November 9, 2026 4:29 am
Georgia is back at No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25 after a dominant win over Mississippi. Utah moved to No. 2 after beating BYU, marking their highest-ever regular season ranking. Notre Dame climbed to No. 3 with a win over Miami, who dropped from the top spot to No. 5. UCLA is unbeaten and ranked No. 4, its highest ranking since 2001. Ohio State continued to fall, now at No. 21 after losing to Oregon. Alabama and Texas both moved up after road wins, completing a dynamic week in college football rankings.
November 9, 2026 2:01 am
WPIAL football moves to the second round Friday night and the League has posted sites for the 6A/4A semifinals and the 1A/2A/3A/5A quarterfinals. Those pairings include the 1A match-up featuring #1 Wash High and #8 Beth-Center at Charleroi. California and Fort Cherry have separate games in that bracket with 5A Trinity heading to Pine-Richland to face the #1 Rams. 6A #2 Canon-McMillan hosts #3 North Allegheny in a semifinal game at Memorial Stadium in Canonsburg, a rematch of the Big Macs’ early October win, their first ever against the Tigers in football.
WJPA Sports Network will broadcast/stream all five games involving Washington County teams Friday night. The Wash High/Beth-Center game will be on WJPA-FM (95.3) and the Trinity/Pine-Richland game will be on WJPA-AM (1450). We’ll have online audio (free to listen) for each game and we’re producing the NFHS Network video (subscription required) as well. Click for WPIAL brackets
WPIAL Second Round, Friday, Nov. 13 (airtime 6:30 pm, kickoff 7:00 pm)
1A Quarterfinals #1 Wash High vs. #8 Beth-Center at Charleroi, WJPA-FM (95.3) Watch/Listen Here
1A Quarterfinals #4 Fort Cherry vs. Laurel at Beaver Area, WJPA.com Watch/Listen Here
1A Quarterfinals #6 California vs. #3 Clairton at Southmoreland, WJPA.com Watch/Listen Here
5A Quarterfinals #8 Trinity at #1 Pine-Richland, WJPA-AM (1450) Watch/Listen Here
6A Semifinals #2 Canon-McMillan hosting #3 North Allegheny, WJPA.com Watch/Listen Here
November 9, 2026 3:11 am
PIAA has released the first-round pairings for the boys & girls soccer and volleyball playoffs. First round action in each of the 16-team brackets starts Tuesday/Wednesday with championship matches scheduled for Friday/Saturday, Nov. 20-21. Soccer championships will be at FNB Stadium at Station Square for the first time. Girls volleyball finals will be played at St. Francis University.
PIAA Soccer Brackets
First Round, Tuesday, Nov. 10
1A Girls 7-3 Bentworth at 10-1 Seneca, 6 pm
1A Boys 7-1 Bentworth vs. 9-1 Brockway, 6 pm at Peters Township
PIAA Girls Volleyball Brackets
First Round, Tuesday, Nov. 10
5A 7-1 Peters Township hosting 3-3 Lower Dauphin, 6 pm
3A 7-3 Waynesburg at 5-1 Chestnut Ridge, 6 pm
First Round, Wednesday, Nov. 11
2A 7-3 Fort Cherry at 6-1 Purchase Line, 6 pm
November 8, 2026 1:27 am
WPIAL Soccer brackets
Adam Moessner scored from the top of the penalty box six minutes into the second overtime, lifting the Bentworth boys to a fourth-straight WPIAL soccer championship with a 2-1 win against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The Bearcats’ last three championship game wins have been against the Chargers. OLSH opened the scoring 9 minutes into the match on a goal by freshman Caiden Price. Garrett Allen kicked home a cross seven minutes later to tie the match. Neither team scored again over the remaining 64 minutes of regulation, the full 15 minutes minutes of the first overtime and 5:55 of the second before Moessnet netted his 59th goal of the year, getting the roller past OLSH keeper Jack Dewhirst.
Bentworth boys and girls are the only Washington/Greene County teams to reach the PIAA tournament–the boys as the defending state champion and 4-time WPIAL titlists, the girls as the WPIAL’s third-place finisher. Both Bentworth teams will play first-round state matches on Tuesday.
WPIAL Championship at Station Square
Saturday, Nov. 7
1A Boys #1 Bentworth over #3 OLSH, 2-1 2OT
WPIAL Volleyball brackets
Peters Township won the first set, dropped the second, then notched back-t0-back double-digit set wins to win the WPIAL 5A volleyball title. The Indians won the 4A title a year ago before PIAA expanded girls volleyball to six classifications. North Catholic was trying for its fifth WPIAL title. Waynesburg beat Seton-La Salle to head into the 3A state title as the WPIAL’s third-place finisher. Both teams will open PIAA play on Tuesday. Fort Cherry took third place in the 2A bracket. The Rangers head to the state tournament on Wednesday.
WPIAL Championship at AHN Arena, Peters Township
Saturday, Nov. 7
5A #1 Peters Township over #2 North Catholic, 3-1 (25-22, 23-25, 25-13, 25-15)
Third-Place Matches
Saturday, Nov. 7
3A #2 Waynesburg over #3 Seton-La Salle, 3-1 (25-17, 14-25, 25-20, 25-23)
November 8, 2026 1:47 am
Andrew Sharp ran for 109 yards and three touchdowns, all in the first half, as Washington & Jefferson extended its win streak to eight with a 63-0 home win against St. Francis. Sharp’s day was part of a 360-yard rushing effort by the Presidents who scored on each of their first six possessions. 13 different W&J players were credited with at least one rushing play. Sharp now has 24 total touchdowns (21 rushing), moving him to 5th place on the single-season touchdown list, passing Ryan Ruffing (2015) and Chris Babirad (1991). Babirad’s 34 touchdowns in 1992 is the best single-season ever. Sharp also moved into 5th place on the single-season points scoring list, now with 144 points. Meanwhile the Red & Black defense held the Red Wolves to just 47 yards total offense while snaring three interceptions and allowing just three first downs. Matt Boyce grabbed his first interception on a pass tipped by his brother, Alex. Rudy Morris and Will Domico each picked up their second interceptions of the season. Devin Wyandt kicked 8 extra points in the game, giving him 204 in his career, passing Mike Evan (1993-1996) for the most in school history. W&J, with at least a share of the PAC title and the League’s automatic playoff big in hand, wraps up the regular season next Saturday at Westminster, then will await word from the NCAA regarding their first playoff site, date and opponent.
November 8, 2026 7:01 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored two goals while moving into sole possession of sixth place on the NHL’s career scoring list, and the Pittsburgh Penguins snapped their four-game skid with a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. The 39-year-old Crosby broke his tie with Kings great Marcel Dionne by scoring his 1,772nd point when Evgeni Malkin’s one-timer deflected in off him. Tommy Novak got two goals in the first six minutes and Egor Chinakhov also scored for the Penguins, who opened a three-game California trip with just their third win in 11 games. Corey Perry and Alex Laferriere scored for the Kings.
November 8, 2026 6:23 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Penn State’s offense didn’t score in the second half, but it did something even more valuable when it mattered most. After a Washington touchdown turned what had been a 22-point halftime advantage into a three-point lead, the Nittany Lions held onto the ball for the final 7:40 of gametime, seeing out a 28-25 win with a 14-play, 70-yard drive. Rocco Becht went 16-for-27 for 240 yards and threw first-half touchdowns to Chase Sowell and Zay Robinson, both of whom were listed as questionable on the pregame injury report but ended up being good to play. But his biggest play of the night may well have been a 2-yard sneak on fourth-and-1 to the UW 1-yard on the first play after the two-minute timeout, which allowed the Nittany Lions (5-4, 2-4 Big Ten) to kneel the rest of the clock out.
November 8, 2026 6:26 am
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — CJ Carr threw for 319 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 4 Notre Dame avenged its most damaging loss from last season by running out to a 21-point lead and holding on to beat No. 1 Miami 31-24. Micah Gilbert caught two of those scoring passes and Jordan Faison had the other for Notre Dame, which came into the game knowing another loss to Miami could doom its national championship hopes. Darian Mensah threw three touchdown passes for Miami, twice getting the Hurricanes within a touchdown after they trailed 24-3 early in the third. Cooper Barkate had a pair of those scoring grabs. Elija Lofton had the other.
November 7, 2026 12:01 am
Beth-Center, California, Fort Cherry, Trinity and Wash High all won opening-round football playoff games Friday night, advancing to the WPIAL quarterfinals. Trinity led 6-0 at the half, then added a pair of touchdowns after intermission to earn a shot at #1 Pine-Richland next week. Wash High scored early and often at home and set up a meeting with Beth-Center, the Bulldogs coming in off a blowout of Burgettstown. Fort Cherry rolled into the quarterfinals where the Rangers will play Laurel for the third time in less than a year. California trailed 7-0 at the half before scoring touchdowns in the third and fourth quarters to advance in the 1A bracket against Clairton. McGuffey led 7-0 at intermission but Beaver Falls scored four time after the break, ending the Highlanders’ season. Chartiers-Houston lost at Western Beaver bringing the Bucs’ season to a close. Waynesburg fell behind Aliquippa early and never recovered. Friday’s winners advance to play next weekend, along with Canon-McMillan who had the night off, preparing to host North Allegheny next Friday night in the WPIAL 6A semifinals. Brackets were expected to be updated Saturday but that has been delayed, possibly until Sunday morning. Click for WPIAL brackets
WPIAL First Round Scores
1A #8 Beth-Center 34, #9 Burgettstown 8, Watch/Listen Here
1A #1 Wash High 58, Frazier 8, Watch/Listen Here
1A #4 Fort Cherry 50, #13 Avella 6, (Watch/Listen Here
1A #6 California 16, #11 Northgate 7
2A #9 Beaver Falls 28, #8 McGuffey 7, Watch/Listen Here
2A #5 Western Beaver 44, #12 Chartiers-Houston 22
3A #7 Aliquippa 52, #10 Waynesburg 14
5A #8 Trinity 21, #9 Latrobe 0
November 7, 2026 4:15 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Myles Garrett is expected to return to the field for the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday at Washington after missing the past seven games with a knee injury. Coach Sean McVay announced Garrett’s likely availability before the last practice of the week. The Rams acquired the two-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year in a trade over the summer, but he has played in just one game for his new team. That was the Rams’ season-opening blowout loss to the 49ers in Australia. Garrett was ineffective in that game and revealed afterward that he was limited by the knee injury.
