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What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 27, 2022: North Allegheny, Norwin meet again
Traditional girls Class 6A powers prepare to battle one more time in the regular season Thursday when first-place North Allegheny visits second-place Norwin in a Section 1-6A showdown. The Tigers are perfect this season. NA is 9-0 in the section and 15-0 overall. The host Knights are 8-1 in the...
Trib 10: One unlucky team falls from WPIAL basketball power rankings
As the region dealt with snowy weather and cold temperatures this past week, the top boys and girls basketball teams in the district were able to avoid any stormy results. No stunners were felt by the Trib 10 teams, with the few losses suffered mostly coming to fellow power-ranked teams....
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 26, 2022: Section titles to be decided on mats
The stage will be set for the upcoming district team wrestling playoffs with WPIAL team sectionals Wednesday. Seven sites will host four teams each with two semifinals matches at 6 p.m. followed by the sectional title match and the battle for third place. These results will help the WPIAL steering...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball State Rankings for Jan. 26, 2022
There was only one team that slipped out of the Trib HSSN state Top 5 from last week as the elite teams across Pa. weathered the storms and took care of business. The only change was in Class 3A, where defending champion West Catholic dropped and was replace by undefeated...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball State Rankings for Jan. 26, 2022
With less than a month before district playoffs begin, the teams in the weekly Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings are fine-tuning their game. It was another week of very little movement with only two teams falling out of the Top 5, one in Class 4A, the other in A....
WPIAL boys basketball playoff clinchings for Jan. 25, 2022
We have less than three weeks remaining in section play in the WPIAL boys basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning your ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no “open tournament” and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center...
Chartiers Valley scores comeback win over Baldwin
The Chartiers Valley boys basketball team’s nonsection game Tuesday at Baldwin was a lot like its season: a mistake-prone slow start followed by a slow comeback trot and then an all-out gallop to the finish line for the victory. The Colts fell behind early on the road but chipped away...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 25, 2022: Top 4 teams square off in Section 4-5A
Mars is the only boys basketball team in Section 4-5A to have already clinched a WPIAL playoff berth, but it might be only a matter of time before Highlands, Shaler and Hampton soon follow. Those top four teams in Section 4 have built a 2½-game gap between themselves and the...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for Jan. 24, 2022
Adou Thiero is in his fourth season playing a key role for a Quaker Valley boys basketball team that is undefeated this season and has come so close to WPIAL gold in his first few high school years. But to be Frank, Thiero isn’t alone in being driven this season...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week for Jan. 24, 2022
Jeff Ackermann knows a thing or two about winning basketball. He led Moon to three straight WPIAL boys basketball championships from 2004-2006. He then took over the Pine-Richland program and led the Rams to back-to-back district gold in 2016-2017. Now he is in his second season at Baldwin. After the...
WPIAL girls basketball playoff clinchings as of Jan. 24, 2022
We have less than three weeks remaining in section play in the WPIAL girls basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no “open tournament” and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center,...
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for week ending Jan. 23, 2022
When Dave Sarra, the former football and boys basketball coach at Waynesburg Central, took over as the girls basketball coach four years ago, he began the process of improving a program that finished the 2017 season with a record of 1-21. Last year, the team finished with a winning record...
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week for week ending Jan. 23, 2022
The saying at Thomas Jefferson High School is “Tradition never graduates.” Star players do, though. Jaguars senior Graci Fairman is one of the leading scorers in the district, averaging more than 21 points per game. The girls basketball coach is Lisa Fairman, Graci’s Mom. It has been another successful season...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 24, 2022: OLSH, Neshannock look for milestone wins
Monday could be a historic day around WPIAL basketball with two possible landmark victories. First, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is one win away from tying the WPIAL record for consecutive victories in boys basketball. The Chargers have won 51 straight games since losing to Aliquippa, 73-69, on Jan....
This week on TribLive High School Sports Network: Week of Jan. 24, 2022
There is a big-time chill in the air as winter high school sports action heats up in the final week of January. We have video and audio coverage of nearly 60 high school boys and girls basketball games from the WPIAL, along with games from District 6 and District 9....
WPIAL boys, girls basketball playoff clinchings through Jan. 23, 2022
There are three weeks left in the regular season for WPIAL basketball teams. The open district tournament from a year ago is a thing of the past. The WPIAL playoffs will once again be made up of teams that have earned a spot in the postseason brackets. The top four...
2021-22 PIHL standings through Jan. 23, 2022
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Jan. 23. Eight teams in each classification qualify for the PIHL playoffs. *- indicates clinched a playoff spot x- indicates eliminated from playoff chase #-Indicated ineligible for Penguins Cup Playoffs Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss =...
Pitt recruit Aislin Malcolm finds ways to stand out in star-studded Chartiers Valley lineup
They are the Fab Five of WPIAL girls basketball. Chartiers Valley has three Division I and two Division II players in its starting lineup who have been together and winning championships their entire scholastic careers. Aislin Malcolm is heading to Pitt, Perri Page to Columbia, Marian Turnbull to Northeastern and...
Chartiers Valley football expects challenging schedule after realignment
Now that the WPIAL has the conference alignments for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, teams can start preparing for familiar faces and new foes in the fall. That will be the case for Chartiers Valley. The Colts will return to the Class 4A Parkway Conference with familiar opponents from the...
What to watch in WPIAL sports on Jan. 22, 2022: Section showdown in girls hoops
While Saturday will be busy with one-day high school events (see below), there is one big section matinee contest set in district girls hoops. Two of the top three teams in Section 3-4A collide when Belle Vernon visits Elizabeth Forward at 12:30 p.m. The Leopards lead the section with a...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 21, 2022: Heavyweight rematch in 4A basketball
What better way to begin the second half of section play in WPIAL boys basketball than with two of the top three teams in Class 4A clashing for a second time this season? The showdown for first place in Section 2-4A takes place in Midland as No. 3 Lincoln Park...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 20, 2022: 2nd half of girls hoops season begins
The second half of section play in WPIAL girls basketball begins with a busy Thursday around the district. One of the great races shaping up for the final three weeks is in Section 2-5A. The top four teams are separated by only one game. Mars is 5-1 in section play,...
Trib 10: List of undefeated teams getting shorter in WPIAL basketball
As we hit the midway point of section play in WPIAL basketball, there are fewer and fewer perfect teams in the district. There are six boys and six girls teams that are undefeated in mid-January. While those dozen district teams hit the hardwood with big bull’s-eyes each week, so do...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 19, 2022: Hall of Fame class to be unveiled
It is the highest honor an athlete, a coach or a team can achieve: being elected to a Hall of Fame. That honor will come to several folks Wednesday when District 7 officials announce the inductees into the WPIAL Hall of Fame, Class of 2022. The WPIAL will unveil the...
Upper St. Clair’s Tanner O’Grady shoots down Mt. Lebanon with buzzer-beater
Following the winter storm on Sunday, snowmen made appearances on many landscapes throughout the district. On Tuesday, it was time for the iceman to reappear. Upper St. Clair senior Tanner O’Grady hit his second buzzer-beating shot of the season, this time breaking a tie as time expired as USC defeated...
