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‘It’s unfair to our kids,’ says Clairton coach after WPIAL denies home playoff game
Wayne Wade was already envisioning one more Friday night in Clairton under the lights and the festivities that accompany a home football game in the WPIAL playoffs. Now, he’s left to wonder what time the team bus must leave to beat traffic. “It’s unfair to our kids not to have...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 29, 2022
High schools Field hockey WPIAL playoffs Championship Saturday’s results Class 3A Pine-Richland 3, North Allegheny 0 Class 2A Penn-Trafford 4, Latrobe 1 Class A Ellis School 3, Aquinas Academy 1 Football Saturday’s result City League championship Westinghouse 40, Allderdice 8 WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Nov. 11 schedule Canon-McMillan (5-5)...
High school roundup for Oct. 29, 2022: Pine-Richland roars into semifinals
Ethan Wygant scored in the first five minutes of the match, sparking No. 6 Pine-Richland to a 3-1 victory over No. 3 Norwin in the WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer quarterfinals Saturday afternoon. Nathan Bang and Sam Engel also scored for the Rams (13-4-1), who will meet No. 7 Butler...
In WPIAL finals rematch, Knoch tops Sewickley Academy for PIAA girls team tennis title
In a rematch of the WPIAL Class 2A team tennis finals, Knoch defeated Sewickley Academy, 4-1, Saturday afternoon to win the school’s second state championship. The Knights, who also won the PIAA title in 2020, won three-set battles at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles. Knoch’s Emily Greb got...
Westinghouse tops Allderdice to claim 38th City League football championship
Westinghouse had a slim lead at halftime of Saturday’s Pittsburgh City League football final. But Bulldogs coach Donta Green wasn’t worried. Westinghouse came on to score 19 points in the third quarter and rolled to a 40-8 victory in the City title game at Cupples Stadium. It marks the 38th...
Playoffs begin for real for reigning WPIAL champion Penn-Trafford, Westmoreland County teams
The WPIAL released the pairings for the upcoming football playoffs Saturday, but the playoffs had already started for Penn-Trafford with its huge win against Franklin Regional on Friday. The Warriors (6-4) rallied late to defeat Franklin Regional, 28-21, in overtime in a must-win game. Now the real playoffs begin Friday...
Breaking down the 2022 WPIAL football playoffs
Class 6A Favorite: North Allegheny, which is seeking its first WPIAL title since 2012, took care of business in the regular season. The Tigers went 4-0 in conference play to finish alone in first place, but didn’t blow anybody away in the process. They had a one-point win, a four-point...
Challenging opening-round foes await A-K Valley football teams in WPIAL playoffs
Call it the Avenue to Acrisure. The road to the WPIAL championship games has been set for all of the playoff-qualifying teams, including the six that made it in from the Alle-Kiski Valley: Highlands, Freeport, Leechburg, Deer Lakes, Apollo-Ridge and Burrell. The Golden Rams (9-1) defeated Hampton on Friday to...
Pine-Richland makes it 4 in a row in WPIAL Class 3A field hockey championship game
The Pine-Richland field hockey team finished off its four-peat in style. The Rams capped another dominant WPIAL season with a 3-0 win over rival North Allegheny in the Class 3A championship game Saturday at Washington & Jefferson College. Pine-Richland earned its fourth consecutive WPIAL crown and did so with its...
Penn-Trafford tops Latrobe to claim 7th straight WPIAL field hockey title
It never gets old. So say members of the Penn-Trafford field hockey team on the age-old concept of winning, something the Warriors are accustomed to doing. They continued their winning ways Saturday at the WPIAL championship, earning their seventh consecutive Class 2A title with a 4-1 victory over Latrobe at...
Mt. Pleasant girls blank Freeport, advance to WPIAL Class 2A semifinals
Marissa Garn wears No. 99. The Mt. Pleasant senior soccer player has her reasons for the unique jersey number. “I can’t wear 100,” Garn said. “I used to wear No. 1 in youth soccer. I am a faithful Christian, and I believe in giving 100 percent. I know God has...
Westmoreland high school athletes of the week for the week ending Oct. 30, 2022
Robin Reilly School: Latrobe Year: Sophomore Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: The sophomore midfielder put together one of her best performances in a season that has included many of them, scoring three goals and adding two assists to lead Latrobe to its first WPIAL playoff win in girls soccer, 6-1...
Charleroi gets its revenge, knocking out top-seeded Greensburg Central Catholic in WPIAL quarterfinals
For the eighth-seeded Charleroi boys soccer team, revenge was a dish best served in the playoffs. In the regular season, the Cougars (16-2) lost only two games: a pair of section setbacks to Greensburg Central Catholic by a combined score of 16-3. On Saturday, Charleroi knocked off the top-seeded Centurions,...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Plum’s Kaitlyn Killinger, Riverview’s Amberson Bauer
Kaitlyn Killinger Class: Senior School: Plum Sport: Soccer Report card: Killinger scored three times in a 9-0 victory over Kiski Area on Monday and then added a goal and assist Thursday as No. 3-seeded Plum defeated No. 11 Montour in the WPIAL Class 3A girls soccer quarterfinals. The senior Pitt...
George Guido: A-K Valley teams add to historical milestones in WPIAL football playoffs
Playoff time is here, and six Alle-Kiski Valley teams will be part of the WPIAL’s 109th quest for football champions. Here is how things look for the local teams. • Allegheny 6 Conference champion Freeport is in the playoffs for the 32nd time. The Yellowjackets will play either West Mifflin...
Ellis School captures WPIAL Class A field hockey championship
So much excitement surged through Ellis School junior Rita Gianakis as she raced to meet her teammates moments after the Tigers secured their third WPIAL Class A field hockey championship on Saturday at Washington & Jefferson College. Gianakis almost single-handedly provided the spark, scoring three fourth-quarter goals to lead Ellis...
Westmoreland County high school football notebook: Short-handed GCC happy with win
All things considered, Greensburg Central Catholic coach Marko Thomas was thrilled with his team’s result Friday night — a 48-21 win over Leechburg that clinched the Eastern Conference title. “When you have so many guys out and guys playing different positions, you never know,” Thomas said. “We know we can...
WPIAL announces 2022 football playoff pairings
Defending WPIAL champions Aliquippa and Bishop Canevin were among the six teams that earned No. 1 seeds for the upcoming football playoffs when brackets were revealed online Saturday on TribLive HSSN. Aliquippa is the defending Class 4A champion and Canevin is trying to repeat in Class A. The other top...
Norwin notebook: Late season surge leads to strong seed for boys soccer team
The Norwin boys soccer team played some of its best soccer late in the season and it led to a quality seeding in the WPIAL playoffs. The Knights (11-6) received the No. 3 seed in Class 4A and, since there are only eight teams in the bracket, the Knights earned...
North Allegheny notebook: Tigers clinch conference title
North Allegheny’s football team claimed its fourth conference title in the past five years this season and now turns its attention to the WPIAL playoffs. The Tigers locked up the No. 1 seed for the Class 6A playoffs after Week 8 games were completed. Central Catholic’s victory over Seneca Valley secured...
Girls wrestling moves closer to goal of being sanctioned by PIAA
Someday, the state’s best female wrestlers will be crowned PIAA champions at Giant Center in matches held alongside the boys, if advocates for the sport get their wish. “We’d like it to be at Hershey with the boys, that’s the goal,” said North Allegheny coach Dan Heckert, part of a...
Franklin Regional notebook: Soccer teams split playoff openers
Soccer season continued for one Franklin Regional soccer team, while another saw its season end abruptly. The girls team advanced to the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals with a 1-0 victory over South Fayette. Abby Paterline scored for the Panthers (11-5-2) with about 15 minutes to play on a penalty kick....
Hampton wide receiver Benny Haselrig catching eye of colleges
The struggle was real last season for Hampton all-conference wide receiver Benny Haselrig. It was his junior season, by far the most important for potential college recruits, and while the Talbots were rolling to one of the best seasons in program history, Haselrig was rarely targeted in the run-first offense....
Hampton boys soccer team’s WPIAL reign ends suddenly
Hampton boys soccer coach Matt McAwley is practical enough to know this season wasn’t going to end anything like last season. “It’s very, very rare that a (player’s) last moments on a soccer field is a moment of winning everything,” McAwley said. “We were fortunate last year to experience that...
Shady Side Academy soccer teams work their way to playoff victories
Shady Side Academy’s 19th consecutive WPIAL boys soccer appearance got off on the right track as the Bulldogs eliminated Keystone Oaks, 6-1. The opening-round Class 2A match was played Oct. 24 at Michael J. Farrell Stadium on the Shady Side campus. “We’re a young team, and it took us a...
