Jerin Steele stories, Page 26

As his third season as the Pine-Richland boys soccer coach wrapped up, Jordan Wiegand could sense his players fully bought into the family-like culture he’s been trying to build. It’s taken some time to get there, but there’s trust, belief and brotherhood within the Rams. Even though they fell short...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds’ chances of hosting a first-round playoff game were dashed Saturday night in one of the sloppiest matches of the season. A total of 39 fouls and 12 yellow cards were handed out between the Riverhounds and Hartford Athletic in a match that featured little rhythm and ended...

Brock Janeda is a catcher on the Montour baseball team, but Friday night he was the closer on the football field. Janeda scored two rushing touchdowns and intercepted a pass in the final minute to propel Montour to the WPIAL playoffs with a 34-27 victory at Chartiers Valley. In a...

Saturday’s games Boys Quarterfinals Class 4A 5-Fox Chapel (13-3-1) at 4-Canon-McMillan (13-2-1) Noon at Canon-Mac Stadium, Canonsburg Winner plays: winner of 9-Allderdice (13-4-1)/1-Seneca Valley (15-0-1) on Tuesday (Site/Time TBD) Notes: The Foxes will look to knock off the Big Macs for the second time after beating them, 3-0, during the...

When Emma Rigone converted a penalty kick to give Norwin the lead in the second half, it looked like the Knights might sneak out of NexTier Stadium with their second victory there this season, but Zoe Simpson made sure Seneca Valley defended its home turf. Simpson scored the tying goal...

Nash Wedner Class: Senior School: Fox Chapel Sport: Hockey Report card: Wedner posted a 23-save shutout in a 1-0 victory over Freeport last Monday. He has a 4-0 record with a 1.25 goals against average and a .952 save percentage this season. The Foxes were off to a 4-0 start...

Ashley McAdams Class: Senior School: Deer Lakes Sport: Soccer Report card: McAdams had a hat trick in a 6-0 nonsection win over Keystone Oaks last week. She also had a goal in the Section 2-2A finale, a 4-3 win over Burrell. Earlier this season, McAdams had a four-goal game in...

As word got out that Luke Diel had recorded a hole-in-one on a par 4, his phone started getting flooded with messages, and some advised him to play the lottery. Considering Diel accomplished a feat that has six million-to-one odds, maybe a scratch-off ticket or two might have been worth...

Monday’s games Boys Class 2A First round 15-Burrell (7-7) at 2-Quaker Valley (15-2) 6:30 p.m. at Quaker Valley Stadium, Leetsdale Winner plays: Winner of 7-Deer Lakes (8-4-1)/10-East Allegheny (10-5) 6:30 p.m. Thursday (Site TBD) Notes: Burrell placed fourth in Section 2 and will look to pull an upset in the...

As co-captains for the Pine-Richland ultimate team, Reid Duncan and Matt Farmar have made it their mission to make everyone who joins the team feel at home. Ultimate is unique in several ways compared to other scholastic sports, but one of the biggest differences is that players from seventh grade...

With a young team this fall, Pine-Richland girls tennis coach Jirakorn “Dang” Siraprasert wasn’t sure how the season would go. In the end, the Rams ended up in familiar territory by making the WPIAL team tennis playoffs for the 17th consecutive season. The Rams fell 5-0 to Fox Chapel in...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds received the news they hoped for Friday when the USL announced there will be a restart of the game at Miami FC in the 67th minute due to an officiating error that cost them a goal. For that match to matter in the race for a home...

Ligonier Valley coach Roger Beitel joked he will need to visit his cardiologist after watching the last 24 seconds of Friday’s game against Shady Side Academy. If the emotions of the final sequence were measured, they probably would look like sharp, jagged lines on a heart monitor. The Rams went...

Saturday’s games Boys Class 3A 11-Gateway (10-8) at 6-Kiski Area (14-3) at 6:30 p.m. 3 p.m. at Shawn L. Kuhn Memorial Stadium, Vandergrift Winner plays: Winner of 14-Trinity (10-5-2)/3-Franklin Regional (13-3) at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (site TBD) The Gators are in the postseason for a second consecutive season after placing...

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...

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...

The Pine-Richland girls cross country team has faced some adversity this year with injuries, but it hasn’t dampened the dream of winning WPIAL gold. A big meet win Oct. 9 helped reassure the Rams that they have a team capable of getting the job done. With a fully healthy team...

First-year Pine-Richland girls volleyball coach Angela Seman is a huge believer in giving back to the community and wants to pass that trait on to her players. At the same time she is helping a friend and her young son. The Rams hosted an event for 4-year-old Daniel George, who...

Leechburg football crossed a major goal off its list Saturday and did so in dominant fashion. For the first time in 30 years the Blue Devils clinched a winning season with a 71-8 rout of Riverview in a Class A Eastern Conference game on a soggy Saturday afternoon at Riverside...

It’s not often that a team has a chance to win or tie the game late in the fourth quarter on the road at Neil C. Brown Stadium, but that’s the situation Greensburg Central Catholic had Friday night. But one last big play from a Clairton secondary that had its...

Eliza Miller Class: Sophomore School: Kiski Area Sport: Cross Country Report card: Miller set a Division I, Section 4 meet record with a time of 18 minutes, 57 seconds en route to winning at Northmoreland Park last Wednesday. Her performance helped the Kiski Area girls to a third-place finish in...

When Burrell hockey president Dave Burkett approached Luke Kopchak this summer about becoming the next coach of the Bucs, it didn’t take long for him to decide to jump on the opportunity. Kopchak had coached many of the players on the roster in amateur hockey and was an assistant for...

To put in perspective how young the Freeport hockey team is, consider it will dress more freshmen than seniors every time it takes the ice this season. The Yellowjackets also will be low on numbers with only 11 skaters and two goalies, but coach Kelly Mason isn’t using their youth...

Gavin Cole Class: Senior School: Leechburg Sport: Soccer Report card: Cole had a hat trick in an 8-0 win for Leechburg over Derry last Tuesday. Through nine games, Cole had eight goals and eight assists. He is also the kicker for the Apollo-Ridge football team. Leechburg and Apollo-Ridge have a...

For goalkeepers, Danny Vitiello likens penalty kicks to playing the lottery. If that’s the case, then Vitiello hit the jackpot Sunday night. With the Riverhounds holding a one-goal lead in the 57th minute, Vitiello stared down Tampa Bay’s Leo Fernandes and then dove to his right to make a save...