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Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school girls basketball rankings for Feb. 19, 2025
Only two teams lost their spot in the latest Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings this week as the first round of the 12 district postseasons wrap up. The undefeated season for Penn-Trafford in District 7 ended with a quarterfinal loss to Thomas Jefferson in Class 5A. One week after...
Trib HSSN Pennsylvania high school boys basketball rankings for Feb. 19, 2025
District playoff byes and early round victories have left this week’s Trib HSSN boys basketball rankings looking a lot like last week’s. One exception, though, is in Class 5A, where two ranked teams were stunned in the opening round of their respective district postseason. No. 2-seeded Baldwin from the WPIAL...
South Fayette shuts down upset hopes early in 5A quarterfinal win over Baldwin
A lot of young kids like to spend their vast amounts of energy at the park, running around, going down the slides and enjoying the monkey bars and jungle gyms. When South Fayette junior Ryan Oldaker was young, her playground was the gym at Mt. Lebanon High School. On Wednesday,...
Trib 10: Power-ranked teams survive and advance … with 1 exception
While there were a few bracket busters here and there in the first round of the WPIAL basketball playoffs, only one affected the teams in the Trib 10. It had been a ho-hum opening round for the District 7 power teams with many receiving first-round byes or rolling past teams...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on Feb. 19, 2025: Basketball brackets reach quarterfinals
Welcome to the first of three nights of WPIAL basketball quarterfinals action. Outside of Class 6A and boys Class A, all the teams playing in second round games have a bit of a safety net. For now, there is no sudden end to the season. Teams that don’t reach the...
Chartiers Valley punishes Thomas Jefferson’s mistakes in Class 5A 1st-round win
Early in the first two quarters of their WPIAL Class 5A first-round boys basketball playoff game, No. 13 Thomas Jefferson was able to go toe to toe with No. 4 Chartiers Valley. However, lapses and mistakes at the end of those two quarters allowed the Colts to gallop free and...
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...
