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Alle-Kiski high school notebook: Knoch, Freeport volleyball maintain spots in poll
Knoch and Freeport maintain their positions in the latest Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association’s top-10 poll released Monday. The Knights, semifinalists at Saturday’s Canon-McMillan Tournament, stay in first place in the Class AAA, holding off No. 2 Thomas Jefferson and No. 3 Laurel Highlands, and Kiski Area received votes this...
Ligonier Valley’s Silk to play football at Kiski School
Kyle Silk had planned on finishing his high school career at Ligonier Valley. But when District 6 officials and then the PIAA board of directors denied his eligibility request to play football after he transferred from United to Ligonier Valley, Silk had two options if he wanted to continue to...
Avonworth football standout Kyros Thorpe seeks postseason eligibility
Avonworth’s Kyros Thorpe has made an immediate impact since transferring from Central Catholic, but it’s unknown whether he’ll be eligible for the football playoffs. The senior has an eligibility hearing scheduled Thursday at the WPIAL office in Green Tree. Thorpe was granted regular-season eligibility when he transferred to Avonworth but...
WPIAL schedules eligibility hearing for soccer star Jayden Sharpless
North Catholic transfer Jayden Sharpless, the top WPIAL girls soccer player last season, will learn this week whether she can play this fall. The sophomore has an eligibility hearing Thursday at the WPIAL office in Green Tree. Sharpless was the TribLive HSSN Girls Soccer Player of the Year last season...
High school sports scores for Sept. 1, 2019
High schools Soccer Boys Sunday’s results WPIAL Ambridge tournament Ambridge 2, Central Valley 0 Riverside 5, Freedom 2 Avonworth tournament Avonworth 7, Bishop Canevin 0 OLSH 1, St. Joseph 0 Belle Vernon tournament Allderdice 3, Connellsville 1 Belle Vernon 3, Brashear 2 Highlands 6, Monessen 0 Carlynton tournament California 5,...
Central Catholic junior Elliot Donald reveals 8 favorite scholarship offers
Central Catholic junior Elliot Donald posted a favorites list this week that included all three area colleges and some of the top programs nationally. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound defensive lineman posted a Top 8 that listed Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia, along with LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State and...
North Allegheny freshman adds Michigan State basketball offer
Jasmine Timmerson won’t make her high school basketball debut for a few more months, but the North Allegheny freshman already has a Big 10 scholarship offer. Timmerson announced an offer Friday from Michigan State while visiting the school’s campus. She now has three Division I offers with the others from...
Gateway junior Derrick Davis adds another SEC football offer
Gateway’s Derrick Davis might soon be able to choose any college in the country. The star junior announced a football scholarship offer from LSU on Sunday, making the Tigers the latest major college program recruiting Davis. He announced an offer last week from Florida, adding to a list that already...
Football, soccer, volleyball coverage this week on Trib HSSN
We labor into a week of broadcasts with plenty of high school football and the debut of several other scholastic sports on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week Two with plenty of conference games among the 36 WPIAL, District 6 and...
WPIAL football player of the week: Week 1
Last year, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart quarterback Tyler Bradley had a huge season, throwing for 3,364 yards and 45 touchdowns in leading the Chargers to their first WPIAL football championship. Eric Wilson wants to be that guy in 2019. The Sto-Rox senior quarterback threw for 3,003 yards last...
Penn-Trafford field hockey team going for 4th straight WPIAL title
For the past three seasons, the Penn-Trafford field hockey team has captured the WPIAL Class AA championship. Will there be a four-peat? It could come down to how the team matures. The Warriors graduatd 11 seniors from last season’s roster. In their place will be talented-but-unchallenged junior and sophomore classes....
United forfeits Week 2 game to Ligonier Valley
United School District informed Ligonier Valley officials late Saturday the football team will forfeit its Week 2 game Saturday because of a lack of healthy players. United began the season with 18 players on the roster a year after the team played in the District 6 Class A championship game....
High school scores, summaries, schedules for Aug. 31, 2019
High schools Cross country Boys Saturday’s results WPIAL Gateway Invitational Team: 1. Fox Chapel, 40; 2. Riverview, 78; 3. Baldwin, 79; 4. Bethel Park, 151; 5. Gateway, 159; 6. North Catholic, 163; 7. Plum 164; 8. Central Catholic, 174; 9. Kiski Area, 209; 10. Penn Hills, 301. Individual: 1. Christian...
Freeport football team reflects on fortitude after rally comes up short
Freeport football coach John Gaillot was emotional Friday night when asked to evaluate his team’s performance in a 35-27 loss to Big East Conference rival Derry. The Trojans owned three-touchdown leads on two occasions in the second half, but the visiting Yellowjackets responded with two fourth-quarter scores and had the...
High school roundup for Aug. 31, 2019: Fox Chapel runners sweep Gateway Invitational
Grace Sisson and Brooke Krally took the top two spots as Fox Chapel swept the Gateway Invitational on Saturday in Boyce Park. Sisson finished with a time of 20 minutes, 56 seconds while Krally posted a time of 21:16. North Catholic’s Alaina Hicks and Julia Zalenkski finished third and fourth...
5 takeaways from Week 1 of high school football action
Carlynton accomplished something Friday the program hadn’t done in 14 years. The Cougars reached 2-0. Not since 2005 had Carlynton started the season with consecutive wins, a small achievement for some but a big confidence boost for first-year coach Rich Piccinini’s team. “There’s a buzz around the school and the...
WPIAL football rankings through Week 1
Class 6A Team, W-L, Last 1. Pine-Richland, 2-0, 1 2. Central Catholic, 2-0, 2 3. North Allegheny, 2-0, 3 4. Seneca Valley 0-2 4 5. Mt. Lebanon, 1-1, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Penn-Trafford, 2-0, 3 2. Peters Township, 2-0, 2 3. Gateway, 1-1, 1 4. Penn Hills, 1-1,...
Westmoreland football notebook: Tight connection between P-T coach, Gateway
Penn-Trafford coach John Ruane was talking to reporters after Friday’s win when Gateway defensive tackle Jacques Taylor asked him why he was on crutches. No. 3 Penn-Trafford defeated No. 1 Gateway, 28-7, in a hard-hitting game. Ruane said he believed he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in his right leg...
Greensburg Central Catholic football team defeats RiverviewVideo
Earlier this year, the famous Oakmont Bakery moved to its facility across the street from Riverview. That seems appropriate because the host Raiders featured plenty of turnovers in their season opener Saturday. Three interceptions and a fumble ended drives, provided short fields and led to a score as Greensburg Central...
A-K Valley football notebook: Springdale beats Imani Christian for 1st time
As if their last-minute Week Zero win over Deer Lakes wasn’t enough, the Springdale Dynamos took it to another level Friday and took down Class 1A Eastern Conference opponent Imani Christian for the first time. “It was just like the Deer Lakes game,” Springdale coach Seth Napierkowski said after the...
Peters Township defeats Upper St. Clair in Allegheny 8 opener
Peters Township used a pair of scores from Josh Casilli to knock off Upper St. Clair, 29-21, in the teams’ WPIAL Class 5A Allegheny 8 Conference opener Friday night. The No. 2-ranked Indians (2-0, 1-1) started fast with a long return from Aidan McCall on the opening kickoff. Peters Township’s...
High school scores, summaries, schedules for Aug. 30, 2019
High schools Field hockey Friday’s result WPIAL Division II Shady Side Academy 8, Latrobe 0 Nonsection Ellis School 6, Penn-Trafford 1 Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Central Catholic 10, Seneca Valley 7 Mt. Lebanon 49, Canon-McMillan 21 North Allegheny 42, Norwin 0 Pine-Richland 42, Hempfield 14 Class 5A Allegheny...
Week 1 top performers for passing, rushing, receiving
Top performers for Week 1 high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 348 - Eric Wilson, Sto-Rox (20 of 29) 296 - Shane Susnak, Fox Chapel (19 of 30) 284 - Ethan Dahlem, Upper St. Clair (15 of 24) 276 - Cole Spencer, Pine-Richland (19 of 26) 269 - Zaire...
WPIAL Class A roundup: Jackson scores 5 times in West Greene’s blowout win
Ben Jackson ran for 150 yards and scored five times as West Greene scored an 82-14 win over Bentworth (0-2, 0-1) in a Class A Tri-County South game Friday night. Jackson has 11 touchdowns this season through two games for the Pioneers (2-0, 1-0). Cornell 32, Union 6 — Zaire...
QB Cole Spencer passes Pine-Richland past Hempfield
Pine-Richland is picking up this year where the Rams left off a year ago in claiming another WPIAL Class 6A football championship, their second in a row and third in five seasons. Cole Spencer has been a big reason for Pine-Richland’s continued success. The junior quarterback’s play has been nothing...
