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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 14, 2020
Field hockey Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 2A Penn-Trafford 13, Woodland Hills 1 Class A Shady Side Academy 4, Ellis School 1 3 goals or more: Allyson Doran, Penn-Trafford; Emma Little, Penn-Trafford Football Thursday’s schedule WPIAL Class A Tri-County South Avella at Bentworth, 6 p.m. District 8 City League Brashear at...
High school roundup for Oct. 14, 2020: North Catholic knocks off Quaker Valley
Ben Esser had a goal and an assist to help No. 5 North Catholic to a 3-2 boys soccer victory Monday, handing No. 3 Quaker Valley its first loss of the season to move into a tie for first place in Section 4-2A. Andrew Maddalon and Will Kunzmann also scored...
Greensburg Salem names alumnus Frank Sundry athletic director
Greensburg Salem School District’s hired Frank Sundry as its new athletic director. The vote was 6-3. He replaces Mike Burrell, who resigned to become the new athletic director at Norwin. Sundry is a 2004 graduate of Greensburg Salem, where he earned seven varsity letters (three in cross country, three in...
Deer Lakes avenges only loss of season with section win over Shady Side Academy
Throughout his high school career, Deer Lakes senior Mike Sullivan has been known for taking over games. Wednesday night’s Section 2-2A contest against rival Shady Side Academy was no different. The fleet-footed forward scored two goals, with the first coming just 44 seconds before the end of the first half,...
Lack of eligible players shuts down Monessen’s football season
The Monessen football program will forfeit the remaining two games of the 2020 football season. After forfeiting last week’s game with Carmichaels, the Greyhounds have also called off games against West Greene on Friday and California on Oct. 23. Last week’s game was forfeited due to injuries and players being...
Westmoreland County high school football notebook: Covid-19 halts momentum
Covid-19 has found its way into Westmoreland County schools, and the virus has caused four local football programs to shut down. Penn-Trafford, Hempfield, Derry and Southmoreland shelved team activities and canceled games this week, causing disruptions in preparation and a halt in momentum with only two weeks left in the...
Southmoreland calls off football game vs. Brownsville after joining covid-19 shutdown list
Add Southmoreland to the list of Westmoreland County high schools shutting down athletics because of covid-19 cases. Friday’s homecoming football game against Brownsville has been postponed and could be made up after the final regular season game on Oct. 23, according to Southmoreland athletic director Dan Boring. Southmoreland recorded its...
Winning culture carries over for Kiski Area girls soccer team
The Kiski Area girls soccer team advanced to the WPIAL Class AAA quarterfinals each of the past two seasons. Coach Mike Spagnolo said he hoped to continue that success this fall with a younger group of players after 11 seniors graduated. While it took time for the team to get...
Trib 10: Central Catholic falls out, Penn-Trafford joins football power rankings
For the second time in three weeks, Central Catholic came up on the short end of the stick. The Vikings began the season on top of the HSSN power rankings and remained there for nearly a month. However, losses to North Allegheny and Mt. Lebanon in the last three weeks...
A-K Valley girls soccer notebook: Fox Chapel wins rugged section
A 2-1 overtime victory over Norwin early in Section 2-AAAA play might turn out to be the difference maker in Fox Chapel’s section championship. The Foxes shut out Allderdice, 5-0, on Tuesday behind two goals from Emma Wecht, single tallies from Lucy Ream and Addie Piper and an own goal...
Elizabeth Forward’s Chase Whatton chooses MAC school from long list of college offers
Chase Whatton said he would make his college decision public on Wednesday afternoon and he held true to his word. The sought-after senior tight end and defensive end from Elizabeth Forward narrowed his choices to seven programs and revealed his top one on social media. Whatton, an all-state defensive end...
WPIAL reveals postseason plans, awards home games to higher seeds
If playoff qualifiers can’t be determined from the standings, the WPIAL steering committee for each sport will decide who makes the postseason this fall. That surely will be the most scrutinized change the WPIAL board approved Wednesday while finalizing plans for an unprecedented postseason under covid-19 conditions. Among its other...
Westmoreland boys soccer notebook: Kennedy’s return sparks Latrobe boys
Tom Kennedy returned to coach boys soccer at Latrobe this season and immediately aimed to simplify things. “In the system I used to run at GCC, it was easy,” Kennedy said. “It’s about knowing your responsibility and the players having accountability. You can’t have a breakdown. You need people to...
‘Bar has been raised’ for Belle Vernon boys soccer team
More of a formality than a confetti-filled celebration, the observance of Belle Vernon’s second section title in as many years was different. It was all business when the Leopards clinched their fifth section title. Maybe that’s because this is a boys soccer team with more on its mind than section...
Baldwin, Seneca Valley delay football game to Saturday
Baldwin and Seneca Valley have delayed this week’s football game to Saturday. The WPIAL Class 6A schools were scheduled to play Friday night but the game was delayed after Baldwin briefly paused workouts to test its players for coronavirus. All players tested negative, superintendent Randal Lutz said Wednesday in a...
PIAA flexibility lets Blackhawk, New Castle reschedule football game Oct. 30
Blackhawk and New Castle rescheduled their postponed football game for Oct. 30, the first week of the WPIAL playoffs, taking advantage of a PIAA decision to let teams extend the regular season. Neither New Castle (0-4, 0-2) nor Blackhawk (2-3, 1-2) is in position to qualify for the WPIAL playoffs...
Westmoreland County don’t miss high school football matchups for Week 6
Class 6A Norwin (1-4, 1-4) at No. 2 Mt. Lebanon (2-2, 2-2) 7 p.m. Friday, Mt. Lebanon Stadium, Mt. Lebanon Norwin scored the opening touchdown against No. 1 North Allegheny, but couldn’t keep up with the Tigers’ skill and depth in a 49-13 loss. Connor Chrisman and Noah Vogel caught...
Mars girls, Peters boys move up in national soccer rankings
Mars has not lost a girls soccer game in almost two years. The defending WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A champions have won 46 straight regular-season matches dating to 2017. That’s an awful lot of winning, a feat even worthy of national attention. Mars once again caught the eye of the...
WPIAL Clinched: Girls soccer teams through Oct. 13, 2020
There is less than a week left in section play in WPIAL girls soccer. 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...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 13, 2020
Field hockey Tuesday’s result WPIAL Class 3A Peters Township 9, Allderdice 0 Golf Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Team semifinals (Top three teams advance to the championship round) Class 2A At Beaver Valley Golf Course, Patterson Heights Quaker Valley 406, Neshannock 421, Ellwood City 432 Did not qualify North Catholic 434,...
High school roundup for Oct. 13, 2020: Bishop Canevin girls soccer stays unbeaten
Ashley Lippold had two goals and an assist and Ainsley Smith also scored to lead No. 4 Bishop Canevin (8-0-2, 8-0-2) to a 3-0 girls soccer victory over Sewickley Academy (8-2-1, 8-2-1) on Tuesday in a showdown between the top two teams in Section 4-A. Bishop Canevin will clinch the...
Southmoreland girls soccer uses second-half surge to roll past Mt. Pleasant
Sitting on a precarious one-goal lead, Mt. Pleasant kept giving visiting Southmoreland chances early in the second half. That is about the last thing a team wants to do against the upstart Scotties. Sophomore forward Olivia Cernuto had a hat trick and an assist, and junior midfielder Taylor Klingensmith added...
A-K Valley boys soccer notebook: Kiski Area filling the net after finding identity
At some point during the season, each winning team starts to hit a stride that carries it on a successful run. Since Sept. 28, the Kiski Area Cavaliers (10-2-1, 10-2) have been on a midseason run that not many teams can match. Since defeating Woodland Hills, 7-0, Sean Arnold and...
Westmoreland County girls soccer notes: Yough ‘won’t be an easy out’ in playoffs
Yough knows what it feels like to be a favorite in girls soccer. Last year, the Cougars had one of the WPIAL’s most high-powered offenses and rode it to their first district championship game appearance — and a PIAA playoff berth. But this season, Yough isn’t as prominent in the...
Norwin, Franklin Regional among fresh faces at WPIAL team golf championships
Norwin switched home courses for boys golf about five years ago. Nothing against Irwin Country Club, the Knights just wanted a layout more comparable to the ones where their section foes play. So they moved to Youghiogheny Country Club near McKeesport. It was a few more miles down the highway...
