|||Additional reporting done by Katelyn Eng, Maya Berardi, and Carolyn Abramowich||| With Avonworth’s girls soccer team finishing second in their section and winning their first playoff game, they are further confirming the general consensus that this has been an amazingly successful season. On paper, the girls season is impressive. They have a record of 13-5-0,…
Category: Sports
Student Fantasy Football Teams and Strategies
We asked multiple students about what players have been stars, breakout players, and busts this season. Also, we asked different students what their different strategies are managing their teams week to week. The first student we asked about their team is Junior Wiley Bozada. Wiley has a record of 4-3 this season and the best…
US Men’s Soccer Team Misses World Cup Qualification
The US Men’s Soccer team was eliminated from World cup contention and will not participate in the competition for the first time since 1986. The World Cup is the biggest soccer event in the world held in a different country every four years. The best 32 teams from around the world compete for one of…
Homecoming Football Game 2017
||Additional reporting by Sadie Stetser|| I asked a couple of the Avonworth football players these two questions: Is the homecoming game different from any other Friday night game? Do you play any differently for the homecoming game? Jake Harper responded with, “No because the focus is to just win and play well.” He also…
Golf Team Updates (to be continued…)
Avonworth’s co-ed golf team, led by senior Katie Carlson’s WPIAL Championship qualification, has had a relatively successful season thus far with a respectable record of 6-3. When asked what he liked about golf, Michael Donovan said, “I like how it is you against the course. You can’t blame anyone but yourself.” A quote that emphasizes the…
Sports Pro/Con: Soccer is Better than Football
Soccer is 110% the superior sport to football. These two sports do not even compare soccer is so much better. People think the atmosphere in an NFL stadium is exciting it is nothing compared to the soccer stadiums in Germany England, and Spain. There are flares burning flags flying catchy and funny chants all the…
Volleyball Update
Additional Reporting by Keyaira Cameron, Haley Reilly, Abby Kline, and Jackson Southern. The Avonworth Girls Volleyball season has been off to a great start with a current record of 5-2. Their most recent game was on Monday, October 2nd, at Montour High School. They fell to Montour 3-0. One match that was noticeably challenging…
Girls Soccer Team Update
|||Additional reporting by Abby Dawley and Riley North||| So far this season, the girl’s soccer team has a section record of 6-3, with an impressive overall record of 8-3. Last year, the girls finished the season with an overall record of 11-6-3. This year the girls have played Brentworth, Charleroi, North Hills, Freedom (twice), Steel…
Cross Country Boys Finish Undefeated, Girls Strong Competition As Well
“People generally cheer on each other to the finish, tell them to keep going,” said 9th-grade boys cross country runner Jackson Southern about the positive chemistry within the boys and girls cross country team this fall. The The boys’ team, led by seniors Michael Sefick, Richard Danylo, and Brandan Wetherall, earned a section championship. Southern suggests…
Matt’s Sports Wrap Up Beat #5… The Final Beat
Since this is my final sports beat ever as a student at Avonworth it’s time to speak the truth about Pittsburgh sports. I’ve learned that the Pirates weren’t as bad as everybody thought they were since in my first two years in high school they made the playoffs. Also that the Steelers can’t win important…