Annie Lowry

	Annie Lowry: 12 goals in six games.(Matt Freed, Post-Gazette)

SCHOOL: Butler

WHO IS SHE? A senior forward-midfielder on the Butler girls' soccer team and one of the leading goal scorers in the WPIAL.

THIS WEEK: Lowry scored Butler's goals in a 2-2 tie Monday with Fox Chapel.

SEASON: Lowry has 12 goals in six games and began the week second in the WPIAL in scoring. Her high was four Aug. 30 against Aquinas, N.Y. She has helped Butler to a 4-1-1 record and a 1-0-1 mark in WPIAL Class AAA Section 2.

LOOKING DOWN AT OPPONENTS: At 6 feet, Lowry is a giant by girls' soccer standards. "Being tall is an advantage for headers because defenders are always smaller," she said.

Lowry's height has caught the attention of Butler's girls' basketball players. "Some of the girls from the basketball team always ask me to play, but I haven't played for a long time."

DIFFERENT ROLE: Lowry scored 26 goals last year as Butler made it to the WPIAL semifinals. Last year's team also featured Meghan Schnur, who was an All-American and is now a freshman at the University of Connecticut.

"I've had to become more of a leader this year because she was a good leader on the field last year," Lowry said. "I've had to step up my game to make up for her absence. But I think the overall team has done very well this year."

Without Schnur, Lowry is getting "shadowed" by opponents more this season.

"That's OK. That just opens up opportunities for my teammates."

THE FUTURE: Lowry will make a visit to James Madison University later this month. She has a 4.4 grade point average and scored 1,280 on the SAT. She would like to be an interior designer in the future.

"That's why I'm taking a lot of drawing and architecture classes now," she said. "I'm looking mainly to get into designs of restaurants."

Pete Winovich

SCHOOL: Thomas Jefferson.

WHO IS HE? A 6-foot-3, 225-pound senior quarterback-linebacker.

THE PAST WEEK: Peter John Winovich III completed 11 of 19 passes for 228 yards and two touchdowns Friday in a 35-0 non-conference victory at Kittanning. He also scored on a 49-yard run. Playing in a talented offense, Winovich is 23 for 36 for 408 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions for the Jaguars (2-0), who are No. 1 in the Post-Gazette's WPIAL Class AAA rankings and No. 2 in the PIAA.

CAREER: As a sophomore, Winovich took over a foundering offense in the fourth week of the regular season. The Jaguars lost the first two games he started at quarterback but have won 19 of 21 since. "We win when he plays," coach Bill Cherpak said. Winovich has passed for 2,604 yards.

TWO-WAY GUY: Winovich is a rarity, a big-school quarterback who also is a full-time defensive player. He has been a starting linebacker since the opening game of 2001. "I don't mind playing both ways," he said. "When things are going well on offense, I prefer that, and vice versa with the defense."

SEMI-SWEET: The Jaguars have been an elite team in recent times, going 70-22 and making the playoffs each year since Cherpak became coach in 1995. Yet they have not reached the WPIAL title game during that run, losing in the semifinals the past five seasons and six of the past seven. "That has been extremely frustrating," Winovich said. "It seems like we break down [in the semifinals] for some reason. It seems like our biggest weakness shows through at that time."

NICKNAME: "Since I was a little kid playing hockey, my dad has yelled 'Geronimo,' " Winovich said. "My relatives yell that in a game, and if I hear them, I tap my helmet."

FUTURE: Winovich will be a third-year starter in basketball and plans to play baseball for the first time since he was a freshman. Football will be his college sport, though. No one has offered a scholarship, but Winovich said some Division I-A and I-AA schools are interested. He has a 3.42 grade point average and scored 1,010 on the SAT.

By Rick Shrum