High School category, Page 13

Da’Ron Barksdale ran for 107 yards, including a 76-yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage, to lead Steel Valley to a 38-6 victory over Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Class 2A Allegheny Conference football Saturday night. Barksdale, a Pitt recruit who is likely to play defensive...

Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Central Catholic, 7-1, 1 2. North Allegheny, 6-1, 2 3. Norwin, 5-3, 3 4. Canon-McMillan 4-4, 5 5. Seneca Valley, 3-5, NR Out: Hempfield (4-4, 4) Class 5A 1. Pine-Richland, 7-1, 1 2. Peters Township, 8-0, 2 3. Woodland Hills, 6-2, 3 4....

Peyton Los School: Freeport Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Peyton scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Burrell on Monday. The Yellowjackets then defeated Knoch, 3-0, on Wednesday evening. Freeport (14-1, 10-0) sits atop Section 2-2A and is getting ready for the playoffs. Tell me about...

Preslee Horchak School: Hempfield Class: Senior Sport: Volleyball Claim to fame: Horchak is always in the mood to help her teammates. The setter recently reached 1,000 career assists while helping Hempfield to a 10-3 record and a first-place tie with Penn-Trafford. She had 32 assists in a 3-2 win over...

Hempfield’s injury list is growing, along with a sense of urgency. The Spartans saw three linemen and a receiver/defensive back leave the field and not return in Friday night’s flat 47-8 loss to Seneca Valley. Linemen Jake Wiederstein (arm), Brock Heisler (hand) and Noah Helfrich (shoulder) and receiver Nick Marquis...

Tevin Owen-Cratsenberg’s rise to running prominence this season started a 31-28 Week Zero victory against Armstrong. The Highlands sophomore collected 122 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 23 carries. The transition to a feature back in the Golden Rams’ offense had its ups and downs early as he cut...

The Shady Side Academy girls soccer team has been undermanned all season, but the Bulldogs have steadily improved after a five-match losing streak in September put them behind the curve. Shady Side Academy (6-9, 4-6) bounced back with a few wins to climb into the mix for the WPIAL Class...

The Fox Chapel hockey team is making the jump up to Class 3A as part of the PIHL’s promotion-relegation system of classifying teams. The Foxes, who lost in overtime of the Class 2A Penguins Cup final last season, took a tough loss to open the season. Fox Chapel, which fell...

Rex Roberts and Ian Stempfer are on the cusp of their first PIAA championship golf tournament. The Riverview juniors will join the best from throughout the state Monday and Tuesday for 36 holes on the Penn State White Course. Raiders coach Hal Biehl said the duo continues to focus well...

Two decades have passed since the Plum boys soccer program experienced one of its greatest seasons. The 2005 Mustangs won 22 games and lost just twice. Plum captured the WPIAL Class 3A title and made it all the way to the PIAA semifinals. A sizeable group of players from that...

Coming off a 1-19 season, second-year Norwin hockey coach Denny Zeravica wants to take what he and his players learned from bouts of adversity and apply it to present times. Last year was last year. That ice has melted. “Even though we had a down year in regard to winning,...

This past summer, North Allegheny’s Keely McMahon-Regan worked at the NA girls volleyball camp for grade-schoolers. This fall, she is putting on a clinic. Tasked with delivering pinpoint passes to a frontline led by a pair of all-state hitters, the senior setter is the lead playmaker for the eight-time defending...

High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A North Allegheny 21, Canon-McMillan 13 Seneca Valley 47, Hempfield 8 Class 5A Allegheny Six Moon 40, Baldwin 7 Peters Township 31, South Fayette 7 Upper St. Clair 57, Bethel Park 32 Big East Kiski Area 27, Armstrong 25 Penn-Trafford 48, Franklin Regional...

Matt Sieg became the WPIAL’s all-time leader in total yardage and did so in a big way Friday night. The Penn State-bound senior ran for 270 yards and three touchdowns and scored on a 55-yard punt return and an 86-yard interception return to lift top-ranked Fort Cherry to a 56-19...

Top performers for Week 7 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 323 - Luke Miranda, Chartiers Valley (24 of 40) 297 - Tyler Smiley, Ellwood City (14 of 22) 295 - Travis Clear, Beaver (21 of 32) 289 - Landyn Artman, Kiski Area (22 of 33) 262 -...

The Trinity Hillers are no longer just looking over the city of Washington. They are also looking over the Big Six conference after beating Chartiers Valley, 42-18, on Friday night. The Hillers ran all over the Colts, tallying 376 rushing yards. “We pride ourselves on being able to run on...

After being stunned by Trinity in Week 6 — losing after holding a 22-7 lead — Thomas Jefferson bounced back in a big way behind running back Tyler Eber’s six-touchdown night to defeat Ringgold, 42-6. “We needed to have a TJ game,” said Jaguars coach Bill Cherpak. “We needed to...

McKeesport’s Kemon Spell battled some injury issues early on in the season, but he looked to be at his very best on Friday night against a top Class 4A opponent in Mars. The Tigers and the Fightin’ Planets are not only top teams in the WPIAL, but also the top...

Last season, Bethel Park and Upper St. Clair didn’t decide their game until the final minute, a 14-10 road win for the Panthers. After jumping out to a 14-0 lead in Week 7’s contest Friday night, the Panthers led by 15 at the half and ran away with a 25-point...

With its back against the wall and playoff hopes hanging in the balance, Frazier delivered its most complete performance of the season, riding senior Derek Diamond’s monster night to a 41-20 win over Riverview on Friday. Diamond was everything Frazier needed — and then some. In a game where momentum...

It went quiet for a time at Greensburg’s Offutt Field on Friday night when Derry lineman Aiden Piper lay still on the turf. “From what I know, he’s stable and moving his legs,” senior Trojans lineman Dylan Pitzer said after Derry raced past Greensburg Salem, 43-28, to end a three-game...

Seneca Valley had been practicing the play it calls “White Whale” for weeks. When offensive tackle Tommy Wuychek, big No. 68, turned the trick play into a “Big Man” touchdown — a 3-yard pitch and run in the second quarter — the Raiders knew it was their night. A whale...

Linebacker Stanley Chapman did not make every tackle for the Southmoreland football team Friday. It just seemed like he did. In a showdown for first place in the WPIAL Class 3A Interstate Conference against rival Mt. Pleasant on Friday at Russ Grimm Field, the senior led the Scotties to a...

Big plays carried the Highlands football team to an Allegheny 7 Conference win over Burrell on Friday at Burrell’s Buccaneers Stadium. Five of the Golden Rams’ six touchdowns totaled 52 yards or more. Highlands broke open a tie game at halftime with three straight scores and came away with a...

Efficient. A term that is often overlooked in high school football. Elizabeth Forward was efficient in all three phases of the game Friday night, as they dominated play from the get-go and jumped all over hosting Yough, 55-7, in Class 3A Interstate Conference play. “I love the execution and focus...