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Brackets filled for PIAA football playoffs
As the WPIAL prepares for Final Four Friday and Championship Saturday this weekend, it’s also time to merge the district and state football playoffs. The journey to Cumberland Valley and the 2025 PIAA football playoffs kick off this weekend. Most districts will be hosting their championship or semifinals Friday or...
Springdale girls soccer looks to topple Bishop Guilfoyle in PIAA semifinal
Hailey Marchlewski made many offensive runs during the 110 minutes of regulation and overtime in Saturday’s PIAA Class A quarterfinal against Sewickley Academy at North Allegheny’s Newman Stadum. The Springdale senior forward, with tired legs but a heart and mind full of confidence, then was the second one to go...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: Local players featured on all-conference football teams
Several local players were selected for the Big 5/6 Conference all-conference football teams. Norwin had seven players chosen in Class 6A, including quarterback Tristyn Tavares, running back Giovanni Rothrauff, punter Evan Pfeifer, Josh Lenart (LB), and Jake Knight (DB). Patrick Schmook (C), Michael DeFazio (LB) and Zack Pawling (DB) made...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Nov. 10, 2025
November high school football continues with Final Four Friday and Championship Saturday action this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has audio coverage of select WPIAL football semifinals Friday and both the Class 6A and 4A championship games Saturday. All of the video of select...
Trib HSSN high school football team of the week for Nov. 9, 2025
Trib HSSN football team of the week – McKeesport Tigers Coach: Matt Miller (10th season) Result: McKeesport 28, Thomas Jefferson 3 Record: 5-0 and Class 4A Greater Allegheny Conference champions, 9-3 overall #Earned: In McKeesport, they really do believe that the third time will be a golden charm. The Tigers...
A-K Valley PIAA soccer playoff preview capsule for Nov. 11, 2025
PIAA boys soccer playoffs Class 2A Semifinals Deer Lakes (20-3-1) vs. Fairview (22-0) 7 p.m. Tuesday at Franklin High School Winner plays: Winner of Faith Christian (20-1-1)/Lewisburg (22-1) at 4 p.m. Friday in championship at Northeastern High School, Manchester Players to watch: Jacob Orseno, Deer Lakes; Jackson Chiocco, Fairview Corner...
Burrell, Freeport girls soccer teams meet again, this time with spot in state final on line
The Burrell and Freeport girls soccer teams challenged some of the best squads in the state in the first two rounds of the PIAA Class 2A playoffs. After both programs collected a pair of wins, the road to the state championship game led back to each other. The Buccaneers and...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 9, 2025
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs Class 3A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Villa Maria (22-2) vs. Emmaus (26-1) at Exeter Township, 6:30 p.m.; Penn Manor (21-4-1) vs. Central Bucs West (19-4-1) at Downingtown West, 6 p.m. Class 2A Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Unionville (16-7-1) vs. Warwick (22-5) at Twin Valley, 6:30 p.m.;...
5 WPIAL volleyball teams learn sites, times for PIAA semifinal matchups
The WPIAL started with 11 teams, shrunk to eight heading into the quarterfinals and now sits at five going into the final four of the 2025 PIAA girls volleyball playoffs. District 7 will be represented in at least one state title match with Oakland Catholic and Beaver squaring off in...
Semifinal sites, times set for 10 soccer teams from WPIAL, City League alive in PIAA playoffs
The March to Manchester and the PIAA soccer finals at Northeastern High School will make its final stop with final four matches set for Tuesday. There are four WPIAL boys teams remaining, five District 7 girls teams left, and even City League boys soccer champion Allderdice remains alive halfway through...
State title for Jonah Montagnese caps season to remember for Quaker Valley cross country
Quaker Valley’s Jonah Montagnese was a virtual one-man wrecking crew in cross country this year. After a sensational regular-season, Montagnese ended his junior year on the off-road trails as a state champion. Montagnese finished the Hershey Park course on Nov. 1 in 16 minutes flat to edge Hughesville senior Tyce...
Quaker Valley girls tennis ‘family’ celebrates championship season
Borrowing a phrase from one of Sly & the Family Stone’s big hits, it appears the 2025 season was a “family affair” for the Quaker Valley girls tennis team. “The season was all we hoped it would be and more,” said Christi Hays, QV’s hall-of-fame coach. “It was a truly...
After wild WPIAL tournament, Quaker Valley boys earn PIAA berth
The Quaker Valley boys soccer team strung together a 17-game unbeaten streak against WPIAL competition this season. QV advanced to the PIAA tournament after finishing 16-1-1 against WPIAL opponents. The Quakers were the Section 2-2A champions thanks to a 14-1-1 record. Avonworth finished as the section runner-up at 13-2-1 and...
Runner makes Gateway history at PIAA cross country meet
Piper Munyon made history in her debut run at the PIAA Class 3A cross country championships Nov. 1 on the Parkview Course in Hershey. The Gateway sophomore took seventh overall in a time of 18 minutes, 56 seconds. It was the best-ever PIAA finish by a Gators girls cross country...
Gateway football wraps up season of ups, downs
The Gateway football team edged Latrobe, 27-24, in its Big East Conference finale Oct. 17. The Gators finished in a three-way tie for third place with Armstrong and Kiski Area at 3-3. A 42-35 loss to Class 6A Hempfield in what ended up being the team’s final game of the...
Sewickley sports notebook: 1st-year Quaker Valley coach credits staff for improvement
Quaker Valley football finished 4-6 record in coach Tom Eshenbaugh’s first year. The Quakers competed in a meat-grinder of a conference as five Western Hills teams — No. 1 seed Avonworth, No. 3 Central Valley, No. 5 North Catholic, No. 9 Beaver and No. 10 Hopewell — all qualified for...
Semifinal victory means Aliquippa likely stays in 4A — 5 things we learned in Week 11
Aliquippa will compete in the WPIAL Class 4A championship game for the fifth time in six years, an accomplishment that Quips coach Mike Warfield says should always come with a footnote. His note would be a reminder that Aliquippa is still a small school playing against much larger opponents. “Everybody...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 8, 2025
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs Class 3A Quarterfinals Saturday’s results Emmaus 4, Avon Grove 1 Central Bucs West 4, Lower Dauphin 3 (OT) Penn Manor 3, Parkland 0 Villa Maria 6, Mechanicsburg 1 Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Villa Maria (22-2) vs. Emmaus (26-1); Penn Manor (21-4-1) vs. Central Bucs West...
Burrell strikes twice in 2nd half to advance to PIAA semifinals, rematch with Freeport
Windber — The Burrell Bucs scored a pair of goals less than three minutes apart in the second half to rally from an early deficit and advance to the PIAA Class 2A girls soccer semifinals with a 2-1 victory over Bedford at Windber Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The District 7...
Alle-Kiski Valley athletes of the week: Springdale’s Adele Walter-Vrabel, Deer Lakes’ Peyton Kushon
Adele Walters-Vrabel School: Springdale Class: Freshman Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Walters-Vrabel propelled the Dynamos (14-2-1) to the quarterfinal round of the PIAA Class A playoffs with a header in overtime to defeat Windber 2-1. What was it like joining a team that won the WPIAL last year in Class...
High school roundup for Nov. 8, 2025: North Allegheny girls advance to state soccer semis on overtime PK
Rosalia Varlotta converted the game-winning penalty kick in overtime to lead WPIAL champ North Allegheny to a 2-1 victory over Downingtown West (18-3-3) in the PIAA Class 4A girls soccer quarterfinals Saturday. Kieran Shannon scored the tying goal for the Tigers (19-3-2), who will face Central Bucks East in the...
WPIAL announces sites for Friday’s football semifinals
The WPIAL has announced sites for its eight semifinals next Friday night. Semifinals will be contested Friday in Class 5A, 3A, 2A and A with the championship games to follow Saturday, Nov. 22 at Acrisure Stadium. In Class 6A and 4A, the finals will be played next Saturday at Pine-Richland....
Franklin Regional boys can’t solve No. 1 Conrad Weiser, lose in PIAA soccer quarterfinals
ALTOONA — Saturday night’s PIAA Class 3A boys soccer quarterfinal between Franklin Regional and Conrad Weiser was a matter of creating opportunities. The bulk of them, though, belonged to the Scouts as they controlled play for much of the night and blanked the Panthers, 2-0, at Altoona’s Mansion Park. Panthers...
Colorado, ‘Coach Prime’ make Moon landing before heading to WVU
Moon’s football stadium welcomed a “Prime Time” visitor, or as Deion Sanders is better known nowadays, “Coach Prime.” The high-profile Colorado football coach and his team held a walkthrough practice Friday at the high school stadium in advance of their Big 12 Conference game Saturday against West Virginia in Morgantown....
Springdale girls outlast Sewickley on PKs in playoff rematch, advance to PIAA semifinals
Eleven days had passed between Springdale and Sewickley Academy’s WPIAL Class A girls soccer semifinal Oct. 28 and their PIAA quarterfinal contest at North Allegheny. The possibility of a rematch of the tight Panthers’ victory was there with some speculating on what would transpire in the rematch. Postulation turned into...
