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What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 15, 2021: Never too early for section showdowns
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...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Jan. 14, 2021: Class 3A showdown in boys basketball
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...
Trib HSSN state boys basketball rankings for Jan. 13, 2021
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...
Trib 10: Chartiers Valley sitting pretty in boys, girls power rankings
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....
No. 1 Upper St. Clair pulls off gritty win over Bethel ParkVideo
Defense not only wins championships, it never takes a night off. It’s too early for the first one, but Class 6A No. 1 Upper St. Clair remained unbeaten Tuesday thanks in large part to its defense. The Panthers shook off a rough night of shooting and came back to beat...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Jan. 13, 2021: Wrestling rivals collide
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...
North Allegheny track star Ayden Owens discusses decorated high school 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. So...
Trib HSSN state girls basketball rankings for Jan. 12, 2021
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,...
What to watch for in high school sports for Jan. 12, 2021: OLSH, Springdale square off
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,...
What to watch for in high school sports for Jan. 11, 2021: PIHL set to restart
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...
South Park’s Maura Huwalt 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...
Dozens of basketball broadcasts on tap this week on Trib HSSN
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...
Carlynton mat standout sets sights on 100th win, WPIAL title
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...
W2W4 in WPIAL sports for Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021
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...
Trib HSSN broadcast schedule for week of Jan. 8, 2021
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...
W2W4 in WPIAL sports for Friday, Jan. 8, 2021
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...
A.Q. Shipley discusses a high school career at Moon that led to a decade in the NFL
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...
Quaker Valley grad Tabitha Bemis discusses decorated high school 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. So...
Three-sport star Luke Hagy remembers decorated Mt. Lebanon 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. So...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Spring sports season shelved
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...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: New WPIAL executive director takes over
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...
2020’s parade of champions in WPIAL sports
Most parades draw large crowds that are entertained by the many bands and floats and other spectacles that march through a specific route, making for a fun and unique event. If you could use one word to describe the year 2020 that was suitable for the eyes of all family...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Chartiers Valley girls basketball proves unbeatable
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...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Mars soccer dominates the state
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...
Trib HSSN Top 20 Stories of 2020: Step up in class can’t slow Aliquippa
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...
