Chartiers Valley picks up a win against Bethel Park by a field-goal

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Ally Wolling | September 26, 2026

Coming off of a loss against Upper St. Clair last week, the Chartiers Valley Colts needed to do something big.

After eight minutes of no scoring from both teams, the Colts found the end zone. Sophomore, Luke Franchick, had a 12-yard catch to make it 6-0. The extra point was made by senior, Luke Waldron which made it 7-0 with 4:21 left in the first quarter.

As soon as Bethel was in reach in a touchdown, the ball was fumbled on Bethel’s own 17 yard line and was picked up by senior, Braylen Bogats, who ran for a 83-yard touchdown which made the score 13-0 while the extra point being good from Franchick making it 14-0 in the first quarter with 1:36 left.

Bethel Park found the end zone after 80 yard rush a double switch play from senior, William Sabtos. The extra point was made by senior, Luke Yimin making it 14-7, colts, with 8:17 left in the second quarter.

The hawks tied the game up after, junior, Max Novak threw a 36 yard ball to senior, Brady Bruckner to take it into the end zone. Once again Yimin went two-for-two with second field goal after tying the game up at 14-14 with 3:36 left in the second quarter.

Yimin struck his third field goal in a row for hawks making it 17-14 after Bethel’s offense was unable to get the ball into the end zone.

After 24 minutes of play the score was 17-14 Bethel Park.

Too open up the second half of the game the colts came out with a touch down from a pass to sophomore, Chace Glover. Once again Franchick took the lead for the colts with a field goal making it 21-17 with just 7:37 left in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter Bethel Parks defense played a major rule in the game after giving the colts lose of yards and pressuring Chartiers Valley quarterback, Owen Weagraff. This caused the colts to kick another field goal by, Franchick, making the score 24-17 colts with 6:41 left in the fourth quarter.

During kick-off for the hawks, Bruckner muffed the ball on the three yard line which caused him to have an 11 yard putt return. This resulted in the Bethel throwing an interception on the colts 36 yard line.

After losing and gaining yard the colts decided to kicked a 25 yard field goal with 2:40 left in the fourth quarter. The extra points were awarded to the colts making it 27-17.

The punt return was on the two-yard line after the colts kicked off to Bethel Park. Novak then throw to senior, Santino Nowozeniuk for a gain of 20. Novak was then pressured and ran out of bounce making it second and five for the hawks on the 26 yard line. Once again, Novak made a stellar throw to junior, Nate Cirincione at the 50 yard line for a first down. The ball was then caught by, Bruckner at the 13 yard line for another first down for Bethel Park. After an incomplete pass from Bethel and a first down from Nowozeniuk, senior Tyler Miller found the end zone for hawks making it 27-23 and the extra point from Yimin making it 27-23.

After an onside kick from Bethel and thinking that they had recovered the ball, it turned out to be Chartiers Valleys ball at the 46 yard line. The colts then took a knee and let the clock expire with the final score being 27-24 Chartiers Valley.

Stephen Spence told the boys his mindset at the half was that, “We knew that they were going to storm back and we were going to have to fight for four quarters. So our message was just keep fighting, and be ready to play, be ready to line up and do your job.”

Spence will carry this to next training by showing up to practice and preparing as hard as they can, clean up mistakes, getting better and keep moving forward.

Chartiers Valley improves to 2-3 overall.

Next Friday, the colts are on the road to hit up South Fayette at 7pm.