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Riverview settles down, pulls away for shutout victory over Valley
Kaden Levy thinks the Riverview football team’s offense can execute a myriad of plays well. It took the Raiders nearly 24 minutes to figure out which strategy worked the best against Valley. Riverview expanded its playbook Saturday at Riverside Park and found enough punch to pull away for a 35-0...
Westmoreland high school football notebook: Smithnosky shines in hometown … for visitors
Bobby Smithnosky had a homecoming game on the road but still earned his flowers. The sophomore quarterback from Greensburg Central Catholic had a career game at Mt. Pleasant, showing out in front of friends and family in his hometown. Class A GCC rolled to a 40-7 victory over the Class...
Westmoreland H.S. athletes of the week: Mt. Pleasant’s Morgan Gesinski, Franklin Regional’s Thomas Bridges
Morgan Gesinski School: Mt. Pleasant Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Gesinski, a dynamic forward, became just the second girl in program history to score 100 career goals, registering a hat trick to reach the milestone in a 5-0 win over Hopewell. A Robert Morris commit, Gesinski is second...
Alle-Kiski Valley athletes of the week: Riverview’s Mary Quinlan, Kiski Area’s Austin Beck
Mary Quinlan School: Riverview Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Quinlan is on fire to begin the season. On Monday, she scored a pair of goals as the Raiders (2-0, 2-0) defeated Greensburg Central Catholic 9-1 to open Class 1A Section 4 play. Two days later, she scored a...
Former Southmoreland QB Anthony Smith enrolls at high school in West Virginia
Maligned sophomore quarterback Anthony Smith, who transferred from Southmoreland to Seton LaSalle where he was ruled ineligible for the season, has enrolled at Fairmont Senior High School in Fairmont, W.Va. Smith (6-foot-2, 190 pounds), a Division I prospect with three scholarship offers, was added to the Polar Bears’ roster Tuesday...
Hole-in-one highlights hot start for North Allegheny girls golf team
The North Allegheny girls golf team has aced its early-season tests. Off to their best start in seven years, the Tigers (6-0, 7-0-1) have rolled to an undefeated mark in Section 3-3A and won the NA Invitational, highlighted by senior Kayli Dings’ first hole-in-one. “We’ve got to get through the...
Young Riverview boys soccer team gets early-season experience
The Riverview boys soccer team didn’t have to wait to be tested as it opened the season Aug. 22 at the Indiana tournament. The Raiders, featuring a mix of seasoned talent and several newcomers, including freshmen, in the starting lineup and coming off the bench, needed a rally to overcome...
North Allegheny sets sights on defending WPIAL boys golf title
North Allegheny is learning that playing golf is trickier when you have a target on your back. The Tigers, coming off the program’s first WPIAL title since 1971 and its first state championship, have embraced the challenge of being the hunted. “Everyone is trying to beat us and playing their...
Franklin Regional boys golf scoring low through 1st half of season
Franklin Regional’s boys golf team has put itself in prime position heading into the second half of the season. The Panthers sat atop Section 4-3A at 5-0 after wins against Central Catholic, 186-211, and Plum, 189-216. “It was a good win for us against Central Catholic,” Franklin Regional coach Jeff...
Shady Side Academy’s Cassie Sauer shakes off injury, makes college choice
The simple explanation for why Shady Side Academy senior Cassie Sauer’s basketball season ended last year was that she fractured her hip. A more complicated explanation of a “freak accident” paints a more complex picture. “The injury itself was terrible,” said Sauer, who is 6-foot-2. “It was a misstep that...
Shady Side Academy girls soccer leaning on strong senior captains, promising young talent
The Shady Side Academy girls soccer team is managing a roster that isn’t the deepest in program history. The Bulldogs have 17 players, and coach Mary Lynch will be faced with the task of make sure everyone can get some rest. The roster limitations haven’t hampered what the Bulldogs believe...
Fox Chapel Herald notebook: Shady Side Academy football coach wins dramatic debut
Andrew Geisler wanted to restore the reputation of the Shady Side Academy football program to be one that made a name off its grit. During Geisler’s first game as the varsity coach, the Bulldogs made their mark against Greensburg Central Catholic. After the Bulldogs fell behind by two scores, Shady...
Norwin girls volleyball rebuilding with young, motivated group
Norwin won only four of 16 matches last girls volleyball season and finished 4-6 in Section 3-4A. As veteran coach Mary Ellen Ferragonio begins her 19th season guiding the Knights, the team faces an overhaul. The Knights play in the gym, so they don’t have to worry about mold-abatement projects...
Norwin notebook: Swankler again named Robert Morris women’s soccer captain
For the second year in a row, senior forward Paloma Swankler, a Norwin grad, was selected as a team captain for the Robert Morris women’s soccer team. Swankler had six goals and five assists last fall and earned All-Horizon League second-team honors. She has started 24 of 56 career games...
Roman Thompson thrives in ‘violent game,’ carries Central Catholic past Pine-Richland
If any game perfectly fits Central Catholic’s Roman Thompson, this three-hour battle with Pine-Richland was surely the one. Ruthlessly physical for all four quarters, a kicker was hurt on the first play, a top lineman was helped off the field later and countless other players got banged up Friday night,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Aug. 29, 205
High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Nonconference Aliquippa 42, Belle Vernon 7 Armstrong 35, Hampton 28 Avella 7, Carlynton 6 Avonworth 44, West Mifflin 7 Beaver 50, Blackhawk 27 Burgettstown 23, Bentworth 20 California 36, Cornell 32 Carmichaels 38, Sto-Rox 20 Central Catholic 34, Pine-Richland 20 Chartiers Valley 29, West...
High school football roundup for Aug. 29, 2025: Mars scores in final seconds to top Bethel Park
Liam Corcoran scored on a 3-yard run with 15 seconds left in the game to give Class 4A No. 5 Mars a 17-13 win at Class 5A No. 5 Bethel Park (1-1) in a nonconference football game Friday night in the South Hills. Corcoran then intercepted a pass on the...
Trib HSSN’s 2025 Week 1 top performers for passing, rushing, receiving
Top performers for Week 1 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 357 - Javon Johnston, Shady Side Academy (14 of 19) 306 - David Kessler, Brashear (23 of 51) 281 - Marques Council Jr., Aliquippa (12 of 15) 281 - Ethan Hellmann, Upper St. Clair (16 of 20)...
Avonworth trounces West Mifflin in nonconference action
On its first drive of the game, West Mifflin had a bad snap that went over the head of the quarterback and landed inside the 5-yard line. That was a portent of things to come, as good teams like Avonworth will pounce on mistakes. The poor field position led to...
Moon runs downhill, speeds past Montour
Moon scored 27 unanswered points to charge past Montour, 41-13, picking up a solid road win Friday night. The Tigers were powered by Antoine Arnett, who tallied 161 yards on 25 carries with two touchdowns. “It’s all about hard work at practice,” Arnett said. “We go 100% in practice, and...
Peters Township takes down shorthanded McKeesport
In preparation for a clash with a top Class 5A opponent in Peters Township, the McKeesport football team took a big blow Wednesday night when it learned that five-star running back Kemon Spell would be sidelined with an ankle injury. A week after he rumbled for 292 rushing yards and...
Norwin dominates Kiski Area from start to finish, evens record at 1-1
What a difference a week makes. Coming into their matchup Friday night at Norwin Knights Stadium, the hosts and visiting Kiski Area Cavaliers would experience opposite outcomes from how they finished the week prior. Kiski Area (1-1) came into the game after shutting out Knoch despite racking up more than...
Aliquippa wins big over Belle Vernon in Coach Warfield’s return
Aliquippa head coach Mike Warfield made a triumphant return to the sidelines after taking a sabbatical last season, and he came away impressed with his Quips. Aliquippa used multiple big plays in the first half and rolled to a 42-7 win over Belle Vernon on The Beach at James Weir...
Greensburg Salem happy to rebound with win vs. Ligonier Valley
The Greensburg Salem and Ligonier Valley football teams were looking to bounce back Friday night from last weekend’s season-opening losses, and the Golden Lions managed to succeed. Barely. “A win’s a win. That’s the line,” Greensburg Salem coach Ty George said. Brody Chismar passed for two first-quarter touchdowns, and Greensburg...
Hempfield buckles down in 2nd half, closes out Franklin Regional
With bookend highs overshadowing mid-game lows, Hempfield went from nearly self-destructing to 2-0 with a commanding second half. Big lineman Brock Heisler loved every gritty second of it. “We knew we could out-physical them and size-wise,” said Heisler, the 6-foot-3, 260-pounder who is going to Harvard. “We started slow, but...
