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WPIAL Football Team of the Week: Week 10
Three WPIAL schools were looking for milestone victories as well as a win to advance on opening night of the district playoffs. Greensburg Salem and North Hills will have to wait for wins No. 700 and 500, respectively. South Park, however, was able to enjoy the program’s 400th victory, a...
PIAA soccer, volleyball, field hockey playoffs begin Tuesday
The WPIAL came up empty in the PIAA girls soccer playoffs last year. Now, 11 teams begin their quest for a golden change. Tuesday marks the start of the 2019 PIAA boys and girls soccer playoffs, with first-round action throughout the commonwealth. Last season was the first time since 2014...
Springdale boys soccer looks to avenge playoff losses
It only has been two years since the Springdale boys soccer team made a run to the PIAA Class A tournament. During that 2017 season, the Dynamos lost to North Catholic in the WPIAL Class A championship game, then advanced to the state quarterfinals, losing 2-1 to District 9 champion...
Inaugural Moe Rosensteel Award to recognize WPIAL’s best girls soccer player
When the Rosensteel family tragically lost their daughter and sister, the Western Pennsylvania soccer community embraced them, consoled them and did their best to help them through the grieving process. Kaitlyn “Moe” Rosensteel died in June. Five months later, her father has formed the Kaitlyn “Moe” Rosensteel Scholarship Foundation —...
Deer Lakes boys soccer turns attention to PIAA tournament
Friday night brought a disappointing end to Deer Lakes’ quest for a WPIAL soccer championship. Now the Lancers boys turns their attention to the PIAA Class AA tournament. Deer Lakes (16-5) will take on District 6 champion Juniata at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bald Eagle Area High School. The Lancers...
WPIAL announces football playoff sites for Week 11: Class 5A rematch at West A
Peters Township and Moon, co-champions in the Allegheny Eight, will play for the second time in six weeks when they meet Friday night in a WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal at West Allegheny. The WPIAL revealed Week 11 playoff sites Monday. Moon won 21-13 at home in Week 6. But that’s...
High school schedules for Nov. 4, 2019
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs First round Tuesday’s schedule Class 3A Downingtown West vs. Central Dauphin at Methacton, 6 p.m.; Wilson vs. Peters Township at Mechanicsburg, 5 p.m.; Cardinal O’Hara vs. O.J. Roberts at The Proving Grounds, Conshohocken, 5 p.m.; Emmaus vs. Garnet Valley at Nazareth, 6:30 p.m.; Lower...
WPIAL football player of the week — Week 10
For most of Friday’s WPIAL Class 5A first-round playoff game, it looked like Baldwin would pull off the road upset as the No. 11 seed and celebrate the school’s first football playoff win in 28 years. However, McKeesport quarterback Devari Robinson had other ideas, and his second-half heroics kept another...
PIHL Team of the Week for Nov. 3, 2019
Cathedral Prep hosted Bethel Park on Tuesday in what was anything but another early-season PIHL game. Just 10 days following the death of Rambler senior forward John “Jack” Schoenig in the State College area, his teammates returned to the ice for their first game since the heartbreaking news. Schoenig died...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week — Nov. 4, 2019
The TribLIVE High School Sports Network PIHL Player of the Week is a forward for just the second time this season. His coach described him as a spark plug. It was a three-goal, two-assist night in a 7-6 Canon-McMillan victory over Central Catholic, with three of those points coming in...
WPIAL football playoff quarterfinals and semifinals take center stage on HSSN
With the WPIAL soccer and volleyball playoffs in the books, the focus turns to the district football postseason this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Our exclusive coverage of the district football playoffs continues with video and audio coverage from quarterfinals and semifinals action of all 16...
Future bright for Riverview boys cross country team
Riverview junior Mason Ochs finished eighth in the Class A boys race at Saturday’s PIAA cross country championships after taking second at WPIALs. Teammate Gideon Deasy was 14th. The top five Raiders runners — all underclassmen — posted finishes 40th or better to help the team finish runner-up to Winchester...
Pine-Richland lineman Miguel Jackson adds 3rd Division I offerVideo
Pine-Richland’s Miguel Jackson, one of the WPIAL’s top pass rushers, added his third Division I offer this week. The 6-foot-2, 240-pound junior announced an offer Friday from Toledo, his thirdMid-American Conference school. The guard and defensive end already holds offers from Akron and Bowling Green. Jackson has 8½ sacks, 47...
2 WPIAL seniors receive 1st Division I offers from Rhode IslandVideo
Two WPIAL football players received their first Division I offers this week from the same FCS school. Rhode Island extended offers to Mt. Lebanon senior Mason Ventrone and Moon senior Brenden Luffey, the players announced on Twitter. Leading the Rams’ recruiting efforts around the WPIAL is first-year assistant coach Josh...
Knoch, Freeport volleyball teams seek repeat of 2017 PIAA titles
In 2017, the Knoch and Freeport volleyball teams played the final three matches of their PIAA championship runs in the same location. The Knights followed the Yellowjackets on the court in the quarterfinals at Slippery Rock High School, the semifinals at Seneca Valley High School and the finals at Richland...
Riverview places 2nd at PIAA Class A cross country meet
HERSHEY — Jenkintown came into the PIAA Class A boys cross country championships as the heavy favorite to win the team title. But its top runner was injured during the race, which opened the door for two WPIAL teams — Winchester Thurston and Riverview — to battle for the title....
High school scores, schedules for Nov. 2, 2019
High schools Cross country Boys Saturday’s results PIAA championships At Hershey Class AAA Team results Downingtown West, 65; La Salle College, 84; North Allegheny, 112; Butler, 156; Penncrest, 164; Unionville, 193; Lower Merion, 197; Council Rock South, 228; State College, 232; Cedar Crest, 265 Individual results Patrick Anderson, Mt. Lebanon,...
Knoch girls volleyball beats Thomas Jefferson for 3rd straight WPIAL title
In its playoff run, Knoch girls volleyball proved how strong a team it is by grinding out wins without standout hitters Kennedy Christy and Hannah Rowe. On Saturday in the WPIAL finals, Rowe showed how good a player she is, and delivered a three-peat for the Knights. Rowe, surrounded by...
Canon-McMillan shocks North Allegheny for first WPIAL volleyball title
Entering the WPIAL Class AAAA girls volleyball championship between third-seeded Canon-McMillan and top-seeded and unbeaten North Allegheny, the Big Macs were big underdogs. But Canon-McMillan pulled a major upset, ending the Tigers’ 65-match winning streak with a five-set victory Saturday and earning its first WPIAL title. “This team has been...
A-K Valley football teams fall short in 1st round of WPIAL playoffs
When sophomore Cody Dykes connected on a 33-yard field goal early in the second quarter of Friday’s WPIAL Class 5A first-round game at Bethel Park, the Kiski Area football team held a 10-point lead. Seniors running backs Peyton McCann and Luke Lander combined for 106 yards to that point, and...
5 things we learned in Week 10: McGuffey, West Greene celebrate 1st WPIAL playoff win in decades
McGuffey waited 25 years for Friday night’s celebration. West Greene waited 26. New Brighton waited 18. Cornell had waited forever. Sometimes, a WPIAL playoff win arrives only once in a generation, a fact McGuffey junior Evan Wright and a few of his teammates understand well. McGuffey’s wait ended when the...
Mt. Lebanon’s Patrick Anderson leads trio of area cross country state champions
HERSHEY — Mount Lebanon senior Patrick Anderson said it’s not easy to win back-to-back cross country titles. “I’ve gone into every race this season knowing there was a target on my back,” Anderson said after winning his second consecutive PIAA Class AAA title Saturday at the cross country state championships...
Bishop Canevin tops Fort Cherry for 3rd straight WPIAL volleyball title
Bishop Canevin has reached the WPIAL Class A girls volleyball finals in each of the past eight seasons. On Saturday, the Crusaders completed the first three-peat for the crown since Hopewell capped a four-year run in 2005. Bishop Canevin took down Fort Cherry, 3-1, in the first of four championships...
Peters Township doubles tandem claims PIAA championship
Peters Township’s Kat Wang and Marra Bruce claimed the PIAA Class AAA doubles tennis title Saturday afternoon after defeating Radnor’s Kanon Ciarrocchi and Lucy Hederick, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, at Hershey Racquet Club. Wang and Bruce advanced to the finals by beating Avery Palandjian and Scotty Reynolds of Manheim Township, 6-3,...
Westmoreland football notebook: Only 4 teams remain after 1st round of playoffs
And then there were four. The opening night of the high school football postseason began with 12 Westmoreland County teams, but only four advanced Friday. Three teams — WPIAL Class 5A top seed Penn-Trafford (10-1), Class 4A No. 3 Belle Vernon (9-1), and Ligonier Valley (11-0) in District 6 —...
