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High schools Cross country WPIAL championships Thursday’s results At White Oak Park Boys Class 3A 1. Benjamin McBride, Norwin, 15:27.80; 2. Jonathan Stetchock, Hempfield, 15:37.50; 3. Brendan Eicher, Butler, 15:39.60; 4. Nolan Sarkett, Upper St. Clair, 15:43.20; 5. Andrew Peigh, North Allegheny, 15:44.90; 6. Evan Yurasko, Mt. Lebanon, 15:47.80; 7....

Anthony Furda scored both his team’s goals, each off of a free kick, as No. 9 Beaver (15-4) knocked off top-seeded South Park (18-2), the two-time defending champs, 2-1, in a WPIAL Class 2A boys soccer quarterfinal Thursday. The Bobcats (15-4) will take on No. 4 Avonworth in the semifinals....

Norwin wasn’t about to let Mt. Lebanon end its season again. And it wasn’t interested in settling things in a penalty round, either. Leesia Phetsomphou saw to that. No, the freshman got her kicks in the waning seconds of double overtime and extended her team’s season. A WPIAL 4A quarterfinal...

Patience and speed don’t necessarily go hand in hand. Speed connotes being rushed and forced. Patience lets things play out as they come — it’s antithetical to speed. But in Avonworth’s 4-0 shutout of Mt. Pleasant in the WPIAL Class 2A boys soccer quarterfinals Thursday night, it was patience that...

Allison Porter was happy to get one in the win column against Mars. The Plum senior defender had felt enough heartbreak against the Planets in the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. Porter made the winning penalty kick after the teams played through 110 scoreless minutes Thursday night at Plum High School....

Sirens were blaring Thursday afternoon in the Norwin and Hempfield school districts. That is because the schools’ cross country teams were given a huge welcome home with a firetruck parade after winning WPIAL Class 3A titles. The Norwin girls, Hempfield boys and Norwin sophomore Benjamin McBride were crowned champs. The...

Sewickley Academy sophomore Zachary Sharara and Shady Side Academy junior Charlotte Barker took top honors in Class A at the WPIAL cross country championship Thursday at White Oak Park. Sharara breezed to the title, running a 15:41.60. Mohawk senior Scott McConnell was second and Riverview junior Ashton Saunders was third....

Carter French said it was going to be a challenge to keep pace with Quaker Valley junior Jonah Montagnese in the Class 2A boys race at Thursday’s WPIAL cross country championships at chilly White Oak Park. The Knoch junior did his best in his quest for WPIAL gold, but Montagnese...

South Fayette sophomore Angela Teng pulled away from the pack early and breezed to the WPIAL Class 3A girls cross country title Thursday at White Oak Park, shocking the field. “My plan was to stay with the pack and just make my move and trust my gut,” Zeng said. “When...

Welcome to Week 9 of the high school football season, the final weekend of the regular season. There are 65 WPIAL football playoff berths this season, with 49 spots guaranteed to be clinched by the end of Friday in the six classifications, and another 16 wild card spots to be...

Rebekah Hall was thrust further into the WPIAL spotlight after last week’s title-winning performance at the Tri-State Coaches Association meet at White Oak Park. The Hampton junior came back to White Oak on Thursday with a goal to add a WPIAL title to her 2025 cross country resume. Mission accomplished....

Ten years after high school football expanded to six classifications, the WPIAL might consider going back to four. That idea is among a handful of proposals submitted to the WPIAL office, varying plans for realigning conferences that the football steering committee will soon discuss. “There are four different possibilities, and...

It won’t be long before much of Norwin Knights Stadium is a pile of rubble, the home-side bleachers, press box and back-of-house areas torn down, the turf and track ripped up to make room for the next “Castle.” The new place is expected to look like a million bucks. OK,...

Playing Plum again was on Norwin’s short list of goals, but the Knights are not overthinking their third matchup with the Mustangs. No. 6 seeded Norwin (15-5-3) will visit No. 3 Plum (14-2-2) for a 2 p.m. kickoff Saturday in the WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinals. Plum won the first meeting,...

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. Duane Brown set a WPIAL single-game rushing record with 460 yards in a 56-35 Apollo-Ridge victory at Deer Lakes on Oct. 23, 2015....

The WPIAL will release football playoff brackets about 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, but not before the playoff field is filled out Friday night. Qualifiers from Westmoreland County so far are Penn-Trafford (8-1) in Class 5A, Southmoreland (8-1) in 3A and Jeannette (6-3) in A. Several others are on the bubble....

Welcome to quarterfinals Thursday in the WPIAL girls soccer playoffs with second-round matches in the Class 4A and 3A tournaments. The Class 4A quarters have a familiar shine to them, as seven of the eight remaining teams were also part of the elite eight a year ago. The only difference...

High schools Field hockey WPIAL playoffs Class 3A Semifinals Wednesday’s results Pine-Richland 11, Norwin 0 North Allegheny 2, Mt. Lebanon 1 (OT) Championship Tuesday’s schedule Pine-Richland (16-3) vs. North Allegheny (5-7-3) at North Allegheny, 7 p.m. Class 2A Semifinals Wednesday’s results Peters Township 1, Upper St. Clair 0 Fox Chapel...

Colton Yonker and Anthony Mimna scored to lead No. 8 West Allegheny (12-6) to a WPIAL Class 3A boys soccer quarterfinal upset of top-seeded Hampton (15-3-2) on Wednesday. Harrison Murray and Michael Johnson recorded assists for West A (12-6), which will meet No. 5 Thomas Jefferson in the semifinals. Allderdice...

Hear ye, hear ye, as we head into the final weekend of the high school football regular season, we proclaim to all that there are no exits and zero entries into this weekly edition of the Trib 10. However, that doesn’t mean Week 8 was business as usual for the...

Latrobe junior Charlie Heese opened some eyes when he won the Red, White and Blue Invitational at White Oak Park last month. When he returned six weeks later to compete in the Tri-State Track Coaches Association Invitational, he finished 15th. But Heese was not disappointed. He used the race as...

Gold medals were not in the cards for the WPIAL golf teams at the PIAA championship Wednesday. Only the Peters Township girls earn a medal: a silver in Class 3A. Conestoga finished first at 12-over-par, and Peters Township was next at 16-over. Senior Ellie Benson paced the Indians by shooting...

Player of the week Jayce Powell Jeannette, Jr., WR/DB The Jayhawks junior scored three touchdowns against Springdale. He caught two touchdown passes (12 and 73 yards) and had a 40-yard punt return. He has 37 catches for 784 yards and eight touchdowns. He has 363 return yards with one touchdown....

Player of the week Timmy Andrasy Leechburg, Sr., RB/LB Andrasy was at it again last Friday against Brentwood as the Blue Devils bounced back from a loss to No. 1 Clairton and clinched their fifth straight trip to the WPIAL playoffs. He powered his way through 39 carries as Leechburg...

Here’s a look at the don’t-miss matchups for Week 9 in the A-K Valley: Class 5A Big East No. 3 Woodland Hills (7-2, 5-0) at Kiski Area (4-5, 3-2) 7 p.m. Friday, Richard Dilts Stadium, Allegheny Township Last week: Woodland Hills 55, Franklin Regional 7; Plum 29, Kiski Area 12...