High School category, Page 3

The Fox Chapel girls volleyball team is in search of a consistent second hitter. Foxes coach Diana Andreyko saw flashes of what Lucy DiRocco can bring to the table Sept. 16 against Penn Hills. DiRocco finished with a team-high nine kills as the Foxes swept the Indians, 25-15, 25-22, 25-5,...

Fox Chapel boys soccer coach Erik Ingram is excited about the attitude the Foxes have approached this season with. The senior class Ingram has isn’t interested in reveling in the past. The Foxes won their first WPIAL Class 4A championship in 30 years last season, which was the sixth championship...

One month into the season, the Bethel Park football team was 3-1 and averaging a hefty 38.2 ppg. Bethel Park scored 40-plus points in nonconference wins against Seneca Valley (43-26) and West Mifflin (41-7) and eclipsed 50 points in a 56-28 victory over Armstrong. The Black Hawks’ only loss was...

Bethel Park senior Santino LaMolinare, a 6-foot-3, 275-pound all-conference lineman, drew nine Division I college offers before committing Aug. 3 to Duquesne. LaMolinare was a first-team all-conference pick in the Allegheny Six last season and was part of the highest-scoring offense in Class 5A as the starter at right tackle....

Hopewell has a young quarterback who’s full of promise, but Avonworth’s Luca Neal pounced when he spotted a risky throw by the sophomore. No do-overs here. “If you give us any little mistake, we jump on it,” said Neal, who returned an interception 55 yards for a touchdown Friday night...

High school Football WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan 21, Mt. Lebanon 6 Central Catholic 59, Hempfield 7 North Allegheny 20, Norwin 17 Class 5A Big East Armstrong 17, Latrobe 14 Gateway 33, Franklin Regional 28 Penn-Trafford 42, Kiski Area 0 Northeast North Hills 56, Fox Chapel 7 Pine-Richland 56, Plum 14...

Aliquippa earned a thrilling walk-off victory over Penn Hills on Friday night. Marques Council Jr.’s heave as time expired fell into the hands of Ray Miller for a 28-yard score to give the Class 4A No. 1 Quips a 21-16 victory over Class 5A Penn Hills (1-4) in a nonconference...

Coming into Friday night’s clash against reigning WPIAL Class 2A champion South Park, South Allegheny had a chip on its shoulder. When the sides last met, the Eagles traveled to Gladiator Stadium and outlasted SA in a 48-38 shootout. Three-hundred and sixty-four days later, it was the Gladiators who traveled...

Top performers for Week 4 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 313 - Mayson Mitchell, Gateway (14 of 21) 309 - Marques Council Jr., Aliquippa (19 of 30) 282 - Syamir Newkirk, Summit Academy (15 of 27) 259 - Brody Chismar, Greensburg Salem (17 of 27) 250 -...

Looking for momentum moving into its Interstate Conference schedule, the Mt. Pleasant football team dominated in a 49-0 nonconference win at Laurel Highlands on Friday. Mt. Pleasant (3-2) started quickly for the first time in five games, scoring twice in the first four minutes. The Vikings immediately capitalized when Gage...

Behind a masterful performance from senior tailback Ayden Yocum and a defense that stood tall when it needed to, No. 4 Mars (4-1) took a 2024 Class 4A quarterfinals rematch at Montour High School by a final of 29-21 over Montour (3-2). Yocum, who entered with 410 yards on the...

After an 0-2 start, Canon-McMillan coach Brian DeLallo stressed calm within the storm of the season. Since, the Big Macs have won three straight games with a 21-6 victory Friday night against rival Mt. Lebanon (0-5, 0-2) at AHN Field at Big Mac Stadium in Canonsburg. “I think we asked...

Freeport is 5-0 for the first time since 1990. But Burrell didn’t make it easy for the visiting Yellowjackets on Friday in an Allegheny 7 Conference clash of rivals at Buccaneers Stadium. The Bucs were within striking distance in the fourth quarter, but the Yellowjackets made the plays they needed...

Gateway coach Don Holl doesn’t quite understand how his Gators football team is doing it, but he’s not about to question the process of back-to-back wins without the team’s star quarterback. With freshman Mayson Mitchell filling in for injured starter Elvis Koutsakis Jr., Gateway continued to rally Friday night from...

When it comes to his football team, first-year Southmoreland coach Dustin Shoaf often says he wants all of the arrows pointing in the same direction. On Friday night, they were pointing at stud sophomore defensive end Jackson Mickens, who was a wrecking ball against upstart Ringgold. Mickens had three sacks,...

Kaden Levy’s 39-yard touchdown run late in the second quarter gave Riverview a 50-0 lead, feeding the fire in what would become a dominant 64-14 win for the Raiders (3-2, 1-1) against Springdale (0-4, 0-1) on Friday night. Levy had only three rushing attempts, but he racked up a game-high...

Coming off a tough loss to Woodland Hills last week, the expectation was for Penn-­Trafford to rebound at home against a struggling Kiski Area team. The Warriors (4-1, 1-1) wasted no time putting up 35 points in the first half en route to a 42-0 drubbing of the Cavaliers (1-4,...

Matt Sieg and the Fort Cherry Rangers extended their WPIAL winning streak to 29 games in a 55-6 victory over the Monessen Greyhounds at Joe Garry Field. Sieg made history, breaking Clairton’s Tyler Boyd and Lamont Wade’s shared record of 117 career touchdowns with a three-touchdown game. The clincher came...

It was oh, so close for the Norwin football team but another heartbreaker befell the Knights, a team looking for its first victory against No. 2 North Allegheny. The win was within their grasp, only to have the Tigers swipe it from them. The No. 3 Knights came up a...

Measuring Timmy Andrasy’s ability goes well beyond a potential disagreement between PennDOT and the football roster about his height. The Leechburg senior running back went barreling into the heart of the Jeannette defensive line 37 times Friday night at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium. Andrasy ran for 257 yards and scored four...

Both North Hills and Fox Chapel came into Friday searching for Class 5A Northeast Conference win No. 1. The Indians were also in search of their first win of the season, and they used three first-half turnovers on the way to a 56-7 victory over the Foxes. “I thought we...

The website MaxPreps.com predicted McKeesport would not only win a WPIAL title this year but also add a state championship. That prognostication came early last month, and the Tigers may very well celebrate their first PIAA title in 20 years come December. But an ankle injury to McKeesport junior Kemon...

Avonworth’s offense relies on a group effort in more ways than one. Five different players have scored a touchdown this season, balancing out an attack that can both run and pass. But four different coaches could’ve called those scoring plays, adding another wrinkle to one of the WPIAL’s top offenses....

With 49 seconds to go, East Allegheny finally got its break against Deer Lakes, and it came on a dump-off pass. Quarterback Cedric Mack Jr. threw a blooper to receiver Ronte Lawrence, who scrambled his way up the left side of the field. Even as he faced contact from three...

High schools Football Thursday’s results City League Allderdice 20, Brashear 0 Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Hempfield at Central Catholic, 7 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Canon-McMillan, 7 p.m. North Allegheny at Norwin, 7 p.m. Class 5A Big East Gateway at Franklin Regional, 7 p.m. Kiski Area at Penn-Trafford, 7:30 p.m....