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WPIAL clinched: Girls volleyball playoff scenarios, qualifiers through Oct. 12, 2025
The 2025 WPIAL girls volleyball regular season is winding down with only one week remaining, and 58 district teams have clinched a postseason berth. The top four teams in each of the sections with seven or more teams and the top three teams in each of the sections with six...
2025 WPIAL playoff picture, clinchings through Week 7
Two weeks remain in the 2025 WPIAL football regular season with most of the district postseason berths and conference crowns still up for grabs. This is the second year of the new look WPIAL football playoffs where wild card teams have expanded and are no longer figured out by mathematical...
Trib HSSN football player of the week for Oct. 12, 2025Video
Trib HSSN football player of the week – Matt Sieg School – Fort Cherry Class – Senior Height/weight – 6-foot, 180 pounds Position – Quarterback, defensive back #Earned – While Fort Cherry senior Matt Sieg may never record an album or sell one single musical song, he has become very...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Oct. 13, 2025: Montour to battle Moon for share of Section 2 title
As we enter the final night of section play in WPIAL girls soccer, 14 of the 15 section titles have been decided. The only one going down to the wire is for the crown in Section 2-3A. The Monday schedule will be highlighted by Montour at Moon in a battle...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Oct. 13, 2025
The “Stretch Run” of the high school football season continues while the regular season ends and the playoff brackets are revealed in WPIAL soccer and volleyball this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has video and audio coverage of Week 8 of high school football season,...
Imani Christian’s Gabe Jenkins latest WPIAL football recruit to decommit from Penn State
Add Imani Christian’s Gabe Jenkins to the growing list of Penn State football commits reconsidering their futures. Jenkins, a highly recruited defensive back, decommitted on Sunday, following similar decisions this week by Pine-Richland wideout Khalil Taylor and McKeesport running back Kemon Spell. All three are juniors. Jenkins’ decision came after...
WPIAL girls and boys soccer rankings: Week ending Oct. 11, 2025
WPIAL soccer rankings Through Saturday’s games Girls Class 4A Team, record, previous 1. North Allegheny (11-3-2) 3 2. Seneca Valley (9-2-2) 1 3. Pine-Richland (13-2-1) 2 4. Peters Township (13-1-2) 4 5. Norwin (14-2) 5 Out: None Class 3A 1. South Fayette (13-1-1) 1 2. Fox Chapel (13-1-1) 2 3....
Penn-Trafford notebook: Warriors rally to keep the Victory Bell
In the annual “Battle for the Bell’ against rival Gateway, Penn-Trafford rallied in the second half to win the game and retain the Victory Bell. The Warriors outscored the Gators, 26-0, in the second half for a 33-23 victory. The Gators led 13-0 and 23-7 in the first half. Ben...
Gateway champion swimmer Melanie Morgan Miller set to join Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame
Not many people can say they appeared in Sports Illustrated. But Melanie Morgan Miller’s photos and her swimming accomplishments at the high school level were featured in the magazine’s “Faces in the Crowd” segment in 1988. But the Gateway graduate was not just any face in the crowd. She won...
Gateway baseball players benefit from fall workouts
Gateway baseball coach Andy Hoover welcomed more than two dozen players to fall workouts and scrimmages at the end of August. It was a fresh start for a group with high expectations and goals to make it back to the WPIAL playoffs. The second-year coach said the past few weeks,...
Sewickley notebook: Quaker Valley’s Jared Jones honored by PIAA
In honor of National Coaches Day last week, the PIAA announced the selections for the 2024-25 PIAA Coaches of the Year. Quaker Valley track and field coach Jared Jones was among 25 coaches across 13 boys and girls sports to be recognized. He was honored for his work with the...
Sewickley Academy welcomes latest class into Sports Hall of Fame
The Sewickley Academy Sports Hall of Fame gained a new class of inductees on Oct. 3. Four individuals and one team were honored at a ceremony in the Events Center on campus. “The Hall of Fame serves as a reminder of the remarkable individuals and teams who have helped build...
Quaker Valley girls claim section championship to cap off dominant regular season
There aren’t many better ways to follow up on winning your program’s third WPIAL title than what the 2025 Quaker Valley girls’ soccer team has done. Building on their recent WPIAL championship, the Quakers defeated Central Valley, 3-1, on Oct. 8, improving to 9-0-1 in section play and claiming the...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 11, 2025
High schools Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class 2A Allegheny Steel Valley 38, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 6 Nonconference Seton LaSalle 47, Shady Side Academy 6 Saturday’s summaries Steel Valley 38, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart 6 Steel Valley 9 20 2 7 —38 Our Lady of the...
High school roundup for Oct. 11, 2025: Da’Ron Barksdale sparks Steel Valley past OLSH
Da’Ron Barksdale ran for 107 yards, including a 76-yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage, to lead Steel Valley to a 38-6 victory over Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Class 2A Allegheny Conference football Saturday night. Barksdale, a Pitt recruit who is likely to play defensive...
WPIAL football rankings: Week ending Oct. 12, 2025
Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Central Catholic, 7-1, 1 2. North Allegheny, 6-1, 2 3. Norwin, 5-3, 3 4. Canon-McMillan 4-4, 5 5. Seneca Valley, 3-5, NR Out: Hempfield (4-4, 4) Class 5A 1. Pine-Richland, 7-1, 1 2. Peters Township, 8-0, 2 3. Woodland Hills, 6-2, 3 4....
Alle-Kiski Valley athletes of the week: Freeport’s Peyton Los, Highlands’ Jerid Kaminski
Peyton Los School: Freeport Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Claim to fame: Peyton scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Burrell on Monday. The Yellowjackets then defeated Knoch, 3-0, on Wednesday evening. Freeport (14-1, 10-0) sits atop Section 2-2A and is getting ready for the playoffs. Tell me about...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Hempfield’s Preslee Horchak, Mt. Pleasant’s Damien Ohler
Preslee Horchak School: Hempfield Class: Senior Sport: Volleyball Claim to fame: Horchak is always in the mood to help her teammates. The setter recently reached 1,000 career assists while helping Hempfield to a 10-3 record and a first-place tie with Penn-Trafford. She had 32 assists in a 3-2 win over...
Westmoreland high school football notebook: Injuries pile up for Hempfield ahead of must-win game
Hempfield’s injury list is growing, along with a sense of urgency. The Spartans saw three linemen and a receiver/defensive back leave the field and not return in Friday night’s flat 47-8 loss to Seneca Valley. Linemen Jake Wiederstein (arm), Brock Heisler (hand) and Noah Helfrich (shoulder) and receiver Nick Marquis...
‘Something to prove’: Tevin Owen-Cratsenberg shines in backfield for Highlands
Tevin Owen-Cratsenberg’s rise to running prominence this season started a 31-28 Week Zero victory against Armstrong. The Highlands sophomore collected 122 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 23 carries. The transition to a feature back in the Golden Rams’ offense had its ups and downs early as he cut...
Shady Side Academy shakes off slow start, earns playoff spot
The Shady Side Academy girls soccer team has been undermanned all season, but the Bulldogs have steadily improved after a five-match losing streak in September put them behind the curve. Shady Side Academy (6-9, 4-6) bounced back with a few wins to climb into the mix for the WPIAL Class...
Fox Chapel Herald notebook: Hockey team swimming in new Class 3A waters
The Fox Chapel hockey team is making the jump up to Class 3A as part of the PIHL’s promotion-relegation system of classifying teams. The Foxes, who lost in overtime of the Class 2A Penguins Cup final last season, took a tough loss to open the season. Fox Chapel, which fell...
Riverview golfers set to compete at PIAA tournament
Rex Roberts and Ian Stempfer are on the cusp of their first PIAA championship golf tournament. The Riverview juniors will join the best from throughout the state Monday and Tuesday for 36 holes on the Penn State White Course. Raiders coach Hal Biehl said the duo continues to focus well...
Plum boys soccer celebrates WPIAL championship anniversary
Two decades have passed since the Plum boys soccer program experienced one of its greatest seasons. The 2005 Mustangs won 22 games and lost just twice. Plum captured the WPIAL Class 3A title and made it all the way to the PIAA semifinals. A sizeable group of players from that...
Norwin hockey turns page after taking lumps last season
Coming off a 1-19 season, second-year Norwin hockey coach Denny Zeravica wants to take what he and his players learned from bouts of adversity and apply it to present times. Last year was last year. That ice has melted. “Even though we had a down year in regard to winning,...
