame gained a new class of inductees on Oct. 3. Four individuals and one team were honored at a ceremony in the Events Center on campus. “The Hall of Fame serves as a reminder of the remarkable individuals and teams who have helped build...

There aren’t many better ways to follow up on winning your program’s third WPIAL title than what the 2025 Quaker Valley girls’ soccer team has done. Building on their recent WPIAL championship, the Quakers defeated Central Valley, 3-1, on Oct. 8, improving to 9-0-1 in section play and claiming the...