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There were not a lot of changes in this week’s Trib HSSN PIAA football rankings, but that could be changing big time in Week 4. Of the 30 ranked teams in the Top 5, only two came up on the short end of the stick last weekend. In 5A, Roman...

Because she has grown up in a soccer family, Franklin Regional’s Abby Paterline knows the game inside and out. She knows the field well, too, because there aren’t many spaces on it she has not occupied at one time or another. “My dad played at Grove City, and his dad,...

A rare loss did not affect the Moon girls soccer team’s standing in the state rankings. The defending PIAA champion Tigers (7-1-1), who were upset last week by South Fayette, 1-0, to end their 47-game unbeaten streak, remain No. 1 in the Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association rankings for Class 3A....

Greenburg Central Catholic has to take it easy in practice this season. Like Yough last year, the Centurions have a small roster. Sometimes, they barely have enough for one side. The year started with 15 players, but GCC played with only 11 in a recent game against Serra Catholic, which...

Plum swept Baldwin in a doubleheader Sunday to remain the lone unbeaten slow-pitch team in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League. The Mustangs scored a combined 37 runs in the two games against the Highlanders and have outscored their opponents 104-24 through six games. North Allegheny and Mt. Lebanon split...

High schools WPIAL Field hockey Monday’s results Section 3A Pine-Richland 6, Mt. Lebanon 0 North Allegheny 11, Allderdice 0 Peters Township 4, Norwin 0 Nonsection Fox Chapel at Hempfield, (n) Tuesday’s schedule Section 2A Fox Chapel at Penn-Trafford, 7:30 p.m. Upper St. Clair at Oakland Catholic, 7 p.,. Section 1A...

Julia Spergel scored early in the first half and Peters Township (7-0-1, 5-0-1) made it stand up in a 1-0 victory over Upper St. Clair (7-1, 5-1) in a matchup of unbeaten teams in Section 2-4A girls soccer Monday night. Cam Klein assisted on the winning goal, which was the...

The Plum and Franklin Regional girls soccer teams met twice last year in section play, resuming a local rivalry that was dormant for three years. The Mustangs swept the Panthers en route to their fourth straight section championship. Franklin Regional hoped to change that narrative Monday evening at home as...

Sophomore forward Annalyse Bauer had a couple of near-miss scoring opportunities in the second half, bumping a header off the post and later ringing a shot off the football crossbar. When the ball came to her ahead of two defenders early in overtime, she made sure to finish. An offensive...

“Egregious” was how WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer described Friday’s fight between Imani Christian and Steel Valley football players, but he was optimistic there’d be a resolution without WPIAL intervention. “It was a horrible thing that happened in that 60 seconds … but we really believe the schools will handle...

The last two boys soccer teams to win back-to-back WPIAL championships in the highest classification are Seneca Valley and North Allegheny. The only undefeated teams left in WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer this season are the Raiders and the Tigers. The two district juggernauts prepare to battle for the first...

Knoch second-year coach Tim Burchett has an offensive background, serving as offensive coordinator under T.J. Plack at Peters Township before taking the Knights head coaching job. He calls the plays for a Knights team that is now 4-0 and is averaging more than 32 points per game. However, Knoch was...

Alexandra “Sasha” Hoffman got into tennis later than most who pick up the sport. The junior at Greensburg Central Catholic only began playing tennis four years ago, while many of her opponents picked up a racquet in elementary school. But one can hardly tell she’s a relative beginner because of...

While a loss isn’t exactly the way any team wants to end the year, losing to the eventual champion always helps shake that bad feeling off a little. This was the case for Norwin’s boys soccer team, which fell to Pine-Richland in the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs last season. Center...

Change can be a disruptive force. For the Kiski Area boys soccer team, a coaching change leading into the season has been met with a determination to sustain the status quo. New coach Ben Fiore comes in from Ambridge and was a Kiski Area soccer player from 2011-15. When he...

North Allegheny, Hampton, Freeport and Bishop Canevin each held on to their No. 1 rankings in the latest Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association WPIAL girls top-10 polls released Monday morning. There was a shakeup near the top in Class A as Frazier moved up to No. 2 from its No....

There are only 11 WPIAL girls soccer teams that have yet to lose a match this season, and two of them go head-to-head Monday. First place in Section 2-4A will be up for grabs when Upper St. Clair visits Peters Township. Just over a decade ago, these programs won WPIAL...

Throwing for more than 200 yards in a high school game is solid. Rushing for more than 200 yards in a game is a very good night at the office. To accomplish both in one game is rare air. It is safe to say Trinity sophomore quarterback Jonah Williamson had...

Alex Tatsch spent a perfect late-summer day in Morgantown. He looked around a college campus, watched the Backyard Brawl and came home with a souvenir: a scholarship offer. West Virginia extended an offer to the Latrobe junior football standout Saturday, stamping his potential as a Power 5 prospect. After an...

High schools WPIAL Field hockey Monday’s schedule Section 3A Mt. Lebanon at Pine-Richland, 7:30 p.m. North Allegheny at Allderdice, 3:15 p.m. Peters Township at Norwin, 7 p.m. Nonsection Fox Chapel at Hempfield, 6 p.m. Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule Class 3A Section 1 Hampton at North Catholic, 6:30 p.m. Section 4...

WPIAL soccer rankings Girls Class 4A 1. North Allegheny (8-0) 1 2. Peters Township (6-0-1) 2 3. Upper St. Clair (7-0) 3 4. Seneca Valley (7-0) 5 5. Mt. Lebanon (5-3) 4 Out: None Class 3A 1. Mars (6-0) 2 2. Moon (6-1-1) 1 3. Plum (4-0-1) 3 4. Latrobe...

Tom Kurtz was working at a volleyball match last year when he noticed how well the Southmoreland girls were playing. He asked then-Southmoreland athletic director Dan Boring who was coaching the team. The answer was Boring and his wife, Amber, on an interim bases. Bored with officiating, Kurtz applied for...

Brian Znavor is the new girls basketball coach at Yough. A Norwin graduate, Znavor was the Yough boys basketball coach in the early 2000s, taking over that position when he was 23. He coached the Cougars’ all-time scoring leader, Ben McCauley, who went on to play at N.C. State and...

One of the best weeks of WPIAL football in the regular season takes place this weekend on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of Week 4 with six WPIAL football games Friday, including No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdowns in both Class 6A and 5A,...

Gateway girls soccer coach Caleb Kyper said his players were a little shell-shocked after a 6-0 loss to Plum, a 2022 WPIAL semifinalist and PIAA qualifier, in the season and Section 3-3A opener Aug. 28. The Gators had a quick turnaround against Penn Hills just two days later, and Kyper...