Sports
Richland again takes down Ligonier Valley in District 6 title game
November 15, 2019
ALTOONA — This is not how the Ligonier Valley football team wanted its final game in District 6 to end.
Belle Vernon ‘a different team’ since lopsided loss to Thomas Jefferson in September
For Belle Vernon’s football team, it doesn’t matter what you call them heading into Saturday’s WPIAL Class 4A championship game against conference rival Thomas Jefferson.
5 things to watch in Week 12 of high school football: TJ’s Cherpak draws Belichick comparisons
Thomas Jefferson coach Bill Cherpak chuckles at the comparison, but maybe it’s too not farfetched?
WPIAL Class A football finals primer: Clairton vs. Sto-Rox
WPIAL Class A championship
PIAA Class AAA girls soccer finals primer: Mars vs. Villa Joseph Marie
Villa Joseph Marie (21-2-1) vs. Mars (21-0-1)
WPIAL Class 3A football finals primer: Central Valley vs. Aliquippa
WPIAL Class 3A championship
PIAA Class A boys soccer finals primer: Winchester Thurston vs. Moravian Academy
Moravian Academy (23-1) vs Winchester Thurston (19-2)
PIAA Class A girls soccer finals primer: Shady Side Academy vs. Camp Hill
Camp Hill (24-0) vs. Shady Side Academy (20-1)
WPIAL Class 4A football finals primer: Thomas Jefferson vs. Belle Vernon
WPIAL Class 4A championship
PIAA Class AA volleyball finals primer: North Catholic vs. North Penn-Liberty
North Penn-Liberty (22-0) vs. North Catholic (22-1)
PIAA Class AAAA volleyball finals primer: North Allegheny vs. Bishop Shanahan
Bishop Shanahan (23-0) vs. North Allegheny (22-1)
Fox Chapel ends cross country season with pair of PIAA medals
The Fox Chapel cross country team brought home a pair of medals from the PIAA championships Nov. 2.
South Hills soccer, volleyball coaches praise unsung heroes
There usually is at least one of these athletes on every team.
South Hills notes: Brentwood’s Aiden Wardzinski has memorable playoff opener
Brentwood junior Aiden Wardzinski was a one-man wrecking crew in his first taste of the WPIAL playoffs.
Baldwin’s 1999 football team remembered for heart, toughness
The groundwork for the conference championship was laid at preseason camp at Slippery Rock.
Pine-Richland field hockey places 7 on WPIAL All-Star teams
Collectively, the Pine-Richland field hockey team earned a number of significant achievements this season. The Rams went undefeated in WPIAL play, won the program’s second WPIAL championship by defeating Peters Township, 2-0, in the Class AAA title game and qualified for the PIAA championship tournament.
Franklin Regional not satisfied with first-round playoff exit
There wasn’t another team in the WPIAL that played a schedule like Franklin Regional did this season.
The Herald Spotlight Athlete: Shady Side Academy’s Callie Davis
Callie Davis, a senior and forward on the Shady Side Academy soccer team, was instrumental in helping SSA claim the WPIAL Class A championship. In the playoffs, she scored a pair of goals and had two assists against Riverside, two goals and an assist against OLSH and three goals and an assist in the semifinals against Bentworth. In SSA’s first-round game in the PIAA championships, she scored three goals. She also plays squash for SSA.
Quaker Valley boys soccer captures 2nd state title in 3 years
HERSHEY — For the second time in three years, the Quaker Valley boys soccer team is heading home with the PIAA Class AA state championship trophy in hand.
WPIAL championship rematch with fearsome Central Catholic line awaits Pine-Richland
One lineman is the talented nephew of an NFL superstar. One is 6-foot-5 and committed to North Carolina. The two others are gigantic twin brothers with more than 20 scholarship offers.
