The Avonworth Antelopes football team is currently 4-1 in the 2021-2022 season. They started the season with 3 straight wins against Summit Acadamy, Apollo-Ridge, and Freeport. They outscored their opponents in the first three games 116 – 21. In their 4th game, they faced off against the Vikings from Sto-Rox. It was a close game…
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Avonworth JV Hockey off to a Good Start
Avonworth Hockey is coming off of one of the best seasons in recent years. Last season, both middle school and JV won their championships. Now, two games into the season, JV looks like a force to be reckoned with. JV hockey is now 2-0 after two very big wins. On September 20, the boys came…
Boys Soccer Season Starts After Soggy Scrimmages
Reporting by Jacob Hanny, Ben Barnes, and Tyler Woodfill With no Hurricane currently threatening rainouts in Pittsburgh, we asked soccer players how hurricane Ida has affected the practices and prep for the season. Even though the season has not officially started the storm has still affected the soccer players. “” It has definitely made the…
Fans and Fun Return for 2021 Lopes Football
Reporting by Jayla Jones, Willow Wright, Kayla Geouque Photography by Hannah Palmer The fan section returned to the Lenzer field bleachers for the first full Friday Night Lights experience since the run towards the 2019 States Championship. On Friday, August 27, 2021, eager students and football fans returned to Lenzer field to watch the Avonworth…
Cross Country Resets After Ida Rains On Early Season
After Hurricane Ida made landfall down south, her effects were definitely being felt here at Avonworth. Drenching rains led to many school sports cancellations as a result, including cross country. Tuesday’s meet at South Fayette was cancelled, and although practice still took take place on Wednesday, conditions were not ideal. “I mean, it was pretty…
Softball Through The Pandemic – Guest Article from Cat Barie
Playing a sport in the years 2020-2021 has been the weirdest experience, and I think I can speak for any sports player on this. There have been so many changes to the traditions that people have been doing for as long as they can remember. One that stood out to everyone was watching NFL or…
Squeezing the Section – Boys Baseball Wins Section, Continues Playoff Run
The semi-finals on Tuesday, May 25th, will include Avonworth High School for the first time in many seasons. Junior Jordan Kolenda, who has contributed a few guest editorials for The Avonews recently, wrote a few reflections about the season. 7-1 in the section, 15-1 overall, our team won section for the first time in a…
Steele Selders Recaps Avonworth JV Championship
This year was a great year for Avonworth hockey, JV won the championship as well as the middle school team. At the beginning of the year, we had a few new kids and it took a while to get used to them. Our first game was not good… We didn’t get a shot on net…
J1 and J2 Classes Join The Return of March Madness
After the COVID pandemic caused the cancellation of the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments in March 2020, the Journalism 1 and 2 classes joined an estimated 36 million others (according to CBS sports) across the US to fill out a March Madness bracket on Thursday, March 18th. For the members of Journalism 1,…
Quaranteam- Before WPIAL Championship Success, Swim Team Preps At Home
As March rolls back around and COVID-19 hits its near one-year anniversary, the Northgate-Avonworth Varsity swim team prepares for yet another WPIAL Championship meet. Our team’s rising success has grown in the past 5 years as both boys and girls teams have held multiple consecutive undefeated seasons. Last March, these triumphs were put to a…