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A-K Valley basketball playoff capsules for games of Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019
February 18, 2019
Boys
Veteran, championship-winning boys basketball coaches to lead P-T vs. PT on Tuesday night
Ten years ago, one coach was hoisting WPIAL gold. Sixteen years ago, the other coach was winning a district championship.
A-K Valley campus clippings: Marzolfs have strong showing at PAC swimming
Mallory Marzolf won on every day of the three-day Presidents’ Athletic Conference swimming and diving championships.
Westmoreland campus clippings: Saint Vincent women secure top seed for PAC tourney
The Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s basketball championship will go through Latrobe.
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Lincoln Park’s Keeno Holmes
Keeno Holmes
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Beaver Falls Tigers
The Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week returned to the playoffs last week and picked up a win to advance to Round 2 — the Beaver Falls Tigers.
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of Feb. 18, 2019
Many of the ranked boys basketball teams across the commonwealth enjoyed a hard week of practice with few if any games as the postseason began.
Franklin Regional’s Smith bowls pair of 300 games in 879 series
Alex Smith knows how to draw a crowd. The Franklin Regional High School junior and standout bowler figured out all he needs to do is roll strikes.
Canon-McMillan wrestler Gerrit Nijenhuis commits to Purdue
Gerrit Nijenhuis is ramping up for the upcoming individual wrestling postseason, but first he made his college decision.
Westmoreland athletes of the week: Derry’s Ty Cymmerman, Southmoreland’s Bailey Kuhns
Ty Cymmerman
DeRubbo leads Trinity girls past Penn-Trafford in WPIAL Class 5A 1st round
The Trinity girls basketball team lost four of its final six games to end the regular season.
Fox Chapel feels it after 1st quarter, beats Seneca Valley
Fox Chapel missed 10 of its first 11 shots Tuesday night, a dismal start that could have doomed the team’s playoff hopes, but then suddenly, they almost couldn’t miss.
High school roundup for Feb. 19, 2019: Canon-McMillan rallies past North Allegheny
The Canon-McMillan boys basketball team trailed by 10 points after three quarters of a WPIAL Class 6A first-round playoff game against North Allegheny.
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: South Side’s Sydney Payne
February 17, 2019
Sydney Payne
A-K Valley lookahead for Week of Feb. 18, 2019
MONDAY
PSNK women complete trying resurrection season
The quarters slipped by, and the minutes and seconds ticked off the clock during Thursday’s Penn State New Kensington women’s basketball game with Penn State Beaver.
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Connellsville
Connellsville needed a response after last week’s loss to Carrick, having had a chance to clinch a home game in the Division 2 playoffs in that game.
Coach Berger brings calming influence to Ligonier Valley boys
The coach at Ligonier Valley has changed, but the core group of players remained the same, providing an opportunity for another banner year in boys basketball after last season’s District 6-3A championship and PIAA first-round ouster.
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Montour’s Ryan Eisel
During the third period of Monday’s Class A contest between Deer Lakes and Montour, one of the Lancers’ captains skated up to the Montour bench and talked with Montour coach Clay Shell and some of the captains for the Spartans.
A-K Valley basketball playoff capsules: Games of Monday, Feb. 18, 2019
Class 4A
