Don Rebel stories, Page 129

Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday. The PIHL has announced that games for Wheeling Park and Wheeling Central Catholic have been postponed until March 1. Also the Pennsylvania Cup hockey championships are set for April 24. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss =...

The 2020 portion of this high school hockey season was not kind to South Fayette. A finalist in the PIHL Class A Penguins Cup playoffs two years ago, the Lions struggled out of the gate this season in Class AA with a 1-3-2 record before the season was paused due...

Two program icons that helped Bishop Canevin win the WPIAL Class 2A championship last year, as well as titles in their freshman and sophomore seasons in 2017 and 2018, are playing college ball now. Alyssa Pollice and Diajha Allen left their golden mark on a Crusaders program that has won...

A tradition that was started by Woodland Hills officials a few years ago will continue this weekend at North Allegheny. The Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Showcase features plenty of action on both Saturday and Sunday showcasing teams from in and out of the state of Pennsylvania. The boys lineup...

Lincoln Park entered the WPIAL in the 2007-2008 season and has been a dominant force in boys basketball since Day 1. In their early years, they played in Class A based on enrollment. They moved up in the last decade to Class 2A and then to Class 3A. On Friday,...

It is still early in WPIAL boys basketball, but already a logjam is forming in Section 3-5A. After a week of section action, only one game separates the top six teams in the seven-team section. All six of those teams go head-to-head on Friday, games that will either force some...

While Thursday is a busy night of girls basketball around the WPIAL, there are only two district boys basketball games scheduled. However, one of them is a nonsection showdown of ranked teams in Class 3A as Washington visits South Allegheny in a game you can hear on Trib HSSN at...

While basketball is back for most boys basketball teams around the WPIAL, that is not the case around the PIAA. Thus, the Trib HSSN boys state basketball rankings are moving, and will continue to move, like sand in the hourglass. There are nine teams from District 12 among the top...

The slow progression of the 2020-2021 boys and girls basketball season continues around the WPIAL as some teams try to stay on schedule while others are still trying to tip off. There was some moving up and down of teams on both sides of the weekly Trib HSSN power rankings....

Last year, they met in the regular season and again in the team sectionals. On Wednesday, the Washington County rivals square off for the first, but possibly not the last time on a busy night of WPIAL wrestling. After winning their regular season match, Canon-McMillan beat Trinity again in the...

In May and June, the TribLive High School Sports Network held a fan vote to determine the Best of the Century among the district’s top male and female athletes. We also had a chance to visit with some of the participants — interviews that have yet to be seen. So...

Now that the four-week stoppage in winter sports has been lifted by the governor, teams around the commonwealth are slowly getting back to game action. There are still plenty of teams in the latest Trib HSSN PIAA girls basketball state rankings that have yet to tip off their season. Thus,...

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Springdale were on a collision course for a semifinals showdown in last year’s WPIAL Class 2A boys basketball playoffs. Only problem is the Section 1 co-champion and No. 4 seed Dynamos were stunned by section foe and No. 12 seed Winchester Thurston, 57-54,...

While most basketball teams in the WPIAL returned to the court this past Friday and Saturday, the restart of the high school hockey season begins Monday. Following a four-plus week shutdown of high school hockey, the 2020-21 PIHL season continues with a busy night on the ice with 15 scheduled...

Through the end of 2020 and the start of 2021, the Rebel Yell podcast will feature chats with some of the top WPIAL athletes from the first 20 years of this century. In May and June, the TribLive High School Sports Network held a fan vote bracket to determine the...

Although the schedule can change at any moment, the TribLive High School Sports Network has lined up plenty of action on the hardwood, mats and ice in the first full week of winter sports. There will be lots of video and audio coverage of WPIAL boys and girls high school...

In his native Ukraine, where he was born and lived his first 10 years, Oleg Melnyk claims his first name is very common. Now he’s trying to make a name for himself around the WPIAL and the state. The Carlynton senior has risen in weight class as he has improved...

There is always something going on at North Allegheny High School, but Saturday will be a long and busy day of activities at the gym in McCandless. The mats will be out in the morning and afternoon hours as the school hosts the first of two North Allegheny individual wrestling...

After one night of action and a four-week pause, the winter scholastic sports season resumes Friday and Saturday with roundball and wrestling here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We open up the 2021 year with seven WPIAL boys and girls high school high school basketball games on Friday...

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends … but was on hiatus for nearly a month. Four weeks ago, the 2020-2021 winter sports season began on district basketball courts and wrestling mats. However, when the clock struck midnight on the night of Dec. 11, a mandated shutdown...

In May and June, the TribLive High School Sports Network held a fan vote to determine the Best of the Century among the district’s top male and female athletes. We also had a chance to visit with some of the participants — interviews that have yet to be seen. So...

In May and June, the TribLive High School Sports Network held a fan vote to determine the Best of the Century among the district’s top male and female athletes. We also had a chance to visit with some of the participants — interviews that have yet to be seen. So...

In May and June, the TribLive High School Sports Network held a fan vote to determine the Best of the Century among the district’s top male and female athletes. We also had a chance to visit with some of the participants — interviews that have yet to be seen. So...

The most unique year in our lifetime is coming to an end. With so many mass starts and stops, highs and lows, just about all walks of life were affected by the coronavirus in 2020. High school sports were no different. The first two and a half months of the...