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Girls volleyball rankings: Section races heat up for stretch run to WPIAL playoffs
There were no changes at the top in each of the four WPIAL classifications as the Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 5 polls Monday morning. Staying at No. 1 were North Allegheny in Class 4A, Hampton in Class 3A, Freeport in Class 2A and Serra Catholic in...
Kiski Area Sports Hall of Fame inducts Class of 2023
The Kiski Area athletic community gathered last month to celebrate a group of Cavaliers greats. Their exploits in competition were recognized with enshrinement as the latest class of the Kiski Area Sports Hall of Fame. Lauded during the Sept. 2 banquet and ceremony were Sean Arnold (Class of 1998, soccer,...
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Deer Lakes’ Brooke Kostyak
Brooke Kostyak is an unconventional goalkeeper of sorts. Typically, soccer goaltenders need to be vocal to communicate with their defense to help prevent goals, but Kostyak is of a quiet nature and her coach believes it doesn’t hurt Deer Lakes in the slightest. “We’ve gotten used to it. She has...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Mt. Pleasant’s Maggie Piper
A trip to the PIAA semifinals obviously would be considered part of a successful season, but to make it that close and fall short can be crushing. In the case of Mt. Pleasant’s girls soccer team, the Vikings are hungrier than ever to get back there and cross that threshold...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Oct. 2, 2023: WPIAL boys golf champions to be crowned
The district will be dishing out golf gold Monday with the final round of the 2023 WPIAL boys Class 3A and 2A individual golf championships. The boys 3A final round will take place at the ValleyBrook Country Club in McMurray with 39 golfers participating. Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turkowski has the...
Trib HSSN football team of the week for 2023 Week 5
For the Moon football team, it’s not hard to guess what rides they gravitate toward when they visit Kennywood Park. The way things have gone the last two and a half years, they are lined up for one of the park’s roller coasters. In 2021, the Tigers reached great heights...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Oct. 2, 2023
The second half of the high school football regular season kicks off October football this weekend on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of Week 6 with six WPIAL football games on Friday, plus links to plenty of other video streams. The WPIAL football scoreboard...
High school sports schedules for Oct. 2, 2023
High schools Field hockey Monday’s schedule Section 3A Mt. Lebanon at Hempfield, 6 p.m. Pine-Richland at Allderdice, 3:15 p.m. Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule Class 2A Section 1 Keystone Oaks at South Allegheny, 5 p.m. Class A Section 3 Burrell at Trinity Christian, 4 p.m. Section 4 Bishop Canevin at Carlynton,...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: P-T golfer Nick Turowski can join exclusive company with win
Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turowski is primed to become a two-time WPIAL golf champion. And if he wins Monday, he will join elite company. Turowski would become just the second two-time winner from Westmoreland County. He could live like a King for a day. Latrobe’s Arnold Palmer won back-to-back titles in...
Trib HSSN girls, boys soccer rankings: Week ending Oct. 1, 2023
Girls Class 4A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny (12-0) 1 2. Peters Township (10-0-1) 2 3. Upper St. Clair (10-1) 3 4. Seneca Valley (10-1-1) 4 5: Fox Chapel (7-3-1) NR Out: Canon-McMillan (5-4-2) 5 Class 3A 1. Mars (10-0) 1 2. Moon (8-1-1) 2 3. Plum (10-0-1)...
Gateway volleyball team working to take one step further
The Gateway girls volleyball program finds itself in a similar position to last year. However, this time, the Gators are looking to take an additional step forward. The Gators (5-3, 5-2) have been led by seven players who earned differing degrees of starting time last year. Gateway opened the season...
Gateway notebook: Gators girls soccer in postseason hunt
The Gateway girls soccer team scored a 2-0 shutout victory over Penn Hills on Sept. 27 to improve to 3-5-1 overall and 3-5 in Section 3-3A. Becca Ryan and Hayden Price scored for the Gators, who are in fifth place in Section 3 behind Plum (8-0), Latrobe (6-1), Franklin Regional...
After section showdown, Quaker Valley, Sewickley Academy golfers go on to postseason success
Quaker Valley and Sewickley Academy have well-established golf programs and traditions. Another chapter in the long rivalry took place Sept. 20 when the QV golfers defeated the Panthers, 200-211, in a critical section match at Allegheny Country Club. With the win, QV clinched a tie for first place with Eden...
3-sport star completes family trifecta in Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame
The covid-19 pandemic in 2020 delayed Dr. Christa Rogers-Pettie’s entrance into the Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame. Inductions for the HOF were shut down for three years from 2020-2022 because of the pandemic. The 2008 QV graduate waited patiently for that much-anticipated phone call from her former track coach,...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Nick Turowski, Antolena Damico advance in WPIAL golf tournament
Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turowski was one step closer to winning his second WPIAL Class 3A boys golf championship after shooting an even-par 72 at Latrobe Country Club on Sept. 25 to lead the tournament after the first round. The final round was Oct. 2 at Valley Brook Country Club in...
Slippery Rock commitment ‘felt right’ to Penn Hills basketball standout Hannah Pugliese
Ryenn Micaletti left a lasting impression with Penn Hills senior Hannah Pugliese. While on a trip to Slippery Rock University, Pugliese had an opportunity to watch Micaletti, who is in her first year as coach of The Rock, run practice. “I think she is going to turn things around,” Pugliese...
Penn Hills responds well to dose of adversity
Penn Hills football coach Charles Morris prepared the team to face major adversity from the first day of training camp. Morris got an idea of how the Indians would handle it when things didn’t go right after Penn Hills lost Sept. 15 to Moon. The Indians, who were ranked No....
Westmoreland County athletes of the week: Southmoreland’s Taylor Doppelheuer, Yough’s Isaac Pacacha
Taylor Doppelheuer School: Southmoreland Class: Junior Sport: Volleyball Claim to fame: Doppelheuer has been a dominant force on the front line for the undefeated Scotties (11-0), who are tearing past opponents. They are No. 6 in the Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association Class 2A rankings. The 6-foot middle hitter had...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 30, 2023
High schools Field hockey Saturday’s result Nonsection Upper St. Clair at Peters Township, (n) Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 5A Northeast Woodland Hills 56, Shaler 14 Class A Black Hills Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 21, Chartiers-Houston 12 Fort Cherry 48, Bishop Canevin 41 City League Nonconference Steubenville Central...
High school roundup for Sept. 30, 2023: Ethan Gardner scores on offense, defense in OLSH win
Ethan Gardner scored one touchdown on offense and another on defense to lead OLSH to a 20-12 victory over Chartiers-Houston in Class A Black Hills Conference action Saturday night. Gardner ripped the ball away from a Chartiers-Houston runner and scored on a 55-yard fumble return in the first quarter and...
Matt Sieg accounts for 7 TDs, Fort Cherry makes statement with wild win over Bishop Canevin
Behind a spectacular performance from sophomore quarterback Matt Sieg, Fort Cherry stated its case as a legit contender for a WPIAL Class A title with a 48-41 victory over Bishop Canevin at Dormont Memorial Stadium on Saturday night. Sieg accounted for seven touchdowns and 437 yards of total offense. He...
5 things we learned in high school football Week 5: Ground game pays off in win column
One of the WPIAL’s leading rushers shook off an ankle injury and returned to the field Friday night, helping West Greene’s offense run its way to victory. In his first game back, senior Colin Brady topped all WPIAL rushers in Week 5 with 301 yards. Brady handled 23 carries and...
Explosive 1st quarter leads Woodland Hills past Shaler
If any fans heading to the Class 5A Northeast Conference matchup between Woodland Hills and Shaler were stuck in homecoming traffic on Mt. Royal Boulevard and were late arriving in the opening quarter, they missed a lot. The teams combined for 56 first-quarter points with the Wolverines leading 42-14 after...
Trib HSSN WPIAL football rankings: Week ending Sept. 30. 2023
WPIAL football rankings Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Central Catholic, 6-0, 1 2. North Allegheny, 5-1, 2 3. Canon-McMillan, 4-2, 3 4. Mt. Lebanon, 4-2, 4 5. Seneca Valley, 1-5, 5 Class 5A 1. Peters Township, 6-0, 1 2. Penn Hills, 5-1, 2 3. Upper St. Clair, 5-1,...
A-K Valley high school football notebook: Freeport shows grit despite loss
Despite his team not pulling out a victory in its Allegheny 6 opener against Shady Side Academy, Freeport coach John Gaillot reiterated Saturday the praise he had for his mix of youthful and veteran players in battling through adversity on and off the scoreboard in the 31-28 outcome. The Yellowjackets...
