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Trib HSSN 2020-21 WPIAL Class 6A boys basketball preseason breakdown
This will surely be a boys basketball season like no other. WPIAL teams are set to tip off Friday and embark on a masked journey through a schedule likely to change many times as the year progresses. Teams all have hopes of hoisting a WPIAL championship trophy in March, much...
Pine-Richland’s Cole Spencer earns Trib HSSN Football Player of the Year honors
Following in the footsteps of one of the best quarterbacks the WPIAL has produced, Cole Spencer didn’t blink. Spencer passed Phil Jurkovec for most wins at Pine-Richland and now has matched the current Boston College signal caller in leading the Rams to WPIAL and PIAA football championships. “Cole Spencer is...
Head of the Class: Trib HSSN Football Player, Coach of the Year for each classification
Back in the day, when a student did well in the classroom, they were sometimes moved to the front of the class. Well this is the Trib HSSN version of that. Yes, consider this a virtual classroom. There were plenty of players and coaches who stood out for their performances...
Trib 10: WPIAL football teams had record-tying weekend in Hershey
For the fifth time in the 33-year history of the PIAA playoffs, three WPIAL football champions returned home from the central part of the state with PIAA gold. It is tied for the most PIAA championships won in a year by WPIAL teams. Pine-Richland in Class 5A, Thomas Jefferson in...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Dec. 1, 2020
The 2020 high school football campaign is complete, and it goes in the record books as a season like no other. Right when most teams would be preparing for a Week Zero contest in late August, there were major concerns that there would not even be high school football this...
Trib HSSN Football Team of the Week: Central Valley
Mark Lyons had been to the top of the WPIAL mountain top four times, including each of the last two years. But as time expired in the 2020 PIAA Class 3A championship game, the only coach in the 11-year history of Central Valley football felt something completely different. “You’re in...
PIHL standings through Nov. 29, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Nov. 29. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA North Allegheny, 3-1-0 = 6 Peters Township, 3-1-0 = 6 Mt. Lebanon, 2-1-0 = 4 Pine-Richland, 2-1-0 = 4 Seneca Valley, 2-1-0 = 4...
Trib HSSN Player of the Week: Eli Jochem, Pine-RichlandVideo
Pine-Richland has had great contributions from many players in finishing 11-0 and capturing district and state championships for the second time in school history. When it came to the Rams’ high-powered passing attack, they had a dynamic duo. If last week’s HSSN Player of the Week, senior quarterback Cole Spencer...
AD proud of Carlynton’s efforts to complete successful, safe fall sports season
Nathan Milsom has climbed the ladder at Carlynton as he prepares for the winter season of his ninth year as district athletic director. He started as a substitute teacher in the school district in 2005 and in the next 16 years, he has been a teacher, coach and AD. He...
Chartiers Valley, South Fayette volleyball teams savor playoff seasons
The fall sports season was a challenge for all involved. However, the biggest obstacles to overcome in order to get a full season in the books may have been for those playing the only indoor sport in the fall, girls volleyball. A pair of local teams did a great job...
PIAA Class 3A football championship breakdown: Central Valley vs. Wyomissing
Central Valley vs. Wyomissing 3:30 p.m. Friday, Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey On the air: TV: PCN; 1020 AM, 100.1 FM, 1460 AM, 1230 AM, 99.3 FM, 92.1 FM; audio streamed on TribHSSN.triblive.com PIAA titles: Central Valley 0 (third appearance), Wyomissing 1 (2012) Central Valley (11-0) Player to watch Landon Alexander,...
Central Valley, Wyomissing set for battle of unbeatens in PIAA Class 3A final
Experience matters. Or does it? That is one of the big questions heading into Friday afternoon’s battle of the unbeatens in Class 3A as WPIAL champion Central Valley (11-0) squares off with District 3 champion Wyomissing (9-0) in the PIAA finals. It has been eight years since Wyomissing appeared in...
PIAA football championship factoids: WPIAL teams look to make history
In 33 years of PIAA football playoffs, the WPIAL has never had more than three state champions crowned in a single year. It has been a unique season in so many ways, so why not wrap up the football season with four District 7 teams winning state gold? WPIAL champions...
PIAA finalists stand atop Trib 10 football power rankings
Two WPIAL champions are spectators while the four others are Hershey bound, looking to add to their golden seasons. Four times in the 33-year history of the PIAA football playoffs has the WPIAL captured three state football championships in a year. In 2001, ‘05, ‘07 and ‘17, three WPIAL teams...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Nov. 24, 2020
The Road to Hershey will have eight football teams headed to Chocolate Town this holiday weekend hoping a golden football will be part of their Thanksgiving Day leftovers. It is the next-to-last Trib HSSN state rankings of the 2020 high school football season. All six top ranked teams from a...
Trib HSSN Team of the Week: Thomas Jefferson
Talk about a 180-degree swing. A week after playing in an instant classic, a nail-biting overtime victory over Aliquippa in the WPIAL 4A championship game, Thomas Jefferson earned a berth in the PIAA title game with the total domination of Oil City in the state semifinals. “I wasn’t sure what...
PIHL standings through Nov. 22, 2020
Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Nov. 22. Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA Seneca Valley, 2-0-0 = 4 Mt. Lebanon, 2-1-0 = 4 North Allegheny, 2-1-0 = 4 Peters Township, 2-1-0 = 4 Bethel Park, 2-2-0 =...
Trib HSSN Player of the Week: Cole Spencer, Pine-Richland
All season, Pine-Richland jumped on teams early and took control of football games in the first quarter on its way to a perfect regular season and another WPIAL championship. However, the Rams were a champion on the ropes early in both halves Saturday and need a comeback to win. Thanks...
This week’s broadcasts on Trib HSSN
A wild and unique fall sports season comes to an end with the high school football state championships this week only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Help celebrate your holiday weekend with a four-course meal of WPIAL champions in Hershey playing for state gold. We will have coverage...
Chartiers Valley makes giant leap forward with return to playoffs
While moving down in classifications after four years of struggles in Class 5A to Class 4A this fall, it was one small step for the Chartiers Valley football. However, the season itself was one giant leap for the Colts program. “Overall, we made strides as a program,” Chartiers Valley coach...
‘Everything was strange’ for South Fayette football this season
Since coming to South Fayette in 2007, coach Joe Rossi has turned the Lions into a perennial power. It’s a program that has won four WPIAL and two PIAA championships in those 14 years. However, something strange happened to South Fayette this fall. Its season ended before the calendar changed...
PIAA soccer championships preview: Saturday’s games
Boys Class 4A Seneca Valley (16-1-1) vs. Neshaminy (13-1-2) 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey Coaches: George Williams, Seneca Valley; Tom Foley, Neshaminy State titles: Seneca Valley 0 (second appearance); Neshaminy 3 (1982, 1984, 1994) How they got here: Seneca Valley defeated State College, 6-0, and Cumberland Valley, 1-0; Neshaminy...
Mars soccer teams look to cap undefeated seasons at PIAA championships
The Mars boys and girls soccer teams take their undefeated records into the final game of the season. Each will play for a state championship Friday at Hersheypark Stadium. Girls soccer Class AAA Championship Mars (18-0) vs. Villa Joseph Marie (15-0) 4 p.m. Friday, Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey Coaches: Blair Gerlach,...
Trib 10: Teams in state title hunt occupy top spots in WPIAL power rankings
Six teams earned WPIAL championships in this unique 2020 season, and while one already knows state gold is not in the cards, five others begin their two-week journey on the Road to Hershey. Central Catholic’s hopes of adding a PIAA title to its Class 6A district crown ended before it...
Trib HSSN state football rankings for Nov. 17, 2020
Like most of the WPIAL football champions crowned this past weekend, Trib HSSN is showing some mercy as more changes have come to the state rankings following the state quarterfinals round. We show mercy to two of the three teams that had to forfeit in the state elite eight due...
