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High school scores, schedules for Feb. 29, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s result Butler 70, Mt. Lebanon 61 Class 4A Championship Saturday’s result Highlands 72, Belle Vernon 54 Girls WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s result North Allegheny 54, Bethel Park 50, OT Class 5A Championship Saturday’s result Chartiers Valley 58, Trinity...
Norwin’s Phipps claims 4th WPIAL wrestling title; North Hills’ Hillegas deniedVideo
Kurtis Phipps showed the WPIAL wrestling committee what he thought of their seeding. The Norwin senior proved this weekend at the WPIAL championships/PIAA Southwest Regional at Canon-McMillan that he is the best in Class AAA at 126 pounds. Phipps, seeded third after losing to Franklin Regional sophomore Finn Solomon in...
North Allegheny gets past Bethel Park in overtime in WPIAL Class 6A final
On an average morning at North Allegheny High School, you’ll find junior guard Lizzie Groetsch in the gym at 5:30 a.m. with a sympathetic custodian unlocking the door for her. All the early bird shooting paid off Saturday night as Groetsch found a narrow path to the hoop through a...
Butler, Mt. Lebanon are familiar foes in WPIAL Class 6A championship rematch
Butler was in the locker room getting ready for its semifinal at Robert Morris’ new arena, but senior Ethan Morton tried to catch a little of Mt. Lebanon’s game ahead of theirs. “I was peeking in and out,” he said. Likewise, after Mt. Lebanon defeated Central Catholic, the Blue Devils...
Hempfield carries momentum into Penguins Cup playoffs
Hempfield’s hockey team needed to reset. A 2-0 loss to South Fayette on Feb. 10 left the team frustrated, especially after outshooting the Lions, 42-21. A 6-3 setback to Latrobe followed three days later, and the Spartans’ postseason hopes became cloudier. However, the Spartans (11-7-0) rebounded to win their final...
Norwin’s Phipps, North Hills’ Hillegas reach WPIAL wrestling finals, eye elite group
Norwin senior Kurtis Phipps and North Hills senior Sam Hillegas are one victory away from reaching an elite group. But to join the four-time champion club, they must get through two tough wrestlers from WPIAL Class AAA team champion Waynesburg. Phipps (35-1) was seeded third after dropping an overtime decision...
Class 4A basketball notebook: 2nd-quarter run fuels Highlands’ victory
The other time Highlands won a WPIAL basketball title in 1995, the Golden Rams got the winning shot with 3 seconds left in the game. In Saturday’s Class 4A final at Petersen Events Center, Highlands didn’t have to wait as long as the Golden Rams took the lead for good...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Big year for Belle Vernon sports
It is far from finished, but Belle Vernon already can look back on a successful 2019-20 sports year. With the boys basketball team making it to the WPIAL Class 4A championship, the Leopards were well-represented in the district postseason in recent months. The basketball team had not played in the...
Chartiers Valley defends WPIAL title, wins 55th consecutive game
Chartiers Valley girls basketball coach Tim McConnell said he told his younger sister, Trinity coach Kathy McConnell-Miller, that the only good thing about facing each other in a WPIAL final was that a McConnell was guaranteed to win. While he loves his sister dearly, he was glad that it was...
Highlands handles Belle Vernon, wins 1st WPIAL boys basketball title since 1995
During the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs, top-seeded Highlands has shown the capability to win in a multitude of ways. Whether it be the post presence of Johnny Crise or the perimeter shooting of Korry Myers and Luke Cochran, the Golden Rams take whatever their opponents give them. On Saturday, at...
Mohawk tops Beaver to claim 1st WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball title
All six Mohawk girls basketball players who attended the press conference following the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball championship game couldn’t help but talk over each other. The Warriors were brand new to all the pomp and circumstance surrounding playing in a title game Saturday morning at the Petersen Events...
Watch Day 3 of WPIAL basketball championships on Trib HSSN
Five more WPIAL championship trophies will be awarded Saturday at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center as the district basketball finals conclude. Here’s where you can see all the action on the TribLive High School Sports Network: Class 3A girls basketball Section rivals Beaver and Mohawk will open the day’s action in...
Norwin girls focus on season’s highlights after playoff exit
Norwin has a well-respected history in girls basketball. The Knights have been regular WPIAL playoff participants — Norwin has advanced to the postseason 31 times — and annual contenders for section championships. The Knights maintained both rich traditions in 2019-20. Norwin tied for first with rival North Allegheny in Section...
Youth movement leads to optimism in Brentwood basketball program
The Brentwood boys basketball program, stacked with seven seniors, will suffer heavy graduation losses this year. Nonetheless, help appears to be on the way. Chase Rosing, a 5-foot junior guard, and Riley Brendel, a 6-3 junior forward, were integral members of the 2019-20 team. There are six sophomores, along with...
Pair of Quaker Valley wrestlers work together to make state tournament
Quaker Valley senior Austin Pantaleo’s fourth wrestling injury in five years nearly sidelined him from the sport for good. Instead, it put Pantaleo and sophomore Patrick Cutchember on an intertwining path to be the only Quakers to qualify for the PIAA tournament. Cutchember placed second at 182 pounds in regionals,...
Tough playoff loss can’t dampen strong season for Penn-Trafford girls basketball
Penn-Trafford’s girls basketball team experienced a two-tone finish to the season. The Warriors won their final four regular-season games — and eight of their last 10 — to sew up a WPIAL Class 5A playoff berth. The Warriors then lost a disappointing 37-36 decision to Gateway in the first round...
Penn-Trafford bowlers eager for regional tournament
Penn-Trafford didn’t participate in the WPIBL team tournament, but the Warriors were well-represented at the individual tournament, which was Feb. 19-20. The Warriors sent five girls and three boys to the WPIBL individual tournament, and four girls and two boys qualified for the Western Regional tournament March 6 at North...
Pine-Richland competitive spirit takes 9th at nationals
The Pine-Richland competitive spirit team recently brought its strong 2019-20 campaign to a close, finishing its season with a ninth-place finish in the small varsity division at the 2020 UCA National High School Cheerleading Championships on Feb. 7-9 in Orlando, Fla. After battling with more than 50 of the most...
Pine-Richland boys take positives from season after frustrating playoff loss
The Pine-Richland boys basketball team’s season was brought to a halt Feb. 22 as it was toppled by Upper St. Clair, 62-59, in the quarterfinal round of the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs. In the decisive contest at North Hills, the Rams (15-9, 7-3) scored 42 points in the first half...
Led by singles champ Small, Plum bowling team has postseason to remember
Plum bowling coach Darryl Pilyih said coaching senior standout Shannon Small has become a pretty easy task because she rarely makes a mistake. Her precision was on display when Small blitzed through the step-ladder bracket on her way to her first WPIBL singles championship last week at Wildlife Lanes in...
Norwin athletes shine at Tri-State indoor championships
Norwin’s boys distance medley relay unit stepped into the spotlight Feb. 22 at the Tri-State Track Coaches Association indoor championship meet. The DMR runners took first place with a school-record time of 10 minutes, 41.28 seconds, 7 seconds faster than their seeded time of 11:04.17. “Overall, the race went as...
Shady Side Academy basketball pays tribute to seniors, looks to future
The Shady Side Academy boys basketball team’s season ended with a loss to North Catholic in the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. The Indians finished with a 10-11 overall record, 6-6 in section play. Coach David Vadnais will lose several seniors from the team, including top scorers Mason Tomlin and Grady...
The Herald Spotlight Athlete: David Manelis, Fox Chapel
David Manelis, a junior on the Fox Chapel diving team, struck gold at the WPIAL championships Feb. 21 as he claimed first place. He hopes to improve on last season’s second-place finish at the PIAA championships. He is undecided on a college but hopes to major in kinesiology. Here’s a...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 28, 2020
Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s schedule Butler (19-4) vs. Mt. Lebanon (18-6) at Petersen Events Center, 9 p.m. Class 5A Championship Friday’s result Laurel Highlands 52, Mars 51 Class 4A Championship Saturday’s schedule Highlands (21-3) vs. Belle Vernon (19-6) at Petersen Events Center, 1 p.m. Class 2A...
Star freshman Rodney Gallagher leads Laurel Highlands past Mars in WPIAL Class 5A thrillerVideo
There are 131,504 residents in Fayette County, and Rodney Gallagher might’ve hugged them all Friday night. But first, the Laurel Highlands freshman needed to draw a foul and make two free throws with 4.8 seconds left to defeat two-time defending champion Mars, 52-51, in the WPIAL Class 5A final at...
