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WPIAL girls basketball champions set for PIAA quarterfinal matchups
Ten WPIAL girls basketball teams were still alive through two rounds of the PIAA postseason last year when the state postseason came to a halt. Now, six District 7 champions are set for the winners-only version of the PIAA playoffs. All of the WPIAL champions received a first-round bye and...
Matchups set for PIAA boys basketball quarterfinals
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...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball State Rankings for March 17, 2021
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...
Trib 10: WPIAL finals shuffle up power rankings
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 16, 2021: WPIAL champs learn who they’ll play
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...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball State Rankings for March 16, 2021
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for March 16, 2021: State playoffs tip off
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...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week for March 15, 2021
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...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for March 15, 2021
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 tops West Greene in WPIAL finals for 3rd straight year
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....
South Fayette boys take pride in navigating challenging season
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...
Hockey rivals Bishop Canevin, Chartiers Valley unite for special cause
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...
Trib HSSN What to Watch for: Monday, March 15, 2021
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...
PHIL standings: Week of March 15, 2021
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...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week for week ending March 14, 2021
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...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week for week ending March 14, 2021
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...
Trib High School Sports Network broadcasts: Week of March 15, 2021
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...
PIAA girls basketball tournament pairings update
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...
PIAA boys basketball tournament pairings update
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 13, 2021: Hardwood heavyweights collide
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 12, 2021: Championship weekend tips off
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...
Courtney Dahlquist pushes top-seeded Trinity past Woodland Hills, back to title game
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for March 11, 2021: Sparks will fly in Class 4A final four
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...
Trib 10: Boys power rankings shaken up as WPIAL finals approach
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...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for March 10, 2021
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...
