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George Guido: A-K Valley basketball teams open PIAA playoffs this weekend
The PIAA basketball playoffs are set to start this weekend, and there are five Alle-Kiski Valley teams entered. Boys teams from Leechburg, Highlands, Deer Lakes and Fox Chapel are in, likewise the Fox Chapel girls. There was apparently so much interest in Sunday’s bracket rollout that the PIAA’s website briefly...
High school wrestling notebook: Hempfield sending 5 to state tournament
It was quite a weekend for the Hempfield wrestling team at the WPIAL/PIAA Class AAA Southwest Regional tournament. The Spartans had five wrestlers advance to the PIAA tournament, which begins Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey. Senior Kyle Burkholder, junior Dillon Ferretti, and sophomores Ethan Berginc, Ty Linsenbigler and...
A-K Valley Athletes of the Week: Fox Chapel swimmer Zoe Skirboll, Deer Lakes swimmer Adam Morrison
Zoe Skirboll School: Fox Chapel Class: Freshman Sport: Swimming Report card: Skirboll crushed the WPIAL record (1 minute, 2.68 seconds) in the 100-yard breaststroke with time of 1:00.96. She also finished second in the 200 IM (2:00.25). Both times were top 100 in the country this season and earned her...
Franklin Regional boys excited for ‘another chance to play’ in state tournament
A sense of finality seemed to wash over Franklin Regional boys basketball players, coaches and fans after the Panthers lost to Moon in the WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinals at West Allegheny. It was almost like the year-end banquet was the next event on the schedule, not the PIAA playoffs. Some...
PCN will re-air Quaker Valley vs. Annville-Cleonas PIAA basketball final from 1999
The Quaker Valley boys basketball team and coach Mike Mastroianni experienced a heartbreaking state championship loss to Annville-Cleonas 20 years ago this winter. If they’re ready, they can rewatch it March 9 at 7 p.m. PCN announced Tuesday that it will re-air some of the great PIAA basketball championship games...
Penn-Trafford RB Lisbon draws Navy offer
A running back who averaged nearly nine yards a carry last season has his first Division I football offer. Penn-Trafford junior Caleb Lisbon is expected to draw many more offers, but Navy will be the leader of the pack. Lisbon (6-foot, 195 pounds) rushed for 1,329 yards last season and...
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings for week of March 4, 2019
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings Class AAA 106: 1. Dylan Chappell, Seneca Valley (39-4); 2. Carter Dibert, Franklin Regional (37-2); 3. Mason Prinkey, Connellsville (32-6); 4. Costa Moore, Canon-McMillan (26-8); 5. Briar Priest, Hempfield (30-10); 6. Vince Citrano, Plum (30-6); 7. Troy Hohman, Penn-Trafford (21-17); 8. Brook Petras, Indiana (27-10)....
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week: North Hills’ Sam Hillegas
WRESTLER OF THE WEEK: Sam Hillegas, jr., North Hills One of the most dominant wrestlers in the state, Hillegas continued his mastery of opponents by winning his third consecutive WPIAL Class AAA championship. Hillegas (39-0) rolled through the 132-pound bracket, pinning his first three opponents — one in 29 seconds,...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week: Kiski Area
TEAM OF THE WEEK: Kiski Area The Cavaliers won the WPIAL Class AAA team championship, so it came as little surprise when they won the team title at the WPIAL individual tournament as well, edging Hempfield and Seneca Valley to take the trophy. Senior Cam Connor and junior Jack Blumer...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Norwin’s Ryan Weinzen, Hempfield’s Mackenna Orie
Ryan Weinzen School: Norwin Sport: Wrestling Class: Junior Claim to fame: Weinzen (32-4) captured the 220-pound title with a takedown with 46 seconds left to upset Armstrong’s Ogden Atwood, 2-1, at the WPIAL Class AAA championships at Canon-McMillan on Saturday. Weinzen will participate in the PIAA tournament this week in...
PIHL roundup: Mt. Lebanon defeats Cathedral Prep in Penguins Cup playoffs
Luke Husak and Wyatt George each had two goals to lift No. 4 seed Mt. Lebanon to a 7-3 victory over Cathedral Prep in the first round of the PIHL Class AAA Penguins Cup playoffs Monday at Mt. Lebanon Ice Center. Griffin Erdely, Feno Monaco and Samuel Mitchell also scored...
High school scores, schedules for March 4, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs First round Class 6A Saturday’s schedule Abington (27-1) vs. Cumberland Valley (17-9) at Council Rock South, 4 p.m.; Lincoln (10-16) vs. Pennridge (22-4) at Southern, 5 p.m.; Boys Latin (22-5) vs. Norristown (21-6) at Lincoln, 5 p.m.; Hazleton (21-6) vs. Methacton (20-7) at Wilkes...
Stewart’s 7 points lead Burrell to PIHL Division II 1st-round victory over Trinity
After Tyler Stewart skated around three Trinity players before depositing the puck into the back of the net for his fifth goal of the game midway through the third period, Burrell hockey coach Max Rickard said he looked at one of his assistant coaches and just shook his head. Even...
Upper St. Clair tops Baldwin in PIHL Class AA 1st round game
After being swept in both regular-season matchups, No. 2 seed Upper St. Clair got some sweet postseason revenge by defeating Baldwin, 6-2, on Monday in a PIHL Class AA Penguins Cup first-round game at Ice Castle in Castle Shannon. The Panthers’ Anthony Carone scored twice and added an assist as...
Latrobe takes down Hampton in Penguins Cup playoffs
Latrobe opened the PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs with an emotional victory Monday night, riding the energy of a large, vocal crowd and the offensive expertise of Alex Walker. The sophomore scored a goal and assisted on three others to lead the IceCats to a 4-1 victory over Hampton in a...
Pine-Richland’s offense shines in PIHL quarterfinal win over Hempfield
Hempfield entered Monday night’s PIHL Penguins Cup Class 2A quarterfinal as the classification’s top scoring offense. However, it was Pine-Richland’s offense that took over. The Rams scored the first five goals, including four in the game’s first 8 minutes, 31 seconds, to post an 8-4 win over the Spartans at...
A-K Valley wrestlers took different paths to PIAA Class AA tournament
Ian Oswalt noticed the lights of the Giant Center when he stepped in to the arena as a first-time competitor at the PIAA Class AA wrestling tournament last year. “It’s just bright in there,” Oswalt said. “There’s just different lighting. It’s weird about that. Then all the matches, you have...
Reigning PIAA champions prepare to defend titles; WPIAL swimmers earn top seeds
The WPIAL, as expected, will be well-represented at the PIAA Class AAA and AA swimming and diving championships March 13-16 at Bucknell. Several new WPIAL records were established last Thursday and Friday at Pitt’s Trees Pool, and the fast WPIAL meet produced up to a dozen state qualifiers in certain...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Mars’ Andrew Recchia
Andrew Recchia School: Mars Class: Senior It really was ‘The shot heard around the world.” The intergalactic 3-point shot from Andrew Recchia in the final seconds of the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball title game made Mars a back-to-back champion. Led by Recchia’s 23 points, the Fightin’ Planets edged Moon,...
Norwin girls ready to ‘come back even stronger’ for PIAA playoffs
Jayla Wehner called on a motivational quote to help erase a tough semifinal loss and fast-forward to what lies ahead for the Norwin girls basketball team. “We feel like we aren’t done yet, and we believe that we haven’t played our best basketball yet,” the Norwin junior guard said. “Coming...
Seven WPIAL wrestlers win Junior High state titles
Frazier junior Thayne Lawrence is headed to Hershey on Thursday to compete in the PIAA Class AA wrestling championships. He is the returning 152-pound champion. His younger brother, Rune, a seventh grader, already picked up his state title in the Pennsylvania Junior High tournament in Johnstown. Now, the Lawrences have...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Chartiers Valley
The Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week picked up two postseason wins this past week, the second victory earning them gold for the second time in three years — the Chartiers Valley Colts. After two and a half decades of coaching the boys basketball team at Chartiers Valley,...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of March 4, 2019
Let the fun begin. Five rounds will produce six champions in three weeks in the Pennsylvania boys basketball version of March Madness. The state playoffs tip off this weekend with a lot of changes and head-to-head battles among teams in the Trib HSSN state rankings coming up in the next...
PIAA releases qualifying lists for swimming championships
The PIAA on Monday released the preliminary psych sheets for the swimming and diving state championships set for March 13-16 at Bucknell University. The lists are expected to be finalized Tuesday when scratches are determined. Three alternates for each event are included. The district champions for each individual and relay...
North Hills AD Amy Scheuneman joining WPIAL administration
North Hills athletic director Amy Scheuneman will resign this summer and accept an administrative position with the WPIAL. Scheuneman will become associate executive director, the WPIAL announced Monday, a newly created position in the administration just below executive director Tim O’Malley. The position puts Scheuneman in line to potentially succeed...
