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It’s time for a postseason rumble, and the Plum boys soccer team is ready, coach Raf Kolankowski said. The Mustangs again are a favorite to challenge for the WPIAL title in Class 3A, but Kolankowski said they will be entering a bracket with a stacked field. “Obviously, it’s not going...

The building blocks appear to be in place. Hampton’s girls junior varsity tennis team racked up an impressive 11-2 record this season, offering hope for a firm playoff push by next year’s varsity squad. “The future looks great,” coach Milt Squires said. “The players are excited and are planning to...

The defending WPIAL and PIAA champion Hampton boys soccer team is ready to try to make another postseason run. Most of the names are different, but the goal remains the same. “These boys have worked very hard to put themselves in a position to be successful,” coach Matt McAwley said...

The Plum girls soccer team is no stranger to postseason pressure and opportunity, and the Mustangs will get a chance in the coming days to prove it. Plum coach Jamie Stewart said his team, which expected to garner one of the top seeds among the likes of defending WPIAL and...

High schools Football Friday’s results Class 5A Allegheny Six Bethel Park 56, Moon 0 South Fayette 45, Baldwin 0 Big East Franklin Regional 56, Hempfield 21 Penn-Trafford 35, Plum 21 Northeast Pine-Richland 42, Shaler 7 Woodland Hills 43, Fox Chapel 14 Class 4A Big Seven Latrobe 43, Connellsville 13 Laurel...

Top performers for Week 7 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 349 - Cadin Olsen, Armstrong (19 of 25) 272 - Ray Miller, Seton LaSalle (16 of 29) 267 - Michael Cahill, East Allegheny (12 of 19) 264 - Payton Wehner, Central Catholic (19 of 25) 262 -...

Landon Smith ran for 253 yards and five touchdowns, including three in the fourth quarter, as No. 4 Laurel upended No. 3 South Side, 33-16, in the Class A Big 7 Conference on Friday night. C.J. Sunseri threw for 76 yards for the Spartans (6-1, 4-0). Ryan Navarra and Brody...

Giving Armstrong quarterback Cadin Olsen short fields, time to pass and extra possessions is a dangerous combination. The Penn recruit passed for 349 yards, threw four touchdowns and rushed for two more Friday night as Armstrong capitalized on four Mars turnovers to win 55-31 in the highest-scoring game in River...

Nick Buckley’s 29-yard touchdown pass to Clinton Robinson in the fourth quarter lifted Keystone Oaks to a 32-30 win against McGuffey (5-3, 3-2) in the Class 2A Century Conference on Friday night. Buckley threw for 237 yards and four touchdowns for KO (6-2, 3-1). Philip McCuen threw for 62 yards...

Trailing by a point with one second left, Central Catholic lined up for a 49-yard field goal that would have won its nonconference game with Penn Hills on Friday night. Instead, the Vikings won in an even more improbable way. The kick was blocked, but while Penn Hills players celebrated...

Jahmil Perryman ran for 174 yards and three touchdowns and scored on a 44-yard fumble return to lead Class 4A No. 2 McKeesport to 41-17 nonconference victory over Class 5A No. 2 Gateway (6-2) on Friday night. Khaimere Harris also scored on a 60-yard fumble return for the Tigers (8-0)....

Serra Catholic coach Jose Regus might have witnessed a better season a year ago when the Eagles won a WPIAL championship and advanced to the PIAA title game, but he appears to be enjoying 2022 just the same. Maybe more. “I don’t know if last year was the best year...

Mike Evans hit Kaeden Singleton with a 7-yard touchdown with 42 seconds left in the game to give Class 6A No. 5 Canon-McMillan a 28-24 nonconference win at Class 5A No. 4 Upper St. Clair (6-2) on Friday night. Jake Kasper rushed for 194 yards and a touchdown for Canon-McMillan...

Ben Lane ran for three touchdowns as No. 4 Freeport earned a 42-0 win over Knoch (0-8, 0-3) in Class 3A Allegheny 6 Conference play Friday night. Gavin Croney tossed for two touchdown passes, a 14-yard strike to Brady Sullivan and a 28-yarder to Zach Clark. Clark also scored on...

The West Allegheny Indians missed the playoffs the past three years, the first that had happened since 1994-96. They will not miss a fourth consecutive time. With a 16-13 double-overtime win over Blackhawk (3-5, 2-3 Parkway Conference) on Friday night at Joe P. DeMichela Stadium, West Allegheny (7-1, 4-1) clinched...

Pine-Richland is hitting its stride at the perfect time. And Ryan Palmieri may be the biggest reason why. Palmieri accounted for 324 yards of total offense as the Rams (5-3, 1-1) won a fourth straight game, blasting Shaler, 42-7, Friday night at Titan Stadium. “You know, we’re rolling,” Pine-Richland coach...

Belle Vernon Area started seven of its eight first-half drives deep in Mt. Pleasant territory, and Quinton Martin scored five first-half touchdowns and picked off a pair of passes as the Leopards routed the visiting Vikings, 55-7, in a Class 3A Interstate Conference matchup Friday on The Beach at James...

Franklin Regional clinched at least a share of the WPIAL Class 5A Big East Conference title Friday by playing nearly a perfect football game. The Panthers (5-2, 4-0) scored on their first five possessions and rolled to a 56-21 victory against Hempfield to celebrate senior night. It was the Panthers’...

Jaydin Canady likes to play against his former team. The Greensburg Central Catholic senior scored four touchdowns, including one on a 90-yard interception return, as the Centurions overcame a slow start to defeat rival Jeannette, 44-0, on Friday night at Centurion Stadium. Canady ran for 101 yards on five carries...

Ty Keffer did a little bit of everything to lead Southmoreland to a 42-21 victory over Greensburg Salem in Interstate Conference play Friday evening before a Homecoming crowd at Russ Grimm Field in Alverton. Keffer, a junior, pulled in nine receptions for 160 yards and six touchdowns. Not bad for...

A large crowd lined the streets for the annual homecoming parade and then filed into Lancer Stadium hoping to watch the Deer Lakes football team clinch a playoff berth for the third time in program history. But East Allegheny and its duo of Michael Cahill and Amir Rollins had other...

So much for peeking ahead to the next game. Highlands, set for a big collision against Armstrong next week that will decide at least a share of the Greater Allegheny Conference title, prepped Friday night with a decisive, 56-7 victory over Kiski Area at Richard Dilts Stadium. The Golden Rams...

The Penn-Trafford football team got that winning feeling back Friday after last week’s tough loss to rival Gateway. The Warriors churned out 377 yards on the ground, compiled 499 yards of total offense and produced a 35-21 victory over Plum in a Big East Conference Class 5A game at Warrior...

The Steel Valley Ironmen continued their path of dominance, defeating the Burrell Bucs, 48-0, on Friday night in Class 2A Allegheny Conference action. The Ironmen (7-0, 5-0) were greeted with a shower of boos by a sea of pink-clad Burrell fans in the student section, but by the end of...

The Connellsville football team, playing on its own field, put together a fairly strong first quarter in front of a homecoming crowd Friday night. But once things started to go downhill, there was no stopping the slide as the Falcons were beaten by visiting Latrobe, 43-13, in a Class 4A...