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North Allegheny’s Smyers motivated to find success at PIAA meet
North Allegheny junior swimmer Molly Smyers hopes to change a pattern that has seen her shine in the WPIAL Class AAA championships, then stumble at states. Smyers earned gold medals in the girls 200-yard freestyle and 500 freestyle last season, and gold in the 500 freestyle and silver in the...
North Hills hockey making postseason push
For the better part of the last month, the North Hills hockey team has been in a hard-pressed situation as it strives to qualify for the PIHL Class A Penguins Cup playoffs. The Indians have been tested in one of the most competitive divisions Class A has to offer. The...
No quit in Hampton hockey team
As the regular season began to wind down, the Hampton hockey team wasn’t eliminated from playoff contention, and no matter the results, the team will always play like it. “Mathematically, I’ve calculated the percentage (of playoff chances),” coach Luke Leya said. “It’s one-hundredth of a chance. But that’s better than...
Fox Chapel, Norwin set off shot-clock debate in high school basketball community
Plenty of people who viewed a short video clip last week of Fox Chapel holding the basketball for nearly a minute against Norwin had a strong opinion of what they had just watched. The 45-second clip drew more than 110,000 views — and more than 100 replies — on Twitter....
Westmoreland boys basketball notebook: Huge game looms for Franklin Regional
At Franklin Regional, the thought of missing the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs is just that, a thought — and a bad one, at that. Coach Steve Scorpion and the Panthers don’t plan on letting it become a reality. The winner of Friday night’s Kiski Area (9-11, 6-7) at Franklin Regional...
A-K Valley Boys Basketball Notebook: Multiple players eclipse 1,000-point plateau
It has been a special week for a few players in the A-K Valley as they eclipsed the 1,000-point mark in their careers. On Tuesday, Leechburg senior Jake Blumer and Springdale junior Demitri Fritch hit the milestone. A day later, Plum junior Connor Moss did the same. Blumer earned his...
Knoch boys basketball staying focused down stretch run
On Jan. 28, the No. 2 Knoch Knights dropped a Section 1-4A contest to No. 1 Highlands, losing just their second game of the season. It was a tough back-and-forth battle between two of the top teams in the classification and it determined that the two teams would split the...
PIAA team wrestling tournament: Burgettstown stumbles against Chestnut Ridge
HERSHEY — District 5 champion Chestnut Ridge won the final seven bouts and eased past WPIAL runner-up Burgettstown, 56-12, on Thursday at PIAA Class AA Team Championship at Giant Center. It was the first time that Burgettstown has qualified for the team tournament. A pin by heavyweight Riley Kemper and...
USC boys, Central Valley girls back in this week’s Trib 10 power rankings
A couple of bad Knights led to a couple of changes in the boys and girls Trib 10 from last week. The Knoch Knights boys and Norwin Knights girls lost section showdowns and got bumped from the power rankings. Taking advantage to join the Trib 10 are the Upper St....
PIAA wrestling, girls basketball section finales share Thursday spotlight
A handful of WPIAL girls basketball sections appear to be headed toward a deadlock for the section crown. Teams are tied for first place in Section 1-6A, Section 2-6A, Section 2-4A and in Section 1-3A, and they have split their two head-to-head games, meaning if both win or both are...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 5, 2020
Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 5A Section 3 Mars 61, Armstrong 43 Class 3A Section 4 Southmoreland 62, Washington 58 (OT) Nonsection Apollo-Ridge 58, Freeport 43 Beth-Center 74, Carmichaels 67 Blackhawk 51, New Brighton 27 Frazier 71, Bentworth 38 Homer-Center 61, Derry 56 Plum 52, Baldwin 51 Quigley Catholic...
High school roundup for Feb. 5, 2020: Southmoreland trips up Washington
Riley Comforti scored 32 points to lead Southmoreland to a 62-58 upset overtime victory over first-place Washington in Section 4-3A boys basketball Wednesday night. Brandon Peterson scored 12 points and Zach Cernuto added 10 for Southmoreland (10-11, 7-4), which jumped ahead with a 19-8 run in the third quarter. Tayshawn...
5 things to watch at the PIAA team wrestling championships
The PIAA team wrestling championships begin Thursday at the Giant Center in Hershey. The WPIAL will be represented by five teams — Waynesburg, Seneca Valley and Canon-McMillan in Class AAA and Burrell and Burgettstown in Class AA. Carrick from the Pittsburgh City League qualified for the Class AAA tournament but...
Plum girls basketball has chance to add to school’s growing trophy collection
Last spring, the Plum softball team claimed a section championship, sharing the Section 2-5A title with Hampton. In the fall, the Mustangs girls soccer team split Section 3-3A gold with Oakland Catholic before finishing as the WPIAL 5A runner-up and qualifying for the state playoffs. The Plum girls basketball team...
Western Pa. football players headed to Division I, II programs
Here’s a look at where Western Pa. senior football players signed to play at the Division I and II levels, during the early-signing period in December and on Wednesday. Class of 2020 Division I FBS Seventeen area senior football players accepted scholarships from Division I FBS schools. Two signed letters...
Western Pa.’s top 10 football prospects for the Class of 2021
If you wanted to spot some of the top college football coaches in the country, there was no need to fly to Clemson, S.C., or Ann Arbor, Mich. Just go to Gateway High School. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh planned visits on the same day last week...
Penn-Trafford girls basketball team hopes close games pay off
The Penn-Trafford girls basketball team has been living on the edge this season. The Warriors have played in eight games decided by single digits, four of which decided by three points or fewer. P-T has won about half of the battles, but despite the setbacks, the Warriors enter their final...
Harvest Baptist’s Sidwell reaches 1,000-point milestone
Jared Sidwell is the leading scorer for the Harvest Baptist Academy boys basketball team. The senior at the Natrona Heights-based school surpassed a scoring milestone in a home victory over Latrobe’s Bible Baptist on Jan. 23. Needing seven points to reach 1,000 for his varsity career, Sidwell, a 6-foot-1 guard,...
Westmoreland County girls basketball notes: Upset win gives Penn-Trafford momentum
If Penn-Trafford needed momentum heading into its section finale Thursday — a section finale at Latrobe that will decide the final playoff spot in Section 3-5A — then the Warriors found it in a head-turning upset. The Class 5A Warriors stunned Class 6A No. 3 and archrival Norwin, 51-50, Monday...
A-K Valley girls basketball notes: Knoch girls count on Lauren Cihonski at crunch time
Lauren Cihonski knew the feeling of producing clutch points to clinch a victory for the Knoch girls basketball team. Two free throws from the Knights senior with less than two seconds remaining in a December Section 1-4A game at Indiana lifted the Knights to a 39-37 win. On Monday against...
WPIAL football recruits make commitments official on signing day
The addition of an early signing period in December has reduced the number of Division I recruits using the traditional early-February date, but a handful of WPIAL football seniors waited it out. Those who signed Wednesday and the schools who signed them took to social media to share their official...
Yough hires new football coach
When Chris Chunko reached age 50, he felt his chances of becoming a head football coach were dwindling. That was until Tuesday when Yough school board members hired him as their new coach to replace Scott Wood, who was not retained after going 1-9 in 2019. In four seasons, Wood...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 4, 2020
Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 76, Seneca Valley 54 Pine-Richland 54, Central Catholic 45 (OT) Section 2 Bethel Park 60, Baldwin 49 Peters Township 62, Canon-McMillan 43 Upper St. Clair 53, Mt. Lebanon 48 Section 3 Fox Chapel 70, Connellsville 39 Penn-Trafford 49, Norwin 42...
High school roundup for Feb. 4, 2020: Central Valley keeps playoff hopes alive
Needing a win to keep its playoff hopes alive, Central Valley pulled off a comeback to remember Tuesday night. Trailing by 12 points in the third quarter, the Warriors rallied for a 61-60 victory over No. 5 New Castle to stay in the wild Section 2-4A race. It was Central...
WPIAL clinched: Boys basketball clinchings through Feb. 4, 2020
The WPIAL boys basketball regular season has less than a week left. The playoff field is starting to take shape. When the regular season ends, at least 76 boys basketball teams will earn a spot in the WPIAL postseason. Trib HSSN will once again have exclusive coverage of the Path...
