Sports
WPIAL announces sites, times for basketball semifinals
February 23, 2020
The UPMC Events Center at Robert Morris will host a WPIAL basketball playoff doubleheader Wednesday.
Mt. Lebanon’s Patrick Anderson among nation’s best after TSTCA Indoor Championship
Mt. Lebanon senior Patrick Anderson ran one of the fastest 3,000-meter times in the nation this season at the TSTCA Indoor Championship Saturday at Edinboro.
Burrell duo suffer tough losses in PIAA regional finals
February 22, 2020
It wasn’t the finals Burrell juniors Ian Oswalt and AJ Corrado were hoping for.
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 22, 2020
High schools
Top wrestlers earn berths to WPIAL Class AAA wrestling tournament
Ten members of the Kiski Area wrestling team advanced to the WPIAL Class AAA championships next weekend after finishing in the top five of their weight classes Saturday at the Section 1-AAA tournament at Kiski Area.
High school roundup for Feb. 22, 2020: Woodland Hills girls fend off Moon upset bid
The Moon Tigers had a lot going for them in a WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball quarterfinal Saturday afternoon.
Derry’s Cymmerman denied PIAA regional wrestling title again
Derry junior Ty Cymmerman came up short again at the PIAA Class AA Southwest Regional wrestling tournament, and he’s tired of it.
Jake Hoffman scores 40 as defending champ Mt. Lebanon pounds Bethel Park
Mt. Lebanon senior Jake Hoffman started the regular season with a statistical anomaly: four straight games in which he scored exactly 30 points.
Decade’s best WPIAL finals: Boys basketball No. 3
There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the past 10 years.
Strong 2nd half carries Upper St. Clair past Pine-Richland, into semifinals
Maybe it is the team’s gritty style. Maybe it is coaching adjustments, or maybe it is just the names on the roster.
North Allegheny girls, Fox Chapel’s Manelis dominate at WPIAL diving championships
Going into the 31-diver girls event at the WPIAL Class AAA diving championships Saturday, the host North Allegheny Tigers had the top three seeds: freshman Zoe Ky first, junior Maya Ennis second and freshman Christina Shi third.
Westmoreland H.S. notebook: Rich Garland lands at Mt. Pleasant
When Rich Garland left Franklin Regional, he knew his days of coaching girls soccer in the WPIAL were not over.
Avonworth girls push past South Park into WPIAL semifinals
The Avonworth girls basketball team understood that if it wanted to return to the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals, the Antelopes would have to play to their strength — their size.
As Edinboro football coach, Apollo-Ridge grad Jake Nulph putting a focus on A-K Valley
When Apollo-Ridge grad Jake Nulph was hired as the coach of the Edinboro football team in January, he knew there was one area of Western Pennsylvania he wanted to focus on when it came to recruiting
Belle Vernon boys basketball upsets Quaker Valley, clinches PIAA spot
Listed at 5-foot-9, Devin Whitlock was the shortest player on the floor in Saturday’s game between Quaker Valley and Belle Vernon, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in many other areas.
Central Catholic boys upset No. 2 Fox Chapel in WPIAL quarterfinals
Central Catholic boys basketball first-year coach Brian Urso never doubted his team Saturday afternoon.
New Castle boys hold on to beat No. 2 seeded Knoch
When the playoffs roll around, New Castle instantly becomes a tough team to beat and Knoch learned that the hard way Saturday afternoon at North Allegheny.
Ethan Morton, No. 1 Butler outlast Peters Township in double-overtime barnburner
It took four quarters, two overtimes and 32 points and a buzzer beater from Ethan Morton for No. 1 Butler to finally escape a tough No. 9 Peters Township (14-10) team, but escape they did in a 78-76 victory in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball playoffs.
Highlands rolls past Ringgold in Class 4A boys quarterfinal
So much for problems getting untracked after a 15-day layoff.
Marinchak brothers move Ligonier Valley into District 6 semifinals
Top-seeded Ligonier Valley survived the first game of its final season in the District 6 boys basketball playoffs Friday night, but it took a big scoring surge in the fourth quarter, led by the Marinchak brothers, to do it.
