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WPIAL unveils girls volleyball playoff brackets
North Allegheny, Knoch, North Catholic and Bishop Canevin earned top seeds in their respective classifications as the WPIAL released girls volleyball playoff brackets Monday. In Class AAAA, second-seeded Pine-Richland, No. 3 Canon-McMillan and No. 4 Moon will join a field of 12 hoping to unseat the Tigers, who are searching...
Plum tops Montour to claim fall baseball league title
Plum shut out Montour, 5-0, Sunday afternoon at Norwin to capture the Western Pennsylvania Fall Baseball League’s varsity title. The Mustangs went 3-0 in the playoffs and finished 12-2-1 overall to capture the program’s third fall title since 2014. “The league was very competitive this year,” Plum coach Carl Vollmer...
Coaches association releases final WPIAL girls volleyball rankings
The WPIAL girls volleyball regular season has concluded, and the playoff pairings will be released early Monday afternoon. The journey to the finals at Fox Chapel is about to begin. The Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its final classification rankings and players-of-the- week recognition Monday. Class AAAA 1. North...
Unbeaten Burrell ready for obstacles in WPIAL Class AA girls soccer playoffsVideo
Burrell capped its regular season last Tuesday with a 5-1 victory over playoff-bound Highlands. Then the Bucs, who were 16-0 after defeating the Rams and won the program’s first section championship since 2005, settled in to find out where they would be seeded in the WPIAL Class AA girls soccer...
A-K Valley girls soccer playoff capsules: Games for Monday, Oct. 21, 2019
Monday’s games Girls soccer First round Class AAAA 9-Fox Chapel (9-7-1) at 8-Upper St. Clair (11-5) 8:15 p.m. Monday at Upper St. Clair Winner plays: 1-Norwin on Thursday in quarterfinals Coaches: Peter Torres, Fox Chapel; Dave Gray, Upper St. Clair Players to Watch: Lucy Ream, Jr., M/F, Fox Chapel; Marissa...
Alle-Kiski Valley football notebook: No place like home for Apollo-Ridge
Apollo-Ridge could have clinched a home first-round playoff game last week against Steel Valley, but the Vikings were upset by the Ironmen. Everything turned out in the Vikings’ favor Friday as they secured that home game and second place in the 2A Allegheny Conference when Shady Side Academy lost to...
Highlands logs senior-night overtime win vs. New CastleVideo
When New Castle traveled to Highlands’ Golden Rams Stadium two years ago, the Red Hurricanes escaped with a 48-47 victory in two overtimes. On Friday in Natrona Heights, the teams played another overtime game, and this time, the home team left the field victorious. Highlands took the lead on a...
Plum’s Mascilli, Valotta seek big jump at WPIAL championship meet
Justin Mascilli finished 51st in the boys Class AAA race at last year’s WPIAL cross country championships on the Roadman Park course at Cal (Pa.). It was a 49-place improvement from his sophomore finish. Mascilli enters his final WPIAL competition Thursday eyeing another big jump in the standings and also...
Alle-Kiski Campus Clippings: Bisceglia gets a leg up for Robert Morris
Kiski Area graduate Nick Bisceglia earned Northeast Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance in last Saturday’s 20-17 double-overtime victory by Robert Morris at St. Francis (Pa.). Bisceglia collected eight points, six coming on a pair of field goals. The latter of the two was a 38-yard...
A-K Valley football players to watch in Week 8
Johnny Crise Highlands, Sr., WR/LB The Golden Rams nearly pulled off the upset of Class 4A No. 2 South Fayette last Friday, and Johnny Crise played a big part. He hauled in touchdowns of 38 and 4 yards from freshman Chandler Thimons and was a part of a defense that...
A-K Valley don’t-miss football matchups for Week 8
Class 5A Northern Armstrong (1-6, 0-5) at Fox Chapel (3-5, 2-3) 7 p.m. Friday at the James Burk Athletic Complex, O’Hara Township Last week: North Hills 42, Armstrong 0; Fox Chapel 30, Mars 28 Coaches: Frank Fabian, Armstrong; Tom Loughran, Fox Chapel Players to watch: Cole Brown, Armstrong (Jr., 6-1,...
Eight teams from A-K Valley join girls soccer championship chase
Highlands was the final girls soccer team from the Alle-Kiski Valley invited to the WPIAL playoff party as the Golden Rams clinched a spot out of Section 2-AA with Monday night’s 2-1 overtime victory over Apollo-Ridge. In the postseason for the first time since 2016, Highlands sets the area’s playoff...
WPIAL girls soccer rankings through Oct. 14, 2019
Here’s a look at this week’s girls soccer rankings: Class AAAA 1. Norwin, 16-1, 3 2. Peters Township, 15-1-1, 2 3. North Allegheny, 14-2-1, 1 4. Seneca Valley, 11-3-2, 4 5. Moon, 14-2-1, 5 Out: None Class AAA 1. Mars, 13-0-1, 1 2. Plum, 14-1, 2 3. Belle Vernon, 13-3,...
Highlands tops Apollo-Ridge in overtime, clinches playoff spot
The Highlands girls soccer team came within two points of a WPIAL playoff spot last year. The Golden Rams weren’t to be denied this time around. Adrianna Vergerio scored with 5 minutes, 17 seconds left in the second overtime of Monday’s Section 2-AA contest at Apollo-Ridge. The golden goal gave...
Confidence high for Plum girls cross country team
The Plum girls cross country team already was having a productive season when it arrived at the Division I, Section 4 championship meet Oct. 2 at Northmoreland Park. The Mustangs took second at the season-opening Gateway Invitational at Boyce Park, won the Kiski Area Invitational at Northmoreland Park before faring...
Coaches association releases Week 7 WPIAL girls volleyball rankings
As the WPIAL girls volleyball regular season enters its final week, additional section champions will be crowned, and the final tickets to the WPIAL playoffs will be punched. There is movement in each of the four Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association classification rankings this week. The top four in Class...
Valley girls tennis ready for challenge in WPIAL team tournament
The WPIAL Class AA team tournament is new for all seven members of the Valley girls tennis team, as the last time the Vikings advanced to the playoffs was 2015. That year, Valley qualified as the No. 15 seed and lost in the first round to Quaker Valley. The last...
Springdale looks to keep slim playoff hopes alive
The mission is simple for the Springdale football team in its approach to staying alive in the chase for the playoffs in WPIAL Class A. To quote the late Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis: “Just win, baby.” That’s what the Dynamos did Friday evening under the lights at Oakmont’s Riverside...
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....
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...
Athletic greats celebrated with induction to Gateway Sports Hall of Fame
Katrina Streiner made her mark in swimming over four years of competition at Gateway. The 2005 graduate won two WPIAL titles in the 50-yard freestyle, another one in the 100 free and qualified seven times to states in those events. She also set the school record as a member of...
Burrell girls soccer races past rival Freeport, moves to cusp of section title
Burrell junior Jordyn Kowalkowski said she expected another close game with Freeport on Wednesday as the first Section 2-AA matchup between the rivals Sept. 18 went down to the wire. The No. 1 Bucs won that first meeting by one goal, but the rematch at Buccaneers Stadium turned out to...
Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, East Boros Chapter, to induct Class of 2019
A tradition continues Thursday evening as a new class of athletic greats will be celebrated and inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, East Boros Chapter. The Class of 2019 – Colleen Connors Marston (Gateway), Maria Beth Silverio (Turtle Creek), Paul Fox (Plum), Dan Grubbs (Turtle Creek), Dave McDonald...
Fox Chapel boys, girls golf teams set for WPIAL team championship
The Fox Chapel boys and girls golf teams will play for WPIAL championships Thursday at Cedarbrook Golf Course in Rostraver. The girls hopes to claim their first WPIAL title since 2010. The boys last captured WPIAL gold in 2006. The boys tournament, featuring Fox Chapel, Central Catholic, Shady Side Academy,...
A-K Valley football players to watch in Week 7
Klay Fitzroy Apollo-Ridge, Jr., WR/DB The sizable pass-catching targetat 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds was thrust into brief quarterbacking duty against Valley last Friday and ran twice for 25 yards. He hauled in four of Jake Fello’s passes for 48 yards. For the season, Fitzroy has 21 receptions for 319 yards...
