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High school roundup for Nov. 25, 2019: South Park goalie Shane Peremba makes 47 saves in shootout win
Shane Peremba made 47 saves and Kirk Steward scored a shorthanded goal to lead South Park (8-2-0) to a 2-1 shootout win in PIHL hockey Monday night. Reed Troutman scored and Nash Wedner made 43 saves for Fox Chapel (3-2-2). North Allegheny 7, Seneca Valley 1 — Tyler Lamark had...
WPIAL bans West Mifflin from 2020 football playoffs for using ineligible playerVideo
The West Mifflin football team used an ineligible player all season, so the Titans are banned from the postseason next year, the WPIAL decided Monday. “They entered (the playoffs) this year ineligibly, so next year someone gets to play in their place,” associate executive director Amy Scheuneman said following a...
Twenty-four WPIAL players make all-state soccer teams
The Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association revealed its all-state selections Monday and the WPIAL made its presence known on the boys and girls teams. Twenty-four district players were chosen. Boys from the WPIAL to make the list are: senior forward Fletcher Amos of West Allegheny, Franklin Regional sophomore forward Anthony DiFalco,...
WPIAL Football Team of the Week: Week 13
Gateway began the 2019 season as everybody’s favorite to win the WPIAL Class 5A championship. However after a Week 1 loss in their Big East Conference opener to Penn-Trafford and a Week 7 defeat at Washington Massillon of Ohio, the Gators entered the district postseason quietly. However, after close playoff...
Latrobe girls look to turn lessons learned into playoff berth
Latrobe’s girls basketball team expects a year to make a big difference for its roster. Other than three seniors, the Wildcats were loaded with sophomores and freshmen last year. That inexperience hurt a little as the team finished out of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs with a 12-9 overall record...
Latrobe boys looking to fill scoring void
Latrobe’s boys basketball team begins the season more than 800 points in the hole. The graduation of seniors Bryce Butler and Reed Fenton left quite a void in the Wildcats’ lineup and on the scoreboard. Butler averaged 22.4 points per game, while Fenton was right behind at 19.1. “I don’t...
Kiski Area girls hope experience, work ethic lead to growth
Kiski Area girls basketball coach Nick Dizon couldn’t have been happier with the work his group put into its offseason. Whether it was mandatory or voluntary, Dizon saw his girls putting in max effort, whether it was getting into the gym after school in the spring, playing AAU basketball in...
Kiski Area boys plan to pick up the pace
Entering year two of his tenure at Kiski Area, Will Saunders is ready to let his team run. The Cavaliers will be young this year, but Saunders is excited because he has a team that fits his style of up-tempo basketball that’ll combat a lot of half-court offenses in a...
PIHL Player of the Week for week ending Nov. 24, 2019
It’s been a sluggish start for Thomas Jefferson’s second-leading scorer from the 2018-19 campaign. Junior Eddie Pazo has only played in six games while missing some time for travel hockey. Beyond that, he’s a big part of the talented junior class for the Jaguars. Maybe it just takes one goal...
PIHL Team of the Week for week ending Nov. 24, 2019
The 2018-19 season was historic for the Burrell hockey team. The Bucs were PIHL runners-up in Division 2, but that’s not to take away from what the Bucs did elsewhere. On the big stage at the national tournament in the open division, the Bucs raced to a second-place finish. They...
High school schedule for Nov. 25, 2019
High schools Football PIAA playoffs Semifinals Class 6A Friday’s sschedule Downingtown West (12-1) vs. Central Dauphin (12-2) at Coatesville, 7 p.m. Saturday’s schedule St. Joseph’s Prep (10-2) vs. Central Catholic (12-1) at Altoona’s Mansion Park Stadium, 1 p.m. Class 5A Friday’s schedule Cocalico (11-2) vs. Cheltenham (13-1) at Hersheypark Stadium,...
WPIAL football player of the week — Week 13Video
Avonworth relied heavily on a Jax of all trades, who mastered them all. Senior Jax Miller went wild from the wildcat as he rushed for 291 yards on 43 carries in leading Avonworth past Washington, 28-6, in the WPIAL Class 2A championship game Saturday afternoon. The title was the first...
For Jeannette girls basketball, ‘It starts with believing’
Jeannette girls basketball coach Jonathan Bass has high expectations for his team. Even though Jeannette finished 4-17 last season and graduated its best player, Dymond Crawford, Bass feels the team has a chance to contend for a playoff spot in Section 2-2A. The reason for Bass’s optimism is he expects...
Jeannette boys basketball plans to contend in Class 2AVideo
Midway through last season, the Jeannette boys basketball team was mired in a three-game Section 2-2A losing streak. The Jayhawks were on the verge of falling out of playoff contention if they didn’t right the ship. That was about the time Jeannette coach Adrian Batts decided to make a change...
Rule allows multiple wrestlers to compete at same weight class
The high school wrestling season kicks off Dec. 6 with a few rule changes. Teams, with permission from tournament directors, will be allowed to enter two wrestlers in a weight class from the same school if the 16-man bracket isn’t full. Canon-McMillan athletic director Frank Vulcano said the Chartiers-Houston, Cumberland...
Norwin standout Walker to miss 1st month of basketball season
Norwin junior Jayden Walker is expected to miss the first month of basketball season as he recovers from surgery on his left labrum. Also a standout baseball player with a promising future as a left-handed pitcher, Walker had the surgery in June and plans to return in early January. “I...
Football PIAA semifinals provide holiday treat on Trib HSSN
The holiday known for family and travel will be the precursor to a football feast on the TribLive High School Sports Network. All of us associated with the TribLive High School Sports network and Trib Total media wish all of our fans and supporters and their families a safe and...
PIHL high school hockey standings through Nov. 24, 2019
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Nov. 24. Exclusive coverage of the 2020 PIHL Penguins Cup hockey playoffs can be heard and viewed only here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. In Class AAA, the top 8 teams qualify for the playoffs. In Class...
PIAA sites, times: Thomas Jefferson, Gateway have rare Friday afternoon semifinals
For the first time since the expansion to six classifications four years ago, all six WPIAL football champions are preparing for a state semifinals contest this holiday weekend. The WPIAL crowned its final two 2019 champions in Week 13 with Gateway in Class 5A and Avonworth in 2A winning district...
Reiter brothers help write Hollywood ending to Quaker Valley soccer season
Dom Reiter will replay the final moments from the PIAA Class AA championship game in his head over and over like a viral video. He’ll recall goaltender Rees Edwards darting across the penalty box to field a free kick in the last second, hugging the first person he saw, forward...
High school scores, schedules for Nov. 23, 2019
High schools Football WPIAL championships Saturday’s results Class 5A Gateway 21, Peters Township 20 Class 2A Avonworth 28, Washington 6 PIAA playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Nov. 29-30 schedule Date, site, time TBD Downingtown West (12-1) vs. Central Dauphin; St. Joseph’s Prep (9-2) vs. Central Catholic (11-1) Class 5A Semifinals Nov....
Bishop Carroll, Heritage Conference reach agreement
With Ligonier Valley on the verge of moving to the WPIAL, pending PIAA approval, the Heritage Conference and Bishop Carroll have come to a two-year agreement in football. The announcement was made in a news release by Bishop Carroll principal Lorie Ratchford and Heritage Conference president Jody Rainey. The Heritage...
Freeport girls basketball looking for sustained success
The Freeport girls basketball team is hoping to carry over its momentum from last season. The Yellowjackets won 18 games last winter and earned the fourth seed, but they lost in the first round to No. 13 Quaker Valley. Fred Soilis’ team didn’t shoot that well that night, but it...
Freeport boys determined to snap WPIAL playoff victory drought
The Freeport boys basketball team is aware of the hump they have not recently managed to get over. The group that will take the floor this season, especially the seniors, are determined to end a drought that dates to the 2009-10 season. The Yellowjackets haven’t won a playoff since February...
WPIAL Class 5A final notebook: Gateway QB’s foot makes key play
Gateway quarterback Bryson Venanzio had a spectacular game from a passing standpoint, but his biggest play of the night might have come with his foot, not his arm. A pooch punt on fourth down from the Peters Township 40-yard line to the 1 with 3 minutes, 52 seconds left in...
