Chris Harlan stories, Page 118

Rankings Class 6A Rk, Team, W-L, Last 1. Seneca Valley, 4-0, 4 2. Hempfield, 4-0, 5 3. Central Catholic, 4-1, — 4. Bethel Park, 2-1, 3 5. Pine-Richland, 3-2, 2 Out: Canon-McMillan (2-2, 1) Class 5A 1. Mars, 4-0, 1 2. South Fayette, 1-0, 2 3. West Allegheny, 3-0, 3...

Former Elizabeth Forward basketball standout Tre Mitchell, who left the WPIAL for a prep school in Connecticut, committed to Massachusetts on Friday. Mitchell revealed his decision on Twitter. The 6-foot-9, 230-pound center transferred to Woodstock Academy in 2017 after playing two seasons at Elizabeth Forward. He quickly became that state’s...

March has brought more joy than madness for Moon’s Donovan Johnson and his family. Johnson won a state basketball title last Friday in Hershey, watched his brother play in the NCAA Tournament two days later in Columbus, and then on Monday the 6-foot-7 junior received a scholarship offer from Arizona....

Buffalo had two football players with Western Pennsylvania roots last season, but the Bulls coaches spent this week trying to boost that number. Seven WPIAL juniors announced scholarship offers from coach Lance Leipold’s staff in the past three days: Central Catholic’s A’meer and A’maar Allen, Gateway’s Tui Brown, McKeesport’s Daemontae...

Woodland Hills junior Joshua Rawlings quickly became one of the WPIAL’s hottest football recruits. The 6-foot-6, 235-pound tight end and defensive end added his third Big 10 offer Wednesday from Indiana. He now lists two dozen scholarships with nine arriving since Feb. 1. Minnesota and Rutgers each started recruiting him...

North Catholic’s Tess Myers, one of the WPIAL’s top juniors, added another Division I offer after leading her basketball team to the state finals. The 5-foot-10 guard announced an offer from Atlantic 10 member St. Joseph’s this week, raising her scholarship total to eight. Myers added three others just in...

Isiah Warfield didn’t fill out an NCAA tournament bracket but did urge others to pick against fifth-seeded Mississippi State in the first round. “I told them you’d better take Liberty,” said the Sewickley Academy junior, who watched the TV broadcast with excitement Friday as the No. 12 seed pulled off...

Bethel Park administrators talked with a handful of football coaches from outside the district, but decided that their best candidate already was on staff. The school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to promote assistant Brian DeLallo, 48, to head coach of the Black Hawks. He replaces longtime coach Jeff Metheny,...

HERSHEY — This wasn’t the first time Lincoln Park built a double-digit lead and then held its breath until the clock reached zeroes. But this time was for the state championship. “It’s always scary when we’re starting to give up a lead,” senior Casey Oliver said, “because we’ve done it...

PIAA Class 5A girls championship Chartiers Valley vs. Archbishop Carroll 6 p.m., Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Radio: WJPA-FM/TribLive HSSN Chartiers Valley (29-0) Coach: Tim McConnell No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 4, Megan McConnell, G, 5-7, Jr. 12, Mackenzie Wagner, G, 5-10, Sr. 23, Alexandra Ferrella, G, 5-6,...

PIAA Class 3A boys championship Lincoln Park vs. Trinity (Camp Hill) 2 p.m., Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Radio: WBVP-AM/TribLive HSSN Lincoln Park (26-4) Coach: Mike Bariski No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 0, Montae Reddix, F, 6-5, So. 1, Johnnie Bryant, G, 6-0, Jr. 5, Isaiah Smith, G,...

PIAA Class 4A girls championship North Catholic vs. Bethlehem Catholic Noon, Saturday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN North Catholic (26-3) Coach: Molly Rottmann No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 2, Emma Pospisil, G, 5-5, Jr. 3, Cassie Foster, G, 5-7, Jr. 21, Kylee Lewandowski, G, 6-1, Jr. 23, Tess Myers,...

Bentworth promoted assistant John “J.J.” Knabb to head football coach, said athletic director Brian Malecki. Knabb previously coached at South Park and Peters Township. He replaces Ron Skiles, who went 23-26 in five seasons with the Bearcats. The team went 5-5 overall last season, 4-3 in the Class A Tri-County...

PIAA Class 5A boys basketball championship Moon vs. Archbishop Wood 8 p.m., Friday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Radio: WBVP-AM/TribLive HSSN Moon (26-2) Coach: Adam Kaufman No., Name, Pos, Ht., Yr. 3, Jioni Smith, G, 6-2, Sr. 5, Donovan Johnson, F, 6-6, Jr. 10, Austin Ryan, G, 5-11, Sr....

PIAA Class 6A girls basketball championship Peters Township vs. Garnet Valley 6 p.m., Friday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Radio: WJPA-FM/TribLive HSSN Garnet Valley (29-1) Coach: Joseph Woods No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 1, Morgan Falcone, G, 5-6, Sr. 20, Emily McAteer, F, 6-0, Sr. 21, Madison McKee, F,...

Moon faced a crossroads after the WPIAL finals, a moment when its basketball season could have gone many different directions. The Tigers had just lost a 16-point second-half lead and the WPIAL Class 5A title, a devastating disappointment that saw them leave Petersen Events Center in tears. Was that too...

PIAA Class A boys championship Vincentian Academy vs. Sankofa Freedom Academy 2 p.m., Thursday at Giant Center, Hershey TV: PCN Vincentian Academy (20-8) Coach: Tim Tyree Jr. No., Name, Pos., Ht., Yr. 1, Nate Cullo, G, 5-8, Jr. 5, Alex Griggs, G, 6-0, So. 22, Matt McDonough, G, 5-10, Fr....

Lincoln Park’s Isaiah Smith launched a 3-pointer from deep in the left corner and then slapped the floor in celebration as his fourth-quarter shot squeezed through the rim. The Leopards hadn’t made a shot in more than 4 minutes and their 19-point lead was down to three. “I had to...