Knoch will travel to West Allegheny to play top-seeded West Allegheny at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA football playoffs.

The Knights (3-6) finished in fourth place in the Greater Allegheny Conference with a 3-3 record. West Allegheny (9-0) was the Parkway Conference winner with a perfect 6-0 record.

The following are first-round pairings of the WPIAL football playoffs. All games are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday unless otherwise noted.

Quad A

Kiski Area vs. Central Catholic at North Allegheny; Baldwin at Bethel Park; North Allegheny at McKeesport; Plum at Upper St. Clair; Shaler at Penn Hills; North Hills at Penn-Trafford; Woodland Hills at Mt. Lebanon; Connellsville at Gateway

Class AAA

Knoch

at West Allegheny; Hampton at Yough; Belle Vernon at Canon-McMillan; West Mifflin at Franklin Regional; Chartiers Valley at Moon; Blackhawk at Greensburg Salem; Ambridge at Pine-Richland; Mt. Pleasant at Thomas Jefferson

Class AA

Brentwood at Aliquippa; Jeannette at Ford City; Mohawk at South Park; Freedom at Burrell; Kittanning at Greensburg Central Catholic; South Fayette at Laurel; Beaver Falls at East Allegheny; Neshannock vs. Seton-LaSalle at Honus Wagner Field, Carnegie

Class A

Jefferson-Morgan at Duquesne, 1:30 p.m.; South Side Beaver at Charleroi; Riverview vs. Bishop Canevin at Dormont Stadium; Chartiers-Houston at Rochester; California at Clairton; Western Beaver at Carmichaels; Springdale at Monessen; Beth Center at Farrell

Tyler Armagost, 13, of Boyers will compete in the regional Punt, Pass and Kick competition at Heinz Field Sunday before the Steelers-New England Patriots game.The top four finishers out of the competitions in all 32 NFL cities will advance to the national competition during the AFC and NFC championship games in January.

Butler graduate Megan Hulick, a senior on the Grove City College women's tennis team, earned Presidents' Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors over the weekend.The top-seeded Hulick won the No. 1 singles title at the PAC Championships in Erie, defeating No. 2 seed Katie Navarra of Bethany (W.Va.) College 6-4, 6-0 in the finals.Grove City won the team championship with 47 points and received individual titles from Kristin McNally at No. 2 singles, Lindsay Hosler at No. 4 singles, Nicole Leasure at No. 5 singles, Hulick and Julie Crewson at No. 1 singles, Hosler and McNally at No. 2 doubles.

Katie Dellich, a 2000 graduate of Butler High School, was named an administrative coordinator for the U.S. Tennis Association's Middle States Training center in Pennsylvania.Dellich, a three-time tennis All-American, will be training top junior players for national and pro events. She is currently a tennis pro at Oxford Tennis Center in Wexford.