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Forty-eight minutes is the length of a typical WPIAL football game, but at least one contest this week will be notably shorter. Fox Chapel and Baldwin each asked their opponents this week to show mercy and reduce the length of their conference games Friday night, though Baldwin later rescinded its...

High schools Cross county Thursday’s results Boys Division I Section 5 Blackhawk 27, Hopewell 29 New Castle 23, Blackhawk36 Girls Division I Section 5 Blackhawk 15, New Castle 50 Blackhawk 15, Hopewell 50 Field hockey Thursday’s results Class 3A Mt. Lebanon 6, Hempfield 1 Pine-Richland 3, North Allegheny 0 Class...

Kymarr Freeman ran the ball 11 times for 121 yards and two touchdowns and Deondre Hill ran nine times for 84 yards and a score as Seton LaSalle rode its run game to a 41-14 Class 2A Century Conference win over Waynesburg (2-4, 0-2) on Thursday night. Will Martin and...

The biggest games usually arrive a little later in the season, but Peters Township and Upper St. Clair won’t be easing into their conference schedules this year. The South Hills rivals meet in an Allegheny Six opener Friday night. “It doesn’t matter if it’s Week 7 or Week 8 or...

Penn-Trafford is getting big goals after halftime and has an early handle on the back half of section play. The Warriors are starting to look like a second-half soccer team, and that is just fine with senior midfielder Cooper Geyer. He, well, seconds that notion. “We can be a second-half...

Welcome to Week 5 of the 2025 WPIAL football regular season and the midway point of the regular season. Friday night finally marks the start of section play for five district conferences, the Class 5A Allegheny 6, the Class 3A Interstate and all three Class 4A conferences. In the first...

Heading into the 2025 season, Springdale boys soccer coach Mario Liberati and the Dynamos had some work to do. A year after going 14-5 and suffering a shootout loss to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in the WPIAL Class A quarterfinals, the Dynamos were tasked with replacing 10 seniors...

Jeannette wants nothing more than to shake off a 36-27 loss to Leechburg, but the schedule doesn’t get any easier this week with vaunted Clairton invading McKee Stadium. In fact, it gets much harder. The second-ranked Bears (3-1, 2-0) are averaging 51.5 points. They beat Serra Catholic, 79-0, Greensburg Central...

Each week throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look at the players, coaches and events that shaped our scholastic legacy. Kiski Area’s Asayan Jordan scored all four Cavaliers touchdowns Sept. 28, 1985, in a 28-0 victory at Fox Chapel. The Kiski Area defense...

High schools Field hockey Wednesday’s results Class 2A Fox Chapel 2, Latrobe 0 Football Thursday’s schedule WPIAL Class 2A Century Waynesburg Central at Seton LaSalle, 7 p.m. City League Allderdice at Westinghouse, 7 p.m. Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan at Hempfield, 7 p.m. Central Catholic at North Allegheny, 7:30...

Week 5 of the high school football season begins with two games Thursday, including one of the biggest contests in the District 8 regular season. It has been nearly 10 years since the last time a City League football championship game was played that did not include Westinghouse or Allderdice....

Ari Beck scored the winning goal to lift South Park (12-0, 8-0) to a 1-0 victory over Belle Vernon (7-3-1, 5-2-1) in a matchup of the top two teams in the Section 1-2A girls soccer standings Wednesday night. Armstrong 3, Woodland Hills 1 – Callie Adkins scored all three goals...

Latrobe needed one shining moment. Somehow, Emerson Shine delivered it. The junior midfielder made something out of nothing with 3 minutes, 54 seconds to play in overtime, taking on three defenders and rocketing a shot past Penn-Trafford goalkeeper Alannah Hall to give the Wildcats a 1-0 victory Wednesday night at...

You could call it the calm before the storm. There was very little movement in the latest Trib 10 as 19 of the 20 district teams ranked last week were winners in Week 4. The lone exception was in the small school power rankings as Hopewell slipped out after a...

Player of the week Amos Glenn Freeport, Sr., RB/DB Glenn was again a workhorse for a Yellowjackets team that moved to 5-0 for the first time since 1990 with a 34-7 win Friday at rival Burrell. He rushed 23 times for 194 yards and four touchdowns. His 24-yard scamper in...

Last week: 9-2 Overall: 46-10 (82.1%) The Birdie loves getting out under the Friday Night Lights more than anything, but he decided to try something different last week. “Trib HSSN is the best place to watch high school football games when you can’t be there in person,” Birdie said matter-of-factly....

Player of the week Jackson Mickens Southmoreland, So., RB/DE The sophomore was a disruptive force on defense in Southmoreland’s win against Ringgold. Mickens had three sacks, forced a fumble and raced 32 yards with interception for a touchdown. He also rushed for 68 yards and scored on a 9-yard run....

Here’s a look at the don’t-miss matchups for Week 5 in Westmoreland County: Class 6A No. 4 Canon-McMillan (3-2, 1-0) at No. 5 Hempfield (3-2, 0-2) 7 p.m. Friday, Spartan Stadium, Hempfield Last week: Canon-McMillan 21, Mt. Lebanon 6; Central Catholic 59, Hempfield 7 Last year’s meeting: Hempfield 33, Canon-McMillan...

Last week: 11-4 Season: 46-19 (71%) Last week, the Birdie was at a local game and, like clockwork, got hungry at halftime. The clock operator gave a side-eye stare as the growl from the Birdie’s stomach reverberated through the press box. “I had one of those cravings for a walking...

Here’s a look at the don’t-miss matchups for A-K Valley teams in Week 5: Class 5A Big East Franklin Regional (0-5, 0-2) at Kiski Area (0-5, 0-2) 7 p.m. Friday, Richard Dilts Stadium, Allegheny Township Last week: Gateway 33, Franklin Regional 28; Penn-Trafford 42, Kiski Area 0 Last year’s meeting:...

Week 5 football schedule Thursday WPIAL Class 2A Century Waynesburg Central at Seton LaSalle, 7 p.m. City League Allderdice at Westinghouse, 7 p.m. Friday WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan at Hempfield, 7 p.m. Central Catholic at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Seneca Valley, 7 p.m. Class 5A Allegheny Six...

Offseason turmoil sure has not derailed the Southmoreland football team. The Scotties went through a coaching change and the transfer of starting quarterback Anthony Smith, but now they find themselves the talk of Westmoreland County and the WPIAL. Southmoreland (5-0) is ranked fifth in Class 3A heading into Friday’s Interstate...

The Springdale football team was forced to postpone Friday’s game against Leechburg because of a lack of healthy players. Springdale interim athletic director Andy Leviski said the game currently is postponed and not a forfeit. All efforts, he said, will be made to try to make up the game before...

Deer Lakes and Highlands went down to the wire last season to decide their first football game against each other in nine years. The Lancers, trailing by 13 points at halftime, rallied in the second half with a pair of touchdowns from since-graduated Zier Williams and a couple of turnovers...

Mike Burrell wears a lot of hats as the athletic director at Norwin, a PIAA official and a co-chairman for the WPIAL football steering committee. But he also works Pittsburgh Steelers home games as part of the game-in-progress crew. Since this week’s game against the Minnesota Vikings in Dublin, Ireland...