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PIHL high school hockey standings through Feb. 16, 2020
Here are the PIHL standings through Sunday, Feb. 16. Exclusive coverage of the 2020 PIHL Penguins Cup hockey playoffs can be heard and viewed only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. In Class AAA, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs. In Class AA, the top two teams...
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020
Last week around the PIAA was a lot like the classic movie “All Quiet on the Western Front,” except you could add on the Central Front and the Eastern Front. It was the week when the regular season ended and most district playoffs began, however the elite teams in each...
Trib HSSN broadcasts for Week of Feb. 17-23
The Path to the Pete continues with more opening-round and second-round WPIAL basketball postseason play this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. HSSN has exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs with the final three days of the first round followed by three days of...
Five WPIAL wrestlers receive tops seeds at Southwest Region tournament
Pairings for the PIAA Class AA Southwest Region tournament were released Sunday, and five WPIAL wrestlers received No. 1 seeds. Heading the list is two-time PIAA champion and four-time WPIAL champion Thayne Lawrence of Frazier. He got the top billing at 160 pounds. The others top seeds are South Park...
WPIAL basketball playoffs continue Monday with first-round games
West Allegheny scrambled last season to make the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball playoffs and was seeded No. 13 in a 13-team playoff field. The Indians put a scare into No. 4 Woodland Hills before the Wolverines pulled away and advanced to the quarterfinals. Fast forward a year, and once...
Westmoreland County basketball playoff capsules: Games for Monday, Feb. 17, 2020
Boys Class 5A First round No. 11 Franklin Regional (11-11) vs. No. 6 South Fayette (15-7) 8 p.m. Monday at Peters Township Winner plays: No. 3 Mars (17-5) Friday in quarterfinals Coaches: Steve Scorpion, Franklin Regional; Dave Mislan, South Fayette Points scored/allowed: Franklin Regional 56.5/53.7; South Fayette 61.9/56.5 Players to...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Boys basketball No. 6
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...
A-K Valley girls basketball playoff capsules: Games for Monday, Feb. 17, 2020
Monday’s games Girls Class 4A First round No. 7 Freeport (16-6) vs. No. 10 Belle Vernon (16-6) 6:30 p.m. at North Hills Winner plays: No. 2 Southmoreland (22-0) on Saturday in quarterfinals Coaches: Fred Soilis, Freeport; Ronnie Drennen, Belle Vernon Points scored/allowed: Freeport, 55.8/44.4; Belle Vernon, 50.5/39 Players to watch:...
After scholarship from Hines Ward, Valley’s Guzzo to be featured in book
Greg Guzzo was checking his email randomly last year when he saw a message titled “Positive Athlete.” He didn’t know what it meant at the time, but the email turned out to be a gateway to a scholarship and an opportunity to tell the story of how he handled a...
North Allegheny junior Khalil Dinkins adds Penn State offerVideo
The college options for North Allegheny’s Khalil Dinkins jumped significantly this month with scholarship offers from Penn State and Michigan. Overall, he’s added five offers since Feb. 1 with the most recent Saturday from the Nittany Lions. He also added Boston College, Virginia Tech and Tulane in the past two...
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 15, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Tuesday’s schedule Hempfield (12-10) vs. Peters Township (13-9) at Mt. Lebanon, 8 p.m. Pine-Richland (14-8) vs. Connellsville (8-14) at Fox Chapel, 8 p.m. Central Catholic (12-10) vs. Penn-Trafford (14-8) at Norwin, 8 p.m. Bethel Park (13-8) vs. North Allegheny (11-11)...
Derry’s Cymmerman, three others reach elite status at WPIAL Class AA wrestling championshipsVideo
There are certain things in the modern day of wrestling that continue to impress fans. One-hundred fifty career wins, winning a state title or being a three-time or four-time WPIAL or PIAA champion. If you achieve one of those during the high school career, you’re looked at in a different...
High school roundup for Feb. 15, 2020: Winchester Thurston upsets Laurel for program’s first playoff win
Jackson Juzang hit the winning jumper with 10 seconds left in a tie game, leading No. 12 Winchester Thurston to a 47-45 upset victory over No. 5 Laurel in a WPIAL Class A first-round boys basketball playoff game Saturday afternoon. It was the first playoff win in program history. Langston...
Union limits Monessen boys, finds way into quarterfinals
The Union boys basketball team won a rock fight against Monessen, nabbing a 46-41 victory in the first round of the WPIAL Class A playoffs at North Hills Middle School on Saturday. Seventh-seeded Monessen got off to a good start, taking a 7-2 lead, before an 11-2 run by No....
Pine-Richland’s Alexander, Thomas Jefferson’s Kameg big winners at WPIAL gymnastics meet
Pine-Richland’s Samantha Alexander went into WPIAL individual gymnastics championships wanting to stay on her feet. She successfully completed her goal in her four events and landed on the top step of the podium. Alexander, a sophomore, won the all-around championship Saturday at Moon with a score of 37.65. “I wasn’t...
Derry boys basketball deals with loss, focuses on playoffs
Misfortune has hit the Derry boys basketball team this season in waves. “To say we’ve been through a lot in the past two weeks — (along with) Justin Huss’s injury — is an understatement,” Trojans coach Tom Esposito said. “In 24 seasons of coaching, I’ve never had a season of...
Brentwood boys basketball team edges Apollo-Ridge in WPIAL 1st round
Brentwood’s Chase Rosing may not have started the game, but that does not mean attending fans will forget his performance. The 5-foot junior guard came off the bench in the second quarter, giving the 10th-seeded Spartans a much-needed jolt in a 57-53 WPIAL Class 2A first-round victory over No. 7...
Springdale boys survive Sewickley Academy rally, advance to quarterfinals
Springdale’s 57-49 win over Sewickley Academy on Saturday may not be featured prominently in the Dynamos’ season highlight tape. But they don’t care. They’re just happy to move on in the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs. “At this point, it’s survive and advance,” Springdale coach Aaron Epps said. “It got a...
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Girls basketball No. 6
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...
Defending WPIAL champion Nazareth Prep fights back to edge Clairton boys
Defending WPIAL boys Class A champion Nazareth Prep trailed by as many as 12 points in the third quarter, then fought back to take a late lead and held on to defeat Clairton, 53-52, in a first-round playoff game Saturday at Thomas Jefferson. The Saints (16-7) scored the game’s final...
Battle-tested Eden Christian upsets Greensburg Central Catholic boysVideo
Eden Christian coach Todd Aiken kept shouting “five out” to set up a play Saturday afternoon as his boys basketball team clung to the lead against favored Greensburg Central Catholic. By game’s end, the fearless Warriors had knocked four out. Junior guard Elijah Manges tied a career high with 25...
Obama Academy boys win 1st City League title, knock off Allderdice
Allderdice’s City League boys basketball reign has ended. An strong defensive effort and solid fourth-quarter foul shooting contributed to Obama Academy’s 50-39 upset victory over the Dragons, who were seeking their seventh consecutive league title. The Eagles (14-8) soared to a 9-0 lead and scored 14 of their 21 points...
No. 9 Geibel Catholic boys use an electric fourth quarter to earn first round victory over Leechburg
For the past three years, the Geibel boys basketball team qualified for the playoffs. But each time, the Gators lost in the first round. Facing No. 8 Leechburg on Saturday at Thomas Jefferson, the ninth-seeded Gators (15-8) changed their fortune. They used a 29-point fourth quarter to earn a 65-58...
Allderdice girls capture 3rd straight City League title
The Allderdice girls basketball team has relied on a balanced scoring attack this season. That proved to be the case again Saturday afternoon as the Dragons won their third consecutive City League championship, 57-36, over Westinghouse at Petersen Events Center. It is the 15th City League title for Allderdice. Every...
Dwindling number of high school officials part of troubling nationwide trend
As a high school basketball official in his early 20s, Joe Strednak wasn’t much older than the athletes on the court. Occasionally, someone would test his poise as the youngest ref on his crew. To him, that came with the job. The 25-year-old from North Braddock is now finishing his...
