{"id":251728,"date":"2025-10-31T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:23:08","slug":"bentworth-boys-and-girls-soccer-teams-win-wpial-championships-on-the-same-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251728\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentworth boys and girls soccer teams win WPIAL championships on the same night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big night for the Bentworth High School boys and girls soccer programs at Highmark Stadium as both teams won WPIAL championship titles just hours apart.<\/p>\n<p>The Bentworth girls soccer team got the big night started when they won their first ever WPIAL championship, beating Sewickley Academy 1-0 in a thriller that came down to the wire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With just over 90 seconds left in the game, sophomore Brielle Dillon broke a scoreless tie, giving the Lady Bearcats the lead and ultimately, their first-ever championship hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, the boys soccer team joined the WPIAL history books as they defeated Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in a 3-1 win, earning their third straight WPIAL championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan and Adam Moessner each scored goals for Bentworth, which should come as no surprise as the brothers were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/high-school-soccer\/2025\/10\/20\/wpial-boys-soccer-leading-goal-scorers-stats-moessner-brothers-bentworth\/stories\/202510200039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leading and second leading goal scorers in the WPIAL this season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of teams in the history of the WPIAL have won back-to-back championships, but the Bearcats&#8217; threepeat puts them into rare history <a href=\"https:\/\/wpial.org\/documents\/2024\/7\/9\/\/WPIAL_Boys_Soccer_Champions.pdf?id=1772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when it comes to high school soccer in western Pennsylvania.<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BENTWORTH BOYS AND GIRLS BRINGING HOME THE CLASS A SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS.  Congratulations Bearcats! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gumi8rKzwN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Gumi8rKzwN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott S. Martin (@BentworthSD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BentworthSD\/status\/1984102184200642693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bentworth is the first boys soccer team to win three straight WPIAL titles since Quaker Valley won championships in 1991, 1992, and 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Both the boys and girls Bentworth teams now shift their focus to the PIAA state playoffs with more hardware up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>The PIAA playoffs kick off Tuesday when the Bentworth boys face Mercyhurst Prep. The girls will face McConnellsburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a big night for the Bentworth High School boys and girls soccer programs at Highmark Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82,117535,117536],"class_list":{"0":"post-251728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-washington-county","13":"tag-wpial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}