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Lincoln Park basketball standout LA Pratt commits to Duquesne
Lincoln Park basketball standout LA Pratt will play his college ball close to home. The 6-foot-5 point guard announced his verbal commitment to Duquesne via his social media accounts Tuesday afternoon. Pratt averaged 13 points per game for Lincoln Park last season, helping the Leopards to a 19-6 record, a...
North Allegheny tops Shaler, earns 5th consecutive trip to state volleyball finals
North Allegheny will try for No. 5. Already a four-time defending state champion, the NA girls earned a trip to the volleyball state finals for the fifth year in a row after defeating rival Shaler, 3-1, in a PIAA Class 4A semifinal Tuesday night at Fox Chapel. The Tigers rallied...
Clutch goalkeeping sends Hampton past West Allegheny, into state finals
When Zach Panza’s attempt hit the crossbar and put Hampton on the brink of elimination in round four of penalty kicks, Talbots goalkeeper Thomas Bradfield admitted he thought his high school career was over. It was an understandable thought because the odds of making consecutive saves in penalty kicks aren’t...
Westmoreland County girls athlete of the week: Derry’s Jane Huss
Jane Huss School: Derry Sport: Cross country Class: Freshman Claim to fame: Huss finished 68th out of 264 girls in 21 minutes, 13 seconds, improving her time of 21:31 from the WPIAL meet, at the PIAA Class 2A cross country championships Nov. 6 on the Parkview Course in Hershey. Huss...
A-K Valley girls athlete of the week: Plum’s Ava Weleski
Ava Weleski Class: Sophomore School: Plum Sport: Soccer Report card: Weleski scored the winning goal for Plum in a 2-1 victory over Mechanicsburg in the PIAA Class 3A quarterfinals Saturday. She also has three multi-goal games in the postseason and a total of seven goals. This season is the first...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Nov. 16, 2021
As the Road to Hershey officially opens up this weekend, there were plenty of changes in the Trib HSSN weekly state rankings as the district playoffs wind down. Seven teams are gone for good in 2021 from the state rankings as district playoffs morph into the state postseason in Week...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 16, 2021
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs Class 3A Semifinals Tuesday’s results Emmaus 3, Conestoga 1 Lower Dauphin 3, Central York 2 Championship Saturday’s schedule Emmaus vs. Lower Dauphin at Whitehall, 3 p.m. Class 2A Semifinals Tuesday’s results Twin Valley 1, Southern Lehigh 0 Gwynedd Mercy 2, Mechanicsburg 1 Championship Saturday’s...
High school roundup for Nov. 16, 2021: Seneca Valley keeps repeat bid alive
Max Marcotte scored the winning goal with less than seven minutes left in regulation as defending state champion Seneca Valley earned a return trip to Hershey with a 2-1 win over Peters Township in the PIAA Class 4A semifinals Tuesday night. Beaux Lizewski assisted on the winning goal. Nathan Prex...
GCC girls soccer avenges WPIAL title loss to Steel Valley
It’s back to Hershey for Greensburg Central Catholic. But it didn’t look promising for a while Tuesday night when standout junior Sara Felder left in the first half with a knee injury during a PIAA girls soccer semifinal against Steel Valley. Felder returned after halftime and needed some time to...
Hampton girls volleyball rallies past Freeport, reaches PIAA Class 3A final for 1st time
Two sets away from a trip to the state volleyball finals, perhaps the Freeport girls showed their age for the first time all season. Hampton showed its poise. With two freshman starters on the court, Freeport won Game 1 in Tuesday’s PIAA Class 3A semifinal, but the WPIAL champion Yellow...
Mars girls soccer headed back to Hershey after another win over Plum
The Mars girls soccer team is headed back to Hershey for a shot at its third straight PIAA championship. Sophomore Ainsley Ray headed home a corner kick from fellow sophomore Addi Girdwood with 10 minutes, 36 seconds left in the second half to lift the Planets past Plum, 1-0, in...
Knoch makes football coaching change
Brandon Mowry will not be back as Knoch’s football coach. The South Butler School District released a statement Tuesday announcing the move. “At this time, we have made the decision to move in a new direction with our football program,” the statement read.“We feel it is in the best interest...
Dotchin, Kerr hired as Highlands basketball coaches
Highlands has its basketball coaches. Corey Dotchin and Jason Kerr, junior varsity coaches and varsity assistants for the Golden Rams boys and girls teams, respectively, have been elevated to head coaching positions. They were hired at Monday’s school board meeting. “It is definitely a relief,” Highlands athletic director Drew Karpen...
Westmoreland boys athlete of the week: Greensburg Salem’s Owen Tutich
Owen Tutich School: Greensburg Salem Sport: Hockey Year: Junior Claim to fame: Tutich had two goals and two assists to lead Greensburg Salem (2-4) to a 9-4 win over Moon in Class A action on Nov. 11. Tutich has 17 points, which is third in Class A, with eight goals...
A-K Valley boys athlete of the week: Burrell’s Joe Scolaro
Joe Scolaro Class: Senior School: Highlands/Burrell Sport: Hockey Report card: Scolaro scored twice and had an assist to help Burrell’s hockey team top Wilmington, 7-1, last Monday. It was his second two-goal game of the season. He had a team-leading six goals and 11 points entering Monday’s game against Ringgold....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 15, 2021
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs Semifinals Tuesday’s schedule Class 3A Conestoga vs. Emmaus at Central Bucks West, 6 p.m.; Central York vs. Lower Dauphin at Landis Field, 6 p.m. Class 2A Twin Valley vs. Southern Lehigh at Exeter Township, 5:30 p.m.; Gwynedd Mercy vs. Mechanicsburg at Exeter Township, 7:30...
WPIAL investigates allegations of ‘racial bigotry, unsportsmanlike play’ by South Side football team
The WPIAL is investigating accusations of “racial bigotry and unsportsmanlike play” levied against the South Side football team. The allegations involve actions and derogatory comments made during last week’s WPIAL playoff loss to Steel Valley, which brought the concerns to the WPIAL’s attention. “Steel Valley and South Side played a...
Plum girls soccer gets another crack at nemesis Mars, this time in state semifinals
The Plum girls soccer team had to endure a pair of 170-mile round trips — two excursions to Hollidaysburg’s Tiger Stadium, near Altoona — for the first two rounds of the PIAA Class 3A playoffs. Those trips, long as they were, did yield winning results: a first-round 3-1 victory over...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Nov. 16, 2021: Another chapter in volleyball’s hottest rivalry
A fourth fray in the final four of 4A. The PIAA volleyball playoffs move into the semifinals round with two rivals ready to square off for a berth in the state title match at stake. Defending PIAA and current WPIAL champion North Allegheny faces a familiar foe Tuesday when it...
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week for Nov. 15, 2021
So what does a head coach think about when the opposing team is ling up for a potential game-tying field goal in the waning seconds of regulation? “Just thinking overtime plans, what we would do if we won the toss, how to attack Gateway, who we would have available due...
Freeport, Hampton clash for 4th time this season — in PIAAs
The final hurdle between Freeport girls volleyball and returning to a state championship game is a very familiar foe. In a rare occurrence, Freeport and Hampton will meet for the fourth time this season. This time it’s in the PIAA Class 3A semifinals 6 p.m. Tuesday at Fox Chapel. The...
PIAA girls soccer preview capsule: Steel Valley vs. Greensburg Central Catholic, Tuesday, Nov. 16
PIAA soccer preview Girls Class A Semifinals Greensburg Central Catholic (17-2) vs. Steel Valley (20-3) 7 p.m. Tuesday, Warrior Stadium, Elizabeth Forward, Elizabeth Road to the semis: GCC — Defeated Mercer, 3-2; and Freedom, 1-0. Steel Valley — Defeated Northern Bedford, 6-1; and West Branch, 5-0. Winner plays: Winner of...
PIAA girls soccer preview capsule: Plum vs. Mars, Tuesday, Nov. 16
Class 3A Semifinals 7-2 Plum (21-2-1) vs. 7-1 Mars (18-0-1) 6 p.m. Tuesday at Shaler Titans Stadium, Shaler Middle School, Glenshaw Winner plays: Winner of 1-1 Radnor/12-1 Archbishop Ryan in championship game at 4 p.m. Saturday in Hershey Tuesday’s contest is a rematch of a 2-1 Mars victory in the...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Nov. 15, 2021
The WPIAL football playoffs reach their final destination in Class 6A while making one final stop on the Highway to Heinz this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of all 10 WPIAL semifinals football games in Class 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A and A...
A-K Valley senior spotlight: Plum’s Marissa Liberto
Marissa Liberto Plum girls soccer Marissa Liberto can score a goal or two. She also loves setting up her teammates. The Plum senior forward/midfielder and newly minted All-WPIAL performer just wants to win soccer games. “Winning the game is all that matters,” said Liberto, who will help lead the 21-2-1...
