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Breaking down the 2021 WPIAL girls soccer playoffs
Here’s a look at the 2021 WPIAL girls soccer playoffs: Class 4A Favorite: Two-time defending champion North Allegheny has a 22-game unbeaten streak against WPIAL competition and has not lost since last year’s PIAA championship, 1-0, against Pennridge. The Tigers (15-0-1), led by top goal scorer Lucia Wells, are ranked...
Breaking down the 2021 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs
Here’s a look at the 2021 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs: Class 4A Favorite: Seneca Valley impressively negotiated a challenging Section 1 schedule and won the title by three games. The Nathan Prex-led Raiders (15-0-1), ranked third in the state, registered 11 shutouts and their one tie came against Fox Chapel....
6 defending champions earn top seeds for WPIAL soccer playoffs
Defending WPIAL champions again will have targets on their back when the district soccer playoffs begin this weekend. Six teams that won 2020 titles were awarded top seeds Wednesday when the WPIAL soccer committee released playoff pairings for the boys and girls soccer postseason tournaments. All four returning girls soccer...
Group effort leads Latrobe girls volleyball to WPIAL playoffs for 4th straight season
The Latrobe girls volleyball team has met its first preseason goal of finishing in the top three in its section to secure a spot in the WPIAL playoff brackets for a fourth consecutive season. Everything else, following its final two scheduled regular-season matches this week, is to be determined. “The...
Westmoreland County girls athlete of the week: Latrobe’s Regan Reilly
Regan Reilly School: Latrobe Sport: Soccer Class: Sophomore Claim to fame: Reilly scored three goals to lead Latrobe (13-0-1, 9-0-1) to a 6-0 win over Hempfield in Section 3-4A action Oct. 16. Reilly had a goal earlier in the week for the Wildcats in a 3-0 victory over Hempfield on...
Greensburg Salem hockey in search of ‘next step’
Corey Mentch would love nothing more than to continue on the path he and his alma mater are taking. The third-year hockey coach at Greensburg Salem has revitalized a once-lowly program. That was evident last season when, despite a bit of a roller-coaster ride in their season, the Golden Lions...
Defense paves the way for another Freeport playoff berth
Freeport is getting set for another football postseason — which is nothing new. The school will be making its 31st trip to the WPIAL football playoffs, all coming since 1963. Freeport is the only Alle-Kiski Valley school to make the playoffs at least twice in seven straight decades. The Yellowjackets...
Alle-Kiski Valley girls athlete of the week: Plum’s Kaitlyn Killinger
Kaitlyn Killinger Class: Junior School: Plum Sport: Soccer Report card: Killinger had a pair of hat tricks last week. Her first one came in a 10-0 win over Penn Hills Tuesday, and she scored all three goals for Plum in a 3-2 win over Oakland Catholic on Thursday. She had...
WPIAL Clinched for Oct. 19, 2021: Girls volleyball
We are down to two days remaining in the WPIAL girls volleyball regular season as the list of teams that have clinched a spot in the upcoming district playoffs continues to grow. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 19, 2021
High schools Field hockey Tuesday’s results Class 2A Penn-Trafford 9, Latrobe 0 Fox Chapel at Upper St. Clair, (n) Nonsection Norwin at Oakland Catholic, (n) Wednesday’s schedule Class 3A Mt. Lebanon at Peters Township, 7:45 p.m. Norwin at Hempfield, 6 p.m. Pine-Richland at North Allegheny, 7:30 p.m. Class A Winchester...
High school roundup for Oct. 19, 2021: Nathan Prex leads Seneca Valley to tune-up win
Nathan Prex had a hat trick as Seneca Valley defeated Franklin Regional 7-1 Tuesday in a nonsection tune-up for WPIAL boys soccer title contenders. Beaux Lizewski scored twice and Joey Coon and Jeremiah Laslavic also scored for Seneca Valley (15-0-1). Anthony DiFalco scored for Franklin Regional (13-3). WPIAL playoff pairings...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Oct. 20, 2021: Watch soccer playoff pairings show only on Trib HSSN
It’s time to pull back the curtain and unveil the 2021 WPIAL boys and girls soccer brackets. The big reveal takes place Wednesday afternoon during the WPIAL Soccer Playoff Pairings Show at 2 p.m. only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Sixty district boys teams and 62 girls teams...
Yough girls soccer team spoils Mt. Pleasant’s night
Finally, a one-goal finish Yough can get behind. In a girls soccer game that carried more importance in the Section 3-2A standings for Mt. Pleasant, it was Yough that showed greater urgency down the stretch Tuesday evening at sun-splashed Cougar Mountain Stadium. The fourth-ranked Cougars delivered a tight, 2-1 victory...
Trib HSSN State Football Rankings for Oct. 19, 2021
Now that we have hit the 2021 “stretch run,” the elite high school football teams across the state are picking it up a notch. Of the 30 teams from last week’s HSSN state rankings, only three tasted defeat and two were bumped from the top five. District 1 Chester lost...
Fox Chapel, Penn-Trafford golfers tie for 4th at state tournament
WPIAL golfers were shut out of any gold medals at the PIAA golf championship this year. After three Class 2A golfers earned silver medals during day one Monday at Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York, the best finish of the Class 3A WPIAL golfers Tuesday was a tie for fourth...
Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League playoff tournament matchups set
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League playoff tournament will be Saturday and Sunday, and all 12 teams will take part. The brackets were released Tuesday morning, and Bethel Park, which finished first in the regular-season standings with an 11-3 mark, owns the No. 1 seed for the single-elimination event. No....
Alle-Kiski Valley boys athlete of the week: Deer Lakes’ Ryan Hanes
Ryan Hanes Class: Junior School: Deer Lakes Sport: Soccer Report card: Hanes had a hat trick in a 6-0 Lancers win over Derry on Monday. It was his third hat trick of the season and second against Derry. He also registered an assist in a 2-1 win over previously unbeaten...
Springdale boys soccer ready to make another run through WPIAL playoffs
The Springdale boys soccer team clinched a WPIAL playoff berth with a 1-0 section win Oct. 11 at Carlynton. The Dynamos improved to 6-4-1 in Section 3-A, good for third place behind Winchester Thurston and Eden Christian, then followed up with a 4-2 section win Oct. 13 against Riverview. “Coming...
Westmoreland County boys athlete of the week: Greensburg Salem’s Jacob Smith
Jacob Smith School: Greensburg Salem Sport: Cross country Year: Senior Claim to fame: Smith finished with his first sub 17-minute run with a time of 16 minutes, 59.60 seconds to capture the title at the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association’s cross country championships Oct. 13 at Westmoreland County Community College. Smith...
Latrobe hockey looks to build on last season’s strong finish
Like many PIHL teams a year ago, Latrobe had to navigate the choppy waters of playing a season while covid-19 ran rampant through the area. But Wildcats coach Josh Werner believes his team was able to learn quite a bit from a season that started rocky but ended on a...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 18, 2021
High schools Field hockey Monday’s results Class 3A North Allegheny 2, Norwin 0 Hempfield 14, Allderdice 0 Pine-Richland 4, Peters Township 0 Class A Shady Side Academy 4, Ellis School 1 Aquinas Academy at Winchester Thurston, (n) Nonsection Penn-Trafford 6, Mt. Lebanon 0 Tuesday’s schedule Class 2A Fox Chapel at...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Oct. 19, 2021: Class 3A golfers compete for PIAA gold
The best Class 3A boys and girls golfers across the state will tee off Tuesday morning in the 18-hole PIAA individual golf championships at the Heritage Hills Golf Course in York. Fourteen WPIAL boys will be part of the 72-player PIAA 3A championship playing field while seven District 7 girls...
Freeport girls soccer team edges Valley to take sole possession of 4th in Section 2-2A
The Valley girls soccer team came into Monday’s Section 2-2A finale against Freeport at Valley High Memorial Stadium needing to defeat the Yellowjackets to clinch a WPIAL playoff spot for the first time since 2016. But Freeport had other ideas. Katie Borromeo scored from 28 yards off an assist from...
Hempfield Area School Board hires Madison to replace Kalp as softball coach
Hempfield Area School District’s board hired Tina “Skelly” Madison as the school’s new softball coach. Madison was approved 7-0. She replaces legendary coach Bob Kalp, who retired after 25 years as coach of the Spartans. He compiled a 431-111-1 record. The Spartans won seven WPIAL championships and four PIAA titles....
State soccer rankings for Oct. 18, 2021
Fifteen boys teams and nine girls teams from the WPIAL are among the best in Pennsylvania soccer according to the latest state rankings. Three girls teams are ranked No. 1 in the final Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association top 10 poll of the regular season — North Allegheny (14-0-1) in 4A,...
