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Mt. Lebanon’s Patrick Anderson among nation’s best after TSTCA Indoor Championship
Mt. Lebanon senior Patrick Anderson ran one of the fastest 3,000-meter times in the nation this season at the TSTCA Indoor Championship Saturday at Edinboro. The North Carolina recruit finished in 8 minutes, 39.15 seconds, which ranked him ninth-best nationally this winter and first in Pennsylvania, according to Milesplit.com statistics....
Burrell duo suffer tough losses in PIAA regional finals
It wasn’t the finals Burrell juniors Ian Oswalt and AJ Corrado were hoping for. Both wrestlers suffered disappointing losses which left them saddened but eager to atone themselves in Hershey in two weeks. Oswalt dropped a 3-1 sudden victory decision to Glendale’s Brock McMillen at 132 pounds, and a questionable...
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 22, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s results Butler 78, Peters Township 76 Central Catholic 42 , Fox Chapel 34 Mt. Lebanon 70, Bethel Park 48 Upper St. Clair 62, Pine-Richland 59 Semifinals Wednesday’s schedule (Sites & times TBD) Butler (18-4) vs. Upper St. Clair (20-3) Central...
Top wrestlers earn berths to WPIAL Class AAA wrestling tournament
Ten members of the Kiski Area wrestling team advanced to the WPIAL Class AAA championships next weekend after finishing in the top five of their weight classes Saturday at the Section 1-AAA tournament at Kiski Area. The Cavaliers had five champions — Sammy Starr (152 pounds), Jack Blumer (160), Nick...
High school roundup for Feb. 22, 2020: Woodland Hills girls fend off Moon upset bid
The Moon Tigers had a lot going for them in a WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball quarterfinal Saturday afternoon. They outscored second-seeded Woodland Hills by six points in the fourth quarter, and they had the game’s top two scorers on their side. The Wolverines, however, were just too tough to...
Derry’s Cymmerman denied PIAA regional wrestling title again
Derry junior Ty Cymmerman came up short again at the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional wrestling tournament, and he’s tired of it. For the third consecutive season, Cymmerman finished second. This time he dropped an 8-1 decision to Forest Hills sophomore and returning state champion Jackson Arrington in the 126-pound...
Jake Hoffman scores 40 as defending champ Mt. Lebanon pounds Bethel Park
Mt. Lebanon senior Jake Hoffman started the regular season with a statistical anomaly: four straight games in which he scored exactly 30 points. The defending champion’s leading scorer decided to raise the stakes in the Blue Devils’ postseason debut as he dropped 40 points in a runaway 70-48 win over...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Boys basketball No. 3
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the past 10 years. They expanded from two days to three days and from eight boys and girls finals to a dozen championship games. The district also switched venues, moving from Duquesne’s Palumbo Center to Pitt’s Petersen Events...
Strong 2nd half carries Upper St. Clair past Pine-Richland, into semifinals
Maybe it is the team’s gritty style. Maybe it is coaching adjustments, or maybe it is just the names on the roster. Whatever the reason, Upper St. Clair often is better after halftime than before, a trait that let the fourth-seeded Panthers regroup and defeat No. 5 Pine-Richland, 62-59, on...
North Allegheny girls, Fox Chapel’s Manelis dominate at WPIAL diving championships
Going into the 31-diver girls event at the WPIAL Class AAA diving championships Saturday, the host North Allegheny Tigers had the top three seeds: freshman Zoe Ky first, junior Maya Ennis second and freshman Christina Shi third. When the dust settled, the order had reversed, but the Tigers still dominated...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: Rich Garland lands at Mt. Pleasant
When Rich Garland left Franklin Regional, he knew his days of coaching girls soccer in the WPIAL were not over. He was looking for a fresh start. It didn’t take him long to land with a new program. Garland, who guided Franklin Regional for 19 years and win 211 games,...
Avonworth girls push past South Park into WPIAL semifinals
The Avonworth girls basketball team understood that if it wanted to return to the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals, the Antelopes would have to play to their strength — their size. The No. 5 Antelopes (18-6) did exactly that as they jumped out to a 13-point lead at halftime and never...
Belle Vernon boys basketball upsets Quaker Valley, clinches PIAA spot
Listed at 5-foot-9, Devin Whitlock was the shortest player on the floor in Saturday’s game between Quaker Valley and Belle Vernon, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in many other areas. He has a good vertical leap, a keen eye and a feel for the big...
Central Catholic boys upset No. 2 Fox Chapel in WPIAL quarterfinals
Central Catholic boys basketball first-year coach Brian Urso never doubted his team Saturday afternoon. His confidence was justified. The seventh-seeded Vikings knocked off Urso’s alma mater— one-loss, second-seeded Fox Chapel — by a 42-34 score in the Class 6A quarterfinals at Plum. Central Catholic players and assistant coaches joined an...
New Castle boys hold on to beat No. 2 seeded Knoch
When the playoffs roll around, New Castle instantly becomes a tough team to beat and Knoch learned that the hard way Saturday afternoon at North Allegheny. At one point in the second half, the No. 7 Red Hurricanes (17-7) had built an 11-point lead on the second-seeded Knights (19-4). With...
Ethan Morton, No. 1 Butler outlast Peters Township in double-overtime barnburner
It took four quarters, two overtimes and 32 points and a buzzer beater from Ethan Morton for No. 1 Butler to finally escape a tough No. 9 Peters Township (14-10) team, but escape they did in a 78-76 victory in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball playoffs....
Highlands rolls past Ringgold in Class 4A boys quarterfinal
So much for problems getting untracked after a 15-day layoff. No. 1-seeded Highlands scored early and often, rolling to an 80-57 victory over Ringgold in a WPIAL Class 4A quarterfinal Saturday afternoon at North Hills Middle School. Highlands (20-3) staged a 13-0 run in the first half, holding Ringgold (12-10)...
Marinchak brothers move Ligonier Valley into District 6 semifinals
Top-seeded Ligonier Valley survived the first game of its final season in the District 6 boys basketball playoffs Friday night, but it took a big scoring surge in the fourth quarter, led by the Marinchak brothers, to do it. Senior Michael Marinchak scored 22 points, and sophomore Matthew Marinchak added...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 21, 2020
Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Quarterfinals Saturday’s schedule Butler (17-4) vs. Peters Township (14-9) at Mt. Lebanon, noon Upper St. Clair (19-3) vs. Pine-Richland (15-8) at North Hills, 3:15 p.m. Fox Chapel (21-1) vs. Central Catholic (13-10) at Plum, 1 p.m. Mt. Lebanon (16-6) vs. Bethel Park (14-8) at...
Brayden Reynolds’ clutch shot sparks Chartiers Valley past Shaler
Chartiers Valley coach Brandon Sensor thought Shaler did a pretty good job on his standout guard Brayden Reynolds through the first three quarters of Friday’s WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal game. Sensor also knew that the all-section senior would come through for his team when they needed him to, because he’d...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Girls basketball No. 3
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the last 10 years. They expanded from two days to three days and from eight boys and girls finals to a dozen championship games. The district also switched venues, moving from the Palumbo Center at Duquesne to the...
Michael Carmody’s big game leads Mars past South FayetteVideo
Mars didn’t have its A game Friday night in its 2020 playoff debut, but the Fightin’ Planets survived and advanced to their fourth straight Class 5A final four. Senior Michael Carmody scored 23 points and dominated the glass with 19 rebounds as the two-time defending WPIAL champions knocked off South...
High school roundup for Feb. 21, 2020: Thomas Jefferson shrugs off West Allegheny
With top-seeded Penn Hills falling victim to a quarterfinals upset, the Path to the Pete in WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball took a left turn Friday night. Thomas Jefferson is still chugging along down that road. Jake Pugh scored 14 points and Ethan Dunsey came off the bench to add...
Wrestling and diving and hoops, oh my. All the action Saturday on Trib HSSN
The second round of the WPIAL basketball playoffs concludes Saturday afternoon with quarterfinals games in boys 6A, boys 4A, girls 5A and girls 3A. On the boys side, Upper St. Clair against Pine-Richland is a standout matchup among many good contests Saturday. The Panthers and Rams each finished second in...
Winchester Thurston shocks Springdale to earn second playoff win in school historyVideo
Sometimes, it’s not the third but the fourth time that’s the charm, and the Winchester Thurston Bears experienced just that Friday night at Shaler. After losing to Section 1-2A rival Springdale three times over the course of the regular season, the No. 12 Bears (12-10) finally got the better of...
