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Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for Feb. 17, 2025Video
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week – Mars Fightin’ Planets Coach: Zachary Stitt (second season) Record: 6-6 in Section 3-5A, 14-9 overall #Earned: The Mars girls basketball team started the week looking for momentum and ended it busting brackets. After completing Section 3-5A play with a 6-6 record,...
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week for Feb. 17, 2025Video
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week – Greta O’Brien School: Avonworth Class: Senior Height: 5-foot-9 Position: Guard #Earned: Whether it was ending the regular season at the start of the week or starting the postseason at the end of the week, Greta O’Brien was a dominant force who...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 18, 2025: WPIAL title rematch in the Class 5A 1st round
The two met for gold two years ago. On Tuesday, they battle for a berth in the PIAA Class 5A playoffs and a spot in the WPIAL boys basketball quarterfinals. No. 11 Penn Hills (12-9) travels to face No. 6 Peters Township (15-7) in a battle of second-place finishers in...
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week for Feb. 16, 2025Video
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week – Isaiah Jeter School – Central Valley Class – Senior Height – 6-foot-3 Position – Shooting guard What coach says – “Just how easily he made it look to score 34 points in one half against a long, athletic team that guards...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Feb. 17, 2025: Woodland Hills, Seneca Valley play rubber match
They say that opposites attract. If that’s the case, then Woodland Hills and Seneca Valley were destined to meet for a third time in the postseason. That matchup is one of three Class 6A boys basketball first round playoff games and one of 22 WPIAL basketball postseason games Monday. Both...
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week for Feb. 16, 2025Video
Trib HSSN boys basketball teams of the week – Knoch Knights Coach – Alan Bauman (fifth season) Records – 17-6 overall, 10-2 in Section 1-4A #Earned – Knoch entered the final week of the regular season with a chance to earn at least a share of the Section 1-4A title,...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Feb. 16, 2025
The Path to the Pete is cooking into its second week with the rest of the district basketball first round and three days of the quarterfinals this week here at the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoff action with some middle...
PIHL standings, playoff clinchings through Feb. 16, 2025
Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday, along with the latest playoff qualifiers. The point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. *- indicates clinched a...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 14, 2025: Playoffs heat up with 1st-round matchups
On the first day of the opening round of the 2025 WPIAL basketball playoffs, one of the top players in the district may be on the sidelines for one of the favorites in girls Class 5A. Senior Natalie Wetzel is listed as questionable with a lower-body injury, to use playoff...
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week for Feb. 13, 2025Video
Trib HSSN boys basketball team of the week – Woodland Hills Wolverines Coach – Steve Scorpion (first season at Woodland Hills, eighth season overall) Records – 11-11 overall, 6-8 in Section 1-6A #Earned – In its first year in Class 6A, Woodland Hills barely had a pulse at the midway...
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week for Feb. 13, 2025Video
Trib HSSN boys basketball player of the week – Calvin Winfrey III School – Uniontown Class – Senior Height – 6-foot-1 Position – Point guard What coach says – “Calvin had a great week and scored for us when we needed it,” Uniontown coach Rob Kezmarsky said. “Cal does what...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 13, 2025: Let the playoff games begin
Let the games begin! The 2025 Path to the Pete begins Thursday with eight “pigtail” games. The term pigtail was often used by the first WPIAL executive director Charles “Ace” Heberling. Now, they are known as preliminary round games and there will be six boys and two girls contests to...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school girls basketball rankings for Feb. 12, 2025
Only two teams lost their spot in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings this week as we transition from regular season to postseason. On the fall for now were Hollidaysburg from District 6 in Class 5A, replaced by undefeated Penn-Trafford, and DuBois Central Catholic from D-9 in Class A,...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school boys basketball rankings for Feb. 12, 2025
The regular season has come to an end and as teams prepare for their respective district playoffs, there wasn’t much change from last week to this week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball rankings. Two teams from the powerful District 12 slipped out of the Top 5 for now, one from 6A...
Trib10: Ranked teams hold their ground as playoffs begin
There were no drastic falls during the final week of the 2025 WPIAL basketball regular season, but there were some slips here and there in preparation for the Path to the Pete. There were some adjustments as some teams dropped and some rose up in the latest Trib 10 power...
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week for Feb. 10, 2025Video
Trib HSSN girls basketball team of the week – South Fayette Lions Coach: Bryan Bennett (eighth season) Record: 12-0 in Section 3-5A, 21-1 overall #Earned: South Fayette has been on a mission all season long. Only two other teams in this century have captured four straight WPIAL girls basketball championships...
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week for Feb. 10, 2025Video
Trib HSSN girls basketball player of the week – Kylie Fruehstorfer School: Union Class: Senior Height: 5-foot-5 Position: Point guard #Earned: As a sophomore and junior, Kylie Fruehstorfer was a part of back-to-back WPIAL Class A titles for Union. Now as a senior, she’s trying to lead the way for...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for Feb. 10, 2025: Basketball playoff pairings to be revealed
Welcome to the Christmas Day for district high school basketball fans with everybody’s favorite present under the tree set to be unwrapped Monday afternoon, the gift of the WPIAL basketball bracketology. There are 85 boys teams and 84 girls teams preparing for the second season. Now they will find out...
This week on Trib HSSN for week of Feb. 10, 2025
Let the games begin! This is a special week celebrated by lovers all around. Sure, Valentine’s Day is Friday, but I speak for the round ball lovers as we prepare for the start of the 2025 WPIAL basketball playoffs this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We get...
PIHL standings, playoff clinchings through Feb. 9, 2025
Here are the latest 2024-25 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League standings through Sunday, along with the latest playoff qualifiers. The point system in the PIHL this year gives three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win and one point for an overtime loss. *- indicates clinched a...
Peters Township ends Bethel Park’s playoff hopes
The mission for the Bethel Park boys basketball team was clear. To qualify for the WPIAL postseason in Section 3-5A, they needed to win at home over Peters Township on the final night of section play and have Thomas Jefferson lose to section champion Baldwin. The Highlanders helped with a...
WPIAL clinched: Girls basketball playoff field finalized with 84 teams
The WPIAL girls basketball regular season is nearly in the books and the district playoff field has been finalized with 84 teams punching their ticket to ride into the district playoffs. A change in the playoff format this season has sections with eight or more teams sending the top five...
WPIAL clinched: Boys basketball playoff field set with 85 teams
The stretch run is over and the WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is set with 85 district teams set to begin the Path to the Pete. A change in the playoff format this season has sections with eight or more teams sending the top five teams to the playoffs while...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 7, 2025: Every section title and playoff-clinching scenario in boys basketball
For some WPIAL boys basketball teams on this final night of section play, it’s kind of like dancing the hokey pokey. If you win, you are in, and if you lose, you are out. That’s what Friday is all about. Section championships and some District 7 postseason berths are still...
WPIAL clinched: Girls basketball playoff field nearly set with 83 teams
With the exception of a couple of more section games, the 2025 WPIAL girls basketball regular season is nearly in the books with 83 teams punching their ticket to ride into the district playoffs. There could be one more addition to the Class 3A field depending on the outcome of...
