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Bishop Canevin, Fort Cherry set to square off in WPIAL Class A volleyball final
WPIAL Class A girls volleyball championship No. 2 Fort Cherry (13-4) vs. No. 1 Bishop Canevin (15-2) Noon Saturday at Fox Chapel Coaches: Mackenzie Greene, Fort Cherry; Kevin Walters, Bishop Canevin Players to watch: Alexa Malloy, Bishop Canevin (Sr., RSH); Reagan Carter, Fort Cherry (Sr., MH) How they got here:...
Yough, North Catholic ready for first WPIAL girls soccer championship appearance
Yough and North Catholic’s girls soccer teams had a sense of relief after winning Monday’s WPIAL Class AA semifinals. But the pressure is back on Saturday for the championship match at 10 a.m. at Highmark Stadium. It is the first titel-game appearance for the Cougars (17-1-1) and Trojanettes (13-4-0). After...
Thomas Jefferson football’s dominance by the numbers
The beat goes on. Thomas Jefferson has won 21 conference championships since coach Bill Cherpak’s first season in 1995. The Jaguars rolled past West Mifflin, 53-0, on Oct. 25 to end the regular season with a 7-0 record in the Big 8 Conference, 10-0 overall and 5-0 at home. “I...
Gateway cross country focused on positives after difficult WPIAL meet
Gateway’s cross country team couldn’t check off the top item on its list of goals this season — having a runner qualify for the PIAA meet. The Gators also aren’t about to let the results of the WPIAL meet get them down. “It’s unfortunate we didn’t run as well as...
Framework for success in place for Gateway girls volleyball team
The Gateway girls volleyball team may not have ended its season in a satisfying manner, but coach Phil Randolph believes his program is on its way to success. The Gators went 4-10 in Section 1-AAA play, four games back from a playoff spot, which was good enough for eighth place...
Plum’s Justin Mascilli misses spot at state cross country meet by narrowest of margins
Plum senior Justin Mascilli placed 27th in the boys Class AAA race at the WPIAL cross country championships Oct. 24 at Cal (Pa.). He completed the Roadman Park course in 17 minutes, 30 seconds, an improvement of 24 spots and 41 seconds from his finish there last year. While Mascilli’s...
Plum soccer reached goals despite dramatic playoff loss
If someone had told Plum boys soccer coach Raf Kolankowski before the season that his team would have been leading in a WPIAL Class AAAA semifinal with five-plus minutes remaining, he would’ve taken it in a heartbeat. What happened in those final five-plus minutes, where Canon McMillan scored twice to...
One play could have made difference for Plum football
Oh, but for the lack of one yard. That could be the lament of this year’s Plum football team. The difference between making the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs and putting away the team equipment earlier this week could well be three feet. Late in Plum’s game at Latrobe on Oct....
Norwin cross country falls just short of team goal
Norwin cross country coach Brian Fleckenstein knew it would take a great effort from his boys team to qualify for the PIAA cross country championship Nov. 2. The Knights needed to run their best even to have a shot at the top three, but they came up short and finished...
Franklin Regional sets sights on ‘new horizon’ after section title, WPIAL playoff run
The last week of October was a roller coaster ride of triumph and downfall for the Franklin Regional girls volleyball team. The fourth-seeded Panthers entered the WPIAL playoffs as Section 1-AAA champions with a 14-0 section record and swept Montour on Oct. 23 and Armstrong on Oct. 28 in the...
With help of senior captain, Shady Side Academy girls cross country has strong season
The Shady Side Academy girls cross country team recently concluded its season with a 9-2 overall record that included a 7-2 section mark. The team also finished eighth out of 19 schools at the WPIAL championships. The lone senior on the squad was captain Juliana Bem. “She was invaluable to...
Thomas Jefferson football notes: QB Shane Stump comes to appreciate coach Bill Cherpak
Now that he’s a senior, Thomas Jefferson quarterback Shane Stump understands the method behind veteran coach Bill Cherpak’s madness. The TJ signal caller said Cherpak has been instrumental in his development on the gridiron. “Cherp has been the biggest influence because of how hard he’s pushed me to become a...
Shashak Gurung, a native of Nepal, shatters Brentwood soccer scoring records
He’s No. 1, and by a wide margin Brentwood senior Shashak Gurung, a senior striker and four-year varsity player, ended the 2019 season with 39 goals and 28 assists, boosting his career totals to 84 goals and 76 assists for 160 points. All are team records. “My performance this season...
Big finish for Eden Christian boys cross country team at WPIALs
Eden Christian Academy cross country coach Kelly Gronbeck screamed herself hoarse watching three of her runners finish in the top 20 in the WPIAL Class A boys cross country championship meet Oct. 24 at Cal (Pa.). Senior Eric Gronbeck, Kelly’s son (17 minutes, 17 seconds), freshman Sean Aiken (17:58) and...
Penn-Trafford girls soccer program a model of consistency
The Penn-Trafford girls soccer team is an annual WPIAL playoff qualifier. It’s been a regular feature for the program since the start of the new millennium. And the 2019 season was no different. Penn-Trafford secured second place in Section 3-AAAA with a 10-2 record, lost a WPIAL first-round game to...
Pine-Richland girls, boys cross country teams finish strong season
The Pine-Richland cross country teams wrapped up their team season with a number of landmark performances at the WPIAL Class AAA cross country championships last week at Cal (Pa.) The girls team took fourth, and the boys team finished 14th. The girls team tied for the program’s best finish at...
Pine-Richland field hockey team seeks elusive state title
The Pine-Richland field hockey team won the WPIAL Class AAA championship again after toppling reigning champ Peters Township, 2-0, on Oct. 28 at Fox Chapel. It was the program’s second title in the past three seasons. Pine-Richland also won in 2017. The Rams stood tall on defense and received a...
Shady Side Academy sneaks by GCC for 1st WPIAL girls soccer title since 2016
The Shady Side Academy and Greensburg Central Catholic girls soccer teams split a pair of meetings in the regular season. On Friday at Highmark Stadium, the Indians took home the tiebreaker as they defeated the Centurions, 2-1, to win their first WPIAL Class A Championship since 2016. “It’s a hard...
Freeport hungry for WPIAL girls volleyball title
The Freeport girls volleyball team celebrated Thursday’s come-from-behind 3-2 victory over Avonworth in the WPIAL Class AA semifinals at North Allegheny with a trip to Chick-fil-A. “My girls all love Chick-fil-A, and they kind of devoured a lot of chicken sandwiches on the way home,” Yellowjackets coach Tom Phillips said....
Mars is last obstacle in way of Plum girls soccer’s first WPIAL titleVideo
Earlier this season, the Plum girls soccer team ventured to Highmark Stadium for a matchup with section rival Oakland Catholic. The result wasn’t what the Mustangs had hoped for as they suffered a 3-1 loss to the Eagles. But almost two months from that Sept. 7 game, Plum still only...
Knoch, Thomas Jefferson to collide in WPIAL girls volleyball title match
Knoch and Thomas Jefferson were the top two ranked girls volleyball teams in WPIAL Class AAA throughout the season, and they were rewarded with the top two seeds in the playoff bracket. The No. 1 Knights (17-0) and No. 2 Jaguars (18-1) turned away challengers through the first three rounds,...
WPIAL football playoffs 1st round: How to watch, listen and find scores
It’s the first round of the WPIAL football playoffs as teams begin their trek toward championship glory. You can find a complete list of all of the games being broadcast here. And when results start to roll in, you can find all of the scores here. Check back with TribLIVE...
Former coach leaves, new coach named in GCC baseball program
There has been a change at the top of the Greensburg Central Catholic baseball team. Dennis Reist resigned as coach of the Centurions after three seasons and Tom Appleby, Reist’s assistant and the school’s former softball coach, was named as his replacement. Reist left to become the head baseball coach...
Upper St. Clair out to deny North Hills its 1st playoff win since 2010
North Hills and Upper St. Clair haven’t played one another in nearly a decade, but a first-round matchup has stirred some nostalgia. “It seemed like back in the day, that’s who we were matched up with quite a bit,” said North Hills coach Pat Carey, a 1988 graduate. “That’s back...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 31, 2019
Football WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A First round Friday’s schedule Seneca Valley (4-6) at Mt. Lebanon (6-4), 7 p.m.; Canon-McMillan (3-7) at North Allegheny (9-1), 7 p.m. Byes: Central Catholic (9-1), Pine-Richland (9-1) Quarterfinals Nov. 8 schedule Central Catholic vs. Mt. Lebanon/Seneca Valley-winner at Fox Chapel, 7 p.m.; North Allegheny/Canon-McMillan-winner at...
