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Penn-Trafford boys look to carry momentum into playoffs
When the Penn-Trafford boys basketball team entered the final two weeks of the regular season, its WPIAL playoff hopes were on thin ice. But wins against McKeesport and Latrobe in crunch time clinched a postseason berth for the Warriors. Penn-Trafford (5-4, 11-10) was in position to finish as high as...
Penn Hills notebook: Wrestlers look to advance to WPIAL tournament
Jeremy Packer is eager to see how the Penn Hills wrestling team will handle the section qualifiers. The Indians didn’t have anyone make the WPIAL Class 3A tournament last season, but have several prospects who could make the leap this year. Penn Hills wrestled at the Pine-Richland duals Feb. 3,...
Penn Hills girls look to fine-tune game heading into playoffs
Making adjustments late in the season has served the Penn Hills girls basketball team well. The Indians won back-to-back games going into their section finale, putting them in the playoffs for the second straight year. Without having to scratch and claw late for a spot like last season, senior guard...
Championship experience valuable for Pine-Richland swimmer, teammates
Sarah Anne Shaffer has been fielding questions from her younger teammates about different aspects of the WPIAL swimming championships. She’s a good source for information because she was in a similar position to theirs just one year ago. Shaffer was a sophomore hoping to reach her goals and accomplished them...
Playoff-bound Pine-Richland girls embrace underdog role
Heading into the playoffs, the Pine-Richland girls basketball team has embraced an underdog mentality. That’s an understandable position to take given their circumstances. The Rams have only 10 girls on the roster, and nine that are healthy. They played the entire season without a JV team, had some injuries along...
WPIAL bracketology: Don Rebel, Chris Harlan forecast the 2024 girls basketball playoff pairings
The 2024 WPIAL girls basketball playoff field is set with 81 teams in the six classifications. Class 6A will go right into the quarterfinals round with eight teams, Class 3A and 2A each have a perfect field of 16 and both 4A and A have 12 teams that qualified and...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 10, 2024
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class 3A Section 4 Yough 66, Mt. Pleasant 51 Bash with the Bronx At North Allegheny Upper St. Clair 50, Aliquippa 45 Hampton 57, Allderdice 53 Lincoln Park 83, Imani Christian 74 Nonsection Ellwood City 60, Shenango 47 South Allegheny 74, Shady Side Academy...
High school roundup for Feb. 10, 2024: Lincoln Park tops Imani Christian in battle of defending champs
Brandin Cummings scored 27 points and Meleek Thomas added 26 to lead Lincoln Park to an 83-74 victory over Imani Christian in a nonsection matchup of defending WPIAL and state champions Saturday night. Rhaki Lum added 12 points for the Class 4A Leopards (19-3), who led by just two points,...
WPIAL bracketology: Chris Harlan, Don Rebel forecast the 2024 boys basketball playoff pairings
The 2024 WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is set with 87 teams in the six classifications. Class 6A goes straight into the quarterfinal round while the five other classifications start with first-round games. Class 4A, 3A and 2A have full 16-team brackets with no byes. Class 5A has 17 teams,...
Baldwin’s Abby Rexrode wins 3rd straight WPIAL all-around gymnastics title
Baldwin junior Abby Rexrode won her third straight all-around title at the WPIAL gymnastics championships Saturday at Moon, taking first place in three of the four events. Rexrode, who won the vault, bars and floor and placed eighth in the beam, is the third gymnast to win three straight WPIAL...
TribLive HSSN WPIAL girls basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 11, 2024
WPIAL girls basketball rankings Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Norwin, 18-3, 2 2. Peters Township, 20-1, 1 3. North Allegheny, 19-2, 3 4. Mt. Lebanon, 11-10, NR 5. Chartiers Valley, 14-6, 5 Out: Upper St. Clair (12-10, 4) Class 5A 1. Oakland Catholic, 21-0, 1 2. McKeesport, 18-3,...
TribLive HSSN WPIAL boys basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 11, 2024
WPIAL boys basketball rankings Class 6A Rank, Team, W-L, Last 1. Mt. Lebanon, 18-3, 1 2. Central Catholic, 13-8, 4 3. Upper St. Clair, 15-5, 3 4. Baldwin, 16-5, 2 5. North Allegheny, 10-11, 5 Out: none Class 5A 1. Moon, 18-3, 1 2. Franklin Regional, 19-2, 2 3. Shaler,...
Westmoreland high school athletes of the week: Mt. Pleasant’s Kiersten O’Connor and Franklin Regional’s Troy McClelland
Kiersten O’Connor School: Mt. Pleasant Sport: Swimming Class: Junior Claim to fame: O’Connor won the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard freestyle, while also swimming lead-off legs of the first-place 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard freestyle relays in a 99-84 victory over Kiski Area. Earlier this season, she won the 100-yard backstroke...
Westmoreland boys basketball notebook: Gardner moves to top spot in Westmoreland record book
Gardner points are usually reserved for WPIAL football tiebreakers. On Friday night, Gardner points went into basketball record books. Monessen senior guard Lorenzo Gardner made history as he scored 64 points to set the Westmoreland County single-game scoring mark, breaking the previous record of 61 by Eric Roslonski of Southmoreland...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Knoch’s Derek Lang, Plum’s Alaina Claassen
Alaina Claassen Class: Sophomore School: Plum Sport: Wrestling Report card: Plum sophomore Alaina Claassen won the North Allegheny girls invitational title Feb. 3, scoring a 4-0 decision over Cumberland Valley’s Aja’nai Jumper, the top seed, in the finals. The WPIAL’s top-ranked girls wrestler at 235 pounds, Claassen is 14-2 this...
Plum senior student-athletes set college plans
It was another day to celebrate for Plum seniors set to continue their athletic pursuits at the collegiate level. Last Wednesday marked the first day of the regular signing period for Division I and II football players to make their decisions final, and Mustangs quarterback and punter Sean Franzi put...
Norwin notebook: Wrestlers hit roadblock in WPIAL quarterfinals
Norwin pushed its way into the WPIAL Class 3A team wrestling quarterfinals before running into top-seeded Trinity. The Knights, seeded No. 8 in the 19-team bracket, defeated Plum in the first round, 39-27, before falling to Trinity, 43-19. Jack White (152 pounds) opened the Trinity match with a major decision...
Norwin girls ramp up fun factor while racking up wins
Norwin leads the league in smiles. Watch the girls play basketball and you see an infinite loop of happy moments. High-fives and fist-bumps interrupted by hugs and pats on the back. It looks like fun to play for this team. Senior guard Ava Kobus makes a high-arcing 3-pointer that seems...
North Allegheny notebook: NA basketball teams turn attention to playoffs
The North Allegheny boys and girls basketball teams are playoff bound after finishing in the top four of their respective sections when the regular season concluded. The NA boys earned a 73-52 victory over Seneca Valley last week to improve to 10-11 overall and 7-2 in Section 1-6A. Ty Iwanonkiw...
‘The real deal’: North Allegheny set to host 1st WPIAL girls wrestling championships
North Allegheny will play host to a Western Pennsylvania girls wrestling championship once again, but this time the medals will says “WPIAL.” That’s no small detail, said North Allegheny coach Dan Heckert, adding that there’s increasing excitement since this is the first winter for girls wrestling as a sanctioned high...
Franklin Regional wrestling makes states to end dual meet season on high note
When the Franklin Regional wrestling team opened the season by winning the Hampton Dawg Duals, Panthers coach Matt Lebe wasn’t surprised. “I knew we had a chance at being pretty good,” Lebe said. “We did well in a scrimmage against Trinity before the duals. We were right with them. “We...
Resurgent Franklin Regional girls stay in playoff chase to the end
Franklin Regional picked up a big 45-42 win over Penn Hills on Jan. 26 to stay afloat in the WPIAL Class 5A playoff race. But the Panthers weren’t finished. With senior point guard Angelina Brush back and healthy, they dispatched of Kiski Area, 53-38, to move to 5-5 in Section...
Hampton senior wrestler buckles down after tough seasons, climbs WPIAL ranks
In Alan Danner’s first two seasons at Hampton, he spent much more time on the wrong side of pins than on the right side of wins. Two years since he nearly quit the sport because he was tired of losing, the 152-pound senior is eyeing a successful postseason and his...
Hampton’s Peter Kramer eager to return to playoff action
Hampton standout senior guard Peter Kramer is hoping to go from an ineligible postseason to an indelible one. After being forced to sit out last year’s playoffs due to PIAA transfer rules, Kramer is excited to be joining his teammates in this postseason in a bid for a deep run....
Eli Teslovich, Shady Side Academy teammates do best work at full speed
Eli Teslovich is always thinking on the break. The 6-foot-1 Shady Side Academy senior guard has the clearest mind when he’s on the move. Teslovich has an idea of his best spots to shoot from and what defenders may be collapsing to require him to kick to teammates. Teslovich and...
