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WPIAL Class A roundup: Ryan leads California to blowout victory
Cochise Ryan ran six times for 201 yards and four touchdowns to lead California to a 67-34 victory over Bentworth (2-6, 2-4) in a Class A Tri-County South Conference game Friday night. California improved to 5-3 overall and 4-1 in the conference. The Trojans trail West Greene (6-0) and Chartiers-Houston...
WPIAL Class 2A roundup: McGuffey tops Charleroi to stay unbeaten
McKinley Whipkey ran for 109 yards and one touchdown as No. 3 McGuffey doubled-up Charleroi, 28-14, in a Class 2A Century Conference football game Friday night. McGuffey improved to 8-0 overall and 6-0 in conference play. Alex Conrad threw for 178 yards and a touchdown and rushed for a TD...
Baldwin’s breakthrough season continues with double OT win over Bethel Park
During pregame homecoming ceremonies Friday night, the 1999 Baldwin Highlanders football team was recognized on the 20th anniversary of the program’s last conference championship. It was fitting. A few hours later, Joe Moeller’s 23-yard field goal gave Baldwin a thrilling 31-28 double-overtime victory, beating rival Bethel Park for the first...
Hughes-Sciarro connection leads Riverside past rival Ellwood City
Riverside quarterback Ben Hughes and wide receiver Nathan Sciarro started working on their connection in May, going down to the football field after school and running routes with the goal of getting better timing. All of that offseason work certainly paid off, because their connection was impeccable Friday night. Hughes...
Imani Sanders, Jeannette run over GCCVideo
Imani Sanders had one of those games players dreams of. Jeannette’s senior running back scored five touchdowns and rushed for 217 yards to lead the No. 1 Jayhawks to a 48-14 victory in WPIAL Class A Eastern Conference clash Friday at Centurion Stadium. The victory clinches a playoff spot for...
Springdale dominates Eastern Conference rival RiverviewVideo
The Riverview football team turned on the lights Friday at Riverside Park for its annual night game. Visiting Springdale then proceeded to turn the Raiders’ lights out. The Dynamos collected 198 yards rushing and 252 overall and limited Riverview to 41 yards of offense in a 33-0 Eastern Conference victory....
Burrell football team defeats Freeport in overtime thrillerVideo
Burrell coach Shawn Liotta has coached a lot of games in his career, but he said he has never coached one like Friday’s 36-35 overtime victory over Freeport. There was history — the Bucs were 1-11 against the Yellowjackets in the past 12 years and had been outscored 361-141. There...
Huss paces Derry in rout of Yough
Following a year in which Derry played for a WPIAL championship, anything less might feel like a bust. But the Trojans are piling up the victories again, and the consensus Friday night after a 42-6 rout of Yough was one of optimism. “We played a pretty complete game,” Derry senior...
Cornell rallies past Laurel as QB Harrison surpasses 5,000-yard mark
After a slow start, Cornell caught fire late in the first half and went on to defeat Laurel in a pivotal Big Seven game, 33-21, on Friday night. After falling behind by 15 points early, the Raiders (6-1, 5-1) outscored the Spartans, 33-6, in the last 25 minutes to win...
North Allegheny outscores Hempfield in 6A shootout
Hempfield showed that North Allegheny’s defense can be vulnerable, but it couldn’t keep up with the Tigers playmakers. The teams combined for 97 points on a night when nearly everyone found the end zone. No. 1 North Allegheny came away with a 62-35 victory. “It was a crazy, crazy game...
Spencer, Pine-Richland roll over Mt. Lebanon
Pine-Richland is a top-flight Western Pennsylvania football program. Mt. Lebanon is aspiring to get there. It took less than a minute to let that narrative play out at Mt. Lebanon on Friday night. Pine-Richland needed just 45 seconds to reach the end zone. A much-anticipated battle for second place in...
Elizabeth Forward locks in with shutout of Mt. Pleasant
Mike Collodi has preached a fast, physical style of play since he began his coaching tenure at Elizabeth Forward in 2015. And it’s clear his message continues to resonate with his players. The Warriors put Collodi’s two-word mantra into effect Friday night, ending their two-game losing streak with a 24-0...
Latrobe makes goal-line stand to defeat Plum, claim playoff spotVideo
As momentum swayed, it was one of those games that seemed destined to produce good news and bad news for the Latrobe football team. And it did. The good news for the Wildcats? There was hardly any bad news. Latrobe wiped its collective brow and took care of business Friday...
Steel Valley upsets Apollo-Ridge to keep playoff hopes alive
Steel Valley isn’t ready to relinquish its WPIAL crown just yet. The Ironmen kept their flickering playoff hopes alive Friday night with a 20-14 upset over Apollo-Ridge at William Campbell Stadium. Junior quarterback Ronnell Lawrence scored on a 1-yard keeper with 6 minutes, 19 seconds left to break a 14-14...
WPIAL football Week 7 results
TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s Week 7 high school football action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • JEANNETTE 40, GREENSBURG CENTRAL CATHOLIC 14 Jeannette’s senior running back scored five touchdowns and rushed for 217 yards • BURRELL 36, FREEPORT 35 (OT) With the game on the line, senior...
Class 2A No. 5 Avonworth remains unbeaten with victory over East Allegheny
The Class 2A Allegheny Conference game between No. 5 Avonworth and East Allegheny was expected to be competitive. For most of two quarters, the game was exactly that. But the Antelopes regrouped after an East Allegheny miscue in the second quarter to remain unbeaten with a 35-7 win. In the...
Belle Vernon routs West Mifflin as Hartman sets school TD record
Belle Vernon clinched a home playoff game and quarterback Jared Hartman set a single-season record for touchdown passes as the Leopards rolled past West Mifflin, 40-7, in a Big 8 conference showdown on Friday on “the Beach” at James Weir Stadium. Hartman connected on a pair of touchdown passes, a...
No ‘doormat’: Moon tied for 1st after defeating Upper St. ClairVideo
Doormats? Hardly. A year after winning only one conference game, Moon just might win the Allegheny 8 title. Wildcat runner Jamal Littlejohn scored twice and Moon’s defense was disruptive again Friday night as the fifth-ranked Tigers defeated Upper St. Clair, 20-6, showing that they’re ready to contend in this unpredictable...
High school scores, summaries, schedules for Oct. 11, 2019
High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan 49, Norwin 14 North Allegheny 62, Hempfield 35 Pine-Richland 41, Mt. Lebanon 0 Class 5A Allegheny 8 Baldwin 31, Bethel Park 28 (2OT) Moon 20, Upper St. Clair 6 Peters Township 43, Chartiers Valley 14 Big East Franklin Regional 35, Connellsville...
Clairton contains Ben Jackson, rolls past West Greene
West Greene brought the WPIAL’s leading rusher to Clairton, but the Bears ended up being the ones running wild. No. 2 Clairton put up big play after big play, scoring 35 points in the game’s first 18 minutes and cruising to a 49-7 win over No. 4 West Greene in...
Dynamic Beltram leads Monessen past Tri-County South foe Mapletown
There was little Mapletown could do to slow down Monessen’s dynamic quarterback Friday night at Memorial Stadium. Too many penalties didn’t hurt the Greyhounds much, either. Whether it was on the ground or through the air, Isaiah Beltram had his way with the Maples and led the Greyhounds to a...
Canon-McMillan boosts playoff hopes with convincing win over Norwin
If Norwin or Canon-McMillan had any thoughts of making the WPIAL playoffs, both teams knew their matchup Friday night was crucial to those hopes. Norwin didn’t have an answer for Canon-McMillan’s run game headlined by Ryan Angott as the Big Macs defeated Norwin, 49-14, in Class 6A play. Angott finished...
Leechburg ends three-season losing skid against Imani Christian
Prior to Friday night’s game at Veterans Memorial Stadium, there wasn’t a player on the Leechburg football team who had experienced a victory against Imani Christian. Now, every Blue Devil knows how it feels. Leechburg (3-6, 2-3) settled its 3-year-old score with the Saints (0-8, 0-6) after toppling its WPIAL...
Franklin Regional clinches playoff berth behind Zac Gordon’s 228 yards, 3 TDs
A couple of trends continued Friday night as Connellsville and Franklin Regional met in a homecoming game at Connellsville Stadium. The Panthers continued their long streak of WPIAL playoff appearances thanks to a 35-7 Section 2-5A win, and the Falcons continued to be haunted by costly mistakes. “We keep shooting...
Freeport girls volleyball dominance on display
The Freeport girls volleyball team wrapped up its 15th consecutive section championship Thursday with a convincing three-game sweep of Section 5-AA foe Burrell. The Yellowjackets, No. 3 in the latest Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association WPIAL Class AA rankings, upped their record to 10-0 in section and 11-0 overall. The...
