High School category, Page 29

It has not been the start Penn-Trafford field hockey coach Cindy Dutt wanted, but the veteran coach of more than 20 years is confident her team will improve. The Warriors are 2-3-1 and have been dealing with all sorts of injuries — center-mid Sarah Ley is dealing with an upper...

High schools Field hockey Saturday’s results Nonsection Pine-Richland 3, Peters Township 0 Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class A Big 7 Neshannock at Rochester, ppd. South Side 42, Summit Academy 6 Nonconference Bishop Canevin 46, Laurel 28 Soccer Boys Saturday’s results Class 2A Section 2 Avonworth at Ellwood City, ppd. Beaver...

Amare Moman rushed for 137 yards and two touchdowns as South Side earned a 42-6 victory over Summit Academy (0-4, 0-1) in a Big 7 Conference football game Saturday. Will Morgan added 90 rushing yards for South Side (3-1, 1-0), which outgained Summit Academy, 385 yards to 103 yards. Syamir...

When Matt Mottes went out for breakfast Saturday morning, the Hopewell coach sat and listened to a recap of one of the wildest games of the year. Hopewell and Beaver combined for more than 1,300 yards and 101 points Friday in a high-scoring affair that stuffed the stat sheet. Each...

WPIAL football rankings Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Central Catholic, 3-1, 1 2. North Allegheny, 4-0, 2 3. Norwin, 3-1, 4 4. Hempfield, 3-1, 3 5. Canon-McMillan 2-2, NR Out: Seneca Valley (1-3, 5) Class 5A 1. Pine-Richland, 3-1, 1 2. Peters Township, 4-0, 2 3. Upper St....

With a home matchup against Imani Christian looming this week, Highlands was hoping to build some positive momentum and get back on track in Friday’s Allegheny 7 Conference opener at East Allegheny after consecutive losses to Elizabeth Forward and New Castle. The Golden Rams responded in a big way with...

The stage is set for Norwin’s biggest home football game in years. The fourth-ranked Knights (3-1) dominated No. 5 Seneca Valley on the road Friday night, 56-13, to win their Class 6A conference opener and give themselves a massive boost of confidence going into next week’s showdown with No. 2...

Ellie Lebe School: Penn-Trafford Class: Freshman Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Lebe has burst onto the local girls soccer scene while helping Penn-Trafford move into a first-place tie with Norwin in Section 1-4A. The talented forward had back-to-back hat tricks as Penn-Trafford breezed to wins over Hempfield (11-0) and Woodland...

Cam Woods School: Freeport Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Woods scored a hat trick in an 11-0 win against Valley on Monday. On Wednesday, the junior forward added two more goals to guide the Yellowjackets to a 4-0 victory over North Catholic. Freeport is atop the Section 2-2A...

Blue blood season is coming up for the Fox Chapel football program. Coach Dave Leasure is excited to see his program measure up to some of the WPIAL Class 5A programs that make up the cream of the crop of the Northeast Conference. The Foxes, which entered a road matchup...

Ashton Saunders made his mark at the season-opening Gateway Invitational on Aug. 30 at Boyce Park in Plum with a sixth-place finish in a time of 17 minutes, 38.53 seconds. The junior followed that up a week later with a strong run to fifth (16:58.10) in the Class A race...

Mayah Torres ran to a 39th-place finish at the Red, White & Blue Invitational on Sept. 6 at White Oak Park. The Plum senior and the Mustangs girls cross country team’s top runner was close to going below 20 minutes in the Class 3A race filled with some of the...

Matt O’Neil, a significant contributor and two-year letterman for Norwin baseball, will continue his playing career at the NCAA Division I level. O’Neil recently announced a verbal commitment to Mercyhurst, which left the Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference for the D-1 Northeast Conference in the fall of 2024. O’Neil,...

Norwin’s Adalena Robb finished third at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association girls golf championship at Champion Lakes Golf Course. Robb shot 41 in the nine-hole event, which was won by Greensburg Central Catholic’s Alayna Stawovy (38). Robb and Franklin Regional’s Gianna Johnson were paired together and went back-and-forth. Robb had...

The North Hills boys soccer team is off to a strong start in 2025. The Indians, following a loss in their second game, had not lost another game through Sept. 9, sitting with a record of 6-1-1 through the team’s first eight contests. Defense has paced the group. Outside of...

AnnaLise Shank wasn’t afraid of the challenge when she took on the responsibility to lead a North Hills volleyball program that has trudged through some tough seasons of late. And that confidence and positive mindset seems to be rubbing off. Shank, in her first season with the Indians, has seen...

North Allegheny standout distance runner Andrew Peigh was bloodied, but he isn’t beaten. Peigh, last year’s WPIAL Class 3A cross country runner-up, is fighting back from a scary biking accident that cost him some early-season training as the senior leader of a young but promising Tigers squad. “I’m building back,”...

North Allegheny field hockey coach Michelle Kessler was scanning her roster, searching for something that maybe didn’t even exist. “We needed to find a fourth goalkeeper,” she said. “When I was looking at the roster, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. Who am I going to ask to be the...

When she was pitching for Hempfield, Maddie Uschock had one of the best freeze-frame changeups in WPIAL softball. The former championship ace is changing up her role at Franklin Regional, where she recently received a significant promotion. Uschock was named head softball coach of the Panthers after serving as pitching...

Franklin Regional golf coach Jeff Traphagen said before the 2025 Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association tournament Sept. 11 that any team could win. “There is a lot of balance this season,” Traphagen said. “I am eager to see how things turn out for our individuals and team.” Traphagen was right: Things...

Hampton swimmer Jack Zierenberg won two WPIAL gold medals as a freshman two decades ago and then did something even more unusual. He quit the team. “I was pursuing individual goals,” he said. “I did USA Swimming and club swimming. But I really missed high school sports. I definitely wanted...

The top-ranked Hampton Talbots are starting to show they can score goals just as well as they prevent them. After managing one goal in its first three games, Hampton is finding an offense to match its defensive prowess. “The season is still early, and we’re still figuring some things out...

Ed Ellsworth wants every group of Shady Side Academy boys soccer players to know that they have a strong support system in place. The goal is for the Bulldogs to become part of the pipeline once they move on in life. Ellsworth said Shady Side Academy had 12 alumni drop...

Emma DiRocco feels most comfortable playing middle blocker. The 6-foot-2 senior for the Fox Chapel girls volleyball team is asked to do much more than that. DiRocco is the most experienced player on a Foxes’ roster that is filled with young players. During Fox Chapel’s Section 4-4A opening loss against...

Zoey Liu feels fortunate to share a home with the sparring partner she has on the tennis court. Zoey, who is Fox Chapel’s No. 1 singles player as a freshman, will often play with her 11-year-old brother, Luca. “My dad used to hit with us a little bit,” Zoey said....