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Latrobe boys soccer proves it is for real by blanking Franklin Regional
Latrobe likes to rely on an overcrowded midfield to control the tempo and produce occasional run-outs for scoring chances. It’s the boys soccer team’s bread and butter. The game plan worked as the tone-setter in Tuesday night’s surprising Section 4-3A victory against Franklin Regional. The Wildcats pushed ahead on a...
Springdale girls soccer team building on last season’s success
The Springdale girls soccer team is the hunted this season coming off of what it did last year as a WPIAL Class A finalist and a PIAA quarterfinalist. The Dynamos, the No. 1 team this week in the TribLive HSSN Class A rankings, also is a team with a target...
Penn-Trafford’s Amelia Williams, Winchester Thurston’s Cecilia Gurgel earn WPIAL singles top seeds
Youth was served last fall when Penn-Trafford freshman Amelia Williams won the 2022 WPIAL Class 3A singles tennis championship. Williams is back to defend her crown and is joined by numerous underclassmen as the field is set for the 2023 district girls tennis singles championships Wednesday. Half of the Class...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 20, 2023: Unbeaten girls soccer powers to face off
On Tuesday, there was a boys soccer battle between Seneca Valley and North Allegheny. On Wednesday, it will be a Class 4A girls soccer first-place showdown with the Raiders and Tigers. In the last 10 years, these two programs have dominated the highest classification. Seneca Valley won district gold in...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school football rankings for Sept. 19, 2023
There were not a lot of changes in this week’s Trib HSSN PIAA football rankings, but that could be changing big time in Week 4. Of the 30 ranked teams in the Top 5, only two came up on the short end of the stick last weekend. In 5A, Roman...
Abby Paterline putting versatility, knowledge to use for Franklin Regional girls soccer
Because she has grown up in a soccer family, Franklin Regional’s Abby Paterline knows the game inside and out. She knows the field well, too, because there aren’t many spaces on it she has not occupied at one time or another. “My dad played at Grove City, and his dad,...
WPIAL soccer teams dot latest PSCA state rankings
A rare loss did not affect the Moon girls soccer team’s standing in the state rankings. The defending PIAA champion Tigers (7-1-1), who were upset last week by South Fayette, 1-0, to end their 47-game unbeaten streak, remain No. 1 in the Pennsylvania Soccer Coaches Association rankings for Class 3A....
Westmoreland County girls soccer notebook: Greensburg Central Catholic winning with small but mighty roster
Greenburg Central Catholic has to take it easy in practice this season. Like Yough last year, the Centurions have a small roster. Sometimes, they barely have enough for one side. The year started with 15 players, but GCC played with only 11 in a recent game against Serra Catholic, which...
Plum remains lone unbeaten team in Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League
Plum swept Baldwin in a doubleheader Sunday to remain the lone unbeaten slow-pitch team in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League. The Mustangs scored a combined 37 runs in the two games against the Highlanders and have outscored their opponents 104-24 through six games. North Allegheny and Mt. Lebanon split...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 18, 2023
High schools WPIAL Field hockey Monday’s results Section 3A Pine-Richland 6, Mt. Lebanon 0 North Allegheny 11, Allderdice 0 Peters Township 4, Norwin 0 Nonsection Fox Chapel at Hempfield, (n) Tuesday’s schedule Section 2A Fox Chapel at Penn-Trafford, 7:30 p.m. Upper St. Clair at Oakland Catholic, 7 p.,. Section 1A...
High school roundup for Sept. 18, 2023: Peters Township gets past Upper St. Clair in battle of girls soccer unbeatens
Julia Spergel scored early in the first half and Peters Township (7-0-1, 5-0-1) made it stand up in a 1-0 victory over Upper St. Clair (7-1, 5-1) in a matchup of unbeaten teams in Section 2-4A girls soccer Monday night. Cam Klein assisted on the winning goal, which was the...
Plum girls soccer earns tightly contested win over Franklin Regional
The Plum and Franklin Regional girls soccer teams met twice last year in section play, resuming a local rivalry that was dormant for three years. The Mustangs swept the Panthers en route to their fourth straight section championship. Franklin Regional hoped to change that narrative Monday evening at home as...
Latrobe sophomore finds golden goal to beat Penn-Trafford
Sophomore forward Annalyse Bauer had a couple of near-miss scoring opportunities in the second half, bumping a header off the post and later ringing a shot off the football crossbar. When the ball came to her ahead of two defenders early in overtime, she made sure to finish. An offensive...
WPIAL says discipline for ‘egregious’ Imani Christian-Steel Valley fight rests with schools
“Egregious” was how WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer described Friday’s fight between Imani Christian and Steel Valley football players, but he was optimistic there’d be a resolution without WPIAL intervention. “It was a horrible thing that happened in that 60 seconds … but we really believe the schools will handle...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 19, 2023: Battle of unbeatens set between North Allegheny, Seneca Valley
The last two boys soccer teams to win back-to-back WPIAL championships in the highest classification are Seneca Valley and North Allegheny. The only undefeated teams left in WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer this season are the Raiders and the Tigers. The two district juggernauts prepare to battle for the first...
Trib HSSN football team of the week for 2023 Week 3
Knoch second-year coach Tim Burchett has an offensive background, serving as offensive coordinator under T.J. Plack at Peters Township before taking the Knights head coaching job. He calls the plays for a Knights team that is now 4-0 and is averaging more than 32 points per game. However, Knoch was...
Greensburg Central Catholic’s Sasha Hoffman excels on, off tennis court
Alexandra “Sasha” Hoffman got into tennis later than most who pick up the sport. The junior at Greensburg Central Catholic only began playing tennis four years ago, while many of her opponents picked up a racquet in elementary school. But one can hardly tell she’s a relative beginner because of...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Norwin’s Rick Zappone
While a loss isn’t exactly the way any team wants to end the year, losing to the eventual champion always helps shake that bad feeling off a little. This was the case for Norwin’s boys soccer team, which fell to Pine-Richland in the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs last season. Center...
A-K Valley Senior Spotlight: Kiski Area’s Liam Foley
Change can be a disruptive force. For the Kiski Area boys soccer team, a coaching change leading into the season has been met with a determination to sustain the status quo. New coach Ben Fiore comes in from Ambridge and was a Kiski Area soccer player from 2011-15. When he...
Leaders hang on to top spots in latest coaches association WPIAL girls volleyball rankings
North Allegheny, Hampton, Freeport and Bishop Canevin each held on to their No. 1 rankings in the latest Western Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association WPIAL girls top-10 polls released Monday morning. There was a shakeup near the top in Class A as Frazier moved up to No. 2 from its No....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Sept. 18, 2023: Girls soccer South Hills showdown on tap
There are only 11 WPIAL girls soccer teams that have yet to lose a match this season, and two of them go head-to-head Monday. First place in Section 2-4A will be up for grabs when Upper St. Clair visits Peters Township. Just over a decade ago, these programs won WPIAL...
Trib HSSN football player of the week for 2023 Week 3
Throwing for more than 200 yards in a high school game is solid. Rushing for more than 200 yards in a game is a very good night at the office. To accomplish both in one game is rare air. It is safe to say Trinity sophomore quarterback Jonah Williamson had...
Latrobe’s Alex Tatsch earns scholarship offer from West Virginia
Alex Tatsch spent a perfect late-summer day in Morgantown. He looked around a college campus, watched the Backyard Brawl and came home with a souvenir: a scholarship offer. West Virginia extended an offer to the Latrobe junior football standout Saturday, stamping his potential as a Power 5 prospect. After an...
High school sports schedule for Sept. 18, 2023
High schools WPIAL Field hockey Monday’s schedule Section 3A Mt. Lebanon at Pine-Richland, 7:30 p.m. North Allegheny at Allderdice, 3:15 p.m. Peters Township at Norwin, 7 p.m. Nonsection Fox Chapel at Hempfield, 6 p.m. Soccer Boys Monday’s schedule Class 3A Section 1 Hampton at North Catholic, 6:30 p.m. Section 4...
Trib HSSN girls, boys soccer rankings: Week ending Sept. 17, 2023
WPIAL soccer rankings Girls Class 4A 1. North Allegheny (8-0) 1 2. Peters Township (6-0-1) 2 3. Upper St. Clair (7-0) 3 4. Seneca Valley (7-0) 5 5. Mt. Lebanon (5-3) 4 Out: None Class 3A 1. Mars (6-0) 2 2. Moon (6-1-1) 1 3. Plum (4-0-1) 3 4. Latrobe...
