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Laurel Highlands torches reeling Belle Vernon
What could have been a rebirth and momentum builder for the Belle Vernon boys basketball team was anything but that Friday night. Laurel Highlands went into the Belle Vernon gymnasium and embarrassed the out-of-sorts Leopards, 78-59, in front of a capacity crowd. The bread and butter of a Joe Salvino-coached...
Hard-charging Latrobe boys knock off Franklin Regional
The playoff race in WPIAL Section 3-5A boys basketball just got a lot more interesting. Latrobe was one of the teams throwing wrenches into the works. The Wildcats clearly aren’t ready to call it a year just yet, as evidenced by their 66-53 win over reeling Franklin Regional on Friday...
Springdale boys eke out win over Leechburg
The Springdale boys basketball team kept its playoff chances alive by beating Leechburg in a 43-41 thriller Friday night at Donald G. McGhee Fieldhouse. The Dynamos (9-11, 3-7) completed a season sweep of the Blue Devils (8-11, 3-7). Leechburg led 41-39 with under a minute to play, but a John...
State rep proposes legislation that would allow PIAA to crown separate public, private champs
The PIAA has maintained that splitting public and private schools into separate playoffs is prohibited under a state statute from 1972, but new legislation could rewrite that law. State Rep. Scott Conklin (D-Centre) announced plans Thursday to introduce legislation that would let the PIAA create separate tournaments for boundary and...
Burrell wrestling seeks revenge against Quaker Valley in WPIAL semifinals
The last time the Burrell wrestling team didn’t make it to at least the WPIAL Class 2A semifinals was in 2000. While that two-decades-long streak remains intact — Burrell is in the final four with Quaker Valley, Burgettstown and Frazier — the goal, as it always has been for the...
Cinderella Hempfield heads into WPIAL team wrestling semifinals with confidence
When the Canon-McMillan public address announcer was announcing WPIAL Class 3A team championship scores from other sites Wednesday, fans took notice of two finals. “Hempfield 33, Trinity 33, Hempfield wins by criteria. And Hempfield 32, Butler 31.” The scores drew some oohs and aahs. Hempfield wrestling coach Vince DeAugustine said...
Breaking down the 2022-23 WPIAL wrestling semifinals
WPIAL team wrestling championship Class 3A Semifinals 10 a.m. Saturday at Peters Township High School No. 1 Waynesburg (12-2) vs. No. 4 Connellsville (14-4) Path to semifinals: Waynesburg defeated Fox Chapel, 54-9, in first round and Plum, 48-14, in the quarterfinals. Connellsville defeated Franklin Regional, 46-18, in the first round...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 2, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Thursday’s results Class 4A Section 2 North Catholic 66, Central Valley 47 Class A Section 3 Neighborhood Academy 50, Hillel Academy 18 Friday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 New Castle at Central Catholic, 7:30 p.m. North Allegheny at Butler, 7:30 p.m. Seneca Valley at...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 3, 2023: Class 6A heavyweights to collide
The first Fray-day in February is littered with plenty of key WPIAL boys basketball games. One of them is a battle between the two top-ranked teams in Class 6A with first place in Section 1 at stake as New Castle (16-2) visits Central Catholic (11-7) on Chuck Crummie Court. The...
WPIAL clinched: Girls basketball playoff qualifiers through Feb. 2, 2023
The 2023 WPIAL girls basketball regular season is winding down and the playoff field is growing. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs starting on Monday, Feb. 13 with the Playoff Pairings Show at 3 p.m. as we unveil the brackets to the...
High school roundup for Feb. 2, 2023: Kaley Rohanna hits 1,000 points in key Waynesburg win
Kaley Rohanna scored 20 points, including the 1,000th of her career on a free throw with 1.3 seconds left, to lead Waynesburg to a 48-40 victory over Yough in a key Section 4-3A matchup Thursday night. Peyton Cowell had 11 and Josie Horne added 10 for the Raiders (17-2, 7-1),...
Norwin girls on a “role” with sweep of Hempfield
Norwin girls basketball players recently filled out and read a Google form report about finding their roles on the team. It was a topic the Knights know well. The exercise gave the players a better idea of what their collective personality is. Norwin is ranked third in WPIAL Class 6A...
Penn Hills girls use strong defense to complete section sweep of Plum
Penn Hills girls basketball coach Robert Cash didn’t tell his team that a win would keep them alive in the postseason race. He didn’t want to put any undue pressure on them and just wanted them to go out and play. “We just talked about going out and getting a...
Highlands boys battling to be among contenders for WPIAL Class 4A title
Highlands boys basketball coach Corey Dotchin sensed that Class 4A was going to be a dogfight when he first got a look at the new section alignments in July. That certainly has come to fruition, and the Golden Rams are in the thick of the fight. The top two teams...
Westmoreland County boys basketball notebook: Few teams have playoff sports locked up
With just over a week to go in the WPIAL regular season, the Westmoreland County playoff picture is coming into greater focus. Only four county teams had secured spots at the beginning of the week: Burrell and Yough in Class 3A, Greensburg Central Catholic in 2A and Monessen in Class...
Belle Vernon boys still looking to find groove in season of constant change
A search for continuity is a seemingly ongoing adventure at Belle Vernon this season as the boys basketball team tries to grow into its expectations. The journey has been met with flared locker room discussions, a maddening sense that the Leopards (9-9) should be better and the coach trying to...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 2, 2023: Girls basketball teams look to break section logjams
Whether or not the groundhog sees its shadow Thursday, an early spring or a longer winter will not affect the five-team chase in the crowded top of Section 2-5A in WPIAL girls basketball. The top five teams are separated by only two games with either two or three section games...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 1, 2023
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results Class 5A Section 3 Kiski Area 66, Franklin Regional 49 Class A Section 3 Aquinas Academy 64, Hillel Academy 34 Nonsection Aliquippa 49, Obama Academy 43 California 57, Carrick 47 Moniteau 61, Laurel 42 Riverview 73, Apollo-Ridge 51 West Greene 68, Waynesburg 37...
Trib 10: Top teams remain the same, but power rankings see some changes
There were a few changes up and down the weekly Trib 10, but the top two teams remain the same. A pair of Class 4A teams remain No. 1 and No. 2 in the boys power rankings. Hampton and Lincoln Park are a combined 33-3 overall. Two new boys teams...
High school roundup for Feb. 1, 2023: Hempfield pulls pair of upsets in WPIAL team wrestling
Hempfield busted the WPIAL Class 3A team wrestling tournament bracket Wednesday night, knocking off sixth-seeded Trinity and third-seeded Butler en route to a berth in Saturday’s semifinals. The Spartans, who went 6-4 in dual meets in the regular season, will take on second-seeded Canon-McMillan at 10 a.m. Saturday at Peters...
Injury derails Latrobe against Norwin in WPIAL team tourney
The highly anticipated quarterfinal match between No. 2 Canon-McMillan and No. 7 Latrobe didn’t happen Wednesday night in the WPIAL Class 3A team tournament. An elbow injury to Latrobe heavyweight Wyatt Held helped Norwin to a 36-30 victory, instead. Held was leading Norwin heavyweight Josiah Pastories, 3-0, when he landed...
Frazier drops Highlands in WPIAL team tournament
There’s a new kid on the mat. Upstart Frazier, whose wrestling program is in its seventh season of PIAA competition, is moving on in the WPIAL Class 2A team tournament in its first season in the playoffs. The Section 2 champion Commodores earned a pair of playoff victories Wednesday night...
Burrell wrestlers open WPIAL team tourney with 2 victories
The WPIAL wrestling pairings committee slotted Burrell as the No. 3 seed for the WPIAL Class 2A tournament. Junior Cooper Hornack said the Bucs used that to their advantage in the opening two rounds Wednesday at Burrell High School. Burrell overwhelmed Knoch, 71-3, in the first round and topped Laurel,...
A-K Valley girls basketball teams jockeying for playoff position
It is crunch time with one week left in section play, and several girls basketball teams in the Alle-Kiski Valley have either safely secured their spot in one of the six WPIAL tournaments or are fighting to join the party over their final section games. Several key section matchups Thursday...
Baldwin hires McKeesport assistant Dana Brown Jr. as football coach
Dana Brown Jr. turns 32 on Sunday, but he got an early birthday present Wednesday night. Brown, a McKeesport assistant coach and former standout player for the Tigers, was hired as Baldwin’s football coach, making him one of the younger big-school coaches in the WPIAL. The first-time head coach takes...
