Tag: Burrell
Westmoreland high school notes: Local basketball teams set for holiday events
December 22, 2018
Christmas break means holiday basketball tournament time. Spectators will have several options on the local schedule this week. Most tournaments are round-robins, which means there is no championship and consolation, and will be played across Thursday and Friday. The Jeannette boys team is used to traveling over the break, but
Freeport’s Romanchak, Highlands’ Gillette named Valley News Dispatch Football Players of the Year
Offensive player of the year: Austin Romanchak QB/DB, Senior, 5-9, 160, Freeport Austin Romanchak didn't have a particular favorite college football player this fall, but a certain Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from Oklahoma caught his eye. andquot;I think he's a good example of what I was trying to be, at least,andquot;
Freeport girls top Burrell for 5th straight victory
December 20, 2018
After a loss in its season opener, the Freeport girls basketball team embarked on a winning streak that continued Thursday at Burrell. The Yellowjackets averaged 71 points over the first four games of the victory stretch. Freeport continued its early-season scoring success with 32 first-quarter points against the Bucs enA-K Valley high school basketball notebook: Teams prepare for meat of section schedules
The pre-Christmas portion of the WPIAL basketball season will wrap up this weekend, and teams will get a chance to do evaluations as they prepare for the meat of their schedules. To this point, team schedules mainly involved nonsection opponents, with one or two section games thrown in, providing coaches
A-K Valley wrestling notebook: 2-pound weight allowance set to take effect
December 19, 2018
Wrestlers and their coaches alike will get an additional present on Christmas, as the PIAA's two-pound weight allowance will go into effect that day. The rule allows wrestlers to compete at up to two pounds heavier than the listed weight class. For example, a wrestler weighing 115 pounds still can
Trib HSSN WPIAL wrestling rankings for week of Dec. 18, 2018
December 18, 2018
Trib HSSN WPIAL wrestling rankings Class AAA Team, record, previous 1. Kiski Area, 1-0, 1 2. Canon-McMillan, 1-0, 2 3. Hempfield, 6-0, 3 4. Seneca Valley, 1-0, 4 5. Waynesburg, 3-0, 5 6. Franklin Regional, 1-0, 6 7. Greensburg Salem, 1-0, 8 8. Thomas Jefferson, 6-0, 9 9. Norwin, 4-2,
5 WPIAL teams in this week’s Trib HSSN state wrestling rankings
Trib HSSN state wrestling rankings Class AAA Team (district), record, previous 1. Bethlehem Catholic (11), 2-0, 1 2. Kiski Area (7), 1-0, 3 3. Cedar Cliff (3), 6-0, 5 4. Canon-McMillan (7), 1-0, 6 5. Cathedral Prep (10), 4-1, 2 6. Bethlehem Liberty (11), 6-0, 7 7. Council Rock South
A-K Valley H.S. lookahead: Week of Dec. 17-23
December 17, 2018
Monday Girls basketball andamp;#8226; Plum and Franklin Regional battled for the last playoff spot from their section down to the final day of the 2017-18 regular season, with Plum securing it. They'll meet in a Section 2-5A game at Franklin Regional, with Plum seeking to shake off a slow start
A-K Valley bowling preview: Kiski Area boys hope to draw from experience
December 16, 2018
The postseason has a knack of exposing flaws. An up-and-coming Kiski Area boys bowling team confidently went into Lower Burrell's Wildlife Lanes last February for the 2018 Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League championships and experienced a first. With 20-plus lanes of high school bowlers competing for a championship, the sounds
PIHL Player of the Week: Montour’s Ritchy Froehlich Jr.
Oh Captain, My Captain. Whether it's a quote from the movie andquot;Dead Poet's Society,andquot; or describing the play of the captain of the highest-scoring team in the PIHL, the picture is the same. It's the senior captain of the Montour Spartans standing above the rest as the first Trib HSSN
