High School category, Page 159

A local pair are among four finalists for the 6th Moe Rosensteel Most Outstanding Player of the Year, presented to the top girls soccer player in the WPIAL. For the first time, there are four finalists. They include junior forward Morgan Gesinski of Mt. Pleasant and Latrobe senior midfielder Robin...

After they received their silver medals and runner-up trophy, Franklin Regional boys soccer players sat in a circle on the turf at Highmark Stadium. They talked and reflected Saturday night along the Monongahela River about how far they had come, how well they had just played and what could lie...

The District 7 high school football playoffs head toward a second weekend with quarterfinal and semifinal action this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has audio coverage of 10 WPIAL football playoff games, along with a couple of video streams and two broadcasts from the District...

Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. Class 3A Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime Wins-Overtime...

The WPIAL field hockey championships are over and done with some familiar programs hoisting gold in Pine-Richland in Class 3A, Peters Township in 2A and Shady Side Academy in Class A. Now the chase for state gold begins with the start of the 2024 PIAA field hockey playoffs. Here’s a...

The WPIAL girls volleyball championships are complete with North Allegheny in Class 4A, Mars in 3A, Quaker Valley in 2A and Greensburg Central Catholic in A claiming district gold this past Saturday. Now the chase for state gold begins with the start of the 2024 PIAA girls volleyball playoffs. Here’s...

The WPIAL girls soccer championships are in the rearview mirror with Peters Township in Class 4A, South Fayette in 3A, Quaker Valley in 2A and Springdale in A becoming the 2024 golden girls on the pitch. Now the chase for state gold begins with the start of the 2024 PIAA...

The WPIAL boys soccer championships are in the books with Fox Chapel in 4A, Moon in 3A, South Park in 2A and Bentworth in A the newly minted champions. Now the chase for state gold begins with the start of the 2024 PIAA boys soccer playoffs. Here’s a look at...

Piper Munyon ran on the White Oak Park cross country course for the first time Oct. 17 at the Tri-State Coaches Association championships. The Gateway freshman completed her race that day in 20 minutes, 22.33 seconds and placed 36th out of all of the WPIAL runners in the Class 3A...

Woodland Hills, Franklin Regional and Penn-Trafford finished as the top three teams in the Class 5A Big East Conference, and they earned the three automatic bids from the conference to the WPIAL playoffs which began last Friday. That left the three teams tied for fourth — Gateway, Kiski Area and...

Quaker Valley’s girls tennis team saw its 2024 season end in the PIAA Class 2A semifinals at the Hershey Racquet Club. QV, this year’s WPIAL runner-up, defeated District 9 champion Elk County Christian, 5-0, in the first round and District 3 winner Berks Catholic, 4-1, in the quarterfinals. District 2...

Sewickley Academy was represented by a pair of talented seniors, Severin Harmon and Karan Kad, at the PIAA Class 2A boys golf championships Oct. 21-22 at Penn State’s Blue Course. Harmon finished in a six-way tie for 41st place with a score of 83-77—159. Kad ended up in a three-way...

Quaker Valley senior Cecilia Montagnese joined an elite list of athletes at Quaker Valley with her top-notch performance at the WPIAL girls cross country championships. Montagnese captured the WPIAL Class 2A title with a time of 17:56.2 at White Oak Park in McKeesport, defeating Uniontown senior Grace Trimmer (18:15.2) by...

Quaker Valley’s boys cross country team, much like the Energizer bunny, just keeps on running. The Quakers won the WPIAL Class 2A team championship Oct. 24 for the 11th time in school history, finishing with 83 points to easily defeat runner-up Beaver and its 132-point total. “We have been preparing...

Ethan Dai and Nolan Wagoner ended their golf careers at Quaker Valley in fashion. Both seniors qualified for the PIAA Class 2A individual championships held Oct. 21-22 at the Penn State Blue Course. For Dai, it was his fourth time golfing in the PIAA tournament. Wagoner was able to experience...

Quaker Valley freshman Lucy Montagnese was a top 10 finisher in Class 2A at the WPIAL girls cross country championships. But it was a small army of supporters that helped inspire the 14-year-old Montagnese to her memorable individual performance. “I could not have run how I did at WPIALs without...

Want to know a good way to win a football game? Make sure the opponent does not possess the football. That’s what Penn-Trafford did to defeat Latrobe, 20-13, on Oct. 25. Penn-Trafford played a game of keep-away in the second half at Memorial Stadium. The Warriors were clinging to a...

Serra Catholic sophomore Emily Ruperto nearly threw in the towel on cross country. During the summer, Ruperto hits the club swimming circuit hard. The Penn Hills resident doesn’t have much time to get ready for the start of cross country season. “I’m all in on swimming during the summer,” Ruperto...

Many have criticized the PIAA’s decision to go to six classifications for football during the 2016 season. However, Penn Hills ultimately ended up landing in a division that has been one of the most successful for the WPIAL on the state level. After playing the first two seasons in this...

High schools Cross country PIAA championships Boys Saturday’s results Class 3A Individual: 1. Carter Smith, Mifflin County, 15:41; 2. Nicholas Mazzeo, Lower Merion, 15:45; 3. Vinay Raman, Hershey, 15:48; 4. Isaac Oppermann, State College, 15:50; 5. Theo Oppermann, State College, 15:51; 6. Matt Gosling, Council Rock North, 15:53; 7. Adam...

The last time South Allegheny won a WPIAL playoff game, fans might have skipped a Friday night episode of the “A-Team” or “Dallas” to instead watch the Gladiators. That was 1986. The football program endured some tough times since, but second-year coach Brian Hanson said some die-hard fans in Glassport,...

After dropping the opening set, North Allegheny found itself on the verge of losing the second set to North Catholic in the WPIAL Class 4A girls volleyball championship match Saturday at Peters Township. However, the Tigers scratched and clawed through multiple set points to take the set and won in...

Jaivin Peel threw for five touchdowns and ran for another to lead No. 5 Western Beaver to a 41-6 victory over No. 12 Carlynton in a WPIAL Class 2A first-round playoff game Saturday. Chris Kirkland caught three of Peel’s touchdown passes, including a 12-yarder to start the scoring, a 55-yarder...

Moon hasn’t lost a soccer game in over a year. Its last defeat came against Franklin Regional, the team it faced in the WPIAL championship, so vengeance was part of the Tigers’ game plan Saturday night. But only a small part. The next opponent in the thread just happened to...