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Burrell hockey has sights set on Penguins Cup playoff run
The Burrell hockey team won 11 straight regular-season games heading into the playoffs last season. The Bucs fought their way to the final but came up one goal short against Neshannock. The Bucs have one thing on their mind this season and that is to make it back to the...
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Springdale’s Brooke Taliani
Brooke Taliani’s high school soccer career did not get off to the best of starts. As a freshman, she missed most of the season after having knee surgery. Then, after she recovered, she twisted both of her ankles. In her sophomore year, Taliani struggled to come back from those injuries,...
High school sports schedules for Oct. 28, 2024
High schools Field hockey WPIAL playoffs Championship At Washington & Jefferson Saturday’s schedule Class 3A Pine-Richland (19-0) vs. Mt. Lebanon (12-4), 4 p.m. Class 2A Fox Chapel (10-6-1) vs. Peters Township (15-3), noon Class A Shady Side Academy (14-4) vs. Aquinas Academy (8-3-3), 2 p.m. Football WPIAL playoffs Class 6A...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Oct. 28, 2024: Berths in soccer finals on the line
Welcome to Semifinals Monday in three of the eight brackets in the WPIAL soccer playoffs. Two years ago, Moon squared off against Bethel Park in a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal and cruised to a 6-0 victory. Last fall, Franklin Regional was an underdog as it traveled to Mars in a...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Oct. 28, 2024
The roads to North Huntingdon and the North Shore begin with the start of November high school football this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has audio coverage of seven WPIAL football playoff games, plus a couple of video streams and other audio broadcasts of the...
Trib HSSN football player of the week for Oct. 27, 2024Video
Trib HSSN football player of the week: DevonTe Dean School: Carlynton Class: Senior Height/Weight: 6-0, 180 Position: Quarterback, free safety What coach says: “This young man is the toughest player I have ever coached,” Carlynton coach John Tortorea said. “He cares more about his team and the school than he...
PIHL standings through Oct. 27, 2024
Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday. The new point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. Class 3A Team, Wins – Losses – Overtime Wins-Overtime...
Westmoreland high school notebook: PIAA berths on line for soccer, volleyball teams
The WPIAL soccer playoffs are winding into the semifinals, which means PIAA qualifying is imminent. For boys and girls, only the WPIAL finalists qualify in Class 4A. In the other three classes, the top three finishers move on: the finalists, plus the winner of a third-place consolation game. The WPIAL...
Franklin Regional’s Bayne takes hair-raising talent to boys soccer, football playoffs
Joey Bayne changed his hairstyle recently, going from wavy brown locks to a blond buzz-cut with dark tiger stripes. Bayne can change his look quickly during the fall season, too. One day, he’s a speedy forward creating goals for the soccer team. The next, he’s launching touchbacks into the end...
Westmoreland County WPIAL soccer playoff capsule: Game for Oct. 28, 2024
WPIAL soccer playoffs Class 3A Semifinals 7-Franklin Regional (12-3-2) vs. 6-Mars (14-1-4) 6 p.m. Monday, Dormont Stadium, Dormont Winner plays: Winner of 5-Bethel Park (13-6)/1-Moon (20-0) Oct. 31, Nov. 1 or Nov. 2 at Highmark Stadium in championship Corner kicks: Franklin Regional is in the semifinals for the sixth time...
A-K Valley WPIAL soccer playoff capsules: Games for Oct. 28, 2024
WPIAL soccer playoffs Boys Class 2A Semifinals 1-South Park (18-1-1) vs. 13-Burrell (10-9) 6 p.m. Monday, North Allegheny’s Newman Stadium, McCandless Winner plays: Winner of 2-Avonworth (15-2-2)/3-Deer Lakes (17-2-1) Oct. 31, Nov. 1 or Nov. 2 at Highmark Stadium in championship Corner kicks: Top-seeded South Park has posted back-to-back shutouts...
Tennis coach Christi Hays adds Quaker Valley hall of fame to remarkable resume
Christi Hays is not a Hall of Fame newcomer. Following a successful athletic career at Sewickley Academy, Hays was a standout athlete at Hollins University and was inducted into the Hollins College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. Upon her graduation, Hays returned to the Sewickley area and began what...
Quaker Valley girls tennis proud of runner-up finish after classic WPIAL final
Quaker Valley reached the WPIAL Class 2A finals in girls tennis for the second year in a row. The second-seeded Quakers were denied their quest to repeat as WPIAL titlists, however, falling to No. 1 North Catholic, 3-2, on Oct. 17 at Washington & Jefferson. It was only the second...
Penn-Trafford notebook: Warriors gearing up for playoffs
Penn-Trafford football team is getting healthy for the upcoming WPIAL Class 5A playoffs, according to coach John Ruane. The Warriors (7-2) finished the regular season with a game against former assistant Ron Prady at Latrobe on Oct. 25. Penn-Trafford was on a four-game winning streak, which included a 35-14 victory...
Penn-Trafford hockey off to hot start
When teams average six goals per game and have solid goaltending, they are going to win a lot of hockey games. That’s the formula the Penn-Trafford hockey team has used to start the 2024-25 season 3-0. The team is scoring goals, playing solid defense and getting outstanding goaltending from Tyler...
After long-awaited playoff victory, Gateway volleyball bows out to top-seeded Beaver
Gateway first-year girls volleyball coach Erica Bosh said her team’s trip to the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs showed just how far the team came since she arrived in August, and how hard they worked to come together and make a run to the postseason. The Gators saw their season come...
Gateway boys soccer makes 5th straight trip to playoffs, falls to Canon-McMillan
It wasn’t the way the Gateway boys soccer team wanted its WPIAL Class 4A first-round playoff game to play out. Homestanding Canon-McMillan, the eighth seed, scored quickly, developed a multi-goal advantage in the first half, and finished off a surprising 6-0 victory over the No. 9 Gators on Oct. 22....
Motivated by down year, Shaler girls volleyball gets back on track
Anna (Bozzo) Carter was disappointed following the end of last season. Only winning four matches and finishing in third place in the section wasn’t what Carter believed the Titans program is capable of. Entering the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs this season, Carter can say that everyone in the program took...
Paul Stadelman, cornerstone of Shaler volleyball, honored as PIAA coach of year
Bright orange Syracuse T-shirts stand out among the blue and gold-clad supporters and wooden bleachers in the usually dingy Fitzgerald Field House. Annie (Bozzo) Carter appreciated that Shaler volleyball coach Paul Stadelman still supported her when she came to town with her college team. “My first week there, I felt...
Chartiers Valley slugger Lily Duffill commits to No. 1 college choice, Penn State
Chartiers Valley junior Lily Duffill always had the goal of playing Division I softball. It’s an added bonus that she will get to do so at her No. 1 school. The catcher announced earlier this month that she would be continuing her academic and athletic career at Penn State. “They...
After undefeated season, Chartiers Valley hockey still has unfinished business
Anyone affiliated with the Chartiers Valley hockey team will tell you they expected to improve in 2023-24 after winning only six games the prior season. No one, however, expected the season to unfold the way it did. “We were a lot deeper, played a lot of young guys,” said coach...
Young Thomas Jefferson golf team builds solid foundation
Thomas Jefferson’s boys golf program was filled with young athletes this fall with no seniors among its 16 competitors. Three varsity starters — Ty Hartman, Hunter Haines and A.J. Weidmann — were freshmen. The Jaguars’ No. 1 player, however, was junior Maggie Allan, who also served as team captain. TJ’s...
Thomas Jefferson lights up scoreboard, gets ‘back to its old school ways’
Two key members of the Thomas Jefferson football team eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark offensively in the team’s 27-7 victory Oct. 4 against Trinity. Senior quarterback Luke Kosko completed 10 of 15 passes for 192 yards and one touchdown, giving him 1,170 passing yards for the season. Tyler Eber, a sophomore...
Brentwood golf celebrates 1st section championship
It’s proven to be quite a memorable 2024 fall season for the Brentwood boys golf team. For the first time in school history, the Spartans finished as section champions as Brentwood and Bishop Canevin tied for first place in Section 7-2A with 11-1 records. And the Spartans advanced to the...
Low-scoring sophomore sets tone for Baldwin golf team
Baldwin sophomore Michael Quallich knows his way around a golf course. Quallich was medalist at the WPIAL sectional qualifier at Lindenwood with a 71 score. He then tied for second place in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A tournament, shooting a score of 74 at Southpointe He ended...
