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Gateway’s Kefimba Cisse sets sights on returning to PIAA championships
Kefimba Cisse likes to run at White Oak Park. The Gateway senior won the Class 3A boys division at the 45-team Bald Eagle Invitational there Oct. 7 with a time of 16 minutes, 14.11 seconds. He was fourth overall with three boys from Class 2A and Class A schools as...
Gateway hockey off to strong start, hopes to make jump to varsity next season
Justin Evans is no stranger to the Gateway hockey program. He started coaching with the developmental team (ages 8-10) a half-decade ago and then served as the middle school coach for two years before moving up the JV team as an assistant through last year under former head coach Shawn...
Quaker Valley cross country teams enjoying special season
The Quaker Valley cross country program is having a magical season. QV’s boys team recently took first place in the 5,000-meter Class 2A race at the Bald Eagle Invitational on Oct. 7 at White Oak Park. The Quakers also won the River Trail and Blue Devil invites this season along...
Quaker Valley volleyball looks to carry momentum into postseason
The Quaker Valley girls volleyball team picked up where it left off last season. In 2022, Quaker Valley won 11 of 14 section decisions, advanced to the WPIAL semifinals, finished fifth in the PIAA Class 2A playoffs and ended up 18-5 overall. This year, through Oct. 9, the Quakers were...
State championship soccer team takes center stage at Quaker Valley hall of fame induction
Quaker Valley held its celebratory sports hall of fame weekend for the first time since 2019. Three former QV athletes — Justin Hughes (basketball), Darren Rogers (football) and Catherine Stewart (tennis) — and three teams were lauded that year. The 2006 boys hockey and girls tennis teams also were inducted...
Penn-Trafford’s Amelia Barilla achieves personal record, takes 2nd place at WCCA meet
Penn-Trafford senior Amelia Barilla’s plan during the annual Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association meet was to stay with Kiski Area senior Eliza Miller and hopefully out kick her at the end. Miller had her own plan — break the 18-minute mark. Miller achieved her goal by running 17:59.6 and claiming her...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Turowski places 3rd at All-Mountain East tournament
Fairmont State junior Alex Turowski placed third overall and earned All-Mountain East Conference golf tournament team honors after shooting 5-over in the conference tournament at Avalon Lakes Golf Course in Warren, Ohio. The Falcons finished fourth overall at the MEC Championship with a score of 925. The Penn-Trafford grad had...
Penn Hills cross country looking to finish season strong
The Penn Hills cross country program has seen its numbers steadily climb since having a tough start to the season. The boys program had five runners compete at the Section 4 championship meet. Veteran Penn Hills cross country coach Lee Zelkowitz hopes their accumulating experience will help once the WPIAL...
Signature win helps Penn Hills boys soccer wind season down on positive note
Ryan Hankey hopes the last few weeks of the Penn Hills boys soccer season can feature more milestones. Over the past few weeks, the Indians have started to play at a higher level. While it won’t be enough to lift Penn Hills into the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs, the Indians...
Pine-Richland girls cross country looks to return to states … and bring the boys team along this time
Every year, the Pine-Richland cross country teams ramp up to be in peak condition for the WPIAL championships. It’s a formula that’s worked well lately as the Rams girls team has been one of the best in the district, making trips to the state meet each of the last three...
Steelers, NFL roots run deep with North Allegheny football team
There usually is a Super Bowl champion or two somewhere in the crowd at North Allegheny football games and it’s been that way for about a decade. In fact, sometimes there are four or five NFL alums there for game days. That’s because coach Art Walker’s teams have enjoyed a...
Coin flip decides final 2 spots in City League football playoffs
Allderdice, Brashear and Perry finished tied in the City League standings, which was a problem since only two could qualify for the football playoffs. As a tiebreaker, the three head coaches flipped coins Friday night in the athletic director’s office at Cupples Stadium and Brashear was the team left out....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 14, 2023
Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class A Big 7 Shenango 37, Summit Academy 8 Black Hills Bishop Canevin 62, Chartiers-Houston 0 Eastern Leechburg 29, Riverview 28 Saturday’s summary Bishop Canevin 62, Chartiers-Houston 0 Chartiers-Houston 0 0 0 0 —0 Bishop Canevin 14 27 14 7 —62 BC: Henry Barbisch 46 pass...
High school roundup for Oct. 14, 2023: Olszewski, Carter spark Bishop Canevin
Kole Olszewski was 9 for 11 for 107 yards and four touchdowns and Marquis Carter scored on runs of 90 and 35 yards to lead Bishop Canevin to a 62-0 victory over Chartiers-Houston (0-8, 0-5) in Class A Black Hills Conference football Saturday night. Olszewski connected on TD passes of...
5 things we learned in Week 7 of WPIAL high school football: Long playoff drought over
One of the WPIAL’s longest active playoff droughts is over, and another long streak also could end this year. Jefferson-Morgan was one of four WPIAL teams that had gone at least 10 seasons without reaching the postseason, but the Rockets clinched a playoff spot with a win Friday. Second-year coach...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Latrobe’s Robin Reilly and Belle Vernon’s Rogan Maloney
Robin Reilly School: Latrobe Class: Junior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Reilly has been one of the top all-around players in the WPIAL, not only giving the talented Wildcats a go-to goal scorer but also someone who sets up the offense. A West Virginia commit, Reilly assisted on a goal...
Buzzatto runs for 400 yards, but Leechburg tops Riverview
It was a sight Sebastian Mason and the Leechburg defense had seen all afternoon. Carlo Buzzatto running right at them. The Riverview back had rolled up 418 yards on the ground, but this time Mason was determined to make a play. Mason stuffed Buzzatto on a potential winning 2-point conversion...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Springdale’s Briana Ross, Kiski Area’s Sammy Plazio
Briana Ross Class: Junior School: Springdale Sport: Soccer Report card: Ross scored five goals as Springdale beat Steel Valley, 8-0, in a Section 1-A game Monday and then added two goals and two assists in the Dynamos’ 8-0 victory over Jeannette on Wednesday. Springdale (11-2, 9-2) won five straight games...
WPIAL football rankings: Week ending Oct. 15, 2023
WPIAL football rankings Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Central Catholic, 7-1, 1 2. North Allegheny, 7-1, 2 3. Canon-McMillan, 5-3, 3 4. Mt. Lebanon, 4-4, 4 5. Seneca Valley, 3-5, 5 Class 5A 1. Peters Township, 8-0, 1 2. Penn Hills, 6-2, 2 3. Pine-Richland, 5-3, 3 4....
Westmoreland high school football notes: Showdown between Franklin Regional, Penn-Trafford looms
Second place and a playoff spot will be on the line in the Class 5A Big East Conference, and one game will settle it all. But fans will have to wait a week for Penn-Trafford (4-4, 3-1) to play at Franklin Regional (6-2, 3-1) in the key conference finale. The...
Kiski Area football adds Guardian Caps for extra level of safety during practice
Kiski Area football players, coaches and fans witnessed a Laurel Highlands football player being carted off the field to an area medical facility after a collision late in a Sept. 8 nonconference game with the Cavaliers at Richard Dilts Stadium. Player safety remained on the minds of several of those...
Riverview runners ready to contend for WPIAL medals, PIAA berth
PA Milesplit, a website which tracks and reports on cross country teams throughout the state, lists five teams as the primary contenders for the four PIAA qualifying spots from WPIAL boys Class A. Riverview is in that top grouping, and coach Palma Ostrowski said the team is looking strong as...
Plum runners prepare for WPIAL cross country championships
Gabriel Powell has the PIAA cross country championships on his mind as the days become fewer and fewer before the WPIAL’s top races of the year take center stage Oct. 26 at White Oak Park. The Plum senior finished 32nd at last year’s WPIAL Class 3A meet at Cal (Pa.),...
Norwin girls volleyball keeps up the fight
Norwin’s girls volleyball team was fighting for a playoff spot in Section 3-4A as the regular season winded toward a mid-October finish. The postseason outcome, should it not work in the Lady Knights’ favor, won’t have anything to do with fading effort. “The girls have been working hard every day...
Norwin notebook: Knights strive for better starts
While Norwin’s football team has been more resilient and competitive than is has been in a while, the Knights were trying to get off to better starts. Norwin rallied from 22 points down at halftime in a 37-29 loss at Franklin Regional in Week 6. The Knights scored 15 in...
