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TJ girls tennis looks to build on playoff season
It proved to be a goal-achieving season for the Thomas Jefferson girls tennis team. “We achieved our preseason goal to make the WPIAL Class AAA team playoffs,” coach Chuck Correll said. “The team really improved from last year. The girls worked hard during the offseason. “This team ranks as one...
Baldwin girls soccer takes first steps on path to winning program
The month of October wasn’t kind to the Baldwin girls soccer team. The Highlanders wrapped up September with a 3-6-1 record but didn’t win a game down the season’s home stretch, finishing 3-12-1 overall and 3-11 in Section 2-AAAA. “If you look at the wins and losses, you could be...
Baldwin boys soccer celebrates end of long playoff drought
The postseason drought is over for the Baldwin boys soccer program. It had been eight years since the Highlanders qualified for the WPIAL playoffs. They clinched a postseason berth Oct. 10 with a clutch 3-1 section win at home against rival Bethel Park. “It was an up-and down-season with a...
In likely its final Appalachian Bowl appearance, Ligonier Valley aims to take down Portage
Ligonier Valley has shown no sympathy this year, enforcing a 35-point mercy rule in all nine football games to date — outscoring opponents by a combined 421-47. This season, however, is no different than others in recent years for the undefeated Rams. For what likely will be the final time,...
Westinghouse, University Prep to clash for City League title
One school has been the City League’s most successful football program and the other has established itself in less than a decade. Westinghouse (6-3, 3-1) will seek its 36th City crown while University Prep (8-1, 4-0) will try for its fourth title in just its ninth season in the 102nd...
North Allegheny, Pine-Richland chasing 1st-round byes along with conference title
North Allegheny coach Art Walker hasn’t studied playoff scenarios or counted tiebreaker points ahead of Friday’s regular-season finale at Pine-Richland. This is all Walker cares to know: Win and North Allegheny claims the conference title outright. “That’s it,” he said. “We haven’t done any equations. We’re just worried about the...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 24, 2019
Cross country Boys Thursday’s results WPIAL championships At Cal (Pa.) University Class AAA Team results North Allegheny, 66; Butler, 88; Seneca Valley, 163 Individual results Patrick Anderson, Mt. Lebanon, 15:41; Daniel McGoey, North Allegheny, 15:58; Zachary Leachman, Mars, 16:10; Christian Fitch, Fox Chapel, 16:16; CJ Singleton, Butler, 16:22; Zack Marmol,...
High school roundup for Oct. 24, 2019: Seneca Valley edges Moon in WPIAL girls soccer quarterfinals
Sometimes all it takes is one goal, and that adage rang true on Thursday at Mars High School as fifth-seeded Seneca Valley (13-3-2) took down third-seeded Moon (15-3-1) 1-0 in a Class AAAA girls soccer quarterfinal matchup. With just under three-minutes remaining in the first half, Seneca Valley’s Breana Valentovish...
5 things to watch in Week 9: Aliquippa, Central Valley battle for conference title
Only one team has defeated Aliquippa in the past two seasons combined: Central Valley in Week 9 last year. That’s one loss in 706 days. It’s also the only loss in Aliquippa coach Mike Warfield’s two-year tenure. “You don’t have to remind me,” Warfield said, laughing. The Beaver County rivals...
Brownsville’s Quarzo sisters celebrate, Moon’s Mia Cochran pulls off shocker at WPIAL cross country meet
Gionna Quarzo of Brownsville has made her name on the track. At the WPIAL Cross Country Championships at Cal (Pa.) on Thursday, she shined on the hilly, muddy course to capture her first cross country title in Class AA. Hot on her trail was her freshman sister Jolena, who placed...
Mt. Lebanon’s Patrick Anderson betters own course record, captures first WPIAL titleVideo
Patrick Anderson started this season by setting a course record at the Marty Uher Invitational on the Roadman Park course at Cal (Pa.). He turned in a time of 15 minutes, 54.40 seconds that day in late August. Anderson bettered that time in a return to Roadman for last week’s...
Yough girls edge Burrell for spot in soccer semifinalsVideo
Natalie Vilchek left the game for an extended period of time in the first half Thursday night after she tweaked her right knee. She returned and made an instant impact. The Yough junior checked back in with her right knee wrapped in tape and immediately set up for, of all...
West Allegheny girls soccer defeats Kiski Area to advance to first semifinal in program history
For the first time in school history, the West Allegheny girls soccer team is headed to the semifinals of the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs. After a first half in which West Allegheny and Kiski Area recorded five shots and four saves apiece, the ball finally started to find the back...
Greensburg Salem sees girls team, 2 boys qualify for states at WPIAL cross country meet
Greensburg Salem cross country coach Nathan Snider couldn’t ask for a better effort from his girls team Thursday at the WPIAL championships at Cal (Pa.). The Golden Lions finished second to South Fayette in the Class AA race and qualified for the state meet for the second consecutive season. The...
Knoch girls cross country team makes leap forward at WPIAL meet
Sammy Jo Barnes qualified for the PIAA cross country championships individually the past two seasons. The Knoch senior made it three in a row Thursday at Cal (Pa.) with a fifth-place finish (20 minutes, 27 seconds) in the Class AA girls race. Barnes was hoping for a little bit more,...
Trib HSSN high school football don’t-miss matchups for Week 9
Class 6A Central Catholic (6-1, 8-1) at Mt. Lebanon (5-2, 6-3) 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mt. Lebanon Stadium On the air: WJAS-AM 1320 and TribHSSN.TribLive.com Last week: Central Catholic 44, Canon-McMillan 0; Mt. Lebanon 45, Norwin 16 Coaches: Terry Totten, Central Catholic; Bob Palko, Mt. Lebanon Players to watch: Edward Tillman,...
Westmoreland County football notes: Penn-Trafford, Franklin Regional show mutual respect
Penn-Trafford knows what it is getting with Franklin Regional. But the sentiment is mutual. “It’s your prototypical Franklin Regional team,” Warriors coach John Ruane said. “Big, strong linemen. Physical linebackers. Good skill guys.” You get the point. That being said, Ruane has a message for his team this week as...
Trib HSSN football players to watch for Week 9
Here are four WPIAL football players to watch for during Week 9: Tui Brown Gateway, Sr., WR/LB Brown (6-3, 200) caught three passes for 100 yards in last week’s 48-7 win over Connellsville. The Division I prospect will lead the No. 2 Gators (7-2, 4-1) into battle against host McKeesport...
Cloudy playoff picture makes prognostication precarious for Chick’s Picks
The WPIAL football playoff picture does not just get cloudy on the field this time of year. As Week 9 has so many things on the line — conference titles and playoff spots to name two — things can be cloudy in the prognosticating world, as well. Chick’s Picks pondered...
George Guido: Freeport football made history in 2009
Each Friday throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look back at the games, players and events that are part of local scholastic history. Freeport won the 500th game in school history with a 37-7 victory over Deer Lakes on Oct. 23, 2009. Darius...
Shaler caught in crowded Northern Conference playoff picture
Keeping track and making sense of the WPIAL’s Class 5A Northern Conference football standings required a lot of extra attention. Other than the two teams at the top, Penn Hills and North Hills, and the one at the bottom, Armstrong, the other five teams have flip-flopped nearly every week. Shaler...
Penn Hills takes lessons from volleyball season
Heading into the season, the Penn Hills girls volleyball team was expecting to improve on its seven-win season a year ago. However, everything changed immediately in their first match. The season started off promising when the Indians won the first game, 33-31, against Section 3-AAAA champion Norwin. But in the...
North Allegheny enters girls volleyball playoffs as dangerous as ever
Pointing out a 63-match winning streak for the North Allegheny girls volleyball program somehow feels like underselling the Tigers’ story. The two-time defending PIAA and WPIAL Class AAA champions have labored to stack up victories. When the undefeated, top-seeded Tigers opened the playoffs Oct. 28 against Seneca Valley, they earned...
Injuries, lack of depth proved costly for Hampton football
As the Hampton football team looks back on its season, it might think about it as a wasted opportunity — but that doesn’t mean the team didn’t give its best. What started out as a promising year turned sour for the Talbots (2-5, 2-7) in middle of the season, when...
New coach carrying on family tradition for Hampton bowling team
Two years ago, Glenn Thomas wanted to start a bowling team at Hampton. The impetus? His sons, Garrett and Jacob, wanted to bowl. New coach Bob Wallace will follow in those footsteps. Wallace will take over a program still in its infancy, though the team started to gain traction last...
