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Breaking down the 2020 WPIAL girls soccer playoffs
Here’s a look at the WPIAL girls soccer playoffs: Class 4A Favorite: One of the more skilled teams in a pretty open field, top-seeded Peters Township shut out eight opponents and did not lose in its final seven games. The Indians, who made the semifinals a year ago, are 6-0...
GCC soccer teams get top seeds but no home-field advantage
Home-field advantage could play a big part in this year’s WPIAL soccer playoffs. Higher-seeded teams get home games through the semifinals because the WPIAL tried to avoid multiple teams traveling to the same site — a product of covid-19 awareness. Greensburg Central Catholic landed No. 1 seeds in the WPIAL...
Belle Vernon’s Grace Henderson wins Tri-State Track Coaches Association Class AA titleVideo
Belle Vernon senior Grace Henderson keeps herself busy on the playing field and in the classroom. In the fall, she runs cross country and is the goalie on the soccer team. In the winter, she plays basketball, and in the spring, she competes in track. “I try to study at...
Breaking down the 2020 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs
Here’s a look at the 2020 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs: Class 4A Favorite: Peters Township (11-1-1) won the Section 2-4A championship and only lost one game all season long, a 2-0 decision to No. 5 Upper St. Clair. They also tallied five shutouts and had a five-game winning streak heading...
Westmoreland high school football notebook: Penn-Trafford focused on rivalry game
Penn-Trafford could finish atop the Class 5A Big East Conference but not be considered a conference champion. The WPIAL said it will not recognize conference winners if canceled games would have an impact on the outcome. Penn-Trafford had covid-19 cases not long after Gateway did, forcing the teams’ anticipated matchup...
Deer Lakes boys, Plum girls earn No. 2 seeds in WPIAL soccer playoffs
When the WPIAL soccer playoff brackets were announced Wednesday, not one A-K Valley soccer team found itself named a No. 1 seed. But the Deer Lakes boys and the Plum girls did earn No. 2 seeds, and they will both look to work their way back to the WPIAL final...
Franklin Regional boys soccer eyes WPIAL 3-peat
Franklin Regional arranged some objectives early in the boys soccer season, like it was laying out a new outfit for the first day of in-person school. No matter what the Panthers wear, they still look good. But winning the section was first on the list. Bringing home a third WPIAL...
Westmoreland boys soccer notebook: Norwin back to full strength for playoffs
Norwin had two late-season ties in boys soccer, which caught the eye of opposing teams and the people who conjure up the WPIAL rankings. Both games were at Norwin Knights Stadium. Allderdice played the high-powered Knights to a 0-0 draw, and, three games later, improved Latrobe and No. 4 Norwin...
WPIAL releases 2020 soccer playoff pairings
The WPIAL soccer playoff brackets are set. The top boys seeds are Peters Township (11-1-1) in Class 4A, Mars (14-0) in 3A, Shady Side Academy (11-2) in 2A and Greensburg Central Catholic (11-1) in A. The top girls seeds are Peters Township (10-1-1) in Class 4A, Mars (12-0) in 3A,...
North Allegheny’s Khalil Dinkins commits to Penn State
Video conference calls replaced many of the in-school recruiting visits and campus tours canceled during the pandemic. North Allegheny senior Khalil Dinkins, one of the WPIAL’s top football players, navigated that new normal this year and committed Wednesday to Penn State. Dinkins announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-4, 220-pound...
Watch: Trib HSSN unveils WPIAL soccer playoff pairings
The WPIAL soccer playoffs have arrived. Six weeks of compacted regular season play have been completed. Though coronavirus concerns forced a late start to the season and a few teams had to shut down and quarantine at times, the WPIAL soccer playoffs are set to begin. Sixty boys soccer teams...
WPIAL Clinched: Final boys soccer playoff spots decided
Section play in the regular season is in the books as the field for the 2020 WPIAL boys soccer playoffs is now set. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie...
WPIAL Clinched: Girls soccer playoff field set
Section play in the 2020 regular season is complete and the field is set for the WPIAL girls soccer playoffs. The top four teams in each section qualify for the district playoffs. All teams tied for a playoff spot in which head-to-head does not break the tie also qualify for...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 20, 2020
Field hockey Tuesday’s result WPIAL Class A Shady Side Academy 10, Sewickley Academy 1 Golf Boys Tuesday’s results PIAA Championship Class 3A At Heritage Hills Golf Resort, York Par 71 Calen Sanderson, Holy Ghost Prep, 67 Chuck Tragesser, Franklin Regional, 68 Nick Gross, Downingtown West, 69 Devin Smith, Waynesboro, 70...
High school roundup for Oct. 20, 2020: Seneca Valley boys soccer wins playoff tune-up
Beaux Lizewski and Nathan Eastgate scored and Class 4A No. 2 Seneca Valley (11-1-1, 10-1-1) took a 2-0 victory from Class 3A No. 2 Franklin Regional (13-2, 13-1) in a nonsection playoff tune-up for two of the WPIAL’s top boys soccer teams Tuesday night. Adam Davies recorded the shutout. Butler...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Oct. 20, 2020
For the first time all season, all 30 teams included in the Trib HSSN state rankings were in action. It was a banner week for the elite teams in Pennsylvania as 28 of them were victorious and only two fell to defeat and fell out of the top five. One...
Norwin girls volleyball, Latrobe boys soccer shut down because of covid-19 concerns
The Norwin girls volleyball and Latrobe boys soccer teams have shut down for 14 days because of possible exposure to covid-19. Norwin canceled its last four matches and Latrobe its final four games. If Norwin (5-4) qualifies for the WPIAL playoffs, based on results of other matches, the team might...
Jeannette freshman QB Brad Birch is ‘for real’
When he talks in casual conversation or even in interviews, Brad Birch likes to finish a lot of sentences with the words, “for real.” “I’m not that interesting of a kid, to be honest,” he said sheepishly. “I just want to play football and win games. For real.” Birch, a...
Ligonier Valley girls soccer team not apologizing for unique path to playoffs
When a clerical error made Apollo-Ridge ineligible for the WPIAL Class A girls soccer playoffs, there was a wide-eyed newcomer waiting to fill the vacancy. First-year WPIAL member Ligonier Valley (3-10, 2-7 Section 1-A) might have found its way into the district tournament as an innocent bystander, but the Rams...
Franklin Regional’s Tragesser finishes 2nd at PIAA golf championship
Franklin Regional senior Chuck Tragesser ended his high school individual golf career by finishing second at the PIAA Class AAA championship Tuesday at Heritage Hills Golf Resort. Tragesser shot a 3-under par 69 and finished one shot behind Holy Ghost Prep’s Calen Sanderson, who shot a 4-under par 31 on...
Westmoreland girls soccer notebook: Latrobe clinches playoff spot in style
Latrobe earned a hard-fought, 2-1 victory over Penn-Trafford last Thursday night to clinch a spot in the WPIAL girls soccer playoffs from Section 3-4A. What a way to extend the season. The win carried extra meaning because Latrobe hadn’t beaten the Warriors since 1995, when some of the current players’...
Weather again halts WPIAL girls tennis playoffs
For the second consecutive day, the WPIAL girls team tennis tournament has been halted because of rainy weather. Both the Class AAA and AA semifinal matches now will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday. WPIAL executive director Amy Scheuneman said Tuesday the weather forecast for the rest of the week “looks...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 19, 2020
Field hockey Monday’s result WPIAL Class 3A Pine-Richland 4, Peters Township 1 Golf Boys Monday’s results PIAA Individual Championship Class 2A Heritage Hills Golf Resort, York Par 71 Isaiah Swan, North East, 69* Matthew Tressler, Scranton Prep, 69 Jonathan Glick, Lancaster Mennonite, 74 Joey Toth, South Park, 74 James Ulsh,...
High school roundup for Oct. 19, 2020: Connellsville girls soccer goes undefeated, unscored upon
Mary Kate Lape had a hat trick and No. 3 Connellsville (11-0, 11-0) recorded a 6-0 shutout of Trinity (8-4, 7-4) in Section 2-3A girls soccer Monday to finish the regular season undefeated and unscored upon. The Falcons have outscored opponents, 102-0. Apollo-Ridge 4, Serra Catholic 2 — Emily Bonelli...
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week for Week 6
Elizabeth Forward realizes it is not easy to win a football conference championship. The Warriors have done it four times in their history —1966, 1985, 2017 and 2018. The last two titles were shared with two other teams as part of a tri-championship. So EF’s journey to first place in...
