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George Guido: Fox Chapel’s soccer rout ties national record
Turns out Fox Chapel tied a national boys soccer record with its 30-0 rout over Southmoreland to open the season. After checking with the National Federation of State High Schools Associations (NSFN), the Foxes equalled the mark set by Eisenhower High School of Blue Island, Ill., on Aug. 29, 1990...
A-K Valley H.S. football notebook: Freshman kickers delivers for Plum
Plum coaches put their faith in freshman Angelo Baleno on Friday at Highlands, and Baleno rewarded them. The young kicker delivered a 38-yard field goal in crunch time of the fourth quarter to lift the Mustangs to a come-from-behind 23-21 victory over Highlands in Greater Allegheny Conference action. The kick...
5 things we learned in Week 5 of H.S. football: Clairton’s 66-game streak is safe
The Wyomissing football team might have a thank you gift headed its way with a Clairton postmark on the package. Suddenly, the Bears are huge fans of the high school near Reading. That’s because Southern Columbia was one win away from tying Clairton’s state-record winning streak of 66 games when...
Trib HSSN high school football rankings: Oct. 3, 2021
Class 6A Rk, Team, W-L, Last 1. Central Catholic, 5-1, 1 2. Mt. Lebanon, 6-0, 2 3. Canon-McMillan, 4-2, 5 4. North Allegheny, 3-3, 4 5. Seneca Valley, 4-2, 3 Out: none Class 5A 1. Moon, 6-0, 1 2. Pine-Richland, 3-3, 4 3. Gateway, 4-2, 5 4. South Fayette, 4-1,...
Westmoreland H.S. football notebook: GCC coach reflects on ‘all-around great day’
Friday will be quite unforgettable for Greensburg Central Catholic first-year coach Marko Thomas. On Friday morning, he and his wife, Kerri, welcomed their fourth child — all boys — into the world. Devin was born at 9:11 a.m. By the time 9:11 p.m. rolled around, Thomas was coaching his Centurions...
Deer Lakes football team keeps rolling, building confidence
Deer Lakes is on a roll in the Allegheny Seven Conference. The Lancers stopped a 15-game losing streak in Week 3 with a 49-0 victory over Derry in its conference opener. Last week Deer Lakes shut out Valley, 6-0. On Friday, the Lancers made it three in a row with...
Southmoreland’s female running back, Lilly Wasmund, scores TD in win over Derry
The play simply was called, “Lilly.” Southmoreland put it in place Thursday at practice, running it once as a rehearsal in case junior Lilly Wasmund had the opportunity to run it in Friday night’s home game against Derry. Wasmund was up to the task when her number was called with...
Burt’s big game leads Steel Valley past Ligonier Valley
NiJhay Burt scored five touchdowns, and for the third week in a row, rushed for more than 200 yards, leading Steel Valley to a 40-0 win over Class 2A No. 5 Ligonier Valley on Friday in this Allegheny Conference opener at Campbell Field in Munhall. After the Ironmen’s defense stopped...
North Allegheny notebook: Slow-pitch softball team rolls past Penn-Trafford
North Allegheny’s slow-pitch softball team swept a doubleheader against Penn-Trafford on Sept. 26 and improved to 5-1 on the season. The Tigers rolled to 27-1 and 26-4 wins and have outscored opponents 129-36 through six games. In Game 1 against P-T, Nina Pietrzak was 4 for 4 with three RBIs,...
North Allegheny girls soccer gets defensive in WPIAL title defense
As two-time reigning WPIAL champions, the girls on North Allegheny’s soccer team are trying to defend their title again this fall, with an added emphasis on the word “defend.” They’ve outscored their first nine opponents 53-1 and posted eight shutouts. “There are a lot of teams that are giving you...
Franklin Regional notebook: Connor Donnelly settles into starting QB role
Franklin Regional settled on a starting quarterback — for now. The Panthers started Connor Donnelly in Week 4 when it hosted Bethel Park, and coach Lance Getsy hoped to stick with the senior under center. The QB carousel had been turning in Murrysville since the preseason, a feeling-out process for...
Hampton girls soccer shakes off slow start
The Hampton girls soccer team is getting healthy at the right time. After dropping their first two games this season, including the program’s most lopsided loss in a decade, the defending Section 1-3A champion Talbots went 6-0-1 during a seven-game surge heading into their Sept. 30 game against visiting Indiana....
Shady Side Academy girls soccer carries momentum into season’s 2nd half
The Shady Side Academy girls soccer team finished the first half of the Section 2-2A season atop the standings at 4-0. But the Bulldogs have no intention of stopping there after a hard-fought, 1-0 victory at Burrell on Sept. 27. A goal by Gabby Hill-Junke, her fifth of the season,...
Fox Chapel golfers adding to program’s successful legacy
Many youngsters find something interesting to do in the summer between their junior and senior years of high school. For Fox Chapel’s Max Johnson, he spent time in Montana golfing near Yellowstone National Park. It’s an experience he won’t soon forget. “I played seven or eight different courses. My father...
Norwin notebook: Knights boys soccer climbing Class 4A rankings
Norwin coach Scott Schuchert thinks his team is rounding into form, both on the scoreboard and across the lineup. “We’re finding our identity,” he said after a recent 4-1 victory over Penn-Trafford that kept the third-ranked Knights undefeated in Section 3-4A. “Our back line guys have really played well for...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 1, 2021
High schools Field hockey Friday’s results Class A Aquinas Academy at Ellis School, (n) Nonsection Shady Side Academy at Peters Township, (n) Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Baldwin 21, Norwin 10 Canon-McMillan 45, Hempfield 27 Central Catholic 35, Seneca Valley 0 Mt. Lebanon 51, North Allegheny 20 Class 5A...
WPIAL Class 4A roundup: New Castle rallies past Montour with late touchdown
Austin Kelly caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from Chris Hood with 8 seconds left in the fourth quarter to give New Castle a 14-10 victory against Montour (2-4, 0-1) in a Class 4A Parkway Conference football game Friday night. Hood threw for 48 yards and ran for 111 yards and...
WPIAL Class 3A roundup: Ambridge snaps 28-game losing streak
The WPIAL’s longest losing streak is over. Adam Fernandez scored on a 60-yard punt return and an 81-yard kickoff return as Ambridge scored a 35-9 victory over Hopewell (0-5, 0-1) in the Class 3A Northwestern 6 Conference on Friday night, snapping a 28-game losing skid. Deavon Ivory threw for 107...
Undefeated Moon scores workmanlike win over South Fayette
The Moon Tigers did what they had to do Friday night. Their grind-it-out attitude was most on display during the Tigers’ final offensive possession. Leading 21-13 with 7:16 left in the game, Moon marched 92 yards and took over six minutes off the clock. The drive resulted in a 22-yard...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: Rocco leads Serra Catholic past Shady Side Academy
Max Rocco threw for 311 yards and three touchdowns to lead No. 2 Serra Catholic to a 39-7 victory over Shady Side Academy (3-3, 0-1) in the Class 2A Allegheny Conference on Friday night. Amire Spencer caught seven passes for 131 yards while teammate Terrell Booth caught four passes for...
WPIAL Class A roundup: Fort Cherry edges Northgate
Maddox Truschel hit Anthony D’Alessandro with a 14-yard touchdown pass with 5 minutes, 16 seconds left in the game to put Fort Cherry ahead for good in a 29-28 Class A Big Seven Conference win against Northgate (2-4, 1-2) on Friday night. Truschel threw for 177 yards and ran for...
2021 WPIAL statistical leaders for rushing, passing, receiving in Week 5
Top performers for Week 5 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 339 - Landon Lutz, South Fayette (28 of 39) 311 - Max Rocco, Serra Catholic (15 of 34) 298 - Brad Birch, Gateway (15 of 27) 269 - Graham Hancox, Seneca Valley (20 of 38) 256 -...
Clairton holds on for victory over Bishop Canevin in sloppy game
After a two-game losing streak and a two-game winning streak, Clairton faced a first-place battle against an undefeated Bishop Canevin football team Friday night. The Bears led by 22 points after a sloppy first half and eventually added a touchdown to answer a ferocious comeback attempt by Bishop Canevin and...
WPIAL Class 6A/5A roundup: Upper St. Clair upsets Peters Township
Ethan Hiester scored three touchdowns as Upper St. Clair upset No. 2-ranked Peters Township, 31-3, in Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference play. Mateo Cepullio also caught a touchdown pass for the Panthers (3-3, 1-0). Sam Miller threw for 113 yards and two interceptions for Peters Township (4-2, 0-1). Bethel Park...
Mt. Lebanon comes alive in 2nd half, beats North Allegheny for 1st time since 2005
The Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils had to bow down to a banner strung across the entrance to their locker room all week long leading up to their Friday match-up with the North Allegheny Tigers. The banner said just “2005 bow down” and was hung low so as to force each...
