Football
Trib HSSN High School Football State Rankings for Nov. 1, 2022
November 1, 2022
Only one team lost its top 5 grip from last week’s Trib HSSN state football rankings as the top 30 PIAA teams finished off the regular season in Week 9 by going a combined 25-4 with one team not in action.
Trib HSSN broadcasts for week of Oct. 31-Nov. 5
October 31, 2022
Trib HSSN has video and audio football coverage of opening night of the 2022 WPIAL football playoffs on Friday with coverage concluding with the HSSN WPIAL Scoreboard Show from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week 2022: Week 9
October 30, 2022
Thomas Jefferson winning a big football game in late October is hardly breaking news after nearly 30 years of dominating success.
Penn Hills notebook: New football coaches have playoff tradition
Penn Hills graduate Charles Morris was honored to take over as the head football coach at his alma mater.
Late-season victory helps Plum bounce back from 4-game slide
Faced with a four-game losing streak and needing a spark, the Plum football team got what it was looking for in a Week 8 game against Hempfield on Oct. 21.
Westinghouse tops Allderdice to claim 38th City League football championship
October 29, 2022
Westinghouse had a slim lead at halftime of Saturday’s Pittsburgh City League football final.
Playoffs begin for real for reigning WPIAL champion Penn-Trafford, Westmoreland County teams
The WPIAL released the pairings for the upcoming football playoffs Saturday, but the playoffs had already started for Penn-Trafford with its huge win against Franklin Regional on Friday.
Breaking down the 2022 WPIAL football playoffs
Class 6A
Challenging opening-round foes await A-K Valley football teams in WPIAL playoffs
Call it the Avenue to Acrisure.
Hampton wide receiver Benny Haselrig catching eye of colleges
The struggle was real last season for Hampton all-conference wide receiver Benny Haselrig.
WPIAL bracketology: Don Rebel, Chris Harlan forecast 2022 football playoff pairings
The WPIAL football playoff brackets will be revealed at 2 p.m. Saturday on TribLive HSSN. In the meantime, here’s a look at what those brackets might look like, according to HSSN’s Don Rebel and Chris Harlan.
WPIAL Class A football roundup: Matt Sieg runs for 363 yards, 6 TDs in Fort Cherry win
Matt Sieg ran for 363 yards and six touchdowns and threw for 38 yards and a TD to lead Fort Cherry to a 48-34 victory over Burgettstown (6-3, 5-2) in the Class A Black Hills Conference on Friday night.
WPIAL Class 3A football roundup: Liam Gibson’s 3 TDs help Beaver clinch playoff berth
Liam Gibson rushed for 149 yards and three touchdowns to lead Beaver to a 48-13 win over Hopewell (3-7, 2-4) in Class 3A Western Hills Conference play on Friday night.
WPIAL Class 4A football roundup: Armstrong’s Cadin Olsen tosses 4 TD passes in victory
Cadin Olsen threw for four touchdowns, including three to his brother, Ian, as No. 4 Armstrong notched a 40-21 win over Kiski Area (1-9, 0-6) in Class 4A Greater Allegheny Conference play Friday night.
WPIAL Class 6A/5A football roundup: North Allegheny rallies past Seneca Valley
Logan Kushner threw for 218 yards and a touchdown as top-ranked North Allegheny overcame a 12-point halftime deficit to earn a 27-26 victory over No. 3 Seneca Valley (6-4, 1-3).
WPIAL Class 2A football roundup: Beaver Falls locks up MAC title
Jaren Brickner threw for 100 yards and ran for three touchdowns as No. 2 Beaver Falls scored a 44-8 win over Western Beaver (7-3, 4-3) in the Class 2A Midwestern Athletic Conference on Friday night. Trey Singleton added two rushing touchdowns for Beaver Falls (9-1, 7-0).
Bethel Park completes breakout regular season with win over rival Peters Township
Two seasons ago, Bethel Park went winless.
Thomas Jefferson ends regular season by beating McKeesport
Thomas Jefferson has been a completely different football team over the past few weeks, and it capped off that turnaround by traveling to McKeesport and handing it its first loss in a 20-10 Big 7 Conference matchup Friday night.
Cruce Brookins steals the show as Steel Valley bests Serra Catholic
It was the Cruce Brookins show atop “The Nest” at Serra Catholic on Friday night.
Mars gets past North Catholic, grabs playoff spot
October 28, 2022
Mars needed a victory Friday against North Catholic, and it also needed to secure the proper amount of Gardner points.
