Penn Hills' struggles on offense continue.

The Indians began the season with high hopes and ranked among the top five of WPIAL Class AAAA teams, but they fell to 1-3 with a 24-7 loss to visiting North Allegheny in a non-conference game last night.

Grant Huckestein rushed for 138 yards and scored all three touchdowns for the Tigers (3-1), who bounced back from a 23-14 defeat to Upper St.Clair last week.

Penn Hills has scored a total of 14 points in its three losses. Chaz Whittaker was 14 for 32 for 144 yards, an interception and a rushing touchdown for the Indians.

Derian Robinson rushed for a game-high 105 yards and Ty-Meer Brown threw two touchdown passes for the host Tigers (3-1, 2-0 Foothills Conference), who won their third in a row.

McKeesport got touchdown receptions from Evan Wright (38 yards, first quarter) and Richard Cleveland (10 yards, second quarter) and a 24-yard field goal from Zach DiBeradin.

Zach Greenawalt had rushing touchdowns of 18 and 1 yards for the Trojans (3-1, 1-1).

Brown has completed four passes all season in the Mc-Keesport's run-heavy offense -- all of them for touchdowns. The highly-regarded quarterback is 4 for 9 for 113 yards and four touchdowns this season.

The Big Macs' dynamic rushing duo of Mike Hull and Chad Hagan combined for 233 yards and four touchdowns to lead their team to a win against the visiting Golden Tornado (0-4).

Hagan had 130 yards on 18 carries and two touchdowns, and Hull had 11 carries for 103 yards and two scores for Canon-McMillan, which completed non-conference play at 2-2.

Butler had only 81 total yards and has lost nine in a row dating to last season.

Michael Sieback had four rushing touchdowns to lead the host Indians (2-2) to a non-conference victory. Larry Wallace had five receptions for 76 yards and a touchdown for the Highlanders (0-4), who are on a 17-game losing streak.

The Cavaliers (2-2) scored a touchdown from at least 55 yards away each on offense, defense and special teams to defeat the host Golden Rams (0-4) of Class AAA. Joshua Taylor scored on a 62-yard run and a 55-yard interception return in the second quarter, and Tarique Goodson had a 96-yard punt return for a touchdown in the first quarter.

The No. 1 Gators (4-0, 2-0) went out to a 38-0 lead and cruised to the win at Penn-Trafford (1-3, 1-1). Rob Kalkstein passed for 212 yards and two touchdowns on only 12 attempts (nine completions).

Montay Green rushed for 138 yards and a touchdown as the visiting Foxes (3-1) came from behind twice to win. Fox Chapel did not have a lead until Noel Wilson's 30-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.

Austin Miele had 25 carries for 197 yards and a touchdown for the Class AAA Planets (2-2).

Donny Holl accounted for all four of his team's touchdowns to lead the Raiders (2-2) to their second in a row with a road victory against the Class AAA Knights (0-4).

Holl rushed for two, 4-yard touchdowns and was 11 for 23 for 113 yards and two touchdowns passing. He threw touchdown passes to Jordan Glaser and Andrew Smith.

Andrew Rumberg-Goodlin and Kyler Kenyon had rushing touchdowns for Knoch, which trailed, 20-0, at halftime.

Eric Shaffer had a hand in all five of the Wildcats' touchdowns in a Foothills Conference win.

Shaffer went 9 for 10 for 171 yards passing, threw three touchdown passes, rushed for two more and even added a 2-point conversion run for host Latrobe (2-2, 1-1), which had lost its previous two games.

Shaffer had first-half rushing touchdowns of 11 and 2 yards and threw touchdown passes of 16 yards to Gavin Finley, 55 yards to Donato Lonigro and 3 yards to Gerid Gondash.

Lonigro led all players with five catches for 118 yards.

The Falcons (0-4, 0-2) have lost 21 consecutive games.

The host Knights rushed for 341 yards but trailed heading into the fourth quarter when they outscored the Spartans, 22-0, in a Foothills Conference game.

Joel DeFelice had 14 carries for 168 yards and a touchdown, Tyler Luckart rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns and K'Hari Singleton added two first-quarter touchdown runs for Norwin (3-1, 1-1).

Ryan Hayden had 14 carries for 138 yards and a 40-yard touchdown run for Hempfield (1-3, 0-2), which had 276 rushing yards of its own.

Austin Hancock threw three touchdown passes as the host Indians (4-0) remained undefeated by winning a non-conference game against the Little Indians (0-4), a Class AAA team.

Hancock, who was 10 for 18 for 132 yards passing, threw two touchdown passes to Justin Simpson and one to Brandon Hoffman. Peters Township's Andrew Erenberg added rushing touchdowns of 13 and 2 yards.

Kyle Edgar threw a touchdown pass and ran for a touchdown for Indiana.

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