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High school roundup for Oct. 7, 2020: Melissa Riggins, Shady Side Academy grab key section win
Melissa Riggins scored two goals to lead No. 2 Shady Side Academy (5-0, 5-0) to a 2-1 victory over Burrell (5-2, 5-2) in a girls soccer matchup between the top two teams in the Section 2-2A standings Wednesday night. Belle Vernon 9, Albert Gallatin 0 – Jillian Butchki had five...
PIAA tweaks fall playoff brackets, cross country qualifiers for state championship
The PIAA made changes to its fall postseason plans Wednesday including a move that lets more WPIAL runners into the state cross country championships. Also, the playoff brackets for team sports were altered to remove the Pittsburgh City League, which opted out, and add District 12, after the Philadelphia Catholic...
No immediate plans for Norwin to suspend sports amid covid-19 shutdown
Norwin is shutting down five schools, including its high school, after seven confirmed cases of covid-19 in the district. But there are no plans to suspend high school athletics. Several Norwin teams played Wednesday, including the girls soccer team, after the district’s announcement that five new cases were traced to...
PIAA readies covid-19 guidelines for winter, intends to start seasons as scheduled
As fall sports approach the postseason, the PIAA is turning its attention to winter. Covid-19 guidelines for basketball, wrestling and all other winter sports will be produced soon, PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi said, adding that the PIAA intends to start those seasons next month as scheduled. The PIAA board...
Springdale boys soccer reloads, continues impressive run of success
It’s a recurring headline Springdale has become accustomed to reading the past few years. Whether it’s losing a standout goalkeeper who recorded 14 shutouts in a season or losing its top two goal scorers and a top defender, the narrative usually is the same. “We’re used to the headline being...
Trib 10: WPIAL’s top teams stand their ground in Week 4
There was very little movement in the HSSN power rankings as we pass the midway point of the regular season. In fact, there was zero movement in the Trib 10 this week. That equates to last week’s ranked teams winning, which in fact seven of them did. The other three...
With injuries hitting roster, Monessen football forced to forfeit to Carmichaels
Low numbers have cost Monessen with three games left to play this season. The district announced Wednesday that the Greyhounds will forfeit Friday’s scheduled game against Carmichaels due to player safety reasons. “It’s never an easy decision,” Monessen High School principal Eric Manko said. “At the most, we were only...
A-K Valley boys soccer notebook: Loaded sections make for intense playoff push
It’s still unclear how the boys soccer playoffs will look, or where the WPIAL championships will be played, but several teams in the A-K Valley are vying for those coveted playoff spots in crowded sections. As of Wednesday, six teams from the A-K Valley were in the top three of...
Westmoreland County football notes: Franklin Regional sneaking up on Class 5A foes
Is that Franklin Regional hiding in the tall grass of the Class 5A Big East Conference? The Panthers are the team nobody is talking about yet as they quietly sit 3-1 overall and 1-1 in the Big East Conference. Their only loss is to No. 2 Gateway, but they have...
Greensburg Central Catholic boys soccer playing like ‘legitimate’ contender
One mark of a title-contending team is how it responds to playing from behind. How it deals with adversity. Defending WPIAL Class A boys soccer champion Greensburg Central Catholic started the week ranked No. 1 again and looks primed for a repeat championship. And while the Centurions are used to...
Westmoreland boys soccer notebook: Unbeaten Belle Vernon gets record-setting performances
Belle Vernon’s weekend shutout of rival Ringgold allowed a couple of players to move up in the Belle Vernon record book. Class 3A No. 4 Belle Vernon (10-0) remained undefeated with a 3-0 win Saturday over the Rams. In the process, junior forward Daniel Sassak scored the 50th goal of...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 6, 2020
LOCAL High schools Cross Country Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 3A Section 1 Derry 20, Ligonier Valley 35 Hempfield 15, Derry 46 Hempfield 15, Ligonier Valley 50 Latrobe 19, Penn-Trafford 32 Section 6 Bethel Park 15, Upper St. Clair 49 Peters Township 15, Bethel Park 49 Peters Township 26, Upper...
High school roundup for Oct. 6, 2020: Nate Eastgate nets 2 for No. 2 Seneca Valley
Nate Eastgate scored twice to lead No. 2 Seneca Valley (6-1-1, 6-1-1) to a 2-0 Section 1-4A boys soccer victory over No. 5 Fox Chapel (6-3, 5-3) in a matchup of Class 4A contenders Tuesday night. Zack LaValle and Connor Oros had assists. Ambridge 3, Freedom 1 – Nathan Lambert...
New attendance limits remove some stress for WPIAL schools
High school administrators across the PIAA were verifying the number of seats in their stadiums and gymnasiums Tuesday after Gov. Tom Wolf eased limits on gathering sizes. The governor’s new formula is based on a percentage of a facility’s capacity rather than the 25-person indoor and 250-person outdoor restrictions previously...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Oct. 6, 2020
We have made a successful move into October football. Well, most of the HSSN state-ranked teams made the safe transition and started the 10th month of the year with a victory. However, four teams did not win and have been banished from the top five feast table as the second...
Westmoreland high school girls soccer notebook: Daughter gets best of dad in showdown
Izzy Laurita felt a strange type of nervousness last week when Belle Vernon took the field against visiting Hempfield. Normal game jitters were present, but things just felt a little different when Laurita looked across the field and saw … her father … on the opposing sideline. Roland Laurita is...
Field can’t catch Moon’s Justin Scally at WPIAL Class AAA golf championshipsVideo
Moon senior Justin Scally posted a low score early at Tuesday’s WPIAL Class AAA boys golf championship. Then he sat around for an hour and a half, waiting to see if his 2-under-par 69 at South Hills Country Club would hold up. It did, as he watched Shady Side Academy...
A-K Valley teams jockey for position as girls soccer playoffs draw near
The section schedules in each of the four WPIAL girls soccer classifications are to conclude Oct. 20. The WPIAL soccer committee will meet the next day to set the playoff field. A lot of games will be played over the next couple of weeks in what has become an unprecedented...
Franklin Regional girls soccer thriving under 1st-year coach’s new system
Sitting atop Section 1-AAA with a half-game lead as this late-starting girls’ soccer season nears its halfway point pleases Franklin Regional. The Panthers didn’t expect to be in this position. It has happened organically, a byproduct of a commitment to a new coach and his new style of play. But...
WPIAL Class AAA girls golf championship preview: Players face tough test at Oakmont Country Club
WPIAL Class AAA girls golf individual championship 10 a.m. Thursday, Oakmont Country Club, Plum 2019 champion: Isabella Walter, North Allegheny The field: 35 players will compete over 18 holes for the district championship. The player breakdown by county is: Allegheny (17), Butler (5), Westmoreland (4), Washington (4), Fayette (3), Beaver...
Gov. Wolf eases gathering restrictions with formula tied to capacity limits
Gov. Tom Wolf increased gathering-size limits for events statewide Tuesday, revealing a new formula that’s based on a percentage of a facility’s capacity rather than the 25-person indoor and 250-person outdoor restrictions previously imposed. Indoor events are limited to 10% to 20% of capacity, depending upon the venue’s size, and...
Soccer community remembers ‘Moe’ Rosensteel
They will always remember “Moe.” The WPIAL and local soccer community took time Tuesday to again honor the late Kaitlyn “Moe” Rosensteel, a former Ringgold and travel soccer standout and West Virginia Wesleyan recruit who was killed by a lightning strike — along with Greensburg Central Catholic baseball player Brendan...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 5, 2020
Field hockey Monday’s result WPIAL Class 3A North Allegheny 0, Peters Township 0 Class 2A Penn-Trafford 8, Oakland Catholic 0 Class A Shady Side Academy 5, Aquinas Academy 0 3 goals or more: Julia Moorhead, Penn-Trafford Golf Girls Monday’s results WPIAL Team championships At Connoquennessing Country Club, Ellwood City Class...
High school roundup for Oct. 5, 2020: Pine-Richland girls soccer stuns No. 2 Butler
Ava Boyd scored twice, including the tie-breaking goal in the second half, to lead help Pine-Richland (4-4-1, 3-4-1) to a 3-1 girls soccer victory over No. 2 Butler (7-1, 6-1) in Section 1-4A. Manon Rokesch also scored for the Rams. Beaver 0, Quaker Valley 0 (OT) – Ana Avdellas made...
Resurgent Norwin knocks off No. 1 Fox Chapel in girls soccer clash
For more than two decades, Norwin and Penn-Trafford have ping-ponged section titles in girls soccer. They have been section opponents for a lot longer. If it wasn’t one bringing home the hardware, it was the other. A newcomer from Allegheny County is out to change things up in the rivals’...
