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Trib HSSN final girls basketball state rankings for 2021-22
As it turns out, three twos equal one. It’s not some new mathematical discovery. It’s the results from the Giant Center in Hershey as three top-ranked and three No. 2-ranked teams ended up winning state gold in the PIAA girls basketball championships last weekend. The lone WPIAL girls team to...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports on March 29, 2022: Bundle up for baseball, softball
It will be another hit-or-miss day weather-wise for WPIAL baseball and softball Tuesday. No precipitation is expected and we might even see some sun, but put the long johns on if you are playing or watching as temps will be in the 40s. There are a total of 43 baseball...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for March 28, 2022
There are 220 miles on the trip from Hershey to Green Tree, a trek that lasts nearly four hours. However, for the new PIAA Class A boys basketball champions, the trip could have lasted another four hours and none of the Bishop Canevin traveling party would have cared. “It was...
What to watch in high school sports on March 28, 2022: Baseball revs up
Most WPIAL baseball teams will get a week of nonsection play in this week before starting their “section series” schedule next week. However, there are five sections that have a bloated seven teams. For those sections, there is no warm-up. Section play for those teams begins this week. The sections...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: March 27, 2022
Last season, Neshannnock celebrated a second WPIAL girls basketball championship in three years after beating Serra Catholic in the Class 2A finals. But it wasn’t that win that sparked the young Lancers in 2022. Neshannock reached the PIAA Class 2A finals a year ago and lost 54-43 to Mount Carmel....
This week on Trib HSSN: March 28-April 2, 2022
With the winter sports season in the rearview mirror, the road straight ahead is filled with spring sports here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have the diamond debuts of WPIAL baseball and softball along with coverage of WPIAL boys volleyball and WPIAL boys and girls lacrosse. Plus,...
Senior class celebrates special career with Chartiers Valley girls basketball
Their roles may have changed over the four years they have been at Chartiers Valley, but their goals for gold and their success rate in victories will make them one of the most successful groups in WPIAL basketball history. This group of six senior Colts has won four straight section...
Chartiers Valley boys basketball looks forward to promising future
In the first three years as head coach of the Chartiers Valley boys basketball program, Brandon Sensor started with a bang with 18 wins and a semifinals berth. The Colts improved in the next two years, winning 19 games and reaching the semifinals again in 2020 and collecting 22 wins...
What to watch for in high school sports for March 25, 2022:
As the WPIAL winter sports season concludes with the PIAA basketball championships in Hershey this weekend, the curtain rises Friday on the start of play in spring sports. Baseball, softball, track and field, and lacrosse will begin under less than ideal conditions, with temperatures forecast in the 40’s. Boys volleyball...
What to watch for in WPIAL sports for March 25, 2022: Baseball, softball season begins
As the WPIAL winter sports season concludes with the basketball state championships in Hershey this weekend, the curtain rises on the start of play in spring sports Friday. Baseball, softball, track and lacrosse will begin under less than ideal conditions with temperatures in the 40’s. Boys volleyball has the advantage...
2022 WPIAL Class A softball preseason breakdown
Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamonds after the 2020 season was canceled because of the covid-19 shutdowns. Softball was a success throughout as the WPIAL crowned four new champions while Laurel and West Greene remained on top in 2A and A. District softball squads...
2022 WPIAL Class A baseball preseason breakdown
Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamonds after the 2020 season was canceled because of the covid-19 shutdowns. Baseball thrived throughout the WPIAL as six new champions were crowned, some in dramatic fashion. That success carried over to the state playoffs as WPIAL teams captured...
PIAA basketball factoids for 2022 championship games
For the first time since 2019, basketball players and coaches are about to complete a full journey on the Road to Hershey. The PIAA basketball playoffs were cut short in the quarterfinals in 2020 because of the covid-19 outbreak, then last season, the state postseason was shortened with only district...
Trib 10 teams head to Hershey for PIAA championship games
Three boys and two girls WPIAL basketball teams saw their dreams of merging gold and chocolate together come to an end last week with a loss in the PIAA semifinals. However, nine district teams have booked their hotels and are heading east in search of a state championship…and chocolate. While...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball State Rankings for March 22, 2022
The top two heading into the semifinals remain the top two in four of the six classifications entering championship weekend in Hershey. While there was no change to the Top 5 of the weekly Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings in 6A, 5A, 2A and A, the deck was shuffled...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for March 22, 2022
The stage is set for the final weekend of high school basketball in the 2022 season as the top 12 boys hoops teams descend on the Giant Center in Hershey in an attempt to win state gold. So before checking out the penultimate Trib HSSN rankings in which all six...
2022 WPIAL Class 4A softball preseason breakdown
Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamonds after the 2020 season was canceled because of the covid-19 shutdowns. Softball was a success throughout as the WPIAL crowned four new champions, and Laurel and West Greene remained on top in Class 2A and A. District softball...
2022 WPIAL Class 4A baseball preseason breakdown
Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamonds after the 2020 season was canceled because of covid-19 shutdowns. Baseball thrived throughout the WPIAL as six new champions were crowned, some in dramatic fashion. That success carried over to the state playoffs as WPIAL teams captured two...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week for March 21, 2002
As a junior in 2021, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart guard Jake DiMichele averaged more than 30 points in leading the Chargers to another WPIAL and a PIAA championship in what was a perfect season. DiMichele was part of a dynamic duo like no other, as senior teammate Dante...
What to watch for in high school sports for March 21, 2022: More PIHL titles on the line
Welcome to Day 2 of the PIHL Penguins Cup Championships. Two title games remain after Monday’s high school hockey golden action in Class 3A and A. Both the Class 2A and Division 2 title games will take place at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry and can be watched...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: March 21, 2022
In a one-week span last March, the Bishop Canevin boys basketball team went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. On March 12, the Crusaders defeated Rochester in the Class A finals to win the program’s first WPIAL championship. One week later, 10 minutes before tipoff of...
2022 WPIAL Class 5A softball preseason breakdown
Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamonds after the 2020 season was canceled because of the covid-19 shutdowns. Softball was a success throughout as the WPIAL crowned four new champions while Laurel and West Greene remained on top in 2A and A. District softball squads...
2022 WPIAL Class 5A baseball preseason breakdown
Last spring was a celebration as district athletes returned to the diamond after the 2020 season was canceled because of covid-19 shutdowns. Baseball thrived throughout the WPIAL as six new champions were crowned, some in dramatic fashion. That success carried over to the state playoffs as WPIAL teams captured two...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: March 20, 2022
Down through the years, there are plenty of examples of elite WPIAL basketball players who kicked it into another gear in their final high school postseason as their outstanding scholastic careers were winding down. Perhaps that is what we are witnessing with Mt. Lebanon senior Ashleigh Connor. The St. Louis...
This week on Trib HSSN: March 21-27, 2022
The transition becomes official in both seasons and scholastic sports as we move from the conclusion of winter sports to the start of spring sports this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have coverage of five of the 2022 PIAA boys and girls state basketball championship games...
