Sports
WPIAL girls volleyball championship preview: North Allegheny, Beaver look to defend titles
November 1, 2024
Four champions will be crowned Saturday at the 2024 WPIAL girls volleyball championships at Peters Township’s AHN Arena.
2024 WPIAL Class 2A boys soccer championship breakdown: South Park vs. Avonworth
WPIAL Class 2A boys soccer championship
2024 WPIAL Class 4A boys soccer championship breakdown: Moon vs. Franklin Regional
WPIAL Class 3A boys soccer championship
5 things to watch in WPIAL opening round: Wild card decisions under scrutiny
Did the WPIAL football committee get the wild cards right?
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 31, 2024
High schools
Bentworth switches goalkeepers for shootout, gets past OLSH to repeat as WPIAL champs
After 110 minutes of soccer couldn’t decide a winner in Thursday night’s WPIAL Class A boys soccer championship between No. 1 Bentworth and No. 3 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bentworth coach Nick Malarbi elected to make an interesting decision heading into penalty kicks.
High school roundup for Oct. 31, 2024: North Catholic girls earn state playoff berth
October 31, 2024
Simone Sharpless had a hat trick and added an assist to lead sixth-seeded North Catholic to a 5-1 victory over No. 4 South Park (15-6-1) in the WPIAL Class 2A girls soccer third-place match Thursday night.
Springdale surges past Winchester Thurston to win 1st WPIAL soccer title in 15 years
How fitting that on Halloween night, it was the team clad in orange and black that earned the victory and its first WPIAL championship in 15 years?
Frazier, Greensburg Central Catholic square off for WPIAL Class A girls volleyball title
WPIAL CLASS A GIRLS VOLLEYBALL FINAL
Trib HSSN game-by-game high school football playoff preview for 2024 Week 10
Usually, you can feel a distinct chill in the air for November football where the spotlight is brighter and the stakes are simple: win and advance or lose and go home.
Belle Vernon soccer coach Al Yeschenko resigns
With his son, Brandon, set to begin his college soccer career, Al Yeschenko would have been torn between coaching Belle Vernon’s boys and following Pitt-Greensburg.
Thomas Jefferson finds ‘true identity’ ahead of WPIAL playoff test vs. West Allegheny
It’s tough to win in November as a WPIAL football team with an identity crisis.
4 girls soccer finalists named for Moe Rosensteel Most Outstanding Player of the Year award
For the sixth consecutive year, the Moe Rosensteel Most Outstanding Player of Year award will go to the top girls soccer player in the WPIAL.
2024 WPIAL Class 4A girls soccer championship breakdown: Peters Township vs. Seneca Valley
WPIAL Class 4A girls soccer championship
Through the Years: Apollo-Ridge earned 2nd playoff win in ’14
Each week throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look at the players, coaches and events that shaped our scholastic history.
With painful losses in rearview mirror, Plum, Fox Chapel ready to duke it out in WPIAL finals
Plum and Fox Chapel have a similar story entering the WPIAL boys soccer championship game.
Westmoreland County high school football notebook: Short-handed Southmoreland could be without 8 starters
Southmoreland could be down eight starters for Friday’s WPIAL playoff opener.
Franklin Regional boys soccer notebook: Red card keeps key player out of WPIAL final
Franklin Regional will be without one of its top players in Saturday’s WPIAL 3A championship game.
Veteran goalkeeper gives Franklin Regional a puncher’s chance in WPIAL finals vs. Moon
Having already appeared in eight playoff games in his career, including a few as a defender, Franklin Regional goalkeeper Noah Walker brings experience to his first WPIAL soccer championship game.
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 30, 2024
October 30, 2024
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