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Brentwood girls capture 1st section title since ’94
February 4, 2019
The drought is over. For the first time since 1994, a span covering 25 years, Brentwood has won a section championship in girls basketball. The Spartans defeated Ellis School, 43-37, in a tough, grind-it-out battle Monday night to clinch at least a tie for first with Serra Catholic in Section
Fox Chapel boys basketball starting to hit stride as postseason nears
The early portion of Fox Chapel's season resembled a chemistry experiment: take two starters who missed the previous season with injury, mix them with a freshman point guard and throw in more key players fitting into new roles. As with any experiment, the Foxes had some spills. But nothing blew
Oakland Catholic, Penn Hills girls to meet for Section 3-5A championship
It's the final Tuesday of the high school basketball regular season, and there are plenty of key WPIAL boys basketball games on the schedule. One of the better games on the slate though is a girls basketball showdown with a section championship up for grabs. Oakland Catholic sits atop Section
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Shaler Area’s Mekhi Reynolds
Mekhi Reynolds School: Shaler Area Class: Junior They haven't made the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs since 2012. In the six years since, their combined overall record is 49-86. But those recent struggles are becoming a distant memory for Shaler Titans fans. Thanks to a pair of section victories last week,
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Chartiers Valley Colts
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week pulled off a big win last week and is in second place in Section 2-5A -- the Chartiers Valley Colts. Chartiers Valley boys basketball and the postseason went hand-in-hand for decades. Tim McConnell led the Colts into the playoffs in each of his
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of Feb. 4, 2019
Only two teams fell out of the state rankings in another clean week for most of the top programs, however a second WPIAL team moved to the pole position heading down the stretch run of the regular season. Following an 0-2 week for Mastery Charter North, Mars leap frogged the
Uniontown boys basketball adds to WPIAL record with 48th section title
Thanks to an impressive 10-game winning streak, Uniontown (14-3, 8-0) has soared to the top of the Section 3-4A boys basketball standings and clinched the section title. The Red Raiders have won a WPIAL-record 48 section championships in boys basketball. andquot;We felt we could be pretty good and fight for
Southmoreland boys basketball ready for busy week
Some teams prefer to stroll into the WPIAL basketball playoffs. Southmoreland's boys team hopes to go in with a full charge. The Scotties are in the midst of a hectic final week of the regular season with four games in five days. It's not like they are casual postseason tune-ups,
Penn Hills celebrates PIAA football title in Harrisburg
Two months after winning a state football title, the Penn Hills football team returned Monday to central Pennsylvania to celebrate. State sen. Jay Costa, State rep. Tony DeLuca and Governor Tom Wolf welcomed football coach Jon LeDonne and his team at the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg. Penn Hills won
TribLive HSSN will live video stream WPIAL basketball, swimming, wrestling championships
The TribLive High School Sports Network will stream live video of the WPIAL boys and girls basketball championships this winter, as well as the WPIAL swimming championships and the WPIAL Class 2A individual wrestling finals. The WPIAL announced the partnership Monday. As part of the deal, PCN will televise tape-delayed
WPIAL basketball playoff push among Monday’s 3 things to watch in HS sports
The pairings meeting for the WPIAL basketball playoffs is exactly one week away and a number of postseason spots remain up for grabs. There are at least 15 playoff berths unclaimed in the boys brackets and 18 for the girls brackets. There's a full slate of girls games Monday night
There’s nothing stopping Deer Lakes hockey standout Miller
February 3, 2019
Shane Miller's favorite hockey player is Penguins forward Patric Hornqvist, a player known for his energy and being a pest in the crease. andquot;I like how he grinds in front of the net and uses his physicality,andquot; Miller said. andquot;He's an awesome player to watch.andquot; Miller is a little smaller
A-K Valley lookahead for Week of Feb. 4, 2019
MONDAY Girls basketball: The Section 1-4A playoff race is muddied, with Apollo-Ridge (14-5, 6-5) and Knoch (8-10, 6-5) holding on to the last two spots and Greensburg Salem (10-9, 6-5) right behind. Apollo-Ridge visits Highlands (2-16, 0-12), Knoch visits Freeport (14-3, 6-5) and Greensburg Salem hosts Indiana (7-13, 5-7). Leechburg
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Peters Township
Our team of the week is one of only two remaining WPIAL unbeatens: Section 2-6A leading Peters Township. While many teams struggled to get two games in because of the frigid temperatures and school closings, Peters Township played three and played them perfectly. Bert Kendall, a former assistant under Jonna
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Upper St. Clair’s Devin Rohrich
This past week, the new TribLIVE High School Sports Network PIHL Player of the Week scored 10 points. He scored two goals and two assists in Upper St. Clair's 9-5 win Monday over Hempfield. He then assisted on five goals while scoring another Thursday in a victory over Armstrong. With
TribHSSN state girls basketball rankings for Week of Feb. 3, 2019
The 30 teams in the Trib HSSN girls' basketball state rankings remain the same from a week ago. That doesn't mean there weren't changes. There was some shuffling at the top in three of the six classifications. In Class 6A, undefeated Peters Township took the top spot from North Allegheny
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Hampton Talbots
Three unbeaten teams entered this past week's action in the PIHL. One survived: Division II's Burrell. The other, Montour, from Class A, fell to Meadville on Monday. This week's TribLIVE High School Sports Network PIHL Team of the Week knocked off the previously-unbeaten, and top-ranked Pine-Richland Rams Monday night, to
WPIAL football champions Pine-Richland, Penn Hills schedule Week Zero game
The reigning WPIAL Class 6A and 5A football championships will meet head to head next fall. Pine-Richland will host Penn Hills in a Week Zero matchup Aug. 23, the schools announced Sunday on Twitter. Pine-Richland won the WPIAL Class 6A title last season while Penn Hills won WPIAL and PIAA
High school schedules for Feb. 4, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys Monday's schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Latrobe at Norwin, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Section 3 Mars at Plum, 7:30 p.m. Class 4A Section 1 Derry at Knoch, 7:30 p.m. Class 3A Section 2 Fort Cherry at Seton Lasalle, 6 p.m. Section 3 Deer Lakes at
TribHSSN girls basketball player of the week: Bri Spirnak of Elizabeth Forward
Bri Spirnak School: Elizabeth Forward Class: Senior In the fall, it's volleyball. In the spring, it's track. And in the winter, it's basketball. Whatever the season, Bri Spirnak of Elizabeth Forward is playing and playing at a high level. Her standout play last week is a big reason the Warriors
