WPIAL 5-A and 6-A Classifications Sports News
Ryan Maurer helped guide Penn State-Behrend to an AMCC tournament title last week. He scored a pair of goals against Franciscan in the AMCC Semifinals and also added a goal in the AMCC title match against Medaille. More importantly, Maurer captained a Penn State defense that only allowed five goals against AMCC opponents this season. For… More »
The North Allegheny girls’ volleyball team dispatched the McDowell Trojans on Tuesday night in the opening round of the PIAA Class AAAA tournament. The Tigers rolled the District 10 champions by set scores of 25-9, 25-12 and 25-17. The last time North Allegheny and McDowell faced each other was in the PIAA first round in… More »
It was a successful day for Seneca Valley at Highmark Stadium in Station Square on Saturday. Both the girls and boys soccer programs won Class 4A WPIAL championships. In the first game, the top-seed girls team prevailed in overtime against No. 3 Peters Township, 2-1. Peters Township freshman Casey Brier gave the Indians the lead in… More »
By Jonathan Spina The 2018 Class AAAA WPIAL championship pitted two teams that were meeting for the third time in five years in the title tilt. Baldwin had topped North Allegheny in the first two meeting in 2014 and 2015, but on this night, it was North Allegheny who came out triumphant winning 3-0 (25-9,… More »
It will be a busy Saturday at Fox Chapel High School, with five girls volleyball matches, including four championship matches. The final match of the day will feature the top two teams in Class 4A, North Allegheny and Baldwin. The match is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. No. 1 North Allegheny Tigers (18-0) vs…. More »
The boys soccer Class 4A Championship game will feature two new teams from a year ago with one team familiar with the title game and one team new to it. The game will be the second in a soccer doubleheader for No. 1 Seneca Valley, who will have its girls team play in the championship… More »
Saturday’s Class 4A WPIAL Championship Game will have two new participants from a year ago with top-seed Seneca Valley and No. 3 Peters Township earning the trip to Highmark Stadium in Station Square on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. No. 1 Seneca Valley Raiders (15-2) vs. No. 3 Peters Township Indians (16-3) Seneca Valley held… More »
The WPIAL held its pairings meeting on Monday and with an expanded Class 5A from a year ago, had its work cut out for them. With three sections, the 16-team field will feature no byes and all eight first round matchups occurring tonight at the location of the higher seed. All games will kickoff at… More »
The WPIAL held its pairings meeting on Monday evening, but not much discussion needs to be held for the one section in Class 6A. For the playoffs, six of the nine teams made the playoffs with the top two seeds, North Allegheny and Pine-Richland, respectively, receiving byes and home games in the semifinals. The quarterfinal… More »
Although three out of the four semifinalist flirted with danger in the quarterfinal round, the top four seeds prevailed and will meet tonight for the right to go to the WPIAL Championship Game on Saturday at Fox Chapel High School. Both games are neutral site games and will be played as a doubleheader at the… More »