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What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 9, 2023: Girls basketball playoff races come down to wire
Section play for most WPIAL girls basketball teams concludes Thursday with a few playoff spots up for grabs and a couple of section championships to be decided. There are two win-and-you’re-in games slated for Thursday. In Section 3-3A, Burrell (3-6, 9-12) hosts Deer Lakes (3-6, 5-16) with the winner finishing...
Trib 10: Top teams in power rankings finishing regular season strong
The district boys and girls basketball elite are finishing strong as we head toward the “Path to the Pete.” There were two changes in the boys weekly Trib 10, with Indians from both Penn Hills and Peters Township debuting while North Hills and South Allegheny were bumped. There were zero...
A closer look at the 5 WPIAL entries in the PIAA team wrestling championship field
The PIAA team wrestling championship will begin with first-round matches Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey. Here is a closer look at the five WPIAL teams in the field. Class 3A Canon-McMillan 2022-23 record: 14-2 Opponent: Chambersburg, 8 p.m. PIAA appearances: 11 PIAA records: 29-18 PIAA titles: 2, 2012,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 7, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic 65, Butler 43 New Castle 72, Pine-Richland 51 Seneca Valley 70, North Allegheny 49 Section 2 Hempfield 55, Baldwin 53 Norwin 58, Mt. Lebanon 46 Upper St. Clair 68, Canon-McMillan 43 Class 5A Section 1 Peters Township...
Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings for Feb. 7, 2023
There were not a lot of changes in the weekly Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings, but that doesn’t mean it was smooth sailing into the start of February. The top two teams in Class 4A tasted defeat this past week, but losing to 6A Cardinal O’Hara and 5A Cathedral...
Central Catholic’s Debaba Tshiebwe follows brotherly advice, posts double-double to defeat Butler
Advice from an older brother can be valuable, especially when your brother is the top college basketball player in the country. Just ask Central Catholic senior Debaba Tshiebwe, whose big brother Oscar is a star for Kentucky. The younger Tshiebwe, himself listed at 6-foot-7, says he has adopted some brotherly...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for Feb. 7, 2023
The first few days of February turned out to be a struggle for state-ranked teams. Some only dropped a few spots while others fell out of the Pennsylvania elite 30. In all, nine teams ranked in last week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings lost with five of those losing...
WPIAL clinched: Boys basketball playoff qualifiers through Feb. 7, 2023
The 2023 WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is nearly set with only a few days left in the regular season. 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...
High school roundup for Feb. 7, 2023: Aquinas Academy’s Vinnie Cugini joins elite company with 3,000 points
Vinnie Cugini scored 36 points to lead Aquinas Academy to a 71-50 victory over Hillel Academy in Section 3-A Tuesday night, becoming the fifth player in Pennsylvania boys basketball history to hit the 3,000-point mark. Cugini finished the game with 3,001 points, joining Northern Bedford’s AJ Nastasi (3,833), Mansfield’s Tom...
Road Warriors: Penn-Trafford keeps playoff hopes alive
From the bottom of the section to the WPIAL playoffs? Penn-Trafford just might pull it off. The Road Warriors did it again. Penn-Trafford, saving its best for last, won for the third time in four games to keep their flickering postseason hopes alive. The Warriors rallied from a slow start...
Riverview slows Cleveland to top Leechburg but loses out on playoff spot
Riverview coach Phil McGivney said when his team is balanced on the score sheet, it normally comes out on the right side. The Raiders were balanced Tuesday night with four players in double figures, and, combined with a defensive adjustment intended to slow down Leechburg standout Marcus Cleveland, it was...
5 WPIAL teams searching for PIAA gold
Winning a PIAA championship takes a special team. Waynesburg had that type of team in 2021. But when the first round of team matches begins Thursday, five WPIAL teams will be attempting to win the state goal. It won’t be easy, because some of the top teams in the state...
Trib HSSN individual wrestling rankings for Feb. 7, 2023
Class 3A 107: 1. Santino Sloboda, Butler (30-0); 2. Tanner Mizenko, Canon-McMillan (27-7); 3. Owen Campbell, Plum (21-4); 4. Gus Stedeford, North Allegheny (23-9); 5. Dylan Barrett, Penn-Trafford (26-11); 6. Ejiro Montoya, Mt. Lebanon (22-3). 114: 1. Luke Willochell, Latrobe (22-2); 2. Connor Smith, Seneca Valley (22-6); 3. Ty Kapusta,...
Trib HSSN team wrestling rankings for Feb. 7, 2023
Class 3A Team Record LW 1. Canon-McMillan (14-2) 2 2. Waynesburg (13-3) 1 3. Hempfield (10-5) NR 4. Connellsville (14-6) 3 5. Norwin (15-3) NR 6. West Allegheny (11-2) 5 7. Butler (20-2) 6 8. Latrobe (6-3) 4 9. Plum (10-2) 8 10. Trinity (6-3) 7 Class 2A Team Record...
Butler captures 4th WPIAL rifle championship
The Butler rifle team won a WPIAL team championship for the fourth time Tuesday at Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Canonsburg. The Golden Tornado finished with a score of 799-49x to edge runner-up Penn-Trafford (798-57x) and Trinity (798-54x). Butler (10-3 overall), which won the Section 4 title at 8-2 during...
WPIBL releases qualifiers for team, singles championship tournaments
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League’s regular season wrapped up Feb. 1, and after examining all of the scores, stats, averages and records, the league has released who will be competing in the team and singles championships over the next two weeks. The WPIBL team championships at Sims Lanes in...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 6, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Monday’s results Class 2A Section 2 Winchester Thurston 50, Propel Montour 12 Southwestern Christian Athletic Conference Pittsburgh Christian Academy 55, Cheswick Christian Academy 54 Nonsection Propel Andrew Street 53, Hillcrest Academy 44 Tuesday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic at Butler, 7:30 p.m. Pine-Richland...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 7, 2023: Class 6A boys basketball playoff picture to shake out
New Castle is 7-1 and in first place in WPIAL boys basketball Section 1-6A with one week left. Its opponent on Tuesday, Pine-Richland, is 1-7 and in the section basement. The other four section teams are fit to be tied. Seeding and a playoff berths are up for grabs in...
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week for Feb. 6, 2023
When New Castle star senior Isaiah Boice went down with a fracture in his foot in early January, there were some who thought the top-ranked WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball team was in big trouble. “This is the first major injury I’ve dealt with in 13 years as a coach,”...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for Feb. 6, 2023
Vinnie Cugini stands 6-foot-2, but he is now a giant in WPIAL basketball lore. The Aquinas Academy senior guard broke the all-time district scoring record last week against Neighborhood Academy when he registered 33 points. The Pitt-Johnstown recruit broke the 30-year scoring record set by Tom Pipkins of Valley in...
WPIAL clinched: Girls basketball playoff qualifiers through Feb. 6, 2023
The 2023 WPIAL girls basketball regular season is winding down and the playoff field is nearly set. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs starting Monday, Feb. 13 with the Playoff Pairings Show at 3 p.m. as we unveil the brackets to the...
Greensburg CC girls rout Clairton but Bears sophomore Iyanna Wade scores 1,000th point
Greensburg Central Catholic rolled out a Spalding TF-1000 Legacy basketball for Monday night’s game against visiting Clairton. It is the ball the WPIAL requires teams to use in the playoffs. The Lady Centurions looked playoff ready but only partially because of the ball they were using. Third-ranked GCC was motivated,...
High school roundup for Feb. 6, 2023: Freedom’s Shaye Bailey breaks school record to reach 1,000 points
Coming into Monday night’s game, Freedom’s Shaye Bailey needed 45 points to reach 1,000 for her career. She got them, setting a school single-game scoring record in the process. Bailey scored 51 points, leading Freedom to a 73-42 victory over Aliquippa in Section 1-2A girls basketball. Julz Mohrbacher recorded a...
Hempfield wrestlers make quick work of Allderdice to earn trip to Hershey
It’s official: The Hempfield wrestling team will be headed to Hershey on Thursday to compete in the PIAA Class 3A tournament. Spartans took all of 22 minutes Monday to defeat Pittsburgh City League champion Allderdice, 72-6, in a preliminary-round match at Carrick. Hempfield (10-5) will face District 1 champion Pennridge...
Westmoreland County Senior Spotlight: Franklin Regional’s Mauriana Dorsch
Franklin Regional’s girls soccer team went 11-6-2 overall, 7-4-1 in section play this past season and made it to the WPIAL quarterfinals before falling 1-0 to Mars. Low-scoring games were a big part of the story for this year’s Panthers squad. In 18 games, they allowed 11 goals, and all...
