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The Daily 3: Field hockey champs set to face off
The WPIAL field hockey alignment is made up of two divisions in the regular season followed by three classes in the postseason. There are 10 Division I teams and 10 Division II teams. Then, come playoff time, nine teams are categorized in Class AAA, four in Class AA and seven...
Balanced approach paying off for Belle Vernon girls soccer team
Belle Vernon’s girls soccer team cruised through its section last year. The Leopards are winning with ease again this fall. Belle Vernon is off to a 4-1 start, including a 3-0 mark in Section 2-3A play. “We’ve really been working more as a team in these last couple games,” junior...
Westmoreland Athletes of the Week: Belle Vernon’s Daniel Sassak, Yough’s Justine Appolonia
Daniel Sassak School: Belle Vernon Sport: Soccer Class: Sophomore Claim to fame: Sassak, who had 12 goals in the first five games of the season, scored four goals to lead Belle Vernon (5-0, 2-0) to a 10-0 win over Uniontown in Section 3-3A action Sept. 5. Sassak scored twice in...
Kiski Area girls soccer team faces stiff section test
Reagan Frederick didn’t expect to finish last season as the top goal scorer for the Kiski Area girls soccer team in its charge to the WPIAL Class AAA quarterfinals. “I wasn’t the only forward up top, and we had a lot of players who could score,” said Frederick, an All-WPIAL...
A-K Valley H.S. athletes of the week: Fox Chapel’s Lucy Ream and Plum’s Darius Flowers
Lucy Ream School: Fox Chapel Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Report card: Ream recorded a hat trick, including the winner in double overtime in a 3-2 win over Butler last Wednesday. She also scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Penn-Trafford in the season opener and added a goal in...
North Allegheny moves into Trib HSSN state football rankings for Week 3
As opposed to last week, there were only a couple of changes to the weekly Trib HSSN state football rankings following Week 2 games. Three teams lost and tumbled out of their respective classifications’ top 5. Ironically, in all three cases, the winning teams replaced those fallen squads in the...
George Guido: Franklin Regional hitting the road
If you’re a Franklin Regional football fan, you hopefully caught last Friday’s home win over Latrobe. That’s because the Panthers won’t play another home game for six weeks. Yes, Franklin Regional is on the road for the next two weeks, then has an open date on the schedule created by...
WPIAL girls soccer rankings through Sept. 9, 2019
Here’s a look at this week’s WPIAL girls soccer rankings through Monday’s games: WPIAL girls soccer rankings Class AAAA Team, record, previous 1. Peters Township, 5-0, 1 2. Norwin, 3-0, 3 3. Pine-Richland, 3-1, 4 4. Seneca Valley, 3-1, 2 5. Penn-Trafford, 3-1, — Out: North Allegheny, 3-1, 5 Class...
Jeannette, Avella consider rescheduling football game but agree to play Friday night
Jeannette and Avella school administrators discussed moving this week’s football game to a different date or time, but ultimately agreed to play the game as scheduled. The teams will play at 7 p.m. Friday at McKee Stadium. Avella had raised concerns in the wake of last week’s fatal shooting outside...
Belle Vernon soccer star Izzy Laurita leaving team due to safety concerns
Citing risk of long-term injury, Belle Vernon Area’s Izzy Laurita has walked away from high school soccer. An All-WPIAL peformer, Laurita was the Leopards’ leading scorer last season with 33 goals and 20 assists, coming off a freshman season with 15 goals and 19 assists. She had four goals in...
High school scores, summaries, schedules for Sept. 9, 2019
Field hockey Monday’s results Nonsection Pine-Richland 2, North Allegheny 1 (OT) Shady Side Academy 4, Fox Chapel 0 Golf Boys Monday’s results Class AAA Section 1 Greensburg Salem 203, Norwin 215 Medalists: Jeff Menkins (GS), 37; Ben Thomas (GS), 38 Section 2 Ringgold 232, Albert Gallatin 262 Section 7 South...
High school roundup for Sept. 9, 2019: GCC tops SSA in girls soccer showdown
Greensburg Central Catholic 2, Shady Side Academy 0 — Sam Felder and Bethany Winnor scored goals to lead No. 1 Greensburg Central Catholic (3-0, 2-0) over No. 2 Shady Side Academy (2-1, 2-1) in a Section 1-A matchup of girls soccer powers. Eden Christian 6, Riverview 0 — With a...
The Daily 3: Albert Gallatin boys soccer continues turnaround
Albert Gallatin might have left the WPIAL in football, but the boys soccer team is still part of the district and having an historic season thus far. The Colonials are 1-0 in Section 3-AAA, 4-0 overall. That may not sound like much, but consider their recent history. In the nine...
WPIAL Football Team of the Week: Week 2
Last season, the Central Valley football team lost its first four games before rallying to win four of its last five to make the playoffs. The late-season run included a stunning 14-8 upset of previously undefeated and top-ranked Aliquippa in Week 9. “We were disappointed with how we started the...
Riverview taking undefeated season match by match
The Riverview boys golf team qualified for the WPIAL Class AA team tournament for the first time in quite a while last season, and with a starting line-up of five seniors and a junior, the Raiders are looking to do it again. They are off to a good start, too....
Upper St. Clair’s Joshua Matheny makes U.S. national team in breaststroke
Upper St. Clair junior Joshua Matheny has soared to the top of the national swimming ranks on the heels of an impressive international performance. Matheny, 16, was named to the 2019-20 USA Swimming National Team. Matheny earned a gold medal and set a meet record in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke...
Alle-Kiski Valley notebook: West Virginia right fit for Kiski Area’s Blumer
Kiski Area wrestling standout Jack Blumer did his due diligence in seeking out a school to continue his athletic and academic careers once his time with the Cavaliers concludes. He finalized that search Sunday evening by giving a verbal commitment to West Virginia and making the announcement on Twitter. “I...
Riverview’s Joey Flanick leading the way for the Raiders
The Riverview boys soccer team is off to a strong start, and senior striker Joey Flanick has been at the center of their early season success. During his team’s 9-1 season-opening win over Carrick, Flanick scored two goals and dished out an assist. Then, against an undefeated Carlynton team, Flanick...
WPIAL boys soccer rankings through Sept. 8, 2019
WPIAL boys soccer rankings Class AAAA Team, record, previous 1. Canon-McMillan, 5-0, 1 2. Norwin, 4-0-1, 4 3. Seneca Valley, 3-1, 2 4. North Allegheny, 3-1, 3 5. Fox Chapel, 3-0, — Out: Connellsville, 3-1, 5 Class AAA 1. Franklin Regional, 3-0, 1 2. Moon, 3-1, 3 3. South Fayette,...
Volleyball coaches association releases WPIAL Week 2 rankings
-The WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is in full gear with two sets of weekend tournaments and a week of section and nonsection matches in the books. The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association, in a poll of the 120 WPIAL head coaches, released its Week 2 rankings lists Monday. North...
High school schedule for Sept. 9, 2019
High schools Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule Nonsection Beth-Center at Chartiers-Houston, 7 p.m. South Park at Beaver, 7 p.m. Yough at Jeannette, 5:30 p.m. Girls Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 4A Section 1 North Hills at Butler, 7:30 p.m. Pine-Richland at Fox Chapel, 7 p.m. Shaler at Seneca Valley, 7:30 p.m. Section...
The Daily 3: Deer Lakes, Burrell girls soccer teams set to clash
A year after finishing first and second in the WPIAL Class AA Section 2 girls soccer standings, Deer Lakes and Burrell are off to a good start. Both teams are 3-0 overall coming into their first meeting of the season Monday at Burrell. The Lancers are 2-0 in the section,...
Full slate of Trib HSSN broadcasts this week, including new day for This Week in the WPIAL
We are filled with glee in preparation for Week 3 of the high school fall sports season on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage from Week 3 of the high school football season with plenty of conference games among the 36 WPIAL, District...
WPIAL Football Player of the Week: Week 2
One thing has become clear after Week Two of the 2019 high school football season: The Knoch running game is in good hands. Senior running back Matt Goodlin tied a school record for most rushing yards and most touchdowns in a game Friday in a 42-7 rout of Beaver. The...
Riverview cross country runner Ochs continues upward trend
As a freshman, Mason Ochs was the ninth runner on the Riverview boys cross country team and didn’t compete at WPIALs. After that 2017 season, he took advantage of numerous winter training sessions, got a boost from a promising first outdoor track and field season — including work with then-senior...
