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Belle Vernon, Thomas Jefferson to square off with undefeated records on the line
Don’t think for one moment that Friday’s nonconference game between Thomas Jefferson and Belle Vernon is meaningless. Far from it. These teams, a mere 12 miles apart, have met annually, except for 1990 and 1991, since 1965. Thomas Jefferson leads the series 37-23, with Belle Vernon winning the past three...
Westmoreland County high school football matchups for 2023 Week 4
Class 5A Big East Conference Hempfield (1-3, 0-0) at Penn-Trafford (1-3, 0-0) 7:30 p.m. Friday, Warrior Stadium, Harrison City Last week: Shaler 33, Hempfield 17; Belle Vernon 21, Penn-Trafford 0 Last year’s result: Hempfield 28, Penn-Trafford 17 Both teams open conference play looking for a good start. Hempfield started 5-0...
Bumper-to-bumper Westmoreland County traffic can’t slow down The Birdie
Last week: 9-4 (69.2%) Season: 32-15 (68.1 %) The Birdie was almost late for a game last week because he had to wait in traffic on Route 30. “Bumper-to-bumper from the 119 exit to Westmoreland Mall,” he said. “Never saw it like that. It tested my patience. “I asked a...
Westmoreland County boys soccer notebook: Gritty Norwin climbs in standings
Norwin has been one of the hotter teams in the WPIAL of late. After a 5-1 loss to top-ranked Seneca Valley, the Knights have been on a roll, winning six of seven by a combined score of 22-3. A 2-1 win over Mt. Lebanon showed the No. 3-ranked Knights can...
Goals keep coming for ‘relentless’ Belle Vernon junior Trevor Kovatch
When he was about 5 years old, Trevor Kovatch wandered into his neighbor’s backyard and, bang, there it was. “They had a soccer net,” Kovatch said. “I kicked a ball in, and I knew then that I was going to love the game.” Even before grade school, the junior at...
Greensburg Central Catholic’s Izzy Aigner to play with Greensburg native Rocco Mediate at PGA Tour Champions event
It will be an all-Greensburg pairing at the Pure Insurance Championship this week at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Izzy Aigner, a senior at Greensburg Central Catholic, will play with Hempfield graduate and fan favorite Rocco Mediate in the 54-hole PGA Tour Champions event that features a side pro-junior competition for...
Jeannette’s Jordan Taylor earns statewide scoring honor
He plays for the highest-scoring boys soccer team in the WPIAL and is one of the highest-scoring players in the country. That made Jordan Taylor an easy choice for a national honor. Taylor, a senior standout at Jeannette, was named the United Soccer Coaches/MaxPreps High School State Player of the...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 19, 2023
High schools WPIAL Cross country Tuesday’s results Class 3A Section 5 Boys Beaver 22, Blackhawk 35 Blackhawk 15, Central Valley 50 Girls Beaver 16, Blackhawk 40 Blackhawk 19, Central Valley 40 Class 2A Section 3 Boys McGuffey 18, Keystone Oaks 42 McGuffey 19, Waynesburg 38 McGuffey 17, Washington 43 Waynesburg...
High school roundup for Sept. 19, 2023: Nothing settled when unbeaten North Allegheny, Seneca Valley meet
North Allegheny and Seneca Valley came into Tuesday night’s Section 1 showdown as the only undefeated teams in WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer. They left the same way. Arnav Patel scored for North Allegheny and Tyler Prex buried the equalizer for Seneca Valley as the teams played to a 1-1...
Latrobe boys soccer proves it is for real by blanking Franklin Regional
Latrobe likes to rely on an overcrowded midfield to control the tempo and produce occasional run-outs for scoring chances. It’s the boys soccer team’s bread and butter. The game plan worked as the tone-setter in Tuesday night’s surprising Section 4-3A victory against Franklin Regional. The Wildcats pushed ahead on a...
Springdale girls soccer team building on last season’s success
The Springdale girls soccer team is the hunted this season coming off of what it did last year as a WPIAL Class A finalist and a PIAA quarterfinalist. The Dynamos, the No. 1 team this week in the TribLive HSSN Class A rankings, also is a team with a target...
Penn-Trafford’s Amelia Williams, Winchester Thurston’s Cecilia Gurgel earn WPIAL singles top seeds
Youth was served last fall when Penn-Trafford freshman Amelia Williams won the 2022 WPIAL Class 3A singles tennis championship. Williams is back to defend her crown and is joined by numerous underclassmen as the field is set for the 2023 district girls tennis singles championships Wednesday. Half of the Class...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 20, 2023: Unbeaten girls soccer powers to face off
On Tuesday, there was a boys soccer battle between Seneca Valley and North Allegheny. On Wednesday, it will be a Class 4A girls soccer first-place showdown with the Raiders and Tigers. In the last 10 years, these two programs have dominated the highest classification. Seneca Valley won district gold in...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school football rankings for Sept. 19, 2023
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...
Abby Paterline putting versatility, knowledge to use for Franklin Regional girls soccer
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,...
WPIAL soccer teams dot latest PSCA state rankings
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....
Westmoreland County girls soccer notebook: Greensburg Central Catholic winning with small but mighty roster
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 remains lone unbeaten team in Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League
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 school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 18, 2023
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...
High school roundup for Sept. 18, 2023: Peters Township gets past Upper St. Clair in battle of girls soccer unbeatens
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...
Plum girls soccer earns tightly contested win over Franklin Regional
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...
Latrobe sophomore finds golden goal to beat Penn-Trafford
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...
WPIAL says discipline for ‘egregious’ Imani Christian-Steel Valley fight rests with schools
“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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 19, 2023: Battle of unbeatens set between North Allegheny, Seneca Valley
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...
Trib HSSN football team of the week for 2023 Week 3
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...
