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What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Oct. 3, 2023: 1st place on the line as boys soccer season reaches crunch time
There are just under two weeks left in section play in WPIAL boys soccer, so nearly every game has meaning in the fight for section crowns, playoff seeding and a postseason berth. The top four teams in two district sections go head to head Tuesday. In Section 2-4A, first-place Upper...
WPIAL girls soccer playoff clinchings through Oct. 2, 2023
Section play in the 2023 WPIAL girls soccer regular season has less than two weeks remaining. 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 all qualify for the postseason. Here is...
High school roundup for Oct. 2, 2023: South Park maintains grip on 1st place with win over Shady Side Academy
Emelyn Schlater scored the winning goal as South Park (9-3, 7-0) maintained sole possession of first place in Section 4-2A girls soccer with a 1-0 victory over Shady Side Academy (9-3, 5-2) on Monday night. Ambridge 2, Hopewell 1 (OT) – Hayden Grant scored to tie the game and Norah...
Plum girls soccer defeats Latrobe in overtime thriller
The Plum and Latrobe girls soccer teams needed overtime to decide their Section 3-3A matchup Monday evening at Plum’s Mustangs Stadium. Freshman Emily Grubich made sure the homestanding Mustangs came away with the crucial three points. She raced down the middle of the field, possessed the ball after passes from...
Deer Lakes girls soccer learning on fly, gaining confidence
Deer Lakes sophomore Bryanna Simonetti spelled out a simple formula for the Lancers’ Section 2-2A clash with section power Freeport last Wednesday. “It just came down to us sticking together as a team and playing solid at both ends,” Simonetti said. “We had been playing pretty well, and I had...
Penn-Trafford’s Turowski captures second WPIAL Class 3A golf title
Nick Turowski was so relaxed during the final round of the WPIAL Class 3A golf championship Monday at Valley Brook Country Club he laid down on the 17th fairway waiting for the green to clear. “The plan today was to come out and have fun,” Turowski said after his five-shot...
Unflappable Nixen Erdely of Frazier wins WPIAL Class 2A golf title
If there was any pressure going into the second and final round of the WPIAL Class 2A individual golf championship, Frazier’s Nixen Erdely wasn’t showing it. On the one hour, 20 minute drive with his dad from Frazier to Butler Country Club, Erdely wasn’t thinking about the round ahead of...
Trib HSSN high school football player of the week for 2023 Week 5
There are a lot of “dual” threat football players in the WPIAL, but none are as unique as Mohawk quarterback Jay Wrona. Yes, Wrona can hurt you with his passing and running, but he can also do damage with his woods and irons too. The senior is participating and shining...
Girls volleyball rankings: Section races heat up for stretch run to WPIAL playoffs
There were no changes at the top in each of the four WPIAL classifications as the Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its Week 5 polls Monday morning. Staying at No. 1 were North Allegheny in Class 4A, Hampton in Class 3A, Freeport in Class 2A and Serra Catholic in...
Kiski Area Sports Hall of Fame inducts Class of 2023
The Kiski Area athletic community gathered last month to celebrate a group of Cavaliers greats. Their exploits in competition were recognized with enshrinement as the latest class of the Kiski Area Sports Hall of Fame. Lauded during the Sept. 2 banquet and ceremony were Sean Arnold (Class of 1998, soccer,...
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Deer Lakes’ Brooke Kostyak
Brooke Kostyak is an unconventional goalkeeper of sorts. Typically, soccer goaltenders need to be vocal to communicate with their defense to help prevent goals, but Kostyak is of a quiet nature and her coach believes it doesn’t hurt Deer Lakes in the slightest. “We’ve gotten used to it. She has...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Mt. Pleasant’s Maggie Piper
A trip to the PIAA semifinals obviously would be considered part of a successful season, but to make it that close and fall short can be crushing. In the case of Mt. Pleasant’s girls soccer team, the Vikings are hungrier than ever to get back there and cross that threshold...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Oct. 2, 2023: WPIAL boys golf champions to be crowned
The district will be dishing out golf gold Monday with the final round of the 2023 WPIAL boys Class 3A and 2A individual golf championships. The boys 3A final round will take place at the ValleyBrook Country Club in McMurray with 39 golfers participating. Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turkowski has the...
Trib HSSN football team of the week for 2023 Week 5
For the Moon football team, it’s not hard to guess what rides they gravitate toward when they visit Kennywood Park. The way things have gone the last two and a half years, they are lined up for one of the park’s roller coasters. In 2021, the Tigers reached great heights...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Oct. 2, 2023
The second half of the high school football regular season kicks off October football this weekend on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video coverage of Week 6 with six WPIAL football games on Friday, plus links to plenty of other video streams. The WPIAL football scoreboard...
High school sports schedules for Oct. 2, 2023
High schools Field hockey Monday’s schedule Section 3A Mt. Lebanon at Hempfield, 6 p.m. Pine-Richland at Allderdice, 3:15 p.m. Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule Class 2A Section 1 Keystone Oaks at South Allegheny, 5 p.m. Class A Section 3 Burrell at Trinity Christian, 4 p.m. Section 4 Bishop Canevin at Carlynton,...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: P-T golfer Nick Turowski can join exclusive company with win
Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turowski is primed to become a two-time WPIAL golf champion. And if he wins Monday, he will join elite company. Turowski would become just the second two-time winner from Westmoreland County. He could live like a King for a day. Latrobe’s Arnold Palmer won back-to-back titles in...
Trib HSSN girls, boys soccer rankings: Week ending Oct. 1, 2023
Girls Class 4A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. North Allegheny (12-0) 1 2. Peters Township (10-0-1) 2 3. Upper St. Clair (10-1) 3 4. Seneca Valley (10-1-1) 4 5: Fox Chapel (7-3-1) NR Out: Canon-McMillan (5-4-2) 5 Class 3A 1. Mars (10-0) 1 2. Moon (8-1-1) 2 3. Plum (10-0-1)...
Gateway volleyball team working to take one step further
The Gateway girls volleyball program finds itself in a similar position to last year. However, this time, the Gators are looking to take an additional step forward. The Gators (5-3, 5-2) have been led by seven players who earned differing degrees of starting time last year. Gateway opened the season...
Gateway notebook: Gators girls soccer in postseason hunt
The Gateway girls soccer team scored a 2-0 shutout victory over Penn Hills on Sept. 27 to improve to 3-5-1 overall and 3-5 in Section 3-3A. Becca Ryan and Hayden Price scored for the Gators, who are in fifth place in Section 3 behind Plum (8-0), Latrobe (6-1), Franklin Regional...
After section showdown, Quaker Valley, Sewickley Academy golfers go on to postseason success
Quaker Valley and Sewickley Academy have well-established golf programs and traditions. Another chapter in the long rivalry took place Sept. 20 when the QV golfers defeated the Panthers, 200-211, in a critical section match at Allegheny Country Club. With the win, QV clinched a tie for first place with Eden...
3-sport star completes family trifecta in Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame
The covid-19 pandemic in 2020 delayed Dr. Christa Rogers-Pettie’s entrance into the Quaker Valley Sports Hall of Fame. Inductions for the HOF were shut down for three years from 2020-2022 because of the pandemic. The 2008 QV graduate waited patiently for that much-anticipated phone call from her former track coach,...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Nick Turowski, Antolena Damico advance in WPIAL golf tournament
Penn-Trafford senior Nick Turowski was one step closer to winning his second WPIAL Class 3A boys golf championship after shooting an even-par 72 at Latrobe Country Club on Sept. 25 to lead the tournament after the first round. The final round was Oct. 2 at Valley Brook Country Club in...
Slippery Rock commitment ‘felt right’ to Penn Hills basketball standout Hannah Pugliese
Ryenn Micaletti left a lasting impression with Penn Hills senior Hannah Pugliese. While on a trip to Slippery Rock University, Pugliese had an opportunity to watch Micaletti, who is in her first year as coach of The Rock, run practice. “I think she is going to turn things around,” Pugliese...
Penn Hills responds well to dose of adversity
Penn Hills football coach Charles Morris prepared the team to face major adversity from the first day of training camp. Morris got an idea of how the Indians would handle it when things didn’t go right after Penn Hills lost Sept. 15 to Moon. The Indians, who were ranked No....
