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Pine-Richland field hockey turns focus to WPIAL championship 4-peat
Pine-Richland field hockey coach Donna Stephenson doesn’t have to say much as her team gets ready to try to win a fourth consecutive WPIAL championship. The message comes within the team from the senior leaders that set the standard. “As coaches, we do our best to set them up for...
Plum hockey rebounds from tough start, looks ahead to promising season
Plum ice hockey coach Phil Mains knew his team was better than what it showed in an 11-0 season-opening loss to defending PIHL Class A champion Norwin on Oct. 10. Given an opportunity at redemption, the Mustangs took full advantage a week later and got into the win column with...
Plum’s Wes Lorish relishes experience at PIAA golf championships
Plum sophomore Wes Lorish missed out on a trip to states last year, so coming into this season, one of his main missions was to get to Penn State and face the best in the state. It was mission accomplished as he took part in the 36-hole PIAA Class 3A...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Middle school football team has perfect season
The Penn-Trafford middle school football team finished the season 7-0 by defeating Norwin, 30-0, in the season finale on Oct. 19. The Little Warriors also defeated Armstrong (20-8), Shaler (30-6), Latrobe (22-7), Connellsville (44-8), Hempfield (40-28) and Franklin Regional (38-18). The team is coached by J.W. Snyder. Field hockey finishes...
Solid finish sends Gateway girls soccer team’s seniors out on high note
Gateway girls soccer coach Caleb Kyper wanted to see fight and determination from his team in the Section 3-3A and season finale at Latrobe on Oct. 18. That is what his players gave him, he said, as they battled the playoff-bound and section-runner up Wildcats before falling 2-0 to finish...
5 things we learned in Week 8 of high school football
There were some dark days this fall for the Mohawk football program, but Saturday wasn’t one of them. The Warriors cemented their spot in the WPIAL playoffs by pulling off a 22-8 upset on the road against Western Beaver, an opponent that had lost once all season. Remembering where Mohawk...
OLSH loses star QB in warmups; No. 1 Bishop Canevin clinches 1st conference title since ’11
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart’s Nehemiah Azeem is one of the WPIAL’s top passers, but 15 minutes before kickoff, the Chargers found out they wouldn’t have him in the lineup. The quarterback hurt his knee during pregame warmups at Dormont Stadium, leaving OLSH in a dire spot as No....
High school football roundup for Oct. 22, 2022: Mohawk upsets Western Beaver
Jimmy Guerrieri and Justin Boston scored second-quarter touchdowns to lead Mohawk to a 22-6 upset victory over Western Beaver in Class 2A Midwestern Athletic Conference football Saturday. Tyson Florence ran for 120 yards and a touchdown for Western Beaver (7-2, 4-2). Coleton Root had a touchdown on a fumble recovery...
High school, scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 22, 2022
High schools Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 2A Midwestern Mohawk 22, Western Beaver 6 Class A Big 7 Laurel 68, Summit Academy 14 Black Hills Bishop Canevin 40, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 0 Eastern Greensburg Central Catholic 48, Riverview 0 Saturday’s summaries Mohawk 22, Western Beaver 6 Mohawk...
Trib HSSN WPIAL high school football rankings: Week ending Oct. 23, 2022
WPIAL football rankings Class 6A Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny, 8-1, 1 2. Central Catholic, 5-4, 4 3. Seneca Valley, 6-3, 2 4. Mt. Lebanon, 4-5, 3 5. Canon-McMillan, 5-4, 5 Class 5A Team, W-L, Last 1. Bethel Park, 8-1, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 6-3, 2 3. Gateway, 7-2, 3...
High school roundup for Oct. 22, 2022: Ambridge knocks off defending champs
Will Gruca, Chris Woten and Ryan Lambert had goals and goalkeeper Evan Scheib picked up the shutout to lead No. 11 Ambridge (12-6-1) to a 3-0 victory over defending champion No. 6 Hampton (12-7) in a WPIAL Class 3A first-round boys soccer playoff game Saturday. Ambridge will meet No. 3...
Springdale girls soccer team holds off Sewickley Academy in playoff opener
The Springdale girls soccer team is moving on to the quarterfinals. The No. 2 Dynamos got goals from sophomores Briana Ross and Molly Hurley, and senior Grace Gent and then held off a late charge from No. 15 Sewickley Academy for a 3-2 victory in a WPIAL Class A first-round...
A-K Valley high school football notebook: Apollo-Ridge firmly in Allegheny Conference playoff race
With five WPIAL playoff spots available in the Class 2A Allegheny Conference, there still are things to be decided. And Friday’s regular-season finale between Burrell and Apollo-Ridge at Burrell’s Buccaneer Stadium is a big final piece to the postseason puzzle. Steel Valley (6-0), Serra Catholic (5-1) and Ligonier Valley (4-2)...
Kiski Area rides strong 2nd half to playoff win
The Gateway boys soccer team had designs, as the No. 12 seed, of taking down No. 5 Kiski Area in a WPIAL Class 3A first-round game Saturday at Kiski Area’s Richard Dilts Stadium. But the veteran Cavaliers, with eight seniors in the starting lineup, didn’t let their opportunity to advance...
No. 13 Montour upsets No. 4 Franklin Regional in 1st round
As patient and prodding as it was, Montour’s gameplan also was simplistic. Stack the box early and put the offensive attack on a low simmer until the Spartans got better acquainted with Franklin Regional. Once that happened, they could turn up the heat. Sophomore Andrew Prunier understood the assignment and...
George Guido: Breaking down Apollo-Ridge’s playoff hopes
Apollo-Ridge pulled off the biggest upset in Alle-Kiski Valley football this season with Friday’s thrilling 43-36 overtime victory over Serra Catholic. But the Vikings still need a victory at Burrell to secure a WPIAL playoff berth. The WPIAL will take the top five teams from the Allegheny Conference. Serra, Steel...
Thomas Jefferson soccer beats Penn-Trafford in 1st round
After an evenly played first half, the No. 3 Thomas Jefferson boys soccer team tilted the play in the final 40 minutes to their attacking zone. But despite that offensive momentum, there still was no score. The young Jaguars squad didn’t get frustrated, however, and cashed in twice in the...
Westmoreland H.S. athletes of the week: Yough’s McKenzie Pritts, Franklin Regional’s Sam Dawson
McKenzie Pritts School: Yough Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Pritts scored her 100th career goal as Yough defeated Serra Catholic, 4-0. She had all four goals in the game. The 100th goal came in the 79th minute. A Robert Morris commit, Pritts has helped short-handed Yough earn the...
Greensburg Central Catholic football runs over Riverview
Greensburg Central Catholic’s offense was the model of efficiency Saturday afternoon at Riverview. The Centurions only needed eight plays from scrimmage in the first half to build a huge lead and clinch at least as share of their first conference title since 2010 with a 48-0 victory. Greensburg Central, sitting...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Riverview’s Lola Abraham, Deer Lakes’ Ryan Hanes
Lola Abraham Class: Junior School: Riverview Sport: Soccer Report card: Abraham scored 18 goals in a two-day span to help Riverview (8-7, 5-7) advance to the WPIAL Class A playoffs as the fourth-place team in Section 1. She had four goals Monday in a loss to Springdale, then scored five...
Westmoreland County high school football notebook: Norwin star makes move to QB
Essentially a fourth-string quarterback if he was ever a quarterback at all, Jackson Pons was the “break glass in case of emergency” guy at Norwin. Only in a dire situation would the Knights think about moving their talented receiver under center. Injuries and inconsistency plagued Norwin during this one-win season,...
With conference title clinched, Franklin Regional football exceeding expectations
The Franklin Regional football team played its best game of the season when it needed it the most. The Panthers scored on their first five possessions Oct. 14 and rolled to a 56-21 victory against Hempfield to clinch at least a tie of the WPIAL Class 5A Big East Conference...
Rebuilding Hampton hopes to overcome smallest roster in PIHL
The Hampton hockey team will be skating uphill this season. With only 14 players, the Talbots have the thinnest roster in the 56-school PIHL under first-year coach Buck McKee. But the Talbots have shown no quit in the early going of the 20-game season. After being routed by Indiana, 9-0,...
Hampton’s Joey Mayer makes ‘remarkable’ return
Hampton senior quarterback Joey Mayer climbed into an ambulance in mid-September with a dislocated left elbow and a broken heart. “The whole night, the whole ambulance ride to the hospital, I thought my season was over,” he said. “They initially said, ‘You are not going to be playing again.’ “...
Fox Chapel, Shady Side Academy soccer teams set for postseason
Fox Chapel’s boys soccer team, in the WPIAL playoffs for the 23rd consecutive season, was seeded fourth in the Class 4A tournament and will face Canon-McMillan in the quarterfinals Saturday (Oct. 29). The match will be played at noon at James Burk Complex. The Foxes split the final two games...
