Tag: Plum

Fox Chapel’s Sophie Shao competes in the girls 100 butterfly during the 2020 AAA WPIAL Swimming and Diving Championship at Trees Pool on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.

Fox Chapel freshman brings home WPIAL swimming gold

February 27, 2020

Sophie Shao was full of energy and smiling from ear to ear when she came off the podium after receiving her gold medal in the WPIAL Class AAA girls 100-yard butterfly Thursday at Pitt’s Trees Pool.

Plum’s Shannon Small is a member of the 2019-20 bowling team.

A-K Valley high school athletes of the week: Shannon Small and Korry Myers

February 25, 2020

Shannon Small

Plum’s Chloe Fabio (32) tips the ball away from Gateway’s Marina Grado (23) Jan. 13, 2020 at Gateway High.

Plum girls learn from playoff loss to Penn Hills

February 21, 2020

With 2 minutes, 4 seconds left in the third quarter of its WPIAL Class 5A first-round game against Penn Hills at Fox Chapel, the Plum girls basketball team held a four-point lead and hoped to expand it toward the program’s first playoff victory since 2002.

Plum’s Shannon Small won the WPIBL girls singles title Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.

Plum’s Small comes up big at WPIBL championships

February 20, 2020

All season long, it looked like Plum senior Shannon Small was the best girls bowler in the WPIBL. She had the top average in the league at 223.23 and rolled the highest game with a 299.

Amoni Blackwell led Penn Hills with 15 points Tuesday night. Penn Hills’ Amoni Blackwell competes during practice for the 2019-2020 season Nov. 21, 2019.

Penn Hills girls pull away from Plum late to advance in Class 5A playoffs

February 18, 2020

The Penn Hills and Plum girls basketball teams, longstanding section rivals in the old Class AAAA, hadn’t played in more than four years until the WPIAL brought them together Tuesday for a Class 5A first-round game at Fox Chapel.

Plum’s Vince Citrano wrestles Moon’s Tyler Diggins at the 2020 Allegheny County Tournament at Fox Chapel High School on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020.

Plum wrestler Vince Citrano a man on a mission in Class AAA postseason

Plum sophomore Vince Citrano has been a man on a mission all season long.

Kiski Area’s Jack Blumer wrestles South Fayette’s Praicen Long in the 160 weight class Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 in WPIAL wrestling at Hempfield Area High School.

A-K Valley wrestling notebook: Seven wrestlers earn top seeds for sectionals tournament

WPIAL Class AAA wrestlers will compete in their section tournaments Saturday, and seven from the Alle-Kiski Valley were seeded first in their respective weight class.

WPIAL boys 6A, girls 5A and A headline Day 4 of first-round basketball

February 17, 2020

Last year, Peters Township knocked off Penn-Trafford in a Class 6A boys basketball first-round playoff game before losing an upset bid to Pine-Richland in heartbreaking fashion at the buzzer, 66-64, in the district quarterfinals.