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PIAA rule keeps OLSH football team idle Friday night after Avella forfeits
Avella doesn’t have enough healthy players available for this week’s football game against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, so the Eagles will forfeit the Class A Black Hills Conference contest scheduled for Friday night. OLSH tried to make the best of a bad situation and found an alternate opponent...
Trib HSSN to have exclusive streaming coverage of all 6 WPIAL football championships
The TribLIVE High School Sports Network is offering viewers the “best seat in the house” for the 2022 WPIAL football championships, and for the first time that offer extends to all six title games. Trib HSSN will be the exclusive home for the Class 6A and 5A finals Nov. 19,...
Trib HSSN football players to watch for 2022 Week 7
Here are four WPIAL high school football players to watch in Week 7: Alec Anderson Carmichaels, sr., QB/LB Anderson threw for 290 yards and four touchdowns and also ran for 50 yards and two scores for Carmichaels in last week’s 36-40 loss to Monessen. The Mighty Mikes (5-2, 3-1) will...
Through the years: Valley kept its win streak vs. Burrell going in ’17
Each week throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look at the players, coaches and events that shaped our scholastic legacy. Valley’s first-year football player, senior Shawn Demharter, returned an interception 23 yards for a score as the Vikings downed Burrell for the fifth...
Westmoreland County high school football notebook: Keefer-to-Keffer connection sparks Southmoreland
Keefer to Keffer. Yes, Southmoreland will take some more of that. It’s become the connection heard throughout Alverton on Friday nights, the tandem everyone is talking about around the Scotties’ program. In their first year playing together at the varsity level, Kadin Keefer and Ty Keffer have become a formidable...
All signs point to prognostication excellence from Chick’s Picks in Week 7
Chick’s Picks had the opportunity to attend a game Friday night. Since it is not often that she is able to do so, Chick’s Picks was sure to choose a game with a lot on the line, along with a few of the best student sections in the WPIAL. As...
Philadelphia Catholic League teams no longer block WPIAL’s path to PIAA basketball finals
The marquee matchup of state championship weekend became an all-Philadelphia Catholic League affair when Roman Catholic and Archbishop Wood met in Hershey last winter for the Class 6A boys basketball final. It was the third time in eight years that the PIAA’s big-school boys championship included two teams from District...
Trib 10: Bethel Park moves up in power rankings
As we roll into the stretch run of the regular season, things have settled down a bit in the weekly power rankings in Week 6 after a topsy-turvy Week 5. There were no dropouts in the Trib 10 from last week with the lone loss coming in a Class 5A...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Oct. 13, 2022: City League regular season wraps up
It is Week 7 of the high school football season, but the final week of the regular season in the Pittsburgh City League. With the semifinals already set for next week, the weekend at George Cupples Stadium begins with the regular season champion taking on a winless team that will...
WPIAL girls soccer playoff clinchings through Oct. 12, 2022
Section play in the 2022 girls soccer regular season ends Monday. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie all qualify for the postseason. Trib HSSN’s exclusive coverage of the 2022...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 12, 2022
High schools Cross country Wednesday’s results WCCA Championships Boys Individual: 1. Samuel Plazio, Kiski Area, 16:41.6; 2. Antonio Tuttoilmondo, Hempfield, 16:49.9; 3. August Lawrence, Latrobe, 16:58.1; 4. Aaron Tressler, Greensburg Salem, 17:08.4; 5. Owen DeMatt, Hempfield, 17:10.1; 6. Jacob McGhee, Penn-Trafford, 17:19.9; 7. Andres Breauchy, Norwin, 17:20.1; 8. Noah Wilson,...
High school roundup for Oct. 12, 2022: Thomas Jefferson takes control of section with win over EF
Emma Martinis had a pair of goals and Natalie Lamenza also scored to lead Thomas Jefferson to a 3-1 victory over Elizabeth Forward in a battle of the top two teams in Section 2-3A girls soccer Wednesday night. The Jaguars (13-2, 11-1) can clinch first place with victories over Uniontown...
Deer Lakes girls soccer gets crucial win vs. Valley
The Deer Lakes girls soccer team was in must-win mode Wednesday as it hosted Valley in a Section 2-2A game at Lancers Stadium. And a win is what the Lancers got. Freshman Bryanna Simonetti scored with 29 minutes, 57 seconds left in the second half off an assist from senior...
Mt. Pleasant girls soccer stays unbeaten, tops Southmoreland
Usually this late in the girls soccer regular season, section games are precious and carry heavy meaning in the standings. Unbeaten Mt. Pleasant already had secured its first section title since 2016 and a WPIAL playoff spot by the time it hosted rival Southmoreland on Wednesday night. But the No....
Kiski Area’s Sam Plazio, Eliza Miller claim WCCA cross country titles
It was quite a day for the Kiski Area cross country program. For the first time in school history, the county champions were both Cavaliers. Freshman Sam Plazio stunned the field by winning the boys race, and junior Eliza Miller won her second consecutive girls race. The Kiski Area boys...
Westmoreland County boys soccer notebook: Teams punch tickets to WPIAL playoffs
The WPIAL playoffs are just around the corner, with tournament play slated to start late next week. The top four teams in each section qualify for the postseason. The following Westmoreland County teams have secured playoff spots: Norwin (11-4) in Class 4A; Kiski Area (13-3), Franklin Regional (12-4) and Penn-Trafford...
Section champion Belle Vernon boys soccer team finds many pathways to victory
In many years of following and coaching soccer, Al Yeschenko had never seen a “buzzer-beater” on the pitch. With about two minutes to play in a tie game against Brownsville last week, the Belle Vernon boys coach began to prep mentally for overtime and even pulled some players so they...
A-K Valley football players to watch in 2022 Week 7
Tyler Bender Highlands, sr., OL/DL The veteran lineman helped create defensive havoc for the Golden Rams against Woodland Hills last week. He made five tackles, recorded one of Highlands’ 11 sacks and intercepted a pass in a 38-23 victory. For the season, Bender is second on the team in tackles...
Deer Lakes on verge of clinching playoff spot, but dangerous East Allegheny stands in the way
After narrowly missing out on a WPIAL playoff spot last season, Deer Lakes is on the brink of securing a postseason berth this time around. The Lancers (4-3, 2-0) have won three in a row and can clinch with a win over East Allegheny on Friday and a loss by...
A-K Valley don’t miss high school football matchups for 2022 Week 7
Class 5A Big East Plum (3-4, 1-2) at Penn-Trafford (4-3, 1-2) 7:30 p.m. Friday, Warrior Stadium, Harrison City Plum dropped its third straight game, falling 20-6 at South Fayette. The Mustangs scored first on a short touchdown pass from Sean Franzi to Jerome Brazell but gave up 20 unanswered points....
The Birdie knows how to handle a bad Steelers season and how to make Week 7 A-K Valley picks
Last week: 9-3 Overall: 70-11 (86.4%) Some of you aren’t old enough to remember the Pittsburgh Steelers being a truly bad team, and it shows. Let The Birdie tell you a story. He was but a baby bird when he received two tickets to the Steelers’ 1986 home opener. When...
2022 Western Pa. high school football schedule, broadcasts for Week 7
Thursday City League Brashear at Westinghouse, 7 p.m. Friday Class 5A Allegheny Six Moon at Bethel Park, 7 p.m. South Fayette at Baldwin, 7 p.m. Big East Hempfield at Franklin Regional, 7 p.m. (HSSN*) Plum at Penn-Trafford, 7:30 p.m. (HSSN*, 1020 AM, 100.1 FM, 107.1 FM) Northeast Pine-Richland at Shaler,...
Westmoreland County football players to watch in 2022 Week 7
Gino Caesar Hempfield, Sr., RB He rushed for 146 yards and a touchdown in a loss to Seneca Valley. He’s rushed for 636 yards and 12 touchdowns this season. He also has caught 10 passes for 166 yards. Blake Revoir Derry, So., QB The sophomore has completed 29 of 81...
Franklin Regional looks to stay on top, clinch conference title
What a difference two weeks have made in the high school football landscape across Westmoreland County. Hempfield was the talk of the town after its historic run to open the season. The Spartans were 5-0 for the first time in 50 years after defeating reigning WPIAL and PIAA Class 5A...
The Birdie ponders probing questions, Westmoreland County Week 7 picks
Last week: 11-2 (84.6 %) Season: 66-18 (78.6 %) Sometimes, on nice fall days, the Birdie escapes to Lynch Field where he sits at a picnic table beneath the Huddie Kaufman Pavilion. He has a bite to eat — usually a Dairy Queen sundae he eats out of an old...
