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Rachel Carter’s first season as coach of the Franklin Regional girls volleyball team was a getting-to-know-you time for the team’s new leader and its players. Now that her system is taking root, the Panthers are ready to build toward the future. “We put a lot of work in last year...

North Allegheny’s water polo teams continued their strong start to the season with a pair of victories over McDowell on Sept. 6. Carissa Jones scored seven goals and Rebecca Melanson added six to guide the NA girls team to a 15-7 win. Katyusha Peregoncev and Lily Tang also scored. Izzie...

As a soccer coach who’d reached the college ranks, Manuel Montero wasn’t interested in coaching high school soccer again, but North Allegheny’s unofficial nickname intrigued him. “The University of NA,” he said. “That’s what attracted me.” Montero had coached high school, club and college soccer on the West Coast before...

High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan 33, Seneca Valley 21 Class 5A Allegheny Six Upper St. Clair 53, Baldwin 14 Northeast Penn Hills 33, Pine-Richland 28 Nonconference Aliquippa 26, North Catholic 0 Armstrong 49, New Castle 13 Avonworth 21, Sto-Rox 18 Beaver 28, Freedom 18 Beaver Falls...

Top performers for Week 2 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 323 - Josh Jenkins, Sto-Rox (12 of 24) 317 - Chris Cibrone, Peters Township (18 of 34) 286 - Zion Frye, Carrick (17 of 35) 279 - Gavin Owens, Chartiers Valley (11 of 18) 268 - Keyshawn...

Jake Kasper ran for 153 yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 5 Canon-McMillan to a 33-21 win at No. 3 Seneca Valley (1-2, 0-1) in a Class 6A football game Friday night. Mike Evans threw for 150 yards and a touchdown for the Big Macs (1-2, 1-1). Graham Hancox...

Gateway is the top-ranked team in 5A and considered one of the favorites in the hunt for a third WPIAL title in 6 years. The Gators started the season 2-0, while their opponent, North Hills, had yet to pick up a win in two tries. None of that seemed to...

Being a ball hawk is a skill, a skill they take very seriously at Serra Catholic. Last year, defense led the Eagles to a WPIAL championship. Friday night, it helped carry them to an impressive win over perennial power Washington. DaiQuan Chatfield’s 47-yard fumble return helped Serra Catholic take the...

One week after defeating last year’s WPIAL Class 6A champions, Bethel Park looked to continue its success, going head-to-head with Central Catholic at Bethel Park High School Stadium. Central Catholic also had a victory last week against Abraham Lincoln High School. With both teams coming off of strong wins, the...

Friday night at Lenzner Field was nothing if not a bit bizarre. Avonworth and Sto-Rox each recovered one of their own kickoffs, there were a combined 25 penalties and five turnovers and a comeback from an early double-digit hole. In the end, power football and two key takeaways lifted the...

It was the Bobbie Boyd show Friday night at George L. Smith Field at Weigle-Schaeffer Stadium. The McKeesport standout ran for more than 160 yards and a score while also adding a stout defensive effort to help lead the Tigers to a 14-6 victory over visiting Belle Vernon in a...

It was a whole lotta love Friday for Deer Lakes in its home opener. Junior wide receiver Wayne Love caught four passes for 184 yards and three touchdowns as the Lancers rolled past Apollo-Ridge, 43-7, in a nonconference game. Deer Lakes quarterback Derek Burk completed 7 of 15 passes for...

Looking to right a wrong — the Warriors lost at home last week for just the third time since 2013 — Penn-Trafford returned to form at Warrior Stadium. Instead of turning the ball over and going backward with penalties, the Warriors were sound and crisp, back to making big plays...

Greensburg Salem made a rare venture into the mountains Friday night and escaped with a narrow high school football victory over relative WPIAL newcomer Ligonier Valley. The teams hadn’t played in more than 90 years. Cody Rubrecht passed for 118 yards and rushed for 116 to lead Class 3A Greensburg...

Jon LeDonne spent five seasons building Penn Hills into a big-play dynamo and saw that explosive energy work against his new team Friday night. With LeDonne now on the opposite sideline, running back Amir Key rushed for 216 yards and three touchdowns as No. 2-ranked Penn Hills defeated No. 3...

There were a lot of happy faces in the Hempfield locker room following Friday’s nonconference game at Latrobe Memorial Stadium. The Spartan players were posing for photos and music was blaring after their convincing 49-14 victory against Latrobe in a battle of the unbeaten — and they should be happy,...

Burrell coach Shawn Liotta had no doubts about calling upon his junior kicker Ryan Croushore with a potential game-winning field goal late in the fourth quarter. And a week after missing a potential winner from the exact same distance, Croushore got his redemption Friday night. Croushore booted a 31-yard field...

Freeport wasted no time taking control of its nonconference game against Quaker Valley on Friday at Freeport Area Athletic Stadium. After the Yellowjackets defense forced a turnover on downs at the Quakers 34, the Freeport offense needed just one play to find the end zone. Gavin Croney connected with Brady...

Mt. Pleasant turned two McGuffey fumbles and an interception into touchdowns during the second half en route to a 50-28 victory in nonconference play Friday night at Vikings Stadium. The Vikings (2-1) recovered a fumble on McGuffey’s first possession of the third quarter before Dante Giallonardo scored on a 3-yard...

A week of practices spent on the fundamentals of football yielded few positive results for Connellsville in Friday’s non-conference home opener against Franklin Regional at Connellsville Stadium. The Panthers scored on their first offensive play of the game and never looked back on their way to a convincing 40-0 win...

She played her drive down the left-center of the fairway of the 428-yard 15th hole and had a clear look at the reachable par-5. Izzy Aigner then lasered her distance, grabbed her 7-iron and took dead aim from 166. When her Bridgestone golf ball with a purple “IA” Sharpied on...

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart quarterback Nehemiah Azeem has already thrown for almost 700 yards and ranks as the top passer in the WPIAL, but his coach knows what skeptics are probably saying. Prove it again, this time against Clairton. “I think we already kind of showed we are...

High schools Field hockey Thursday’s results Section 3A Pine-Richland 11, Allderdice 0 Mt. Lebanon 8, Hempfield 0 Nonsection Penn-Trafford 1, Shady Side Academy 0 Football Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan at Seneca Valley, 7 p.m. Class 5A Allegheny Six Baldwin at Upper St. Clair, 7 p.m. Northeast Pine-Richland at...

Davi Jansson scored a first-half goal and Moon made it stand up for a 1-0 Section 2-3A boys soccer victory over South Fayette (2-2, 2-2) Thursday night. Ryan Hildenbrand assisted on the goal and Zachary Shutak had a two-save shutout for the Tigers (5-0-1, 4-0). Beaver 12, Ellwood City 0...

Albie Fletcher joined the Deer Lakes varsity coaching staff under Terance Parham for the 2018-19 season. As a varsity assistant and the head JV coach, the Deer Lakes grad got to experience one of the most successful seasons in program history as the Lancers went 18-8 and advanced to the...