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Big goals for Fox Chapel boys tennis team
The Fox Chapel boys tennis team claimed its third straight WPIAL Class AAA title last April as they blanked rival Shady Side Academy, 5-0. Foxes coach Alex Slezak will have most of the pieces returning from that team with the exception of doubles players Kuran Singh and Karsten Lagerquist, both...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Mario Eafrati, Canon-McMillan
During the PIHL regular season, two goaltenders in Triple-A faced more than 500 shots. One of them, sophomore Mario Eafrati of Canon-McMillan, faced 570 shots, the most in the classification by 56. He allowed 63 goals for a save percentage of .889. He recorded a shutout and made 30 or...
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Thomas Jefferson
During the regular season, the Thomas Jefferson Jaguars lost just three games — two of which came to South Fayette — by a combined five goals. Going into the postseason, the Jaguars knew they had to be on alert. After all, Thomas Jefferson made a run to the semifinals a...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Mt. Lebanon
Our Trib HSSN Team of the Week proved they are the top team in the top classification with a first championship in nine years as we salute the Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils. Mt. Lebanon finished the regular season with a 19-3 record and Section 2-6A champions. After beating Fox Chapel...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: North Catholic’s Tess Myers
Tess Myers School: North Catholic Class: Junior Last year, Tess Myers drove the court and hit a buzzer-beating shot to lift North Catholic past Beaver, 50-49, for WPIAL title No. 18 for the Trojans. A year later, last-minute dramatics were not necessary for North Catholic at The Pete. The Trojans...
Pine-Richland remains atop Trib HSSN PIHL power rankings
Every Monday during the 2018-19 PIHL hockey season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the week of March 3. Overall record includes wins, losses, ties and overtime losses. PIHL TRIB 10 1. Pine-Richland Rams (18-0-0-1) (Last...
Broadcasts planned this week on Trib HSSN
The Path to the Pete is over as the hardwood focus turns to the Road to Hershey this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues postseason hoops coverage with first round action of the 2019 PIAA boys and girls basketball playoffs. The Network also has three-day...
Nine WPIAL wrestlers earn top seeds in state tournament
The PIAA released the pairings for the individual wrestling championships, which begins Thursday at Giant Center in Hershey, and nine WPIAL wrestlers earned No. 1 seeds. The PIAA used a new point system to determine the top seeds from the regional champions. Returning PIAA champions from the WPIAL, Seneca Valley...
Westmoreland PIHL playoff capsules for March 4, 2019
Monday’s games PIHL Penguins Cup Class AA First round Hempfield (12-7) vs. Pine-Richland (18-0-1) 7:30 p.m. Monday at Baierl Ice Complex, Warrendale Winner plays: Latrobe (14-4-1) or Hampton (10-7-2), March 13 at RMU Island Sports Center, Neville Island Goals for/against: Hempfield, 121/78; Pine-Richland, 112/32 About Hempfield: The Spartans advanced to...
Westmoreland lookahead for week of March 4, 2019
MONDAY Hockey: Three area teams will be in action in the PIHL Class AA Penguin Cup playoffs. Latrobe takes on Hampton at 7:15 p.m. at Nevin Arena, and Franklin Regional plays Mars at 9:30 p.m. at Baierl Complex in Warrendale. A third first-round game has Hempfield taking on unbeaten Pine-Richland...
Pitt, WVU recruits among Maryland picks for Big 33 Football Classic
Pitt recruit A.J. Woods, a cornerback from Germantown, Md., was among the 38 high school football players chosen to represent Maryland in the Big 33 Football Classic. West Virginia recruits Leighton Bechdel and Osita Smith were also on the all-star game roster announced Saturday. The game is May 27 at...
PIAA releases opening round schedule for boys, girls basketball playoffs
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...
PIAA basketball playoff field set for WPIAL boys, girls teams
The WPIAL basketball playoffs are now history, so the attention turns to the Road to Hershey, which tips off next weekend. The WPIAL will send a handful of teams from each class into the PIAA postseason field, ranging from five to seven teams. Here is the list of the teams...
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for week of March 3, 2019
The district playoffs are in the rear-view mirror, and the road to Hershey is about to open. Nearly 200 teams are about to begin a three-week journey referred to as the PIAA girls basketball playoffs. This week’s edition of the state rankings didn’t have many changes, but it is lighter...
Mt. Lebanon shows patience in WPIAL championship win over ButlerVideo
Mt. Lebanon wanted to keep the ball out of Ethan Morton’s hands, so the Blue Devils just held onto it themselves. With a two-point lead and 6 minutes left, Mt. Lebanon slowed the pace, ate the clock and used a couple of long possessions to defeat Butler, 62-57, in the...
Kiski Area’s Connor, Blumer defend WPIAL wrestling titles
Cam Connor flashed what in most scenarios constitutes the peace sign to the crowd at Canon-McMillan, but the gesture held a different meaning for the Kiski Area senior. Connor finished his WPIAL wrestling career by winning his second consecutive title, beating Thomas Jefferson’s Alex Weber, 9-1, in the 152-pound final...
Allderdice boys fall short against state’s top-ranked team in Class 6A, Kennedy Catholic
Allderdice boys basketball coach Buddy Valinsky gave his team a bit of a break this past week. Light practice is hardly the conventional wisdom going into a matchup against the No. 1-ranked Class 6A team in the state. But this time of year, less is more. The six-time defending Pittsburgh...
High school scores, schedules for March 2, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Saturday’s results Class 6A Championship Mt. Lebanon 62, Butler 57 Class 4A Championship New Castle 60, Quaker Valley 54 District 6-8-10 subregional Class 6A Final Saturday’s result Kennedy Catholic 68, Allderdice 55 Girls WPIAL playoffs Saturday’s results Class 6A Championship Peters Township 43, North...
Peters Township girls beat 2-time defending champion North Allegheny in OT to win Class 6A title
High-scoring Peters Township was lulled into playing North Allegheny’s game in the WPIAL Class 6A championship, which meant a defense-first approach, and that the final score probably was going to resemble a men’s pants size or a recent high-low temperature on the local weather report. The Indians looked quite comfortable...
Franklin Regional’s Camacho finally defeats Miller, wins second WPIAL title
Franklin Regional senior Colton Camacho never had beaten Kiski Area senior Darren Miller prior to Saturday’s 126-pound final at the Class AAA WPIAL/PIAA Southwest Regional championships. That string ended as Camacho used two first-period takedowns to defeat Miller, 4-2, to win his second WPIAL title at Canon-McMillan. Miller had won...
Brashear’s Mwete qualifies for PIAA wrestling tournament
Brashear senior Joe Mwete earned a trip to Hershey by finishing second at the Class AAA PIAA Northwest Regional at Altoona. The PIAA Wrestling Championships begin on Thursday at Giant Center. Mwete (30-3) reached the 145-pound final, but lost to Cathedral Prep’s Paniro Johnson, 6-5. He advanced to the finals...
Westmoreland notebook: Monessen boys basketball turn focus to PIAA playoffs
Monessen did not make the PIAA Class A boys basketball playoffs last season and had a coaching change in the offseason when longtime coach Joe Salvino left to take the Belle Vernon job. Dan Bosnic came aboard and didn’t need to do much homework on the program. He knew about...
Chartiers Valley’s McConnells combine for another WPIAL title — this time girls
Tim McConnell thought back to eight years ago when he said someone made a comment to him that one day he’d coach his daughter, Megan. “I told them I would never coach girls basketball,” he said. He’s glad he was wrong. In his first season as the Colts girls coach,...
Norwin’s Phipps, North Hills’ Hillegas eye 3rd WPIAL titles after semifinal victoriesVideo
Norwin junior Kurtis Phipps and North Hills junior Sam Hillegas clinched a spot in the 2019 WPIAL Class AAA wrestling championship with wins in the semifinals Saturday at Canon-McMillan. The duo is trying to join a large list of three-time WPIAL champions. That number is at 77 after Frazier junior...
New Castle tops Quaker Valley in WPIAL 4A final for 3rd consecutive year
New Castle just wouldn’t be denied its 13th WPIAL boys basketball title. The Red Hurricanes, down by 10 late in the third quarter and with their vaunted 3-point shooting ability seemingly vanished, took over the fourth quarter and defeated Quaker Valley, 60-54, in the Class 4A championship game at Petersen...
