Riverview football will play under the lights next season

Riverview wide receiver Rio Stotts looks for space during a game at Riverside Park in Oakmont last season. Josh Rizzo/Pittsburgh Preps and Colleges

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The news out of Oakmont is that there will be lights added to Riverside Park before the start of next football season. That means the Raiders will now join every other public school in the WPIAL in playing their home football games on Friday nights. After Western Beaver got lights before the start of the 2025 season, Riverview was the last public school in the Pittsburgh area to play on Saturday afternoons.

It's a disappointing change, but one that the parents wanted badly, so it was destined to happen. The Raiders' home atmosphere, being close to the Allegheny River and the Oakmont Bakery, provided a festive environment.

The only school still playing all of its home games on Saturdays is Summit Academy, a school for at-risk youth in Butler County. It doesn't guarantee that all games will be on Fridays in the Pittsburgh area. Due to a lack of officials, many districts around the state have been forced to move games to Thursday or Saturday nights.

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Western Beaver won its first-ever home playoff game on Friday night in 2025 by knocking off Apollo-Ridge in the WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinals. Josh Rizzo/Pittsburgh Preps and Colleges