High School category, Page 172

The Westinghouse and USO football teams must play shorthanded in the City League semifinals because of their game-ending altercation last Friday. At least half of Westinghouse’s roster is likely ineligible and USO could be missing around 10 players, a Pittsburgh Public School spokesperson said Tuesday. Their regular season finale was...

High schools Field hockey Tuesday’s results Class 3A Pine-Richland 3, North Allegheny 0 Class 2A Fox Chapel 1, Latrobe 0 Penn-Trafford 2, Upper St. Clair 2 (OT) Class A Aquinas Academy 2, Ellis School 0 Football Thursday’s schedule City League semifinals Allderdice at University Prep, 7 p.m. Friday’s schedule WPIAL...

The 2024 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is down to one more night as Thursday will close out section play. Heading into the final night, 60 teams have clinched a postseason berth. A correction to the playoff format this year is below. The top four teams in each of the...

The postseason can’t begin without a little bracketology. The 2024 WPIAL soccer playoffs will likely begin Saturday and continue through the eight championship matches slated for Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at Highmark Stadium in Station Square. The brackets for the four boys and four girls tournaments will be unveiled Wednesday afternoon....

Section play in the 2024 WPIAL boys soccer regular season is now complete with 63 teams having 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 in which head-to-head does not break the tie...

Benton Thompson scored the overtime winner to lead Mt. Lebanon to a 3-2 victory over Pine-Richland in nonsection boys soccer Tuesday. Jack O’Brien and Ben Bowen also scored for the Blue Devils (11-7). Jordan Crutchfield and Finn Kichi scored for the Rams (6-10-1). Beaver 4, Riverside 0 – Ryan Perez...

The elite teams across the state in high school football continued to flex their muscles for a second straight week, flirting with perfection. The teams from last week’s Trib HSSN rankings were a combined 29-1, with the lone loss coming in a battle of top-ranked teams in District 12 when...

Scott Schuchert expects his team to get a similar to draw to last season’s playoffs when Norwin ran the table as a No. 8 seed and won its first WPIAL championship in boys soccer. “Hopefully, it’s the same result, too,” Schuchert said. The WPIAL will announce playoff seedings and matchups...

From a 5-foot-3, 97-pound freshman to a senior who now stands 5-foot-7 and weighs 125 pounds, Jackson Vacanti has grown. But so has his game. All the diminutive soccer player does is make big plays. “I feel like I have gotten better every year,” the midfielder from Greensburg Central Catholic...

High schools Field hockey Monday’s results Class A Aquinas Academy 0, Winchester Thurston 0 (OT) Nonsection Latrobe 2, Hempfield 0 Football Monday’s results Class A Tri-County South Beth-Center 46, Mapletown 6 Monday’s summary Beth-Center 52, Mapletown 6 Beth-Center 20 16 8 8 —52 Mapletown 0 6 0 0 —6 B-C:...

A new rule passed by the PIAA may come back to haunt the Beaver boys soccer team. On Sept. 28, the Bobcats defeated Keystone Oaks, 2-1. However, that win was later overturned by a PIAA regulation passed in June that punishes a team if an ejected coach does not promptly...

Section play in the 2024 WPIAL boys soccer regular season is down to the final day. As of now, 61 teams have qualified for the district postseason with two possible spots still up for grabs. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied...

The 2024 WPIAL girls soccer regular season is over and done as 61 teams qualified for the district postseason and will begin preparations for the playoffs. 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...

Paige Malley scored a pair of goals to lead Peters Township to a 3-0 victory over Fox Chapel (15-1-1) in a nonsection matchup of unbeaten girls soccer section leaders Monday night. Marina Hajnosz also scored and Molly Kubistek preserved the shutout for Peters (15-0-1). Albert Gallatin 7, Brownsville 2 –...

The WPIAL has launched separate investigations into the Baldwin and Imani Christian athletic departments over potential recruiting violations. The board voted Monday to empower WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer to conduct the investigations. He said the allegations stemmed from information gained in previous eligibility hearings involving Baldwin football and Imani...

The Greensburg Central Catholic girls volleyball team used its experience and skill Monday evening to defeat St. Joseph, 3-0, in a nonsection game at St. Joseph’s Walter Dublak Athletic Center. The Centurions improved to 12-3 overall. They wrapped up Section 4-A play last week with a 6-2 record and finished...

WPIAL wrestlers can compete in more matches than usual starting this winter, and teams in other sports might see their regular season schedules increase as well. The WPIAL board on Monday voted to make some in-season “conference championships” exempt from the contest limits set by the PIAA for regular season...

Wrestling standout Dylan Pitzer, a WPIAL runner-up last winter, remains ineligible for his junior season after a hearing Monday at the league office in Scott. The WPIAL board found that Pitzer’s transfer from Mt. Pleasant to Derry was athletically motivated, said WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer. As a result, Pitzer...

Allie DeMatt plans to compete in multiple track and field events in college. She had multiple reasons to like her future destination. The senior from Hempfield announced a commitment to Bucknell of the Patriot League. “Bucknell has great athletics but also an amazing academic record, and their campus is beautiful,”...

The perfect ending to her final season. Franklin Regional girls tennis senior Makinzie Marcus recently won the Section 1-3A doubles championship, a significant step up from her runner-up finish last year. Marcus and her partner Michelle Yan entered the tournament as the No. 1 seeds. “There was definitely expectation there,...

It’s rare in sports for teammates to have to compete against each other for a chance to move on in a playoff format. Valley senior tennis player Alexandra Thomey encountered that exact scenario when she and her sister Karrigan had to play their teammates Sophie Harclerode and Lena Fabian for...

You always want to control your own destiny, so there is something great about a win-and-in contest. Several WPIAL girls soccer teams are in that situation Monday heading into the final two days of the high school soccer regular season. Thus far, 14 Class 3A girls soccer teams have clinched...

High schools Football Monday’s schedule Class A Tri-County South Beth-Center at Mapletown, 7 p.m. Hockey Monday’s schedule Class 3A South Fayette vs. Franklin Regional at Palmer Imaging Arena, 8:30 p.m. Central Catholic vs. Mt. Lebanon at Mt. Lebanon Ice Center, 9:10 p.m. Class 2A Richland vs. Mars at Baierl Ice...

Section play in the 2024 WPIAL boys soccer regular season is down to the final two days. Sixty teams have qualified for the district postseason with three possible spots still up for grabs. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a...