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Peters Township rolled past Woodland Hills, setting up a rematch of last year’s WPIAL championship game with Gateway next week.  The Indians were the only winners from Washington County as McGuffey fell late to Serra Catholic, California dropped a one-score game to Shenango, and both Wash High and Avella endured mercy-rule losses on the road.  6A’s championship game is next Friday at North Hills. The other five classifications play semifinal next Friday with championship games set for Nov. 13-14 at either North Hills or North Allegheny. WPIAL football brackets.

Soccer
The WPIAL Soccer Playoffs continue all this week.  Only the top seeded Peters Township girls & boys teams remain alive. The PT girls edged Seneca Valley to move on to Monday’s semifinals. The brackets started with four Washington County girls teams and six boys squads along with one from Greene County. Brackets links are posted below along with a listing of the upcoming games for Peters Township. WPIAL Girls Soccer brackets   WPIAL Boys Soccer brackets

Quarterfinals–Saturday:
Boys 4A #1 Peters Township (11-1-1) vs. #9 Baldwin (8-6-1), 12 noon at Peters Township

Semifinals–Monday:
Girls 4A #1 Peters Township vs. #5 North Allegheny, 6:30 pm at Peters Township

Girls Volleyball
The WPIAL Volleyball tournament first round is complete.  Quarterfinals for 1A & 4A are Saturday at noon, 2A & 3A Monday evening. WPIAL Volleyball brackets.

Quarterfinals–Saturday, 12 noon
4A #10 Canon-McMillan at #2 Shaler
1A #10 Beaver Co. Christian at #2 Fort Cherry
1A #8 California at #1 Bishop Canevin

Quarterfinals–Monday, 7 pm
2A #13 Frazier at #5 Waynesburg

The Pittsburgh Pirates claimed catcher Michael Perez off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday. Perez appeared in 38 games in 2020. He went 2 for 7 with a home run and 3 RBI in 8 post season games this year. In addition to the claim of Perez, Kevin Kramer, Luke Maile, Yacksel Rios and Jason Martin were reinstated from the injured list and outrighted off the 40 man roster. John Ryan Murphy cleared waivers and was outrighted. The Minnesota Twins claimed Brandon Waddell and the Mets claimed Nick Tropeano off the Pirates roster. There are currently 36 players on the Pittsburgh’s 40 man roster.

(AP) – Hall of Fame cornerback Herb Adderley has died at 81. His death was confirmed on Twitter by his cousin Nasir Adderley, a safety for the Los Angeles Chargers. No details were given.
Adderley played on six NFL title teams over a 12-year career with Green Bay and Dallas. He was a star running back at Michigan State, but Packers coach Vince Lombardi switched him to defense. He played in four of the first six Super Bowls and won five titles with Green Bay and one with Dallas. Along with former teammates Fuzzy Thurston and Forrest Gregg, Adderley is one of three players in pro football history to play on six championship teams.  After his retirement, Adderley was a crusader for the rights of former players.

(AP) – College football’s bowl schedule is finally set and will begin Dec. 19, the day most of the major college football conferences are set to play their championship games.
The 37-game bowl schedule will now include several mainstays like the Holiday Bowl in San Diego and the Hawaii Bowl because of issues related to the pandemic.
But there will still be opportunities for 72 teams to go bowling in the 36 games that lead up to the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 11 in Miami Gardens, Florida.