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Birdie fixes Steelers problems on offense before making Week 8 A-K Valley picks
Last week: 6-4 (60%) Season: 67-23 (74.4%) There are a lot of things The Birdie does well, and most of them involve buffet-style meals, but staying in his lane definitely isn’t one of them. This week, your fearless feathered prognosticator, despite going a dismal 6-4 last week, decided to use...
Deer Lakes plots course to defend WPIAL boys soccer championship
The Deer Lakes boys soccer team lost just once in Section 2-2A play and finished the regular season 14-2. That means the Lancers have put themselves in prime position to defend their WPIAL championship and go after a third title in four years. The WPIAL soccer selection committee released its...
Breaking down the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer playoffs
Here’s a closer look at the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer playoffs: Class 4A Favorite: The preseason favorite, North Allegheny (17-0) has not lost and has outscored teams 90-10. The Tigers were champions three times in the last four years (2022, ‘20, ‘19). Contenders: Section 2 winner Upper St. Clair (15-1)...
Breaking down the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs
Here’s a closer look at the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs: Class 4A Favorite: Seneca Valley (13-0-3), which has won three WPIAL titles in the last five years and was the runner-up last year, enters the postseason without a loss. The Raiders, led by veteran coach George Williams, ranked fifth...
3 teams chasing 3-peats as WPIAL announces soccer playoff pairings
Three teams will go for three-peats in the WPIAL soccer playoffs. The Moon girls (Class 3A), Avonworth girls (2A) and Winchester Thurston boys (A) are two-time defending champions. The No. 1 seeds for the boys playoffs are Seneca Valley (4A), Plum (3A), South Park (2A) and Charleroi (A). The girls...
Westmoreland County boys soccer notebook: Tournament honors late Mt. Pleasant grad
The late Seth Menart was a three-time all-section player at Mt. Pleasant and went on to win a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference tile at Cal (Pa.) as a walk-on. The Mt. Pleasant community will continue to keep his memory alive with the 15th annual Seth Menart Memorial Soccer Tournament Nov....
Greensburg Central boys soccer enters WPIAL playoffs as intriguing underdog
It’s not often a team can take momentum from a loss, but Greensburg Central Catholic did that in a recent setback. The Centurions played top-ranked Charleroi close before falling 1-0. It was a far cry from a 4-1 loss to the Section 2-A champion Cougars earlier in the boys soccer...
WPIAL girls volleyball playoff picture through Oct. 17, 2023
The 2023 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season will be over after Thursday. Thus far, 65 teams have clinched a district playoff berth. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all...
WPIAL boys soccer playoff field finalized
The regular season is over in the 2023 WPIAL boys soccer season as 56 teams have clinched a district playoff spot. The WPIAL soccer playoff pairings show is scheduled for noon Wednesday on TribHSSN.TribLive.com. Here is the final list of district teams that have qualified for the WPIAL boys soccer...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 17, 2023
High schools Field hockey Tuesday’s results Section 2A Fox Chapel 3, Latrobe 0 Penn-Trafford 6, Upper St. Clair 1 Section 1A Winchester Thurston at Aquinas Academy, (n) Aquinas Academy at Ellis School, (n) Wednesday’s schedule Section 3A Pine-Richland at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m. Norwin at Hempfield, 6 p.m. Mt. Lebanon...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Oct. 18, 2023: Soccer playoff pairings to be unveiled at noon
The first edition of bracketology for the fall WPIAL sports season comes Wednesday when the district releases the brackets for the 2023 boys and girls soccer playoffs. Not only did the four defending girls soccer champions all qualify for this year’s postseason to defend their crowns, North Allegheny, Moon, Avonworth...
High school roundup for Oct. 17, 2023: John Krug’s hat trick lifts Chartiers Valley into playoffs on season’s final day
John Krug scored a hat trick to lead Chartiers Valley to a 3-2 victory over West Allegheny to claim the final spot in the WPIAL Class 3A playoff field Tuesday night. The Colts (7-9, 7-7) finished fourth in the Section 2 standings, just ahead of Central Valley (8-7-2, 6-6-2). Andy...
Butler’s Hunter Swidzinski wins PIAA golf title in all-WPIAL playoff
Butler senior Hunter Swidzinski figured he had nothing to lose heading into the final round of the PIAA Class 3A golf championship Tuesday. All he did was shoot the best round of his life. Swidzinski shot an 8-under-par 64 and then won a three-hole playoff to claim the title and...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings for Oct. 17, 2023
There were only two teams ranked in last week’s Trib HSSN PIAA football rankings that came up on the short end of the stick in Week 7, and one of them was a shocker. For only the second time in 82 games, defending Class 2A state champion and the most...
Siblings abound on Westmoreland County playoff soccer teams
When Mason and Brandon Yeschenko were younger, they would put on large, red boxing gloves and settle disputes by going a couple of rounds in the basement. For Halloween one year, one of them dressed as Rocky Balboa. The other, Ivan Drago. “Every game they’d play, no matter what it...
Westmoreland County girls soccer notebook: Playoff teams await pairings
The WPIAL will announce playoff pairings Wednesday afternoon, and tournaments could start this weekend. Westmoreland County teams in the postseason are Latrobe (12-2), Franklin Regional (11-5-1), Penn-Trafford (11-6), and Kiski Area (7-9-2) in Class 3A; Mt. Pleasant (14-2), Southmoreland (9-5), Yough (5-13) and Burrell (11-4) in 2A; and Greensburg Central...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 16, 2023
High schools Field hockey Monday’s results Section 3A Allderdice 3, Hempfield 2 North Allegheny 3, Norwin 0 Pine-Richland 1, Peters Township 0 Tuesday’s schedule Section 2A Fox Chapel at Latrobe, 7 p.m. Upper St. Clair at Penn-Trafford, 7 p.m. Section 1A Winchester Thurston at Aquinas Academy, 3:45 p.m. Aquinas Academy...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Oct. 17, 2023: One last playoff spot up for grabs in boys soccer
The final day of section play in WPIAL boys soccer is Tuesday. The playoff fields are set in Class 4A, 2A and A. The postseason puzzle is not quite finished in Class 3A, as the fourth-place battle in Section 2-3A comes down to the final night. Chartiers Valley is 6-7...
Field set for 2023 WPIAL girls soccer playoffs
Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season is now complete with 56 teams qualifying for the district postseason. The WPIAL soccer playoff pairings show is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday on TribHSSN.TribLive.com Here is the final list of district teams that have qualified for the WPIAL girls...
Trib HSSN Football Player of the Week for Oct. 16, 2023Video
In the last seven years, the Steel Valley football team has been creating its own glory days. The Ironmen won WPIAL and PIAA championships in 2016 and another district title in 2017. Following a couple of lean years, they returned to prominence in 2021 and won another WPIAL crown in...
High school roundup for Oct. 16, 2023: Mt. Lebanon claims final girls soccer playoff spot in 4A
Lucy Pryor scored the winning goal as Mt. Lebanon claimed the final playoff spot in the WPIAL Class 4A girls soccer field with a 1-0 victory over Bethel Park on Monday. The Blue Devils (10-5-2, 8-4-2) finished tied with Canon-McMillan for third place in Section 2. The Black Hawks (9-7-1,...
Lola Abraham scores all 3 goals as Riverview girls soccer makes history with section title
The Riverview girls soccer team clinched a share of the Section 1-A championship when Springdale lost to Greensburg Central Catholic on Saturday. But the Raiders were not willing to share the title with anyone, let alone the section rival Dynamos. Lola Abraham tallied a hat trick, and Riverview held off...
Penn-Trafford’s Turowski likes his position, Plum’s Lorish leads after Day 1 of PIAA golf
After shooting himself back into contention at the PIAA Class 3A golf championships on Monday, Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turowski headed to Colyer Lake to try his luck at catching fish. While the fishing expedition wasn’t successful, Turowski was OK with that. He wants to snag a big prize on Tuesday....
Highlands’ Bradyn Foster verbally commits to Penn
Bradyn Foster is looking forward to the final few weeks of preparation for the upcoming Highlands boys basketball season. But the 6-foot-8 senior forward also can look to his future after he graduates from Highlands in May. Foster verbally committed to the Penn men’s basketball team in the Division I...
Hempfield thrower Peyton Murray commits to Notre Dame
A GIF of actor Charles S. Dutton, who plays the character Fortune in the film “Rudy,” is popular on the internet. It shows Fortune clapping his hands, showing his appreciation for the title’s main character, the undersized underdog football player who defied the odds as a walk-on at Notre Dame....
