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Basketball, wrestling broadcasts on tap this week on Trib HSSN
Believe it or not, it’s time to conclude the month of January with lots of high school basketball and wrestling this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. There is plenty of video and audio coverage of WPIAL boys and girls high school high school basketball, along with boys...
What to watch in WPIAL sports Jan. 25, 2021: Unbeaten 6A girls basketball teams to square off
Since coming to North Allegheny six years ago, Spencer Stefko has turned the Tigers girls basketball program into the dominant force in Class 6A. They are the defending WPIAL champions and have won three of the last four district crowns. The only thing standing between them and a four-peat was...
PIHL standings through Jan. 24, 2021
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 state hockey championships are set for April 24. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss...
Chartiers Valley girls bask, just briefly, in state record winning streak
For months, weeks, even days leading up to Jan. 18, Chartiers Valley girls basketball coach Tim McConnell did not want to talk about or mention “the streak.” Then, once the longest winning streak in PIAA girls basketball history was owned by his Colts, he finally talked about it, but issued...
Carlynton boys basketball back on right track
After three sub-.500 seasons for the Carlynton boys basketball program, the 2019-2020 campaign put the Cougars back on the winning track. Carlynton finished 16-10 overall and reached the WPIAL quarterfinals and the second round of the PIAA postseason. “Last season was a big step for our program,” Carlynton coach Mike...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 23, 2021: Teams still getting set for openers
Through Friday, there were still eight WPIAL boys and girls basketball teams that had yet to play a game. Half of them are scheduled to tip off the 2021 season Saturday. Three of the four season openers involve girls teams. Ligonier Valley will make its much-anticipated girls basketball return to...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 22, 2021: Quips, Chargers collide
While there are plenty of section games on the WPIAL boys basketball schedule Friday, one of the top matchups is a nonsection battle of undefeated teams when Aliquippa visits Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. The Quips are ranked No. 2 in Class 3A and are off to a 4-0...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 21, 2021: Battle of unbeatens in Class 5A
Two WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball teams that finished a combined 22-21 a year ago are off to perfect starts this season. It’s a small sample size, but Armstrong and Connellsville are now a combined 5-0 and tied for first place in their respective sections. Both will be tested on...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for Jan. 20, 2021
The song remains the same for the most part in this week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings. There are two more weeks before most teams in District 12 begin their brief regular season. Thus the nine teams in the latest rankings remain unchanged. Those teams that are playing in...
Trib 10: New Castle makes big jump in boys basketball power ratings
There was plenty of shuffling going on in this week’s Trib HSSN boys and girls basketball power rankings. However, only two teams slipped out of the Trib 10. The boys rankings were rocked by a hurricane, a Red Hurricane that is. After crushing previously undefeated Chartiers Valley on the road,...
Trib HSSN state girls basketball rankings for Jan. 19, 2021
With a lot more girls basketball action across Pennsylvania, there is a lot more movement in the weekly HSSN state rankings. Five teams debuted in the Top 5 this week, meaning five teams lost their spot among the elite 30 in the PIAA, at least for now. Class 5A was...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 19, 2021: Chartiers Valley, New Castle square off
There have been 10 possible play dates in the 2020-2021 WPIAL boys basketball season, and the number of teams without a loss keeps dwindling. There are 12 district teams that have at least played three games and have yet to lose. Most of those winning dozen are in action Tuesday...
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week for Jan. 18, 2021
At Thomas Jefferson, football is king. It is also the prince, duke, count and baron in Jaguars country. However, now starting his 16th season as TJ boys basketball coach, Dom DeCicco has learned to feed off the success of the football team instead of competing against it. “I think people...
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week for Jan. 18, 2021
When the governor shut down winter high school sports for three weeks with no activities allowed, coaches around the area and across the state were worried about the shape and skill set of their players with everybody on their own. There was no sign of rust for one district boys...
Terrelle Pryor takes a look back at decorated Jeannette career
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. Join...
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week for week ending Jan. 17, 2021
The Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils were the queens of Class AAAA girls basketball when they captured three straight PIAA championship in 2009, ‘10 and ‘11. They have a lot of basketball left this season before they can be sized for a crown, but this group of Blue Devils is off...
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for week ending Jan. 17, 2021
Three times this century, the Burgettstown girls basketball program began the season with a 3-0 record. That happened in back-to-back years in 2014-15 and again in 2015-16. Both of those times the Blue Devils missed the playoffs. It happened again last season, and Burgettstown made the playoffs only to lose...
What to watch in WPIAL sports Jan. 18, 2021: Chartiers Valley girls chasing history
History could be made Monday night as the Chartiers Valley girls basketball team tries to set the PIAA record for most consecutive victories. But it won’t be easy. The Colts are 3-0 in Section 1-5A, 5-0 overall as they prepare to host a South Fayette team that is 1-0 in...
Winter sports season heats up this week on Trib HSSN
The TribLive High School Sports Network will spend the second half of January on the basketball court, the ice, the mats and the pool. Trib HSSN has plenty of video and audio coverage of WPIAL boys and girls high school basketball, along with some roundball action from Districts 6 and...
Hopewell’s Shatori Walker-Kimbrough featured in Trib HSSN Best of the Century podcast series
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...
PIHL standings through Jan. 17, 2021
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 =...
Senior forward confident South Fayette hockey can heat up after slow start
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...
Savanah Abbott leads Bishop Canevin girls basketball into new era
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 16, 2021: North Allegheny hosts MLK showcase
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...
Dominant as ever, Lincoln Park beats Montour in 1st section game in 4A
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,...
