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The Daily 3: WPIAL girls volleyball reaches the halfway point in section play on Tuesday
Most WPIAL girls volleyball teams will reach the midway point of section play with matches on Tuesday night. While there are good races throughout all four classifications, the view from the top in Section 3-AAAA is very crowded halfway through the regular season. Four teams are separated by only a...
High school roundup for Sept. 23, 2019: Sarah Heisinger keeps Peters Township girls soccer unbeaten with OT goal
Sarah Heisinger scored her second goal of the game with less than two minutes left in the second overtime to help Peters Township stay undefeated with a 2-1 girls soccer victory over Canon McMillan in a key Section 2-AAAA matchup Monday night. Jillian Marvin had an assist for Peters Township...
Norwin peppers Penn-Trafford to win girls soccer showdownVideo
Norwin’s gameplan was to bombard Penn-Trafford with shots in the girls soccer teams’ first Section 3-4A meeting of the season. The second-ranked Knights followed their assignment perfectly to lay the groundwork for a 2-1 victory over No. 4 Penn-Trafford on Monday night at Norwin Knights Stadium. Pitt recruits Katelynn Kauffman...
Latrobe golfer Colten McCutcheon survives bad hole to qualify for WPIALsVideo
Latrobe senior Colten McCutcheon did something at Monday’s WPIAL Class AAA semifinal that he can luckily laugh about. He had a 10 on the par-5 third hole at Willowbrook Country Club and was still able to qualify for the WPIAL Championship on Oct. 1 at Fox Chapel Golf Club. McCutcheon...
WPIAL postpones hearing for Allderdice, Connellsville boys soccer teams
A WPIAL hearing scheduled Wednesday for the Allderdice and Connellsville boys soccer teams has been postponed. The hearing was delayed at Allderdice’s request, WPIAL executive director Tim O’Malley said. A new date wasn’t immediately set. The WPIAL board voted unanimously last week to investigate allegations that the two boys soccer...
Springdale’s Andrew Haus is exceeding expectations in net
Before the 2019 soccer season started, Springdale boys soccer coach Cesareo Sanchez had a big hole to fill at the goalkeeper position. Mike Zolnierczyk, the 2018 Valley News Dispatch boys athlete of the year who only allowed eight goals all season, had graduated and Sanchez was in need of a...
Alle-Kiski Valley notebook: Section 5-AA volleyball serves up big games
The WPIAL girls volleyball schedule contains several key matchups Tuesday, and one resides in Section 5-AA, where Deer Lakes will host Freeport at 7:30 p.m. The senior-laden Yellowjackets are 5-0 with wins against every other team in the section, and Deer Lakes is tied with Derry for second at 4-1....
WPIAL Football Team of the Week: Week 4
After making the playoffs in 2018 for the first time in a decade, the 2019 campaign was slipping away from Canon McMillan. They were 0-4, 0-3 in Class 6A and had been outscored 172-44. They also had played their last two games without head coach Mike Evans, who had been...
WPIAL boys soccer rankings through Sept. 21
WPIAL Boys Soccer Rankings Class AAAA Team, record, previous 1. Norwin, 10-0-1, 1 2. Seneca Valley, 9-1, 2 3. Plum, 9-0-1, 5 4. Mt. Lebanon, 7-1-1, — 5. Canon-McMillan, 8-2-1, 4 Out: Fox Chapel, 7-2, 3 Class AAA 1. Franklin Regional, 7-0-1, 1 2. Moon, 9-1, 2 3. South Fayette,...
Shady Side Academy will forfeit football game against Apollo-Ridge
Citing a lack of healthy players, Shady Side Academy notified Apollo-Ridge on Monday that it will forfeit this week’s football game. Shady Side athletic director Gene Deal called the decision heartbreaking. The Indians started the season with 23 names on the roster but finished last week’s game with only 14...
Coaches association releases latest WPIAL girls volleyball rankings
The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Top 10 girls’ rankings for each of the four WPIAL classifications Monday, and the top teams in each poll maintain their positions as the fourth week of section play begins. North Allegheny owns the top spot in Class AAAA. The Tigers, 5-0...
Burgettstown lineman Riley Kemper commits to Robert MorrisVideo
Burgettstown lineman Riley Kemper, a reigning WPIAL wrestling champion, committed Sunday to play football at Robert Morris. Kemper announced his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-4, 275-pound senior earned first-team all-conference honors on the offensive line last season. He’s an anchor up front for a Burgettstown team that’s 4-0 this season...
High school schedules for Sept. 23, 2019
High schools Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class AA Section 1 South Park at Keystone Oaks, 7:30 p.m. Nonsection Aquinas Academy at St. Joseph, 4 p.m. East Allegheny at Southmoreland, ppd. Jeannette at Valley, 7 p.m. Knoch at Freeport, 5:15 p.m. McKeesport at South Allegheny, 5 p.m. Riverview at Trinity...
Highly successful Mars girls soccer team off to another fast start
Over the past decade, the Mars girls soccer program has experienced a tremendous run on the pitch. The Fightin’ Planets have advanced to the WPIAL playoffs 10 times, won nine consecutive section titles, racked up four WPIAL championships and finished as a WPIAL runner-up three times, qualified for the PIAA...
WPIAL Class AAA boys golf individual semifinals set for Monday
The championship field will be determined Monday with the WPIAL Class AAA boys individual golf semifinals at two sites. District golfers will tee off at 9 a.m. at Hannastown Golf Club in Greensburg and Willowbrook Golf Club in Apollo. The top 18 golfers from each site will qualify for the...
WPIAL football player of the week: Week 4
You knew it was only a matter of time. In his first four games, West Greene senior running back Ben Jackson had rushed for 253, 166, 272 and 299 yards. On Friday, against a team the Pioneers finished tied with for the conference championship last season, Jackson ran wild in...
Fall high school sports highlight the first full week of autumn on HSSN
Autumn is here, so we celebrate with, what else, plenty of fall high school sports action this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage from Week Five of the high school football season with plenty of conference games among the 36 WPIAL,...
Latrobe volleyball hopes to gain momentum with healthy lineup
Reaching the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs was the goal last year for Latrobe’s girls volleyball team. The Wildcats achieved it but want even more this fall. “After not making playoffs for 10 years, the experience was a lot different to play and watch,” Latrobe senior Skylar Shank said. “This year,...
Freeport volleyball seniors determined to return to top
Freeport setter Madeline Clark can still recall the feeling of walking off the floor after last year’s WPIAL semifinal loss to Frazier that ended the Yellowjackets’ 3-year run of making the district title game. “I remember the disappointment,” Clark said. “It just hurt so much. I hate losing so much.”...
Hempfield tennis set to battle rival Latrobe for section title
The date is circled. Hempfield’s girls tennis team plays Sept. 30 at rival Latrobe with sole possession of the Section 1-AAA title on the line. Both teams are 7-0. The Spartans have rolled past Norwin, Franklin Regional, Armstrong, Connellsville, Kiski Area, Gateway and Penn-Trafford in section play. “I wanted our...
Knoch cross country teams hope to unseat Riverview atop sectionVideo
The Knoch boys and girls cross country teams have a lot on their plates with long- and short-term goals in mind. Both are positioning themselves for a month from now, when they hope to improve on 2018 WPIAL championship finishes — the boys were ninth and the girls 10th —...
High school roundup for Sept. 21, 2019: Freeport boys soccer stays hot
Hunter Hardin scored the game’s lone goal off an assist from Dan Lynch via corner kick as Freeport earned its fourth straight shutout victory with a 1-0 win over Burrell (3-5-0, 5-6-0) in a Section 2-AA boys soccer game. The Yellowjackets (7-2-1, 5-2-1) have won three straight section games. Bentworth...
High school scores for Sept. 21, 2019
High schools Cross country Boys Saturday’s results PIAA Foundation Invitational at Hershey Class AAA Individual: 1. Patrick Anderson, Mt. Lebanon, 15:51; 2. Zachary Leachman, Mars, 16:29; 3. Joshua Lewin, WC East, 16:31; 4. Zack Marmol, Peters Township, 16:31; 5. Tyler Clifford, Perkiomen Valley, 16:40; 6. Patrick Theveny, Penncrest, 16:49; 7....
Apollo-Ridge football team looks at positives after 1st defeat
While not happy with the way things turned out in Friday’s battle of the unbeatens between his Apollo-Ridge football team and Allegheny Conference foe Avonworth, Vikings coach John Skiba also talked in positive terms about the opportunities his team has coming out of the 42-14 loss. Included in that is...
Ligonier Valley football keeps marching on
If you attend a Ligonier Valley football practice during the week, you might be surprised to hear music blaring for the entire session. It’s something different veteran coach Roger Beitel allows his team to do. When you have been the most dominating team in the PIAA District 6 Heritage Conference...
