Don Rebel stories, Page 96

The Keystone Oaks girls basketball program had not lost an opening playoff game, preliminary or first round, since 2006. That is why there were some nervous moments in the first 13 minutes of the game as Brownsville led by as many as eight points. However, host Keystone Oaks used a...

The WPIAL basketball championships return to the Petersen Events Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in two weeks after a one-year absence due to the pandemic. The City League boys and girls finals are also headed back to The Pete with the two title games slated for...

Welcome to the Path to the Pete. Opening night of the 2022 WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs is set for Friday with nine Class 4A and A first-round boys games and four Class 3A first-round and three 2A preliminary round girls contests. One other girls basketball game set for...

The curtain rises on the 2022 WPIAL basketball playoffs, plus it’s Day 1 of the 2022 WPIAL Class 2A individual wrestling championships coming up Friday on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have video and audio coverage of eight boys and eight girls postseason roundball preliminary and first-round games....

The regular season is over and now the curtain is about to rise on the district postseason. The 20 teams power ranked below will all take different journeys on the Path to the Pete, but their goal is the same: to raise WPIAL gold and be top-ranked in the Trib...

By this weekend, most of the 12 high school districts that make up the PIAA will be done with the regular season and starting their district playoffs. They will do so with some changes in the latest edition of the Trib HSSN state top 5 girls basketball rankings. Four teams...

Three boys basketball teams are on the outs and two new squads are now sitting on top of their classification as we hit the midway point of the February frenzy with the latest Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings. North Catholic, Executive Education Academy Charter and Elk County Catholic all...

Mark Stanley returned as head coach of the Union boys basketball program to begin his second stint before the 2017 season. His added family touch to the program seems to have paid off as the Scotties have reached the WPIAL quarterfinals four times, the district semifinals twice and the championship...

Give all your love to your sweetheart Monday, then prepare for the start of the high school basketball and individual wrestling postseason this weekend on the Trib High School Sports Network. We have video and audio coverage of the end of the regular season in WPIAL, District 6 and District...

Dana Petruska started her coaching career at Mars in 1986. After the 2005 season, she took over at her alma mater and coached Deer Lakes for nearly a decade before returning to coach the Fightin’ Planets in 2015. Now she is in elite company after picking up her 500th career...

Winchester Thurston junior Nadia Moore was like the Energizer Bunny last week. They wound her up Monday, and she just kept going and going and going all week. In a week like no other, the Winchster Thurston girls basketball team played catch-up as section play came to an end last...

Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday, Feb. 13. Eight teams in each classification qualify for the PIHL playoffs. *- indicates clinched a playoff spot x- indicates eliminated from playoff chase #-Indicated ineligible for Penguins Cup Playoffs Team – Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss =...

On this Monday, drive time is prime time. It may say Valentine’s Day on the calendar, but it is Christmas for area high school basketball fans as Trib HSSN unveils the brackets for the 2022 WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs. Once again, the TribLive High School Sports Network will...

District championships will be captured in gymnastics while state titles are up for grabs in team wrestling on a golden Saturday. Once again, Moon High School will host the 2022 WPIAL gymnastics championships. After the host Tigers won the team title Friday night, individual championships on the vault, bar, beam,...

The 2022 WPIAL girls basketball playoff field is nearly set. Seventy-nine teams have clinched a ride on the Path to the Pete with the possibility that three more teams could join them Saturday. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs starting Monday with...

This time of year, coaches talk about how defense wins championships. On Friday night, defense earned Mt. Lebanon a share of the Section 2-6A crown. Mt. Lebanon limited defending champion Upper St. Clair to single-digit points in the first three quarters, including only two points in the entire third quarter,...

The 2022 WPIAL boys basketball playoff field is set as 86 teams have punched their ticket for the Path to the Pete. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs starting Monday with the Playoff Pairings Show at 5 p.m. as we unveil the...

The final night of section play in WPIAL boys basketball comes down to a Class 6A version of a two-for-one sale. While North Hills has long since clinched the Section 1-6A title, the other two section races are going down to the wire. Both defending district champion Upper St. Clair...

Two days remain in section play in the WPIAL girls basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no open tournament and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center on March 3-5. Trib...

Less than a week remains in section play in the WPIAL girls basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no open tournament and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center, March 3-5....

Less than a week remains in section play in the WPIAL boys basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no open tournament and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center, March 3-5....

For most of the district girls basketball teams, Thursday marks the end of the fight — the end of battling for section crowns, playoff positioning and postseason berths. However, of the 19 sections in WPIAL girls basketball, only one title is coming down to a head-to-head matchup on the final...

Like sands in the hourglass, so go the dwindling days of the regular season. With only a couple of days left in section play, the elite teams around the WPIAL are honing their games and flexing their power as the postseason nears. Once again, there was not a lot of...

Less than a week remains in section play in the WPIAL boys basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no open tournament and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center, March 3-5....

During the offseason, Jonna Burke surprised many in the WPIAL basketball bubble by leaving as head coach at her alma mater Bethel Park to take over the girls basketball program at Shady Side Academy. She left a perennial power in 6A to take over a team that finished last and...