Tag: North Allegheny

North Allegheny volleyball expects another battle against Bishop Shanahan in PIAA final

November 15, 2018

Paige Miller remembers the amount of preparation the North Allegheny girls volleyball team put in before a match against Bishop Shanahan around this time last year. Film study, plus a Tigers' team firing on all cylinders, swept Bishop Shanahan to win its first PIAA Class AAA volleyball championship since 1994.

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North Allegheny preaches consistency, mental toughness after semifinal loss

North Allegheny senior linebacker Dante Caputo knew Seneca Valley's football team wasn't going to be a pushover. In the first meeting between the teams, the Tigers squeaked past the Raiders with a four-point win. andquot;I knew what they were capable of,andquot; Caputo said. andquot;Coming into the playoffs, I looked back

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North Allegheny cross country runner Kinne chooses Duke

North Allegheny cross country senior Zachary Kinne put so much into figuring out where he wanted to continue his career, he made himself sick. Kinne signed a letter of intent to the Duke men's team for the 2019-20 season Nov. 14. andquot;I finished my application for early decision on Nov.

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North Allegheny returns to PIAA title match by topping Garnet Valley in semifinals

November 13, 2018

The North Allegheny girls volleyball Twitter account has pinned photo of the team celebrating its 2017 PIAA championship, complete with the golden ball trophy and a 15-foot long banner proclaiming the Tigers state champions. On Saturday, the Tigers will get a chance to update that photo. North Allegheny defeated Garnet

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PIAA soccer, volleyball semifinals set in Tuesday’s 3 things to watch in high school sports

November 12, 2018

Upon first glance, the western finals of the PIAA boys soccer playoffs look like a WPIAL pitch party. Seven of the eight teams playing for a spot in the state championships from the west side of the boys soccer bracket are from District 7, with Radnor from District 1 being

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North Allegheny, Pine-Richland lead Class 6A all-conference football teams

North Allegheny and Pine-Richland each had six players earn first-team all-conference honors in WPIAL Class 6A. The two schools combined to fill all five offensive line spots. NA's Art Walker was named coach of the year. Central Catholic had five first-team selections and Canon-McMillan had three. Mt. Lebanon, Norwin and

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Freeport, Knoch and North Allegheny girls volleyball teams set for PIAA semifinals

November 11, 2018

The Freeport, Knoch and North Allegheny girls volleyball teams all remain alive in their quests for back-to-back PIAA championships. They will play semifinal matches Tuesday evening. Freeport swept District 9 champion Redbank Valley in the first round of the Class AA tournament and scored a 3-2 win over WPIAL champion

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Five things we learned from Friday’s WPIAL playoffs

November 10, 2018

This was a tough week for the favorites. Three No. 1 seeds were upset Friday night in the WPIAL football playoffs, a break from the predictability seen previously under the new six-classification format. Consider, in the past two seasons combined, 10 of the 12 top seeds reached the WPIAL finals.

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PIAA football playoffs: 30 years in 30 days — WPIAL teams go 1 for 4 in ’90

The PIAA had been hosting state playoffs in all but one fall high school sport since 1976. Soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf, cross country and field hockey all crowned state champions once the district playoffs concluded. The lone exception to the fall state playoff slate was high school football. It wasn't

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Seneca Valley upsets No. 1 North Allegheny, returns to Heinz Field

November 9, 2018

Seneca Valley's rematch and redemption tour rolls on. Central Catholic, check. North Allegheny, check. For the second week in a row the Raiders avenged a regular-season loss, this time with long touchdown drives of 75, 91 and 94 yards in Friday night's 31-14 victory over top-seeded North Allegheny in a

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