Sports
Shady Side Academy swimmers eye success at WPIAL championships
February 22, 2025
Shady Side Academy swim coach Erika Cooper was very pleased with how her swimmers performed during the regular season.
Herald notebook: Fox Chapel to be well-represented at WPIAL swim championships
A large contingent of Fox Chapel swimmers will be competing at the WPIAL Class 3A swimming championships Thursday and Friday (Feb. 27-28) at Pitt’s Trees Pool.
Postseason grind tests mettle of Fox Chapel wrestlers
The path to qualifying for the PIAA Class 3A wrestling championships has an extra step to the process this season. For the first time in the larger classification, wrestlers must qualify for a regional instead of going straight from the WPIAL tournament to states.
Fox Chapel girls set new standards during playoff season
The Fox Chapel girls basketball team made its return to the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs after a three-year absence. The Foxes weren’t able to upend potential title hopeful Peters Township, but Fox Chapel coach Marty Matvey was happy with the progress.
Balanced Bethel Park lineup filled with 20-win wrestlers
Eight athletes assumed leading roles in the Bethel Park wrestling program this season.
100th win highlights season for Bethel Park wrestler Ethan Higgins
Career win No. 100 arrived as expected for Bethel Park’s talented senior wrestler Ethan Higgins.
Hard-working Bethel Park girls rewarded with playoff success
Bethel Park’s girls basketball team prepped for a possible playoff run in 2024-25 by playing an onerous regular-season schedule.
Bethel Park boys basketball season marked by close losses, development
One of the highlights of the 2024-25 season for the Bethel Park boys basketball team was a two-game sweep of Thomas Jefferson in section play.
Offensively gifted Chartiers Valley leans on defense in WPIAL 5A quarterfinal victory over Moon
Chartiers Valley has a talented 2,000-point scorer in Jayden Davis, and the Colts have often shown a knack for beating teams on the offensive end of the floor.
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 21, 2025
High schools
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 22, 2025: Big-time scorers collide in Class 4A semifinals
The first of three days of WPIAL basketball semifinal action takes place Saturday with boys Class 4A and A and girls Class 5A and 3A taking center stage.
Bishop Canevin outduels Keystone Oaks in back-and-forth battle of section foes
In a wild game of back-and-forth runs, the third meeting between Section 2-3A foes Bishop Canevin and Keystone Oaks was the most exciting of the three.
No. 10 Mars gets past No. 15 Penn-Trafford in Class 5A Cinderella showdown
February 21, 2025
When the Mars and Penn-Trafford boys basketball teams met Friday in a WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal at Fox Chapel, a double-digit seed was guaranteed to punch its ticket to the final four.
Burrell leads way with 5 in semifinals at Class 2A WPIAL wrestling
Burrell led the way with five wrestlers in the semifinals at the WPIAL Class 2A wrestling tournament Friday at Chartiers Valley.
High school roundup for Feb. 21, 2025: Peters Township beats Uniontown for another Class 5A upset
Jake Wetzel scored 18 points as No. 6 Peters Township kept the upsets coming in the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball bracket Friday night with a 56-52 quarterfinal win over No. 3 Uniontown.
No. 1 Montour scrapes past ninth-seeded Latrobe in Class 5A quarterfinals
In what was a tightly contested matchup between top-seeded Montour and No. 9 Latrobe on Friday night, both coaches admitted their teams didn’t execute as well as they had hoped.
Bella Furno’s hot shooting leads Norwin girls past North Allegheny in Class 6A quarterfinals
She might have been ill, but Bella Furno didn’t show it.
Mohawk jumps out fast, defeats undermanned Southmoreland in boys 3A quarterfinals
Mohawk boys basketball junior guard Bobby Fadden sat back and waited for Vinny Pezzuolo, Blake Logan and Joey Nail to cause chaos. The Warriors wanted to make life difficult on an undermanned Southmoreland squad during a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal Friday night at North Catholic High School.
FR’s Titus Colangelo pulls off upset, Kiski Area’s Mark Gray hits milestone at WPIAL Class 3A wrestling
Even though he hadn’t beaten Norwin freshman Coleton Klipa in five tries this season, Franklin Regional sophomore Titus Colangelo did not consider the victory over his section rival in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals Friday an upset.
Jackson Hagler leads strong contingent of Fox Chapel divers at WPIAL championships
Jackson Hagler dove at WPIALs as a freshman, placed sixth overall and qualified for the PIAA championships at Bucknell University.
