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A-K Valley girls athlete of the week: Knoch’s Nina Shaw
Nina Shaw Class: Junior School: Knoch Sport: Basketball Report card: Shaw scored 15 points, 11 of which came in the fourth quarter to help Knoch earn its first ever trip to the WPIAL girls basketball finals in a 56-45 win over Southmoreland on Tuesday in the Class 4A semifinals. Shaw...
Westmoreland Athletes of the Week: Mt. Pleasant’s Reegan Brown, Hempfield’s Ethan Lebin
Reegan Brown School: Mt. Pleasant Sport: Swimming and diving Year: Junior Claim to fame: Brown was part of Mt. Pleasant’s winning relay teams at the WPIAL Class 2A swimming championships at Pitt’s Trees Pool on Friday and Saturday. The Vikings’ 400-yard free relay capped the championship performance with a WPIAL...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 5, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Finals At Petersen Events Center Saturday’s results Class 6A Fox Chapel 43, North Hills 36 Class 2A OLSH 60, Fort Cherry 36 Girls WPIAL playoffs Finals At Petersen Events Center Saturday’s results Class 5A South Fayette 57, Chartiers Valley 48 Class 4A Blackhawk 55,...
First-timers among 6 Westmoreland County WPIAL wrestling champions
It was a day of firsts for several Westmoreland County wrestlers at the Class 3A WPIAL/PIAA Southwest Regional on Saturday. Latrobe freshman Luke Willochell, Hempfield junior Ethan Lebin, Hempfield senior Briar Priest, Franklin Regional senior Finn Solomon and Greensburg Salem senior Billy McChesney all claimed their first WPIAL and PIAA...
Fox Chapel stuns top-seeded North Hills to win 1st WPIAL title in 45 years
Eli Yofan celebrated with the WPIAL trophy in his hands Saturday night, but he also acknowledged the fingerprints his teammates left all over this championship win. The Foxes’ star senior made only one basket in the game, a quiet night offensively for the team’s leading scorer, so No. 2 seed...
Kiski Area’s Joseph and Morlacci, Highlands’ Burford qualify for states
For Highlands senior Jrake Burford and Kiski Area senior Stone Joseph, getting a chance to wrestle in Hershey is a dream come true. Both qualified for the PIAA championships, which begin Thursday at the Giant Center, along with Kiski Area senior Enzo Morlacci on Saturday at the Class 3A WPIAL/PIAA...
Mt. Pleasant’s Dayton Pitzer dominates en route to title at Class 2A Southwest Regionals
Complacency never is a problem for Mt. Pleasant senior wrestler Dayton Pitzer. “I don’t think I’m at a point where I’ve been bored with wrestling,” Pitzer said. “I think there’s always room for improvement. I think working hard in the practice room with teammates and stuff and learning new moves...
Greensburg Salem edges out Hempfield for boys regional bowling team title
Two Westmoreland County rivals met again with a regional title on the line at North Versailles Bowling Center on Saturday. Led by all-tournament team selection Jake Smith, Greensburg Salem defeated Hempfield, 2-1, to claim the Western Pennsylvania regional boys team championship. After qualifying, which consisted of three regular team games...
Burrell’s Hornack navigates tough road at PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional
Quaker Valley’s Logan Richey shot was quick, and Burrell’s Cooper Hornack found himself defending furiously in the first period of a 120-pound bout Saturday at Peters Township High School. The PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional match between the two served as a reminder for Hornack how much more difficult things...
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: Belle Vernon resident Eli Teslovich helps Shady Side Academy to WPIAL title
Westmoreland County did not produce a WPIAL champion in basketball this season. Not so fast, says Eli Teslovich. A sophomore at Shady Side Academy, Teslovich helped lead the Bulldogs — remember, they aren’t the Indians any more — to the program’s second district championship Friday night with a 66-54 victory...
George Guido: Washington Township sports memories remain
Memories are all that’s left of the former Washington Township High School. The building, most recently used as an elementary school in the Kiski Area School District, was torn down last month by the property owner, Tresco Companies of Salem Township. Meyer’s RV, a New York-based RV dealer, hopes to...
South Fayette dethrones No. 1 Chartiers Valley in WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball
Maddie Webber sensed early on that the third meeting between South Fayette and Chartiers Valley this season was going to be different. “I knew in the first quarter,” she said. “We were all attacking. Ava (Leroux) was getting rebounds, we pushed the ball on offense, we were all finishing, and...
Latrobe goalkeeper DeCerb commits to James Madison
Anyone who follows Latrobe girls soccer will not be surprised to hear the news: Sofia DeCerb will stop shots at the NCAA Division I level. The junior goalkeeper announced she verbally committed to play at James Madison. Her high school coach knew she would find a spot with a high-level...
Unbeaten Blackhawk surges past Knoch in WPIAL Class 4A title game
After Blackhawk hit just 12 of 31 shots over three quarters, Cougars coach Steve Lodovico had one bit of advice for his girls Saturday. Keep shooting. The advice worked as the Cougars hit all seven field goal attempts in the fourth period to pull away from Knoch, 55-35, and win...
Jake DiMichele, OLSH dominant again in WPIAL Class 2A championship win over Fort Cherry
Jake DiMichele cracked open a cold Pepsi before meeting a gaggle of reporters. It looked like a Name, Image, Likeness type of deal as the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart star sipped and answered questions in the media room at Petersen Events Center. “Nah, it’s just my favorite drink,”...
7th-seeded Bishop Canevin tops Aquinas Academy for WPIAL Class A title
The Bishop Canevin Crusaders may have been seeded No. 7 in the WPIAL Class A girls basketball playoffs, but that only seemed to fuel them. Bishop Canevin defeated fourth-seeded Aquinas Academy, 59-40, in the Class A championship game Saturday at Petersen Events Center. It was Bishop Canevin’s sixth WPIAL title,...
2022 WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball championship breakdown: North Hills vs. Fox Chapel
WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball No. 1 North Hills vs. No. 2 Fox Chapel 7 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center On the air: Video livestream: TribHSSN.TribLive.com WPIAL titles: North Hills 0, Fox Chapel 1 (1977) North Hills (24-0) Coach: Buzz Gabos 5, Alex Smith, 6-3, sr., G 10, Will Blass,...
2022 WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball championship breakdown: OLSH vs. Fort Cherry
WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball No. 1 OLSH vs. No. 2 Fort Cherry 1 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center On the air: Video livestream: TribHSSN.TribLive.com; Radio: 95.3 FM, 1450 AM WPIAL titles: OLSH 3 (2019, ’20, ‘21), Fort Cherry 1 (1961) Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (22-0) Coach: Mike...
Kiski Area’s Morlacci reaches WPIAL semifinals, 100-win milestone
Enzo Morlacci is giving up wrestling after the season. The Kiski Area senior recently de-committed from Lehigh to pursue a film career. Morlacci has formed his own business, a venture in which he believes he will excel. Friday at his final Class 3A WPIAL and PIAA Southwest Regional Championship at...
Rodney Gallagher’s free throws in final second of double OT lift Laurel Highlands past New Castle in WPIAL Class 5A final
Same arena. Same prize. There was a little less time on the clock when Rodney Gallagher walked to the foul line this year, but he made sure the outcome was also exactly the same. The Laurel Highlands junior stirred memories of his freshman heroics by drawing a foul with three-tenths...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 4, 2022
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Finals At Petersen Events Center Class 6A Saturday’s schedule North Hills (24-0) vs. Fox Chapel (23-1), 7 p.m. Class 5A Friday’s result Laurel Highlands 60, New Castle 58 (2OT) Class 3A Friday’s result Shady Side Academy 66, Avonworth 54 Class 2A Saturday’s schedule OLSH...
Latrobe freshman Willochell rolls into semifinals of WPIAL/PIAA Class 3A Southwest Regional
Sometimes freshmen have trouble competing in big tournaments. Latrobe freshman Luke Willochell didn’t have any problems at his first WPIAL/PIAA Class 3A Southwest Regional Championship on Friday at Canon-McMillan. Willochell had an impressive debut, recording two first-period pins. He quickly defeated Bethel Park freshman Seth Miller in 33 seconds at...
High school roundup for March 4, 2022: Burgettstown sends 4 into regional semifinals
Burgettstown sent a WPIAL-best four wrestlers into the championship semifinals at the PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional wrestling tournament Friday night at Peters Township. Burgettstown’s trio of WPIAL champs – Parker Sentipal (106), Joey Sentipal (132) and Joseph Baronick (285) – advanced, joined by 138-pounder Rudy Brown. Quaker Valley has...
Mt. Lebanon captures 4th WPIAL championship with victory over rival Upper St. Clair
It wasn’t the start Mt. Lebanon was hoping for. The finish, though, was as good as gold. The top-seeded Blue Devils earned their fourth WPIAL girls basketball championship Friday night with a 55-44 victory over No. 3 Upper St. Clair in the Class 6A title game at Petersen Events Center....
North Allegheny girls win record 14th straight WPIAL swimming championship
The North Allegheny girls made history Friday, winning their 14th straight team title at the WPIAL Class 3A swimming championships. The Tigers totaled 344 points to pass the Norwin girls volleyball team, which won 13 straight titles from 1973-1985, and claim sole possession of the record for most consecutive championships...
