Tag: Gateway

WPIAL top 10: Championship appearances

November 21, 2018

Here is a list of the 10 most frequent WPIAL title game participants: School, Total, First time, Latest appearance 1. Aliquippa, 29, 1942, 2018 2. Clairton, 18, 1957, 2016 3. Jeannette, 15, 1939, 2017 4. Rochester, 14, 1921, 2018 5t. Upper St. Clair, 13, 1974, 2006 5t. Washington, 13, 1917,

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West Allegheny upsets No. 1 Gateway in WPIAL Class 5A semifinals

November 16, 2018

West Allegheny coach Bob Palko compared his coaching staff to a group of mad scientists in a laboratory, all trying to find the winning formula. The concoction they created this week included a heavy dose of sophomore running back Nico Flati, a defense focused on stopping the run and one

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Chick’s Picks reaches out to The Boss for advice on Week 12 predictions

November 15, 2018

Welcome to Week 12 of the high school football season. After struggling with last week's predictions, Chick's Picks decided to call a meeting with The Boss in hopes of salvaging her stellar overall season record. The Boss reluctantly agreed, and the two met for lunch. Chick's Picks did not want

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Plenty of respect exists between Class 5A semifinal foes Gateway, West Allegheny

November 14, 2018

Don Holl was coaching at Tunkhannock High School, northwest of Wilkes-Barre, when he brought his football team to a seven-on-seven camp at Edinboro in the late 1990s. There he met Bob Palko, who at that point was just a few years into his own coaching stint at West Allegheny. In

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Gateway leads Big East all-conference honors with 8 first-team players

November 12, 2018

Undefeated conference champion Gateway saw eight players receive first-team all-Big East honors Monday and the Gators' Don Holl earned coach of the year. Bryce Washington, Amir Wahid, Tui Faumuina-Brown, Courtney Jackson, Brendan Majocha, Derrick Davis, Kelvon Nelson and Jeremiah Josephs were all named to the first team. Penn-Trafford had seven

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Gateway moves to top of Trib 10 football power rankings

Every Tuesday during the 2018 WPIAL football season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. There was a big shake up among the elite teams during the second week of the district playoffs as nearly a third of the poll was

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WPIAL schedules Penn Hills, Peters Township football semifinal at Norwin

Penn Hills and Peters Township will play their semifinal Friday night at Norwin, giving both teams an early look at the new championship site for WPIAL Class 5A football. But only one of the two will return to Norwin for the finals Nov. 23. In the other Class 5A semifinal,

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Gateway forces 5 turnovers in playoff rout of Franklin Regional

November 9, 2018

Franklin Regional knew field position and turnovers would prove pivotal in its WPIAL quarterfinal against Gateway, and so they did. But the Gators were the ones who reaped the rewards. No. 1 Gateway forced five turnovers and turned the short fields into touchdowns, coming away with a 35-0 victory over

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Pioth makes impact as female hockey player at Gateway

Miranda Pioth started playing dek hockey in Murrysville when she was in third grade. Now a high school junior, Pioth is skating at a forward position on the boys junior varsity ice hockey team at Gateway. She is one of the few girls ever to play ice hockey for the

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Westmoreland high school football notebook: Franklin Regional seeks better result against Gateway

November 8, 2018

The number 63 haunts Franklin Regional. For a program with a proud playoff tradition, one built on defense, the Panthers admitted to being embarrassed after a 63-3 loss to vaunted Gateway in Week 6. It was their worst loss since 2003. Some Franklin Regional teams of the past didn't give

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