Tag: Indiana

Highlands routs Indiana to finish season on high note

October 28, 2017

If Highlands fans were told before the season that first-year coach Dom Girardi's new offense would go on to break some long-standing records, they probably

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WPIAL Boys X-Country – Seneca Valley, Indiana & Winchester Champs

October 27, 2017

Winchester-Thurston and Seneca Valley both repeated as boys’ cross-country team champions on Thursday, while Indiana also claimed gold. Meanwhile, the three individual winners were first-time champions, all of whom finished in the top five in their respective classifications last year. In the annual event held at Coopers Lake Campground in Slippery Rock, Winchester-Thurston displayed complete […]

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Greensburg Salem boys cross country headed to PIAAs

October 26, 2017

Greensburg Salem cross country coach Nathan Snider was both happy and sad Thursday at the WPIAL cross country championships at Cooper's Lake Campground. Glad the

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Week 9’s don’t-miss high school football matchups for A-K Valley

October 25, 2017

Class 5A Big East Conference Armstrong (5-4, 3-4) at Kiski Area (1-8, 1-6) 7 p.m. Friday Last week: Armstrong topped Connellsville, 57-22. Kiski Area fell

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Nord/James of Fox Chapel & Heckert/Bertig of Indiana Win WPIAL Doubles Titles

October 21, 2017

History was made Friday as senior Amanda Nord of Fox Chapel won her fourth WPIAL Tennis Doubles championship, partnering for a second straight year with Charlotte James to win Class 3-A gold.  Nord won the district doubles titles as a freshman teaming with Laurel Shymansky. She became only the second tennis player in WPIAL history […]

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Fox Chapel’s Nord, James defend WPIAL doubles title

October 20, 2017

Though Fox Chapel's Amanda Nord and Charlotte James are singles players for most of the girls tennis season, they certainly are no strangers to WPIAL

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CTK ’17 – 4-A Northwest Nine Conference Preview

August 21, 2017

Throughout the WPIAL, it is tough to imagine a conference more diverse than the 4A Northwest Nine. One team with a prolific spread offense passing attack, another with a team that threw the ball on average just over six times per game, and a couple of teams with quality dual-threat quarterbacks. Each week is a […]

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WPIAL football conference preview: Class 4A Northwest Nine

August 12, 2017

The favorite South Fayette (10-1 overall, 8-0 Northwest Nine in 2016) South Fayette rode a high-powered offense to an undefeated regular season and Northwest Nine

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MSA Sports 2017 All-Icers

March 31, 2017

With the Penguins Cup and Pennsylvania Cup championships concluded, it's nearly time to put a bow on the 2016-17 PIHL campaign. The final piece of business, though, is unveiling the highly-anticipated MSA Sports All-Icers teams. As voted on by the MSA Sports Network staff, six players, regardless of position, were named to the first team, while six more were voted to the second team. Three of the four championship squads were represented, and both Plum and Franklin Regional featured a pair of standouts. Here's a look at the very best the PIHL had to offer in 2016-17. All-Icers First-Team:

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Franklin Regional Repeats as PIHL Pens Cup 1-A Champs

March 21, 2017

For nearly the first 14 minutes of the PIHL Class A title game between Franklin Regional and Indiana, it seemed as if the goaltenders on each respective side would be perfect, seemingly feeding off the raucous atmosphere inside the UPMC Sports Lemieux Sports Complex. However, that changed 13:50 into the first period, when Oldrich Virag netted his first of two goals as the Panthers beat the Little Indians 6-1 for their second straight PIHL Penguins Cup Class 1-A championship. The Virag opening tally came off a feed from Justin Gismondi and Nick Carretta, all three of which had multiple point games.

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