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High school roundup for Jan. 29, 2020: Top seeds hold serve in WPIAL wrestling playoffs
Eight bouts into its WPIAL Class AAA team wrestling tournament quarterfinal match Wednesday night, No. 2 Seneca Valley looked primed for an upset. Six matches later, the Raiders looked primed to challenge for a WPIAL title. Tyler Chappell (106) recorded a fall to start a run of six straight wins,...
Burrell wrestling dominates Beth-Center, advances to WPIAL team semifinalsVideo
The Burrell wrestling team left no doubt it was ready to defend its WPIAL Class AA team championship as it kicked off this year’s tournament in dominant fashion on its home mat Wednesday. The top-seeded Bucs, in pursuit of their 14th straight WPIAL crown, won 11 of 14 bouts in...
Plenty of big girls basketball games in Beaver County on Thursday
The top two girls basketball teams in the latest Trib HSSN weekly rankings will square off with first place at stake on Thursday. The strange thing is, both Mohawk and Beaver are coming off losses on Monday. Mohawk (16-2) is in first place with a 10-1 record in Section 1-3A...
Fox Chapel boys, Chartiers Valley girls remain on top of HSSN power rankings
The boys and girls Trib 10 from last week to this week was like an impatient card dealer, a little bit of shuffling before getting down to business. All 20 teams kept their power ranking with no new teams and nobody falling out. There were two drops on the boys...
Shaler notebook: Titans swimmers hope to make late push to WPIALs
Time is running out for the Shaler Area swimmers to earn times needed to reach the WPIAL Class AAA championships. Titans coach Keith Simmons would have liked to see some of his swimmers hit the times earlier, but he said sometimes it takes an extra sense of urgency to push...
Young Mt. Lebanon girls team continues to progress, develop
Most coaches will tell you experience and depth are two key elements that most successful teams possess. The Mt. Lebanon girls basketball team, however, is proving you can put together a pretty good squad without much of those traits. The Blue Devils start three sophomores and have only one senior...
Hempfield rolls over Kiski Area to reach WPIAL wrestling semifinals
Hempfield didn’t look sharp in its first match Wednesday in the WPIAL Class AAA team tournament. But the Spartans were a different team in the quarterfinals against No. 5 Kiski Area. Fourth-ranked Hempfield won the coin toss, which allowed coach Tommy Dolde to dictate matchups, and his team did the...
Westmoreland girls basketball notebook: Southmoreland remains perfect
There are three teams left in WPIAL girls basketball with perfect records. Southmoreland (18-0) is one of them. But don’t expect coach Brian Pritts to underscore that point when the Scotties take the floor for practice and games. One of the more detail-oriented coaches in the game, Pritts truly is...
Senior Scala helps accelerate maturing process for Greensburg Central Catholic girls basketball
As one of only three seniors on the Greensburg Central Catholic girls basketball team, Gia Scala was well aware of the Centurions’ inexperience coming into the season. Scala missed six weeks — three games — but her return to the backcourt has accelerated the team’s maturing process. She likes the...
Freeport girls basketball making postseason push with healthy Shemanski
Sidney Shemanski appreciates the ability to be on the court with her Freeport teammates. She doesn’t take that for granted. Not after injury and illness earlier this season took her away from game action. “You never know when something is going to happen to keep you from playing a game...
A-K Valley girls basketball notebook: Deer Lakes solidifies playoff spot
Deer Lakes took a seven-point lead at halftime of Monday’s Section 3-3A matchup with Steel Valley, but a 20-1 third quarter in favor of the Lancers left no doubt in the 49-32 result. “It was fun to watch and definitely something I was confident they were able to do,” Lancers...
Central Valley trio announces 1st FBS offers from same MAC schoolVideo
Central Valley teammates Ameer Dudley, Stephon Hall and Myles Walker celebrated a WPIAL football championship last fall at Heinz Field. Now, one college wants to keep them together. The juniors announced offers Tuesday from Central Michigan, giving them their first Division I FBS options. Dudley, the team’s quarterback, earlier announced...
Gateway wideout Chamor Price adds 9th FBS offer this month
Gateway wideout Chamor Price had a breakout season last year and college coaches have taken notice. The 6-foot-1, 175-pound junior announced nine Division I FBS offers this month including his first Power 5 offer from Syracuse. He added Central Michigan on Wednesday to a list that already had Akron, Ball...
PIAA rejects Quaker Valley wrestler Hunter Robison’s request to compete in postseason
Quaker Valley transfer Hunter Robison’s hopes to wrestle this season were dashed by the PIAA. The WPIAL previously ruled the state-ranked sophomore ineligible for the postseason and the PIAA agreed with that decision Tuesday, leaving him unable to compete in team or individual tournaments this winter. The WPIAL Class 2A...
WPIAL Clinched: Boys basketball through Jan. 28.
The WPIAL boys basketball regular season has a week and a half left as January is coming to an end with only three days remaining. 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...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 28, 2020
Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler 68, Pine-Richland 63 Central Catholic 47, North Allegheny 29 North Hills 74, Seneca Valley 61 Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 78, Bethel Park 43 Peters Township 74, Baldwin 61 Upper St. Clair 60, Canon-McMillan 42 Section 3 Connellsville 75, Latrobe 74...
High school roundup for Jan. 28, 2020: No. 1 Lincoln Park hitting its stride
With about two weeks left in the regular season, Lincoln Park looks to be hitting its stride. Two days after knocking off Kennedy Christian, the No. 1 Leopards scored a decisive Section 1-3A victory Tuesday night, defeating No. 4 Beaver Falls, 73-53. Isaiah Smith scored 16 points and Andre Wilder...
Butler clinches 1st boys basketball section title since 1992
Basketball coach Matt Clement was a junior on the team’s roster the last time Butler won a section title, but he watched Tuesday night as that 28-year wait finally ended. Clement, his players and the school’s large student section all celebrated as Ethan Morton made two free throws with 5.6...
First round, quarterfinal WPIAL team wrestling playoffs set for Wednesday
Waynesburg, Canon-McMillan, Seneca Valley and Hempfield are the four sites for the WPIAL Class AAA first round and quarterfinals on Wednesday. Waynesburg is the topseed and will host Pine-Richland while Latrobe faces Connellsville. Hempfield hosts Chartiers Valley in a first-round bout while defending WPIAL champion Kiski Area and South Fayette...
Steel Valley team effort leads to win over East Allegheny
Steel Valley guard Cam Polak is the second-leading scorer in the WPIAL, averaging 32 points per game. Polak did not hit his average on Tuesday, but the Ironmen got by with a little help from Cam’s friends. The senior did score a game-high 27 points, but Steel Valley (7-3, 11-6)...
Fox Chapel boys lean on defense for road win over Norwin
Defense. Never leave home without it. That is Fox Chapel’s mantra. It is what they know and what they do best. Defense has helped the Foxes put a stranglehold on Section 3-6A and rise to take their place as the top-ranked team in the WPIAL and state. The team’s calling...
Johnny Crise shakes off injury, leads No. 3 Highlands past No. 1 Knoch
Things didn’t look good in the pre-game for Highlands standout Johnny Crise. Recovering from a knee injury sustained against Allderdice on Sunday night, Crise took just a couple of practice shots and spent the remainder of warm-up time getting worked on in front of the Highlands bench. But Crise was...
North Allegheny girls basketball team snaps Norwin’s 12-game streak
Norwin’s Jayla Wehner found solace in the possibility of having another meeting with the North Allegheny girls basketball team down the road. The Knights were held to a season low in points and shot 2 of 13 from beyond the arc in the first half of a 60-42 road loss...
Westmoreland Athletes of the Week: Norwin’s Ethan Tulenko, Hempfield’s Francesca Nemetz
Ethan Tulenko School: Norwin Sport: Swimming and Diving Class: Senior Claim to fame: Tulenko won the boys 200-yard freestyle with the time of 1 minute, 41.81 seconds at the Westmoreland County Coaches Association swimming and diving championships Jan. 25 at Derry. Tulenko broke a three-year meet record (1:44.28) that was...
A-K Valley wrestling notebook: Burrell’s AJ Corrado pins his way to 100th win
Burrell’s AJ Corrado headed into last weekend’s Thomas Chevrolet wrestling tournament in Bedford on the brink of earning his 100th career win. It didn’t take him long to get it. One minute and 11 seconds into his first match of the tournament, Corrado planted Bedford’s Gavin Habinyak and earned a...
