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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 11, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Thomas Jefferson 71, Bethel Park 53 Section 3 Gateway 75, Latrobe 58 NA Hoops for a Cure At North Allegheny Highlands 75, North Allegheny 46 Our Savior Lutheran (NY) 69, Imani Christian 68 Hampton 63, Seneca Valley 44 Nonsection...
High school roundup for Feb. 11, 2023: Gateway ends Latrobe’s playoff hopes
Jaydon Carr scored 26 points and Kaleb Pryor added 17 as Gateway defeated Latrobe, 75-58, in Section 3-5A boys basketball Saturday afternoon, knocking the Wildcats out of playoff contention. MJ Stevenson added 10 points for the Gators (15-5, 9-1), the section champs. Max Butler scored 18 points, Landon Butler added...
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Southmoreland’s Maddie Moore, Norwin’s Adam Bilinsky
Maddie Moore School: Southmoreland Sport: Basketball Class: Senior Claim to fame: Moore poured in a career-high 28 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Scotties to a 62-53 victory over Ringgold to snap a 19-game losing streak. She added 15 points in a 39-35 loss to Uniontown. “Maddie played...
Baldwin’s Abby Rexrode edges out Freedom’s Daisy Lewis for all-around gold at WPIAL gymnastics championships
Baldwin sophomore Abby Rexrode won her second consecutive all-around title in the Advanced division at the WPIAL gymnastics championships Saturday at Moon, edging out Freedom junior Daisy Lewis in a classic duel. Rexrode finished with an overall score of 38.225, just ahead of Lewis’ 38.1 Rexrode and Lewis finished 1-2...
WPIAL girls basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 12, 2023
Class 6A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. Upper St. Clair, 19-2, 1 2. North Allegheny, 16-4, 2 3. Norwin, 19-3, 3 4. Mt. Lebanon, 15-6, 4 5. Chartiers Valley, 10-9, 5 Out: none Class 5A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. South Fayette, 19-2, 1 2. Oakland Catholic, 19-2, 2 3....
WPIAL boys basketball rankings: Week ending Feb. 12, 2023
Class 6A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. New Castle, 19-2, 1 2. Central Catholic, 13-8, 2 3. Upper St. Clair, 14-8, 4 4. Mt. Lebanon, 14-7, 5 5. Butler, 14-7, 3 Out: none Class 5A Rk., Team, W-L, Last 1. Peters Township, 18-3, 2 2. Penn Hills, 16-3, 1 3....
Canon-McMillan proves point with 4th-place finish at PIAA team wrestling tournament
HERSHEY – Canon-McMillan coach Brian Krenzelak said he doesn’t care about team rankings, but he did take notice that his Big Macs were ranked sixth in the WPIAL at the start of the season. The Big Macs did better, a lot better than expected. Canon-McMillan finished with its 10th WPIAL...
PIHL announces January players of the month
Upper St. Clair played six games in January and senior forward Colin Ruffner scored in every one of them. His efforts earned him PIHL Class 3A Player of the Month honors for January. He joined Franklin Regional senior forward Matt Knizner (2A) and McDowell senior forward Braeden Martin (A) as...
A-K Valley athletes of the week: Highlands’ Katelyn Myers, Cam Reigard
Katelyn Myers Class: Junior School: Highlands Sport: Basketball Report card: Highlands’ girls basketball team earned a fourth straight win Thursday, and junior guard Katelyn Myers led the way, scoring 25 points, including seven 3-pointers, in the 84-42 triumph over Valley in Section 1-4A. On Monday, she had 12 points in...
Roster’s lone senior sets tone during successful season for Hampton girls
When it comes to the Hampton girls basketball team, forward Claire Rodgers is one of a kind. The 6-foot Rodgers is the only senior on the Talbots’ 13-player roster. Last season she was the lone junior, and two years ago she was the only sophomore on coach Tony Howard’s squad....
Without top scorer, Hampton boys to lean on defense, depth in playoffs
No. 2 Hampton is getting ready to try to show it can win games with its best player in street clothes. Junior 6-foot-4 guard Peter Kramer, the Talbots’ top scorer at 20 points per game, is ineligible for the WPIAL and PIAA boys basketball playoffs after transferring from Shady Side...
Recovered from neck injury, Plum’s Antonino Walker ready to make run at postseason medals
Plum junior Antonino Walker won 11 of his first 12 wrestling matches this season and hoped to add to it when the Mustangs competed at Saturday’s Pine-Richland Duals. He made it to the 172-pound championship match at the Allegheny County Tournament on Jan. 28 at Fox Chapel before coming up...
Riverview girls make 6th straight playoff appearance
The Riverview girls basketball team is in the WPIAL playoffs for the sixth year in a row and for the 13th time in 14 seasons. This year’s youthful Raiders squad, with just three seniors and a number of underclassmen contributing big minutes, hopes to rise up when the Class A...
North Allegheny set to host 2nd annual Western Pa. girls wrestling championship
About 35 athletes visited North Allegheny last winter for the first Western Pa. girls wrestling championship, a number that should more than double this time around. That’s how quickly the sport has grown. “I would imagine we’re probably going to be close to 80 to 100 girls,” said North Allegheny...
Franklin Regional hockey shakes off slow start, heats up in 2nd half of season
Franklin Regional hockey coach John Winebrenner said he knew the start of the 2022-23 season would be a test. The Panthers graduated numerous starters who played in the PIHL Class 2A finals and six returning starters were recovering from serious preseason injuries. Franklin Regional began the season 4-7, but things...
Fox Chapel notebook: Foxes swimmers have choices for WPIAL events
Fox Chapel’s swimmers won’t be lacking for things to do during the WPIAL Class 3A swimming championships. Sophie Shao and Sarah Pasquella will both be trying to rack up medals in multiple events. Both Shao and Pasquella are tied for a team-high six automatic qualifying times. Pasquella has qualified in...
Fox Chapel boys look to peak in playoffs
With the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball playoffs quickly approaching, Fox Chapel coach Zach Skrinjar has a simple aim. The Foxes want to be playing their best as the postseason begins. Grabbing consecutive wins over Plum and Armstrong Jan. 31 and Feb. 3 helped Fox Chapel secure its bid. “As...
Fast start lifts No. 2 Peters Township past No. 4 Bethel Park as Indians secure 1st section title since ’09
No. 4 Bethel Park and No. 2 Peters Township both controlled their own destiny for a title in Section 1-5A going into the final Friday night of the 2022-23 boys basketball regular season. Peters Township secured its first section championship since 2009 with a dominant 72-45 victory at the AHN...
Moon repeats as WPIAL team gymnastics champion
Moon, the dominant team in WPIAL gymnastics over the past decade, captured another team title Friday night, topping Pine-Richland to repeat as district champs. Moon finished with a total of 144.842, ahead of Pine-Richland’s total of 140.599. Baldwin (140.383) was third, followed by Thomas Jefferson (136.351), Central Valley (134.642) and...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 10, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Friday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 76, Butler 72 New Castle 65, Seneca Valley 60 Central Catholic 59, North Allegheny 42 Section 2 Upper St. Clair 66, Baldwin 64 Mt. Lebanon 58, Canon-McMillan 38 Norwin 56, Hempfield 47 Class 5A Section 1 Peters Township...
High school roundup for Feb. 10, 2023: Rowan Carmichael’s heroics send Avonworth to playoffs with dramatic win
Rowan Carmichael nailed a buzzer-beater to send the game to overtime and finished with 46 points as Avonworth clinched a playoff spot with a 67-60 overtime win over West Mifflin in Section 4-4A. Carmichael hit four 3-pointers and was 14 of 15 from the free-throw line. The Antelopes (8-13, 4-6)...
Rodney Gallagher scores 29, Laurel Highlands tops rival Uniontown in 2OTs
The scouting report on Rodney Gallagher says that if he gets enough late-game chances, he’ll usually make opponents pay. Uniontown stopped his layup at the end of regulation and rejected his runner late in the first overtime Friday night, but Gallagher wasn’t done. The senior started the second OT with...
WPIAL clinched: Boys basketball playoff qualifiers
The 2023 WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is set. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs starting on Monday with the Playoff Pairings Show at 3 p.m. as we unveil the brackets to the masses. Here is the final list of teams that...
Adam Bilinsky reaches milestone as Norwin eliminates Hempfield from playoffs
Adam Bilinsky was hoping his 1,000th point would come on a dunk. So were his family, friends and fans. After all, clips of some of his high-rising jams have gone viral. The slams have become his calling card. But the senior from Norwin — they call him “Bomber” — settled...
Shady Side Academy gets big lift from big men to defeat Deer Lakes, share section title
Shady Side Academy’s 6-foot-4 forward Nate Mallory wants to avoid hearing the same phrase over and over again. With a chance to earn a share of the Section 3-3A boys basketball title against Deer Lakes on Friday night at Mellon Gymnasium, Mallory and fellow 6-4 big man Ben Michaels lived...
