Don Rebel stories, Page 122

The few games that made up the first round of the 2021 PIAA boys basketball playoffs are complete, putting teams where they were last year when the state postseason was first suspended, then later canceled because of the global pandemic. So the district champion-only shorter version of the PIAA playoffs...

With the district playoffs in the rearview mirror and the state playoffs underway with select first-round games, it’s time to shuffle the deck before the PIAA quarterfinals. Or in this case, shuffle the top 5 in the HSSN boys basketball state rankings. With some teams losing in the district playoffs...

WPIAL championship game results forced a shuffling of the deck in the first post-district playoff edition of the Trib 10. Belle Vernon had been No. 1 on the boys side, but a semifinals loss dropped them out of the power rankings. Trinity has been on top of the girls since...

With the district basketball championships now history, our attention turns from the WPIAL postseason to the PIAA playoffs. The newly crowned 12 WPIAL boys and girls champs won’t enter the PIAA playoffs until the quarterfinals on Friday and Saturday. Meanwhile, the first-round state playoff games conclude Wednesday. Here are the...

With 11 of the 12 district playoffs complete, the attention turns to the champion-only PIAA state brackets. Select first-round games were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday with the quarterfinals taking place this weekend. Major changes to the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings took place in Class 3A and 2A...

With the WPIAL basketball championships in the books, the focus turns from the district postseason to the state playoffs. While the freshly golden minted 12 WPIAL boys and girls champs won’t enter the PIAA playoffs until the quarterfinals on Friday and Saturday this week, the state playoffs begin with first-round...

History was made when Our Lady of the Sacred Heart defeated Greensburg Central Catholic on Saturday to win the 2021 WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball championship with a perfect 21-0 record. The Chargers became one of the few WPIAL boys basketball teams in history to win a district crown with...

He plays basketball, not hockey, but Sheldon Cox scored a hat trick last week. The New Castle senior had another big game in leading the Red Hurricane to another WPIAL boys basketball championship. When Cox graduates from New Castle in a few months, he will take three gold medals from...

Rochester used big games from their top two scorers to roll to a third straight WPIAL Class A girls basketball championship with a 71-41 victory over West Greene Monday at Peters Township. Senior Alexis Robison scored a game-high 29 points while junior teammate Corynne Hauser added 23 points for Rochester....

A similar theme that many district basketball coaches have talked about recently is not of the disappointment of team goals not met, but the satisfaction of having a season in an effort to reach those goals. Count South Fayette boys basketball coach Dave Mislan among them. “I guess the best...

For the Bishop Canevin hockey team, curiosity about a picture hanging on a wall led to a heartwarming fundraiser and a great night of outdoor hockey. On Feb. 15, the Crusaders and Chartiers Valley skated to a 4-4 tie at the South Park outdoor rink. The game was played in...

WPIAL championship weekend concludes Monday on the Trib High School Sports Network. Eight teams have been crowned district champions through two days of title contests at North Allegheny and Peters Township high schools. Four more teams will earn district gold and a berth in the champions-only edition of the PIAA...

The latest PIHL standings through Sunday, March 14, 2021. The PIHL Penguins Cup playoffs are set to start April 5, and the Pa. Cup state championships are set for April 24. Team, Wins-Losses-Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA Canon-McMillan, 14-2-1 = 29 Pine-Richland, 13-4-0 = 26 Peters Township, 12-3-0...

In the fall, Paige Julian will head off to West Liberty to continue her basketball career. She will leave the Mohawk girls basketball program in a much better place than when she started as a freshman. The Warriors went from having won two playoffs games in the four years before...

After playing the role of the bridesmaid twice in the last three years, Beaver finally knows what it feels like to be the blushing bride. It feels perfect. The Bobcats captured their first WPIAL girls basketball championship by beating section rival Quaker Valley, 45-29, on Friday in the Class 4A...

The Madness comes to a close as the final gold of the district winter sports season is distributed this week on the Trib High School Sports Network. Four more WPIAL championship basketball games can be viewed Monday before coverage of the PIAA basketball playoffs begins over the weekend. HSSN’s coverage...

Ten WPIAL girls basketball teams were still alive through two rounds of the PIAA postseason last year when their title dreams, like the rest of the world, came to a sudden stop because of the covid-19 outbreak. The state basketball playoffs never resumed. Now six freshly minted WPIAL champions are...

A good piece of advice is to always finish what you start. That is what the PIAA hopes to do over the next couple of weeks after the 2020 state basketball playoffs were halted after two rounds because of the covid-19 pandemic. So the district champion-only shorter version of the...

Championship weekend continues with basketballs, wrestling mats and pompoms here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We continue our exclusive coverage of the 2021 WPIAL basketball finals with four more championship games at North Allegheny and Peters Township on Saturday evening. We also have the PIAA Class AAA wrestling...

Welcome to the start of championship weekend here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We cap off our coverage of the 2021 WPIAL basketball playoffs with the first of four championship games at North Allegheny and Peters Township on Friday evening. Here are some meat-free championship factoids for the...

Woodland Hills knew it needed to play a near-perfect game to have a chance in its WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball semifinal against top-seeded Trinity. Digging themselves a huge early hole was a trap these Wolverines could not escape. Senior Courtney Dahlquist scored a game-high 21 points, including 11 in...

Three nights of exciting semifinal playoff basketball come to a conclusion Thursday evening. The championship basketball field is finalized with eight more WPIAL final four games. The last evening of third-round hoops on Trib HSSN features semifinals games from boys 4A, boys 3A, girls 5A and girls A. Boys semifinals...

As the WPIAL playoffs are winding down, the top teams are proving they have the power. Through nearly three rounds of the lengthy district postseason, there have been more changes to the boys Trib 10 than to the girls power rankings. Pine-Richland, South Allegheny and Neshannock are in the rankings...

Most of the teams ranked in the latest Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings are living up to the classic rock anthem by Bachman-Turner Overdrive as they are “taking care of business” during the district playoffs. There is no tomorrow at this point. With only district champs qualifying for this...

The weight of the world is now off the shoulders of the Chartiers Valley boys basketball team. After losing in the WPIAL Class 5A semifinals the last two years to Mars, the Colts found out the the third time was a charm after beating the Fightin’ Planets, 63-55, Wednesday to...