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WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball preview: Butler vs. Mt. Lebanon
Class 6A boys Mt. Lebanon (21-3) vs. Butler (20-4) 9 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 3 Mt. Lebanon (21-3) Coach: Joe David No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 4 Hayden Mitchell, G, 6-2, Sr. 10 Blaine Gartley, G, 5-9, Jr. 20 Mike Palmer, G, 5-10, Sr. 22 Sean...
Top-seeded Neshannock girls defeat Shady Side Academy for 1st WPIAL title
Every team needs a little luck while making a championship run. Unfortunately, for Shady Side Academy, Neshannock’s luck came in the form of a late time out by the Indians. Trailing by three points with 18.5 seconds remaining, Shady Side Academy’s Ariana Goitz brought the ball up the floor, had...
Silver lining for Brentwood girls basketball team
Playing for a WPIAL championship at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center was a dream-come-true for the Brentwood girls basketball team. “It has been my dream forever,” said senior guard Anna Betz, the Spartans’ leading scorer with a 14.8 ppg average. “We talked about playing at the Peterson Events Center since the...
Gateway girls pleased with season despite falling short in title defense
Goal No. 1 was achieved by the Gateway girls basketball team. The Gators won the Section 2-5A championship, squeaking past Franklin Regional atop the standings. “We had good year thus far,” said Curtis Williams, who is in his fourth season as Gateway’s coach. “We did a lot of good things...
Finnerty brothers bolster Thomas Jefferson wrestling team’s success
Between them, the Finnerty brothers have almost 50 wins this season as members of the Thomas Jefferson wrestling team. Brendan Finnerty, a 145-pound junior and team captain, owns a sparkling 31-8 record. Seniors Max Shaw, Alex Weber, Andy Kalup and the 17-year-old Finnerty share the captaincy role for the Jaguars....
Penn-Trafford diver Kalik making familiar trek to PIAA championships
Penn-Trafford senior Paige Kalik is headed to the PIAA Class AAA girls diving championship March 15 at Bucknell for the third consecutive season, and this time she will have company. Senior Logan Sherwin qualified for his first boys championship March 16 after coming close the past two seasons. “I’m super...
The Herald Spotlight Athlete: Fox Chapel’s Jonah Cagley
Jonah Cagley, a senior on the Fox Chapel swimming and diving team, won his third straight title two weeks ago at the WPIAL Class AAA championships. “Winning this time definitely topped the previous years because we had four divers in the top 10, and I also broke the school 11-dive...
Fox Chapel indoor track program finishes strong
The Fox Chapel indoor track team finished its season on a high note. On Feb. 17, the team ran in the Tri-State Coaches Association championships at Edinboro. With approximately 75 teams competing, the girls squad finished second, and the boys came in third. The distance medley relay team of Sarena...
6 Pine-Richland wrestlers punch tickets to WPIALs
The high school wrestling postseason is in full swing, and Pine-Richland is seeing positive results, starting with the WPIAL Section 3-AAA individual championships Feb. 23 at Fox Chapel. The Rams exited the event boasting a pair of first-place finishers, a pair of second-place showings and another pair of wrestlers who...
Sitting down with Pine-Richland director of athletics Sean Simmons
Sean Simmons began his tenure as director of athletics at Pine-Richland on Nov. 14. Prior to his hiring at Pine-Richland, Simmons served as the assistant athletic director of student services and sports operations at Robert Morris, a position he held since 2004. From 2000-04, Simmons filled the role of academic...
Plum sends 5 bowlers to regional championships
Plum junior Ty Kirkpatrick has been the top bowler for the Mustangs this season. He didn’t deviate as he led all Plum bowlers at the WPIBL singles championship Feb. 27 at Wildlife Lanes in Burrell. Kirkpatrick bowled a 551 series (205-152-194), good for 25th place. After a second game not...
Franklin Regional’s Fishell grabs final PIAA diving spot
Franklin Regional senior Mason Fishell hopes to do better at the PIAA Class AAA boys diving championship meet March 16 at Bucknell than he did the last time. Fishell (492.3 points) placed fifth at the WPIAL championship Feb. 23 at North Allegheny for the final spot. Fishell also finished fifth...
Franklin Regional boys begin prep for PIAA basketball playoffs
Franklin Regional boys basketball coach Steve Scorpion felt a little conflicted last Tuesday night. Scorpion, like many others, traveled to North Hills to take in the WPIAL Class 5A semifinal game between No. 2 seed Penn Hills and No. 3 Moon. A former assistant coach at Penn Hills, Scorpion wanted...
WPIAL basketball, wrestling championships conclude Saturday on Trib HSSN
A wild week of WPIAL championships will come to a close with more thrilling action Saturday on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Here is where you can follow along. The WPIAL basketball championships will wrap up with Day 3 contests at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center. At 11 a.m., the...
WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball preview: New Castle vs. Quaker Valley
Class 4A boys New Castle (20-4) vs. Quaker Valley (20-3) 1 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 1 New Castle (20-4) Coach: Ralph Blundo No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 3 Michael Wells, G, 5-9, Fr. 5 Payne Prowell, G, 5-11, Sr. 10 Donte Burnett, G, 6-0, Sr. 11...
WPIAL boys, girls basketball teams clinch PIAA playoff berths
While district basketball gold is being determined this weekend at Pitt, the Road to Hershey is scheduled to tip 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. While all four semifinalists have clinched...
Connor, Kiski Area roll through WPIAL wrestling Day 1
Cam Connor critiqued his minimal mat time Friday. Then again, that proved a pretty optimal outcome for the Kiski Area senior. A pair of pins in less than three minutes total allowed Connor, a defending champion, to sail through to the 152-pound semifinals of the WPIAL Class AAA individual wrestling...
Seneca Valley, Hempfield send five wrestlers to WPIAL semifinals
Seneca Valley and Hempfield shared a high five Friday on the opening day of the WPIAL Class AAA individual wrestling championships. Both the Raiders and Spartans left the first day of the two-day tournament at Canon-McMillan with five wrestlers in the semifinals, the most of any school. Kiski Area and...
High school scores, schedules for March 1, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s schedule Butler (20-4) vs. Mt. Lebanon (21-3) at Petersen Events Center, 9 p.m. Class 5A Championship Friday’s result Mars 58, Moon 56 Class 4A Championship Saturday’s schedule New Castle (20-4) vs. Quaker Valley (20-3) at Petersen Events Center, 1 p.m....
Recchia’s late 3-pointer helps Mars defend WPIAL Class 5A championship
Andrew Recchia was the only person at Petersen Events Center who already knew how this WPIAL championship would end. “I dreamt about it last night, actually,” he said. The Mars senior saw the ball in his hands, the clock running down and him making the winning shot. “Call me a...
Hempfield’s Berginc pulls off big upset to highlight Day 1 of Southwest Regional wrestlingVideo
When Shaler senior Ryan Sullivan was forced to drop out of the WPIAL/PIAA Class AAA Southwest Regional tournament because of a broken hand, it gave an underdog wrestler an opportunity to earn a trip to the PIAA championship in the 120-pound weight class. Hempfield sophomore Ethan Berginc, who attends Jeannette...
Richland knocks off Ligonier Valley boys in overtime in District 6 final
These two schools don’t particularly seem to care much for one another. It showed in their latest meeting on the hardwood Friday night, where top-seeded Ligonier Valley met No. 2 Richland in a wild District 6 Class 3A boys basketball championship game at Mt. Aloysius. When the final horn sounded...
North Catholic girls roll past Central Valley to win 19th WPIAL championship
Everything played out according to “the script,” according to North Catholic girls basketball coach Molly Rottmann. By taking down Central Valley, 75-57, on Friday night at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center, the Trojanettes won their third straight WPIAL Class 4A title and 19th in the school’s history. Carrying the weight of...
Spotlight Q&A with Fox Chapel boys basketball coach Zach Skrinjar
Zach Skrinjar has been coaching at Fox Chapel for a decade. The Foxes have qualified for the WPIAL playoffs seven times in the past 10 seasons, including six of the past seven years. This year’s team is 16-8 and advanced to the Class 6A quarterfinal round. The Foxes are led...
Northgate girls, Indiana boys crowned WPIAL Class AA swimming champions
Throughout the entirety of the second day of WPIAL Class AA championship swimming action at Pitt’s Trees Pool, both the boys and girls teams for Northgate and Indiana were jockeying for pole position in the standings, trading off the Nos. 1 and 2 spots with each passing event. Both meets...
