High School category, Page 1081
Class 4A basketball notebook: 2nd-quarter run fuels Highlands’ victory
The other time Highlands won a WPIAL basketball title in 1995, the Golden Rams got the winning shot with 3 seconds left in the game. In Saturday’s Class 4A final at Petersen Events Center, Highlands didn’t have to wait as long as the Golden Rams took the lead for good...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Big year for Belle Vernon sports
It is far from finished, but Belle Vernon already can look back on a successful 2019-20 sports year. With the boys basketball team making it to the WPIAL Class 4A championship, the Leopards were well-represented in the district postseason in recent months. The basketball team had not played in the...
Chartiers Valley defends WPIAL title, wins 55th consecutive game
Chartiers Valley girls basketball coach Tim McConnell said he told his younger sister, Trinity coach Kathy McConnell-Miller, that the only good thing about facing each other in a WPIAL final was that a McConnell was guaranteed to win. While he loves his sister dearly, he was glad that it was...
Highlands handles Belle Vernon, wins 1st WPIAL boys basketball title since 1995
During the WPIAL Class 4A playoffs, top-seeded Highlands has shown the capability to win in a multitude of ways. Whether it be the post presence of Johnny Crise or the perimeter shooting of Korry Myers and Luke Cochran, the Golden Rams take whatever their opponents give them. On Saturday, at...
Mohawk tops Beaver to claim 1st WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball title
All six Mohawk girls basketball players who attended the press conference following the WPIAL Class 3A girls basketball championship game couldn’t help but talk over each other. The Warriors were brand new to all the pomp and circumstance surrounding playing in a title game Saturday morning at the Petersen Events...
Watch Day 3 of WPIAL basketball championships on Trib HSSN
Five more WPIAL championship trophies will be awarded Saturday at Pitt’s Petersen Events Center as the district basketball finals conclude. Here’s where you can see all the action on the TribLive High School Sports Network: Class 3A girls basketball Section rivals Beaver and Mohawk will open the day’s action in...
Norwin girls focus on season’s highlights after playoff exit
Norwin has a well-respected history in girls basketball. The Knights have been regular WPIAL playoff participants — Norwin has advanced to the postseason 31 times — and annual contenders for section championships. The Knights maintained both rich traditions in 2019-20. Norwin tied for first with rival North Allegheny in Section...
Youth movement leads to optimism in Brentwood basketball program
The Brentwood boys basketball program, stacked with seven seniors, will suffer heavy graduation losses this year. Nonetheless, help appears to be on the way. Chase Rosing, a 5-foot junior guard, and Riley Brendel, a 6-3 junior forward, were integral members of the 2019-20 team. There are six sophomores, along with...
Pair of Quaker Valley wrestlers work together to make state tournament
Quaker Valley senior Austin Pantaleo’s fourth wrestling injury in five years nearly sidelined him from the sport for good. Instead, it put Pantaleo and sophomore Patrick Cutchember on an intertwining path to be the only Quakers to qualify for the PIAA tournament. Cutchember placed second at 182 pounds in regionals,...
Tough playoff loss can’t dampen strong season for Penn-Trafford girls basketball
Penn-Trafford’s girls basketball team experienced a two-tone finish to the season. The Warriors won their final four regular-season games — and eight of their last 10 — to sew up a WPIAL Class 5A playoff berth. The Warriors then lost a disappointing 37-36 decision to Gateway in the first round...
Penn-Trafford bowlers eager for regional tournament
Penn-Trafford didn’t participate in the WPIBL team tournament, but the Warriors were well-represented at the individual tournament, which was Feb. 19-20. The Warriors sent five girls and three boys to the WPIBL individual tournament, and four girls and two boys qualified for the Western Regional tournament March 6 at North...
Pine-Richland competitive spirit takes 9th at nationals
The Pine-Richland competitive spirit team recently brought its strong 2019-20 campaign to a close, finishing its season with a ninth-place finish in the small varsity division at the 2020 UCA National High School Cheerleading Championships on Feb. 7-9 in Orlando, Fla. After battling with more than 50 of the most...
Pine-Richland boys take positives from season after frustrating playoff loss
The Pine-Richland boys basketball team’s season was brought to a halt Feb. 22 as it was toppled by Upper St. Clair, 62-59, in the quarterfinal round of the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs. In the decisive contest at North Hills, the Rams (15-9, 7-3) scored 42 points in the first half...
Led by singles champ Small, Plum bowling team has postseason to remember
Plum bowling coach Darryl Pilyih said coaching senior standout Shannon Small has become a pretty easy task because she rarely makes a mistake. Her precision was on display when Small blitzed through the step-ladder bracket on her way to her first WPIBL singles championship last week at Wildlife Lanes in...
Norwin athletes shine at Tri-State indoor championships
Norwin’s boys distance medley relay unit stepped into the spotlight Feb. 22 at the Tri-State Track Coaches Association indoor championship meet. The DMR runners took first place with a school-record time of 10 minutes, 41.28 seconds, 7 seconds faster than their seeded time of 11:04.17. “Overall, the race went as...
Shady Side Academy basketball pays tribute to seniors, looks to future
The Shady Side Academy boys basketball team’s season ended with a loss to North Catholic in the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. The Indians finished with a 10-11 overall record, 6-6 in section play. Coach David Vadnais will lose several seniors from the team, including top scorers Mason Tomlin and Grady...
The Herald Spotlight Athlete: David Manelis, Fox Chapel
David Manelis, a junior on the Fox Chapel diving team, struck gold at the WPIAL championships Feb. 21 as he claimed first place. He hopes to improve on last season’s second-place finish at the PIAA championships. He is undecided on a college but hopes to major in kinesiology. Here’s a...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 28, 2020
Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s schedule Butler (19-4) vs. Mt. Lebanon (18-6) at Petersen Events Center, 9 p.m. Class 5A Championship Friday’s result Laurel Highlands 52, Mars 51 Class 4A Championship Saturday’s schedule Highlands (21-3) vs. Belle Vernon (19-6) at Petersen Events Center, 1 p.m. Class 2A...
Star freshman Rodney Gallagher leads Laurel Highlands past Mars in WPIAL Class 5A thrillerVideo
There are 131,504 residents in Fayette County, and Rodney Gallagher might’ve hugged them all Friday night. But first, the Laurel Highlands freshman needed to draw a foul and make two free throws with 4.8 seconds left to defeat two-time defending champion Mars, 52-51, in the WPIAL Class 5A final at...
Penn-Trafford’s Hohman pulls off upset to reach WPIAL Class AAA wrestling semifinals
Penn-Trafford sophomore Troy Hohman entered the 2020 WPIAL/PIAA Class AAA Southwest Regional wrestling tournament as sort of an unknown. He was seeded sixth at 106 pounds with a 17-3 record. He is no longer an unknown after stunning third-seeded Canon-McMillan sophomore Jacob Houpt, 7-1, in the quarterfinals Friday at Canon-McMillan....
Ligonier Valley’s 20-game win streak snapped by Richland in D6 title game
CRESSON — For a second season in a row, the Richland Rams proved too strong for the Ligonier Valley Rams and came away with a victory in the District 6 Class 3A boys basketball championship game. Only this time, Richland did it in convincing fashion. “I’m shocked,” Ligonier Valley coach...
Plum’s Vince Citrano falls in quarters, vows to improve on Day 2 at WPIALs
Since his two losses at the WPIAL Class AAA tournament last season as a freshman, Plum’s Vince Citrano has been looking for redemption. In his second appearance at WPIALs, Citrano got off to a good start Friday night at Canon-McMillan. The 113-pound sophomore earned a gritty win in his first...
North Catholic girls top Southmoreland to win school’s 20th WPIAL title
Storied. Perennial power. Gold standard. Labels like that follow programs with the ilk of North Catholic — programs that win, reload rosters and win some more. Those are labels teams such as Southmoreland long to have attached to its name. The Trojanettes girls basketball team added another piece of hardware...
Belle Vernon’s Shahan edges 100 freestyle rival to highlight WPIAL Class AA meet
Both Belle Vernon’s Ian Shahan and Neshannock’s Conner McBeth surpassed Shahan’s 100-yard freestyle WPIAL record from last year when the rivals swam neck-and-neck through Friday’s race at the WPIAL Class AA swimming championships at Pitt’s Trees Pool. Only one could end up with his name in the record books and...
Deer Lakes’ Morrison stays atop 500 freestyle mountain at WPIAL meetVideo
Adam Morrison was the hunted in the Class AA boys 500-yard freestyle at the WPIAL swimming championships Friday at Pitt’s Trees Pool. The Deer Lakes senior captured the event last year, topping club teammate and friend Andrew Pierre from Mars for the title. Indiana junior Kyle Thome and Lancer teammate...
