Ligonier Valley gave Apollo-Ridge all it could handle and more Friday in the teams’ Allegheny Conference finale at Owens Field.

Deer Lakes and Knoch were playing for more than just pride as both teams took the field Friday night at Lancer Stadium for one final time this season.

There were certainly plenty of bigger matchups in terms of conference championships and playoff positioning across the WPIAL on the final Friday night of the regular season, but no game carried more significance than the showdown in Bellevue between the Northgate Flames and Cornell Raiders.

Friday’s clash between Upper St. Clair and West Allegheny, two top five teams in Class 5A, for the Allegheny Six Conference crown started as hot as it could, but after that, it was all Panthers.

On a night of possible championship game previews, the battle for the Three Rivers Conference crown and rematch of last year’s WPIAL 3A championship might be the headliner.

Hopewell delivered a statement performance Friday night, overwhelming Aliquippa, 42-10, to capture the Class 3A Western Hills Conference championship in the Steelers High School Showcase Game of the Week.

California Coach Ed Woods knows all about the rivalry against Beth-Center. He has been on both sides of it the last two-plus decades. He has won a lot of conference titles for both, as well.

Halloween Eve and a 63-year old football rivalry.

For more than 40 years, Sue Kriznik spent her career caring for patients at AHN Allegheny General Hospital (AGH). She began in medical intensive care before moving into infection prevention and control, retiring as a manager in 2020.

The North Hills offense Friday looked far from one that averaged 225 yards as the Indians used the big play to take down Moon, 45-21, in a battle for second place in WPIAL Class 5A’s Northeast Conference.

In the first half of Friday’s Class 4A Parkway Conference showdown, Blackhawk’s ground game gashed Montour’s defense and scoring opportunities were hard to come by.

The price was right for Aayden Wright and South Fayette on Friday night, and it was right five times for Wright in a 44-7 win over the Ringgold Rams from Ringgold’s Joe Montana Stadium. The South Fayette victory earned the Lions the Class 4A Big Six Conference championship.

It was a clash of the top two teams in the Greater Allegheny Conference on Friday night at Weigle-Schaeffer Memorial Stadium.

Casey Hilton has coached in bigger games before, but Friday night was his introduction to the Shenango-Laurel rivalry, and that is a whole different ballgame.

Halloween-themed scoreboards and audio clips welcomed fans from bitter rivals into the Wolvarena on Friday night for the season finale set between Woodland Hills and Gateway to decide one team’s fate for the upcoming WPIAL playoffs.

Top performers for Week 10 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania.

For nearly a decade, Chris Harlan and I have stayed up until the wee hours producing our guesses to how the actual WPIAL football brackets might look the next day.

Tyler Eber ran for 181 yards and three touchdowns to lead Thomas Jefferson into the playoffs with a 28-6 victory over Peters Township (3-7, 1-4) in the Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference on Friday night.

A Pittsburgh-area woman who disclosed sensitive and confidential medical information to her doctor is suing Allegheny Health Network and Highmark alleging that she was not properly notified about the artificial intelligence recording tool they use in the clinical setting.

KHERSON, Ukraine — Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky began the long journey out of the war-ravaged region in bus convoys Friday, on the fourth day of the most significant truce since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine 4½ years ago.

DETROIT — Four more people have been charged with participating in a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials to try to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel, federal authorities said Friday.

ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Friday told a Vatican gathering of artificial intelligence researchers and experts that the “most urgent” challenge was to identify international institutions that will put ethical principles guiding AI development into practice.

HAVANA — Cuba on Friday welcomed home a diplomat expelled by the United States after an unusually heated confrontation between the two countries’ representatives at the United Nations this week.

HOUSTON — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was indicted by a grand jury Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said.

Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Ben Skowronek is questionable to play Sunday against the Cleveland Browns after missing the past two games with a calf injury.