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Latrobe boys hoping for top seed when WPIAL releases basketball playoff pairings
February 11, 2019
Latrobe has been in a number of close games. Like, let's-take-this-and-run games. All the while, the Wildcats have spent the majority of the boys basketball regular season as the No. 1-ranked team in WPIAL Class 6A. They have not lost to a WPIAL team since last year's quarterfinals. They have
WPIAL committees to determine basketball, wrestling matchups Tuesday
If the WPIAL football playoff brackets unveil is like Christmas for high school fans, then the basketball tournament release is like Easter. Coaches, players, fans and the media's thoughts and guesses to what the district basketball brackets will look like will become reality Tuesday evening. The WPIAL will gather coaches
Coach-in-waiting Kim Niedbala resigns at West Allegheny
West Allegheny needs a football coach after all. Kim Niedbala, the West A assistant tabbed to replace Bob Palko, tendered his resignation Sunday citing andquot;a family decision.andquot; The school district had decided last February to make Niedbala the team's coach-in-waiting during this past season, Palko's last with the Indians. andquot;It's
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: West Allegheny’s Jackson Faulk
Jackson Faulk School: West Allegheny Class: Junior As a 5-foot-10 freshman two years ago, Jackson Faulk began his high school career through the struggles of a long season. West Allegheny finished the 2016-17 season in the basement of Section 2-5A with an overall record of 1-21. But things have been
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Winchester Thurston Bears
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week ended the regular season last week with three victories to extend its winning streak and finish in first place in Section 1-2A -- the Winchester Thurston Bears. The chase for the section crown was a hectic one with five teams separated by as
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of Feb. 10, 2019
The elite boys basketball teams across the commonwealth are finding their grove as the regular season flips to the postseason. There were only two big changes in this week's Trib HSSN state rankings, one at the top of Class 2A and two teams falling out of the weekly state poll.
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 10, 2019
February 10, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys Sunday's result Hoops for a Cure At New Castle New Castle 61, Beaver Falls 45 Monday's schedule Hoops for a Cure (at Pine-Richland) Lincoln Park vs. Erie, 6:30 p.m. Sewickley Academy at Pine-Richland, 8 p.m. WPIAL Nonsection Albert Gallatin at Connellsville, 7:30 p.m. Armstrong at Knoch,
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Jack Duggan, Sewickley Academy
Entering Sewickley Academy's game against Beaver last Monday, only one Panther had more than 10 goals this season. Thanks to a five-goal performance from senior forward Jack Duggan, that number is now two. Duggan's five-goal, two-assist performance in a 12-3 win not only was his best game of the season,
Highlands cheer team has perfect ending, wins national title
The Highlands competition cheer squad might have been singing the blues following a rough outing at January's WPIAL competitive spirit championships, but the Rams were rocking in Cleveland to close the month. The Rams put their WPIAL woes behind them, regrouped and traveled north to the banks of Lake Erie
A-K Valley lookahead for Week of Feb. 11, 2019
MONDAY Girls basketball: Deer Lakes and Freeport don't share the same section -- or even the same classification -- anymore, but will meet up in the first game of a girls-boys doubleheader at Deer Lakes. Both the host Lancers and visiting Yellowjackets qualified for the WPIAL playoffs, Deer Lakes in
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Pine-Richland Rams
A week after the team that took down Pine-Richland from the ranks of the unbeaten was selected as the TribLIVE High School Sports Network PIHL Team of the Week, the Rams responded to the shootout loss to Hampton by winning two games and being announced as Western Pennsylvania's representative in
Deer Lakes juniors Morrison, Loper start final kick to WPIAL swimming championships
Adam Morrison owns the top time in the WPIAL boys AA 500-yard freestyle this season with a time of 4 minutes, 51.93 seconds recorded at a meet with Shady Side Academy on Jan. 22. While the Deer Lakes junior is happy with his time, he said he can go faster,
Latrobe divers strong again entering WPIAL championship meet
Latrobe has another bumper crop of divers. Four Wildcats qualified for the WPIAL Class AAA championship meet Feb. 23, the same number as last season. Two rank among the league's best. Junior Jordyn Miller (264.40) and sophomore Lauren Bisignani (251.35) stood second and fourth in Class AAA girls 1-meter 6
Westmoreland lookahead for Week of Feb. 11, 2019
MONDAY Hockey: A pair of all-Westmoreland County matchups will have an impact on the PIHL Class AA Southeast playoff picture. Latrobe takes on Penn-Trafford at 7 p.m. at Center Ice Arena, and Hempfield battles Franklin Regional at 7:15 p.m. at Nevin Arena. Latrobe will have a home game when theHempfield rifle team has good shot at WPIALs
Hempfield's rifle team will shoot Tuesday for the opportunity to repeat as WPIAL champions. First-year coach Jason Wilkinson -- he was an assistant last season -- put his team's chances of winning another title into simple terms. andquot;If they perform to their ability, we will win WPIALs,andquot; he said. andquot;If
Pine-Richland remains atop Trib HSSN PIHL power rankings
Every Monday during the 2018-19 PIHL hockey season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the Week of Feb. 10. Overall record includes wins, losses, ties and overtime losses. PIHL TRIB 10 1. Pine-Richland Rams (16-0-0-1) (Last
WPIAL bracketology: Chris Harlan, Don Rebel predict girls basketball playoff pairings
The WPIAL basketball brackets will be released Tuesday and everybody has their two cents. Many will guess, taking stabs at what they think should be the matchups, before the district makes them official at 7 p.m. Well, the TribLive High School Sports Network is no different. Our two cents will
Broadcasts planned this week on Trib HSSN
Let the bracketology begin. The regular season is nearly done, the playoff fields are set and the high school basketball postseason is ready to roll along with the start of the district individual wrestling championships this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN begins exclusive coverage of
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: Montour’s Courtney Tomas
Courtney Tomas School: Montour Class: Senior An optimistic December, which began with two wins and concluded with a 4-4 overall record, gave way to a cold, long and nearly winless January and February as Montour finished in the basement of Section 1-5A. But while the losses kept piling up, so
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Brentwood Spartans
The Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week is one of the co-champions in Section 2-2A, the Brentwood Spartans. There are a few programs in the district where a section title is just something to routinely check off on a list of season goals. That's not the case with
