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PIAA releases 1st round schedule for field hockey, soccer, girls volleyball playoffs
The PIAA playoffs will begin Tuesday for field hockey, boys and girls soccer and girls volleyball. The PIAA released the brackets on Sunday. Field hockey PIAA playoffs Class 3A First round Tuesday’s schedule Manheim Township (12-8-2) at Villa Maria (20-2), 3 p.m.; Downingtown West at Mechanicsburg (17-4-1), Memorial Park Stadium,...
Sewickley Academy sophomore turns talent into WPIAL cross country title
Sewickley Academy sophomore Zachary Sharara took top honors in Class A at the WPIAL boys cross country championship Oct. 23 at White Oak Park. Sharara breezed to the title, running a time of 15:41.60. “I am so happy for Zak after the consistent daily commitment that he has shown over...
Promising Sewickley Academy freshman makes 1st WPIAL golf headlines
Trey Susa is a 5-foot-9 golfer at Sewickley Academy who has an iron game to more than match his size. A bit of irony was experienced by Susa at the WPIAL boys individual golf championships this season, as the Sewickley freshman tied for third in Class 2A. “I was thrilled...
Star-studded roster helped Sewickley Academy, Bentworth to WPIAL finals
When top-seeded Sewickley Academy and No. 2 Bentworth advanced to the WPIAL Class A girls soccer championship game at Highmark Stadium, it guaranteed the final would be a star-studded affair. The teams’ rosters include seven district all-stars, including four from Sewickley. The Panthers are led by junior midfielder Emilia Carabba,...
Lily Baker, Maddie Gatehouse spark Quaker Valley girls soccer playoff victories
The Quaker Valley girls soccer team did not reach double digits against any regular-season opponent on its way to a 13-2-1 record and section title in 2025. That all changed in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs. The third-seeded Quakers blanked No. 14 Southmoreland, 11-0, to advance to the...
Quaker Valley football ends season on winning note
The Quaker Valley football team walked off the field as a winner in 2025. QV shut out McGuffey, 21-0, in its season finale Oct. 24 on the Highlanders’ home turf. “It was a great way to end the season for us,” said Tom Eshenbaugh, the Quakers’ first-year coach. “Our defense...
Hard work pays off for Jonah Montagnese, Quaker Valley teammates in WPIAL cross country gold
Jonah Montagnese turned on the jets and left the rest of the Class 2A boys field in his wake. The Quaker Valley junior won a WPIAL cross country title Oct. 23 by almost 26 seconds, finishing in a time of 15:08.70 at chilly White Oak Park. “Jonah ran an absolutely...
Dominant Clairton defense adds another zero to shutout streak — 5 things we learned in Week 10
Coach Wayne Wade has a special place in his heart for a legendary Clairton defense from 15 years ago, a historic group that won WPIAL and PIAA titles in 2010. Those Bears held their first 15 opponents to a touchdown or less that year, part of an epic 66-game winning...
Sites announced for Friday’s WPIAL football playoff matchups
The WPIAL has finalized sites in all six classes of next Friday’s football playoff matchups. Sites for the Class 4A and Class A brackets and one game in Class 2A were announced Saturday. Class 6A Semifinals Friday’s schedule Canon-McMillan (4-6) vs. Central Catholic (9-1) at West Mifflin, 7 p.m.; Norwin...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 1, 2025
High schools Cross country PIAA championships Boys Saturday’s results Class 3A Individual: 1. Travis Furmanski, Cedar Crest, 15:34; 2. Nicholas Mazzeo, Lower Merion, 15:39; 3. Theo Oppermann, State College, 15:45; 4. Carter Smith, Mifflin County, 15:45; 5. Luke Bradbury, State College, 15:46; 6. Alexander Mazzeo, Lower Merion, 15:53; 7. Matt...
Peters Township sweeps Pine-Richland to win 1st WPIAL girls volleyball title
Peters Township won its first WPIAL girls volleyball championship Saturday, taking down Pine-Richland in three sets at AHN Arena. Sophomore right side hitter Maddie Carroll spearheaded the Indians with 14 kills, notching the clinching point for each set, including the last two points of the first two sets. Set scores...
Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams closes out high school career with PIAA tennis title
In 2022, Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams burst onto the high school tennis scene by winning a WPIAL championship as a freshman. On Saturday, she ended her high school career in the same spot on the medal podium. Williams rolled past West Chester Henderson freshman Erika Dunwoody in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0,...
Norwin, Shady Side Academy girls, Quaker Valley’s Jonah Montagnese run to PIAA gold
Norwin girls cross country coach Brian Fleckenstein said he felt 100 or fewer points would be enough to win a PIAA championship. His girls did better than he expected Saturday at the PIAA Class 3A cross country champions at the Parkview course in Hershey. The Knights ran away with the...
Led by stellar senior class, Beaver sweeps Oakland Catholic for WPIAL 3A volleyball crown
Susan Pollins has spent nine years with the seniors on the Beaver girls volleyball team. The Bobcats coach believes any group coming behind them will have a high hurdle to clear to match what they’ve accomplished. Beaver, the No. 2 seed, swept Oakland Catholic 3-0 (25-15, 27-25, 27-25) in the...
A-K Valley high school athletes of the week for week ending Nov. 2, 2025
Lily McLaughlin School: Fox Chapel Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: McLaughlin scored the golden goal with 1:38 left in overtime to lift the top-seeded Fox Chapel (19-1-1) to a 1-0 victory over No. 2 South Fayette in the WPIAL Class 3A championship game. The Foxes will look to...
Norwin will be without lineman Lucas Altier for playoffs after blood clot diagnosis
Norwin will go into the WPIAL Class 6A football playoffs without one of its top linemen. The Knights (7-3) are rallying around Lucas Altier as they prepare to face North Allegheny (7-3) on Friday in the semifinals. The 6-foot-5, 315-pound senior tackle will not be able to play. He is...
A-K Valley football notebook: Highlands secures rare shutout victory in postseason
Highlands’ 14-0 victory over Derry on Friday marked the first time the Golden Rams shut out a WPIAL playoff opponent. Before that, the lowest points yielded by Highlands in a playoff game was a 7-6 victory over West Allegheny in 2003. The last time an Alle-Kiski Valley team pitched a...
No. 11-seeded Avonworth caps playoff run with WPIAL Class 2A volleyball championship
Julia Cernich had enough of the five-set wars. If No. 11 seed Avonworth was going to win its first WPIAL Class 2A girls volleyball title Saturday against top-seeded Hopewell, the Antelopes wanted to do so in tidy fashion in the fourth set. Avonworth had a dream start, rolling off the...
West Allegheny rallies past Franklin Regional to capture WPIAL boys soccer championship
Sophomore Michael Johnson is a lightweight wrestler at West Allegheny and competes at 106 pounds. He spends the fall season playing midfielder and defender for the soccer team where, oftentimes, he is the smallest player on the field. On Saturday afternoon, the diminutive speedster played a gigantic role as he...
Eden Christian tops Serra Catholic for 1st WPIAL girls volleyball title
Eden Christian Academy was firing on all cylinders late in its match against Section 5 rival Serra Catholic and earned a 3-1 victory Saturday afternoon in the WPIAL Class A championship at Peters Township’s AHN Arena. The district title is not only the first for the volleyball program, but the...
Freeport tops rival Burrell to claim 1st WPIAL girls soccer championship
The Freeport and Burrell girls soccer teams knew so much about each other from many intense, hard-fought section matchups, including the pair of Section 2 clashes this year. So it came as no surprise that neither team gave an inch Saturday in their rematch for the WPIAL Class 2A championship...
Bye week before playoff opener no vacation for Penn-Trafford football
Just because the Penn-Trafford football team earned a first-round bye in the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs does not mean the Warriors can take a vacation. Far from it. Veteran coach John Ruane prepared his team like they had a game in the first round. “The only thing different is we...
Tight playoff losses end seasons full of highlights for Pine-Richland boys, girls soccer
Fall is a busy time of the year for Pine-Richland’s John Wiegand. As the coach for both the boys and girls soccer teams, his days are usually spent in the never-ending loop of practice and games. But it’s all worth it when his teams can make the playoffs. Both Pine-Richland...
Norwin notebook: 3 soccer players earn all-WPIAL honors
Norwin had three soccer players selected to the 2025 all-WPIAL teams. For the girls, who won a section title and made the WPIAL semifinals for the first time in six years, seniors Nicole Bown and Cameryn Reed made the 4A list. Senior Ryan Schoemer was a pick for boys 4A....
Franklin Regional notebook: Panthers gain experience during trying football season
It was not the season that Lance Getsy and the Franklin Regional football team hoped for. The Panthers closed out the season with a 41-14 loss at Armstrong on Oct. 24. The only win came against Fox Chapel, 21-10, on Oct. 3. It was a season of growth for the...
