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Fox Chapel football sees opportunity in closing weeks of season
Fox Chapel coach Dave Leasure equated the Foxes’ football schedule to being like a mountain. There were a few games for Fox Chapel to prepare for the climb, followed by an arduous journey to the top while playing against some of the best teams in Class 5A. The Foxes hope...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 11, 2024
High school Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Central Catholic 59, Norwin 14 North Allegheny 38, Canon-McMillan 6 Seneca Valley 27, Hempfield 15 Class 5A Allegheny Six Moon 55, Baldwin 26 Peters Township 38, South Fayette 3 Upper St. Clair 14, Bethel Park 10 Big East Kiski Area 21, Armstrong...
Trib HSSN’s 2024 Week 7 top performers for passing, rushing, receiving
Top performers for Week 7 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 366 - Kymon’e Brown, Jeannette (21 of 32) 310 - Kole Olszewski, Bishop Canevin (21 of 33) 296 - Cedric Davis, Brentwood (10 of 23) 275 - Anthony Smith, Southmoreland (15 of 27) 255 - Trey Hopper,...
High school football roundup for Oct. 11, 2024: Woodland Hills holds off Gateway in Big East
Nico Mager ran for two touchdowns and Amir Smith caught a 12-yard TD pass from Cam Walter as Woodland Hills held on for a 28-27 victory over Gateway (3-5, 2-3) in a WPIAL Class 5A Big East Conference football game Friday night. After Amari Gans scored on a 12-yard run...
Dominant Peters Township defense stops South Fayette cold
Peters Township put on a dominant defensive display Friday night, defeating South Fayette, 38-3, in a Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference clash. Peters Township racked up 436 of total offense and held the Lions to minus-20 rushing yards and 3 total yards in the game. Mickey Vaccarello spearheaded the Indians...
Run-heavy Upper St. Clair takes to air for winning points in showdown with Bethel Park
The goldfish maybe isn’t the most intimidating of animals, but that’s the one Upper St. Clair’s Charlie Bywalski was thinking about Friday night. Not a shark. Not a whale. A goldfish. “It’s always about ‘Be a goldfish,’ ” said Bywalski, a senior wide receiver and defensive back. “Coach Junko says,...
Rushing trio of Spell, Cromerdie, Boyd leads McKeesport past Mars
McKeesport’s trio of Kemon Spell, Anthony Cromerdie and Anthony Boyd combined for 350 yards on the ground and four touchdowns (two each by Spell and Cromerdie), giving the Tigers sole possession of first place in the Class 4A Greater Allegheny Conference with a 28-7 victory over Mars. McKeesport wasted no...
Belle Vernon grinds out victory over Laurel Highlands
A week after hitting big play after big play, the Belle Vernon Area football team showed it can be methodical if needed. The Leopards didn’t hit as many big plays, but they steadily chewed up yardage on their way to a 47-10 win over Laurel Highlands in Big 6 Conference...
Greensburg Salem making playoff push with victory over Derry
Ty George’s second season as Greensburg Salem’s football coach is developing into a potential game-changer for the playoff-starved Golden Lions program. Despite a recent skid. Kai Brunot scored two touchdowns, and the Greensburg Salem defense limited Derry to 84 yards of total offense as the Golden Lions ended a three-game...
Penn-Trafford gets ‘special’ victory against Franklin Regional
It was a special win for the Penn-Trafford football team Friday. The Warriors special teams blocked a field goal, blocked a punt, recovered a muffed punt that turned into a touchdown and had a couple of long kickoff returns to help pull out a hard-fought 26-10 victory over rival Franklin...
Southmoreland’s Anthony Smith throws for 3 TDs as Scotties top Mt. Pleasant, move closer to title
Southmoreland moved closer to its first conference title since 1979 with a sound victory over rival Mt. Pleasant in the teams’ 50th meeting. Anthony Smith threw for 280 yards and three touchdowns as visiting Southmoreland brushed aside the Vikings, 28-7, in a Class 3A Interstate Conference game Friday night at...
Seneca Valley beats Hempfield in pivotal Class 6A matchup
Seneca Valley won a crucial Class 6A contest Friday night, defeating Hempfield, 27-15. After a high-scoring second quarter led by junior quarterback Andrew Loebig’s arm, the run game sealed the deal for the Raiders (3-4, 3-1). With Seneca Valley doing many things well, Hempfield (3-5, 2-3) was shutout in the...
Elizabeth Forward uses big plays to pull away from Yough
Elizabeth Forward has spent the past two weeks trying to put the Interstate Conference on notice after feeling overlooked early in the season, and Friday night was no different as the Warriors dominated Yough, 45-7, to move to 3-0 in the conference. The Warriors (5-3) have won four straight, and...
Plum controls Fox Chapel for senior night victory
After a back-and-forth first half, it looked like it was shaping up to be a close game Friday night at Mustangs Stadium. However, Plum came out in the second half and excelled in all three phases of the game to win on senior night 49-10 against Fox Chapel in Class...
Clairton too much for Leechburg in Eastern Conference 1st-place showdown
When Tim Andrasy scored a rushing touchdown for Leechburg with 11 minutes, 11 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Friday’s Eastern Conference first-place clash with Clairton at Leechburg’s Veterans Stadium, it snapped the Bears’ 30-quarter streak of not allowing a point. Even though that defensive run came to an...
Highlands bottles up Burrell star Trey Coury, rolls to victory
At halftime of Friday’s Class 3A Allegheny 7 Conference showdown between Burrell and Highlands, the Golden Rams marching band played Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” Bucs star running back Trey Coury saw plenty of love from the Highlands defense as he was held to 18 yards on 20 carries, and...
Kiski Area keeps playoff hopes alive, beats Armstrong
With three weeks remaining in the regular season, and Kiski Area and Armstrong positioned at the bottom of the 5A Big East Conference standings, Friday’s contest presented as a must-win for the Cavaliers or the River Hawks have any postseason aspirations. For the second straight week, Kiski Area gained an...
Deer Lakes’ ball control tactics not enough to slow down Imani Christian
Deer Lakes did what it could to stall Imani Christian sophomore running back Gabriel Jenkins. But when the Lancers’ early success at playing keep-away didn’t result in points, the Saints quickly put the hammer down in an Allegheny 7 Conference showdown Friday night at Graham Field. Imani, the top Class...
Greensburg Salem to wear helmet decals to honor late assistant coach Rich Bowen
Greensburg Salem football players will wear special helmet decals on their helmets Friday night at Derry to honor assistant coach Rich Bowen, who died earlier this week after a battle with rectal cancer. He was 60. Bowen was in his second year as an assistant coach with the Golden Lions....
Slow-pitch softball league playoffs loom as regular season concludes
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League regular season concludes Sunday with four doubleheaders. West Allegheny (11-1) and Mt. Lebanon (10-2) meet at Mt. Lebanon’s Middle Field with the regular-season title on the line. Baldwin (3-11) and Bethel Park (9-5) played two games Wednesday to close out their regular season. Bethel...
5 things to watch in Week 7: Undefeated conference foes battle in 7 key WPIAL matchups
Call them the “Super 7” of Week 7. The WPIAL schedule includes seven matchups Friday night between teams with undefeated conference records. With only three weeks left in the regular season, these are games that can catapult or crush a team’s conference title hopes. The list includes: • Upper St....
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 10, 2024
High schools Field hockey Thursday’s results Class 3A Pine-Richland 11, Norwin 0 Class 2A Penn-Trafford 0, Fox Chapel 0 Football Thursday’s results WPIAL Nonconference Butler 7, Allderdice 0 Seton LaSalle 65, Shady Side Academy 12 City League Nonconference Carrick 16, Perry Traditional Academy 12 Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Central...
High-scoring Bethel Park offense brings balance into Allegheny Six clash with Upper St. Clair
The WPIAL’s highest-scoring offense has gone all season without arguably its best player, but that’ll change Friday. Bethel Park wide receiver Ryan Petras has recovered from shoulder surgery and is expected to make his season debut against rival Upper St. Clair, yet the Black Hawks seem like they’ve hardly missed...
High school football roundup for Oct. 10, 2024: Seton LaSalle’s Khalil Taylor scores 5 TDs in 1 quarter
It’s hard to imagine a football player making more of an impact in one quarter than Seton LaSalle sophomore Khalil Taylor did Thursday night. Taylor scored five touchdowns in the first quarter, leading the Rebels to a 65-12 nonsection victory over Shady Side Academy. Taylor scored on a 77-yard kickoff...
High school roundup for Oct. 10, 2024: Avonworth clinches 2nd straight section title
Rowan Carmichael had two goals and an assist to lead Avonworth to a 4-1 victory over Beaver on Thursday night, clinching the Section 2-2A title for the second straight season. Nathan Kline and Abdul Basit Sleiman Kaijie also scored and Calder Mahan dished out two assists for the Antelopes (14-2-2,...
