Plum girls take care of business in WPIAL 1st round with shutout of Chartiers Valley

By: Michael Love
Monday, October 20, 2025 | 9:28 PM

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For the seventh year in a row, the Plum girls soccer team opened the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs with a Monday evening home game.

The Mustangs were undefeated in the first six matchups, outscoring their opponents 33-3.

The winning continued under the lights at Mustangs Stadium, this time against a Chartiers Valley team hoping to pull off an upset in the matchup of the No. 13 and No. 4 seeds.

But Plum was just too strong.

The Mustangs scored twice in the first half and three times in the second while holding the Colts to zero shots in a 5-0 victory.

“You have to do what you need to do to take care of the first round, win the game, and move on,” said Plum coach Jamie Stewart, who saw his team fire off 27 shots, putting 16 of them on goal.

“It’s always nice to play here in the playoffs. The girls came out with energy and got a nice win.”

Plum now looks to Thursday and a home matchup with No. 5 Mars (14-3-1), a 1-0 winner over Kiski Area on Monday. The Planets beat the Mustangs in last year’s third-place consolation with a trip to the state playoffs on the line.

“That’s the playoffs,” Stewart said of the close and competitive matchup between Mars and Kiski. “That is what I love about this time of the year. We’re looking forward to being back home again on Thursday.”

Chartiers Valley (6-11-2) improved from one win last year to a trip to the WPIAL postseason.

“It was nice to see that turnaround to getting to the playoffs,” Colts coach Dave Zinski said. “The girls did a lot of work over the past couple of years. They trained really hard. It is nice for them to be able to enjoy a playoff game and also continue to build for the future.

“Plum is such a good team. It’s hard when you have a pretty young and inexperienced team in comparison going up against a team that is in the playoffs every year and has had so much success. But the girls did all they could and worked hard. It just didn’t go our way.”

Plum kept possession in Chartiers Valley’s end of the field for the entirety of the first nine minutes of the first half.

The Mustangs garnered one shot during that span, from sophomore midfielder Ali Joyce, but the ball rolled left of the Colts goal and out of play.

Junior forward Emily Grubish then sailed a sharply hit ball from 22 yards just high of the goal in the 10th minute.

Plum broke through on its third shot.

Senior Gianna Revetta crossed a ball from the left wing to the front of the CV goal. The ball deflected off a Colts defender, then off the left goalpost.

Senior Olivia Bigger corralled the rebound and scored at 29:01 to give the Mustangs a 1-0 lead.

Revetta almost gave Plum a 2-0 advantage two minutes later, but her point-blank shot from 7 yards was stopped by CV senior goalkeeper Sophia Trosky, who made 11 saves.

Plum earned a trio of corner kicks with 10 minutes left in the half. Joyce had a nice look from 10 yards off a rebound on the second corner, but the ball ricocheted left of the goal.

The Mustangs added some breathing room with 6:22 left on a header from sophomore Keirstin Curry from about six yards off an assist from Bigger.

Plum started the second half quickly with a goal just 25 seconds in. Curry gathered a ball from Bigger and crossed it from the right wing. The pass moved across the goal mouth, off a Trosky save attempt and to Revetta, who put it in the back of the net for a 3-0 lead.

Revetta extended Plum’s lead with 12:57 left off an assist from freshman Kamryn James. Revetta then assisted Joyce at the 9:55 mark to cap the scoring.

“We talked early that we had to possess the ball, move the ball, get the ball wide and cross it in, all that kind of stuff,” Stewart said.

“I thought in the first half, we kind of felt them out. We got that first goal early, which was good. The message at halftime was that we just had to play faster. Our first half wasn’t as fast as I wanted it to be. We came out in the second half and got that goal 25 seconds in and just continued to play the way I know we can play.”

Michael Love is a TribLive reporter covering sports in the Alle-Kiski Valley and the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh. A Clearfield native and a graduate of Westminster (Pa.), he joined the Trib in 2002 after spending five years at the Clearfield Progress. He can be reached at mlove@triblive.com.

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