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Gateway’s young lineup developing in early going
December 29, 2018
The Gateway boys basketball team has made the WPIAL playoffs nine consecutive seasons. If the Gators are going to expand the streak to 10, they will have to overcome an inexperienced roster filled with underclassmen. Gateway, under new coach Alvis Rogers, was 2-4 overall and 0-2 in Section 1-5A play
Returning qualifiers leading Thomas Jefferson swim teams in early-season meets
Thomas Jefferson coach John Penn welcomed a solid group of returning WPIAL qualifiers to this year's swimming and diving program. On the girls side, seniors Elena Savikas, Grace Pletz and Maura Gdovic, junior Breanna Smith and sophomore Hallie Findlan were WPIAL qualifiers last season. Findlan qualified for the WPIAL meet
Thomas Jefferson girls going ‘all in’ this season
Julia Shearn, a senior guard on the Thomas Jefferson basketball team, celebrated her 18th birthday Dec. 21 -- the same day the Jaguars defeated Keystone Oaks, 67-58, at home. Shearn was joined in the starting lineup by senior guards Jenna Clark and Shaylor Williams, junior guard/forward Alyssa DeAngelo and junior
Short-handed Quaker Valley hockey team battles odds
A picture of Quaker Valley's bench during a game against Hampton captured the team's season-long challenge. Seven players watched the action in a game the Quakers lost 3-0. The Talbots bench had 15 players, a typical amount of depth for a hockey team. andquot;We're a 3A football school playing hockeyThomas Jefferson girls share unique nicknames
There are some unique nicknames in the Thomas Jefferson girls basketball program; as well as some other interesting andquot;favoritesandquot; among the players. andamp;#8226; Deanna Bennett, a 5-foot-4 junior guard, goes by the moniker DeDeBird. Bennett, who says her favorite food is spaghetti, was born in Russia. andamp;#8226; Catheryn Coles, aSewickley Academy hockey hopes “ups” outnumber “downs”
Sewickley Academy's hockey season has been two-faced. There is the version of the Panthers that is 6-1 against some division foes, but another version that has been outscored 32-5 in losses to Meadville, Montour and West Allegheny. andquot;I think we should be competing more against some of those better teams,andquot;
High school scores, schedules for Dec. 28, 2018
December 28, 2018
High schools Basketball Boys Friday's results WPIAL Apollo-Ridge tournament Championship Apollo-Ridge 46, Leechburg 41 Consolation Saltsburg 48, Riverview 46 Avella tournament Burgettstown 64, Avella 28 Chartiers-Houston 52, McGuffey 48 Fort Cherry 69, Propel Montour 62 Avonworth 77, Brownsville 58 Bentworth tournament Championship Waynesburg 76, Jefferson-Morgan 39 Consolation South Allegheny 60,Burrell’s Oswalt to collide with friend Phipps in Powerade semifinals
Ian Oswalt wrestles Norwin's Kurtis Phipps all the time. Their relationship goes back years. They have just never met on the mat for real. That will change Saturday morning, as Oswalt, a Burrell sophomore, will face Phipps, his friend and longtime practice partner at Young Guns Wrestling Club, in the
High school roundup: Norwin tops Plum in double overtime
Ty Bilinsky scored a game-high 26 points, including nine in the two overtimes, as the Knights defeated Plum, 80-77, on Friday in the Penn-Trafford tournament Bilinsky had five of Norwin's 13 3-pointers, and Gianni Rizzo had four, including one at the first overtime buzzer to tie the score at 68-68.
Apollo-Ridge boys beat Leechburg for 5th consecutive win
After starting the season with five consecutive losses, Apollo-Ridge has become one of the Alle-Kiski Valley's hottest teams. The Vikings won their fifth in a row Friday to even their record at 5-5 and win the Apollo Trust Tournament before a huge crowd with a 46-41 victory over Leechburg. Apollo-RidgeFreeport boys edge Kiski Area on last-second basket
It turned out to be a game where Freeport didn't need standout senior guard Jalen Brown to have his best performance. The Yellowjackets just needed Brown's best at the end. Trailing 62-61 with 10.2 seconds to play, Brown took the inbound pass and drove the length of the court andPowerade wrestling notebook: Tricky night for No. 1 seeds from WPIAL
Life as a top seed can be dangerous. Franklin Regional's Colton Camacho found out the hard way Friday. The Franklin Regional senior came into the Powerade Christmas Tournament as the No. 1 seed in the 126-pound weight class, but he suffered an 8-4 upset loss to St. Edward (Ohio) wrestler
Resurgent Penn-Trafford boys basketball routs No. 5 McKeesport
Share it. Kick it. Shoot it. These are words to live by at Penn-Trafford these days, junior point guard Zach Rocco said, where the Warriors boys basketball team is playing fast and furious and finding its way back to relevance. The team rang up 87 points for the second game
Burrell girls charge back to drop Jeannette
Burrell erased a seven-point deficit in the second half and raced past Jeannette for a 67-38 girls basketball victory Friday at the Hempfield Christmas Tournament. Kaylen Sharrow scored 24 points and sparked Class 4A Burrell's second-half uprising with 19 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter, as the Bucs limited
O’Donnell powers Penn-Trafford past McKeesport
Stephanie O'Donnell still wears a mask to protect her face after she suffered a broken nose last season. The 6-foot-1 senior forward from Penn-Trafford doesn't necessarily need the protective wrap, but it has become part of her uniform. andquot;It's more of a mental thing,andquot; O'Donnell said. andquot;I feel tougher whenTrib HSSN girls bowler of the week: Woodland Hills’ Johnna Hill
Defending WPIBL champion and state qualifier Johnna Hill entered her junior year hoping to remain at the top of the heap in the league, and she has posted one of the top averages through four weeks of section play. Hill fronts the East section with a 205 average over 12
Trib HSSN boys bowler of the week: Hopewell’s Christopher George
Hopewell senior Christopher George has rocketed to the top of the individual average list in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League. George leads the Northwest section and is second overall in boys average through the four December matches. He put down 2,716 pins through 12 games in Hopewell's four December
Penn Hills’ Hardy named state’s Class 5A Football Player of the Year
Daequan Hardy had a performance for the ages in the PIAA Class 5A football championship game. Apparently, members of the statewide media took notice. The Penn Hills senior was named the state's Class 5A Player of the Year and joined three of his Indians teammates on the Pennsylvania Football Writers
Rochester, Sto-Rox each place 2 on Class A all-state football team
A pair of 3,000-yard passers, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart's Tyler Bradley and Sto-Rox's Eric Wilson, were among six WPIAL players chosen Friday for the Class 1A all-state football team. Joining them were Rochester teammates Noah Whiteleather and Darius Goosby, Imani Christian's Rahmon andquot;RJandquot; Hart, Jeannette's Marcus Barnes and
