High School category, Page 19

Last week: 11-2 Season: 57-21 (73%) We interrupt this regularly scheduled column to bring you this special bulletin: The Birdie has been spotted in Derry. Witnesses say a large, hairy creature was seen stomping through a wooded area near Trojan Stadium. “Are we sure that wasn’t Bigfoot?” Birdie asked, looking...

Don’t count Norwin out of the Section 1-4A boys soccer title race just yet. The Knights, who had dropped back-to-back one-goal games, rebounded with two straight section wins, the second one a dandy against a team it previously tied. Yes, the Knights have learned how to win close games. Tyler...

High school football used to be a big deal in Western Pennsylvania. Not just in selected communities, but everywhere. Now it’s come down to negotiated surrender. Baldwin and Fox Chapel high schools have teams so bad that they’ve contacted opponents about playing shorter games: eight-minute quarters instead of 12 minutes,...

High schools Cross country Tuesday’s results Division I Section 3 Boys Seneca Valley 17, Central Catholic 41 Seneca Valley 15, Mars 50 Central Catholic 22, Mars 35 Girls Seneca Valley 21, Oakland Catholic 40 Seneca Valley 20, Mars 43 Oakland Catholic 20, Mars 36 Section 5 Boys Chartiers Valley 24,...

Section play in the 2025 WPIAL boys soccer regular season is down to the final two weeks with 27 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 where head-to-head does...

Carson Torres, Sean Regan and Rocco Poli scored to lead Fox Chapel to a 3-2 victory over Seneca Valley in a matchup of the top two teams in Section 3-4A boys soccer Tuesday night. The Foxes (11-1, 7-0) swept the season series with the Raiders (10-2, 5-2). Michael Pokrzywinski and...

Yough and Mt. Pleasant play with contrasting styles. Yough is more direct and physical, while Mt. Pleasant is organized and tactical. The latter approach prevailed in the teams’ second Section 4-2A boys soccer matchup of the season. Playing a near perfect game schematically and tilting the field, Mt. Pleasant blanked...

Welcome to October, a month that can be very scary the closer we get to the end. However, in the world of the WPIAL, October will be a golden month with individual and team championships determined. We open October with the final round of the 2025 WPIAL Class 3A and...

At the beginning of the season, Freeport girls soccer players came together and established their expectations for the season. A section title, a deep run in the WPIAL playoffs and a trip to the PIAA tournament were some of the high marks on that list. But they also broke it...

As we prepare to kick off October football, the final weekend of high school football in September was rough for a couple of top-ranked teams. The big District 12 showdown between ranked teams went to Class 5A Roman Catholic in a nail-biter, as it edged Class 6A No. 1 LaSalle...

Jonah Schollaert did something Tuesday no other Our Lady of the Sacred Heart golfer has ever done: win a WPIAL title. The senior, the first-round leader, held off a late charge by Greensburg Salem sophomore Luke Sikora to win by two shots at Valley Brook Country Club in McMurray. Schollaert...

Rather than separate football teams by school enrollment, should roster size and win-loss records be considered when the WPIAL creates new conferences? A proposal recently sent to the WPIAL office would do just that. In a plan spearheaded by Fox Chapel athletic director Mike O’Brien that was made public Tuesday,...

Soccer teams in the WPIAL’s largest classification generally are not supposed to have problems with depth. Benches are expected to be deep, and fresh lineups are meant to be common. Not at Latrobe. The girls soccer Wildcats are making their way through another season in Class 4A with only 18...

High schools Field hockey Monday’s results Class 2A Latrobe 0, Peters Township 0 (OT) Golf WPIAL championships Boys Class 3A At Butler Country Club Par: 70 Yards: 6,611 Final round Carson Kittsley, Fox Chapel, 66-68–134, -8 Jack Sacriponte, Latrobe, 80-70–140, -2 Nico Ward, West Allegheny, 70-72–142, E Max Mottura, Kiski...

Section play in the WPIAL girls soccer regular season has reached the final two weeks and 37 teams have 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 where head-to-head does not break...

Simone Sharpless had a goal and an assist to lead North Catholic to a 2-0 victory over Burrell (9-3-1, 6-2) in a matchup of playoff teams in Section 2-2A girls soccer. Frankie Liberati also scored and Jules Tralongo recorded the shutout for North Catholic (9-3, 5-2). Allderdice 1, North Hills...

Two weeks remain in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League regular season, and Bethel Park (10-0) and Montour (8-0) hope to remain undefeated. Montour will get a chance to move to 10-0 on Tuesday with a rescheduled doubleheader against West Allegheny (3-5). Bethel Park and Montour will clash in a...

Mt. Pleasant girls soccer coach Rich Garland called it his team’s best effort of the season. He will get no argument from Deer Lakes. The fourth-ranked Lady Vikings rang up their 10th shutout of the season and stayed on track for a Section 4-2A title with a 3-0 victory over...

We close out September with the final round of the WPIAL boys Class 2A golf championships. Our Lady of the Sacred Heart senior Jonah Schollaert leads the championship field following 18 holes with a 2-under par 69 from the first round played at the Hill Crest Country Club in Lower...

Carson Kittsley was not about to let history repeat itself. For the second consecutive year, the Fox Chapel junior was leading the WPIAL Class 3A golf championship heading into the final round. Kittsley opened last year’s final round with a triple-bogey and ended up tying for fourth. Peters Township senior...

The puck drops Monday night on the longest season in high school sports with the start of the 2025-26 PIHL hockey campaign with 12 varsity games. Each year, realignment comes to the PIHL, but there was not a lot of movement up and down between the classes this offseason. Seneca...

The ballot for the fourth class of the National High School Football Hall of Fame again will have Western Pennsylvania flavor. Of course, it has its share of quarterbacks. The 52 nominees for the Class of 2026 include Pittsburgh Steelers greats Jerome Bettis, Ben Roethlisberger and Terry Bradshaw; former WPIAL...

The We Serve First Foundation celebrated a successful Pack the Park match earlier this month with Kiski Area defeating Norwin on the outdoor Ellen Toy grass court at Kennedy Park in Vandergrift. The foundation now is looking forward to its fourth annual all-star classic Dec. 6 at Kiski Area High...

High schools Golf WPIAL team championships Boys Semifinals Class 3A Oct. 7 schedule Fox Chapel, Franklin Regional, Latrobe, Hampton, Indiana, North allegheny, Seneca Valley, West Allegheny at Links at Spring Church, 9 a.m. Belle Vernon, Canon-McMillan, Central Catholic, Laurel Highlands, Moon, Peters Township, South Fayette, Trinity at Duck Hollow GC,...