Sports
5 WPIAL volleyball teams learn sites, times for PIAA semifinal matchups
November 9, 2025
The WPIAL started with 11 teams, shrunk to eight heading into the quarterfinals and now sits at five going into the final four of the 2025 PIAA girls volleyball playoffs.
Semifinal sites, times set for 10 soccer teams from WPIAL, City League alive in PIAA playoffs
The March to Manchester and the PIAA soccer finals at Northeastern High School will make its final stop with final four matches set for Tuesday.
State title for Jonah Montagnese caps season to remember for Quaker Valley cross country
Quaker Valley’s Jonah Montagnese was a virtual one-man wrecking crew in cross country this year.
Quaker Valley girls tennis ‘family’ celebrates championship season
Borrowing a phrase from one of Sly &the Family Stone’s big hits, it appears the 2025 season was a “family affair” for the Quaker Valley girls tennis team.
After wild WPIAL tournament, Quaker Valley boys earn PIAA berth
The Quaker Valley boys soccer team strung together a 17-game unbeaten streak against WPIAL competition this season.
Runner makes Gateway history at PIAA cross country meet
Piper Munyon made history in her debut run at the PIAA Class 3A cross country championships Nov. 1 on the Parkview Course in Hershey.
Gateway football wraps up season of ups, downs
The Gateway football team edged Latrobe, 27-24, in its Big East Conference finale Oct. 17.
Sewickley sports notebook: 1st-year Quaker Valley coach credits staff for improvement
Quaker Valley football finished 4-6 record in coach Tom Eshenbaugh’s first year.
Semifinal victory means Aliquippa likely stays in 4A — 5 things we learned in Week 11
Aliquippa will compete in the WPIAL Class 4A championship game for the fifth time in six years, an accomplishment that Quips coach Mike Warfield says should always come with a footnote.
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 8, 2025
November 8, 2025
High schools
Burrell strikes twice in 2nd half to advance to PIAA semifinals, rematch with Freeport
Windber — The Burrell Bucs scored a pair of goals less than three minutes apart in the second half to rally from an early deficit and advance to the PIAA Class 2A girls soccer semifinals with a 2-1 victory over Bedford at Windber Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Alle-Kiski Valley athletes of the week: Springdale’s Adele Walter-Vrabel, Deer Lakes’ Peyton Kushon
Adele Walters-Vrabel
High school roundup for Nov. 8, 2025: North Allegheny girls advance to state soccer semis on overtime PK
Rosalia Varlotta converted the game-winning penalty kick in overtime to lead WPIAL champ North Allegheny to a 2-1 victory over Downingtown West (18-3-3) in the PIAA Class 4A girls soccer quarterfinals Saturday.
WPIAL announces sites for Friday’s football semifinals
The WPIAL has announced sites for its eight semifinals next Friday night.
Franklin Regional boys can’t solve No. 1 Conrad Weiser, lose in PIAA soccer quarterfinals
ALTOONA — Saturday night’s PIAA Class 3A boys soccer quarterfinal between Franklin Regional and Conrad Weiser was a matter of creating opportunities.
Colorado, ‘Coach Prime’ make Moon landing before heading to WVU
Moon’s football stadium welcomed a “Prime Time” visitor, or as Deion Sanders is better known nowadays, “Coach Prime.”
Springdale girls outlast Sewickley on PKs in playoff rematch, advance to PIAA semifinals
Eleven days had passed between Springdale and Sewickley Academy’s WPIAL Class A girls soccer semifinal Oct. 28 and their PIAA quarterfinal contest at North Allegheny.
Camryn Woods fights through injury, sends Freeport girls to state semifinals
ALTOONA — During Tuesday night’s first-round win over Fort LeBoeuf, Freeport junior Camryn Woods suffered a foot injury.
WPIAL field hockey coaches announce 2025 all-stars
WPIAL field hockey champions Pine-Richland, Fox Chapel and Shady Side Academy were well represented when the league’s coaches announced all-stars.
Herald notebook: Shady Side Academy, Fox Chapel field hockey bow out of state playoffs
The most challenging sports for teams coming out of the WPIAL to compete with teams out east may be field hockey. All three WPIAL champions — Pine-Richland, Fox Chapel and Shady Side Academy — were all shut out in the first round of states.
