High School category, Page 575
Penn-Trafford notebook: Hockey team earns shootout win in rivalry game
Penn-Trafford improved to 2-1 in the PIHL by defeating Hempfield, 5-4, in a shootout. The Warriors grabbed a 3-0 lead in the second period on goals by Bryce Kropczynski, Colin Paterson and Noah Moffa, but Hempfield used three power-play goals in the third period to tie the score. Cam Kiste...
Gateway volleyball says goodbye to senior class after playoff loss
The Gateway and Laurel Highlands girls volleyball teams were paired up as the No. 16 and No. 17 seeds in a WPIAL Class 3A preliminary-round game Oct. 24 at Hempfield High School. And the match played out as close as the seedings set it up to be. Each of the...
Gateway boys soccer season comes to close in WPIAL 1st round
The Gateway boys soccer team went toe-to-toe with No. 5 Kiski Area into the second half of a WPIAL Class 3A first-round game Oct. 22 at Kiski Area before the Cavaliers netted a pair of goals to score a 2-0 victory. Despite the setback, Gateway coach Bernie Stiles was pleased...
Quaker Valley girls volleyball parlays talent, hard work into playoff berth
Quaker Valley veteran girls volleyball coach Mike Vavrek knew his team was talented this season. The QV netters finished third in Section 4-2A with an 11-3 record behind only Avonworth (13-1) and Central Valley (12-2). “At the start of the season, I expected this team to work hard and improve...
Sewickley Academy punctuates golf season with top 3 finish at states
Sewickley Academy was a PIAA finalist in boys golf for the seventh time in nine years. The Panthers took third place in Class 2A with a 322 team score, finishing behind Lake-Lehman (296) and Devon Prep (308). West Shamokin (327) and Delone Catholic (333) rounded out the top five teams...
Playoff berth shows significant growth for Penn Hills volleyball
Twelve years without appearing in the postseason didn’t result in a fairy tale ending for the Penn Hills girls volleyball team. The Indians were swept by Knoch in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs by Knoch. What is most important about Penn Hills’ success in getting back...
Penn Hills notebook: New football coaches have playoff tradition
Penn Hills graduate Charles Morris was honored to take over as the head football coach at his alma mater. When the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs start Nov. 4, he will have the challenge of trying to continue the Indians’ proud tradition. Penn Hills, which was in a playoff position heading...
Max Heckert carries on rich tradition of Pine-Richland linebackers
Max Heckert spent the last few years studying future NCAA Division I linebackers Jeremiah Hasley and Luke Miller while playing alongside them at Pine-Richland. Now he’s taking what he learned and applying it as the leader of the defense. Heckert had a team-leading 96 tackles entering the regular season finale...
Plum’s girls volleyball season concludes in WPIAL playoffs
The Plum girls volleyball team saw its season come to a close last Wednesday with a 3-0 loss to No. 5 Montour in a WPIAL Class 3A first-round game at Montour High School. The Mustangs, runners-up to Hampton in Section 1 with a 10-2 record, fell with set scores of...
Late-season victory helps Plum bounce back from 4-game slide
Faced with a four-game losing streak and needing a spark, the Plum football team got what it was looking for in a Week 8 game against Hempfield on Oct. 21. The Mustangs broke open a tie game at halftime with a pair of touchdowns in the third quarter. Those scores...
Week 9 surprises loomed large as WPIAL football committee paired brackets
Some folks count sheep. As co-chairs of the WPIAL football committee, Norwin athletic director Mike Burrell and Brentwood principal Jason Olexa spent the final night of the regular season endlessly counting tiebreaker points before they could fall asleep. This year, there was more counting to do than usual after the...
‘It’s unfair to our kids,’ says Clairton coach after WPIAL denies home playoff game
Wayne Wade was already envisioning one more Friday night in Clairton under the lights and the festivities that accompany a home football game in the WPIAL playoffs. Now, he’s left to wonder what time the team bus must leave to beat traffic. “It’s unfair to our kids not to have...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 29, 2022
High schools Field hockey WPIAL playoffs Championship Saturday’s results Class 3A Pine-Richland 3, North Allegheny 0 Class 2A Penn-Trafford 4, Latrobe 1 Class A Ellis School 3, Aquinas Academy 1 Football Saturday’s result City League championship Westinghouse 40, Allderdice 8 WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Nov. 11 schedule Canon-McMillan (5-5)...
High school roundup for Oct. 29, 2022: Pine-Richland roars into semifinals
Ethan Wygant scored in the first five minutes of the match, sparking No. 6 Pine-Richland to a 3-1 victory over No. 3 Norwin in the WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer quarterfinals Saturday afternoon. Nathan Bang and Sam Engel also scored for the Rams (13-4-1), who will meet No. 7 Butler...
In WPIAL finals rematch, Knoch tops Sewickley Academy for PIAA girls team tennis title
In a rematch of the WPIAL Class 2A team tennis finals, Knoch defeated Sewickley Academy, 4-1, Saturday afternoon to win the school’s second state championship. The Knights, who also won the PIAA title in 2020, won three-set battles at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles. Knoch’s Emily Greb got...
Westinghouse tops Allderdice to claim 38th City League football championship
Westinghouse had a slim lead at halftime of Saturday’s Pittsburgh City League football final. But Bulldogs coach Donta Green wasn’t worried. Westinghouse came on to score 19 points in the third quarter and rolled to a 40-8 victory in the City title game at Cupples Stadium. It marks the 38th...
Playoffs begin for real for reigning WPIAL champion Penn-Trafford, Westmoreland County teams
The WPIAL released the pairings for the upcoming football playoffs Saturday, but the playoffs had already started for Penn-Trafford with its huge win against Franklin Regional on Friday. The Warriors (6-4) rallied late to defeat Franklin Regional, 28-21, in overtime in a must-win game. Now the real playoffs begin Friday...
Breaking down the 2022 WPIAL football playoffs
Class 6A Favorite: North Allegheny, which is seeking its first WPIAL title since 2012, took care of business in the regular season. The Tigers went 4-0 in conference play to finish alone in first place, but didn’t blow anybody away in the process. They had a one-point win, a four-point...
Challenging opening-round foes await A-K Valley football teams in WPIAL playoffs
Call it the Avenue to Acrisure. The road to the WPIAL championship games has been set for all of the playoff-qualifying teams, including the six that made it in from the Alle-Kiski Valley: Highlands, Freeport, Leechburg, Deer Lakes, Apollo-Ridge and Burrell. The Golden Rams (9-1) defeated Hampton on Friday to...
Pine-Richland makes it 4 in a row in WPIAL Class 3A field hockey championship game
The Pine-Richland field hockey team finished off its four-peat in style. The Rams capped another dominant WPIAL season with a 3-0 win over rival North Allegheny in the Class 3A championship game Saturday at Washington & Jefferson College. Pine-Richland earned its fourth consecutive WPIAL crown and did so with its...
Penn-Trafford tops Latrobe to claim 7th straight WPIAL field hockey title
It never gets old. So say members of the Penn-Trafford field hockey team on the age-old concept of winning, something the Warriors are accustomed to doing. They continued their winning ways Saturday at the WPIAL championship, earning their seventh consecutive Class 2A title with a 4-1 victory over Latrobe at...
Mt. Pleasant girls blank Freeport, advance to WPIAL Class 2A semifinals
Marissa Garn wears No. 99. The Mt. Pleasant senior soccer player has her reasons for the unique jersey number. “I can’t wear 100,” Garn said. “I used to wear No. 1 in youth soccer. I am a faithful Christian, and I believe in giving 100 percent. I know God has...
Westmoreland high school athletes of the week for the week ending Oct. 30, 2022
Robin Reilly School: Latrobe Year: Sophomore Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: The sophomore midfielder put together one of her best performances in a season that has included many of them, scoring three goals and adding two assists to lead Latrobe to its first WPIAL playoff win in girls soccer, 6-1...
Charleroi gets its revenge, knocking out top-seeded Greensburg Central Catholic in WPIAL quarterfinals
For the eighth-seeded Charleroi boys soccer team, revenge was a dish best served in the playoffs. In the regular season, the Cougars (16-2) lost only two games: a pair of section setbacks to Greensburg Central Catholic by a combined score of 16-3. On Saturday, Charleroi knocked off the top-seeded Centurions,...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Plum’s Kaitlyn Killinger, Riverview’s Amberson Bauer
Kaitlyn Killinger Class: Senior School: Plum Sport: Soccer Report card: Killinger scored three times in a 9-0 victory over Kiski Area on Monday and then added a goal and assist Thursday as No. 3-seeded Plum defeated No. 11 Montour in the WPIAL Class 3A girls soccer quarterfinals. The senior Pitt...
