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Belle Vernon routs West Mifflin as Hartman sets school TD record
Belle Vernon clinched a home playoff game and quarterback Jared Hartman set a single-season record for touchdown passes as the Leopards rolled past West Mifflin, 40-7, in a Big 8 conference showdown on Friday on “the Beach” at James Weir Stadium. Hartman connected on a pair of touchdown passes, a...
No ‘doormat’: Moon tied for 1st after defeating Upper St. ClairVideo
Doormats? Hardly. A year after winning only one conference game, Moon just might win the Allegheny 8 title. Wildcat runner Jamal Littlejohn scored twice and Moon’s defense was disruptive again Friday night as the fifth-ranked Tigers defeated Upper St. Clair, 20-6, showing that they’re ready to contend in this unpredictable...
High school scores, summaries, schedules for Oct. 11, 2019
High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan 49, Norwin 14 North Allegheny 62, Hempfield 35 Pine-Richland 41, Mt. Lebanon 0 Class 5A Allegheny 8 Baldwin 31, Bethel Park 28 (2OT) Moon 20, Upper St. Clair 6 Peters Township 43, Chartiers Valley 14 Big East Franklin Regional 35, Connellsville...
Clairton contains Ben Jackson, rolls past West Greene
West Greene brought the WPIAL’s leading rusher to Clairton, but the Bears ended up being the ones running wild. No. 2 Clairton put up big play after big play, scoring 35 points in the game’s first 18 minutes and cruising to a 49-7 win over No. 4 West Greene in...
Dynamic Beltram leads Monessen past Tri-County South foe Mapletown
There was little Mapletown could do to slow down Monessen’s dynamic quarterback Friday night at Memorial Stadium. Too many penalties didn’t hurt the Greyhounds much, either. Whether it was on the ground or through the air, Isaiah Beltram had his way with the Maples and led the Greyhounds to a...
Canon-McMillan boosts playoff hopes with convincing win over Norwin
If Norwin or Canon-McMillan had any thoughts of making the WPIAL playoffs, both teams knew their matchup Friday night was crucial to those hopes. Norwin didn’t have an answer for Canon-McMillan’s run game headlined by Ryan Angott as the Big Macs defeated Norwin, 49-14, in Class 6A play. Angott finished...
Leechburg ends three-season losing skid against Imani Christian
Prior to Friday night’s game at Veterans Memorial Stadium, there wasn’t a player on the Leechburg football team who had experienced a victory against Imani Christian. Now, every Blue Devil knows how it feels. Leechburg (3-6, 2-3) settled its 3-year-old score with the Saints (0-8, 0-6) after toppling its WPIAL...
Franklin Regional clinches playoff berth behind Zac Gordon’s 228 yards, 3 TDs
A couple of trends continued Friday night as Connellsville and Franklin Regional met in a homecoming game at Connellsville Stadium. The Panthers continued their long streak of WPIAL playoff appearances thanks to a 35-7 Section 2-5A win, and the Falcons continued to be haunted by costly mistakes. “We keep shooting...
Freeport girls volleyball dominance on display
The Freeport girls volleyball team wrapped up its 15th consecutive section championship Thursday with a convincing three-game sweep of Section 5-AA foe Burrell. The Yellowjackets, No. 3 in the latest Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association WPIAL Class AA rankings, upped their record to 10-0 in section and 11-0 overall. The...
Plum leads A-K Valley contingent into boys soccer playoffs
For the first time since 2005, the Class AAAA No. 1 Plum boys soccer team captured the Section 3-AAAA section title and will go into Monday’s nonconference regular-season finale against Allderdice with an undefeated record of 15-0-1. The Mustangs have turned in one of the best seasons in program history....
WPIAL Week 7 football: How to watch, listen and find scores
Pine-Richland at Mt. Lebanon, Bethel Park at Baldwin and West Mifflin at Belle Vernon headline tonight’s WPIAL Week 7 football action. You can find a complete list of all the games being broadcast here. And when results start to roll in, you can find all the scores here. Check back...
Architect of Pine-Richland field hockey program hits 100-win milestone
Pine-Richland field hockey coach Donna Stephenson reached a major milestone in her coaching career, earning her 100th career victory with her team’s 3-0 win over Norwin on Oct. 3. The significant coaching accomplishment for Stephenson marks another proud moment in the career of the Rams’ field boss, who started the...
Thomas Jefferson volleyball in midst of another successful season
Thomas Jefferson is closing in on its eighth consecutive section championship in girls volleyball. The Jaguars host rival Elizabeth Forward on Thursday, Oct. 17 in their final regular-season match in their new home gym and with the Section 3-AAA title at stake. The TJ girls also will host their annual...
Penn-Trafford runners gain experience at annual WCCA meet
Penn-Trafford cross country coach Paul Conrad knew is teams would be outgunned at the annual Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association meet last Wednesday at Westmoreland County Community College. But with two young squads, Conrad knows the future could be bright with the right work ethic. The boys and girls teams each...
Gateway’s Lexi Jackson looks forward to career at Kent State
When Gateway girls basketball standout Lexi Jackson was mulling her decision of where to play at the collegiate level next year, she was looking for someone to show interest on a personal level. Apparently Kent State women’s basketball coach Todd Starkey and his staff did just that as the Golden...
Athletic greats celebrated with induction to Gateway Sports Hall of Fame
Katrina Streiner made her mark in swimming over four years of competition at Gateway. The 2005 graduate won two WPIAL titles in the 50-yard freestyle, another one in the 100 free and qualified seven times to states in those events. She also set the school record as a member of...
Seniors spark Brentwood girls volleyball to another playoff appearance
Four senior athletes in the Brentwood girls volleyball program will be honored Thursday prior to the Spartans final home match against section rival Bishop Canevin. Outside hitter Mandy Race, libero Jaden Schwartz, right-side hitter Sarah Livingston and OH/RS Akir Deng, will be recognized. “This senior class has been very loyal...
Baldwin volleyball looking forward to Dig Pink fundraiser, postseason run
It has become an annual event on high school girls volleyball schedules, and it’s one of the highlights of the school year at Baldwin. The Highlanders’ annual Dig Pink fundraiser, set for Thursday, Oct. 17, will benefit breast cancer awareness and research. Baldwin hosts Bethel Park at 7:30 p.m. in...
Sewickley Academy boys golf team maintains winning tradition
For the seventh straight year and 10th time in program history, Sewickley Academy captured the WPIAL Class AA boys golf team championship last Thursday at Cedarbrook Golf Course in Belle Vernon. With a team score of 406, the Panthers blew away the Class AA competition and bested runner-up North Catholic...
Quaker Valley’s Wicker, Cohen shine at MAC cross country championships
Quaker Valley girls cross country did not have enough runners for a team, but still packed a powerful punch in the Midwestern Athletic Conference championship meet Oct. 9 at Beaver County’s Brush Creek Park. Senior Annie Wicker (20 minutes, 36 seconds) and sophomore Anna Cohen (20:58) placed second and third...
Defending PIHL champion Pine-Richland makes jump in classification
The Pine-Richland hockey team enjoyed a year that was as close to a storybook season as a team could have. The team’s 2018-19 campaign included a PIHL Class AA Penguins Cup championship, a Pennsylvania Cup state championship in the same division and an appearance in the USA Hockey High School...
Plum boys soccer team ready to make history
Plum boys soccer captains Cole Kelly, Luke Gildea and Tyler Kolankowski are well versed in the history of the program. They know it has been 14 years since the last playoff win, and it happened to be the year the Mustangs won the WPIAL title. There are plenty of reminders...
Norwin cross country teams send 5 to WCCA medals stand
The Norwin boys cross country team turned in an impressive performance at the Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association meet last week. And the Knights did it with one of their top runners, junior Alex Jubert, sidelined with an injury. “We were upset the Alex wasn’t running,” senior Dominic Spatolisano said. “That...
Young Franklin Regional cross country teams each take 6th at WCCA meet
Sophomore Mia Tarantini was the only Franklin Regional cross country runner to earn a medal last Wednesday at the annual Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association meet at Westmoreland County Community College. She finished 12th in a time of 20 minutes, 53.9 seconds. Both the boys and girls squads finished sixth in...
After claiming another section title, Franklin Reigonal sets sights on defending WPIAL crown
Losing 10 players off a WPIAL championship team a year ago, it made sense at the start of the season to think there might be a slight step back by the Franklin Regional boys soccer team. So much for that idea. With the playoffs looming this week, the Panthers have...
