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Nine WPIAL coaches were name state coaches of the year by the PIAA for the 2021-22 school year. Moon had two coaches earn the statewide honor: girls track coach Kyle Burgess and girls soccer coach Bill Pfeifer. Joining them were Hampton boys soccer coach Matt McAwley, Seneca Valley boys swimming...

The WPIAL board has expanded to 21 members with the addition of a seat for a representative from the WPIAL Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council. The first to fill that seat is David Hunter, a Donora native and an accomplished professional in investment and finance. The nine-person advisory council chose...

High schools Field hockey Monday’s results Section 3A Pine-Richland 2, Peters Township 0 Section 2A Penn-Trafford 5, Oakland Catholic 0 Golf PIAA championships Monday’s results First round Boys Class 3A At Penn State White Course 1. Dylan Ramsey, Cedar Crest, 67 T2. Rocco Savitti, Central Catholic, 70 T2. Logan Wagner,...

Section play in the 2022 girls soccer regular season is over with one big exception of matches with playoff ramifications set for Tuesday. 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...

Melia Peer scored in overtime to give Mt. Lebanon a 1-0 victory over Bethel Park (10-4-2, 8-4-2) that clinched the Section 2-3A title. The Blue Devils (14-2-1, 12-2) edged Peters Township (12-1-3, 11-1-2) for the top spot. The WPIAL soccer playoff pairings will be released Wednesday on Trib HSSN. SECTION...

The Plum girls soccer team controlled its own destiny Monday to finish off its fourth straight section championship. The Mustangs didn’t let the visiting Penn-Trafford Warriors play the role of spoiler. Seniors Cam Rogers and Kaitlyn Killinger each scored a goal and provided an assist in the first half as...

The WPIAL has three seats on the PIAA board, and its representatives usually vote together, but that didn’t happen when asked about making major changes to the state’s competitive-balance rule. Those WPIAL reps, like the PIAA board itself, were split. Should the PIAA eliminate the transfer element from the rule,...

If Central Catholic senior Rocco Salvitti and Penn-Trafford junior Nick Turowski hope to capture PIAA Class 3A golf titles, they have work to do during the final round Tuesday. Salvitti, the 2022 WPIAL champion, and Turowski, who won the WPIAL title in 2021, trail Cedar Cliff’s Dylan Ramsey, who shot...

Parker Sterlitz made his first visit to West Virginia University about a year ago. The senior swimming standout at Kiski Area said he immediately fell in love with the campus and the Mountaineers swimming program. Since then, Sterlitz said, he looked at other schools and found himself comparing them to...

The final week of the WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is upon us with most section matches set for Tuesday and Thursday before the brackets are revealed Friday on Trib HSSN. Fifty-seven teams have clinched a district postseason berth with as many as 16 more spots still a possibility. One...

The Seneca Valley football team entered the 2022 season with high hopes and great expectations with several key players returning and many picking the Raiders as the team to beat in Class 6A. Those good vibes continued after a hard fought 15-13 Week Zero victory over Penn Hills, a top-five...

It’s about that time. The regular season for WPIAL girls volleyball concludes with the end of section play Thursday and a couple of nonsection matchups Friday and Saturday. The road to the four WPIAL championship games Nov. 5 begins next week. There are section championships and playoff qualifiers to be...

Montour, North Allegheny, Bethel Park, Baldwin and Shaler each recorded doubleheader sweeps Sunday as the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League nears the conclusion of its regular season and prepares for its playoff tournament. Before the playoff brackets can be finalized, there is one more regular-season game to be played. Baldwin,...

Many athletes say the best part of high school sports is making memories with your team and remembering the fun nights along the way. That was the case for then-junior and current senior Skylar Koshar with last year’s Southmoreland girls soccer team. The Scotties made program history when they not...

Valley’s girls tennis team has had quite a lot of success the past couple of years, led by now-graduated top players Eden Richey and Rachel Schrock. The team has continued its successful run this season, led by outstanding senior Elisabeth Ervin, who not only contributes on the court but also...

Kiski Area boys soccer coach Sean Arnold knew his team had the experience and talent to have a special fall. The one unknown was how his group would handle an adverse situation. He got his answer Sept. 29 in a game against defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A champ Hampton....

Forty-nine WPIAL girls soccer teams have clinched a WPIAL playoff berth, but as the end of the regular season is near, there are still several postseason berths up for grabs. With a couple of exceptions, most district teams end section play Monday. Here are the matches that carry postseason ramifications....

High schools Hockey PIHL Monday’s schedule Class 3A Canon-McMillan at Central Catholic, Alpha Ice Complex, 6 p.m. Seneca Valley at Baldwin, Ice Castle, 9 p.m. Class 2A Bishop McCort at Mars, Baierl Ice Complex, 7 p.m. Penn-Trafford at Butler, Frozen Pond Arena, 7:10 p.m. Class A Shaler at Norwin, Palmer...

While the high school football regular season winds down to its final two weeks, bracketology is in the air when it comes to WPIAL boys and girls soccer and girls volleyball this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio football coverage of...

The 2022 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season has one week remaining. 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 qualify for the postseason. Trib HSSN’s exclusive coverage of the 2022...

Section play in the regular season is all but in the books in the 2022 WPIAL boys soccer season, and the playoff field is set. 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...

Section play in the 2022 girls soccer regular season ends Monday for most teams with a couple of games slated for Tuesday. 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...

As the dust cleared on Week 7 of WPIAL football, only one team had clinched a playoff berth in the district’s Class 5A. No, it wasn’t one of the expected heavyweights: Gateway, Penn-Trafford, Pine-Richland, Penn Hills, Bethel Park or Upper St. Clair. It was Franklin Regional, a team that missed...

Anna Yourish looked on a couple of years ago as her older brother, Josh, represented Deer Lakes at the PIAA championships in track and field. Josh now is a senior on the men’s track team at Division I George Mason. Anna, too, wanted the opportunity to compete at a state...

There are two weeks left in the stretch run of the 2022 WPIAL football regular season. Already, 33 teams have guaranteed a spot on the Playoff Path to the North Shore and to North Huntingdon. That leaves 44 district playoff spots up for grabs over the next two weeks. Here...