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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...
Cardinal O’Hara shuts down Chartiers Valley in state title game again
HERSHEY – For the second consecutive year, Chartiers Valley lost to Cardinal O’Hara in the PIAA girls basketball Class 5A championship game, dropping a 42-19 decision Friday evening at Giant Center. Chartiers Valley never found its shooting touch, going almost 15 minutes in the middle of the game without a...
2022 PIAA Class 5A girls basketball championship breakdown: Chartiers Valley vs. Cardinal O’Hara
PIAA Class 5A girls basketball final Chartiers Valley vs. Cardinal O’Hara 5 p.m. Friday, Giant Center, Hershey On the air: TV: PCN; Audio: TribLive HSSN; Radio: 95.3 FM PIAA titles: Chartiers Valley 1 (2019), Cardinal O’Hara 1 (2021) Chartiers Valley (28-2) Coach: Tim McConnell Probable starting lineup No., Name, Ht.,...
Chartiers Valley tops McKeesport, returns to PIAA girls basketball finals
Sometimes experience just matters and will conquer all, especially when it comes to the PIAA girls basketball playoffs. The senior-laden Chartiers Valley team showcased its resolve on the court in the second quarter, outscoring McKeesport by 12 points and holding a nine-point halftime lead. The Tigers were playing catch up...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Jake Corman talks energy and gas taxes in Carnegie
Pennsylvania state Senator and candidate for governor Jake Corman visited Bob’s Diner in Carnegie Thursday to meet and greet potential voters. The diner in the former mill town and Pittsburgh suburb is a well-known political stop for Pennsylvania candidates. Bob’s was full with a hungry lunch crowd, and Corman, a...
TJ’s Bilski nets hat trick, FR’s Knizner scores OT winner in Penguins Cup semifinals
Thomas Jefferson scored four second-period goals, including a hat trick by Colby Bilski, and skated past Penn-Trafford, 6-2, in the PIHL Cup Class 2A semifinals Tuesday at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center. . The victory puts the Jaguars in the Penguins Cup championship game against Franklin Regional on...
Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Player of the Week: March 6, 2022
South Fayette was the No. 2 seed in the WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball tournament, but few gave them or anyone else a chance as top-seeded Chartiers Valley was shooting for a fourth straight district title. “We never talked about it,” South Fayette coach Bryan Bennett. “Our goal for the...
South Fayette dethrones No. 1 Chartiers Valley in WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball
Maddie Webber sensed early on that the third meeting between South Fayette and Chartiers Valley this season was going to be different. “I knew in the first quarter,” she said. “We were all attacking. Ava (Leroux) was getting rebounds, we pushed the ball on offense, we were all finishing, and...
2022 WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball championship breakdown: Chartiers Valley vs. South Fayette
WPIAL Class 5A girls basketball championship No. 1 Chartiers Valley vs. No. 2 South Fayette 5 p.m. Saturday, Petersen Events Center On the air: Video livestream: TribHSSN.TribLive.com; Audio: WJPA-FM 95.3 WPIAL titles: Chartiers Valley 4 (2017, ‘19, ‘20, ‘21); South Fayette 1 (2016) Chartiers Valley (24-1) Coach: Tim McConnell Projected...
Chartiers Valley’s ‘well-oiled machine’ crushes Moon in Class 5A semifinals
It’s back to the “Pete” and the WPIAL championship game for the Chartiers Valley girls basketball team. The Petersen Events Center on the University of Pittsburgh campus is becoming a second home for the Colts. Chartiers Valley punched its ticket to the WPIAL finals for the fifth time in six...
Civil War Symposium at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall
For nearly a decade, the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall has been proud to host a biennial Civil War symposium, featuring one full day of Civil War historians and enthusiasts discussing this pivotal period in American history. Paired with our national treasure Captain Thomas Espy Post, our contemplative...
Chartiers Valley area real estate transactions for the week of Feb. 20, 2022
Bridgeville Eric Rousell sold property at 210 Charlet St. to Carolyn McElhany for $230,000. Tru Sky Properties LLC sold property at 742 Mill St. to Patrick Fleck and Ellen Trippe for $215,000. John Sosinski sold property at 247 Ramsey Ave. to Felimon Arroyo and Beatriz Ososrio for $180,000. Betty Jean...
Carlynton grad Angela Baker joins New York Giants coaching staff
Angela Baker continues to climb the ranks in the NFL. The Carlynton graduate and former Pittsburgh Passion quarterback was hired Friday as an offensive quality control coach and minority coaching fellow with the New York Giants, according to an ESPN report. Baker spent the 2020 and ‘21 NFL seasons working...
Chartiers Valley wrestlers find individual success
This season has been a wild ride on the mat for the Chartiers Valley wrestling team. The Colts have enjoyed historic highs and struggled through some tough lows. They missed the WPIAL team playoffs for a second straight year after finishing 0-4 in the tough Section 4-3A. “We definitely had...
Development of young Chartiers Valley players provides optimism for future
What a difference a goal or two would have made for the Chartiers Valley hockey team. No team in the PIHL had more overtime or shootout losses then the Colts, who also were near the top in the league in one-goal losses. “We would definitely like to have swapped outcomes...
PennDOT: Rosslyn Farms on-ramp to Parkway West likely closed ‘for the next few months’
The bridge carrying traffic from Rosslyn Road onto the inbound side of the Parkway West remains closed a little less than a week after a truck crashed into its support structure on Feb. 2. The crash happened about a mile west of Exit 65 on Interstate 376. The bridge on-ramp...
Second-half surge pushes South Fayette past Chartiers Valley
For two quarters, the South Fayette boys basketball team was limited to 26 points and trailed by double digits by halftime at Chartiers Valley. However, in the second half, the Lions cranked up the aggressiveness on offense and came back to beat the Colts, 79-72, on Tuesday. “When you have...
Frigid temperatures don’t keep volunteers from removing wreaths at National Cemetery of the Alleghenies
On the frigid Jan. 22 morning, Bonnie Wishner noticed as she drove out of her garage the temperature display in her GMC Terrain dropped from 14 degrees to 10 to 4. “I said to my husband, how low will it go?” said Wishner of Strabane. “He told me these vehicles...
Tax preparation and credit repair at Andrew Carnegie Free Library
We’ve all heard Ben Franklin’s famous 1789 quote: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While there’s not much we can do about the former, I’m happy to say that the library is the place to go for tax help in 2022! If...
Chartiers Valley scores comeback win over Baldwin
The Chartiers Valley boys basketball team’s nonsection game Tuesday at Baldwin was a lot like its season: a mistake-prone slow start followed by a slow comeback trot and then an all-out gallop to the finish line for the victory. The Colts fell behind early on the road but chipped away...
Chartiers Valley student news for the week of Jan. 25, 2022
Abby Gramm, Ashley Slifko, Pamela Scalise, and Staci Plascjak graduated from Ohio University in the summer 2021 semester with a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Also in the summer of 2021, Ohio University graduates included Jaycie Adamski with a master of arts in speech language pathology, and Casey Smith...
Chartiers Valley area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 23, 2022
Bridgeville Rachina Jain sold property at 1407 Alice Drive to Andrea Allen for $300,000. John Tessaro sold property at 813 Bower Hill Road to Erik Beau Chittester for $52,500. RRU Properties LLC sold property at 425 Brookfield St. to Harry William and Roger Jaeger Behling for $155,000. Phillip Scisciani sold...
New Esports venue opening in Bridgeville
Calling it a large investment into STEM education as well as Scholastic Esports, Phoenix Theatres Luxury 14 + PTX (Phoenix Theatre’s Extreme Cinema) in Bridgeville is putting in an Esports venue and hosting a tournament for high school students on Feb, 5. Esports are multi-player video games played competitively for...
Carnegie man convicted in deadly Club Erotica shooting to get new trial
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict and ordered a new trial for a man found guilty of third-degree murder in last year’s fatal shooting outside a McKees Rocks strip club. Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor who teaches law at Saint...
